Quicksand
Quicksand

Author: Steven Otfinoski

Publisher: Children's Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780531225110

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What is the "Mother of Poison"? This area in Saudi Arabia and Oman hides huge areas of quicksand beneath a thin crust of dry sand, making it especially dangerous. Inside, You'll Find: What quicksand is and how it is formed; A timeline, photos-and how quicksand has helped preserve dinosaur fossils over millions of years; Surprising TRUE facts that will shock and amaze you! Book jacket.

Children of the Quicksands
Children of the Quicksands

Author: Efua Traoré

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2022-07-26

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1338781944

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A richly imagined magical adventure set in West Africa by a prize-winning new voice in children's writing, Children of the Quicksands introduces readers to Yoruba myths and legends while showcasing the wealth of culture, traditions, adventure, joy, pride, and love found in Nigeria. In a remote Nigerian village, thirteen-year-old Simi is desperate to uncover a family secret. Ajao is nothing like Lagos -- no cells phones, no running water or electricity. Not a single human-made sound can be heard at night, just the noise of birds and animals rustling in the dark forest outside. Her witchlike grandmother dispenses advice and herbal medicine to the village, but she's tight lipped about their family history. Something must have happened, but what? Determined to find out, Simi disobeys her grandmother and goes exploring only to find herself sinking in the red quicksand of a forbidden lake and into the strange parallel world that lies beneath. It must have been a dream... right? Wrong. Something isn’t right. Children are disappearing and it’s up to Simi to discover the truth.

Quicksand
Quicksand

Author: Malin Persson Giolito

Publisher: Other Press, LLC

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1590518586

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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES An incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm’s wealthiest suburb. Eighteen-year-old Maja Norberg is charged for her involvement in the massacre that left her boyfriend and her best friend dead. She has spent nine months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. How did Maja—popular, privileged, and a top student—become a cold-blooded killer in the eyes of the public? What did Maja do? Or is it what she failed to do that brought her here? Malin Persson Giolito has written a perceptive portrayal of a teenage girl and a blistering indictment of a society that is coming apart. A work of great literary sensibility, Quicksand touches on wealth, class, immigration, and the games children play among themselves when parents are no longer attuned to their struggles.

Quicksand Pond
Quicksand Pond

Author: Janet Taylor Lisle

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1481472224

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Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose connection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.

Quicksand
Quicksand

Author: Nella Larsen

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1667622668

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Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Quicksand first appeared in 1928.

The Delights of Delicate Eating
The Delights of Delicate Eating

Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780252069208

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A collection of the culinary essays the author wrote for London's Pall Mall Gazette. It shows that a woman could practice cooking as an art, preparing a complete aesthetic experience that combined exquisite flavors with a beautiful table, a soothing room, and lively conversation.

A Guide For The Greedy: By A Greedy Woman
A Guide For The Greedy: By A Greedy Woman

Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1317847253

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This is surely the most extraordinary book on food and eating ever published in the English language. Miss Pennell, who was a correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette at the height of its amusement and fashionability, was obviously the inspiration of the ‘Two Fat Ladies’. Writing about good food with good writing has never been done so successfully. Beginning with an essay on the virtue of gluttony it traverses past breakfast, sandwiches, dinner, supper, portage, soups, sole, oysters, partridge, salads and savouries, coming sadly to an all too soon a stop at cheese and coffee. Oh, but not forgetting a skirmish with the vegetables. This edition first published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.