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Moe the dog and his friend Arlene can't afford to spend their winter vacation in Tahiti, so they create their own tropical paradise.
Author : Diane Stanley
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1999-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780698117617
Moe the dog and his friend Arlene can't afford to spend their winter vacation in Tahiti, so they create their own tropical paradise.
Author : Susanna Moore
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2015-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0374298777
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay -- all wanderers washed ashore. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants -- legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. Susanna Moore pieces together the story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii -- its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers -- a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.
Author : Diane Stanley
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698117679
The sheriff of a dusty western town rescues Sweetness, an unusually resourceful orphan, from nasty old Mrs. Sump and her terrible orphanage.
Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466804270
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : Elise Primavera
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142425613
"At Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students How to Get Lost on Purpose, resulting in a series of fantastical adventures that makes each learn a little something about courage, strength, bravery, and teamwork"--
Author : Elise Primavera
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780399224294
Three dotted animals, a frog, duck, and moose, enjoy playing together and form a band, but their friendship is endangered as the fortunes of their band rise and continue to change.
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0671792253
This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
Author : Dave Navarro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 006204527X
Step into the booth. Check your judgments at the curtain. Close your eyes. Listen: you can hear the voices of the visitors who sat here before you: some of the most twisted, drug-addled, deviant, lonely, lost, brilliant characters ever to be caught on film. What do you have to offer the booth?
Author : Diane Stanley
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9780606078771
Moe the dog and his friend Arlene can't afford to spend their winter vacation in Tahiti, so they create their own tropical paradise.
Author : Jamie Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982158220
From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering things and events she has never experienced, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt the present. If she doesn't take radical steps, her daughter will be doomed to face the same debilitating depression that has marked her life. Through epigenetic therapy-an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma-Dorothy intimately connects with the past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in Burma serving with the Flying Tigers; Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; and Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app. Through reliving their painful stories, Dorothy comes to understand the true cost of inherited pain. As the past bleeds into the present, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn't the only thing she's inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who's loved her through all of her genetic memories. And that person is most certainly not her current husband, Louis. To protect her daughter's future, Dorothy must break the cycle and find a way to cross time and resolve all past traumas, to find the love that has long been waiting, and find peace for Annabel. Even if it means she must sacrifice her only chance at life and happiness