Nobody's Angel

Author: Thomas McGuane
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030782201X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
A novel about a former soldier in Big Sky Country whose life is spiraling out of control, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, who is "among the most arresting and fascinating [writers] of his generation" (San Francisco Chronicle). In McGuane's first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely—or with such tenderhearted lunacy—than in Nobody's Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

Never Home Alone

Author: Rob Dunn
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 154164574X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us -- prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.

Home Alone 3

Author: Todd Strasser
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590957120
Category : Burglary
Languages : en
Pages : 141

Book Description
At home alone with the chicken pox, young Alex must outwit four mobsters who are after the secret microchip he found, and he thwarts them with a series of amazing booby traps.

The Girl Who Walked Home Alone

Author: Charlotte Chandler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847396984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 594

Book Description
Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Just this short list of Bette Davis' films gives an unmistakable sense of the role she played in twentieth-century cinema as one of the finest performers in Hollywood history. Drawing on an extensive series of conversations that took place during the last decade of Bette Davis' life, this biography draws heavily on the actresses own words. Looking back over the decades, from her teenage decision to become an actress to the pain and outrage over her daughter's bitter portrayal of her, Davis speaks with extraordinary candour. She explains how her father's abandonment of her a child reverberated through her four marriages, and discusses the persistent Hollywood legend that she was difficult to work with. Immersing readers in the drama and glamour of movie-making's golden age, The Girl Who Walked Home Alone is a startling portrait of an enduring icon.

Home Alone

Author: Twentieth Century Fox
Publisher: Harper Design
ISBN: 9780062493019
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Enjoy favorite scenes and quotes from the beloved classic movie Home Alone with this authorized coloring book. Resourceful young Kevin McAllister, accidentally left to his own devices, enjoys the adventure of a lifetime—ordering pizza, navigating his scary basement, and pulverizing bungling burglars—in the wildly popular film that has become a Christmas classic. Perfect for the holidays, this official Home Alone coloring book includes all of the film's most memorable moments, from the famous aftershave scream to Kevin’s junk food fest to the grand booby trap that led to the wet bandits’ comical demise. Over eighty black-and white line drawings of each movie scene are captioned with corresponding famous lines.

Home-Alone America

Author: Mary Eberstadt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781595230157
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
The author reopens the politically incorrect question of just how much children need their parents, especially their mothers. She contends that absent parents--and children who feel like just another chore to be outsourced--are the common denominator of recent epidemics among young people, including obesity, STDs, behavioral problems such as attention deficit disorder, and the use of psychiatric medication in even very young children; and asks whether this trend has already reached a tipping point in American society.

Animals Home Alone

Author: Loes Riphagen
Publisher: Seven Footer Press
ISBN: 9781934734551
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
First published in the Netherlands under the title Huisbeestenboel, c2009.

Home Alone 2

Author: A. L. Singer
Publisher: Hippo Bks
ISBN: 9780590551618
Category : Home alone 2 (Motion picture)
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description

Where's Kevin?

Author: Frank Fitzgerald
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553371994
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
When his family goes on vacation to Miami Beach, Kevin ends up lost in New York City and the reader is asked to find him in pictures of various locations around town.

The Home Alone Survival Guide

Author: Jane Hammerslough
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780440848356
Category : Children and strangers
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Kevin McCallister, from the movie "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," offers children advice on what to do, and what not to do, when they are home alone.