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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
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One day Benny the woodpecker awakens to the best tummy-rumbling smell ever and discovers it's something called waffles. He must taste them!He pecks on the door of the waffle house, but he gets the boot.He tries to sneak in, but he gets swept away.Each time Benny tries, he just can't seem to get to those delicious waffles. The other forest animals laugh at him: 'Woodpeckers don't eat waffles!' they say. But Benny has a brilliant plan. . . .Steve Breen...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms." is a comic short story by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. It was first published as a book in 1904, by Harper & Bros. with numerous illustrations by Frederick Strothmann. The story was first published in 1893, The Niagara Book (Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols), pp. 93–109.
Adam (based on Twain himself) describes how Eve (modeled after his wife Livy) gets introduced into...
Author
Publisher
James R. Osgood and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"On the Decay of the Art of Lying" is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. (1882).
In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend'. He concludes by insisting that:
"the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully,...
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. [Source: Wikipedia] Gypsy and Ginger is the story of a young married couple.
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads concerning the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. They were unaware that Washington Irving had invented the man entirely and placed the ads himself. Knickerbocker's purported manuscript, A History of New York, was Irving's own. Told from Knickerbocker's point of view, A History of New York is a chronicle of New York's fifty years under Dutch rule in the 1600s that...
Author
Publisher
F. A. Davis Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The dry wit of the New England Yankee has done much to cheer the Lonely Traveler on his way. It has oiled the thinking machinery when it creaked and provided inspiration for that spontaneous good fellowship which helps so much to make life worth living.
The following pages are not the product of an overworked imagination, but a record of actual happenings. The characters who pass in review before the reader are real personages whose various experiences...
Author
Publisher
Motivational Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
#Tryharder is about taking a moment to stop and do the right thing. To try a little harder in life and to be aware of the people and the world around you. To do right by others and make the additional effort to improve not just your situation but theirs as well.
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