Dora and Boots are off on a special adventure in Wizzle Kingdom to help the Birthday Wizzle make birthday wishes come true. Based on a brand new episode, this adorable story is the perfect precursor to Dora's own upcoming birthday celebration in autumn 2010!
Celebrate the fun that grandparents and grandkids can get up to in this action-packed undersea adventure—a companion picture book to Paul McCartney’s #1 New York Times bestseller Hey Grandude. Grandude’s inventions are the stuff of legend, and his new green submarine doesn’t disappoint. In fact, it flies as well as submerges! Grandude whisks the grandkids off on another adventure, but he and the Chillers soon find themselves in a pickle. Suddenly, it’s Nandude to the rescue! Nandude is an explorer as courageous as Grandude, with an amazing accordion-ship to boot! Between Grandude’s magic compass and Nandude’s magical music, everyone arrives home safely. But not before enjoying a parade, dancing rainforest animals, and a narrow escape from a grabby octopus. This tale is perfect for little explorers and Paul McCartney fans alike! Artist Kathryn Durst returns with glorious, humor-filled illustrations that are as beautiful as ever.
ONE KISS CAN SEAL YOUR FATE. . . Cara DeLongpre wandered into the mysterious Nocturne club looking for a fleeting diversion from her sheltered life. Instead she found a dark, seductive stranger whose touch entices her beyond the safety she's always known and into a heady carnal bliss. . . A year ago, Vincent Cordova believed that vampires existed only in bad movies and bogeyman stories. That was before a chance encounter left him with unimaginable powers, a hellish thirst, and an aching loneliness he's sure will never end. . .until the night he meets Cara DeLongpre. Cara's beauty and bewitching innocence call to his mind, his heart. . .his blood. For Vincent senses the Dark Gift shared by Cara's parents, and the lurking threat from an ancient and powerful foe. And he knows that the only thing more dangerous than the enemy waiting to seek its vengeance is the secret carried by those Cara trusts the most. . .
A demonic guest terrorizes a haunted hotel When ghost hunter and medium M.J. Holliday appears on a television show called Haunted Possessions, she encounters an evil knife that releases a demon. Now all hell has broken loose in the haunted hotel where M.J. is staying?and it?s up to her to give the uninvited guest an early checkout.
It's Dora's birthday and she can't wait to jump out of the Magic Storybook and return home. But when a twisty wind picks up them up, Dora and Boots get whisked away to the land of the Wizzles. Dora can't return home until she journeys to the Wishing Wizzle and makes her wish. Come along as Dora travels through Wizzle World and avoids the mean witch and her flying monkeys. When Dora finally makes it to the Wishing Wizzle, everyone ∼ including the reader ∼ must wish Dora back home ready for a big party to celebrate with her family and friends and all the wonderful characters that have appeared in the past ten years of Dora the Explorer.
The account of Fidel Castro's rise to power is not complete without mention of the failed atacks of July 26, 1953, on the Cuban army garrisons at Moncada and Bayamo. This text views this initial overthrow attempt as a propaganda victory that marked the start of Castro's ascent to national power.
The blind Country and Western singer recounts his difficult childhood, describes the highlights of his professional career, and discusses the people and events that contributed to his success