Author : Anne Merrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780747536345
Calamity is a little mouse who enjoys singing - until one day she loses her voice. Help Calamity find her voice by looking here and there and everywhere, especially under the flaps.
Author : Paula Lichtarowicz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250087910
"WONDERFULLY STRANGE." --Mark Haddon A beguiling, irresistibly immersive debut novel about sixteen sisters in a walled garden, and what happens to their carefully constructed world when one girl starts asking questions about life outside. Fourteen-year-old Calamity Leek and her sisters spend their days tending white roses and memorizing the lessons in Aunty’s Appendix, a multi-volume compendium of show tunes, beauty regimens, and twisted creation myths. Calamity knows the Appendix front to back, and she is Aunty’s favorite, destined for particular greatness. But when her restless sister Truly Polperro gets too curious about life beyond their Wall of Safekeeping, she cracks Calamity’s world wide open. Calamity needs a new book. And she will have to write it herself. With formidable imagination and brilliant strangeness, Paula Lichtarowicz's The First Book of Calamity Leek draws on fairytales and doublespeak to tell a story both classic and keenly modern. Calamity, fearless and wrenching, leads us to question the stories we ourselves live by.
Author : Ned Sherrin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0199237166
This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially compiled by the late broadcaster and raconteur Ned Sherrin, with a foreword by leading British satirist, Alistair Beaton. Now packed with even more quotes and covering more subjects than before, from Weddings to the Supernatural, Australia to Headlines. Find the best lines from your favourite jokesters and wordsmiths, add that extra something to a speech or presentation, or just enjoy a good laugh. 'A chair is a piece of furniture. I am not a chair because no one has ever sat on me.' Ann Widdecombe on the announcement that Parliamentary language will now be gender-neutral. 'No wonder Bob Geldof is such an expert on famine. He's been feeding off 'I don't like Mondays' for 30 years.' Russell Brand On deciding to run for governor of California: 'The most difficult decision I've ever made in my entire life, except for the one in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax.' Arnold Schwarzenegger 'Wanting to know an author because you like his work is like wanting to know a duck because you like p--acirc--;t--eacute--;.' Margaret Atwood 'I am so sorry. We have to stop there. I have just come to the end of my personality.' Quentin Crisp, closing down an interview
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1315 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134929986
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
Author : Menander
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141913479
Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection contains the full text of 'Old Cantankerous' (Dyskolos), the only surviving complete example of New Comedy, as well as fragments from works including 'The Girl from Samos' and 'The Rape of the Locks', all of which are concerned with domestic catastrophes, the hazards of love and the trials of family life. Written in a poetic style regarded by the ancients as second only to Homer, these polished works - profoundly influential upon both Roman playwrights such as Plautus and Terence, and the wider Western tradition - may be regarded as the first true comedies of manners.
Author : Saʻdī
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 1879
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Roger Hargreaves
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698177622
Mr. Nervous is afraid of everything: leaves, worms, even his own cornflakes! But one day he meets someone who teaches him that the world isn't so scary, Mr. Nervous just needs to think before he overreacts!
Author : Charles Reade
Publisher :
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Historical novel depicting life in Europe during the 15th century. The interest centers in the love story of Erasmus's parents.
Author : Liane Moriarty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399587195
DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP From the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN :
