![]() ![]() Soon the Don't Care students find themselves caring in spite of themselves, and the administration is baffled and worried because. He gets Mike Otis the most mysterious, oblivious and least interested student in the school elected student council president, and then uses Mike's name to get things changed. His first novel, This Cant Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, earned him a reputation as a humorous writer with great juvenile appeal. 1, 1985 This is Gordon Kormans tenth book for children, which makes him, at the age of 22, a veteran writer. Then Paul meets Sheldon, who has a grand plan. DONT CARE HIGH by Gordon KormanRELEASE DATE: Oct. The school is run down, the student body is apathetic to the point of being comatose, and he has to barter for his own locker from Feldstein, the locker baron. But he soon discovers that it's a pretty accurate description. ![]() ![]() The level of school spirit is zero literally The students act like zombies, and no one can remember the principal’s name. At first he thinks that "Don't Care High" is just a funny nickname for his new school, Don Carey High. DON’T CARE HIGH Paul Abrams thought life would be different when he moved to New York City, but nothing could have prepared him for Don Carey High School. Paul Abrams has just moved from Saskatoon to New York City. Gordon Korman's hilarious novel about alienated youth is available again! ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() When former bad girl Genevieve West returns home for her mother’s funeral, she’s prepared to keep her distance from her ex-boyfriend, Evan Hartley. But as Mac finally starts feeling accepted by Cooper and his friends, the secret he’s been keeping from her threatens the only place she’s ever felt at home.īestselling author Elle Kennedy returns to Avalon Bay in this sexy second chance story about two exes who can't stay away from each other, Bad Girl Reputation. ![]() Their friendship soon becomes the realest thing in her life.ĭespite his disdain for the trust-fund kids he sees coming and going from his town, Cooper soon realizes Mac isn’t just another rich clone and falls for her. Mac’s had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley, that ability is suddenly tested. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents’ insistence. It’s exhausting, really, always following the rules. Mackenzie “Mac” Cabot is a people pleaser. ![]() ![]() ![]() "An egg is clever," in fancy script, for instance, sits alongside examples of camouflage: "An egg might be speckled to resemble the rocks around it." The letters' dramatic curlicues mimic curvy grasses and vines dappled with tiny insect eggs. ![]() ![]() The main text appears in large, flowery cursive, while a smaller printed typeface serves as labels and brief factual captions. For example, a border that resembles a color test pattern runs down the outer edges of a spread of nearly 40 carefully placed "colorful" examples, set against a white background, which dazzle the eye. Long's (Sylvia Long's Mother Goose) skilled use of contrast and compositional balance prevent monotony. In most spreads, different adjectives (colorful, shapely, textured, etc.) complete the sentence, "An egg is." This repetitive rhythm contrasts with the visual variety of the illustrations. The narrative then launches into a kind of survey about the characteristics of eggs, which follows a simple format. buried beneath the sand," Aston (When You Were Born) begins, as spot illustrations zero in on a hummingbird, emperor penguin and sea turtle, respectively. It sits there, under its mother's feathers. ![]() Like the subject matter it describes, this book packages with understated elegance the substantive matter found within it. ![]() ![]() It is well known for developing a sense of youthful wonder about the simple joys of growing up in small-town American life.Īt the beginning of the summer of 1928, Douglas has a sudden epiphany about the preciousness and beauty of life, perceiving the world as if it were brand new. ![]() Highly nostalgic in style, the story is loosely based on Bradbury’s own childhood. The story follows Douglas Spaulding, a twelve-year-old boy who lives in Waukegan, Illinois, known colloquially as “Green Town.” The title is a reference to a wine made out of dandelion petals, which Spaulding’s grandfather brews while relating it to a metaphor for the process of packing the essence of summer into a bottle. ![]() Dandelion Wine (1957) is a coming-of-age novel by Ray Bradbury, best known as one of the fathers of speculative fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() As is often the case with real life murderers, we can't pinpoint exactly why he went out of control. It's the death-row confession of nameless man who destroys himself, his wife, and his pets. Stripped to bare bones, it's a story about domestic violence and brutal murder. Like many news stories, "The Black Cat" can be a downer. Gruesome news items were just as popular in Poe's time as they are in ours. This lurid tale reads like something right out of the headlines – bizarre headlines to be sure. We think a newspaper is a perfect place for it. ![]() It was first printed on August 19, 1843, in the Philadelphia edition of a newspaper called the United States Saturday Post. " The Black Cat" is a famous short story from horror-master Edgar Allan Poe. ![]() ![]() ![]() And every morning the fringe of darkling trees presses closer. In the primeval forest surrounding Caedmon Hollow’s ancestral home, an ancient power is stirring, a long-forgotten king who haunts the Haydens’ dreams. Erin, paralyzed by her grief, immerses herself in pills and painting images of a horned terror in the