![]() ![]() Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. ![]() Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. ![]() More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As the novel opens in June 1954, Emmett has just been released from an 18-month sentence in a juvenile work camp, having landed on “the ugly side of luck” in a manslaughter case involving a teenage bully. Like Nina, young Billy is a creative, intelligent and essential companion to his older brother, and like Rostov, Emmett has had his own brush with the law. Although this great American road trip is quite a change of pace and scenery, Towles continues to transport readers, immersing them just as completely in the adventures of the Watson brothers he did in the seemingly claustrophobic lives of Count Rostov and his young sidekick, Nina. ![]() ![]() In light of their father’s recent death, their unlikely goal is to track down their mother-who abandoned them years ago-at a July 4th celebration in San Francisco.Īfter mesmerizing legions of readers with the story of Count Alexander Rostov, sentenced in 1922 to spend the rest of his life in an attic room of a grand hotel in A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), Amor Towles takes to the open road in his superb, sprawling, cross-country saga, The Lincoln Highway. “I guess you haven’t had your adventure yet,” 18-year-old Emmett Watson tells his 8-year-old brother, Billy, who responds, “I think we’re on it now.” And indeed they are, having set out in Emmett’s powder-blue 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser, planning to head west on the Lincoln Highway, America’s first transcontinental roadway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let the poem show you what may be lying dormant in your own heart. Read a poem at a time, or two-or all at once-but give it time to sink into your heart. There are love poems for every mood and sentimental feeling, for every phase of love you are experiencing whether you are with a partner or t. This powerful collection of erotic and sensual love poems celebrates the erotic spirit in all its forms - from intense passionate sexual desire to seductive victory. PoemShape Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems is an extraordinary storytelling in the form of erotic love poetry, speaking directly to the reader's heart through sensations that course throughout the body. KIRKUS REVIEW The best poetry book of modern erotic poems (by a single author). Erotic poetry that evokes feelings of joy, happiness, and an overall celebration of the arts of physical and romantic love. ![]() ![]() We get the standard group of girls from manga like this (the young one, the cute one, the nerdy one, the sexy one, and the tomboy). There is a weird love triangle where the girl gets mega flustered over everything either guy does, and the tension of one being an jerk and the other not know everything about her. I remember the story line well enough to grab the third one and get started, and I was almost immediately mad at myself. I remember Tokyo Mew Mew vaguely but in a sort of “that was interesting” sort of way, so a revisit seemed nice. High School me has some serious explaining to do when it comes to Tokyo Mew Mew. Have you ever decided to revisit something from a decade ago because you never finished it and you’re curious as to how that fun series turned out? Did you also scratch your head and wonder what the hell you were thinking when you picked this series up the first time? I’m so confused right now. ![]() Why did I read two volumes of this in high school? I can see why I never grabbed this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout. ![]() The Golden Spiders The Black Mountain Three Men Out Before Midnight Might As Well Be Dead Three Witnesses If Death Ever Slept Three for the Chair Champagne for One. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained-and puzzled-millions of mystery fans around the world. REX STOUT, the creator of Nero Wolfe, was born in Noblesville, Indiana, in 1886, the sixth of nine children of John and Lucetta Todhunter Stout, both Quakers. The man has entered our folklore.”- The New York Times Book ReviewĪ grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. “It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The case is all boiling down to a strange taste of greed-and a grumpy gourmand’s unappeasable appetite for truth. ![]() In short order, Wolfe finds himself confronted by one of his most perplexing and pressing cases, involving a curious set of clues: a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and a pair of earrings shaped like spiders dipped in gold. So why has he accepted a case for $4.30? And why have the last two people to hire him been ruthlessly murdered? Wolfe suspects the answers may lie in the story of a twelve-year-old boy who turns up at the door of his West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone. Nero Wolfe was almost as famous for his wealthy clients and extravagant fees as for his genius at detection. ![]() ![]() This disparity in learning