Alpha Betti

Alpha Betti
Author: Carlene Morton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

May include "Library lessons" pamphlet (15 p.: ill.; 28 cm.).

Alpha Betty

Alpha Betty
Author: Shoo Rayner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2006
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781844281244

Inventively illustrated in two colours throughout, this stylish first reader uses several different media - posters, letters, signs, alphabetti spaghetti - to tell a story about a young girl who loves signs so much that when she grows up she starts her own sign-making business!

Quentin Quokka's Quick Questions

Quentin Quokka's Quick Questions
Author: Barbara deRubertis
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1635927080

Quentin Quokka has lots of questions! Quick questions, quiet questions—always more questions! On a string of field trips, Quentin discovers that sometimes it’s good to be quiet . . . and sometimes it’s good to ask questions!

Captain Awesome and the Ultimate Spelling Bee

Captain Awesome and the Ultimate Spelling Bee
Author: Stan Kirby
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442451610

Will Captain Awesome successfully take on Little Miss Stinky Pinky to become the winner of the second-grade spelling bee? Eugene McGillicuddy’s superhero alter ego, Captain Awesome, relies on a wide array of superpowers to keep the town of Sunnyview safe from “bad guys.” But when Ms. Beasley announces that Eugene will be representing the class in the second grade spelling bee (along with Meredith Mooney—yuck!), Captain Awesome wonders if his spelling superpowers are strong enough to defeat his nemesis, Little Miss Stinky Pinky. Will Captain Awesome prevail and keep the spelling bee trophy safe from evil? M-I-T-E-E! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Captain Awesome chapter books are perfect for beginning readers!

The Bedlam Stacks

The Bedlam Stacks
Author: Natasha Pulley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2018-06
Genre: Blessing and cursing
ISBN: 140887847X

In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon. There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairy tale, and gradually he realizes that Raphael is the key to a secret which will prove more valuable than quinine.

The Alpha Kappa Alpha Presence in Southwest Mississippi

The Alpha Kappa Alpha Presence in Southwest Mississippi
Author: Lorraine Banks Gayden
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2014-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1491853468

This book chronicles the timeless service of Phi Mu Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha from its humble beginnings as Ivy Omega Interest Group in 1998, to its chartering on January 15, 2000, to its present status as a thriving chapter living out the sorority's motto to be "Supreme in Service to All Mankind". This history book was a time-intensive and labor-intensive assignment for women who are already busy, career-minded, and community-service oriented , but it truly became a labor or love which International President Carolyn House Stewart requested of each chapter of the sorority. Without her directive, this book, in all certainty, would never have been written. The project has indelibly etched valuable lessons in the minds of the historian and chapter members--the need for archiving and documenting the chapter's programs, activities, events, and projects. The assignment also refocused attention on previous and current international initiatives issued by each international president. According to historian Earnestine Green McNealey, Ph.D., author of the sorority's definitive history book The Pearls of Alpha Kappa Alpha: A History of America's First Black Sorority, until the lion tells its own story, the story will always glorify the hunter. This project forced chapters across the United States and in other countries to tell our own stories from their perspectives and in the context of historical events and social issues facing the communities we serve. Hopefully, it also reinforced the raison d'etre for every member, every chapter, every region, and the international sisterhood. The beginning and evolving history of Phi Mu Omega is captured for generations of young women yet to come so that it might inspire and motivate them to become women with a desire to serve all mankind.

Borrowed Time

Borrowed Time
Author: Paul Monette
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480473855

“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man (Publishers Weekly). In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of complications from AIDS. Borrowed Time traces this love story from start to tragic finish. At a time when the medical community was just beginning to understand this mysterious and virulent disease, Monette and others like him were coming to terms with unfathomable loss. This personal account of the early days of the AIDS crisis tells the story of love in the face of death. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Borrowed Time was one of the first memoirs to deal candidly with AIDS and is as moving and relevant now as it was more than twenty-five years ago. Written with fierce honesty and heartwarming tenderness, this book is part love story, part testimony, and part requiem. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

The Pete & Polly Stories

The Pete & Polly Stories
Author: Carolyn Wells
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1902
Genre: Brothers and sisters
ISBN:

After Pete had built his airship, the "Hopping Hollyhock" he proposed to travel to the North Pole, and of course Polly joined him. The ship was manned by 17 green monkeys who wore white aprons (but had no hats). By accident, Pete aimed the Hopping Hollyhock the wrong way, so as they crossed the equator, Polly made hats for the monkeys. After the monkeys were comfortably hatted, they continued to the South Pole where they had many adventures.

Zachary Zebra's Zippity Zooming

Zachary Zebra's Zippity Zooming
Author: Barbara deRubertis
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1635927153

ZIP! ZAP! ZOOM! Zachary is usually a zippity zooming zebra! But today he snoozes through his alarm clock and has a blitz of bad luck at school. What’s making Zachary’s zippity zooming fizzle out?