Author: Sally Lindley
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508192561
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Monsters can be scary, but they can also be silly! Readers will enjoy learning fun new jokes about monsters to share with their friends. The simple text allows readers at a variety of levels to appreciate and remember the charming monster jokes they learn. These jokes are presented in a captivating way, with a dynamic design and bold colors. This includes bright illustrations meant to provide additional humor and enhance the jokes readers discover on each page.

Author: Xiao HuLi
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649553439
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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Traveling in the middle of the night, I picked up a fox. It was like travelling in the middle of a dream, picking up a handsome guy, pulling my name Gu Yi, this kind of evil girl, I thought I would meet some illusions, but when they really rushed towards me, I actually felt that this was an incredibly beautiful scene ... ...

Author: Paolo Santangelo
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004216286
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1312

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Zibuyu, a collection of supernatural stories, is a work with different reading levels, which allows to uncover several deep trends, taboos and fantasies of late imperial intellectual circles. With translation and commentary.

Author: Zanna Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474978415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Billy and his family are off to the seaside. The MINI MONSTERS are very excited to be going too. Soon they're building sandcastles and enjoying their picnic. It's all going so well until Trumpet is STOLEN by a seagull! How is Billy ever going to get him back? The Billy and the Mini Monsters books have now been selected for The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge for three years in a row (2018, 2019, 2020). Packed with comic strips, maps and speech bubbles, with full-colour illustrations by Melanie Williamson and an action-packed plot, this series will appeal to even the most reluctant reader.

Author: Biao CheDeWoNiu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636663494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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Qin Guan had obtained the heart of the mountain from the legends. From then on, his life was different. Various kinds of fields raised fish and treated diseases. His life in the village was no longer ordinary.

Author: Joan Breton Connelly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1781859426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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A radical new interpretation of the meaning and purposes of one of the world's most iconic buildings. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture and its highest ideals. It was understood to honour the city-state's patron deity, Athena, and its sculptures to depict a civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But through a close reading of a lost play by Euripides, Joan Connelly has developed a theory that has sparked fierce controversy. Here she explains that our most basic sense of the Parthenon and the culture that built it may have been crucially mistaken. Re-creating the ancient structure, and using a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, she uncovers a monument glorifying human sacrifice set in a world of cult ritual quite alien to our understanding of the word 'Athenian'.

Author: Alyssa Carver
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1598869736
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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They have the adventure of a lifetime as they take care of a cute snow leopard cub, groom a rare pony from Sweden, even feed a giraffe; and work to solve a mystery at the zoo.

Author: Jessica Redland
Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1838891684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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Sometimes love can bloom where you least expect it... For Sarah Peterson, it’s time for change. Coming out of a dead end relationship and having had enough of city life, she just needs to escape and have a fresh start – a new job, a new home and a new lifestyle. So when her Auntie Kay unexpectedly offers her the opportunity to take over her flower shop, Seaside Blooms, the timing could not be more perfect. She could escape to the beautiful seaside town of Whitsborough Bay, start a new chapter in her life – and learn how to run a business! But, as she packs up her life in London, she isn't prepared for the discovery of a clairvoyant reading that's been missing for twelve years. All of the predictions have come true, except one: she's about to meet the man of her dreams. Oh, and his name is Steven... As she prepares for the biggest move of her life, Sarah can’t help but wonder if Seaside Blooms could be a new beginning for love too? A warm, uplifting novel of love, friendship and destiny from top 10 bestseller Jessica Redland. New Beginnings at Seaside Blooms is a new, revised and updated edition of a novel previously published as Searching For Steven. What readers are saying about New Beginnings at Seaside Blooms: 'A real feel good read and it’s left me excited to read the rest of this series and see what else is in store for the residents of Whitsborough Bay' Frasers Fun House 'The author really is just superb at creating character' Being Anne 'So well written it brought a tear to my eye ... a real sparkling treasure of a read' Nicki Book Blog 'This book will make you laugh, cry and fall in love within three hundred pages' On the Shelf Reviews 'The premise was original and interesting while the writing was fun and humorous yet also thoughtfully observant and insightful' Books and Bindings 'Forget the Cotswolds, Jessica makes the Northern English coast sound like the most idyllic place to be' The Cozy Pages

Author: Ruth Heholt
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030345408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human animals, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theory, this book takes the Gothic genre into new territory. After the dissemination of Darwin’s theories of evolution, nineteenth-century fiction quickly picked up on the idea of the ‘animal within’. Here, the fear explored was of an unruly, defiant, degenerate and entirely amoral animality lying (mostly) dormant within all of us. However, non-humans and humans have other sorts of encounters, too, and even before Darwin, humans have often had an uneasy relationship with animals, which, as Donna Haraway puts it, have a way of ‘looking back’ at us. In this book, the focus is not on the ‘animal within’ but rather on the animal ‘with-out’: other and entirely incomprehensible.

Author: Iain Gately
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784974994
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS. Recovering from a hip replacement operation, and suffering from a mid-life crisis, Iain Gately sets out to catch a tube. This is no London underground train, but rather that evanescent space, beneath the lip of a breaking wave, that every surfer yearns to visit. In all his years of surfing, Iain Gately has never caught one. He realises it is now or never. His quest takes him to the Atlantic beaches of England's West Country, and to the sandbars and reefs of Galicia and the Canary Island. By turns funny, energetic and inspiring, The Secret Surfer is a tale of self-knowledge through endeavour, a beguiling blend of black humour, adventure and soul searching. Above all, it is a rousing call to all of us not to give up too soon.