Hyena spends all day scrubbing, scouring and scooping up everybody else's mess. But the other animals never lend a hand-they just make more and more mess, and they don't even seem to notice all Hyena's hard work. So when Vulture persuades Hyena to take a well earned holiday, the savannah gets rather stinky . . . In this comical story about working together, Hyena's friends learn that saving the planet is all about teamwork.
Vultures have some pretty disgusting habits. Their idea of a yummy meal is carrion, or rotting meat. But they have an even grosser idea of how to protect themselves from their predators. They throw up on them! Vultures can make their acidic vomit fly several feet to burn their enemy. This also makes them lighter so they can fly away. Readers may think these adaptations are gross, but they'll keep turning the page to find out even more in this entertaining and brightly designed book.
Sir Humphrey’s Last Stand takes readers on a medieval romp in a story with a tenuous grasp on reality, and history. Despite the doom and gloom, everyone seems pretty perky indeed and there is a scattering of buffoonery throughout. The King of France has routed the incompetent English, who can’t decide whether to fall asleep on the job or shoot themselves in the foot first – with an arrow of course. Only Sir Humphrey and his men at Mont St Bernard remain on French soil. French spies have infiltrated the Mont, but their dashing looks attract the attention of the lust-struck women of the castle. The local Mayor can’t make up his mind whether he supports the English or French, depending on who is holding a knife to his throat at the time. A gallant young knight and a lady in waiting find themselves unwittingly trying to save the day as they encounter colourful characters and a pirate or two along the way. Unfortunately despite his military might, battles won and being ordained by God, no one seems to take King Louis very seriously. But perhaps his greatest threat to defeating the English are the two dimwit conscripts who slowly but surely cause havoc in everything they touch.
Kenny "Ken-Ken" Greene left his days as a hustler behind him when his wife was killed during a scam gone bad, leaving him with a baby daughter. Now he's a cab driver, doing what he can to put food on the table and give his daughter, Destiny, everything she needs. In spite of his past or because of it, he's willing to do whatever it takes to keep Destiny off the streets. But when he is shot and paralyzed during a robbery while on the job, Destiny knows that she has to step up to the plate to take care of the father who has provided for her. Allowing herself to learn from one of the fiercest street hustlers, Destiny becomes his lover and soon her skills rival his. But the longer she stays in the game, the deeper into the game she falls.
Five original stories where strange changes occur, from a boy and a cat changing places and a young man learning the price of selfishness to an invisible princess finding herself.
Attractive, sexy, and tough-minded, Cate Fante has just become a federal judge - though she isn’t quite sure she belongs. At only thirty-six, Cate feels as if she’s joining the world’s most exclusive retirement village. She’s intimidated by a job described in the Constitution of the United States. And she worries inwardly that she only looks the part; dark blonde hair in a chignon and a Chanel suit donned like overpriced armor. But Cate keeps all her doubts a secret. And, as it happens, much else. For Cate leads a dark, double life - one that she doesn’t even tell her best friend about - and it comes shockingly to light with a murder in a case before her. Overnight, her secrets are spilled all over the tabloids, her boyfriend dumps her, and her judgeship hangs in jeopardy. And when a killer comes after her, she runs for her life - embarking on a trip that ends in her own mysterious past.
A French national, born in 1924 of immigrant Italian parents, Armand Gatti worked as a special correspondent in post-war Europe, Siberia, Korea, China and Latin America. He abandoned journalism in the 1950s to write for the theater. A visionary more than an ideologue, a utopian anarchist more than a partisan, Gatti engages with the themes and experiences that shape the 20th century as we know it: destruction on a global scale, injustice and oppression, displacement and survival, identity and language. His writing challenges theatrical and cultural conventions, inviting us to reassess both the world we live in and the forms we use to represent it.
Twelve-year-old Delilah James is one of the top reporters at Brighton Junior Academy and dreams of becoming a Junior Global Journalist. But when an international rival named Ava invades her newsroom and takes over her crush, Delilah finds an unlikely ally in the Debutantes - a.k.a. the Little Debbies.
