Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877499517
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Dan tries to recapture Grandma's parrot after the bird escapes from his cage in a bid for freedom. Includes notes for teachers. Suggested level: junior.
Dan and the Parrot
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877499517
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Dan tries to recapture Grandma's parrot after the bird escapes from his cage in a bid for freedom. Includes notes for teachers. Suggested level: junior.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877499517
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Dan tries to recapture Grandma's parrot after the bird escapes from his cage in a bid for freedom. Includes notes for teachers. Suggested level: junior.
Ask the Parrot
Author: Richard Stark
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022648579X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: “Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark.” —San Diego Union-Tribune In Ask the Parrot, the followup to Nobody Runs Forever, ruthless thief Parker is back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he is forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the racetrack that fired him. Even in hiding, Parker manages to get up to no good. It’ll be a deadly day at the races . . . “Richard Stark’s Parker crime novels are the ultimate page-turners.” —Jonathan Ames, The Boston Globe “Parker is a blunt instrument of a human being.” —John Hodgman, Parade “Often funny, laced with Stark’s brutally morbid humor . . . fast-moving, tense scenes that drip with potential violence before, inevitably, exploding into actual violence.” —Christopher Bahn, AV Club
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022648579X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: “Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark.” —San Diego Union-Tribune In Ask the Parrot, the followup to Nobody Runs Forever, ruthless thief Parker is back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he is forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the racetrack that fired him. Even in hiding, Parker manages to get up to no good. It’ll be a deadly day at the races . . . “Richard Stark’s Parker crime novels are the ultimate page-turners.” —Jonathan Ames, The Boston Globe “Parker is a blunt instrument of a human being.” —John Hodgman, Parade “Often funny, laced with Stark’s brutally morbid humor . . . fast-moving, tense scenes that drip with potential violence before, inevitably, exploding into actual violence.” —Christopher Bahn, AV Club
Dan, the Flying Man
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877454592
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Dan is flying everywhere! Who will catch him?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877454592
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Dan is flying everywhere! Who will catch him?
Flaubert's Parrot
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307797856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. • “A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.” —The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307797856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. • “A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.” —The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.
Forum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Parrot and Olivier in America
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307593010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together—in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands—a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the experiment of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, imagery, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307593010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together—in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands—a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the experiment of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, imagery, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.
Little Dan
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877499470
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Since he was a baby, Dan has always wanted to fly and finally he does with help from a special birthday gift from his grandfather. With notes for teachers. Suggested level: junior.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877499470
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Since he was a baby, Dan has always wanted to fly and finally he does with help from a special birthday gift from his grandfather. With notes for teachers. Suggested level: junior.
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
Author: David Lipsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393866718
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A New York Times Editors’ Choice Named a Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and EcoLit Books A USA Today Must-Read Summer Book "David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment." —Zoë Schlanger, New York Times Book Review The New York Times best-selling author explores how “anti-science” became so virulent in American life—through a history of climate denial and its consequences. In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other. With narrative sweep and a superb eye for character, Lipsky unfolds the dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science. The story begins with a tale of three inventors—Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla—who made our technological world, not knowing what they had set into motion. Then there are the scientists who sounded the alarm once they identified carbon dioxide as the culprit of our warming planet. And we meet the hucksters, zealots, and crackpots who lied about that science and misled the public in ever more outrageous ways. Lipsky masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial, exposing how it grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes. Featuring an indelible cast of heroes and villains, mavericks and swindlers, The Parrot and the Igloo delivers a real-life tragicomedy—one that captures the extraordinary dance of science, money, and the American character.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393866718
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A New York Times Editors’ Choice Named a Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and EcoLit Books A USA Today Must-Read Summer Book "David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment." —Zoë Schlanger, New York Times Book Review The New York Times best-selling author explores how “anti-science” became so virulent in American life—through a history of climate denial and its consequences. In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other. With narrative sweep and a superb eye for character, Lipsky unfolds the dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science. The story begins with a tale of three inventors—Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla—who made our technological world, not knowing what they had set into motion. Then there are the scientists who sounded the alarm once they identified carbon dioxide as the culprit of our warming planet. And we meet the hucksters, zealots, and crackpots who lied about that science and misled the public in ever more outrageous ways. Lipsky masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial, exposing how it grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes. Featuring an indelible cast of heroes and villains, mavericks and swindlers, The Parrot and the Igloo delivers a real-life tragicomedy—one that captures the extraordinary dance of science, money, and the American character.
Unlovable
Author: Dan Yaccarino
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805075328
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Alfred, a pug, is made to feel inferior by a cat, a parrot, and the other neighborhood dogs, until a new dog moves in next door and helps Alfred to realize he is fine just the way he is.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805075328
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Alfred, a pug, is made to feel inferior by a cat, a parrot, and the other neighborhood dogs, until a new dog moves in next door and helps Alfred to realize he is fine just the way he is.
Dan and the Parrot
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781605592176
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
"Grandma Fay has lost her parrot. Can Dan, the flying man, get it back?"--p. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781605592176
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
"Grandma Fay has lost her parrot. Can Dan, the flying man, get it back?"--p. [4] of cover.