Gary The Seagull

Author : B.A. Johnston
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771088374

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Gary the Seagull by B.A. Johnston Pdf

A hungry seagull will do anything for a lunch at the beach in this delightful read-aloud children’s book from comedic musician B.A. Johnston. It's a hot summer day and Gary is hungry. The beach is packed with people...and packed with people’s lunches. Though he’s been known to eat everything from minnows to garbage, it’s beach lunches Gary loves most of all. With his patented seagull cunning, Gary takes increasingly ridiculous measures to trick a young boy into sharing his lunch. Will the boy hand over his ketchup chips and watermelon? This uproarious read-aloud from beloved Ontario-based songwriter and entertainer, better known by his stage name, B.A. Johnston, will have parents hugging their beach coolers a little tighter and kids shouting “SHOO, BIRD! SHOO!” Halifax-based illustrator-cartoonist Paul Hammond provides bright and bold illustrations and hand-lettered embellishments for a salty good read. Praise for Gary the Seagull “An easy read that would be enjoyable for most kids. There are some bigger words that could make it useful for grade school-age children who are practicing reading. The bright and bold cartoon style illustrations depict all the colors that one would see at the beach. The wider beach scenes also show a diversity in the people who are there.” —Canadian Review of Materials

Author : Gary Shteyngart
Publisher : Random House
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812995336

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Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The New Yorker • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • The Atlantic • Newsday • Salon • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • Esquire (UK) • GQ (UK) Little Failure is the all too true story of an immigrant family betting its future on America, as told by a lifelong misfit who finally finds a place for himself in the world through books and words. In 1979, a little boy dragging a ginormous fur hat and an overcoat made from the skin of some Soviet woodland creature steps off the plane at New York’s JFK International Airport and into his new American life. His troubles are just beginning. For the former Igor Shteyngart, coming to the United States from the Soviet Union is like stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of Technicolor. Careening between his Soviet home life and his American aspirations, he finds himself living in two contradictory worlds, wishing for a real home in one. He becomes so strange to his parents that his mother stops bickering with his father long enough to coin the phrase failurchka—“little failure”—which she applies to her once-promising son. With affection. Mostly. From the terrors of Hebrew School to a crash course in first love to a return visit to the homeland that is no longer home, Gary Shteyngart has crafted a ruthlessly brave and funny memoir of searching for every kind of love—family, romantic, and of the self. BONUS: This edition includes a reading group guide. Praise for Little Failure “Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger.”—The New York Times Book Review “A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching.”—Mary Karr “Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It’s an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR “Literary gold . . . [a] bruisingly funny memoir.”—Vogue “A giant success.”—Entertainment Weekly

Author : Danny Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Birds
ISBN : 192150482X

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Seagull by Danny Snell Pdf

"Seagull loves to fly. It makes her heart sing. But when she gets caught in a tangle of fishing line on the beach, Seagull can only watch as other birds fly effortlessly above. What can she do?"

Author : Gary Shteyngart
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984855145

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Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews “A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature.”—Molly Young, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) Eight friends, one country house, and six months in isolation—a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal hailed as a “virtuoso performance” (USA Today) and “an homage to Chekhov with four romances and a finale that will break your heart” (The Washington Post) In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.

Author : Richard Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1970-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684846842

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Pdf

Allegory about a sea gull who seeks to attain perfect flight. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593115008

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My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Pdf

"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

Author : Matéi Visniec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857426486

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Mr. K Released by Matéi Visniec Pdf

Mirroring Romania's drastic transition from totalitarianism to Western-style freedom in the late 1980s, Mr. K Released captures the disturbingly surreal feeling that many newly liberated prisoners face when they leave captivity. Employing his trademark playful absurdity, Mat i Visniec introduces us to Mr. K, a Kafkaesque figure who has been imprisoned for years for an undisclosed crime in a penitentiary with mysterious tunnels. One day, Mr. K finds himself unexpectedly released. Unable to comprehend his sudden liberation, he becomes traumatized by the realities of freedom--more so than the familiar trauma of captivity or imprisonment. In the hope of obtaining some clarification, Mr. K keeps waiting for an appointment with the prison governor, however, their meeting is constantly being delayed. During this endless process of waiting, Mr. K gets caught up in a clinical exploration of his physical surroundings. He does not have the courage or indeed inclination to leave, but can move unrestricted within the prison compound, charting endless series of absurd circles in which readers might paradoxically recognize themselves.

