Moo la la book5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. ![]() Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. This raucous story about animals and the sounds they make, including three pigs who say LA LA LA is a read-aloud favorite. More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. ![]() A quiet final spread begs the little ones and their caregivers to OINK!, SNORT!, QUACK!, and MEOW! in a noisy animal ending. ![]() Sandra Boynton’s wildly popular, Moo, Baa, La La La!, features her lively and spirited text that introduces readers to animals and the noises they make. ![]()
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Architects of Destiny by A.K. DuBoff5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Enemies are not as they seem, and the future of the entire Taran Empire hangs in the balance.Wil holds the key to victory, but saving his people may come at the ultimate price.This timeless space opera epic with adventure, telekinetic abilities, coming-of-age, romance, and intrigue will appeal to fans of Star Wars, Anne McCaffrey, Frank Herbert's Dune, and the Lensman series by E.E. Foretold to have powerful abilities unlike any other, he can help end a secret war waging within a hidden dimensional rift, and time is running out.However, as the dire nature of the war and the truth about his own abilities begins to unfold, Wil realizes that he and his parents are at the center of a generations-old galactic conspiracy. d to be nothing short of exceptional in every way-even though the weight of responsibility is slowly crushing him.When Wil is captured by the Bakzen, a mysterious race skilled in advanced telekinesis, he learns he is the prophesied Cadicle. As a High Dynasty heir and the Tararian Selective Service's most promising telekinetic Agent trainee, Wil is expecte. One final hope for victory.Wil Sietinen is torn between two worlds. ![]() "Enjoyable, galaxy-spanning epic series" - Publisher's WeeklyA secret war. ![]() ![]() ![]() It can be argued that with Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity arrives on stage. Luigi Pirandello, Preface to Six Characters in Search of an Author And, naturally, the result was what it had to be: a mixture of tragic and comic, fantastic and realistic, in a humorous situation that was quite new and infinitely complex, a drama which is conveyed by means of the characters, who carry it within them and suffer it, a drama, breathing, speaking, self-propelled, which seeks at all costs to find the means of its own presentation and the comedy of the vain attempt at an improvised realization of the drama on stage. And so let them go where dramatic characters do go to have life: on a stage. ![]() “Why not,” I said to myself, “present this highly strange fact of an author who refuses to let some of his characters live though they have been born in his fantasy, and the fact that these characters, having by now life in their veins, do not resign themselves to remaining excluded from the world of art? They are detached from me live on their own have acquired voice and movement have by themselves-in this struggle for existence that they have had to wage with me-become dramatic characters, characters that can move and talk on their own initiative already see themselves as such have learned to defend themselves against others. Analysis of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author ![]() The Other Americans by Felice Laverne5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() DuBois' "Talented Tenth" and the abuse suffered at the hands of the privileged and their ambitions.The Dessommes family has had their share of troubles-as rival siblings Vincent and Jillian can attest-but as Vincent prepares to step into his birthright as CEO of The Dessommes Group, the repercussions of this looming shift in power and an unresolved childhood secret risk shattering the careful fa ade the family has erected to maintain their power.and their denial. Set in the contemporary South amongst an affluent and storied African-American clan, The Other Americans is a timely and powerful family saga about W.E.B. ![]() Anywhere you run wanda morris5/24/2023 ![]() With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. ![]() Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life. It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. but can they escape the secrets they left behind? Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReadsįrom the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country. ![]() The gilded hour by sara donati5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make the unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life. For Anna, her role as a surgeon has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything. Even when doing so puts all they've worked for in jeopardy. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and the city in the grip of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Dr Anna Savard and her cousin, Sophie - both graduates of the Women's Medical School - treat the city's most vulnerable. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. " From the internationally bestselling author of Into the Wildernesscomes a magnificent epic about two pioneering women doctors in 19th-century New York. Print The Gilded Hour (#1 The Gilded Hour) ![]() Legion abnett5/24/2023 ![]() Cancellation of The Legion was followed by a new series, Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 5). He has also written the Ravenor and Eisenhorn books, the most recent of which is The Magos. It was cancelled in 2004, when Teen Titans/The Legion Special #1 rebooted the franchise, and created a third and entirely separate Legion of Super-Heroes. Product Details About the Author Dan Abnett has written over fifty novels, including Anarch, the latest instalment in the acclaimed Gaunt’s Ghosts series. The Superpowers, which premieres in May, with artwork by Pasquale Qualano. ![]() Dan Abnett writes the upcoming series, Vampirella Vs. The Legion resumed ongoing publication of the Legionnaires. The Superpowers’ With Writer Dan Abnett by Tom Smithyman Vampirella is back in a new series, and this time she is taking on the Legion of Heroes. After its two ongoing predecessors Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 4) and Legionnaires (Volume 1) were cancelled, two miniseries were published by new creators to the franchise Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning: Legion Lost (Volume 1) and Legion Worlds (Volume 1). Definitely worth a read LegionofSuperHeroes LLL. A darker period for the Legion under Abnett and Lanning but one I largely enjoyed. ![]() ![]() Dan Jurgens The Legion (Volume 1) was an ongoing series published between 20 featuring the eponymous Legion of Super-Heroes. Next up on this Legion weekend is Legion Lost 1 Part 1 of the 12 issue maxi series. ![]() The raconteurs commonplace book5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() "Will dazzle seasoned Milford fans and kindle new ones. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories-each a different type of folklore-that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended.Īs the rain continues to pour down-an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain-the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. Kate Milford returns to the world of her Greenglass House novels with the beguiling puzzle that is The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book. Among them are a ship's captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book, Kate Milford ( Clarion Books 978-0-7, 17.99, hc, 384pp) February 2021. ![]() The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. In this standalone mystery set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Greenglass House by an Edgar Award–winning author, a group of strangers trapped in an otherworldly inn slowly reveal their secrets, proving that nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story. ![]() Columbus Day by Craig Alanson5/23/2023 ![]() My leave was ended by a burning streak across the sky, as the Ruhar transport came directly over my truck, arced over the lake, and crashed in the Olafsen’s potato field, plowing up dirt and potatoes until its nose was half submerged in a pond. What a shit job that was, I was happy to be home in the States. Taking a break after my battalion got rotated home from peacekeeping duty in Nigeria. It was a Monday morning in early October, the Columbus Day holiday in America, I was home on leave from the Army, visiting my folks. For me personally, when a Ruhar combat transport dropped out of the sky and skidded across a potato field, outside my tiny hometown in northern Maine, that was when I became Officially Alarmed. When power plants, refineries, factories and other industrial sites around the planet started getting pounded from orbit with hypersonic railgun darts, we were shocked. When the morning sky twinkled, with what we later learned were Ruhar warships jumping into high orbit, we were curious. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when we humans only got killed by each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() There we were, innocently drifting along in the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Every country had a name for the day the Ruhar attacked the common name that stuck, after a while, was Columbus Day. ![]() The band kings of the wyld5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Then five old men will have to cross a thousand miles of the most dangerously enchanted woods in the world, to fight a horde of countless monsters, all to rescue a girl who is almost certainly already dead.īut if it were easy, there would be no glory. ![]() Just getting the band back together will be a miracle in and of itself. Gabe sold his priceless sword Moog, their wizard, is busy trying to find a cure for an incurable disease Matrick the Thief is king of a country and Ganelon, their finest, fiercest warrior, is locked in a magical prison. Gabe wants Clay's help to get their old friends back together and save Rose. ![]() The distant city of Castia is under siege from the largest horde of monsters seen in hundreds of years, and Gabe's daughter Rose is trapped there, as she had been doing mercenary work in the area. ![]() Until one day Gabriel, Saga's old frontman, comes calling with yet another attempt to get the band back together-but this one is important. Now, nineteen years later, Clay Cooper is retired with his wife and daughter, working as a town guard for his tiny village. For ten years, they were giants, the top of the game. He toured the world with his friends, taking gigs to clear out monsters that threatened villages, or even venturing into the Heartwyld itself, the most dangerous place in the world. Clay Cooper was once a member of the band Saga, one of the most famous bands of mercenaries in history. ![]() |