Author: Rebecca Elliott
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338042866
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Eva's pet bat, Baxter, is missing in the sixth installment of this New York Times bestselling series! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! In book 6, a famous author is coming to Treetopolis! Eva and her classmates each have to write a story to share with the author. Eva's excited! But then something terrible happens: Her pet bat, Baxter, goes missing! Eva can't think of anything to write about -- except how much she misses Baxter! With help from her friends, Eva looks everywhere for Baxter. She even hangs up MISSING posters! Where could Baxter be? And will Eva finish her story in time for the author's visit? Continue this book series with “Eva the Owlet,” an Apple TV+ original series!
Baxter Is Missing
Author: Rebecca Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536408430
Category : Bats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A famous author is coming to Treetopolis! Eva and her classmates each have to write a story to share with the author. Eva's excited! But then something terrible happens: Her pet bat, Baxter, goes missing! Eva can't think of anything to write about --
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536408430
Category : Bats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A famous author is coming to Treetopolis! Eva and her classmates each have to write a story to share with the author. Eva's excited! But then something terrible happens: Her pet bat, Baxter, goes missing! Eva can't think of anything to write about --
Baxter is Missing: A Branches Book (Owl Diaries #6)
Author: Rebecca Elliott
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338042866
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Eva's pet bat, Baxter, is missing in the sixth installment of this New York Times bestselling series! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! In book 6, a famous author is coming to Treetopolis! Eva and her classmates each have to write a story to share with the author. Eva's excited! But then something terrible happens: Her pet bat, Baxter, goes missing! Eva can't think of anything to write about -- except how much she misses Baxter! With help from her friends, Eva looks everywhere for Baxter. She even hangs up MISSING posters! Where could Baxter be? And will Eva finish her story in time for the author's visit? Continue this book series with “Eva the Owlet,” an Apple TV+ original series!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338042866
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Eva's pet bat, Baxter, is missing in the sixth installment of this New York Times bestselling series! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! In book 6, a famous author is coming to Treetopolis! Eva and her classmates each have to write a story to share with the author. Eva's excited! But then something terrible happens: Her pet bat, Baxter, goes missing! Eva can't think of anything to write about -- except how much she misses Baxter! With help from her friends, Eva looks everywhere for Baxter. She even hangs up MISSING posters! Where could Baxter be? And will Eva finish her story in time for the author's visit? Continue this book series with “Eva the Owlet,” an Apple TV+ original series!
Missing, Believed Killed
Author: John Baxter
Publisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 9781845135386
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
In 1942 corporal John Baxter, a royal engineer, was captured by the Japanese in Indonesia. For the next three years he was held as their prisoner, during which time he was starved; beaten; and contracted malaria, dysentry, and diphtheria, for which he received no treatment. He spent the last two years of the war working in the hard labor mines in Kyushu, from where he witnessed the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki 40 miles away, and felt the scorching wind from the blast. Remarkably Baxter survived these experiences, made it back to Britain, and in February 2009 he celebrated his 90th birthday. Having written up his diaries from this time, he has now decided to tell his story. It is a story not just of survival but of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and quiet heroism. Using his training as a heating engineer, he found numerous ways of helping to disrupt the Japanese war effort, for example by sabotaging rifles the guards gave him to repair. For other prisoners he built radios, cooking and lighting equipment, and artificial limbs. The book also offers revealing insights into the complex relationships between the prisoners and their guards, overturning many of the stereotypes we are often presented with—for example John managed to befriend a guards, who risked his life to bring him extra food rations.
Publisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 9781845135386
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
In 1942 corporal John Baxter, a royal engineer, was captured by the Japanese in Indonesia. For the next three years he was held as their prisoner, during which time he was starved; beaten; and contracted malaria, dysentry, and diphtheria, for which he received no treatment. He spent the last two years of the war working in the hard labor mines in Kyushu, from where he witnessed the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki 40 miles away, and felt the scorching wind from the blast. Remarkably Baxter survived these experiences, made it back to Britain, and in February 2009 he celebrated his 90th birthday. Having written up his diaries from this time, he has now decided to tell his story. It is a story not just of survival but of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and quiet heroism. Using his training as a heating engineer, he found numerous ways of helping to disrupt the Japanese war effort, for example by sabotaging rifles the guards gave him to repair. For other prisoners he built radios, cooking and lighting equipment, and artificial limbs. The book also offers revealing insights into the complex relationships between the prisoners and their guards, overturning many of the stereotypes we are often presented with—for example John managed to befriend a guards, who risked his life to bring him extra food rations.
