Author: Neil O'Donnell
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Don't mess with Timothy. He might seem like your average chipmunk who loves seeds, sunbathing and enjoying a quiet life in the suburbs. But after new neighbors move in and wreak havoc, they will have to come face to face with his wit and resourcefulness. The last straw is that the new neighbors keep calling him Chip. Convincing all manner of rodents and other small wildlife to work together, Timothy launches an assault against their invasive neighbors. Based on a true character, this book is a clean, fun read for eight-grade reading level and over.
Don't Call Me Chip
Author: Neil O'Donnell
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Don't mess with Timothy. He might seem like your average chipmunk who loves seeds, sunbathing and enjoying a quiet life in the suburbs. But after new neighbors move in and wreak havoc, they will have to come face to face with his wit and resourcefulness. The last straw is that the new neighbors keep calling him Chip. Convincing all manner of rodents and other small wildlife to work together, Timothy launches an assault against their invasive neighbors. Based on a true character, this book is a clean, fun read for eight-grade reading level and over.
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Don't mess with Timothy. He might seem like your average chipmunk who loves seeds, sunbathing and enjoying a quiet life in the suburbs. But after new neighbors move in and wreak havoc, they will have to come face to face with his wit and resourcefulness. The last straw is that the new neighbors keep calling him Chip. Convincing all manner of rodents and other small wildlife to work together, Timothy launches an assault against their invasive neighbors. Based on a true character, this book is a clean, fun read for eight-grade reading level and over.
Don’T Call Me Mama
Author: Maxine Sue Feller
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514420244
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
One night, as Mama bathed me, I asked why she didnt paint her nails. Who have you seen wearing nail polish? she asked. The blond lady Daddy takes me to see on Sundays. After my parents were divorced, I overheard Grandma say, Yetta, your baggage will hamper you from finding another husband. So as Mama bathed me, she said, Dont call me Mama. Hearing this was hurtful. My father hadnt taken me with him when he left. Now, I felt Mama no longer wanted me. I was four years old. Who would take care of me? It was a desperate, sometimes devastating journey through the depths of despair I lived daily as a preschooler. Then it was a tumultuous adolescence with my malicious grandmother. How did I find the courage to survive the journey through these challenges? You will find it an exciting yet uplifting reading experience.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514420244
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
One night, as Mama bathed me, I asked why she didnt paint her nails. Who have you seen wearing nail polish? she asked. The blond lady Daddy takes me to see on Sundays. After my parents were divorced, I overheard Grandma say, Yetta, your baggage will hamper you from finding another husband. So as Mama bathed me, she said, Dont call me Mama. Hearing this was hurtful. My father hadnt taken me with him when he left. Now, I felt Mama no longer wanted me. I was four years old. Who would take care of me? It was a desperate, sometimes devastating journey through the depths of despair I lived daily as a preschooler. Then it was a tumultuous adolescence with my malicious grandmother. How did I find the courage to survive the journey through these challenges? You will find it an exciting yet uplifting reading experience.
Alpha's Secret Baby
Author: Beau Brown
Publisher: Beau Brown
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Mpreg Romance Fireman Garrett Livingston could probably have any omega he wants. The problem is he isn’t out of the closet yet. Anyone he beds has to promise to keep his secret. That works out just fine so long as he just wants to sleep around and have fun. But nothing is ever that easy, right? When Garrett meets Chip Sorenson, he falls hard and fast. The problem is, Chip isn’t going to waste his time on an alpha that doesn’t know what he wants. Chip is ready to settle down and have babies. But if Garrett can’t admit to his family and friends who he really is, they have no future. As heartbreaking as it is, Chip breaks things off with Garrett. But just as he thinks maybe he’s ready to move on and start a life with another alpha, he discovers he’s pregnant with Garrett’s baby.
