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Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 4) (Hardcover)
It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn. Greg, a self-confessed indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg’s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer [...]
What Kills What Kills Us (The Gerald Cable Book Award Series) (Perfect Paperback)
About the Author Kurt S. Olsson grew up in Troy, New York. A former Peace Corps volunteer, he has published poems in many journals, including Antioch Review, Field, Poetry, and The Threepenny Review. He lives just outside of Washington, D.C., with his wife and two daughters. (more…)
The Book of General Ignorance [Deckle Edge] (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly If you think you’re a trivia expert, British TV men Lloyd (producer of the hit comedy shows Spitting Image and Black Adder) and Mitchinson (writer for Quite Interesting) may disabuse you of the notion that you’re a true scholar of random facts-and quickly. Their surprisingly lengthy tome is jam-packed with real answers [...]
Peek-A Who? (Board book)
Amazon.com Review Nina Laden’s illustrations in this simple, rhyming board book are truly magical. The format is straightforward: on alternating two-page spreads, the words “Peek a” are repeated, opposite an illustrated page with a die-cut hole, behind which lurks a cow (“MOO!”), a green ghost (“BOO!”), and a mirror (you guessed it, “YOU!”). The youngest [...]
QI: The Pocket Book of General Ignorance (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly If you think you’re a trivia expert, British TV men Lloyd (producer of the hit comedy shows Spitting Image and Black Adder) and Mitchinson (writer for Quite Interesting) may disabuse you of the notion that you’re a true scholar of random facts-and quickly. Their surprisingly lengthy tome is jam-packed with real answers [...]
The Book Thief (Paperback)
From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 9 Up–Zusak has created a work that deserves the attention of sophisticated teen and adult readers. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class [...]
The Daring Book for Girls (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly Kadushin, whose lush voice brought the heroine of Stephenie Meyers’s Twilight series to life, does her best to inject some intrigue and mystery into this mile-wide, inch-deep compendium of random facts billed as a manual for everything that girls need to know, a selection from the bestselling book. Alas, the audio version, [...]
The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics & Science (Paperback)
Review “An opus…Mixing math with wonder.”—Washington Post Book World (The Washington Post )An opusMixing math with wonder.Washington Post Book World (The Washington Post ) About the original 1000 PlayThinks,Will Shortz of The New York Times said it best: “The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles almost [...]
My Big Animal Book (My Big Board Books) (Board book)
-Ideal for babies and toddlers.-Stunning large format brings images to life.-Helps to build a child’s vocabulary. (more…)
Open the Barn Door (A Chunky Book(R)) (Board book)
Illustrated in full color. Open the barn door and take a tour around thebarnyard to find out just who’s making all those wonderful animal sounds. From the Inside Flap Illustrated in full color. Open the barn door and take a tour around the barnyard to find out just who’s making all those wonderful animal sounds. [...]
