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Axle Annie and the Speed Grump

Axle Annie, Burskyville's best, most beloved school bus driver, has a big problem. And that problem has a name: Rush Hotfoot. He is an absolute menace--always in a hurry and in a bad mood, driving full blast. He even ignores the bus's stop-sign arm! But if anybody can tame the speed grump, Annie can. She has both hands on the wheel and nerves of steel. Children will giggle and cheer for this friendly, silly charmer about the kind of superhero they might see every day.

Axle Bust Creek (A Cleve Trewe Western #1)

The first book in a thrilling new western series from John Shirley, the acclaimed co-author of the Sundown Riders western series. GOLD FEVER. BLOOD FEVER. From the battlefield of Shiloh to the prisoner camp at Slocum, former Union soldier Cleveland Trewe has seen more than enough carnage for one lifetime. Now that the war is over he&’s found work as a peacekeeper and prospector—the perfect set of survival skills for a town like Axle Bust, Nevada, a place seething with danger. Cleve&’s uncle staked a claim in Axle Bust only to lose it to a murderous con-man partnered with Duncan Conroy, owner of the Golden Fleece Mine and a man determined to build an empire by means fair and foul. The only person keeping Conroy in check is his sister Berenice, a freethinker whose scientific education benefits the family interests—even while catching Cleve&’s eye. To reclaim his uncle&’s mine, and bring justice to a town under tyranny, Cleve finds himself turning the streets into a bullet-riddled battlefield. Conroy is about to learn there just isn&’t room for both men in a town like Axle Bust. Praise for John Shirley&“Gritty realism, thrilling—this is a good one.&” —Lincoln Journal Star on Wyatt in Wichita&“One of our best and most singular writers. A powerhouse of ideas and imagery.&” —William Gibson

Axolotls: Day to ZZZ

Axolotls getting up emerging from the rocks they&’re getting ready for their day— woken by their clocks. Spend a day with the cutest smiling amphibians in their anthropomorphized world. Exercise with Flexolotl. Go to work with Lumberjaxalotl. Groove to the music with Saxolotl, and so many more! With silly wordplay and hilarious illustrations, Axolotls: Day to ZZZ is the perfect booxalotl for clever kids (and parents)!

Ay, William

Elizabeth Strout, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y el Premi Llibreter, con tres millones y medio de lectores, recupera a su icónica protagonista, Lucy Barton, en un libro del que no se sale, hermoso, doloroso, irónico y profundo como las historias de Lucia Berlin o Alice Munro. Uno de los mejores libros del año según The Times y uno de los diez libros más esperados de 2022 según Esquire «Esta mujer que tanto me ha dado llenando mis horas de insomnio.»Elvira Lindo «Elizabeth Strout se consagra como la más magistral alumna de John Cheever y James Salter.»Rodrigo Fresán Inesperadamente, Lucy Barton se convierte en confidente y apoyo de William, su exmarido, el hombre con el que ha tenido dos hijas ya adultas, pero que ahora es casi un desconocido presa de terrores nocturnos y empecinado en desvelar el secreto de su madre. Mientras su nuevo matrimonio tambalea, William quiere que Lucy lo acompañe en un viaje del que no volverá a ser el mismo. ¿Cuántos sentimientos –celos, piedad, temor, ternura, decepción, extrañeza– caben en un matrimonio, incluso cuando ha terminado –si tal cosa es posible–? Y en el centro de esta historia, la voz indomable de Lucy Barton, su reflexión profunda y perenne sobre nuestra propia existencia: «Así es como funciona la vida. Todo lo que no sabemos hasta que ya es demasiado tarde». La crítica ha dicho: «Cada libro suyo es esperado como agua de mayo por quienes han probado el estilo sutil de sus novelas, capaz de encontrar una epifanía en las historias más corrientes. Ay, William es un paso más para esta heredera del realismo norteamericano de Lucia Berlin y Alice Munro. Una indagación en los sentimientos complejos y ambivalentes de un matrimonio, incluso cuando este ya ha terminado.»Alberto Hernando, Esquire «No me puedo sacar a Lucy Barton de la cabeza.»Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times «Una escritora elegante, eficiente y de alta sensibilidad: un seguro para cualquier lector exigente.»Jose María Guelbenzu, Babelia «Qué escritora tan increíble.»Zadie Smith «Cada libro que escribe supera al anterior.»Maggie O’Farrell «¿Cómo lo hace? ¿Cómo consigue generar este desasosiego [...]? Puro talento, supongo.»Carlos Zanón «Con destellos de Anne Tyler y John Updike. [...] Strout es una de nuestras mejores narradoras.»Evening Standard «Sus libros nos hacen mejores personas.»La Repubblica «No es casualidad que se haya comparado a Strout con Hemingway. En muchos sentidos, le supera.»Publishers Weekly «Aunque pareceque esta última novela de Lucy Barton marca el fin de una trilogía, ¿puedo pedir una tetralogía, una pentalogía y como se llame lo que viene después? [...] Leer a Strout es una maravilla: aprendes más al tiempo que (siempre) ves que entiendes menos.»Jonathan Myerson, The Guardian «Sabes que estás en manos expertas cuando las primeras líneas de una novela trazan un corte limpio en tu corazón. [...] He devorado Ay William con avidez. [...] La humanidad íntima, frágil y desesperada que sobrevuela estas páginas es impresionante. Casi todas las afirmaciones tienen la fuerza de una revelación.»The Washington Post «Una radiante (aunque melancólica) reflexión en torno al matrimonio, la mortalidad y las complejidades del amor.»Oprah Daily «Strout es una anatomista magistral de las almas errantes. [...] Fiel a su estilo, el libro disecciona los secretos del corazón.»Los Angeles Times

Ay, pasión: Historias que enamoran

Historias de amor, deseo y seducción escritas por las autoras argentinas más reconocidas del género: Cristina Bajo, Florencia Bonelli, Gloria V. Casañas, Gabriela Exilart, Gabriela Margall, Anabella Franco, Graciela Ramos, Mirta Pérez Rey, Andrea Milano, Fernanda Pérez, Mariana Guarinoni, Camucha Escobar y María Border. ¿Quién no recuerda el hormigueo en el estómago del primer amor? ¿A quién no se le cortó la respiración por el ser amado o sintió una daga en el corazón al verse traicionada? Un amor no correspondido, una segunda oportunidad, un matrimonio roto, un reencuentro luego de décadas de silencio, un flechazo inesperado de los que te cambian la vida en un instante... Este conjunto de relatos nos sumerge de lleno en la belleza de enamorarse, en la desesperación que nos atormenta cuando algo sale mal y en las dudas que nos aquejan al decidir hasta dónde arriesgarnos. Y como el amor sólo puede sentirse si está bien narrado, Ay, pasión reúne trece relatos que nos transportan a un mundo de amor, deseo y seducción de la mano de las más talentosas autoras románticas.

Ay, pecados: Historias que enamoran

En estos cuentos se desatan pasiones ocultas, se revelan secretos inconfesables y los personajes se entregan a hacer realidad sus deseos más profundos. ¿Cuánto estamos dispuestos a arriesgar por amor? ¿Hasta dónde se puede llegar por celos? ¿Se perdona una traición? Una mujer casada sucumbe al deseo y no quiere que amanezca. Dos compañeros de trabajo se miran de verdad por primera vez. Un hombre perfecto esconde un pasado aterrador. Una segunda oportunidad, una pasión inconfesable, una traición que deja heridas, un matrimonio roto. Los relatos que integran este libro están atravesados por los pecados del amor, tan subjetivos y únicos como cada historia que se construye de a dos: la venganza, la renuncia, la pasión, el desenfreno, la infidelidad, la codicia, la mentira, el engaño. Ay, pecados reúne catorce cuentos de todas las épocas escritos por las autoras románticas más talentosas: Cristina Bajo, Gloria V. Casañas, Fernanda Pérez, Gabriela Exilart, Gabriela Margall, Camucha Escobar, Graciela Ramos, Magda Tagtachian, Mariana Guarinoni, Carlota del Campo, María Border, Mirta Pérez Rey, Anabella Franco y Andrea Milano.

Aya Dane: A novel

An evocative novel from the award-winning author of Dreams of Maryam Tair. Aya Dane creates mixed media paintings and writes a diary in her studio above a strange, old Cambridge townhouse. There she lives alone, having left her childhood home in Tangiers. Though she has carved a name for herself in the art world, she allows herself just one close relationship, to an intimate companion named David. One day, Aya receives a letter from a powerful, enigmatic patron, an invitation to submit her ultimate work to his collection. If he deems it worthy, he promises, her art will live on forever. Aya finds herself unable to resist the mysterious invitation, and challenge. But as she begins to work on the commissioned painting, from her top-floor perch, the streets of Tangiers reappear to her. Their white-and-blue walls, purple bougainvillea, sweetness and sorrow bring back to life people and events she thought she&’d left behind. Aya becomes haunted by forgotten scenes, only to discover that she herself is being painted, on a canvas from which it seems impossible to escape. Aya Dane creates mixed media paintings and writes a diary in her studio above a strange, old Cambridge townhouse. There she lives alone, having left her childhood home in Tangiers. Though she has carved a name for herself in the art world, she allows herself just one close relationship, to an intimate companion named David. One day, Aya receives a letter from a powerful, enigmatic patron, an invitation to submit her ultimate work to his collection. If he deems it worthy, he promises, her art will live on forever. Aya finds herself unable to resist the mysterious invitation, and challenge. But as she begins to work on the commissioned painting, from her top-floor perch, the streets of Tangiers reappear to her. Their white-and-blue walls, purple bougainvillea, sweetness and sorrow bring back to life people and events she thought she&’d left behind. Aya becomes haunted by forgotten scenes, only to discover that she herself is being painted, on a canvas from which it seems impossible to escape.

Ayako

Long considered as one of Osamu Tezuka&’s most political narratives, Ayako is also considered to be one of his most challenging as it defies the conventions of his manga by utilizing a completely original cast and relying solely on historical drama to drive the plot. Ayako, pulls no punches, and does not allow for gimmicks as science-fiction or fantasy may. Instead Tezuka weaves together a tale which its core simply focuses on a single family, a family that could be considered a metaphor for a rapidly developing superpower.Overflowing with imagery of the cold war seen through Japan&’s eyes, Ayako is firmly set in realism taking inspiration from a number of historical events that occurred over the American occupation and the cultural-revolution which soon followed. Believed to be Tezuka&’s answer to the gekiga (dramatic comics) movement of the 60&’s, Ayako should be considered one of the better early examples of a seinen (young adult) narrative to be published.Initially set in the aftermath of World War II, Ayako focuses its attention on the Tenge clan, a once powerful family of landowners living in a rural community in northern Japan. From the moment readers are introduced to the extended family, it is apparent that the war and American occupation have begun to erode the fabric that binds them all together. The increasing influence of political, economic and social change begins to tear into the many Tenge siblings, while a strange marriage agreement creates resentment between the eldest son and his sire. And when the family seems to have completely fallen apart, they decide to turn their collective rage on what they believe to be the source of their troubles—the newest member of the Tenge family, the youngest sister Ayako.

Ayala's Angel

Ayala's Angel

This is Trollope's eightieth tale. Though it is the work of an older man, it is perhaps the brightest and freshest novel he ever wrote. The story of a young woman forced to choose a husband from among three unsavory men, the novel is remarkable for its wealth of minor characters and it romantic exuberance.

Ayala's Angel (Classics To Go)

Ayala's Angel is a novel written by English author Anthony Trollope between 25 April and 24 September 1878, although it was not published for two years. It was written as a stand-alone novel rather than as part of a series, though several of the minor characters appear in other novels by Trollope. The plot focuses on two orphaned sisters, Lucy and Ayala Dormer, Ayala especially, and their trials, with first their relatives, and then of the heart, though as in most Trollope novels, pages are given over to subplots related to the main plot. (Wikipedia)

Ayanna

En un mundo donde muchas personas matan para satisfacer sus necesidades diarias, una joven, que pasó sus años de formación entre un clan de caníbales, ahora está bajo la guía de una comunidad militarista, donde aprende los caminos de la guerra. AYANNA se puede leer como una historia independiente o como una secuela de la novela, REYES y CLANES del Medio Oeste.

Ayatli: La rebelión Chichimeca

La esperada continuación de Tiaztlán: El fin del Imperio azteca En esta segunda entrega de La Saga de la Conquista, Basáñez nos muestra una Nueva España desgarrada por sus recientes conquistadores, quienes sedientos de poder y riqueza, a través del sistema de las encomiendas, esclavizan a los indígenas y los tratan peor que animales. Ante este terrible escenario, Ayatli, hijo del viejo Tiaztlán, decide emprender una guerra de reconquista al frente de las tribus chichimecas. Sin embargo, se encontrará con la terrible tragedia de que no sólo deberá enfrentarse a las huestes españolas comandadas por Pedro de Alvarado, sino también a las demás hordas indígenas que están dispuestas a defender a sus déspotas explotadores. ¿Ayatli logrará salir airoso ante tremenda hazaña? ¿Hasta dónde llegará la guerra emprendida por este valeroso guerrero?

Aye, And Gomorrah: And Other Stories

A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction--but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred-fifty years from now, when men and women have been given gills to labor under the sea. Huge repair stations patrol the cables carrying power to the ends of the earth. Telepathic and precocious children so passionately yearn to visit distant galaxies that they'll kill to go. Brilliantly crafted, beautifully written, these are Samuel Delany's award-winning stories, like no others before or since.

Aye, and Gomorrah (Gateway Essentials #398)

A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice, an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white southern airport loader tries to do a favour for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of fiction - but with a difference! These tales take place twenty-five, fifty, a hundred and fifty years from now. Men and women have been given gills to labor under the sea. Huge repair stations patrol the cables carrying power to the ends of the earth. Telepathic and precocious children yearn so passionately to visit distant galaxies that they'll kill to go. Brilliantly crafted, beautifully written, these are Samuel Delany's award-winning stories, like no other before or since.

Ayer, hoy y siempre

Las vivencias de unas estudiantes de Harward, desde 1989 hasta nuestros días. Hay un hilo colorado, rebelde, lleno de nudos, que recorre la vida de las mujeres a lo largo del siglo XX hasta llegar a nuestros días. Empezamos a deshacer el ovillo con Un árbol crece en Brooklyn, que contaba la historia de una chica abriéndose paso en Nueva York en 1912; luego llegó Lo mejor de la vida describiendo los despachos de Manhattan en los años cincuenta, y le siguió Solo para mujeres, la novela que describía las dudas de las mujeres cuando el feminismo empezaba a dar sus primeros pasos. Ahora el hilo llega hasta nuestros días, enredándose en las vidas de cuatro estudiantes en los ochenta y noventa, una época en que no existía Facebook pero todos los alumnos tenían a disposición un cuaderno de tapas rojas donde apuntaban y compartían sus andanzas una vez dejada la universidad. Clover, Addison, Jane y Mia fueron rellenando las hojas, pero una cosa es escribir y otra muy distinta es encontrarse hoy de nuevo cara a cara, cuando ya han pasado veinte años, y confrontar los sueños de entonces y las mentiras bien dichas con la realidad: eso se proponen las cuatro amigas a lo largo de un fin de semana intenso, doloroso a veces, y cargado de emociones. ¿Es posible que un par de días bien aprovechados cambien nuestro mundo y nos den una nueva versión de la vida? Pasen y lean: Ayer, hoy y siempre tiene la respuesta. Reseña:«Una novela destinada a convertirse en un clásico...Un retrato de la mujer que puede compararse con El grupo de Mary McCarthy.»Vanity Fair

Ayesha At Last: A Novel

Pride and Prejudice with a modern twist AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn’t want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is conservative and judgmental. She is irritatingly attracted to someone who looks down on her choices and dresses like he belongs in the seventh century. When a surprise engagement between Khalid and Hafsa is announced, Ayesha is torn between how she feels about the straightforward Khalid and his family; and the truth she realizes about herself. But Khalid is also wrestling with what he believes and what he wants. And he just can’t get this beautiful, outspoken woman out of his mind.

