The Scholarly Hijinx Of Tiger And Lily

Author : *put Michael's name first
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781628384147

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The Scholarly Hijinx of Tiger and Lily by *put Michael's name first Pdf

Though they might look like ordinary goldfish, Tiger and Lily aren't your average classroom pets. In fact, their personalities are almost too big for their fishbowl! Tiger, the loud one, and Lily, the smart one, spend their days in Mrs. Melody Hook's fourth grade class at Samuel Langhorne Clemens Middle School. While the kindly Mrs. Hook is the only one who can understand them, that doesn't stop them from talking, teasing, fighting and learning along with the rest of the class, including Patty Rose, who is a bit of an airhead, and Tommy, who has so much energy he can barely sit still. Between the noisy goldfish and her curious, lively students, Mrs. Hook has her hands full! And that s not all she has to handle: when Tiger and Lily hear a mysterious noise in the supply closet one night, they begin to suspect that they re not alone when the students and teachers leave after the bell rings. Will the fourth grade class come together and realize what s going on before it s too late?

Author : Fenn George Manville
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318041988

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The Tiger Lily by Fenn George Manville Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : George Manville Fenn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:3676038

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The Tiger Lily by George Manville Fenn Pdf

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101517772

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The Keillor Reader by Garrison Keillor Pdf

Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published, including the essays “Cheerfulness” and “What We Have Learned So Far.” Keillor is the founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2014. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction and humor, the editor of the Good Poems collections, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Studio
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053481613

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In Search of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor Pdf

"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951627690

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The Lake Wobegon Virus by Garrison Keillor Pdf

Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin’ motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2.2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale. In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears—a town where, as we know, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

Author : Peter F. Hamilton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 1169 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330466493

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Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton Pdf

Pandora's Star is the first part of Peter F. Hamilton's epic Commonwealth Saga duology – a fantastic galaxy-spanning novel from the master of space opera. For fans of Iain M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds. At the edge of the galaxy something awakens – and it's coming for us . . . Earth AD 2329: Humanity has colonized over four hundred planets, all interlinked by wormholes. For the first time in mankind's history there is peace. Then a star over a thousand light years away suddenly vanishes, imprisoned inside a force field of immense size. Yet who – or what – has that sort of technology? And what could this mean for us? Only a faster-than-light starship, captained by ex-NASA astronaut Wilson Kime, can reach that distance to investigate. For Wilson, getting inside the force field could be easy. It may be harder to stop something else from getting out. What if there was a very good reason to seal off an entire star system? The Commonwealth Saga duology concludes with Judas Unchained. 'The best book Hamilton has written in years' - Guardian 'Anyone who begins this won’t be able to put it down' - Publishers Weekly

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9798200759408

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Pretty Good Joke Book by Garrison Keillor Pdf

Over 2,200 Jokes from America’s favorite live radio show A treasury of hilarity from Garrison Keillor and the cast of public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. A guy walks into a bar. Eight Canada Geese walk into a bar. A termite jumps up on the bar and asks, “Where is the bar tender?” Drum roll. The Sixth Edition of the perennially popular Pretty Good Joke Book is everything the first five were and more. More puns, one-liners, light bulb jokes, knock-knock jokes, and third-grader jokes (have you heard the one about Elvis Parsley?). More religion jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, blonde jokes, and jokes in questionable taste (Why did the urologist lose his license? He got in trouble with his peers). More jokes about chickens, relationships, and senior moments (the nice thing about Alzheimer’s is you can enjoy the same jokes again and again). It all started back in 1996, when A Prairie Home Companion fans laughed themselves silly during the first Joke Show. The broadcast was such a hit that it became an almost-annual gagfest. Then fans wanted to read the jokes, share them, and pass them around, and the first Pretty Good Joke Book was born. With over 200 new and updated jokes, the latest edition promises countless giggles, chortles, and guffaws anyone—fans of the radio show or not—will enjoy.

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781951627706

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That Time of Year by Garrison Keillor Pdf

With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCLA:31158010296944

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Commentary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amelia Simmons
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Cooking
ISBN : EAN:4057664170415

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American Cookery by Amelia Simmons Pdf

American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons, is the first known cookbook written by an American. It teaches how to prepare fish, poultry, vegetables, as well as the making of pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, preserves and all kinds of cakes.

Author : Barbara Crooker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : PSU:000053859136

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Ordinary Life by Barbara Crooker Pdf

Author : Victoria Forester
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429986366

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The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester Pdf

You just can't keep a good girl down . . . unless you use the proper methods. Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for kids with exceptional abilities. School is great at first with a bunch of new friends whose skills range from super-strength to super-genius. (Plus all the homemade apple pie she can eat!) But Piper is special, even among the special. And there are consequences. Consequences too dire to talk about. Too crazy to consider. And too dangerous to ignore. At turns exhilarating and terrifying, Victoria Forester's debut novel has been praised by Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga, as "the oddest/sweetest mix of Little House on the Prairie and X-Men...Prepare to have your heart warmed." The Girl Who Could Fly is an unforgettable story of defiance and courage about an irrepressible heroine who can, who will, who must . . . fly. This title has Common Core connections. Praise for Victoria Forester and The Girl Who Could Fly: "It's the oddest/sweetest mix of Little House on the Prairie and X-Men. I was smiling the whole time (except for the part where I cried). I gave it to my mom, and I'm reading it to my kids—it's absolutely multigenerational. Prepare to have your heart warmed." Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga "In this terrific debut novel, readers meet Piper McCloud, the late-in-life daughter of farmers...The story soars, just like Piper, with enough loop-de-loops to keep kids uncertain about what will come next....Best of all are the book's strong, lightly wrapped messages about friendship and authenticity and the difference between doing well and doing good."--Booklist, Starred Review "Forester's disparate settings (down-home farm and futuristic ice-bunker institute) are unified by the rock-solid point of view and unpretentious diction... any child who has felt different will take strength from Piper's fight to be herself against the tide of family, church, and society."--The Horn Book Review The Girl Who Could Fly is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Peter F. Hamilton
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 1755 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345490711

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Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton Pdf

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • “An interstellar suspense thriller . . . sweeping in scope and emotional range.”—San Antonio Express-News In the star-spanning civilization known as the Intersolar Commonwealth, twenty-three planets have fallen victim to the Prime, a technologically advanced alien species genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. But the Prime is not the only threat. The Starflyer, an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist, has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth and is sabotaging the war effort. Is the Starflyer an ally of the Prime, or has it orchestrated a fight to the death between the two species for its own advantage? Caught between two deadly enemies, the fractious Commonwealth must unite as never before. This will be humanity’s finest hour—or its last gasp. Praise for Judas Unchained, the sequel to Pandora’s Star “Bristles with the energy of golden age SF, but the style and characterizations are polished and modern.”—SF Site “You’re in for quite a ride.”—The Santa Fe New Mexican “The reader is left breathless in amazement.”—SFRevu

Author : Deirdre Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Documentary television programs
ISBN : 9780195043341

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Subject to Change by Deirdre Boyle Pdf

This is a history of "guerilla television", a form of TV which was part of an alternative media tide sweeping the United States in the 1960s. Inspired by the fracturing issues of the decade and the theories and writings of various exponents, guerilla television put forth "utopian" programming.