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Amelie the Seal Fairy: The Ocean Fairies Book 2 (Rainbow Magic #2)
by Daisy MeadowsGet ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. 1 bestselling series for girls aged 5 and up. Rachel and Kirsty are visiting Kirsty's grandmother when they are whisked away to Fairyland for the yearly Ocean Gala. Here, Shannon the Ocean Fairy plays her Magical Golden Conch Shell to ensure that the seas and oceans remain peaceful and ordered for the year ahead. Everything is going well - until Jack Frost snatches the conch shell and breaks it into seven pieces. Rachel and Kirsty, along with the Ocean Fairies, must get the pieces back before chaos takes over the oceans! 'These stories are magic; they turn children into readers!' ReadingZone.com Read all seven fairy adventures in the Ocean Fairies set! Ally the Dolphin Fairy; Amelie the Seal Fairy; Pia the Penguin Fairy; Tess the Sea Turtle Fairy; Stephanie the Starfish Fairy; Whitney the Whale Fairy and Courtney the Clownfish Fairy. If you like Rainbow Magic, check out Daisy Meadows' other series: Magic Animal Friends and Unicorn Magic!
Amelie vai dormir - Histórias para os Pequenos
by Eva Markert Lingling Yu"Boa noite, durma bem" diz a mamãe de Amelie todas as noites. Mas muitas vezes a pequena Amelie não está com sono, e muitas coisas acontecem ainda no quarto da criança antes de ela adormecer: Amelie descobre o efeito de gotas mágicas, se esconde de uma tempestade. faz um pedido à uma estrela cadente ou investiga fantasmas da noite, e muito mais! 15 histórias curtas de boa noite para os pequenos
Amelie y Amos celebran la Navidad
by Eva Markert María de Torres MullorAmelie y su primo Amos piensan que la Navidad es la fiesta más bonita de todo el año. Los dos no son casi capaces de esperar hasta que se reparten los regalos la noche de Nochebuena. Antes de esa fecha tienen varias sorpresas pero la mayor de ellas les aguarda el primer día de Navidad.
Amelina Carrett: Bayou Grand Coeur, Louisiana, 1870 (American Diaries)
by Kathleen DueyBayou Grand Coeur, Louisiana, 1863. I wonder if the Confederates think of this war as their own? Or the Yankees? Who would want a war to be their own? Amelina is frightened. She is used to being alone while her Nonc Alain is away trading, but now Yankee soldiers are so close that she can sometimes hear the rumble of gunfire. Just because her close-knit Cajun community has for the most part been uninvolved in the war doesn't mean Nonc Alain's farm would be spared if the Yankees swept through the area. When Amelina makes a startling discovery that challenges everything she's been told about the Yankees, she is forced to make her own decision about what is right and what is wrong. Can she find the courage to face the danger that her decision brings?
Amelio, mi coronel: La asombrosa historia de Amelio Robles, el primer revolucionario tránsgenero en México
by Ignacio CasasBASADA EN HECHOS REALES, AMELIO, MI CORONEL RESCATA DEL OLVIDO A UNO DE LOS PERSONAJES MÁS APASIONANTES Y SINGULARES DE LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA, QUIEN CON REBELDÍA ROMPIÓ LOS MOLDES DE LA ÉPOCA. UNA NOVELA QUE NOS RECUERDA QUE EL DESTINO SE FORJA, AUNQUE SEA A BALAZOS. A los veintiún años, con enaguas y rebozo, Malaquías Amelia de Jesús se unió al Ejército Libertador del Sur, en compañía de la Casimira, la pistola de su amado y difunto padre, y de ese espíritu voluntarioso que tanto le caracterizó. Fue ahí, en el campo de batalla, entre muertes y desplazamientos, pero también entre amores y victorias, donde encontró la fuerza para gritar su nombre: ¡Ameno! Admirado y respetado por generales, capitanes e incluso por la tropa, Amelio Robles luchó junto a notables revolucionarios: Chon Díaz, Heliodoro Castillo, Adrián Castrejón y, por supuesto, Emiliano Zapata. Ya como coronel, dirigió más de quinientos soldados, luchando contra el enemigo, así como contra aquellos que cuestionaban su identidad. Escrita con maestría y ritmo poético por el ganador del Premio de Novela Histórica Grijalbo-Claustro de Sor Juana 2019, Ignacio Casas, Amelio, mi coronel es una obra repleta de pasajes emocionantes, un homenaje a la vida que uno elige.
