Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316033936
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Freddy Funkhouser comes up with an idea to bolster business for his family's fast-food health restaurant, Burger Castle, and finally defeat Pookesville's biggest bully, Adam Spanker. When Freddy's fun invention goes awry, the results are five very funny French fries who come to life and wreak havoc in Freddy's family and community. With some help from his cheese-cube-loving best friend Howie Kapowie, and armed with his dad's inventions, Freddy and the French Fries set out to bring Spanker and his gang down in a final showdown, proving that brains have an edge over brawn any time.
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316159982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Freddy Funkhauser embarks on an ambitious plan to win new customers for his family's burger restaurant. But when his secret invention brings five giant French fries to life, these kooky companions wreak havoc in Freddy's world. Illustrations.
Author: Tobias Wolff
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375701494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency of revelation is the school literary contest, whose winner will be awarded an audience with the most legendary writer of his time. As the fever of competition infects the boy and his classmates, fraying alliances, exposing weaknesses, Old School explores the ensuing deceptions and betrayals with an unblinking eye and a bottomless store of empathy. The result is further evidence that Wolff is an authentic American master.
Author: Hannah Fries
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945473043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Hannah Fries, former poetry editor of Orion, has worked with some of the nation's top poets, both in her graduate program at Warren Wilson, and as an editor. It shows in the confident, lyric voice of her debut volume, Little Terrarium. Her range, from giving human unsentimental voice to biblical women -- Mary, Noah's wife, a girl raised from the dead by Jesus -- to capturing Winslow Homer in words in a series devoted to his paintings, to attentive, fresh, surprising looks at our contemporary world, Fries doesn't shy away from what is emotionally true, but manages to do so in her own unique way. We're proud to offer these poems as our next publication.A mind and a mind's eye for art are evident on every page of this fine book. Beyond the beautiful, however, these poems also register a sharp regard for the natural world, for our hands-on knowledge of it, and for the plain fact that we are alive at a time when the natural world is most threatened. That is a practical predicament, but it is also a moral reality. To face the practical is a matter of will; to embrace the moral, as this book makes clear, is a matter of love. The love on these pages is human and searching--such is the love we need for art and the love we seek for wisdom." -- Maurice Manning
Author: Kate Alice Marshall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425290999
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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"This tense wire of a novel thrums with suspense. . . . [this book] just might be the highlight of your summer.”–The New York Times Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets The Revenant in this heart-pounding story of survival and revenge in the unforgiving wilderness. After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn’t act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive—for now. Before: Jess hadn’t seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded. After: With only her father’s dog for company, Jess must forage and hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm. Some days it feels like the wild is out to destroy her, but she’s stronger than she ever imagined. Jess will survive. She has to. She knows who killed her father…and she wants revenge.
Author: Kenny Fries
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299314248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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An American's journey of profound self-discovery in Japan, and an exquisite tale of cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art.
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 9780330449199
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Adam Spanker, determined to get even after his previous defeat, has challenged Freddy to bet on the winner of the annual science competition. Freddy was convinced he'd win - being a scientific genius who brought five french fries to life . . . until he discovered that Adam had joined forces with science wiz Harold. Can Freddy and his french fry friends come up with another spectacular experiment to save the day?
Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399179232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum.
Author: Peter J. Tomasi
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Nora Fries has been the apple of Mr. Freeze’s eye for a long time. For years he has toiled and suffered to try and cure her of her ailments, and bring back the life they had together. He has finally done it, but will Nora Fries be the same person she was when she was frozen? Or is there something broken that can’t be fixed?
Author: Richard Montanez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593087461
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Now a Hulu feature film directed by Eva Longoria Read the story everyone is talking about: how a janitor struggling to put food on the table invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in a secret test kitchen, breaking barriers and becoming the first Latino frontline worker promoted to executive at Frito-Lay. Richard Montañez is a man who made a science out of walking through closed doors, and his success story is an empowerment manual for anyone stuck in a dead-end job or facing a system stacked against them. Having taken a job mopping floors at Frito-Lay's California factory to support his family, Montañez took his future into his own hands and created the world’s hottest snack food: Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. This bold move not only disrupted the food industry with some much-needed spice, but also shook up a corporate culture in which everyone stayed in their lane. When a top food scientist at Frito-Lay sent out a memo telling sales and marketing to kill the new product before it made it to the store shelves—jealous that someone with no formal education beyond the sixth grade could do his job—Montañez was forced to go rogue once again to save his idea. Through creative thinking, community building, and a few powerful mindset shifts, he outsmarted the naysayers who tried to get in his way. Flamin' Hot proves that you can break out of your career rut and that your present circumstances don't have to dictate your future.