Author : Ann Cleeves
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447278375

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The Seagull by Ann Cleeves Pdf

The Seagull is the eighth book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera. Obsession never dies . . . When prison inmate and former police officer John Brace says he’s willing to give up information about the location of a dead body in return for protection for his family, Vera knows that she has to look into his claims. But opening up this cold case strikes much closer to home than Vera anticipates as her investigation takes her back in time to The Seagull, a once-decadent and now-derelict nightclub where her deceased father and his friends used to congregate. As Vera’s past collides dangerously with the present, she will have to confront her unwanted memories and face the possibility that her father was involved in what happened. The truth is about to come out, but is Vera ready for what it will reveal? Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope’s investigations with The Crow Trap, The Moth Catcher and The Darkest Evening.

Author : Nyasha M. Chikowore
Publisher : American Psychological Association
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781433839658

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Giraffe Asks For Help by Nyasha M. Chikowore Pdf

Gary the Giraffe is finally six years old, which means he is old enough to reach the leaves on the trees all by himself! Except…he tries and tries, but simply can’t reach on his own. With a little guidance from his friends, Gary learns that it’s okay to ask for help. Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers with more information on discussing help-seeking and independence in children.

Author : Ted Harrison
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101918968

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A Northern Alphabet by Ted Harrison Pdf

Available now in board book format for the first time, A Northern Alphabet is an early introduction to the letters by way of all things northern: the landscape, the people, and the flora and fauna. From A for anorak and B for bear to Q for quilt and Z for zinc mine, in these pages, children everywhere can experience the color and beauty of northern life. Each letter is accompanied by simple text naming a few of the objects, animals and people depicted in each spectacular painting.

Author : Sandra Boynton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665948999

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Dinosnores by Sandra Boynton Pdf

A rhyming book which explores the nighttime rituals of dinosaurs and just how very loud and persistent their snores can be.

Author : Denise Robins
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444781601

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The Seagull's Cry by Denise Robins Pdf

Tansy Trehearn was born and bred in the beautiful and little Cornish port of the village St. Ruthyn, where Martin Wyde was opening a small hotel, The Seagull's Cry. Tansy was falling in love with her employer Martin. She had never been so bewildered, she had met the one man she could ever love, and found that she had to fight her own sister in order to get him. And that was when she learned that the cry of the seagull was no more sad and tortured than the cry of her own heart. Because while Martin and Tansy's love softly flowered, several people were plotting to ruin their newfound happiness.

Author : Nathalie Etoke
Publisher : Quilombola
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857428535

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Shades of Black by Nathalie Etoke Pdf

Author : Joseph Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393892999

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The Seagull Book of Literature by Joseph Kelly Pdf

Inspire and engage at an affordable price--in print or online

Author : Francesco Pecoraro
Publisher : Italian List
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857424823

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Life in Peacetime by Francesco Pecoraro Pdf

When Life in Peactime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry--but morbidly attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in Sharm el Sheik reconstructing the coral reefs of the Red Sea using synthetics, he reflects on both the brief time he sees remaining ahead and on everything that has happened already in his life to which he can never quite resign himself. We see his slow bureaucratic trudge as a civil servant, long summer vacations on a Greek island, his twisted relationship with his first boss, the turmoil and panic attacks he faced during the student uprisings in 1968 that pushed him away from philosophy and into engineering, and his fearful childhood as a postwar evacuee. A close-up portrait of an ordinary existence, Life in Peacetime offers a new look at the postwar era in Italy and the fundamental contradictions of a secure, middle-class life.