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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
2) Help Wanted
Author
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
One of New York Magazine's "23 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2024" • One of VOGUE’s Best Books of the Year So Far • One of ELLE’s Best (and Most Anticipated) Fiction Books of 2024 • One of Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 • One of Kirkus’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 • One of Lilith Magazine’s “21 Books We Want to Read in 2024”From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening...
Author
Publisher
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Frederic Stewart Isham (March 29, 1865 – September 6, 1922) was an American novelist and playwright who wrote mainly historical romances and adventure novels.
Isham was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Charles Storrs Isham and Lucy B. (Mott) Isham. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London for two years. In 1895 he married Helen Margaret Frue. He died in New York.
Isham began as a playwright and later turned to novels, writing mainly...
Publisher
Educational Book Co. Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sir John Alexander Hammerton (1871–1949) is described by the 'Dictionary of National Biography' as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known". Among many other notable accomplishments, he edited the 'Punch Library of Humour', a series of 25 volumes of selected 'Punch Magazine' sketches, described as "cream of [British] national humour, contributed by the masters of the comic draughtsmanship and leading...
6) Burlesques
Author
Publisher
Duckworth & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Mr. H. M. Bateman possesses in remarkable degree that rare gift, a real power of comic draughtsmanship. He is capable not only of comic vision, but of comic expression. His "line" is an instinctive expression of the comic: it reveals an innate feeling for the essentially humorous. To put it briefly, if somewhat vaguely, he "draws funnily." He is the terse and witty pictorial raconteur —a shrewd observer who can sum up a character, or conjure up...
7) Tatlings
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sybil Irene Eleanor Taylor Cookson (1890–1963) was a journalist and writer of romantic novels. She wrote under the pen-name Sydney Tremayne. Her pseudonym is often confused with two male authors of the same name: Sydney (Durward) Tremayne (1912–1986) the Scottish journalist and poet, and Sydney Tremayne, an American investment strategist. As Sybil Cookson, she published the novel Echo... (1919) and co-edited the memoir The Boy with the Guns (1919)...
Author
Publisher
The Evening Post
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Being the curious adventures of Theodore the Red Knight in his quest of the Third Cup, of his faithful companion Alice, of the Old Lady who lived in a shoe behind a high tariff wall, and divers quaint and lively persons, all comprising a veritable Theodyssey of incidents, set down in simple third terms.
Author
Publisher
The American Journal of Atmospheric Consumption
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Get the Monkey Off Your Back
Food is a drug. Break the shackles of addiction and learn to eat air!
In this detailed guide, Dr. Robert Jones, MD, PhD, DDS, ODD gives you the practical, step-by-step advice you need to transition to the air-only diet.
Common Questions About the Air-Only Diet:
Q: Eating air? Are you crazy?
A: I am a medical doctor with more than forty years of clinical experience. An Obesity Epidemic is sweeping across our great...
10) Queen Lucia
Author
Publisher
Hutchinson & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
E(dward) F(rederic) Benson (1867–1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. In the first of his enormously popular 'Mapp and Lucia' series, set in 1920s England, Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas reigns supreme as the social queen of the village of Risenholme. With her large-hearted husband Peppino and her devoted companion Georgie (who dedicates his hours to needlework, water-colours, and piano duets with Lucia)...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Every day, Snail waits for Fish to come home with a new story.
Today, Fish's story (about pirates!) is too grand to simply be told: Fish wants to show Snail. But that would mean leaving the familiar world of their book—a scary prospect for Snail, who would rather stay safely at home and pretend to be kittens. Fish scoffs that cats are boring; Snail snaps back. Is this book too small for the two feuding friends? Could this be THE...
Today, Fish's story (about pirates!) is too grand to simply be told: Fish wants to show Snail. But that would mean leaving the familiar world of their book—a scary prospect for Snail, who would rather stay safely at home and pretend to be kittens. Fish scoffs that cats are boring; Snail snaps back. Is this book too small for the two feuding friends? Could this be THE...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Following in the tradition of Auntie Mame, bestselling author Patrick Dennis turns his wicked satirical pen on the insane world of fictional film director Leander Starr. Fleeing the IRS, creditors, and jilted lovers, Starr holes up in a Mexico City apartment—Casa Ximenez—with his faithful valet, Alistair St. Regis. Soon others descend on the villa—Starr's ex-wife, his estranged socialite daughter, a shady Mexican film producer, a tax collector...
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Un robo a un banco con toma de rehenes. Una escalera llena de policías a punto de asaltar un apartamento. Llegar a esto fue sorprendentemente fácil. Sólo hizo falta una mala idea. Una idea mala de verdad.Visitar un apartamento en venta no es una situación de vida o muerte. A menos que sea la víspera de Nochevieja, vivas en una pequeña ciudad en Suecia y alguien haya tenido la peor idea de su vida y decidido atracar un banco que no maneja efectivo....
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Pr Ltd
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Spires has created a charming picture book about an unnamed girl and her very best friend, who happens to be a dog. The girl has a wonderful idea. ?She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just
16) Dj Funkyfoot
Author
Publisher
Harry N Abrams Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The start of a spin-off chapter book series in the world of the Flytrap Files, from New York Times bestselling author Tom Angleberger—now in paperback!You’d think from his name that DJ Funkyfoot was a rad hip-hop star, but that’s just the name his parents gave him. DJ Funkyfoot is actually a dog who’s always dreamed of being a butler! He’s the butler-iest butler to have ever buttled, but finding a butler gig is hard these days! So DJ Funkyfoot...
Author
Publisher
Disney Pr
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Bruce's home is already a full house. But when a big storm brings all his woodland neighbors knocking, he'll have to open his door to a crowd of animals in need of shelter—whether he likes it or not. Readers will love this next installment of the uproarious, award-winning Mother Bruce series.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A missing cub, a carnival, and a gang of cat burglars… Hold on to your hats! Best-selling author David Biedrzycki brings back the hilarious bears from Breaking News: Bear Alert, but now they have sleepy bear cub in tow. When the cub goes missing Mama and Papa Bear go on the hunt. Their search takes them to the town carnival where the whole family rides the Ferris wheel, rocks the rollercoaster, and inadvertently foils another dastardly...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living on the fat diet spread for the righteous in Professor Dowden's Life of Shelley, if I had been justly dealt with.
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