Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody
Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody

Author: Roland Chambers

Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0192742701

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One girl. One turtle. One epic voyage! If you like Pippi Longstocking, you'll love Nelly Peabody. When Nelly says she's going to do a thing, she does it, whatever it is. Learn to juggle china cups? Of course! Live on lemons for a month? Why not? Set out in a boat with knitted sails to find her long-lost father, with only her turtle Columbus for company? Absolutely! And she won't let anything get in her way . . .

Nixie Wonky Winter Wonderland
Nixie Wonky Winter Wonderland

Author: Cas Lester

Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children

Published: 2015-11-05

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0192743244

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Snow days are for sledging, skating and snowball battles and no-one is safe from Nixie's expertly aimed snowballs or her mischievous wonky wand. But one fairy is missing out on all of the fun, where is Fidget the butterfly fairy? It's up to Nixie to find her and prove that she's not such a bad, bad fairy but a rather ingenious one!

The League of Unexceptional Children
The League of Unexceptional Children

Author: Gitty Daneshvari

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0349124213

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Hilarious action adventure for readers aged 8 and up, featuring the world's most unexceptional spies. You think spies are clever and cool and mysterious? Think again . . . When Jonathan and Shelley are summoned to work for The League of Unexceptional Children they're more than a little bit surprised. Average in every single way, they've never been singled out for anything in their lives . . . scrap that, they've never even been noticed. But that's exactly what the League is after. Because if you're truly forgettable, you're perfect for acts of espionage - as Jonathan and Shelley are about to find out.

Evil Emperor Penguin
Evil Emperor Penguin

Author: Laura Ellen Anderson

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1338150774

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A hilarious, adorable graphic novel for younger readers about an Evil Emperor Penguin who wants to take over the world. Part Despicable Me, part Pinky and the Brain, part Happy Feet...all fun! Far away in the icy wastes of Antarctica lives a warm and cuddly, kind-hearted penguin who only wants to do good in the world . . . NOT! This is no ordinary penguin. This is . . . EVIL EMPEROR PENGUIN! And he wants to take over the world!Of course, every evil ruler needs a sidekick and a minion, and Evil Emperor Penguin is no different. That's why he has Number 8, a very polite and thoughtful octopus who knits, and Eugene, the incredibly cuddly abominable snowman who loves hugs.Join this fearsome team of Evil as they try to take over the world--and obviously, destroy it--but get waylaid by evil cats, rogue farts, killer plants, and visiting sisters.

The Last Englishman
The Last Englishman

Author: Roland Chambers

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1567924174

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Arthur Ransome, best known for the Swallows and Amazons series, led a double, and often tortured, life. Before his fame as an author, he was notorious for very different reasons: between 1917 and 1924, he was the Russian correspondent for the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian, and his sympathy for the Bolshevik regime gave him access to its leaders, politics, and plots. He was friends with Karl Radek, the Bolshevik's Chief of Propaganda, and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the secret police. In this biography, Chambers explores the tensions Ransome felt between his allegiance to England's decencies and the egalitarian Bolshevik vision, between the Lake Country he loved and always considered home and the lure of the Russian steppes to which he repeatedly returned. What emerges is not only history, but also the story of an immensely troubled man not entirely at home in either culture or country.

Three Visits to America
Three Visits to America

Author: Emily Faithfull

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1429004606

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A woman from Scotland recounts her travels in the U.S., focusing particularly issues relating to women (education, employment, etc.), also discussing more general cultural matters.

Napoleon's Egypt
Napoleon's Egypt

Author: Juan Cole

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2007-08-07

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0230607411

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In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of the daily travails of the soldiers in Napoleon's army, including how they imagined Egypt, how their expectations differed from what they found, and how they grappled with military challenges in a foreign land. Cole ultimately reveals how Napoleon's invasion, the first modern attempt to invade the Arab world, invented and crystallized the rhetoric of liberal imperialism.

FINNEGANS WAKE
FINNEGANS WAKE

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2017-12-06

Total Pages: 661

ISBN-13: 8027236444

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This eBook edition of "FINNEGANS WAKE" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most audacious works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work. The book discusses, in an unorthodox fashion, the Earwicker family, comprising the father HCE, the mother ALP, and their three children Shem the Penman, Shaun the Postman, and Issy. James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.

How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel
How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel

Author: Wendy Meddour

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Published: 2014-11-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781847804327

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With the wind in his hair, and blowing his hooter, Along came the prince on the back of a scooter. "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, please let down your hair!"Called the prince from down on the bottom stair.But Rapunzel just sat -As still as a wall;She didn't think much of the prince at all.Rapunzel sits on the sixteenth floor of an inner city block, bored, dreaming and looking out at the rain.ÿ No one can rouse her from her apathy, not the milkman or the postman or the baker or her aunt - or even the prince. But when at last a letter is delivered, it contains news that has Rapunzel on her feet again. She has a new job at the library! And suddenly her life is busy, sparkling, exciting and stimulating. "For despite her long hair and her ravishing looks, she loved nothing better than reading good books!"