Prudence and Moxie
Prudence and Moxie

Author: Deborah Noyes

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780618416073

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Two very different friends come to a special understanding of their relationship. Prudence and Moxie are like apples and oranges, up and down, sweet and sour. But despite differences, they’re still best friends. See, there isn’t much that Moxie won’t do--especially when dared. Dare her to kissy-face smoosh against the shark tank? Done. Consecutive twists on an upside-down amusement park ride? Hardly a challenge. How about a fast, fast turbo-cart ride all the way down High Horse Hill? No problem! It’s enough to drive quiet, sensible Prudence crazy. Especially when Moxie balks at the one thing that’s very important to Prudence .s.s. Can Moxie learn to try something that makes her feel anything but brave? Triple dog dare you to find out!

Picture Books for Children
Picture Books for Children

Author: Mary Northrup

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0838994601

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Providing descriptive annotations of the best children's picture books published in the last decade, this comprehensive overview is perfect for librarians, teachers, parents, daycare providers, and anyone who works with young children.

Fletch's Moxie
Fletch's Moxie

Author: Gregory Mcdonald

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2010-03-10

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307524000

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In Fletch’s Moxie, the prolific Gregory Mcdonald tests his incomparable investigative journalist once again with a caper that is as perfectly plotted as Fletch is brilliant. It seems just about everyone in Hollywood had a reason to want Steve Peterman dead. But how someone managed to put a knife in his back on a live broadcast without being seen is anyone’s guess. Unfortunately for Fletch, his girlfriend, Moxie Mooney, a huge star at the box office, is also the number one suspect. With the police asking way too many questions, Fletch whisks Moxie and her drunken father, O.L., off to Key West for a little privacy. But before he can even check out the beach, the rest of the suspects decide to check in. Now, in a house full of Hollywood’s elite, Fletch is increasingly amazed at how ruthless the movie business can be. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Pudding Up With Murder
Pudding Up With Murder

Author: Julia Buckley

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0425275973

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Secret chef Lilah Drake has a killer casserole to deal with in the latest Undercover Dish mystery from the author of Cheddar Off Dead.... Customers trust Lilah Drake to keep her mouthwatering meals under wraps, but when a millionaire meets his untimely end, some sinister secrets become the main course. . . . Spring is right around the corner, and with the warmer temperatures come plenty of food requests from Lilah Drake's covered-dish clients. Lilah pulls out all the stops with a sweet new casserole for the birthday party of Marcus Cantwell, a wealthy curmudgeon who has some angry ex-wives and more than a few enemies. When he's found facedown in Lilah's casserole, it's anyone's guess as to who might have wanted the old man dead. A possible new heir to Marcus’s fortune adds some unexpected spice to the investigation, but Lilah fears that the old adage is true, and "the proof is in the pudding." INCLUDES RECIPES!

Heroism and Wisdom, Italian Style
Heroism and Wisdom, Italian Style

Author: Raymond Angelo Belliotti

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-09-08

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1683933583

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This is an interdisciplinary work that philosophically analyzes concepts such as heroism; practical wisdom; honor; Nietzsche’s notions of will to power, the overman, and the three metamorphoses; Plato’s understanding of love; creating meaning in life; the issue of morally dirty hands in political administration; the relationship between political means and ends; the proper role of positive duties in society; the aspirations of grand strivers; and the linkages between biological, biographical, and autobiographical lives, all in the context of explaining and evaluating the lives and works of fourteen historically significant Italian: Gaius Julius Caesar, Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri, Caterina Sforza, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Francesca Cabrini, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Antonio Gramsci, Salvatore Giuliano, Oriana Fallaci, Giovanni Falcone, and Paolo Borsellino. By dissecting the lives and philosophies of the figures discussed in this work, by extracting moral, political, and existential lessons from their aspirations and enterprises, by reflecting on their ideals from the vantage point of our divergent social context, by evaluating their virtues and vices from a wider perspective, and by confronting the conceptual puzzles and social impediments hampering the exercise of practical wisdom and heroism, we may confront the people that we are and reimagine the people we might become.

Jud.Us, Too
Jud.Us, Too

Author: Michael N. Raskin

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2005-07-20

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1465325387

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Jud Userle, a poor potato farmers son from northern Maine, became the hapless victim of a war in which he never really participated. Three decades of his life had been taken from him, and, in that time, it is ironic that the only real freedom he experienced was a prisoner in northern Vietnam. His eventual return to the United States lead only to greater confusion, accusations, and extreme medical intervention. Twenty-five years after all that strife, he was a simple slave of the land, lacking true human contact with the world, until another seemingly negative event made a one hundred and eighty degree turn, and brought him back to the land of the living. But, with this also came the question.Why did all this happen in the first place? There had to be some plot behind it all; and it became the focus of his next few months to uncover just what it was.or who it was.that had chosen to make his life hell. Luckily, this time, he would not be alone in that search. But, even those who allied with him, were an unusual assortment, from differing arenas of public affaires.