Ain't No Chicken In My Chicken Pot Pie!!!

Ain't No Chicken In My Chicken Pot Pie!!!
Author: Kathy Weilhammer Clements
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1457558912

Ain’t No Chicken in My Chicken Potpie! is a fun, simple story with a good lesson about life that every child should learn. Written in rhyme, the story takes place at Kathy’s Diner. A man and his dog go to the diner and order chicken potpie. When the man discovers that there is no chicken in his chicken potpie, he becomes furious and angry. The waitress convinces him to try the potpie, with all its healthy vegetables. He agrees to try it and is surprised to discover how delicious it is without the chicken. Unbeknownst to the man, Kathy’s Diner actually is a safe haven for chickens. Children will have fun searching for the chickens inside and outside of the diner. The life lesson that this story emphasizes is the importance of learning early in life that we don’t always get what we want. By understanding this, we will be more appreciative and will make the best of what we do get, and learn and grow from it. The story promotes the vegan choice and also provides a chance for parents to discuss with their children how their choices can affect the lives of animals.

IQ

IQ
Author: Joe Ide
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316267716

A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay. This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. As Isaiah investigates, he encounters a vengeful ex-wife, a crew of notorious cutthroats, a monstrous attack dog, and a hit man who even other hit men say is a lunatic. The deeper Isaiah digs, the more far reaching and dangerous the case becomes.

Dragon's Keeper

Dragon's Keeper
Author: Rik Berryere
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595349048

When a train crash destroys a shipment of mysterious dinosaur bones that might be the source of dragon myths, something forgotten whispers from the past... Judith Mills is a scientist who discovered the bones in the remote North, and determined to save whatever might be left. Creek Morgan is a Native Indian railroad mechanic troubled by nightmares he doesn't understand, while Eva Reed is a grieving young woman whose husband lies comatose in a hospital bed. George Pakuchek is a big-city lawyer working on a case he didn't want, and Neil Dayton is a young man running in terror. In the last moments of a winter night, their lives are changed forever when the freight train carrying the dinosaur bones crashes in an isolated forest. But Creek's elderly great-grandmother remembers disturbing fragments of a Native Indian legend going back to the ancient days of the tribe, and cryptic clues written on an abandoned city apartment wall echo warnings few understand. For a tiny group of ordinary people, courage and compassion will be their only weapons against revenge, corruption and greed. For the Dragon's Keeper is coming, and the line between myth and reality is about to be wiped away forever...

The Man Who Loved Women to Death

The Man Who Loved Women to Death
Author: David Handler
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453259783

Truth is deadlier than fiction in this “sleek, sophisticated, over-the-top story that’s filled with red herrings, laugh-aloud humor, and plenty of suspense” (Booklist). The author calls himself the Answer Man. He introduces himself to Stewart Hoag—onetime literary darling of the New York scene—with a letter begging for help with his first novel. Hoagy usually ignores such requests, but the Answer Man’s sample chapter grabs his attention. It is a chilling, first-person story about a man who picks up a girl in a pet shop, takes her home, and savagely murders her. The imagery is clear, the prose strong, and the storytelling as truthful as though the author had actually lived it. When he opens the next morning’s paper, Hoagy realizes he was reading nonfiction. A young pet shop employee has been bludgeoned to death, and the crime’s details match those in the manuscript. As the Answer Man keeps killing, he continues writing letters asking Hoagy to collaborate with him. If Hoagy can’t stop him soon, he may find himself starring in the book’s next chapter.