Beanpole


Book Description

Thirteen-year-old Lillian, miserable about being a "beanpole" and a loser, stops feeling sorry for herself when she learns the difference between a loser and a winner




Haunted


Book Description

Everyone knew the old Crawley house was haunted. What if everyone was right? They say the Crawley house is haunted, but Luke King knows better. When his brother comes home claiming the ghost attacked him, Luke vows to prove it all Noah's overactive imagination. What Luke finds will transform himself and his Amish district forever. After discovering the truth of her best friend, Salome's disappearance, Susie Zook is haunted by her mistakes. If only she had spoken up, Salome might still be alive. But when Salome's killer returns, Susie vows to protect her home and family, even if she must commit a terrible crime. With two women's lives in the balance, ghosts of the past collide with sins of the present in this suspenseful Amish mystery novel. Can Luke protect the woman he loves? Will Susie forgive her best friend's killer? Find out in Haunted, Book 2 of the Amish Mystery series. If you love Amish mysteries with suspense, a touch of romance and the chill of a restless ghost, start reading Haunted today!




Boys' Life


Book Description

Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.




Boys' Life


Book Description

Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.




The Winter of Our Discount Tent


Book Description

According to Jim Mize, nature has no mercy - just a sense of humor - and in this hilarious romp through the woods, he proves why readers praise him as an amusing combination of Marlin Perkins and Lewis Grizzard. The way Jim tells it, such overlooked creatures as fleas, flying squirrels, and chipmunks become curiosities of hilarious proportions. In the opening section, Jim waxes comic about carnivorous plants, insects that make people nervous, and birds with bad names. He points out, for instance, that all plants are edible. It's just that some of them will kill you. He also notes potential uses for kudzu - erosion control, livestock fodder, and hiding the neighbors' house as a prank while they're on vacation. From the quirks of nature, Mize graduates to greasy kid stuff. He tells parents how to referee while paddling a boat, raise kids that people like, and survive the two hobbies no child can resist - rock collecting and entomology. And Jim has plenty of musings about hunting and fishing. Outdoors people are sure to chuckle as he ponders the purpose of carp ("fish so ugly they have to spawn in muddy water"), the perplexities of orienteering ("Getting lost has never been much of a problem for me; the problem is getting found".) and the procedure for getting crappie to bite at night ("Lay your rod down, hold a cup of scalding coffee in one hand and a floppy sandwich in the other, and, if possible, try to balance the open thermos on one leg. Then just wait. Bait is optional".). Saving some of his most laugh-provoking observations for his final section, Jim answers age-old questions about why women fish better than men, why people give homes to shoe-chewing puppies, and where to takespouses for a special occasion (he recommends steering clear of restaurants that proudly accept Bass Pro Shop credit cards). Jim's entertaining insights are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud in renewed appreciation of the great outdoors.




Creative Compounding in English


Book Description

Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not been previously familiar with the compound? Accordingly, this book sets out to explore whether the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun–noun combinations can be systematically analysed within a theoretical framework, where systematicity pertains to regularities in both the cognitive processes and the products of these processes, that is, the compounds themselves. Backed up by recent psycholinguistic evidence, the book convincingly demonstrates that such compounds are not semantically opaque as it has been formerly claimed: they can in fact be analysed and accounted for within a cognitive linguistic framework, by the combined application of metaphor, metonymy, blending, profile determinacy and schema theory; and represent the creative and associative word formation processes that we regularly apply in everyday language.




Boys' Life


Book Description

Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.




The Journey Home


Book Description

You can't escape fate. Elliot Saganash and Tammy McPhee are special. Descendants of shamans and trained in mysticism, they are the hope of the future for their guardians, the Elders. But neither wants any part in what they see as hokey nonsense--ancient and powerful spirits, witches and warlocks, vampires and druids. The two of them are outsiders, caught between the Elders’ world of mysticism and a society where they don’t fit in. When Elliot returns to Manitoba to attend college, Tammy feels abandoned by the one person who had always been there for her, and she runs away from home. But tragedy brings both teens back to the place they abandoned, and they discover that what they thought were silly old beliefs were actually real all along. If they want to survive the ancient and terrible powers now hunting them, the two must set aside their struggles with identity and learn to use the magic they once scorned. Buy The Journey Home today, and begin this thrilling urban fantasy series full of action and suspense!




Nerd Girls: The Rise of the Dorkasaurus


Book Description

"Mean Girls meets Revenge of the Nerds, middle-school style, in a novel that peeks into the lives of an offbeat cast of 13-year-olds." --Publishers Weekly Maureen, a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed dork-a-saurus, is totally addicted to cupcakes and hot dogs and thinks that her body looks like a baked potato. Allergy-plagued Alice can't touch a mango without breaking out in a rash, and if she eats wheat, her vision goes blurry. Klutzy to the extreme, Barbara is a beanpole who often embarrasses herself in front of the whole school. These outcasts don't have much in common -- other than the fact that they are often targets of the ThreePees: the Pretty, Popular, Perfect girls who rule the school. But one day Maureen decides that it's time to topple the eight-grade social regime. She joins forces with Alice and Barbara and the Nerd Girls enter the school talent show, determined to take the crown from the ThreePees. Will their routine be enough to de-throne the popular crowd? Or will their plan backfire and shake their hold on the bottom rung of the social ladder?




Appalachian Underground


Book Description

A man sets out for a night of gambling, yet ends up in a high-speed chase with a State Trooper that causes him to not be able to return home. During the night of gambling, he meets up with an old girlfriend from the past who believes he can win her a million dollars in a high-stakes poker game. First, they have to come up with the buy-in fee, and to do this, they have to play by the rules of a crooked small-town sheriff which puts them in the middle of an F.B.I. sting. From the very beginning, however, the C.I.A. has set them both up without anyone's knowledge, having their own plans for the money, should they win.