Jarieth Prendergast is an ex-pat Irishman, an aging punk rocker, a film snob, a copy-shop employee, and a truly desperate man. His marriage is in tatters and his career as an avant-garde artist is a non-starter. As the book opens, Jarleth receives a letter from his lawyer about a possible inheritance from his Aunt, and promptly falls into fits of delusion as hilarious as they are utterly pathetic. An extraordinary first novel that melds an Irish writer's high style and penchant for belly laughs with the grotesque smash-and-grab energy of pre-9/11 New York.
Stone-hearted Predator. Hired Gun. But I call him “Daddy”. Liam Whittaker. A man who hides in the shadows to seek his prey. The battle scars on his face conceal him from the world. He’s a professional problem solver and I’m his biggest pain in the butt. He’s formidable. Focussed. Chased by fiends both real and imagined. But beneath the cynical, stern exterior lies a true and tender heart - one that needs to command me. Too bad he’s employed by bad guys to haul me in and punish me for my so-called crimes. Even though I’m tempted to remain and solve the mystery of his demanding discipline, I know I have to escape and flee from his desire. He and I don’t stand a chance. I’m his enemy. A computer hacking, book reading, board game playing nerd who pissed off the villains that sent Liam to find me. Once he delivers me to them, my geeky days on this earth are over. But his lips scorch my soul and fuse me to him. They say that only in the darkness can you see the stars, and under the spell of twilight, his devouring kisses shoot me up to the heavens. He tells me I’m a good girl. But I must run away, half-hoping all the while he’ll catch me and keep me. From USA Today Bestseller Olivia Fox comes this enemies to lovers, alpha romance. Captured is part of her Dirty Fairy Tales series, inspired by Beauty and the Beast. Each book is a standalone, naughty ever after. Deep-sea diver left for dead. A speechless siren finds him on the deserted strand. A guy who battles sharks, near drowning, and oozes danger. Eric García The waves of fate tossed him up on the shores of my solitude, and for the first time since the collision, I feel safe. A man who swims in the ocean depths, fearing nothing. Mentally and physically fit. He wants me to talk again. Why would he understand that I’ve stayed protected from the heartlessness of humans only by remaining here on the abandoned shore of the Pacific Ocean? Hiding. Silent. He’s rough. Bold. And insists that I call him “daddy”. But how can I when a horrible incident took my words away forever? Beneath the steely surface lies a devoted and gentle heart that I don’t want to disappoint - one that needs to claim me as his. No way am I going back to village with him so he can spoil me like he says I deserve. Even though his firm hand and punishments make me squirm, in a good way, this won’t work. I’m an unusual girl, twenty years his junior, who earns her living selling shellfish. The laughingstock of Briarville. Eric doesn’t know about the deal I sealed for my aunt’s silence - an arrangement I’d ruin by showing my face in town. His kisses set off a sharp, wild need in me, and I hope that mine tell him without speech that I love him. He demands that I’m his. But I realize this desire burning between us won’t survive the ugly that flourishes where the people are. This age gap, alpha romance, Claimed is part of the Dirty Fairy Tales series, inspired by The Little Mermaid. A real, live mountain man. Zeke Midas. A tasty morsel of a lumberjack at that. He’s an axe-wielding tree feller, plain-spoken and burly. Back in high school, he barely knew I existed except for our weekly tutoring sessions. It pains me to admit it, I’ve never encountered a man yummier than him. Now we’re both grown up, and he tells me it’s time to feed the wolf. That I’m the first and only female to speak to the animal he keeps hidden away. I’m not so sure about that. Zeke isn’t the only male to make my hormones sing, but he’s the only man I can’t forget. So what is it between us? Hormones, or happy ever after? Every night he lays me bare, looking into my eyes as he takes me to the abyss, and shows me the darkest, most depraved secrets inside me. Somehow he knows more about what I want than I do myself. The things he reveals to me... they’re obscene, scandalous... I can’t get enough of them. When he tells me he needs me. I realize I have to get away. Otherwise, he’s going to pull me into the powerful dark side with him forever, and show me once and for all what my wicked body is made for. Zeke is the wolf: a bad boy who likes to get his hands dirty. And just like that dark villain, he can see me better, hear me better and eat me better. The question is, am I ready? ★This mountain man, friends to lovers, alpha romance, Ravished is part of the Dirty Fairy Tales series, inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.Transport yourself into the charming and magical town of Briarville and beyond. Follow these commanding yet gentle heroes on their quests to find lasting love and naughtiness on the real live Lost Coast of California.★
