Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Fiction: Level 12 More Pack A: Snooty Prune

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Fiction: Level 12 More Pack A: Snooty Prune
Author: Pippa Goodhart
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780198447702

In Snooty Prune Prunella hates her name. Why does everyone have to call her 'Prune'? Things get worse when she moves to a new school. Will she find a friend in the mysterious pen pal? TreeTops Fiction contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading!

Snooty Prune

Snooty Prune
Author: Pippa Goodhart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 47
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780199185740

Prunella doesn't like her name. Why does everyone have to call her Prune? When she moves to a new school things get even worse. Then Mrs Farey comes to the rescue, will she makes Prunella's wish come true? Will the mysterious pen pal be her friend?

Buyology

Buyology
Author: Martin Lindstrom
Publisher: Currency
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010-02-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0385523890

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.

Ploughman of the Moon

Ploughman of the Moon
Author: Robert William Service
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Ploughman of the Moon" by Robert William Service. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316925462

Collected for the first time in a single volume: all of the short fiction by one of the 20th century's wittiest and most trenchant observers of the human comedy.

Colpetty People

Colpetty People
Author: Ashok Ferry
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 818400365X

In this extraordinary debut, Ashok Ferry chronicles, in a gently probing voice, the journeys of characters seeking something beyond the barriers of nations and generations. His tales of social-climbing Sri Lankans, of the pathos of immigration, of rich people with poor taste, of ice-cream karma, of innocent love, eternity, and more take us to Colombo’s nouveau riche, hoity-toity returnees, ladies with buttery skin and square fingernails, old-fashioned aristocrats, and the poor mortals trapped between them. Ferry’s stories comprise characters that are ‘serious and fine and upstanding, and infinitely dull’, but also others like young John-John, who loses his childhood somewhere ‘high up in the air between Asmara and Rome’; the maid, Agnes of God, whose mango-sucking teeth ‘fly out at you like bats out of the mouth of a cave’; Ashoka, the immigrant who embodies his Sri Lankan identity only on the bus ride between home and work; and Professor Jayaweera who finds sterile freedoms caged in the ‘unbending, straight lines of Western Justice’. Absurd, sad, scathing and generous, but mostly wickedly funny, Colpetty People presents modern Sri Lankans as they navigate worlds between Ceylon and the West.

Did I Miss Anything?

Did I Miss Anything?
Author: Tom Wayman
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1993
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

His is a wry, down-to-earth, often humourous vision - a perceptive, everyman's view of life, couched in straight forward, accessible language. -Coast News

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting that may have been inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulphur Springs, Montana in 1915. Orson Welles adapted the story into a radio play in 1945 and another version was presented three times on the program Escape between 1947 and 1949. A teleplay version was broadcast on Kraft Theatre in 1955. The story's sisters, Kismine and Jasmine, were portrayed by Lee Remick and Elizabeth Montgomery, who were unknowns of 20 and 22 at the time. Mickey Mouse No. 47 (Apr./May 1956) contains a retelling of Fitzgerald's story under the title "The Mystery of Diamond Mountain", scripted by William F. Nolan and Charles Beaumont and illustrated by Paul Murry. Jimmy Buffett recounts the story in the song "Diamond As Big As The Ritz" from his 1995 album Barometer Soup. Famous novells of the author F. S. Fitzgerald: "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful and Damned", "The Great Gatsby", "Tender Is the Night", "The Last Tycoon", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "May Day", "The Rich Boy".

On Guard

On Guard
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9781860920004

Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau. Each classic or original short story is printed on one sheet of paper and folded like a map. This makes it simple to read while commuting, convenient to carry when not, and easy to give or send to a friend. A paper envelope is provided for mailing or gift-giving, and both are packaged in a dear plastic envelope for display. The cost is not much more than a greeting card.

The Future Is Blue

The Future Is Blue
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Imaginary places
ISBN: 9781596068742

Collection of thirteen stories.