Evolution
Author: Stephen Baxter
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345457846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
“Magisterial and uplifting . . . A brilliant, grandscale sampling of sixty-five million years of human evolution . . . It shows the sweep and grandeur of life in its unrelenting course.” —The Denver Post Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species Purgatorius. From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate? Praise for Evolution “Spectacular.”—The New York Times Book Review “Strong imagination, a capacity for awe, and the ability to think rigorously about vast and final things abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. . . . [Evolution] leaves the reader with a haunting portrayal of the distant future.”—Times Literary Supplement “A breath of fresh air . . . The miracle of Evolution is that it makes the triumph of life, which is its story, sound like the real story.”—The Washington Post Book World
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345457846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
“Magisterial and uplifting . . . A brilliant, grandscale sampling of sixty-five million years of human evolution . . . It shows the sweep and grandeur of life in its unrelenting course.” —The Denver Post Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species Purgatorius. From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate? Praise for Evolution “Spectacular.”—The New York Times Book Review “Strong imagination, a capacity for awe, and the ability to think rigorously about vast and final things abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. . . . [Evolution] leaves the reader with a haunting portrayal of the distant future.”—Times Literary Supplement “A breath of fresh air . . . The miracle of Evolution is that it makes the triumph of life, which is its story, sound like the real story.”—The Washington Post Book World
Transcendent
Author: Stephen Baxter
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345457935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
“Breathtaking . . . brilliantly conducted . . . Far-future philosophic space opera and near-future eco-thriller combine effectively.”—Locus It is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is mourning the death of his beloved wife and doubting his own sanity. But he must stave off a looming catastrophe: vast reservoirs of toxic gases lie beneath the melting poles, threatening to contaminate the atmosphere and destroy all life on Earth. Though born five hundred thousand years after the death of Michael Poole, Alia knows him intimately. Every person in Alia’s world is entrusted with Witnessing one life from the past by means of a technology able to traverse time. Alia’s subject is Michael Poole. Chosen to become a Transcendent, a member of the group mind that is shepherding humanity toward an evolutionary apotheosis, Alia discovers a dark side to the Transcendent’s plans. Somehow, Michael holds the fate of the future in his hands, and to save that future, Alia must undertake a desperate journey into the past. “Stunning . . . engaging . . . a contrasting mix of Baxter’s customary skill at presenting a very realnear future, and his talent for high-level hardscience fiction.”—Starburst
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345457935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
“Breathtaking . . . brilliantly conducted . . . Far-future philosophic space opera and near-future eco-thriller combine effectively.”—Locus It is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is mourning the death of his beloved wife and doubting his own sanity. But he must stave off a looming catastrophe: vast reservoirs of toxic gases lie beneath the melting poles, threatening to contaminate the atmosphere and destroy all life on Earth. Though born five hundred thousand years after the death of Michael Poole, Alia knows him intimately. Every person in Alia’s world is entrusted with Witnessing one life from the past by means of a technology able to traverse time. Alia’s subject is Michael Poole. Chosen to become a Transcendent, a member of the group mind that is shepherding humanity toward an evolutionary apotheosis, Alia discovers a dark side to the Transcendent’s plans. Somehow, Michael holds the fate of the future in his hands, and to save that future, Alia must undertake a desperate journey into the past. “Stunning . . . engaging . . . a contrasting mix of Baxter’s customary skill at presenting a very realnear future, and his talent for high-level hardscience fiction.”—Starburst
Eva's New Pet (Owl Diaries)
Author: Rebecca Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536470659
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eva can't wait to get a new pet! But she can't decide what kind of pet to get. Her pet needs to be cute, cuddly, friendly ... and, of course, get along with her bat, Baxter. Eva's friend Lucy has a great idea: They will pet-sit for all their friends
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536470659
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eva can't wait to get a new pet! But she can't decide what kind of pet to get. Her pet needs to be cute, cuddly, friendly ... and, of course, get along with her bat, Baxter. Eva's friend Lucy has a great idea: They will pet-sit for all their friends
Baxter the Tweeting Dog
Author: Doreen Marts
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606238410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. What will Baxter do when his doggy pal goes missing? All the neighborhood pups provide Twitter-ish clues to help locate the missing mutt.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606238410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. What will Baxter do when his doggy pal goes missing? All the neighborhood pups provide Twitter-ish clues to help locate the missing mutt.
Intermission
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781990737350
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Intermission is an uncommon and refreshing excavation of popular culture, memory, and relationship. It offers startling interpretations of the fashionable sitcoms and young-adult novels which were prevalent during the late 1970s while exploring the nuances of belonging, faith, and loss. With a tensile gesture we are moved from the icons of the 1960s-Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the playful insertion of Jim Morrison's documented acronym of his own name, Mr. Mojo Risin'-to the cityscapes inherited by Generation X.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781990737350
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Intermission is an uncommon and refreshing excavation of popular culture, memory, and relationship. It offers startling interpretations of the fashionable sitcoms and young-adult novels which were prevalent during the late 1970s while exploring the nuances of belonging, faith, and loss. With a tensile gesture we are moved from the icons of the 1960s-Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the playful insertion of Jim Morrison's documented acronym of his own name, Mr. Mojo Risin'-to the cityscapes inherited by Generation X.
