Karen's Carnival (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #20)

Karen's Carnival (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #20)
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338055984

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! "Play the ringtoss!"One day Karen, Hannie, and Nancy are bored, bored, bored. They can’t go roller-skating, and the playground is too far away. So Karen decides to have a carnival, with all kinds of games and prizes! What will the girls do with the money they make from their carnival? Hannie wants roller skates--but Karen can think of something even better!

Karen's Good-Bye (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #19)

Karen's Good-Bye (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #19)
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338055968

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! U R 2 Nice 2 B 4-Gotten!Some kids (like Hannie) think Amanda is a snob. But Karen doesn’t care. She and Amanda are friends. They have lots of fun together, driving for pennies in the pool and dressing up like Lovely Ladies. But now there’s bad news! Amanda’s family is moving away. Hannie thinks this is funny. But Karen is so sad. How can she say good-bye to one of her best friends?

Karen's in Love (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #15)

Karen's in Love (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #15)
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338055887

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Karen + Ricky = LoveAt first, Karen and Ricky were enemies. But now they like each other. They are even going to get married. Only now Karen and Ricky are in a big fight! First Karen puts gum in Ricky’s desk. Then Ricky calls Karen Four-eyes. Will Karen and Ricky make up... or break up?

Karen's Pen Pal (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #25)

Karen's Pen Pal (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #25)
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338056093

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Dear Maxie...The kids in Ms. Colman’s class are writing letters to some second-graders in New York City. Karen thinks having a pen pal is so, so cool. But then her pen pal turn out to be a big bragger. Mazie says she is better than Karen at everything. This makes Karen so mad. So she starts making things up. But now Mazie’s class is coming to visit. And Karen is in gigundo trouble!

Cleaving

Cleaving
Author: Julie Powell
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316054488

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do -- until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her memoir, Cleaving. Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs -- tough physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer's leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world -- from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.

Last Words from Montmartre

Last Words from Montmartre
Author: Qiu Miaojin
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 159017738X

An NYRB Classics Original When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship between two young women—their sexual awakening, their gradual breakup, and the devastating aftermath of their broken love. In a style that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to pathos, compulsive repetition to rhapsodic musings, reticence to vulnerability, Qiu’s genre-bending novel is at once a psychological thriller, a sublime romance, and the author’s own suicide note. The letters (which, Qiu tells us, can be read in any order) leap between Paris, Taipei, and Tokyo. They display wrenching insights into what it means to live between cultures, languages, and genders—until the genderless character Zoë appears, and the narrator’s spiritual and physical identity is transformed. As powerfully raw and transcendent as Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Theresa Cha’s Dictée, to name but a few, Last Words from Montmartre proves Qiu Miaojin to be one of the finest experimentalists and modernist Chinese-language writers of our generation.

No Cash? No Problem!

No Cash? No Problem!
Author: Dave Wagenvoord
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1614483620

Can this really be true? Can you really get what you want in life without using cash? The answer is yes, and it is done every day. In this ground-breaking book you will learn how governments, businesses, and even individuals have all been using the ancient practice of Barter to their benefit for centuries. Barter today is no longer about a Farmer trading chickens for a Doctors time. It has evolved into a highly sophisticated financial instrument. Although the book is about barter trade it will stretch your mind and stimulate your imagination more than you ever thought was possible, and you will learn a secret that is said to be known to only 500 people around the world. David Wagenvoord is a legend in his own right, and one of the world icons, when it comes to Barter trade. He is often referred to as the father of Radio Barter. Having been involved in trade for over 40 years. He has done over half a billion dollars worth of Barter Trade, his clients have included some of the icons of American business, including American Express, Hertz, Chrysler, General Motors, Sheraton, DHL, Hilton, to mention a few. Ali Pervez is one of America’s leading marketing experts, and an International Marketing Consultant, with over twenty five years of hands on global marketing experience. He is a best-selling marketing author of "Get Your Black Belt in Marketing". For the first time in history both David and Ali reveal how you can unleash the power of barter trade in your business and personnel life. With Barter trade, the sky is not the limit it really is just the beginning. Welcome to a new universe where you will find that no cash is really no problem will soon hold true for you also!

Karen's Haircut (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #8)

Karen's Haircut (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #8)
Author: Ann M. Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338055658

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! The New KarenKaren feels like an ugly duckling. Her baby teeth are all falling out, and she has to wear glasses, too! Karen needs a new haircut to make her look glamorous. But the beauty parlor lady cuts Karen’s hair all wrong. Now she's uglier than ever! What will all the kids at school say?

Carnival

Carnival
Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1979-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780226153049

Carnival is an animated collection of works from every stage of Isak Dinesen's career. Many were written during her most creative years but set aside; others she wrote "just for entertainment." The collection includes "Second Meeting," her last work, and the title story, the first written under her now-famous pen name. None of these stories has previously appeared in book form in English. Three of them were translated especially for this collection by P. M. Mitchell and W. D. Paden. "The editors have included only material that will stand easily with her more familiar work and satisfy her large following. . . . The rough drafts and variant treatments have been set aside for scholars."—Joseph McLellan, Washington Post "The wit, the imagination, the elevated philosophical dialogue mark most of the stories in this volume as vintage Dinesen . . . of special interest to Dinesen fans."—Robert Langbaum, New York Times Book Review