The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter
The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter

Author: Holly Robinson

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2010-06-29

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0307337464

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“What kind of Navy officer sits on his ship in the middle of the Mediterranean dreaming of gerbils?” That’s the question that Holly Robinson sets out to answer in this warm and rollicking memoir of life with her father, the world’s most famous gerbil czar. Starting with a few pairs of gerbils housed for curiosity’s sake in the family’s garage, Donald Robinson’s obsession with the “pocket kangaroo” developed into a lifelong passion and second career. Soon the Annapolis-trained Navy commander was breeding gerbils and writing about them for publications ranging from the ever-bouncy Highlights for Children to the erudite Science News. To support his burgeoning business, the family eventually settled on a remote hundred-acre farm with horses, sheep, pygmy goats, peacocks–and nearly nine thousand gerbils. From part-time model for her father’s bestselling pet book, How to Raise and Train Pet Gerbils, to full-time employee in the gerbil empire’s complex of prefab Sears buildings, Holly was an enthusiastic if often exasperated companion on her father’s quest to breed the perfect gerbil. Told with heart, humor, and affection, The Gerbil Farmer’s Daughter is Holly’s ode to a weird and wonderful upbringing and her truly one-of-a-kind father.

Writer with a Day Job
Writer with a Day Job

Author: Aine Greaney

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-05-09

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1599634244

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Don’t let the daily grind drain your creative energy! You can work full time and still have a productive writing life. Many writers waste time waiting for the day they can finally quit their day jobs and live the so-called writing dream. Don’t wait. You can do both â€" and your writing will be the better for it. Balancing a full-time job and a productive writing life is no easy feat! This book offers writers advice, skill-building techniques, prompts, and exercises in every chapter, and strategies on how to get and keep writing while also working the 9 to 5 grind. Readers will discover tips and exercises for: • Setting and protecting personal writing goals • Creating a schedule that complements their stamina • Getting creative before and after work - and on their lunch hour • Finding inspiration in the most unlikely of spots and at the most impromptu of times • Writing proficiently in multiple forms (long and short) so that they don't get bogged down writing one long project • Becoming an active participant in writing communities so they have a solid support system at the ready • Figuring out how (if at all) to share their writing life with co-workers, friends, and family members You’ll also get quick, practical tutorials to help you master scenes, point of view, characters, settings, dialogue, and more. Writer With a Day Job gives you the strategies and motivation you need to work 40 hours a week (or more!) and achieve writing success.

The Butterfly Farm
The Butterfly Farm

Author: Diane Noble

Publisher: WaterBrook

Published: 2010-05-05

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0307550621

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Newly widowed Harriet MacIver has just taken on her first travel writing assignment–rating an adventure cruise in the Caribbean. Add a gaggle of college students on a mini semester-at-sea voyage, a rusting hulk of a ship that misses more ports than it makes, and two deaths by poisonous butterfly, and Harriet is off and running on a hair-raising adventure. And that’s before two coeds, Kate and Carly, go missing–Carly being her boss’s daughter. Pulled into a dangerous web of bioethical intrigue, Harriet races against time. If the killer isn’t stopped, Kate and Carly will die–and that may only be the beginning of his plans for destruction. With scant clues and fewer resources, Harriet must track down the college girls–and outmaneuver a murderer who is only part of an elaborate plot of medical madness. Travel writing certainly isn’t what Harriet thought it would be. Spiked with suspense and bioethical intrigue, The Butterfly Farm invites you to solve a Caribbean puzzle with travel’s most delightful woman of mystery. From the Trade Paperback edition.

It's Your Kid, Not a Gerbil!
It's Your Kid, Not a Gerbil!

Author: Kevin Leman

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1589976150

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Do you sometimes feel like a gerbil running on a wheel inside a cage as you scurry from place to place, chauffeuring your children from one endless activity to another? What if, for one moment, you could just step off of the wheel . . . and relax? How would you feel then? And what if that single moment could stretch into an hour, or even a whole day? It's Your Kid, Not a Gerbil will provide practical solutions and helpful insight to get off the activity wheel so that you can put your time and energies where they really count: in establishing strong character and a love for home and family that will serve your kids well for a lifetime.

Cats Don't Hike
Cats Don't Hike

Author: Edwin Leap

Publisher: Booklocker.com

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781591138563

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Cats Don't Hike is one man's candid thoughts on the joy, fear, hope and comedy that come with loving a wife and four children. The author is a regular contributor to a large southeastern newspaper.

Alone Together
Alone Together

Author: Sherry Turkle

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 0465093663

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A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.

The Iron Fey Volume One
The Iron Fey Volume One

Author: Julie Kagawa

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 731

ISBN-13: 0373211384

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Follows Meghan Chase, who learns she is the daughter of the summer faery king, as she journeys into the world of the fey to save those she loves and struggles against the iron fey.

Lienara
Lienara

Author: Misty A. Hull

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1480883360

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Have you ever seen something out of the corner of your eye, but and when you looked, it was gone? Ever wonder what would happen if you finally got the chance to see that flittering image up close? Well, siblings Karen and Brad got that opportunity. And they discovered a whole world just beyond the doors of their grandpa’s barn. Welcome to the fairy world of Lienara. Author and illustrator Misty A. Hull creates a fairy-tale world in her book, Lienara. Brad and Karen are on their first solo visit to their grandparents’ house. The week begins uneventfully enough, with rain in the forecast and not much other than chess and delicious food to entice them. But a series of slightly bizarre happenings and their grandfather’s odd behavior present them with an unusual adventure in the fairy world. In Lienara, the children learn the importance of working together with their grandparents to defeat dark forces in the fairy world. Brad and Karen find their true friendship to overcome the sinister powers and safely return to their family more mature and appreciative.