Franky and the Worry Bees

Franky and the Worry Bees
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Total Pages:
Release: 2020-09-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735590615

Do you have worry bees? You know, those buzzing sounds that enter your brain when you are anxious or concerned about something. Franky had a very bad case of the worry bees. Then, he shared what was happening to him with his mom and his dad. He was surprised to hear that they had worry bees too! With some gentle tips from his mom, Franky starts conquering his worry bees. He shares his valuable tips on how to stop listening to them.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2006-05-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429989076

Cory Doctorow's miraculous novel of family history, Internet connectivity, and magical secrets Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur who moves to a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. Living next door is a young woman who reveals to him that she has wings—which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers are sets of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three dolls are on his doorstep, starving, because their innermost member has vanished. It appears that Davey, another brother who Alan and his siblings killed years ago, may have returned, bent on revenge. Under the circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to join a scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet, spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles from scavenged parts. But Alan's past won't leave him alone—and Davey isn't the only one gunning for him and his friends. Whipsawing between the preposterous, the amazing, and the deeply felt, Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is unlike any novel you have ever read. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

I Don't Want to Eat Bugs

I Don't Want to Eat Bugs
Author: Rachel Branton
Publisher: White Star Press
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1939203724

Bugs are for the birds! Lisbon is hungry and it’s hard to wait for dinner. When her animal friends try to help her find something tasty to eat, the real the problems begin! Join Lisbon on her funny misadventures. Each beautiful illustration is designed to inspire the imaginations of children. An activity page at the end of the book allows for more fun as they search for special items in the illustrations. This version of I Don't Want to Eat Bugs has been designed specifically for ebook with a fixed layout and larger text for easy reading. While this is a great read-aloud book for parents, teachers, and other adults to share with children, we have chosen fonts that are similar to the way children form letters for easy recognition as they begin to read on their own. The print book is also available in 8.5” x 11” format. Author’s Note: I Don't Want to Eat Bugs was written for my daughter, who was two when I wrote this story and didn’t like salad, but now she’s four and a half and loves it—if I give her plenty of salad dressing! (But don’t worry—this isn’t a book about eating salad.) Of course birds, cats, and dogs have a very different idea of what's good to eat, but through this fun adventure, Lisbon learns there is also food meant just for her—and it's good, especially compared with all the offerings from her animal friends. My daughter and I privately call this book the "Ice Cream Story" (she LOVES ice cream so there had to be ice cream involved), and now whenever something funny happens, she says, "We should write a new ice cream story about that." And we have! I Don't Want to Eat Bugs is the first book in a planned series called Lisbon’s Misadventures. I’ve written the next three books in the series, and Tim Petersen is hard at work creating the illustrations. Tim is obviously a fabulous artist, and I’m excited to be working with him. You can sign up on my website to learn when the next book comes out (http://teylarachelbranton.com/). Thank you and enjoy!

How to Eat

How to Eat
Author: Mark Bittman
Publisher: Harvest
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2020
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 035812882X

Easy-to-understand rules for eating right, from food expert Mark Bittman and Yale physician David Katz, MD, based on their hit Grub Street article

Posthuman Gothic

Posthuman Gothic
Author: Anya Heise-von der Lippe
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786831082

Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman Gothic. Contributors explore the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality and mediality. The texts and media under discussion – from I am Legend to In the Flesh, and from Star Trek to The Truman Show, transgress the boundaries of genre, moving beyond the traditional scope of the Gothic. These texts, the contributors argue, destabilise ideas of the human in a number of ways. By confronting humanity and its Others, they introduce new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as human. Drawing on key texts of both Gothic and posthumanist theory, the contributors explore such varied themes as posthuman vampire and zombie narratives, genetically modified posthumans, the posthuman in video games, film and TV, the posthuman as a return to nature, the posthuman’s relation to classic monster narratives, and posthuman biohorror and theories of prometheanism and accelerationism. In its entirety, the volume offers a first attempt at addressing the various intersections of the posthuman and the Gothic in contemporary literature and media.

Crazy for God

Crazy for God
Author: Frank Schaeffer
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0786726458

By the time he was nineteen, Frank Schaeffer's parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his own evangelical bestseller, and work with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson. But all the while Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, precipitating a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his departure—even if it meant losing everything. With honesty, empathy, and humor, Schaeffer delivers “a brave and important book” (Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog)—both a fascinating insider's look at the American evangelical movement and a deeply affecting personal odyssey of faith.

The Egg and I

The Egg and I
Author: Betty MacDonald
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1987-08-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0060914289

When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall—through chaos and catastrophe—this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor. A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.

Francine and Her Special Talents

Francine and Her Special Talents
Author: Regine Muradian
Publisher: Regine Muradian, PsyD
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735590660

Francine and Her Special Talents helps children discover and explore their own unique talents. Francine's Aunt Nancy and cousins are coming for a visit. Usually, Francine is excited about their arrival, but on this particular day she's down in the dumps. She's tried out for two of her favorite sports at school, but didn't make any of the teams. Her mom tries to console her, but she's still too angry and frustrated to listen. Then, her aunt suggests they take a walk. Francine says yes because her aunt usually finds a way to comfort her. As Francine tells her what happens, her aunt guides her into seeing all the wonderful activities she's interested in and could potentially master. By the end of the story, she and her cousins are sharing their different passions and Francine is excited about and looking forward to focusing on the activities she loves best. This book includes several activities to help empower kids write down their own unique talents. The positive affirmations included are also very powerful as they aide children in recognizing their negative feelings and turn them into positives.

Ham On Rye

Ham On Rye
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061851914

“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, woman, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.