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Rat Rule 79
Author | : Rivka Galchen |
Publisher | : Restless Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 163206099X |
From the New Yorker “20 Under 40” author of Atmospheric Disturbances comes a brain-twisting adventure story of a girl named Fred on a quest through a world of fantastical creatures, strange logic, and a powerful prejudice against growing up. Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She’s about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. On the eve of turning thirteen, Fred sees something strange in the living room: her mother, dressed for a party, standing in front of an enormous paper lantern—which she steps into and disappears. Fred follows her and finds herself in the Land of Impossibility—a loopily illogical place where time is outlawed, words carry dire consequences, and her unlikely allies are a depressed white elephant and a pugnacious mongoose mother of seventeen. With her new friends, Fred sets off in search of her mom, braving dungeons, Insult Fish, Fearsome Ferlings, and a mad Rat Queen. To succeed, the trio must find the solution to an ageless riddle. Gorgeously illustrated and reminiscent of The Phantom Tollbooth and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Rivka Galchen’s Rat Rule 79 is an instant classic for curious readers of all ages.
The Wild Book
Author | : Juan Villoro |
Publisher | : Restless Books |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1632061481 |
“We walked toward the part of the library where the air smelled as if it had been interred for years….. Finally, we got to the hallway where the wooden floor was the creakiest, and we sensed a strange whiff of excitement and fear. It smelled like a creature from a bygone time. It smelled like a dragon.” Thirteen-year-old Juan’s favorite things in the world are koalas, eating roast chicken, and the summer-time. This summer, though, is off to a terrible start. First, Juan’s parents separate and his dad goes to Paris. Then, as if that wasn’t horrible enough, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito’s house for the entire break! Uncle Tito is really odd: he has zigzag eyebrows; drinks ten cups of smoky tea a day; and lives inside a huge, mysterious library. One day, while Juan is exploring the library, he notices something inexplicable and rushes to tell Uncle Tito. “The books moved!” His uncle drinks all his tea in one gulp and, sputtering, lets his nephew in on a secret: Juan is a Princeps Reader––which means books respond magically to him––and he’s the only person capable of finding the elusive, never-before-read Wild Book. Juan teams up with his new friend Catalina and his little sister, and together they delve through books that scuttle from one shelf to the next, topple over unexpectedly, or even disappear altogether to find The Wild Book and discover its secret. But will they find it before the wicked, story-stealing Pirate Book does?
The Restless Girls
Author | : Jessie Burton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 154760073X |
"A riveting feminist retelling, filled with excitement, imagination, magic, and just the right touch of darkness." -Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Circe From acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jessie Burton comes her debut middle-grade--a girl-forward fairy tale retelling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" about sisterhood, imagination, and bravery, lushly packaged and with beautiful full-color illustrations. For the twelve daughters of King Alberto, Queen Laurelia's death is a disaster beyond losing a mother. The king decides his daughters must be kept safe at all costs, and for the girls, those costs include their lessons, their possessions, and most importantly, their freedom. But the sisters, especially the eldest, Princess Frida, will not bend to this fate. She still has one possession her father cannot take: the power of her imagination. And so, with little but wits and ingenuity to rely on, Frida and her sisters begin their fight to be allowed to live on their own terms. The Restless Girls is a sparkling whirl of a fairy tale--one that doesn't need a prince to save the day, and instead is full of brave, resourceful, clever young women.
The Tale of the Restless House
Author | : John Peel |
Publisher | : Pocket Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671525477 |
Nathan Forrester plans to scare Adam Ingram out of his wits. He's found the perfect place: haunted Hawkins House. And gorgeous Kendra Collins has agreed to bait the trap. But it all goes horribly wrong when Nathan goes missing in the house.
Day Job
Author | : Jonathan Baird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1999-01 |
Genre | : Business logistics |
ISBN | : 9781841120157 |
This jumble of text and illustration can be seen as scrapbook, novella, 'zineor broadside. Notations range from Nietzsche to Charles Handy, Sun-Tzu and Gertrude Stein. It is designed to encourage anyone who has ever struggled to find meaning in their daily work.
Always Young and Restless
Author | : Melody Thomas Scott |
Publisher | : Diversion Books |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1635766893 |
The renowned actress who played Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless opens up about her sixty-year career in this scintillating memoir. Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her character on The Young and the Restless, who’s seen it all in her forty-year tenure on America’s highest-rated daytime serial. But there’s plenty of drama beyond her character’s plotlines. In this captivating memoir, Melody reveals the behind-the-scenes saga of her journey to stardom and personal freedom. As Nikki went from impoverished stripper to vivacious heroine, Melody underwent her own striking transformation, becoming a household name in the process. Raised by her abusive grandmother, Melody acted in feature films with Alfred Hitchcock, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood—and endured abuse of industry men before taking control of her life and career in a daring getaway move. Melody shares all this, plus juicy on-and-off-set details of what it’s like to be one half of the show’s most successful supercouple, “Niktor.” In witty, warm prose, readers meet the persevering heart of an American icon. Prepare to be moved by a life story fit for a soap opera star.
American Fiction, 1901-1925
Author | : Geoffrey D. Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 1997-08-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521434690 |
A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.
The Restless Clock
Author | : Jessica Riskin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022630292X |
A core principle of modern science holds that a scientific explanation must not attribute will or agency to natural phenomena. "The Restless Clock" examines the origins and history of this, in particular as it applies to the science of living things. This is also the story of a tradition of radicals--dissenters who embraced the opposite view, that agency is an essential and ineradicable part of nature. Beginning with the church and courtly automata of early modern Europe, Jessica Riskin guides us through our thinking about the extent to which animals might be understood as mere machines. We encounter fantastic robots and cyborgs as well as a cast of scientific and philosophical luminaries, including Descartes and Leibnitz, Lamarck and Darwin, whose ideas gain new relevance in Riskin's hands. The book ends with a riveting discussion of how the dialectic continues in genetics, epigenetics, and evolutionary biology, where work continues to naturalize different forms of agency. "The Restless Clock "reveals the deeply buried roots of current debates in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology.