![]() Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. ![]() In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. In China, Qian’s parents were professors in America, her family is "illegal" and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() OL20007191W Page_number_confidence 95.51 Pages 314 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210816064402 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 470 Scandate 20210813061941 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781492616573 Tts_version 4. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:powerless0000chil:epub:fbfb30c8-1c1b-4bfa-90b5-1c6f6fd336de Foldoutcount 0 Identifier powerless0000chil Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8pd56d7g Invoice 1652 Isbn 1492616575ĩ781492616573 Lccn 2014046128 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300179 Openlibrary_edition Powerless (The Hero Agenda, 1) Tera Lynn Childs 86 Paperback 48 offers from 1.43 Editorial Reviews About the Author Tera Lynn Childs is the RITA-award-winning and bestselling author of teen fiction about a mythological high school, mermaid princesses, monster-hunting triplet descendants of Medusa, and dark fae princes. One night after conducting research and transcribing notes in the Elite Superhero Lab Kenna has a. Even though she doesnt have a superpower herself, Kenna has grown up immersed in superhero culture. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 01:01:43 Associated-names Deebs, Tracy Boxid IA40217223 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The novel Powerless by Tera Lynn Childs and Tracy Deebs is about a girl named Kenna Swift who learns that the things arent as you always see them. ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. As thrilling to read now as it was when first published in 1915, Fantômas “is not a puzzle but an intoxicant” ( The Village Voice).įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Juve cleverly pursues him in speeding trains, down dark alleys, through glittering Parisian salons, obsessed with bringing the demon mastermind to justice. Inspector Juve knows that all the clues point to one suspect: the master of disguise, Fantômas. Three appalling crimes leave all of Paris aghast: the Marquise de Langruen is hacked to death, the Princess Sonia is robbed, and Lord Beltham is found dead, stuffed into a trunk. “One episode simply melts away as the next takes over” ( The New York Times) in this deliciously sinister turn-of-the-century tale of a French evil genius run rampant. ![]() ![]() In 2002 USAToday recognized us as \"1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores\", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan. ![]() The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book. Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. Read The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz available from Rakuten Kobo. 9/2011 update: Dalkey has now published another book by Ajvaz: The Golden Age. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. I previously featured an excerpt from this book. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. ![]() We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. ![]() ![]() ![]() A grand adventure." - School Library Journal "Fetching. ![]() Everybody should look at this." -Daniel Pinkwater, NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday "Perfect for sharing with younglings of the wingless sort." - Kirkus Reviews "The book truly soars in the dark yet luminescent art. ![]() ![]() just a whiz-bang summer book, anytime book. "Baseball stadiums have an innate magic, never more so than in the hands of Lies, whose latest has the winged creatures gathering for an epic game, complete with 'beenuts and Cricket Jack,' and an upside down audience" - Publishers Weekly, starred review "The visual effect is quite stunning, with some fantastically disorienting upside-down spreads to reflect the fans' hanging position, and much of the language is utterly delicious."- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Careful readers will find plenty of inventive details to make this latest outing to the bats’ nocturnal world worthwhile." - School Library Journal Praise for Brian Lies’ New York Times best-selling books: Bats at the Beach "Brilliant, brilliant paintings. ![]() ![]() It is hard to explain the savagery of hope. ![]() But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind. Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. He’s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren’s help. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years. ![]() Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. And a quest that may destroy them both.Įight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. ![]() Return to the opulent world of Elfhame, filled with intrigue, betrayal, and dangerous desires, with this first book of a captivating new duology from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black.Ī runaway queen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamie Levine of was fortunate enough to talk to the heroic Captain Underpants about his amazing life.īarnes & : Did you always want to be a superheroor did you just "fall into" this job?Ĭaptain Underpants: I've fallen into a lot of things in my life, but this job was not one of them. Poopypants, a mad scientist who shrinks Jerome Horwitz Elementary Schooland is determined to take over the world. In his latest adventure, Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants, the kooky crime fighter takes on Professor Pippy P. ![]() He battles evil with "Wedgie Power"and always wins! He's Captain Underpantsa sensational superhero and the star of four terrific books. Tra-la-laaa! He's a caped crusader who dresses in jockey shorts. ![]() The Hilarious Half-Dressed Hero Reveals All! ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, however, “Its four equal sides were confining. ![]() Turn the page, and the pieces have gleefully reassembled themselves into a fountain that “babbled and giggled and clapped.” The palette modulates from reds to golds to blues and greens as Tuesday brings a garden full of flowers, Wednesday a verdant park and so on until Sunday, when the square reverts to its perfect state of squareness. ![]() The facing page shows a matching (but smaller) red square in a definite state of disarray. It wasn’t perfectly square anymore.” The text for this sequence is set in bold white type on a perfectly square red page. On Monday, a heretofore “perfectly happy” perfect square was “cut into pieces and poked full of holes. With a familiar sequence - the days of the week - as a backdrop, the emphasis this time is on the endless possibilities afforded by unexpected and nominally negative events. Close on the heels of his rollicking, rhyming ode to animals and their attitudes (“ My Heart Is Like a Zoo”), Michael Hall again engineers geometric shapes and bold colors into a simple but expressive story. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Library Association in the UK (now CILIP) made her an Honorary Fellow in 1998 for her work with children and schools, and she has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. ![]() Mary’s first book White Magic was published in 1975 and she worked in education and the media before becoming a full-time writer in the mid-1990s. In 2003 she co-edited Lines in the Sand with her daughter, author Rhiannon Lassiter as a fund-raiser for UNICEF: a an anthology of new writing and drawings about war and peace, Lines of Sand was created in response to the Iraq war and makes as powerful reading as ever today. She has also garnered awards and a fiercely loyal readership for her YA historical and fantasy fiction, including David, which gives a persona to the unknown model for Michelangelo’s sculpture, and the highly popular Stravaganza series. ![]() Mary Hoffman is the best-selling author of picture book Amazing Grace, which is currently celebrating its 25th Anniversary, as well as its six picture-book and chapter-book sequels and other acclaimed picture books such as The Colour of Home, An Angel Just Like Me and The Great Big Book Of… series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Raoul Glaber seems to have known nothing about their religious practices, because he said they worshipped idols like pagans, and performed disgusting sacrifices with Jews! He ended with stories of demons and devils.Īccording to an Italian chronicler called Landolfo Seniore, who was working in Milano, the Archbishop of Milano, Ariberto, heard about the heresy on a visit to the Bishop of Torino, and had a long interview with one of the Monforte heretics named Girardus. They tried to convert the heretics, but had to burn the most recalcitrant at the stake, because the heretics would rather be martyred than give up their way of worshipping God. ![]() ![]() According to the chronicler, Raoul Glaber, it occurred at Monforte in the diocese of Asti, and was discovered by the ruler of Torino and his brother, the bishop of Asti. This piece looks briefly at a second case of possibly illuminist heresy in the 11th century. ![]() |