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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Picking up the story where it left off, the controversial protagonist of cult classic Diary of an Oxygen Thief retools his advertising skills to seduce women online. It's a pursuit that quickly becomes a dangerous fixation, often requiring even more creativity and deception than his award-winning ad campaigns. Dazzling, daunting, and darkly hilarious, this spellbinding sequel is a spectacular indictment of a modern love twisted beyond recognition....
Author
Publisher
McLoughlin Bros.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The book is fully illustrated. Color illustrations have captions: "The Cow. The Calf. The Horse. A Mischievous Goat."
The Friendly Animal Series is a collection of children's books from the McLoughlin Brothers, published in 1904, that feature short stories about animals like horses and cows.
Author
Publisher
The Educational Book Co. Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sir John Alexander Hammerton (1871–1949) is described by the 'Dictionary of National Biography' as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known". Among many other notable accomplishments, he edited the 'Punch Library of Humour', a series of 25 volumes of selected 'Punch Magazine' sketches, described as "cream of [British] national humour, contributed by the masters of the comic draughtsmanship and leading...
Author
Publisher
W. W. GIBBINGS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Fairies, brownies, Merlin, Queens, magic and adventure! Scottish folklore and legends have all of these and in these pages include "The Mermaid Wife" about a man who steals the seal skin of a merwoman in order to marry her, "Thomas the Rhymer" about a man who is whisked away to Fairlyland by the Queen, and many other wonderful tales originating in Scotland.
Author
Publisher
Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
[Excerpt] Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, one of more than 280 areas administered by the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, was set aside because of its outstanding archeological values. This area belongs to you and is part of your heritage as an American citizen. The men and women in the uniform of the National Park Service are here to assist you and will welcome the opportunity to make your visit to Casa Grande...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Everybody understands that the soil becomes impoverished by continued cropping, if no return be made in the form of manure or fertilizer. This impoverishment is sometimes real, while sometimes it is more apparent than real, owing to the exhaustion of only one or two elements of fertility.
Farmers have learned a great deal about agricultural chemistry since the introduction of artificial fertilizers. They know that while plants demand many things...
10) Winter
Author
Publisher
Samuel Wood & Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Illustrated poetic description of winter for young readers.
11) The Book of Shells: Containing the Classes Mollusca, Conchifera, Cirrhipeda, Annulata, and Crustacea
Author
Publisher
John W. Parker, West Strand
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Molluscous animals are, on account of their organization, placed first among the invertebral animals, a few of the species resembling, in some respects, the more simply-formed fishes.
The systematic arrangement of the Molluscous animals, considered not only as regards their shells, but having reference also to the anatomical distinctions of the creatures themselves, is a modern study. In ancient authors we merely find a few scattered facts, the...
Author
Publisher
Kama Shastra Society
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is an English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)....
Author
Publisher
Blackwood and Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contents in This Volume
My Friend the Dutchman. By Frederick Hardman, Esq.
My College Friends. No. II. Horace Leicester.
The Emerald Studs. By Professor Aytoun.
My College Friends. No. III. Mr W. Wellington Hurst.
Christine: a Dutch Story. By Frederick Hardman, Esq.
The Man in the Bell.
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books, An Imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A successful offensive lineman who secretly hates football and its politics shares behind-the-scenes observations about life in the NFL to expose its bizarre realities, customs, and prejudices.
Author
Publisher
E.B. for Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhill
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Originally issued in 1655 as one of the three parts of The Queen's Closet Opened, the title a satirical reference to the notorious 1645 publication of King Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria's private letters, The King's Cabinet Opened. The 1655 work, by 'W.M.', who contemporaries would have recognized as Walter Montague, Henrietta Maria's personal secretary, claimed to expose the domestic secrets of the then unpopular Henrietta Maria, and thus,...
17) Go ask Alice
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.