Miss Baxter's Girls Box Set
Author: Davina Lee
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1646569121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
All six books in Davina Lee's best-selling series, Miss Baxter's Girls. Hilary Baxter is a retired dominatrix who runs a boarding house for young women. Equal parts loving mother and strict disciplinarian, her hope is to help each of her boarders live up to her full potential. Contains the stories: Book 1: Julie the Pianist: When new boarder Julie falls for Miss Baxter’s sexy assistant, Anise, it’s lust at first sight. And when Anise’s shirt rides up, exposing her bruises, Julie enters another world where she learns that not everything that hurts is necessarily bad. Book 2: Anise the Snowboarder: When her first boarder, Anise, turns out to be a bit of a handful, Miss Baxter finds herself falling back on old techniques to keep Anise on the straight and narrow. The two mix like oil and water. Harsh words are spoken, apologies are made, and a new special therapy regime is agreed upon. Book 3: Chef Margo: Her new chef, Margo, quickly develo...iss Baxter pairs Moona with Jessica, another of her boarders. It’s lust at first sight, and things get even hotter as Moona confesses her alien abduction fantasy, in this tender and kinky story that will leave you breathless. Book 5: Hilary the Au Pair: The year is 1982. Young Hilary Baxter is an au pair in a far away land, looking after Hasiba, an exotic and attractive woman, nearly her own age. It’s an easy assignment, until Hasiba proves to be a handful. Hilary proposes a strict system of rules and punishments to correct the situation, but will Hasiba agree to Hilary’s terms? And will Hilary’s growing feelings for Hasiba spoil the dynamic? Book 6: Hasiba the Lost Love: When the mother of one of her boarders comes to town for a visit, Miss Baxter seems not quite her usual self. Picking up on the dynamic, two of her boarders decide to put the situation right. A little late night eves dropping, with a swat and a moan, lets them know they’ve done their job.
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1646569121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
All six books in Davina Lee's best-selling series, Miss Baxter's Girls. Hilary Baxter is a retired dominatrix who runs a boarding house for young women. Equal parts loving mother and strict disciplinarian, her hope is to help each of her boarders live up to her full potential. Contains the stories: Book 1: Julie the Pianist: When new boarder Julie falls for Miss Baxter’s sexy assistant, Anise, it’s lust at first sight. And when Anise’s shirt rides up, exposing her bruises, Julie enters another world where she learns that not everything that hurts is necessarily bad. Book 2: Anise the Snowboarder: When her first boarder, Anise, turns out to be a bit of a handful, Miss Baxter finds herself falling back on old techniques to keep Anise on the straight and narrow. The two mix like oil and water. Harsh words are spoken, apologies are made, and a new special therapy regime is agreed upon. Book 3: Chef Margo: Her new chef, Margo, quickly develo...iss Baxter pairs Moona with Jessica, another of her boarders. It’s lust at first sight, and things get even hotter as Moona confesses her alien abduction fantasy, in this tender and kinky story that will leave you breathless. Book 5: Hilary the Au Pair: The year is 1982. Young Hilary Baxter is an au pair in a far away land, looking after Hasiba, an exotic and attractive woman, nearly her own age. It’s an easy assignment, until Hasiba proves to be a handful. Hilary proposes a strict system of rules and punishments to correct the situation, but will Hasiba agree to Hilary’s terms? And will Hilary’s growing feelings for Hasiba spoil the dynamic? Book 6: Hasiba the Lost Love: When the mother of one of her boarders comes to town for a visit, Miss Baxter seems not quite her usual self. Picking up on the dynamic, two of her boarders decide to put the situation right. A little late night eves dropping, with a swat and a moan, lets them know they’ve done their job.
Miss Baxter's Girls Book 1: Julie the Pianist
Author: Davina Lee
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1634869885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Hilary Baxter is a retired dominatrix who runs a boarding house for young women. Equal parts loving mother and strict disciplinarian, her hope is to help each of her boarders live up to her full potential. New boarder Julie quickly discovers Miss Baxter’s demanding disposition, as well as her sexy assistant Anise. It’s lust at first sight for Julie, but things take a kinky turn when Anise’s shirt rides up and Julie notices a strangely regular pattern of bruising. With Anise’s guidance, Julie discovers not all hurts are bad hurts, and eventually finds herself entering Miss Baxter’s “extra-curricular room” for some formal education.
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1634869885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Hilary Baxter is a retired dominatrix who runs a boarding house for young women. Equal parts loving mother and strict disciplinarian, her hope is to help each of her boarders live up to her full potential. New boarder Julie quickly discovers Miss Baxter’s demanding disposition, as well as her sexy assistant Anise. It’s lust at first sight for Julie, but things take a kinky turn when Anise’s shirt rides up and Julie notices a strangely regular pattern of bruising. With Anise’s guidance, Julie discovers not all hurts are bad hurts, and eventually finds herself entering Miss Baxter’s “extra-curricular room” for some formal education.