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Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Jim Finley - a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco - has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of life. Trying to harmonize the voices in his head, he sits most days by his stack of "to-do" books until, one day, his daughter comes home with the worst news of her life. Everything changes - it must - and as his broken heart reengages, he steps back into a new world. He sees his ex-wife has launched...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and cluttered scenery. No one has imagined how much fun an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What if you wished you were a llama and then you became one? Could you talk like a llama, with gurgles and squeals? Could you roll in the dust like a llama, to keep bugs away? And would you want to? Find out about llamas and their wild cousins, guanacos (pronounced wah-nah-ko), as well as alpacas and vicuñas!"--Amazon.
Author
Series
I can read book volume Level 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Explore the lives of bison with Ranger Rick in this beginning reader with full-color photos of bison in the wild! What if you wished you were a bison and then you became one? Could you talk like a bison, with grunts and snorts? Could you eat like a bison, chomping lots and lots of grass? And would you want to? Find out! Ranger Rick explorers can learn all about bison in this reader full of fascinating facts, vivid wildlife photographs, a Wild Words...
Author
Publisher
Extrarradio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Mientras nos cuenta su vida, el protagonísta de Gaston entrega una Polaroid de la soledad y el deseo. El paisaje: Mississippi en los años 60, el personaje: un inmigrante ecuatoriano. La foto es singular, extravagante y deja un gusto especial en el recuerdo. Este cuento de Gabriela Alemán es su primera publicación en varios años y tenemos el honor de presentarla ahora en nuestro catálogo.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crossbooks
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
Únete al fenómeno que ha inspirado la serie de Netflix.
Charlie nunca pensó que podría gustarle a Nick, pero resulta que ahora son pareja. De forma oficial. Pero no solo eso, también cree que está preparado para decirle esas dos palabras que le provocan vértigo: te quiero.
Nick siente lo mismo que Charlie, pero también tiene un montón de pensamientos rondándole la cabeza: además de plantearse decirle a su padre que tiene novio, cree que...
32) Vehicles
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This book teaches vehicle-related first words with a combination of word clusters and simple raised die-cut shapes on a left-hand page mirrored in the scooped-out forms of the right."--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nothing short of astonishing. The best writers are brave writers, and Harris has proven herself among those ranks." —Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck
A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means
...Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews's Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from Elizabeth Carter's correspondence with Catherine Talbot in the eighteenth century through to Merryn Glover in the present day, and across poetry, letters, diaries, novels, and more, this anthology traces a long tradition of women's walking literature. Walking is, for the women included in this anthology, a source...
36) In the pond
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Alphabet Press
Pub. Date
©1984
Language
English
Description
Illustrations present a wordless panorama of the marshy wetlands where a variety of fish, birds, animals, and plants share a habitat.
Author
Publisher
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
This varied picture reference book contains 199 individual items found around farms. Children will enjoy spotting farm vehicles, buildings, animals, fruit and vegetables, plus some less familiar things. Themes include: 'Around the farmyard', 'In the fields' and 'The farm shop'.
Author
Series
Avery Keene thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ivy Kids
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Who's hiding in the wild? Shine a light behind the page and see ... Explore animal habitats up close and you will find a world filled with great surprises! From an Arctic fox peeping out of the snow to a blue-ringed octopus buried into the sandy seabed, the secrets of animal camouflage are revealed.
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