Amellia Bedellias Masterpiece
by Herman ParishAmelia Bedelia visits an art museum, where her confusion leads to surprising results.
Amen Corner: A Sam Skarda Mystery (Amen Corner #1)
by Rick ShefchikThe body of the Masters rules committee chairman is found in the middle of the 10th fairway on the morning that Sam Skarda arrives at Augusta National Golf Club to play in his first Masters. Skarda, a 33-year-old police detective on medical leave from the Minneapolis police department, is an accomplished amateur golfer who won the U.S. Publinx and an invitation to play in the Masters while rehabbing a shooting injury suffered on the job. Evidence left at the crime scene suggests the murder might have been tied to the ongoing protest by a women's group that has been demanding that the club admit women members. Then a crusading New York Times columnist is murdered on the grounds of the club two days later. Local police suspect the murders might have been committed by a member and begin pressuring the new Augusta National president for access to the club's membership information. The club chairman asks Skarda for help finding the killer before the police thoroughly invade Augusta National's legendary privacy. Skarda looks for answers from members, veteran journalists, longtime caddies and ex-employees who may know why someone is determined to bring this year's Masters to a halt. He also falls for Caroline Rockingham, the soon-to-be ex-wife of one of the pre-tournament favorites, a former college golf teammate of Skarda's. Sam and Caroline themselves become targets as the murders continue and pressure to cancel the tournament builds. Meanwhile, the killer methodically prepares for a spectacular and deadly Sunday climax.
Amen to Love
by Carolina ValdezDr. Bond Bergstrom fights to save the life of a man shot near the lakeside path where he jogs. Later, when the hospital where Bond works as chief of surgery learns the shooter attempted to kill him also, the board insists on assigning security protection to him 24/7 until the killer is caught.Bond is furious with the decision. Former Navy SEALs, he argues, can protect themselves better than anyone in the world. Not so, counters former Delta Force operative Rory O’Shea. He’s the hot, sexy Irish-American who owns the agency providing the hospital’s routine security.Bond grudgingly gives in, unaware that O’Shea has an ulterior motive in assigning himself to spend nights with the doctor as his personal bodyguard. Will O’Shea prove he has what it takes to satisfy Bond -- both in and out of the bedroom?
Amen, L.A.
by Cherie Bennett Jeff GottesfeldWhen Natalie Shelton and her family move from Minnesota to Beverly Hills, more changes than their zip code. Natalie's mom accepts a position as pastor with the Church of Beverly Hills--and Natalie's along for the ride. Before she can blink, she's living in a mansion once owned by Ricardo Montalban, going to school with hot young Hollywood stars, and partying in the park with kids who know no limits. It's an amazing new life--but if she doesn't watch out, Natalie could find herself seriously messed up. Natalie has values . . . but how long can she hold on to them?From the Trade Paperback edition.
Amenaza Antártica - Libro Uno: Terror
by Alexandre TorresVivimos cada vez más conectados a flujos de informaciones, pero nos falta el tiempo y la habilidad necesarios para la reflexión crítica en la construcción de nuevos conocimientos. Guiados por las emociones, nos dejamos llevar como parte de la gran manada, tal como hormigas guiadas por las feromonas de sus pares. A medida que nos conectamos unos a otros, nos estaríamos transformando en una especie de zombi? Esta es la pregunta que abruma a un grupo de seis trabajadores de invierno de la Antártida en la base americana de McMurdo Sound. Empleados aislados en un continente desierto en esa estación, bajo condiciones climáticas extremas y sometidos a la oscuridad de la larga noche antártica. Un incendio misterioso es el detonante para una serie de crisis que pondrán en riesgos sus vidas, sus mentes y sus propias almas. Jennifer Summers es una psicóloga especializada en la gestión de recursos humanos y también una descendiente de nativos americanos que intenta comprender su propia herencia. Victor Gonzales es un ex policía que ahora trabaja como asistente administrativo en McMurdo. Ambos lidian con las heridas del pasado mientas intentan establecer una relación que oscila entre el amor y la amistad. Victor es un hombre racional, materialista y pasional; Jennifer es una mujer empática, espiritual y emocionalmente reprimida. Puntos de vista opuestos intentando comprender la naturaleza de una terrible amenaza. Esta es una historia de terror, suspenso, misterio, ocultismo y ficción científica. Es una novela con una historia independiente, pero también es parte de una trilogía.
