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Piquito en las sombras
by Gustavo FerreyraUna nueva entrega del antihéroe máximo de la literatura argentina: Piquito. Vuelve Piquito, el héroe más inesperado de la literatura argentina, que esta vez enfrenta una temporada en las sombras, desde donde reflexiona, incansable, barroco, desbordado, sobre el deseo y la capacidad humana de sobrevivir pese a todo. Primero, desde la cárcel, en la que lo encierran acusado de asesinato, acompañado de los inefables Cachimbo y Maloy, esos muñecos que son sus amigos más cercanos. Y luego, aunque logra escapar de la prisión, sometido por las fuerzas del orden, es internado en una clínica psiquiátrica. Desde esos abismos oscuros, Piquito sigue con su diatriba alucinada, en la que caben el marxismo, el judaísmo, la filosofía y el delirio mesiánico, siempre de la mano de su amada Josefina, inspiración permanente y eterna. Y con la participación especial de su discípula y musa, Bruna Yapolsky. Piquito en las sombras es Gustavo Ferreyra en su máxima expresión. La crítica ha dicho... «Su obra es un inevitable archipiélago complejo de la narrativa argentina.» Elvio Gandolfo, Revista Ñ «Un torrente imparable de energía lingüística donde la corrección política no tiene lugar.» Walter Lezcano, Tiempo Argentino «Ferreyra posee una inusual capacidad para arrancarle al lector una carcajada tras otra y dejarle, al mismo tiempo, un indisimulable sabor amargo.» José María Brindisi, La Nación, sobre Piquito a secas «En Ferreyra la lengua es interpelada, la lengua es sospechosa [...], es un pico de alpinista que Ferreyra clava sobre las rocas agudas del lenguaje y la experiencia.» Edgardo Scott, Los asesinos tímidos, sobre Piquito de oro «Novela no apta para quienes se toman su religión demasiado en serio, es, sin duda, un excelente capítulo en la obra de Ferreyra, fundamental para todo aquel que quiera dejarse encandilar por su prosa y la contundencia de su proyecto narrativo.» Carolina Esses, La Nación, sobre Los peregrinos del fin del mundo
Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas
by Aaron BlabeyFind out what piranhas eat -- and don't eat! -- in this new, irresistibly funny picture book from Aaron Blabey, the bestselling creator of Pig the Pug!Everyone knows that piranhas don't eat bananas -- except for Brian. This little fish loves to munch not only on bananas, but on fruit of all kinds! Brian's piranha friends think he's crazy. Piranhas don't eat bananas -- their sharp teeth are for eating meat! And there's a scrumptious pair of feet dangling in the water nearby...Rich with author-illustrator Aaron Blabey's hysterical text and unforgettably wacky illustrations, Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas is a hilarious story about trying new things -- no matter how strange they seem!
Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas (Digital Read Along)
by Aaron BlabeyFind out what piranhas eat -- and don't eat! -- in this new, irresistibly funny picture book from Aaron Blabey, the bestselling creator of Pig the Pug!Everyone knows that piranhas don't eat bananas -- except for Brian. This little fish loves to munch not only on bananas, but on fruit of all kinds! Brian's piranha friends think he's crazy. Piranhas don't eat bananas -- their sharp teeth are for eating meat! And there's a scrumptious pair of feet dangling in the water nearby...Rich with author-illustrator Aaron Blabey's hysterical text and unforgettably wacky illustrations, Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas is a hilarious story about trying new things -- no matter how strange they seem!
Pirate Academy (8-10 Years): Adventures in Crab Island (8-10 Years)
by A. P. HernándezWould you like to be a pirate? Well, don't miss the exciting fun adventures at the first Pirate Academy ever. You'll get to know Hugo, Reuben, Helen, Herman, Ivan... and many other friends! Meet the crazy Casimir, the Pirate Teacher! It's not easy to find an academy like this but today's your lucky day. Here you'll learn the basic foundations of Piracy, the Pirate Commandments, how to find treasures and, if that's not enough, you'll visit Crab Island. Welcome aboard, pirate!
Pirate Bill: Independent Reading Yellow 3 (Reading Champion #407)
by Katie WoolleyThis story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Pirate Bill has a treasure map. He digs everywhere but cannot find the gold. Perhaps it will be somewhere he does not expect...Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
Pirate Brother (Jamie's Amazing Cape Adventures)
by Mike Gordon Pete JohnsonJamie's wishes don't always work perfectly, but this time Jamie has the perfect wish - to hang out with Brave Bill, the magic pirate from his favorite book! But then Jamie's little brother steals his wish! Harry is off sailing the seven seas and Jamie is miserable - until Brave Bill turns up in Jamie's bedroom. Jamie takes his new pirate friend to school but it turns out that magic pirate + school = disaster, and it's up to Jamie to save the day.
Pirate Haiku
by Michael P. SpradlinThe ship sails avast!I have lost the map, mateys!No shaking booty!Come sail the seven seas aboard the notorious Black Thunder! Landlubbers have a first-mate seat to the grizzly life of eighteenth-century pirates--as told by the surprisingly poetic if salty One One-Leg Sterling.Shiver me timbers, never before have we poppets been privy to the gritty goings-on of the rum-running, treasure-thieving, marauding masters of the open sea from the inside out. . . until now! From trading rum for buxom beauties to fighting those limey British bastards, this book reveals the swaggering derring-do of these plundering and treacherous buccaneers--17 syllables at a time!
Pirate Paul Makes a Booty Call
by Peggy PlankSometimes friendship is the treasure!When a swashbuckling pirate and his faithful parrot, Louise, find themselves marooned on an island, they make the most of it. Paul takes up sunset yoga, learns to knit, and bakes like a pro. But who will appreciate his handmade sweaters and his perfect scones? When loneliness sets in, Paul starts to wonder if booty is the answer. Imagine his surprise when a clipper full of friendly pirates washes ashore looking for the very same thing! It’s not long before Paul is on the hunt. Pirate Paul Makes a Booty Call is the surprisingly wholesome adventure of a pirate who learns to put aside his pride and call out for the treasure of companionship.
Pirate Spacecat Attack (Geronimo Stilton Spacemice #10)
by Geronimo StiltonSpacemouse Geronimo Stiltonix's adventures are out of this world!The on board computer on spaceship MouseStar 1, Hologramix, is out of order! To fix it, Geronimo Stiltonix must take it to a brilliant inventor who lives on a distant planet. But while Hologramix is being repaired, pirate spacecats attack, and steal it! Can the spacemice get Hologramix back before the spacecats turn it evil and set it against them?
Pirate Stew
by Lou CarterA quick-witted shrimp saves his friends from the pirates' cooking pot in this comical undersea caper about friendship, tolerance ... and CLEANING!Scrubadub the Shrimp LOVES to clean. He polishes the crabs, trims the reeds, shampoos the fish and grooms the frogs, until all his friends have had ENOUGH. But when the seafood friends are scooped from the sea by hungry pirates, only Scrubadub can save them from the stew pot ... using his super cleaning powers!This funny and engaging story will encourage even the messiest children to tidy up!Lou Carter's richly funny rhyming story is reminiscent of Julia Donaldson and hilariously illustrated by rising star Nikki Dyson, illustrator of Zippo the Super Hippo.Perfect for fans of Jonny Duddle's The Pirates Next Door and The Pirate-Cruncher.
Pirate Stew
by Neil GaimanMeet LONG JOHN McRON, SHIP'S COOK . . . and the most unusual babysitter you've ever seen. Long John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow, and—for one boy and his sister—he's about to transform a perfectly ordinary evening into a riotous adventure beneath a pirate moon. It's time to make some PIRATE STEW. Marvelously silly and gloriously entertaining, this tale of pirates, flying ships, doughnut feasts and some rather magical stew is perfect for all pirates, both young and old.With a deliciously rhyming text from master storyteller Neil Gaiman and spellbinding illustrations by the supremely talented Chris Riddell, this is the picture book of the year! Pirate Stew! Pirate Stew!Pirate Stew for me and you!Pirate Stew, Pirate StewEat it and you won’t be blueYou can be a pirate too!
Pirate, Viking & Scientist
by Jared ChapmanIn this tale of a classic friendship conundrum, a determined little boy won't rest until he proves his theory that you really can have more than one best friend!Pirate is friends with Scientist. Scientist is friends with Viking. Pirate and Viking are NOT friends. What will Scientist do? Use his brain, of course! Scientist forms a hypothesis, conducts an experiment, observes his results, and tests his subjects again and again until he discovers the perfect formula for friendship.
Pirates Don't Change Diapers
by David Shannon Melinda LongWhen the pirate crew turns up at Jeremy Jacob's house and accidentally wakes his baby sister, that wee scallywag howls louder than a storm on the high seas. Sure, there's buried treasure to be found, but nobody's digging up anything until Bonney Anne quits her caterwauling. So, quicker than you can say "scurvy dog," Braid Beard and his swashbuckling pirates become . . . babysitters? Blimey! This hilarious companion to How I Became a Pirate reveals that minding the nursery can be even more terrifying than walking the plank--especially if you're a pirate.
Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses (Adventures of the Bailey School Kids)
by Debbie Dadey Marcia Thornton JonesThe hugely popular early chapter book series re-emerges -- now in e-book! The Bailey School kids need to train for a boat race and Camp Lone Wolf is just the place to do it. Too bad rumor has it that the bankrupt camp may need to shut down soon. The visiting coach, Captain Teach, who bears a strange resemblance to a pirate, turns out to in possession of a map that leads the way to buried treasure. Can the kids find the treasure and save Camp Lone Wolf before Captain Teach makes off with the booty?
Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #9)
by Debbie Dadey Marcia Thornton JonesThere are some pretty weird grownups living in Bailey City. But could the boat instructor at Camp Lone Wolf really be a pirate searching for buried treasure? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! "I think he is a pirate," Howie said. Eddie laughed out loud. "Pirates lived a long time ago. There aren't any left today." "Besides, who ever heard of a pirate wearing pink sunglasses?" Melody said. "I don't know," Liza said. "Let's just go." "We can't." Howie shook his head. "We know too much, if this is a treasure map and Teach really is a pirate, we may be in a lot of danger!"
Pirates of Underwhere
by Bruce Hale Shane HillmanStephanie has a whole underwear drawer full of trouble. A week ago, Stephanie's biggest problem was finding enough time to complete her homework and study for her Mathletes competition. Now, thanks to her big-mouth brother, Zeke, she has to deal with magical toilet brushes, sinister talking cats, nearsighted sea serpents, singing custodians, feminist pirates, runty freedom fighters, and all the cottony-white weirdness of Underwhere--the world beneath our own where people wear their undies on the outside of their clothes.
Pirates vs. Cowboys
by Aaron Reynolds David BarnedaIt is a sad and sorry day when Burnt Beard the Pirate and his scurvy crew swagger into Old Cheyenne looking to bury their treasure. Black Bob McKraw--terror of the Wild West--and his posse don't take too kindly to pirates invading their town. And to add insult to injury, the pirates and cowboys can't understand a lick of what the others are saying. None of them cowboys speak Pirate, and none of them pirates speak Cowboy. Who will save the day before these sorry--and stinky!--bilge rats and yellow-bellied varmints draw their cutlasses and six-shooters? From the creator of the hilarious Creepy Carrots, comes the story of a simple misunderstanding that almost meant the end of Old Cheyenne.From the Hardcover edition.
Pirates vs. Cowboys: Read & Listen Edition
by Aaron ReynoldsIt is a sad and sorry day when Burnt Beard the Pirate and his scurvy crew swagger into Old Cheyenne looking to bury their treasure. Black Bob McKraw—terror of the Wild West—and his posse don't take too kindly to pirates invading their town. And to add insult to injury, the pirates and cowboys can't understand a lick of what the others are saying. None of them cowboys speak Pirate, and none of them pirates speak Cowboy. Who will save the day before these sorry—and stinky!—bilge rats and yellow-bellied varmints draw their cutlasses and six-shooters? From the creator of the hilarious Creepy Carrots, comes the story of a simple misunderstanding that almost meant the end of Old Cheyenne.This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Pirattitude!: So you Wanna Be a Pirate?
by Dave Barry John Baur Mark SummersSet sail for high-seas hijinks and nautical nonsense with those paragons of Pirattitude who invented the famous International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Whether readers are old hands at pirating or hopeless landlubbers, the Pirate Guys will have them pirate-savvy in no time with sure-fire pirate pickup lines for any occasion, tips on how to make their pirate party a buccaneer ball that even Martha Stewart would be proud of, and help determining their true pirate monicker.
Piropos
by Carlos SilveyraPara que cuando falte el profe, los chicos se vuelvan piropeadores consumados. Dicen que los argentinos son los mejores piropeadores. Carlos Silveyra -escritor, docente y periodista- demuestra que, al menos, los piropos "al paso" que dicen los chicos son ingeniosos, originales y poéticos. Esta recopilación incluye también las coplas recogidas del folclore infantil de Iberoamérica y una divertida selección de "ayer pasé por tu casa". Para que cuando falte el profe, los chicos se vuelvan piropeadores consumados.