Publisher: Beau Brown
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Mpreg Romance Fireman Garrett Livingston could probably have any omega he wants. The problem is he isn’t out of the closet yet. Anyone he beds has to promise to keep his secret. That works out just fine so long as he just wants to sleep around and have fun. But nothing is ever that easy, right? When Garrett meets Chip Sorenson, he falls hard and fast. The problem is, Chip isn’t going to waste his time on an alpha that doesn’t know what he wants. Chip is ready to settle down and have babies. But if Garrett can’t admit to his family and friends who he really is, they have no future. As heartbreaking as it is, Chip breaks things off with Garrett. But just as he thinks maybe he’s ready to move on and start a life with another alpha, he discovers he’s pregnant with Garrett’s baby.
The John Green eSampler
Author: John Green
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101573139
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Excerpts from four novels by bestselling, award-winning author John Green: Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101573139
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Excerpts from four novels by bestselling, award-winning author John Green: Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars.
Don't Call Me Mother
Author: Linda Joy Myers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1938314085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
“I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty . . .” At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be an only occasional—and always troubled—visitor who denies her the love she longs for. Linda Joy Myers’s compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of three generations of daughters who, though determined to be different from their absent mothers, ultimately follow in their footsteps, recreating a pattern that they yearn to break. Accompany Linda as she uncovers family secrets, seeks solace in music, and begins her healing journey—ultimately transcending the prison of her childhood and finding forgiveness for her family and herself. This edition includes a new afterword in which Myers confronts her family’s legacy and comes full circle with her daughter and grandchildren, seeding a new path for them.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1938314085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
“I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty . . .” At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be an only occasional—and always troubled—visitor who denies her the love she longs for. Linda Joy Myers’s compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of three generations of daughters who, though determined to be different from their absent mothers, ultimately follow in their footsteps, recreating a pattern that they yearn to break. Accompany Linda as she uncovers family secrets, seeks solace in music, and begins her healing journey—ultimately transcending the prison of her childhood and finding forgiveness for her family and herself. This edition includes a new afterword in which Myers confronts her family’s legacy and comes full circle with her daughter and grandchildren, seeding a new path for them.
Wood Plays: 1
Author: David Wood
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472536878
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"As playwright, composer and director, Mr Wood has given children a self respecting art form" (The Times) The Gingerbread Man - 'The perfect children's play, with lots of superbly silly jokes and foot-tapping songs ... a magnificent epic of comic disarray' (Time Out); The See-Saw Tree - 'We are made to feel at once that the theatre is something immediate and involving' (Times); The Ideal Gnome Expedition - 'David Wood has surely scored again ... yet another gently entertaining excursion into a fantasy world where eminently sensible values prevail' (Daily Telegraph); Mother Goose's Golden Christmas - 'I cannot recommend this pantomime highly enough ... an enchanting blend of mirth and music that captivates the hearts of mums, dads and kids' (Romford Observer)
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472536878
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"As playwright, composer and director, Mr Wood has given children a self respecting art form" (The Times) The Gingerbread Man - 'The perfect children's play, with lots of superbly silly jokes and foot-tapping songs ... a magnificent epic of comic disarray' (Time Out); The See-Saw Tree - 'We are made to feel at once that the theatre is something immediate and involving' (Times); The Ideal Gnome Expedition - 'David Wood has surely scored again ... yet another gently entertaining excursion into a fantasy world where eminently sensible values prevail' (Daily Telegraph); Mother Goose's Golden Christmas - 'I cannot recommend this pantomime highly enough ... an enchanting blend of mirth and music that captivates the hearts of mums, dads and kids' (Romford Observer)
Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University Presents Boston Theater Marathon of Ten-minute Plays
Author:
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780874401820
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN: 9780874401820
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Half-Blood Blues
Author: Esi Edugyan
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466802847
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952. Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film's premier, Sid's role in Falk's fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466802847
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952. Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film's premier, Sid's role in Falk's fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.
