Pinky Got Out!
Pinky Got Out!

Author: Michael Portis

Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1101932988

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Fans of Tad Hills and Jory John will love this hilarious picture book about Pinky, a flamingo at the zoo who sneakily slips out to join a group of kids on their zoo tour. Pinky isn't your typical flamingo. He's a real escape artist! When he sees a young girl named Penny and her class touring the zoo, Pinky feels like they're birds of a feather and decides to make a break for it. Penny is the first to spot the flamingo hiding in plain sight. One by one, she lets her friends in on Pinky's antics as he tries to blend in with the seals, the meerkats, and even the pandas. Young readers will enjoy trying to find Pinky on every spread and will be curious to discover whether he can actually fly the coop!

A Division of Spoils
A Division of Spoils

Author: Paul Scott

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 022603464X

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The conclusion of the “majestic” quartet about the waning days of the British empire in India, “a commanding achievement” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After exploiting India’s divisions for years, the British are departing in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, A Division of the Spoils illuminates one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India. “[These] novels are a spectacular explosion of history set off within the lives of a dozen or so Britons and Indians on the edges of vast change . . . If you want to know where the political world we now live in began, Paul Scott’s novels are a place to start.” —The New York Times Book Review “A rich novel of manners . . . Politics, cultism, police and military interrogation—all moving toward inevitable murder and violence—are integral parts of a carefully crafted, complex novel.” —Library Journal

Old Romanian Fairy Tales
Old Romanian Fairy Tales

Author: Mirela Roznoveanu

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1479789976

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OLD ROMANIAN FAIRY TALES by Mirela Roznoveanu Illustrated by: Alexandra Conte

Shadows of Time
Shadows of Time

Author: Don Goodman

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-02-07

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0595789390

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When they meet at a summer camp, two ten-year-old boys from opposite worlds become friends and begin an exciting series of exploits that will test their mettle and friendship. Court-ordered forced busing, for the sole purpose of integrating the school system, leads to tumultuous, chaotic times in a city suddenly torn apart by fear and prejudice. The two boys learn the meaning of courage when each must face the shadows of time that follow them from ghetto streets riddled with crime and hostility to unexpected dangers in the local mountains. When confronted with their most jeopardous adventure, DC and Henry meet their destiny. The time is the late 70's. The lives of our two young heroes become forever intertwined through circumstances no one could predict. Bravery is part of life, whether in the forests of Kentucky or in the 'jungles' of Los Angeles. Step into this fascinating, stirring epic of two boys swept up by turbulence and chaos. This is their story in the Shadows of Time.

Chilli Birds
Chilli Birds

Author: John McGinn

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2013-04-26

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1780996128

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Giles Morton has a predictably plain life. Suzie awaits to spice things up. An enchanted seduction leads him into a crazy voyage of inner self-discovery. Saucy secrets abound as he battles for his very existence against Suzie's alter ego. The future of the human race lies in the mind and imagination of one hapless man from the suburbs... ,

Sparkle Hardcover
Sparkle Hardcover

Author: Rudy Yuly

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 132912085X

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HOW DO YOU HANDLE A MAN-SIZED MESS? Brothers Joe and Eddie Jones's fragile world is built around Sparkle Cleaners, their Seattle crime scene cleanup business. Not even overprotective Joe knows that autistic Eddie's a savant at more than cleaning-he's also got an incredible gift for sensing what's left behind in the wake of murder. When a killer strikes much too close to home, a dark secret pulls the brothers back to their deepest past, and pushes them forward into unknown territory where failure threatens death-and success promises a better life than either dared imagine.

Agony Hill
Agony Hill

Author: Sarah Stewart Taylor

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1250826632

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Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark. In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin Warren arrives in Bethany, Vermont, to take a position as a detective with the state police. Warren's new home is on the verge of monumental change; the interstates under construction will bring new people, new opportunities, and new problems to Vermont, and the Cold War and protests against the war in Vietnam have finally reached the dirt roads and rolling pastures of Bethany. Warren has barely unpacked when he's called up to a remote farm on Agony Hill. Former New Yorker and Back-to-the-Lander Hugh Weber seems to have set fire to his barn and himself, with the door barred from the inside, but things aren’t adding up for Warren. The people of Bethany—from Weber’s enigmatic wife to Warren's neighbor, widow and amateur detective Alice Bellows — clearly have secrets they’d like to keep, but Warren can’t tell if the truth about Weber’s death is one of them. As he gets to know his new home and grapples with the tragedy that brought him there, Warren is drawn to the people and traditions of small town Vermont, even as he finds darkness amidst the beauty.

Prior Knowledge
Prior Knowledge

Author: James T. Baker

Publisher: Grave Distractions Pub. (pub-8395162334927303)

Published: 2015-03-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 096613172X

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Prior Knowledge is a period mystery with religion, sex, and murder all in one volume. Master story teller James T. Baker here follows the wild excursion of the aging Benedictine monk Father Columba as he is called out of retirement to reform a troubled priory and ends up becoming a sleuth. Upon arriving at his new post, a priory commissioned to train "belated vocations" for the priesthood, he learns that his predecessor has mysteriously disappeared; and before he can solve that puzzle he finds himself in the middle of a bloody murder. Someone has killed a seminarian! Getting to the bottom of this crime will require all his theological training, some trial and error good luck, and of course prior knowledge. As he probes the varied and sundry secrets of his monks and seminarians, he discovers for the first time the many facets of love and hate. At age 65 he himself finds the kind of love he long ago promised never to experience: sex with a young Chinese American newspaper woman. Join Father Columba in his quest for truth--religious, legal, sexual--which just could all be cut from the same holy cloth.

The Raj Quartet (2)
The Raj Quartet (2)

Author: Paul Scott

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2007-07-03

Total Pages: 1034

ISBN-13: 0307263975

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The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence from Britain. In The Towers of Silence, Barbie Batchelor, a British missionary and schoolteacher, befriends a British family and witnesses the trial of Hari Kumar, an Indian man accused of assaulting his beloved Daphne Manners, while observing the dangerously cruel Captain Ronald Merrick, Hari’s nemesis. In A Division of the Spoils, the chaos of the departure of the British and the fervor of Partition wreaks havoc upon the twilight of the Raj — and the end of a era. On occasions unsparing in its study of personal dramas and racial differences, the Raj Quartet is at all times profoundly humane, not least in the author’s capacity to identify with a huge range of characters. It is also illuminated by delicate social comedy and wonderful evocations of the Indian scene, all narrated in luminous prose. The other two novels in the Raj Quartet, The Jewel in the Crown and The Day of the Scorpion, are also available from Everyman’s Library. With a new introduction by Hilary Spurling