Amenaza bajo el mar (Dirk Pitt #13)
by Clive CusslerEn 1859, se produce el naufragio de un barco británico que transporta condenados a Australia. Dos de los supervivientes consiguen llegar a una isla desierta donde descubren una mina de diamantes. Este hecho dará lugar a la fundación de un imperio familiar dirigido por Arthur Dorsett y sus tres hijas. Una de éstas, Maeve, se ha apartado de su familia y alterna su profesión de bióloga con trabajos como guía científica de cruceros por la Antártida. Durante uno de estos viajes, un grupo de turistas muere repentinamente por causas misteriosas y la propia Maeve, junto a unos pocos, es rescatada por Dirk Pitt. A partir de entonces, las investigaciones de Pitt pondrán al descubierto una monstruosa trama de ambición y codicia cuyo epicentro se halla, precisamente, en las minas de diamantesde la familia Dorsett...
Amenazas del cielo y el mar
by Jennifer Ellision Anabel González RodríguezBreena Perdit ha vivido sus 16 años de vida en una taberna, desconocedora del pasado de su padre y felizmente libre de las habilidades como Elemental que la condenarían a una vida de servidumbre en el ejército del rey de Egria. Hasta el día en que tres soldados Elementales reconocen a su padre como un traidor a la corona y lo encarcelan, junto a los secretos de su última misión como asesino del rey. Secretos que podrían ayudar al rey a ganar una guerra. Secretos que se niega a revelar. Desesperada por escapar antes de que los caprichos de un rey injusto causen su muerte y la de su padre, Bree hace un trato con él: la información por sus vidas. Es un buen trato. Y confía en, con el tiempo, liberarlos a ambos. Pero eso era antes de descubrir que ella es el arma que el rey había estado esperando durante tanto tiempo. Ahora, el tiempo se acaba. Para salvar la vida de su padre y comprender la suya propia, Bree debe resolver el misterio del pasado de su padre antes de que el rey acabe con su vida y la use para derrotar a una nación.
Amendment of Life: A Mystery (Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan)
by Catherine AirdDCI Sloan and his inept constable must navigate a twisted trail of clues after a body is found in a hedge maze in this mystery by the award-winning author.“Catherine Aird's breezy Amendment of Life provides an intricate puzzle worthy of the always entertaining Inspector Sloan.” —Publishers WeeklyFor decades, Catherine Aird’s crime novels featuring C.D. Sloan have been beloved by fans and lauded by critics for their adroit plotting, playful wit, and literate charm. With Amendment of Life, Aird delivers the lively and engrossing novel that readers have come to rely upon.Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Calleshire CID is used to the occasional oddity in his relatively quiet part of the English countryside. But lately things have taken a strange turn. First, in the center of a yew maze that is the showpiece of the Tudor-era house, Aumerle Court, a body is spotted by Miss Daphne Pedlinge, the elderly chatelaine of the Court. By the time the groundskeeper actually makes it to the center, he, too, spies the body, and it is indeed dead.Meanwhile, a few miles away, a slaughtered rabbit is left on the Bishop’s doorstep in nearby Calleford, an omen as portentous as the body in the maze. Now Inspector Sloan, with the somewhat trying personage of Constable Crosby in tow, must uncover what precisely is going on as they launch an investigation with more twists and turns than the maze itself.“Aird's contemporary British cozies display excellent, engaging dialogue as well as plots handled with deft, no-nonsense trajectory. . . . Nicely crafted and very winning.” —Booklist
Amends for Murder
by M. D. LakeMEET PEGGY O'NEILL, A CAMPUS COP WITH A PH.D. IN MURDER An outraged call from the distinguished Professor Warren sent rookie campus cop Peggy O'Neill hurrying over to the frat houses to get the stereos turned down. But someone had already solved the professor's hearing problem - by smashing in his skull with a hammer. The city cops want to blame a computer thief. But Peggy isn't so easily convinced. Her own investigation uncovers a murderous mix of faculty orgies, poetry readings, and some very devoted female teaching assistants. Now Peggy's getting close enough to the truth to face her own "final exam". ...
