Book Description
A rhyming nonsense tale featuring a series of impossible occurrences, such as a bald-headed baby with hair hanging over its eyes and an egg-laying rooster.
Author : Audrey Wood
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152003630
A rhyming nonsense tale featuring a series of impossible occurrences, such as a bald-headed baby with hair hanging over its eyes and an egg-laying rooster.
Author : Ethan Hawke
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385352395
The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes—a "witty, wise, and heartfelt novel" (Washington Post) about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter to the world of theater, A Bright Ray of Darkness showcases Ethan Hawke's gifts as a novelist as never before. Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of a brilliant director, helmed by one of the most electrifying—and narcissistic—Falstaff's of all time. Searing, raw, and utterly transfixing, A Bright Ray of Darkness is a novel about shame and beauty and faith, and the moral power of art.
Author : Audrey Wood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152336790
A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.
Author : Josh Ritter
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679604251
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Henry Bright has newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Griefstruck by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he’s ever known. His hopes for safety rest with the angel who has followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now promises to protect him and his son. Haunted by the abiding nightmare of his experiences in the war and shadowed by his dead wife’s father, the Colonel, and his two brutal sons, Bright—along with his newborn—makes his way through a ravaged landscape toward an uncertain salvation. DON’T MISS THE EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOSH RITTER AND NEIL GAIMAN IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK.
Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0553536303
One of the bestselling Big Bright and Early Board Book by Dr. Seuss, now in a larger trim size! This super-simple, super-sturdy board book edition of The Foot Book—Dr. Seuss’s classic book about opposites—is now available in a bigger trim size! An abridged version of the original Bright and Early Book by Dr. Seuss, it’s the perfect way for babies and toddlers to step into the world of Dr. Seuss!
Author : Peniel E. Joseph
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 046501366X
Offers a narrative chronicle of race in the United States and the successes, failures, and stalemates of African American leaders in the past fifty years.
Author : Marlon James
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101011319
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breathtakingly daring and wholly in command of his craft.
Author : Rachel Bright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 1665900466
Doug the slug is looking for a hug and soon finds there is a friend for everyone.
Author : Leslie Stein
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1606998382
Beginning at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2014, and ending on January 1, 2015, Leslie Stein drew a comics page a night. Fueled by an urge toward visual and narrative experimentation and made possible by serendipitous bouts of insomnia, Stein has combined words and images in a series of comic strips, paintings, and collages that reflect her life. Bright-Eyed at Midnight collects the best of the 365 pages she made in 2014. By turns funny, unsettling, charming, improvisational, honest, and evocative, Stein explores her 1980s childhood, dreams, travel, artist’s block, drinking, recording and playing rock shows, and bar patrons, along with quiet moments of introspection and loneliness in the most exciting city in America. Drawn in pen and ink and vibrant watercolors, and written in a minimalist, poetic cadence, Bright-Eyed at Midnight is a thoughtful, meditative visual diary from an acclaimed cartoonist.
Author : Bette D. Ammon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313077584
Show reluctant teens that reading is not only fundamental-it's also fun! In this companion book to Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers, Ammon and Sherman describe 40 exciting, contemporary titles (20 for middle school, 20 for high school) written by outstanding authors. These are books your students won't want to put down. Designed to make the matching process between student and books easy and successful, this volume also includes genre and theme indexes, curriculum activities, interest and readability levels, and reproducible bookmarks for each entry.