Kitchi's New Year's Resolution

Kitchi's New Year's Resolution

Author: Bruno Poitras

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-06-04

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1481747185

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Kitchi, a seven year old boy, just had his one and only Christmas wish come true. Now, with Christmas over and a new year just beginning, Kitchi makes a new year's resolution which he chooses to keep secret. But when his secret is revealed, Kitchi has some explaining to do.


Squirrel's New Year's Resolution

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution

Author: Pat Miller

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807593257

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2013 Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award nominee Squirrel knows that New Year's Day is a great day for making resolutions! But what does it mean to make a resolution, anyway? As she makes visits around the forest she learns about New Year's resolutions and helps her friends get started on theirs. If only she can think of a resolution of her very own.


Chill Factor

Chill Factor

Author: Chris Rogers

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2009-10-21

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 0307573052

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Former prosecutor Dixie Flannigan is fearless when it comes to facing down lowlifes and bail jumpers — but her checkbook is another story. Determined to straighten out a big hole in her account, Dixie heads for the bank ... only to find herself in the middle of a holdup, watching in disbelief as sweet, middle-aged Edna Pine, the neighbor she loves like family, makes off with three bags of loot. When Edna dies in a violent shoot-out with cops, she's branded the latest in a string of "granny bandits." Wracked by guilt for not trying to stop her, Dixie digs for the truth, and soon she's on the trail of a master manipulator who has set in motion a devastating plot. Now Dixie's about to discover that a smile is the most chilling weapon of all.... From the Paperback edition.


Children of the New World

Children of the New World

Author: Alexander Weinstein

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1250099005

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Includes "After Yang," the basis for the acclaimed A24 film After Yang, starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Haley Lu Richardson, and directed by Kogonada. A New York Times Notable Book “A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago. In “The Cartographers,” the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In “After Yang,” the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become. Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary and singular voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.


The New Voices of Science Fiction

The New Voices of Science Fiction

Author: Nino Cipri

Publisher: Tachyon Publications

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1616962925

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In this daring anthology of cutting-edge short stories, new science fiction luminaries including Rebecca Roanhorse, Amal El-Mohtar, and Sam J. Miller, are showcased with the rising stars that are transforming their genre. Discover exciting writers who are already out of this world, in this space-age sequel to the 2018 World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, The New Voices of Fantasy. [STARRED REVIEW] “Superlative.” —Publishers Weekly Your future is bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive-mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash. In The New Voices of Science Fiction, you’ll find the rising stars of the last five years: Rebecca Roanhorse, Amal El-Mohtar, Alice Sola Kim, E. Lily Yu, Rich Larson, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Sarah Pinsker, Darcie Little Badger, Nino Cipri, S. Qiouyi Lu, Kelly Robson, and more. These extraordinary stories have been hand-selected by cutting-edge and award-winning author Hannu Rajaniemi (The Quantum Thief, Summerland) and genre expert, World Fantasy Award winner, Jacob Weisman (Invaders, The Sword & Sorcery Anthology). So go ahead, join the interstellar revolution. The new kids already hacked the AI. “These authors show us the new new things, from global cataclysms to personal transformations that get us lost in entirely unprecedented landscapes. They are here to wake us, by giving us new waking dreams. Read them, and be changed.” —Hannu Rajaniemi, editor


New Year's Resolution

New Year's Resolution

Author: Joseph Ojih

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781653923960

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The best evidence suggests that more than half of all New Year's resolutions fail. But they don't have to be yours. In New Year's Resolution: How to Make it Stick Dr. Joseph Ojih explained how to make the right resolutions to improve your life, create a plan on how to stick to the resolution, and become part of a small group of people that successfully achieved their goals. New Year's Resolution: How to Make it Stick is the result of practical experience by the author and is not intended as an exhaustive book on the subject of New Year's resolution. Its object is to show readers a simple and practical way to keep their New Year's resolutions and spark positive changes and happiness on their lives.


A Christmas Cornucopia

A Christmas Cornucopia

Author: Mark Forsyth

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 024197755X

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BY THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SHORT HISTORY OF DRUNKENNESS Discover the unpredictable origins and etymologies of our Christmas customs this festive season. For something that happens every year of our lives, we really don't know much about Christmas. We don't know that the date we celebrate was chosen by a madman, or that Christmas, etymologically speaking, means "Go away, Christ". We're oblivious to the fact that the advent calendar was actually invented by a Munich housewife to stop her children pestering her for a Christmas countdown. And we would never have guessed that the invention of crackers was merely a way of popularising sweet wrappers. Luckily, like a gift from Santa himself, Mark Forsyth is here to unwrap this fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions and oddities, making it all finally make sense - in his wonderfully entertaining wordy way. 'Witty and revelatory. Blooming brilliant' Raymond Briggs 'Everything we ever thought about Christmas is wrong! Great stuff' Matthew Parris