![]() ![]() Katie the Catsitter por Colleen AF Venable - 9781984895639 Usamos cookies para ofrecerte la mejor experiencia posible. ![]() ![]() Also, why is Madeline always out EXACTLY when the city's most notorious villain commits crimes?! Is it possible that Katie's upstairs neighbor is really a super villain? Can Katie wrangle a whole lot of wayward cats, save a best friendship (why is Beth barely writing back? And who's this boy she keeps talking about?!), AND crack the biggest story in the city's history? Some heroes have capes. Katie the Catsitter por Colleen AF Venable, 9781984895639, disponible en Book Depository con envío gratis. First, Madeline has 217 cats (!) and they're not exactly. But when Katie gets a job catsitting for her mysterious upstairs neighbor, life get interesting. Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead while her best friends are all away at camp-something that's way out of Katie and her mom's budget, UNLESS Katie can figure out a way to earn the money for camp herself. Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! Introducing an irresistible new middle-grade graphic novel series about growing up, friendship, heroes, and cats (lots of cats!)-perfect for fans of Guts, Awkward and Real Friends (not to mention anyone who loves cats!) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The key to unlocking their past lies with the Treatment-a pill that can bring back forgotten memories, but at a high cost. But for as far as they’ve come, there’s still a lot Sloane and James can’t remember. Escaping with a group of troubled rebels, Sloane and James will have to figure out who they can trust, and how to take down The Program. ![]() Huge pieces of their memories are still missing, and although Sloane and James have found their way back to each other, The Program isn’t ready to let them go. Summary: Can Sloane and James survive the lies and secrets surrounding them, or will The Program claim them in the end? Find out in this sequel to The Program, which Publishers Weekly called “chilling and suspenseful.” How do you stop an epidemic? Sloane and James are on the run after barely surviving the suicide epidemic and The Program. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet bad times have also smashed the citizenly complacency that brought India to this point. ![]() Hindu bigotry, ennobled under Modi as a healthy form of self-assertion, has reopened old fissures that threaten to devour India’s hard-won unity. He argues that the missteps of the nation’s founders, the mistakes of Nehru, the betrayals of his daughter and her sons, the anti-democratic fetish for technocracy inaugurated by Narasimha Rao and carried to the extremes by Manmohan Singh-all of them laid down the road on which Hindu nationalists rode to absolute power. Komireddi charts the unsound course of Indian nationalism: its cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India’s past and demeaning bribes to India’s minorities. In this blistering critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Modi, K.S. The ‘invisible threads’ Nehru said held together an improbable union divided by language, religion and ethnicity have snapped under the burden of Modi’s Hindu-supremacist rule. Under Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has undergone the most total transformation since 1991. ![]() ![]() I wanted him to feel again, to find happiness and for his once happy heart to find peace, joy and to finally beat again after six years of being dead. It wasn't the snappy dialogue, the hot sex scenes or the great narration that pulled me in, no. He tries everything he can not to feel, not to care and not to love again because of the scars left on his broken heart caused by events in his heartbreaking and tragic past. but as the chapters slowly and deliciously unfold, his heart is slowly brought back to life by Aubrey. Not only is he all that but he has a dirty mouth, a 'one dinner, one night and no repeats' policy and a heart as cold as ice. Well if you're like me an you love a brooding badass alpha Hero then you're going to love Andrew. ![]() ![]() ![]() FOR HER HE BROKE HIS OWN RULE 'NO REPEATS' ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Feed is a proper thriller with zombies. “ Feed is a proper thriller with zombies.” - SFX McGuire has crafted a masterpiece of suspense with engaging, appealing characters who conduct a soul-shredding examination of what's true and what's reported."― Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) ![]() "It's a novel with as much brains as heart, and both are filling and delicious."― The A. The truth will out, even if it kills them. Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. ![]() The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. Feed is an electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own that the New York Times calls “Astonishing” - a novel of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all - from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Towards the end of the book is a Stop Press section where entries that came in after the closing date for submissions are added. In the Around the World in 300 Records section, Australia’s list of six records includes the Lone Pine Sanctuary which is the world’s oldest koala sanctuary set up in 1927 by Claude Reid as well as the oldest rainforest, the Daintree, which dates back to around 180 million years. Each chapter lists the topics or people discussed with adjacent page numbers and recognises one Hall of Fame award under each main heading. The Contents page this year lists ten chapters to browse through with the headings of Space, Life on earth, Human Body, Extraordinary Exploits, Around the World in 300 Records, Epic Engineering, Entertainment, Modern World and finally the ever-popular Sports. The striking cover and end papers of year’s book has a space/final frontier theme and indeed the introduction is called Missions. The latest 2023 edition will provide endless reading and browsing. ![]() ![]() Guinness World Records books are borrowed constantly by students of all ages keen to catch up on a variety of quite extraordinary records achieved by individuals and groups. ![]() Guinness World Records 2023 Guinness World Records, 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() The setting, Boston on the eve of the Revolution, is more than a piquant backdrop. Sharpe, who is bent on making the consortium's research profitable and on proving that Africans are a debased race. The ensuing economic crisis forces Gitney to accept a new benefactor, Mr. Make no mistake though, they are slaves, and as Gitney's chattel they are the subjects of the College's studies into the mysterious nature of "Homo Afri." Through minute observation of every observable aspect of his subject's lives, Gitney hopes to establish that Africans are as fully human as Caucasians, but the scope of the consortium's research takes a malicious turn when hostilities escalate between the British and Patriots. Gitney, a member of a consortium of science enthusiasts (the Novanglian College of Lucidity), affords them a life of astonishing privilege and comfort Cassiopeia is celebrated for her beauty and acts as hostess at his soirees, and Octavian is given a classical education that would be the envy of well-to-do white children. West African princess Cassiopeia, pregnant and enslaved at fourteen, was brought to the American colonies, where she resides with her son, Octavian (our narrator), in the house of Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() As her husband’s deception is revealed, and the FBI closes in on her captor, Emory begins to wonder if the man with no name is, in fact, her rescuer from those who wish her dead – and from heartbreak. Wrong becomes right at the hands of the man who strikes fear, but also sparks passion. At the center of the dispute is a desperate young woman whom Emory can’t turn her back on, even if it means breaking the law. Unexpectedly, however, the two have a dangerous encounter with people who adhere to a code of justice all their own. She’s determined to escape him, and willing to take any risks necessary to survive. ![]() While police suspect Jeff of “instant divorce,” Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark that he won’t even tell her his name. ![]() Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown comes a heart-pounding story of survival, that takes the age-old question, “Does the end justify the means?” and turns it on its head. ![]() ![]() I don’t know if I thought about it much, really. Despite her obvious enjoyment of writing, she did not feel any special calling or preference for becoming a novelist in her youth. Waters said, "When I picture myself as a child, I see myself constructing something, out of plasticine or papier-mâché or Meccano I used to enjoy writing poems and stories, too." She wrote stories and poems that she describes as "dreadful gothic pastiches", but had not planned her career. Her father, "a fantastically creative person", encouraged her to build and invent. She describes her family as "pretty idyllic, very safe and nurturing". Her mother was a housewife and her father an engineer who worked on oil refineries. She grew up in a family that included her father Ron, mother Mary, and a "much older" sister. She later moved to Middlesbrough when she was eight years old. ![]() Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966. ![]() She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith. Sarah Ann Waters OBE (born 21 July 1966 ) is a Welsh novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fans will rejoice that their favorite character in the Fforde universe is back. ![]() Once again "New York Times" bestselling author Jasper Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River beckons-a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld itself. The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary to the warring factions. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. ![]() The newest tour de force from "The New York Times" bestselling author of "Thursday Next" and "Shades of Grey." Jasper Fforde's exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. ![]() |