Lulu in La La Land
Lulu in La La Land

Author: Elisabeth Wolf

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1402285051

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First in a fresh new series with a screenplay format featuring the irrepressibly lovable Lulu Harrison, a down-to-earth girl in Twinkle Town, and her diaper-wearing dog. Lulu gives up her dream birthday party for a Hollywood-worthy extravaganza in the hopes that her busy celebrity parents will actually attend. Lights! Camera! ACTION! If only real life were like the movies. Instead, Lulu Harrison's massively important eleventh birthday is just three weeks away—and her parents still haven't RSVPed! Lulu's not like the rest of her glamorous Hollywood family. She likes tamales and they like tofu. She likes gardening and they like grooming. But all she wants for her birthday is for her whole family to be there. Together. So this year she's planning a super fabulous SPA-tacular party. But what if trying to fit in leaves Lulu feeling even more like she was cast in the wrong family?

Stones of Destiny
Stones of Destiny

Author: J. E. D'Este-Clark

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1035817276

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One man’s greed can change the course of history forever... FIFTH CENTURY BC, ATHENS Humble sculptor, Nikodimos, toils away in his workshop to create a sumptuous marble masterpiece of Athena Parthenos destined for the Parthenon. NINETEENTH CENTURY AD, ATHENS Lord Quimby, blinded by greed, plunders the ancient Parthenon of its dearest treasures, watched by his helpless nephew. PRESENT DAY Young Cambridge student, Max Perceval, discovers a dark secret about his late ancestor and realises all is not what it seems in the Museum of Classical Antiquities.

Lulu in Honolulu
Lulu in Honolulu

Author: Elisabeth Wolf

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1402285094

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Lulu's family, in Hawaii while her parents work on a film, is too busy to enjoy the location or each other's company so eleven-year-old Lulu decides to organize a family Fourth of July party.

LuLu in Honolulu
LuLu in Honolulu

Author: Elisabeth Wolf

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1402285086

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Second in a fresh new series with a screenplay format featuring the irrepressibly lovable Lulu Harrison, a down-to-earth girl in Twinkle Town, and her diaper-wearing dog. Lulu's plans for a family-only Hawaiian luau are crushed under her sister's Fourth of July blockbuster bash, until Lulu decides this Independence Day she's gong to stand up for herself. Lights! Camera! ACTION! If only real life were like the movies. Instead, the Harrison family's fabulous Hawaiian vacation has fallen apart, thanks to Lulu's parents' massive blockbuster film shoot. Their tightly-scheduled family time has been taken over by extra time on the set—and they're totally missing out on the real Hawaii. Lulu decides to teach her family the meaning of ohana, but her genius plans are seriously backfiring. (She didn't mean to unleash a rampaging pug onto her parents' movie set. Oops!) Can Lulu get her family back together, or will her exploits push them further apart? Praise for Lulu in La La Land: "Fun, infectious humor and satisfying, light storytelling."—School Library Journal

Alphabet Juice
Alphabet Juice

Author: Roy Blount

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2009-09-29

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1429960426

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Ali G: How many words does you know? Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them. Ali G: What is some of 'em? —Da Ali G Show Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath? Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can't get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. Blount does not prescribe proper English. The franchise he claims is "over the counter." Three and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced Blount's Glossographia, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. This Blount's Glossographia takes that pursuit to other levels, from Proto-Indo-European roots to your epiglottis. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is "arbitrary." Even the word arbitrary is shown to be no more arbitrary, at its root, than go-to guy or crackerjack. From sources as venerable as the OED (in which Blount finds an inconsistency, at whisk) and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com (to which Blount has contributed the number-one definition of "alligator arm"), and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, Alphabet Juice derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other.

Alphabetical
Alphabetical

Author: Michael Rosen

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1848548877

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From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how nonsense poems work, pins down the strange story of OK, traces our seven lost letters and tackles the tyranny of spelling, among many, many other things. His heroes of the alphabet range from Edward Lear to Phyllis Pearsall (the inventor of the A-Z), and from the two scribes of Beowulf to rappers. Each chapter takes on a different subject - codes, umlauts or the writing of dictionaries. Rosen's enthusiasm for letters positively leaps off the page, whether it's the story of his life told through the typewriters he's owned or a chapter on jokes written in a string of gags and word games. So if you ever wondered why Hawaiian only has a thirteen-letter alphabet or how exactly to write down the sound of a wild raspberry, read on . . .

Ghost for Sale
Ghost for Sale

Author: Sandra Cox

Publisher: Lyrical Press

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 161650773X

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Caitlin King can’t believe that her shopaholic cousin actually bought two ghosts off of eBay. But she can’t ignore the truth when she starts seeing sexy Liam O’Reilly, who’s been dead for over a hundred years. He’s a fascinating specter, and the more time Caitlin spends with him, the closer they become—sending them both spiraling into a star-crossed tailspin. No matter how desperately they long for each other, there’s just no future with a guy who’s already stopped breathing. In order to help Liam and his twin sister, Anna, leave their earthly limbo and cross over into the light, Caitlin must find the ghost of Anna’s fiancé. But a malevolent spirit is dead set against Anna moving on. Now Caitlin will have to unravel the mystery surrounding the twins’ past lives in order to keep Liam’s spirit safe—even if it means sacrificing her heart in the process.

The Unintentional Medium
The Unintentional Medium

Author: Suzi Samuel

Publisher: Made For Success Publishing

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1613397658

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When the boundaries between the real world and the unseen world overlap and you begin getting cooking tips and dating advice from your ghostly grannies, life itself can never be the same.

What do you do when you suddenly realise that there is a whole other world out there which is opening up to you?

You ride the whirlwind, hang on tight and enjoy this whole new adventure of being an Unintentional Medium.

This is a story of an adventure, a step into the unknown, a collision of worlds and what happens to the unsuspecting young woman who happens to have been chosen by the spirit world to act as their messenger.

The true story leads us through an eventful and often hilarious life describing events and people, both here and in the spirit world who have played such a part in this journey. A newly single girl on the London dating scene and who, after several close escapes, finally finds happiness with her handsome Australian husband. Not only are the spirits extremely happy about this, they redouble their efforts to get their message across and pop in with increasing regularity.

A cross between Bill Bryson, Brigit Jones and Ghost with a dash of Carrie Bradshaw thrown in for good measure.