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Maisy's Favorite Things
By Lucy Cousins. 2001
Preschoolers' favorite books are Maisy books! These tiny board books feature all the things that Maisy- and every preschooler- loves…
best. Toys, clothes, animals, and more- Maisy's world is a delightful place indeed, and everything that makes it special is all right here in a size just right for tiny hands.Twenty Is Too Many
By Kate Duke. 2000
Twenty guinea pigs can be too many--especially if all of them are crammed on a small and tipsy boat. In…
this charming and boisterous book about subtraction, the guinea pigs begin to jump ship, each in his or her own funny and unique way. While children follow the story of the ever-shrinking gang of guinea pigs, they can count the furry pals leaping on and around oversized numerals representing the number of cavorting cavies on the page. A simple equation that shows the subtraction is printed along the bottom of each spread, reinforcing the concept.Like its successful predecessor, One Guinea Pig Is Not Enough, this book tells a story while teaching a number concept.People Kill People
By Ellen Hopkins. 2018
Weekly Someone will shoot. And someone will die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins tackles gun violence and…
white supremacy in this compelling and complex novel. People kill people. Guns just make it easier. A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, bought by a teenager for needed protection. But which was it? Each has the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his life? Or Noelle, who lost everything after a devastating accident, and has sunk quietly into depression? One tense week brings all six people into close contact in a town wrought with political and personal tensions. Someone will fire. And someone will die. But who? A New York Times BestsellerWhat You Want
By Constantine Phipps. 2014
Patrick is still in love with his separated wife. Returning with their son after a trip to an amusement park,…
he begs, one last time, to reconcile with her. When she refuses, he is driven to thoughtless desperation: a bottle of sleeping pills, a bottle of whisky. And in his dying dream, he revisits that theme park of childish desire. There he finds the landscape - still garish and indulgent - has evolved. The attractions are religion, money and sex. The characters - costumed and acted - are transformed into Jefferson, Xunzi, Aristotle. And their purpose is to instruct Patrick in the pursuit of happiness throughout human history. But Patrick can only answer with his own story. He remembers falling in love with Louise. Recalls the enlightenment of their youth and the banality of their family life. He tells of their marriage, how it came under strain after the birth of his son; how he cheated; the unravelling of all his joy. Yet still his love persists. Beginning with the first line of Dante's Divine Comedy and taking in Disneyworld, the Declaration of Independence and the canon of philosophy in its stride, What You Want is a literary feat: a novel written entirely in verse, depicting life in all its ordinariness. It gives voice to a new Everyman and brings forth an unparallelled modern epic.A Linguagem Corporal Dos Cães Com Ilustrações -Ajude Na Segurança Dos Seus Filhos
By Elvira Sousa, Amber Richards. 2015
A maior parte das vezes, como pais, não nos preocupamos em ensinar aos nossos filhos regras de segurança no que…
diz respeito a cães até surgir uma situação de perigo. Então, já não há tempo para ensinar, porque temos de agir rapidamente. Qualquer prevenção demora muito tempo. Mesmo não sendo donos de um cão, devemos ensinar aos nossos filhos a lidar com cães em diferentes situações. Este livro pode ser lido por um adulto a uma criança que tenha medo de cães, ou a uma criança que seja demasiado confiante, mas que precisa de aprender a ter mais respeito. No início do livro, os pais podem encontrar algum aconselhamento sobre a leitura, que deverá ser feita previa e integralmente antes da abordagem com a criança. Os pais conhecem a fase de desenvolvimento dos seus filhos, o seu temperamento e a sua experiência vivida com cães melhor do que ninguém. Todos estes factores se interligam quando se trata de ensinar sobre segurança e cães. Infelizmente, é uma temática à qual não damos muita importância. Como autora, não pretendi escrever um livro assustador, mas sim, um livro que ensina e encoraja a uma relação saudável entre a criança e o cão. O livro termina com algumas gravuras engraçadas para concluir com um tom mais ligeiro.Jagannath
By Karin Tidbeck. 2012
An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft.A child…
is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck, the visionary Swedish author of literary sci-fi, speculative fiction, and mind-bending fantasy who has captivated readers around the world. Originally published by the tiny press Cheeky Frawg--the passion project of Ann and Jeff VanderMeer--Jagannath has been celebrated by readers and critics alike, with rave reviews from major outlets and support from lauded peers like China Miéville and even Ursula K. Le Guin herself. These are stories in which fairies haunt quiet towns, and an immortal being discovers the nature of time--stories in which anything is possible.The Magic School Bus Makes A Rainbow: A Book About Color