Pisces of Fate (The Drakeforth Series)
by Paul ManneringAll is not as it seems in the tranquil waters of the Aardvark Archipelago. After the death of his parents, Ascott Pudding ran away to the ends of the Earth—that is, to the Aardvark Archipelago, which is basically the same thing. But these tropical waters hold more than just fish, and Ascott soon finds himself in the grip of an ancient mystery... and an extremely violent invertebrate. With the help of his best friend, Shoal, and an artistically temperamental parrot, Ascott will face down a homicidal octopus, an extreme whale-based sporting event, and several varieties of pirate. Above all, though, they must unravel the ancient mystery of a treasure beyond imagining: the Pisces of Fate. Contains a bonus short Drakeforth short story, "Uncertainty of Goats."
Pish Posh
by Ellen PotterUltra-snobby Clara Frankofile has everything an eleven-year-old girl could want. She's fabulously wealthy, she lives alone in a penthouse apartment with its own roller coaster, and all of New York City is afraid of her! Each night at the Pish Posh restaurant, she watches the glittery movie actresses and princesses, and decides who is important enough to stay and who she will kick to the sidewalk in disgrace. But Clara's world is turned upside down when she discovers that a peculiar mystery is happening in the restaurant, right under her upturned nose. With the help of a whip-smart twelveyear- old jewel thief, Clara embarks on a wildly dangerous mission through the streets of New York to solve a 200-hundred-year-old secret. Crackling with humor and boundless imagination, Pish Posh is a wry commentary on our obsession with all things celebrity and our never-ending rush to grow up.
Pish Posh
by Ellen PotterUltra-snobby Clara Frankofile has everything an eleven-year-old girl could want. She's fabulously wealthy, she lives alone in a penthouse apartment with its own roller coaster, and all of New York City is afraid of her! Each night at the Pish Posh restaurant, she watches the glittery movie actresses and princesses, and decides who is important enough to stay and who she will kick to the sidewalk in disgrace. But Clara's world is turned upside down when she discovers that a peculiar mystery is happening in the restaurant, right under her upturned nose.With the help of a whip-smart twelveyear- old jewel thief, Clara embarks on a wildly dangerous mission through the streets of New York to solve a 200-hundred-year-old secret.
Pitch Imperfect
by Elise AldenOnce-famous singer Anjuli Carver has returned to tiny Heaverlock Village alone and nearly broke. She's poured every last penny into a rambling Victorian manor, hoping to start over. Trouble is, her money pit is falling to pieces and the only restoration architect for miles is Rob Douglas...her ex-fiancé.For eight years, Rob has regretted not telling Anjuli why he never answered her letters. Being left at the altar broke his heart, but being used for sex one night in London after the fact nearly drove him to the edge of sanity, and he'll be damned if he allows Anjuli to wreak havoc on his life again. He'll restore her manor, all right, and give her a taste of her own medicine while he's at it.But how long can revenge last when memories of their shared past keep rushing to the surface?Soon, Rob wants answers. Why did Anjuli leave the international spotlight to become a recluse in the Scottish Borderlands? And why does she refuse to sing? Anjuli wants nothing more than to be left alone with her grief, even as she struggles to keep her sexy fantasies about Rob in check. With gossipy villagers, interfering friends and more secrets between them than notes on a scale, Anjuli and Rob will need to find forgiveness in order to work together, then decide if they're willing to risk it all on an encore performance.88,000 words
Pitch Perfect: A Cricket Creek Novel
by Luann MclaneCricket Creek, Kentucky, is a sweet river town known for its theater, shopping, and cuisine. But tough times are crushing tourism--until a hard-swinging baseball team and three hometown heroes begin revitalizing the community one inning at a time. <P><P> Determined to prove her independence, Mia Monroe is no longer Daddy's little rich girl. Buying an old car with the last of her money, she sets out for who knows where...until her clunker clunks out in Cricket Creek. With no plan and no credit cards, Mia has to find more resilience than she's ever needed before. And a little help from an attractive new acquaintance wouldn't hurt... <P> As first baseman for the Cricket Creek Cougars, Cameron Patrick has two jobs: win games and stay out of trouble. If he can do both, he might just make it back to the minor leagues. He knows Mia is trouble from the moment she catches his eye--but he can't stop looking. And maybe her kind of trouble is exactly what he needs.