AmeriKKKan JustUS
by DeLena SlaytonAmeriKKKan JustUS is the story of a young African-American man&’s journey through the court system. Evocative and deeply personal, this novel gives a first-person account of racism in the justice system.Author DaLena Slayton is a new voice in Black American fiction, and she creates a powerful portrait of a young man finding his way in a sometimes hostile society.The world is black and white, but Rilei tends to live in a gray area until life forces him to open his eyes. From his sheltered childhood to his rude awakening to reality, Rilei is forced to learn how to be a survivor in the ghetto streets of Akron, Ohio.Being a survivor also means that he'll have to learn how to accept that the world doesn't come in different shades of gray, and that he is on the wrong side of black and white. When he enters the criminal justice system, he finds it rigged against him from the beginning. Can Rilei tell his story and change the fate society has written for him? On the wrong side of the color line, is American justice possible, or is it just us? Buy AmeriKKKan JustUS to learn Rilei's story, American criminal justice through the eyes of one black man
America
by E. R. Frank"Where would you like to be five years from now?" Dr. B. asks."Nowhere," America answers.By age fifteen, America has already been nowhere. Been nobody. Separated from his foster mother, Mrs. Harper. A runaway living for weeks in a mall, then for months in Central Park. A patient at Applegate, the residential treatment facility north of New York City. And now at Ridgeway, a hospital.America is a boy, he thinks to himself, who gets lost easy and is not worth the trouble of finding.But Dr. B. takes the trouble. With abiding care, he nudges America's story from him. An against-the-odds story about America's shattered past with his mother and brothers. About Browning, a man in Mrs. Harper's house who saves America, then betrays him. About a bighearted, hardheaded girl named Liza, and Ty and Fish and Wick and Marshall and Ernie and Tom and Dr. B. himself who care more than America does about whether he lives or dies.
America (Jake Grafton #9)
by Stephen CoontsDispatched on a trial run, NASA's SuperAegis satellite has been created as the foundation of an international antimissile defense system. But moments after dispatch, it vanishes.
America 2040
by Evan InnesIt stretches out beyond the planets to the vastness of infinite space. The time has come for America's best and brightest men and women to again become pioneers, to carry freedom's precious message to a new wilderness more dangerous, more lawless, and more exciting than any traveled before. It will determine America's destiny. Locked in a final deadly struggle with the Soviets, the free world trembles on the brink of nuclear holocaust. But whatever the Earth's fate, the spirit Of America must not be allowed to die. The dauntless courage of those who first challenged the uncharted regions of the Old West now returns to blaze a new trail into the unknown. Led by Captain Duncan Rodrick, a man of strength and daring, the most advanced spaceship ever designed prepares for an incredible journey across the universe. But on board the ship itself is an enemy willing to die to destroy them all, a woman whose beauty may ignite a lethal fire of passion, and a stowaway whose bravery embodies the intrepid spirit of America's past. Their mission will determine the fate of a nation.
America America
by Ethan CaninIt is the early 1970s; Nixon is in the White House and Corey Sifter, the young son of working-class parents, is befriended by the powerful Metarey family, whose patriarch is a kingmaker in the world of New York state politics. Corey becomes a yard-boy on the Metarey's grand estate, and soon, through the family's generosity, a student at a private boarding school. Before long, he is a confidant of the Metareys and an aide to the great New York Senator Henry Bonwiller as he runs for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. But as the Bonwiller presidential campaign gains momentum a crime is committed, and Corey is forced to reconcile his part in a complex tangle of morality, politics, gratitude, love and loyalty. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and during one of the most turbulent eras of twentieth-century US politics,America Americapossesses the mastery of pace and voice of classic American fiction. Canin has written a magnificent novel about ambition and family, politics and crime, sex and love, small-town life and big-time power - and, ultimately, how vanity, greatness and tragedy combine to change history and fate.
