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Author
Series
Publisher
Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A two-in-one tale featuring a big book of fun and a little book of learning. The Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the waterspout and she wouldn't let the rain knock her down or wash her out! This encouraging revised version of the beloved nursery rhyme reminds readers to never give up no matter what! How many opposites can you learn as you follow along? Flip the pages of the included little book to discover opposites from the story!"--
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Learn your letters and numbers by folding cute paper origami models! Naoko Ishibashi is Japan's #1 bestselling designer of origami models for children. In this book, she presents simple instructions for models containing the 26 letters of the alphabet and 10 numbers, along with 40 models of animals, tasty foods and other fun objects! These clever paper models are ideal for caregivers and children to fold together. They provide a great way for kids...
Publisher
Beetle Books, an imprint of Hungry Tomato
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kids will want to read this book again and again it's just plain fun all the way! Explore each color individually through 11 awesome full-color illustrated spreads packed with exciting objects and animals; some familiar and some a bit unusual. Busy, bright and engaging with plenty of puzzles, mazes, and search-and-find questions, don't miss this one!"--
Publisher
Beetle Books, an imprint of Hungry Tomato
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kids will want to read this book again and again it's just plain fun all the way! Designed to teach young kids the concept of opposites in a fun and engaging way. Featuring 11 stunning, full-color illustrated scenes, with loads of exciting opposites to spot, along with puzzles, mazes, and search-and-find questions ,don't miss this one!"--
Author
Publisher
Fantoons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"What better way to teach your little ones the alphabet than by hanging out with The Beach Boys in sunny California! This 60-page, full color first official Beach Boys children's book takes you across the entirety of California, on a musical and educational adventure. Each page provides lessons that teach useful words, the landmarks of California, and the Beach Boys -- talk about Good Vibrations! From the sparkling sands of Venice Beach, to the glitz...
10) Fi: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child. "Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from...
Author
Publisher
TOR Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. Included are essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writier, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Battera hires Gon and Killua to play Greed Island for him, but upon entering the game, they stumble upon the game's dark secret: it's not just a game--it has real-life consequences that can mean life or death for the players. And, before long, the Spiders enter the game too.
Author
Series
Publisher
Terry Spear
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Persephonice is an overseer—an observer and recorder of information about inhabitants of civilized worlds. Only she's lost her lifemate and cannot be an overseer without one. She's given a second chance if she can prove she's worthy if she can survive an inhospitable planet inhabited by elves and other mythical creatures she's only read about, very little of which is known of them except that they constantly battle amongst
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An updated edition of the classic tip-a-day grammar guide from New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Grammar Girl podcast, Mignon Fogarty. One hundred million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty's kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans around the globe. Her first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan. Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living, breathing thing that reflects who we are. Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes beyond "right" and "wrong" to empower us to make informed language choices. Never snooty or scoldy...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Cece Bell loves music and collecting old record albums, her introduction explains, especially albums featuring animal artists. The bouncing harmonies of the Barbershop Beagles, the elegant crooning of the elephant Ella Fontaine, the hilarious rhymes of the Hip-Hop Hedgehogs--all are represented in this quirky ABC book that draws on the creator's personal collection of albums, memorabilia, and lyrics dating between 1944 and 1984, the heyday of album...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic...
Author
Publisher
Orion Fiction
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For 70 years, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has kept millions of people, from every corner of the globe, on the edge of their seats, and it continues to be a sell-out hit of London theatre. This brand new edition of the world's longest-running play will contain a new introduction by Sophie Hannah, author of the authorised Agatha Christie Poirot continuation novels, as well as the official play script and a host of exclusive material from the show's...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke's most essential work - the perfect for the poetry lover. In dazzling new translations of 142 poems by the acclaimed Martyn Crucefix, Rilke beguiles with fresh insight and mystery. Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental questions of...
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