The Land Before Time: Saro Tells a Story

The Land Before Time: Saro Tells a Story
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 26
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ISBN-10 : 9780061347665
ISBN-13 : 0061347663
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Land Before Time: Saro Tells a Story by : Jennifer Frantz

Littlefoot and Chomper follow Saro into the Great Valley to try and convince him to listen to Grandpa Longneck and become the new Story Speaker.

The Land Before Time: The Spooky Nighttime Adventure

The Land Before Time: The Spooky Nighttime Adventure
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 28
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ISBN-10 : 9780061352980
ISBN-13 : 0061352985
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Land Before Time: The Spooky Nighttime Adventure by : Jennifer Frantz

Littlefoot and his friends, having experienced nightmares from the story of Hidden Runner, set out to get a full night of sleep by facing their fears.

The Land Before Time: The Reusable Sticker Book #1

The Land Before Time: The Reusable Sticker Book #1
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 19
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780061347801
ISBN-13 : 0061347809
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Land Before Time: The Reusable Sticker Book #1 by : Lana Jacobs

Based on the Cartoon Networks animated series, this sticker book lets young fans recreate their favorite scenes with these reusable stickers and colorful backgrounds. Full color. Consumable.

Looking for Transwonderland

Looking for Transwonderland
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Publisher : Catapult
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781593764913
ISBN-13 : 159376491X
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Looking for Transwonderland by : Noo Saro-Wiwa

A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review). Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Then she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for. Traveling from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit kitsch of the Transwonderland Amusement Park, she explores Nigerian Christianity, delves into the country’s history of slavery, examines the corrupting effect of oil, and ponders the huge success of Nollywood. She finds the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despairs at the corruption and inefficiency she encounters. But she also discovers that it is far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, with its captivating thick tropical rain forest and ancient palaces and monuments—and most engagingly and entertainingly, its unforgettable people. “The author allows her love-hate relationship with Nigeria to flavor this thoughtful travel journal, lending it irony, wit and frankness.” —Kirkus Reviews

Song for Night

Song for Night
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Publisher : Akashic Books
Total Pages : 171
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781933354316
ISBN-13 : 1933354313
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Song for Night by : Chris Abani

My Luck, a West African boy solider who has not spoken for three years, fights in a senseless war and embarks on a terrifying yet beautiful journey to find his lost platoon.

The Land Before Time

The Land Before Time
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Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 48
Release :
ISBN-10 : 037580160X
ISBN-13 : 9780375801600
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis The Land Before Time by : Molly Goode

Before she dies, Little Foot's mother tells the young dinosaur to go to to the Great Valley, where food is plentiful and he can start life anew.

From Scratch

From Scratch
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 352
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501187674
ISBN-13 : 1501187678
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis From Scratch by : Tembi Locke

Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is “a captivating story of love lost and found” (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hours. It was love at first sight when actress Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was just one problem: Saro’s traditional Sicilian family did not approve of his marrying a black American woman. However, the couple, heartbroken but undeterred, forged on. They built a happy life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships, and the love of their lives: a baby girl they adopted at birth. Eventually, they reconciled with Saro’s family just as he faced a formidable cancer that would consume all their dreams. From Scratch chronicles three summers Tembi spends in Sicily with her daughter, Zoela, as she begins to piece together a life without her husband in his tiny hometown hamlet of farmers. Where once Tembi was estranged from Saro’s family, now she finds solace and nourishment—literally and spiritually—at her mother-in-law’s table. In the Sicilian countryside, she discovers the healing gifts of simple fresh food, the embrace of a close knit community, and timeless traditions and wisdom that light a path forward. All along the way she reflects on her and Saro’s romance—an incredible love story that leaps off the pages. In Sicily, it is said that every story begins with a marriage or a death—in Tembi Locke’s case, it is both. “Locke’s raw and heartfelt memoir will uplift readers suffering from the loss of their own loved ones” (Publishers Weekly), but her story is also about love, finding a home, and chasing flavor as an act of remembrance. From Scratch is for anyone who has dared to reach for big love, fought for what mattered most, and those who needed a powerful reminder that life is...delicious.

Shipstar

Shipstar
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Publisher : Tor Books
Total Pages : 368
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781429949682
ISBN-13 : 1429949686
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Shipstar by : Gregory Benford

The dramatic sequel to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford's New York Times bestselling novel, Bowl of Heaven Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize. Investigating the Bowl, or Shipstar, the human explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—while the mystery of the Shipstar's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that transform their understanding of their place in the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 908
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822036083608
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

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Everything Happens for a Reason

Everything Happens for a Reason
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 208
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780399592072
ISBN-13 : 0399592075
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Everything Happens for a Reason by : Kate Bowler

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi “Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.”—Bill Gates NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with “a surge of determination.” Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you “can’t do” and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason “I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping—she’s like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate’s story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising