Author: Bill Duncan Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141929391 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 177
Book Description
A collection of essays and aphorisms about Scottish Calvinism. This is Scottish literary humour at its finest. 'A work of contemporary shamanism, with all the bluff, poetry, deranged humour, sleight-of-hand and real magic that implies.' Don Paterson. This is the first (and maybe the last) self-help guide that promises to make you feel a lot worse after you read it. A hilarious satire on freeze-dried mysticism and off-the-shelf enlightenment, it is also a haunting and lyrical reflection on places, voices and memories -- a literary journey into the heart of North-East darkness. 'A perfect evocation of Scotland's mysterious love affair with loss and sorrow. A powerful dram of Zen Calvinism.' Richard Holloway
Author: Sue Hendra Publisher: Aladdin ISBN: 1481490397 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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From the authors of Cake and Norman the Slug comes another wacky, laugh-out-loud picture book about a very special dance we have all had to do at some point in our lives! Alan the Bear has a problem. A big one. He really, really needs to wee. But things keep on getting in his way. With the help of his friends and a special dance, will Alan make it to the toilet in time?
Author: Munro Leaf Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 159017206X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 89
Book Description
A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand Wee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the lowlands, while the other half finds him in the highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family are eager for him to settle down and adopt their ways. In the lowlands, he is taught to herd cattle, learning how to call them to him in even the heaviest of evening fogs. In the rocky highlands, he stalks stags from outcrop to outcrop, holding his breath so as not to make a sound. Wee Gillis is a quick study, and he soon picks up what his elders can teach him. And yet he is unprepared when the day comes for him to decide, once and for all, whether it will be the lowlands or the highlands that he will call his home. Robert Lawson and Munro Leaf's classic picture book is a tribute to the powers of the imagination and a triumph of the storyteller's and illustrator's art.
Author: Pat Pollari Publisher: Skylark ISBN: 9780553484120 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 118
Book Description
Zaraband the Magnificent, a hypnotist, plants five words in Brian's brain that cause him to lose control of his bodily functions on cue, and all five appear in his lines as the star of "Romeo and Juliet." Original.
Author: Pamela Butchart Publisher: ISBN: 9780857632371 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
One day Izzy and her friends are surprised to find that their teacher, Miss Jones, is actually being nice to them. This is the woman who was caught secretly smiling when Maisie Miller fell off her chair. There can only be one conclusion - she's been taken over by aliens, and now she wants to make them all aliens too
Author: Pamela Butchart Publisher: Nosy Crow ISBN: 0857632582 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 138
Book Description
Izzy is really pleased to have been put in charge of the new girl at school. Mathilde is French, and Izzy and her friends can't wait to show her their den and its moth, and to help her avoid school dinners (also known as poison). But Mathilde LOVES school dinners and even has seconds! And that's when they know. Mathilde is a spy and she has come to find out their secrets. They must stop her before it's TOO LATE!!! A brilliant, laugh-out-loud story about everyday school life turned on its head. Clear, appealing black and white illustrations bring the humour to life! Read more of Izzy's adventures! Baby Aliens Got My Teacher My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies To Wee Or Not To Wee! There's a Werewolf in my Tent There's a Yeti in the Playground The Phantom Lollipop Man Icarus Was Ridiculous
Author: Lauren Thompson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416979379 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 30
Book Description
This wee little bunny is the busiest bunny in the whole meadow. He wants to do everything, chase everything, and play with everything - all at once! But at the end of the day, his mama is the one who can get him to stay in one place long enough to share his busy little tales.
Author: Tony Oppedisano Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 198215179X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
"An intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra-from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life. More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, his romantic relationships, his personality, his businesses, his style. But a hard-to-pin-down quality has always clung to him-a certain elusiveness that emerges again and again in retrospective depictions. Until now. From Sinatra's closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an extraordinarily intimate look at the singing idol. Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse-about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures and disappointments, the lives they'd led, the lives they wished they'd led. In these full-disclosure conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his era, his triumphs on some of the world's biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his talented children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft. Toward the end, no one was closer to the singer than Oppedisano, who kept his own rooms at the Sinatra residences for many years, often brokered difficult conversations between family members, and held the superstar entertainer's hand when he drew his last breath. Featuring never-before-seen photos and offering startlingly fresh anecdotes and new revelations that center on some of the most famous people of the past fifty years-including Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono-Sinatra and Me pulls back the curtain to reveal a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong"--
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