America City: From The Arthur C. Clarke Winner And Bestselling Author Of The Eden Trilogy
by Chris BeckettAmerica, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods, and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless fellow-Americans from the south. Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole mission is to keep America together, reconfiguring the entire country in order to meet the challenge of the new climate realities as a single, united nation. When he runs for President, Holly becomes his right hand woman, doing battle on the whisperstream, where stories are everything and truth counts for little. But can they bring America together—or have they set the country on a new, but equally devastating, path?
America Dhruvathara Abraham Lincoln
by Vangara Ranga Bhaskar RaoThis is the abridged life story of Abraham Lincoln - The famous American political leader.
America Fantastica: A Novel
by Tim O'Brien“Tim O'Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most. His new novel’s ironic depiction of a post-Iraq war, mid-COVID, and mid-Trump world is piercing and razor-sharp.” —HARUKI MURAKAMIAn American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks “a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit” (Kirkus, starred review)Named one of Fall 2023's most anticipated books: New York Times, Associated Press, Esquire, Kirkus, Goodreads, LitHub, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and moreAt 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California.“How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.”“You’re robbing me?”He revealed a Temptation .38 Special.The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars.Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag.“I’m sorry about this,” he said, “but I’ll have to ask you to take a ride with me.”So begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday the pair reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd’s past. Everyone, it seems, except the police.In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson. Just as Tim O’Brien’s modern classic, The Things They Carried, so brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, America Fantastica puts a mirror to a nation and a time that has become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusion.
America Imagined
by Axel K�rner Nicola Miller Adam I. P. SmithThis is an exploration of how Latin America developed an alternative modernity during the early twentieth century, one that challenges the key assumptions of the Western dominant model.
America Is Her Name
by Luis J. RodriguezSet in the Pilsen barrio of Chicago, this children's picture book gives a heartwarming message of hope. The heroine, America, is a primary school student who is unhappy in school until a poet visits the class and inspires the students to express themselves creatively -- in Spanish or English. America Is Her Name emphasizes the power of individual creativity in overcoming a difficult environment and establishing self-worth and identity through the young girl America's desire and determination to be a writer. This story deals realistically with the problems in urban neighborhoods and has an upbeat theme: you can succeed in spite of the odds against you. Carlos Vazquez's inspired four-color illustrations give a vivid sense of the barrio, as well as the beauty and strength of the young girl America. Luis J. Rodriguez grew up in Watts and East L.A. His bestselling memoir about gang life, Always Running (now available in paperback in both English and Spanish from Touchstone Books), won the Carl Sandburg Award. His Poems Across the Pavement (Tia Chucha Press) won the Poetry Center Book Award from San Francisco State University, and his poetry collection, The Concrete River was awarded the 1991 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Poetry. Mr. Rodriguez has worked extensively with gang members to guide them in positive directions, and he is frequently featured as a keynote speaker or guest poet at national conferences and cultural centers. Rodriguez explores the Chicano experience with an unrelenting, socially conscious eye that moved Larry Weintraub of the Chicago Sun-Times to call him a poet "we need to hear." Illustrator Carlos Vazquez was born in Mexico, studied physics and art, and now teaches in adult education programs in New York City. This book is also available in a Spanish language edition as La llaman America translated by Tino Villanueva.
America Is Not the Heart: A Novel
by Elaine Castillo<P>How many lives fit in a lifetime? <P>When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents--she's already on her third. <P> Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. <P>His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. <P>But their daughter--the first American-born daughter in the family--can't resist asking Hero about her damaged hands. <P>An increasingly relevant story told with startling lucidity, humor, and an uncanny ear for the intimacies and shorthand of family ritual, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in one family struggling to balance the promise of the American dream and the unshakeable grip of history. <P>With exuberance, grit, and sly tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave one home to grasp at another.