Everyone Can Draw

Everyone Can Draw

Author: Shoo Rayner

Publisher:

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781908944191

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If you can make a mark on a piece of paper you can draw! If you can write your name... you can draw! Millions of people watch Shoo Rayner's Drawing Tutorials on his award-winning YouTube channel - ShooRaynerDrawing. learn to draw with Shoo Rayner too! In this book, Shoo shows you how, with a little practice, you can learn the basic shapes and techniques of drawing and soon be creating your own, fabulous works of art. Everyone can draw. That means you too!


The Pumpkin Book

The Pumpkin Book

Author: Gail Gibbons

Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1430130520

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"Narrator Polly Collier is very good. Her strong, clear voice makes her sound much like a teacher, and I appreciated her explanation to young listeners that she would be reading the text portion of a picture book...It's a wonderful book, full of interesting trivia..." - AudioFile


Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories

Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories

Author: Bonnie Jo Campbell

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0393248461

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"Bonnie Jo Campbell is a master of rural America’s postindustrial landscape." —Boston Globe Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate a sexually charged atmosphere as they love, honor, and betray one another against the backdrop of all the men in their world. Such richly fraught mother-daughter relationships can be lifelines, anchors, or they can sink a woman like a stone. In "My Dog Roscoe," a new bride becomes obsessed with the notion that her dead ex-boyfriend has returned to her in the form of a mongrel. In "Blood Work, 1999," a phlebotomist's desire to give away everything to the needy awakens her own sensuality. In "Home to Die," an abused woman takes revenge on her bedridden husband. In these fearless and darkly funny tales about women and those they love, Campbell’s spirited American voice is at its most powerful.


The Gardening Pirates

The Gardening Pirates

Author: Ruth Morgan

Publisher: Gomer Press

Published: 2012-07-13

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781848513198

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A pirate tale with a twist. 'Arrrgh, me hearties!' On the bad ship Ych a fi, times are hard and rations are grim. But when cabin girl Gwen finds a mysterious seed, life starts to look up for the pirate crew ... though not for cruel Captain Cranc!


The Matchstick Castle

The Matchstick Castle

Author: Keir Graff

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1101996226

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"Eleven-year-old Brian's summer turns out a lot less boring than expected when he encounters a huge, wacky house in the forest and befriends the eccentric family that lives there"--


The Spot

The Spot

Author: David Means

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2010-05-25

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1429932791

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The Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which three men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery. The Spot is a park on the Hudson River, where two lovers sense their affair is about to come to an end. The Spot is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the currents of her own tragic story. The Spot is in the ear of a Manhattan madman plagued by a noisy upstairs neighbor . The Spot is a suburban hospital room in which a young father confronts his son's potentially devastating diagnosis. The Spot is a dusty encampment in Nebraska where a gang of inept radicals plot a revolution. The Spot draws thirteen new stories together into a masterful collection that shows David Means at his finest: at once comically detached and wrenchingly affecting, expansive and concise, wildly inventive and firmly rooted in tradition. Means's work has earned him comparisons to Flannery O'Connor (London Review of Books), Alice Munro, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac (Newsday), Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson (Chicago Tribune/NPR), Denis Johnson (Entertainment Weekly), Poe, Chekhov, and Carver (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), but the spot he has staked out in the American literary landscape is fully and originally his own.


Famous Men Who Never Lived

Famous Men Who Never Lived

Author: K. Chess

Publisher: Tin House Books

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 194779325X

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Finalist for a 2019 Sidewise Award “Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling. . . . smart, thought-provoking, and thoroughly enjoyable.” —Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner, Vikram, attempt to assimilate, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts—a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback—and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture. But the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger, guilt, and grief over what she has truly lost. With Famous Men Who Never Lived, K Chess has created a compelling and inventive speculative work on what home means to those who have lost it forever.


By the Side of the Road

By the Side of the Road

Author: Marla Bernard

Publisher: WildBlue Press

Published: 2022-09-27

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1957288477

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The true crime story of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a Missouri teen and her family’s journey to justice. In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends—career criminals with violent felony convictions—drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, the last full moon of winter. A little before 7 a.m., fifteen-year-old Ann Harrison walked to the end of her driveway on Kansas City’s east side to wait for the bus to take her to Raytown South High School. Ten minutes later, she disappeared but no one saw what happened. As if waiting for her return, her belongings were still stacked carefully by the side of the road. By the Side of the Road is the true crime story of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Ann Harrison and the long journey forced upon her family who had to wait nearly three decades to see her killers brought to final justice.


Ogi and the Rugby Match

Ogi and the Rugby Match

Author: Ruth Morgan

Publisher: Gomer Press

Published: 2006-10-01

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9781843236436

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It's the day of the big match between Abernog and Bobipandy and Ogi has baked a cake that looks just like a rugby ball. When one of the players kicks the ball out of the stadium, Fireman Prout throws Ogi's cake to the players, thinking it to be the spare ball. Will Ogi be able to save his cake or will it end up a gooey mess on the rugby pitch?