By Joanna Cole. 1997
Freaky Funky Crazy Creepy!: Tales for curious children
By Kaye Roberts-Palmer. 2015
For one night only - discover secret, wondrous tales of unwary children thrown into wild adventures full of astonishments and…
peril! On this fierce, stormy night Strix the old attic cat will reveal his freaky, funky, crazy creepy tales filled with captain's curses, tempest tailors, lost dragons, ghosts, superhero grannies and much more. Come along and prepare to be amazed, amused and astounded - if you dare! Freaky Funky Crazy Creepy! is a selection of fun, adventurous tales for children 7 to 10 years.A Woman of Independent Means
By Hailey, Elizabeth Forsythe. 1978
A bestselling sensation when it was first published by Viking in 1978, A Woman of Independent Means has delighted millions…
of readers and was the inspiration for the television miniseries starring Sally Field. At the turn of the century, a time when women had few choices, Bess Steed Garner inherits a legacynot only of wealth but of determination and desire, making her truly a woman of independent means. From the early 1900s through the 1960s, we accompany Bess as she endures life's trials and triumphs with unfailing courage and indomitable spirit: the sacrifices love sometimes requires of the heart, the flaws and rewards of marriage, the often-tested bond between mother and child, and the will to defy a society that demands conformity. Now, with this beautiful trade paperback edition, Penguin will introduce a new generation of readers to this richly woven story. . . and to Bess Steed Garner, a woman for all ages. .Here Come the Moonbathers
By Patricia Young. 2008
Here Come the Moonbathers, is more dark, difficult and tragic than Patricia Young's earlier work. The poems in this collection…
have wild freedom, exploring the themes of love, longing and loss with grace, playfulness, and occasionally anger. There's a surreal edge to these poems, a personal, political and ecological vision, an incantatory vernacular and rhythm that makes these poems unforgettable.Lost Luggage
By Salvatore Ala. 2011
Journeys and interrupted journeys are a well established theme in literature. Gustave Von Aschenback's fateful journey back to Venice and…
his death began with lost luggage. So also with Salvatore Ala's new collection of poems -- his third. Lost luggage and the efforts to find the things of this world retrieved and redeemed are central to Ala's poems.Jane Again
By Wayne Clifford. 2009
In his sixties, Yeats published the half-dozen poems that drew Crazy Jane out from his imagination to act as a…
profane voice against the strictures of the Church and the mores of his age. Wayne Clifford, in his sixties, has let Jane free to speak once more. We learn why Jane is crazy, if indeed she is.Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman
By Goran Simic. 2012
Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection by Bosnian expat Goran Simic, is as much a departure…
as it is a continuance. In this book, we find the world-renowned poet visiting familiar themes in fresh ways.All This Could Be Yours
By Joshua Trotter. 2011
Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter's debut collection…
is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows.Pause for Breath
By Robyn Sarah. 2009
Diverse in subject, style and mood and rich in contrasts - from the lyrical to the rhetorical, from the public…
and collective to the personal and private - the poems in Pause for Breath are a meditation on the times and on time itself, sounding the human condition at a moment of world-change.The Pangborn Defence
By Norm Sibum. 2008
The Pangborn Defence, a departure from Sibum's previous verse, will be something of a surprise for those who have followed…
his career. Poems written as letters to personages both real and imagined, there are political undertones to many rarely seen in Sibum's ouevre. But there is still the same attention to detail, the same craftsmanship, humour, love and originality.Groundwork
By Amanda Jernigan. 2011
Amanda Jernigan's Groundwork is epic in ambition and scope, a collection of poetic sequences, both intensely personal and mythopoetic, representing…
stages in the poet's thinking about language and place. They form a series of parallel meditations on the past, present, and the mythological constructs with which we seek to join them.Amanda Jernigan, American and Canadian, lives and writes in Hamilton, Ontario.Jailbreaks
By Zachariah Wells. 2008
In 1910 Lawrence J. Burpee published an anthology of 100 Canadian Sonnets. Poet and critic Zachariah Wells figured it was…
high time for an update on that dusty tome. In Jailbreaks, Wells has gathered 99 of his favourite sonnets written by Canadians, from the 19th century to the present day.Las Aventuras Del Cangrejito Pellizquitos Y Ramón D’Escargot
By Dan Alatorre, José Ramón Torres. 2015
La familia de una niña va a la playa, donde ella se hace amiga de un cangrejito y de los…
amigos de este. Todo va bien hasta que, después de una tormenta, aparece en la orilla un pequeño extraño y la niña decide, con sus nuevos amigos, ayudarlo a regresar a casa... ¡en Francia!Disfruta con tu retoño de este libro para niños ilustrado a todo color. ¡Perfecto para leer a los pequeños o para que los niños algo más grandes te lo lean!Time's Covenant
By Eric Ormsby. 2007