woods. ![]() In the neighboring village, Charles meets a woman he might have loved, a child who could have been his own daughter, and the ghost of a self he hoped to bury. Deep in mourning from the loss of their young daughter, they pack up their American lives, Erin gives up her legal practice, and the couple settles in Hollow’s remote Yorkshire mansion. In this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of a Victorian fantasist finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subjectįailed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles Hayden hopes to put his life back together with a new project: a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children’s book, In the Night Wood, and forebear of his wife, Erin. ![]() ![]() 9 2016 by Julie Holland (Author) 578 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. In the tradition of Our Bodies, Our Selves, this groundbreaking guide will forge a much needed new path in women’s health-and offer women invaluable information on how to live better, and be more balanced, at every stage of life. Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs Youre Taking, the Sleep Youre Missing, the Sex Youre Not Having, and Whats Really Making You Crazy Paperback Feb. In Moody Bitches, she shares insider information about the drugs we’re being offered and the direct link between food and mood, and she offers practical advice on sex, exercise, and sleep strategies, as well as some surprisingly effective natural therapies. Psychiatrist Julie Holland knows there is a better way. And even if we don’t pop a pill, women everywhere are numbing their emotions with food, alcohol, and a host of addictive behaviors that deny the wisdom of our bodies and keep us from addressing the real issues we face. Yet millions of American women are medicating away their emotions with psychiatric drugs whose effects are more far-reaching than most of us realize. ![]() If we deny our emotionality, we deny the breadth of our talents. ![]() Moods are a finely tuned feedback system that allows us to be more empathic, intuitive, and aware of our own capabilities. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. A groundbreaking guide for women of all ages that shows their natural moodiness is a strength, not a weaknessĪs women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem, an annoyance to be stuffed away. ![]() ![]() Can Poppy trust Keane with her heart? Will she dare fight the social barrier dividing them? Or will Keane prove to be like the other members of the ton? She soon becomes swept up in the adventure and the man. Poppy reluctantly agrees to help Andrew Kean find his assailant. She suspects the man will be nothing but trouble, especially when he claims to be a duke. ![]() Poppy discovers an unconscious man washed up on the beach and tangled into her nets. She takes over the family’s angler business, while caring for her ailing father. Miss Poppy Summers is a fisherman’s daughter. Will Keane and Poppy figure out his assailant? Can he convince her to take a chance with him? Or will their differing social status stand in their way? Keane cannot ignore his growing curiosity of the beautiful angler, especially her distrust of the nobility. ![]() He plans to discover the identity of his attacker, but first, he needs his rescuer’s assistance. Keane wakes with an aching head and a fiery-haired woman hovering nearby. ![]() Andrew Keane, the Duke of Hawking, travels to an English seaside resort town to escape scandal. ![]() ![]() ![]() As his grandmother’s sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). He has been unable to paint since his mother’s ghost has begun to visit him each evening. Before the day is out, there’ll be shaved heads, a diva author, and a very large shipment of Air Jordans to contend with.Īnd it will take all three of them working together if they have any chance to save Wild Nights Bookstore.īuy it: Bookshop | Amazon | B&N | IndieBound The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadarįive years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. Instead, they have to deal with the news that the bookstore is closing. When Rinn, Daniella, and Imogen clock into work at Wild Nights Bookstore on the first day of summer, they’re expecting the hours to drift by the way they always do. ![]() Imogen Azar is just trying to make it through the day. Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that she’s in love with him.ĭaniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows it’s her. This is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The children were nestled all snug in their beds, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house It was not until 1844 that Clement Clarke Moore claimed ownership when the work was included in a book of his poetry. The first publication date was 23rd December 1823 and it was an immediate success. The condition of publication was that the author of Twas the night before Christmas was to remain anonymous. Butler, sent a copy of the poem to the New York Sentinel who published the poem. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, had never been associated with a sleigh or reindeers!Ĭlement Moore, the author of the poem Twas the night before Christmas, was a reticent man and it is believed that a family friend, Miss H. Prior to the creation of the story of 'Twas the night before Christmas' St. The poem 'Twas the night before Christmas' has redefined our image of Christmas and Santa Claus. It is now the tradition in many American families to read the poem every Christmas Eve. Clement Clarke Moore (1779 - 1863) wrote the poem Twas the night before Christmas also called “A Visit from St. ![]() |