The General Is Missing
Author: John (Jack) Callahan
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 9781477281277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
THE GENERAL IS MISSING THE GENERAL IS MISSING****** AN ACTION-PACKED DRAMA, CRAMMED WITH CONSPIRACY, DANGER, HUMOR, AND SUSPENSE. THIS ENERGY-FILLED PLOT WILL EXCITE YOUR PASSIONS AND FILL YOUR HEAD WITH EXPECTATION, AS GRIFFIN IS DRAWN INTO A TANGLED WEB OF ARMY INTRIGUE. Griffin, a retired FBI Special Agent, on a flight to Chicago to help his critically injured Marine friend, is drawn into an ongoing mystery by Kate, an attractive flight attendant, who views him as her fathers look-alike. An Army courier carrying a message to a Pentagon General is poisoned. Before dying, falls into Kates arms. In his last gasping breath he begs Kate to deliver an unmarked envelope to a General Ridgeway, muttering, Its a matter of national security. This suspense-filled plot continues to unfold requiring Griffin to choose between helping his injured Marine friend or becoming involved with the lovely flight attendant. The mystery requires Griffin to enlist the assistance of a profiler who directs the hunt for the missing General.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 9781477281277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
THE GENERAL IS MISSING THE GENERAL IS MISSING****** AN ACTION-PACKED DRAMA, CRAMMED WITH CONSPIRACY, DANGER, HUMOR, AND SUSPENSE. THIS ENERGY-FILLED PLOT WILL EXCITE YOUR PASSIONS AND FILL YOUR HEAD WITH EXPECTATION, AS GRIFFIN IS DRAWN INTO A TANGLED WEB OF ARMY INTRIGUE. Griffin, a retired FBI Special Agent, on a flight to Chicago to help his critically injured Marine friend, is drawn into an ongoing mystery by Kate, an attractive flight attendant, who views him as her fathers look-alike. An Army courier carrying a message to a Pentagon General is poisoned. Before dying, falls into Kates arms. In his last gasping breath he begs Kate to deliver an unmarked envelope to a General Ridgeway, muttering, Its a matter of national security. This suspense-filled plot continues to unfold requiring Griffin to choose between helping his injured Marine friend or becoming involved with the lovely flight attendant. The mystery requires Griffin to enlist the assistance of a profiler who directs the hunt for the missing General.
Sunset Secrets
Author: Amelia Addler
Publisher: ANJ Press
ISBN: 1955298297
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Living in paradise isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be… Marty Coursin is finally living the good life. Free of the erroneous FBI charges against him, now he’s able to spend his days in comfort on Orcas Island. Sure, there’s a bit of a mystery surrounding who’s been sending him strange, anonymous messages. But who cares about that when everything is going his way, including the arrival of a beautiful, fascinating new resident? Emma Dickinson is ready for a fresh start. With her health problems under control and her divorce finalized, island life is exactly what she needs. She won’t ever fall in love again, though. Not even with her charming new friend, Marty. No matter how perfect he seems, risking her heart again is not in her best interest. Or so she keeps telling herself… Will Marty’s secretive nature, colorful past, and best intentions only serve to keep Emma at arm’s length? Or will she learn to trust – and love – him enough to take a shot at happily ever after? Sunset Secrets, book two in the Orcas Island series, is a sweet, romantic, contemporary women’s fiction read full of joy and second chances. Enjoy the sites of the San Juan Islands through the eyes of your favorite islanders – Marty, Lucy, and Claire. Download today!
Publisher: ANJ Press
ISBN: 1955298297
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Living in paradise isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be… Marty Coursin is finally living the good life. Free of the erroneous FBI charges against him, now he’s able to spend his days in comfort on Orcas Island. Sure, there’s a bit of a mystery surrounding who’s been sending him strange, anonymous messages. But who cares about that when everything is going his way, including the arrival of a beautiful, fascinating new resident? Emma Dickinson is ready for a fresh start. With her health problems under control and her divorce finalized, island life is exactly what she needs. She won’t ever fall in love again, though. Not even with her charming new friend, Marty. No matter how perfect he seems, risking her heart again is not in her best interest. Or so she keeps telling herself… Will Marty’s secretive nature, colorful past, and best intentions only serve to keep Emma at arm’s length? Or will she learn to trust – and love – him enough to take a shot at happily ever after? Sunset Secrets, book two in the Orcas Island series, is a sweet, romantic, contemporary women’s fiction read full of joy and second chances. Enjoy the sites of the San Juan Islands through the eyes of your favorite islanders – Marty, Lucy, and Claire. Download today!