is referred to as the achievement gap. These same kids, when followed into third grade, had bigger vocabularies, were stronger readers, and got higher test scores. ![]() The children who heard more words were better prepared when they entered school. A study by researchers Betty Hart and Todd Risley in 1995 found that some children heard thirty million fewer words by their fourth birthdays than others. ![]() The research is in: Academic achievement begins on the first day of life with the first word said by a cooing mother just after delivery. ![]() The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important-and astoundingly simple-thing you can do for your child’s future success in life is to talk to him or her, reveals the recent science behind this truth, and outlines precisely how parents can best put it into practice. ![]() ![]() ![]() And in the battle that follows, only one thing is certain: nothing will ever be the same. Cover of: Stellarlune by Shannon Messenger. ![]() The Lost Cities’ greatest lie could destroy everything. Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities 9) by Shannon Messenger, unknown edition. And as the Neverseen’s plans sharpen into terrifying focus, it appears that everyone has miscalculated. ![]() But finding truth in the Lost Cities always requires sacrifice. Stellarlune-and the mysterious Elysian-might be the key to everything. But her instincts are leading her somewhere else. Her friends are divided and scattered, and the Black Swan wants Sophie to focus on their projects. In this stunning ninth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie and her friends discover the true meaning of power-and evil. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two exceptionally bright copies of these important works of twentieth-century literature. ![]() In 1964, the US Supreme Court finally declared these works non-obscene. When the 1961 Grove Press edition of Tropic of Cancer was released, it led to the obscenity trials that reviewed American laws of pornography. The United States Justice Department banned the original editions of both Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. These two works of literature were extremely controversial when first published in the United States in the 1930s, due to their candid depictions and descriptions of sex and sexuality. The first UK editions of these works, enclosed in their original bright dust wrappers. ![]() Written by American author Henry Miller, these two works are semi-autobiographical and narrate the author's early writing career, but also include fictive and free-form elements. His books include Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus), Black Spring, and Crazy Cock. ![]() Two important works of twentieth-century literature, Tropic of Cancer (1963) and Tropic of Capricorn (1964). First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper ![]() ![]() ![]() With money from the sale of jewelry of her mother, Alisa bought a ticket to New York. ![]() Alisa returned to the city, renamed Leningrad, to attend the university, but relatives already settled in America and in 1926 offered her the chance of joining them. When the Bolsheviks requisitioned the pharmacy that Fronz Rosenbaum, her father, owned, the family fled to the Crimea. On arrival at Ellis Island, she changed into Ayn (after a name of some Finnish author, p Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism.Īlisa Rosenbaum entered into a prosperous Jewish family before Russian revolution. ![]() Alisa Rosenbaum entered into a prosperous Jewish family before Russian revolution. Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, Sydney’s invisibility is diminishing, but with that comes the realization that she can no longer hide from the guilt and anger Peyton left in his wake. Desperate for an escape, she decides to start fresh at different high school, where she can just be Sydney, and not Sydney, the girl whose brother paralyzed a local kid.Ĭhange comes unexpectedly in the form of Seaside Pizza, a local dive where she meets Mac, an intriguing boy, and his sister, Layla, who instantly becomes her new BFF. ![]() But when he got behind the wheel after a night of drinking and struck a boy, paralyzing him, that shadow grew even darker, suffocating Sydney with loneliness as her parents focused on Peyton’s future in prison. Charismatic and daring, he attracted attention-and as he got older, trouble-effortlessly. Sydney has spent her whole life living in the shadow of her older brother, Peyton. The carousel is charming (although misleadingly functioning), the layout is all grown up, and, most importantly, nothing reminds me of feminine hygiene. This cover is, in my opinion, the most appealing one so far. ![]() Then, a few years back, they got redesigned, and while a few still look like tampon ads, the branding shift is definitely a step in the right direction. I used to complain that all Sarah Dessen covers looked like brochures on Women’s Health and Your Changing Body. Bonus Factors: Dessen Easter Eggs, A Motley (Dessen) Crew, Tasty Business ![]() |