From bestselling author and illustrator Sandra Boynton comes a BIG box of six Little Pookie favorites! Discover what makes Pookie so nifty in this sweet gift set of board books. With Sandra Boynton’s signature charm and piggy pizzazz, these silly stories prove that everyone needs A LOT of Little Pookie in their lives! Includes six wildly popular books: Little Pookie What’s Wrong, Little Pookie? Night-Night, Little Pookie Happy Birthday, Little Pookie Let’s Dance, Little Pookie Spooky Pookie
From the one and only Sandra Boynton comes a BIG box of five Little Pookie favorites! Spend time with the ever-nifty Pookie in this sweet gift set of board books. With Sandra Boynton’s signature charm and piggy pizzazz, these silly stories prove that everyone needs A LOT of Little Pookie in their lives! Includes five wildly popular books: Little Pookie What’s Wrong, Little Pookie? Happy Birthday, Little Pookie Night-Night, Little Pookie Let’s Dance, Little Pookie
From bestselling author and illustrator Sandra Boynton comes a holiday box of five Little Pookie favorites! Discover what makes Pookie so nifty in this holiday gift set of board books. With Sandra Boynton’s signature charm and piggy pizzazz, these holiday tales prove that everyone needs A LOT of Little Pookie in their lives! Includes five festive books: I Love You, Little Pookie Happy Easter, Little Pookie Spooky Pookie Pookie’s Thanksgiving Merry Christmas, Little Pookie
Uh-oh, Pookie is NOT happy in this kind-of-cranky board book from Sandra Boynton. When Pookie feels down, Pookie’s mom can always guess what’s wrong with her little one. Or can she? With Sandra Boynton’s signature charm and piggy pizzazz, this turn-that-frown-upside-down story proves that every Little Pookie loves a reason to smile. Oh, sweet little Pookie! Your bright eyes are wet. Come over and tell me why you are upset.
In the Northern California seaside town of Sutter’s Bay, the path of love is sometimes mixed with tragedy, but these couples find their way to happiness together. This box set collects all five stories of Shawn Lane's best-selling series, Sutter's Bay into one box set. Contains the stories: Sweet Reunion: Jason Sweet hasn’t been back to his hometown, Sutter’s Bay, for years. With his mother dying, Jason returns to make peace his past, including former best friend and lover, Danny Yarrow. Danny’s happy to be reunited with Jason. They’ve both changed since their teenaged relationship. Jason hasn’t had an easy time of it, but Danny intends to convince Jason their love is worth taking chances. Twice in a Lifetime: Five years ago, British transplant Jude left San Francisco after the tragic murder of his lover. He settled in Sutter's Bay and opened a flower shop. He never expects to find a love like that again until he meets sexy Rex Warner, the new vet in Sutter's Bay. Galaxy's Heart: Ten years ago, Galaxy Winthrop had a one-night stand with Adam Colfer. Now they both find themselves in Sutter’s Bay looking for a second chance at life ... and love. Finding Forever: Nolan Young has tried to deny he’s gay all his life. Then he meets Leo Winthrop, who is exactly the kind of guy Nolan would want ... if he could allow himself. Meeting Nolan changes Leo’s dreary outlook and brings hope to his life for the first time in years. But can he convince Nolan take a chance on forever with him? Tempted to Taste: Sutter’s Bay newest restaurant gets new chef, Ryan, who just might find himself tempted to taste his boss, the sinfully sexy, Chris.
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
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The lawyer turned on the tape recorder, handed his client a cigarette, and lit it for him. Black drew hard, squinting as the smoke rushed into his lungs. "Where do you want to start?"the lawyer said, lighting a cigarette of his own. "I guess there’s only one place to start; at Broad and Erie." Johnny Podres, a politician whose record against corruption had been propelling him straight to the mayor’s office, is found murdered in a North Philly crack house. Enter Samuel Jackson, a.k.a. Black, a drug addict who knows better, a man embittered by the fact that he can’t seem to escape from his addiction to crack cocaine or, for that matter, from himself. Though he was once a family man with a wife and son, Black’s only concern these days is getting his next high, that is, until he stumbles across a friend and fellow addict, Leroy, and both become prime suspects in the Podres murder. Black and Leroy hook up with two female pipers: Clarisse, a registered nurse who is slowly losing to crack any semblance of a respectable life, and Pookie, who already has lost it. Soon the hunt is on for all four as they try to stay one step ahead of a police department under tremendous pressure to solve the case—because if a killer isn’t found soon, this could blow up into one of the biggest scandals in Philadelphia history. Solomon Jones weaves a suspenseful story against the backdrop of corruption in the Philadelphia police department and centers it on a group of drug addicts who, in the process of fleeing the law, come to terms with their own addiction, leading to some devastating consequences.
Experiencing vivid dreams about serial murders taking place in San Francisco, homicide detective Bryan Clauser fears he is losing his sanity and discovers a link between the victims and a young boy who is gripped by the same nightmares.
Hamba Gashle is the inside story of white society in colonial Southern Africa during the 1950s and 1960s. Ian Hassall's edgy memoir provides a vivid and disturbing depiction of childhood and family life against a background of racial exploitation, political change and the disintegration of his white community. Written as a diary from childhood through to early adulthood, the deceptively simple style provides a sense of immediacy, building a vivid picture through apparently unconnected events. The child narrator arrives in Northern Rhodesia from England aged four. Soon after, his parents divorce and he is fostered for several years. His mother marries an anti British Afrikaaner who is a strong influence on the boy. As a teenager he becomes delinquent and fails at school. He moves with his father's family to Rhodesia as it is approaching UDI. The narrator has developed anti-racist views and joins the protest movement at university in South Africa. Finally he returns to London in 1970, alone, a stranger. Ian Hassall produces a rich and informative picture of this period, honest, critical and unflattering, attacking its racism. The work is carefully researched so that key historical events are portrayed accurately and intimately. The youthful narrator's preoccupations, adventures, sexual encounters and daydreams contrast with more sober political observations, sometimes hilariously. This is also a study of childhood, and a celebration of youth which transcends time or location. 'Hamba Gashle' means both chameleon and take it easy, because of the animal's leisurely pace. The book's title reflects the author's admiration for this wonderful creature and its attributes, some of which he required to survive his upbringing.