Ayesha at Last: A Novel

As seen on The Today Show! One of the best summer romance picks!One of Publishers Weekly Best Romance Books of 2019!A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love.Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid, who is just as smart and handsome as he is conservative and judgmental. She is irritatingly attracted to someone who looks down on her choices and who dresses like he belongs in the seventh century.When a surprise engagement is announced between Khalid and Hafsa, Ayesha is torn between how she feels about the straightforward Khalid and the unsettling new gossip she hears about his family. Looking into the rumors, she finds she has to deal with not only what she discovers about Khalid, but also the truth she realizes about herself.

Ayesha: The Return of She (Ayesha Series #2)

From the author of the long-running Allan Quatermain series: The sequel to She is a fantasy classic and one of the bestselling books of all time. In the sequel to She, Horace Holly and his ward, Leo Vincey, embark on a quest through Tibet to find the mysterious woman known as Ayesha. Though an abbot warns them not to continue, Horace and Leo press on to discover the ancient city of Kaloon, ruled by the evil Khan Rassen and his imperious wife, Khania Atene, whose desire for Leo sparks a rivalry with the volcano-dwelling Priestess of Hes . . .

Ayiti

From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, <i>Ayiti</i> is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. <p><p>In <i>Ayiti</i>, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood. <p><p>Originally published by a small press, this edition will make Gay's debut widely available for the first time, including several new stories.'These early stories showcase Gay's prowess as one of the voices of our age' (National Post, Canada).

Ayiti

From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience.In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood. Originally published by a small press, this edition will make Gay's debut widely available for the first time, including several new stories.'These early stories showcase Gay's prowess as one of the voices of our age' (National Post, Canada).

Ayiti

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, a powerful short story collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience.In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood. Roxane Gay is an award-winning literary voice praised for her fearless and vivid prose, and her debut collection Ayiti exemplifies the raw talent that made her “one of the voices of our age” (National Post, Canada).Praise for Ayiti“Highly dimensioned characters and unforgettable moments. . . . Dismantling the glib misconceptions of her complex ancestral home, Gay cuts and thrills. Readers will find her powerful first book difficult to put down.” —Booklist“The themes explored in Gay’s nonfiction, such as the transactional nature of violence and the ways in which stereotypes of poverty add another layer of dehumanization, are just as potent here. Even her more lyrical mode is filtered through a keen sense of the lost promise of one country and the blinkered privilege of the other. It’s Gay’s unflinching directness—the sense that her characters are in the room with you, telling it like it is—that makes her irresistible.” —Vogue“A set of brief, tart stories mostly set amid the Haitian-American community and circling around themes of violation, abuse, and heartbreak . . . This book set the tone that still characterizes much of Gay’s writing: clean, unaffected, allowing the (often furious) emotions to rise naturally out of calm, declarative sentences. That gives her briefest stories a punch even when they come in at two pages or fewer, sketching out the challenges of assimilation in terms of accents, meals, or ‘What You Need to Know About a Haitian Woman’. . . . This debut amply contains the righteous energy that drives all her work.” —Kirkus Reviews

Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A

After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed not only added an eloquent new dimension to Ayn Rand's ideas and beliefs, but a fresh and spontaneous insight into Ayn Rand herself. Never before available in print, this publishing event is a collection of those enlightening Q & As. This is Ayn Rand on: ethics, Ernest Hemingway, modern art, Vietnam, Libertarians, Jane Fonda, religious conservatives, Hollywood Communists, atheism, Don Quixote, abortion, gun control, love and marriage, Ronald Reagan, pollution, the Middle East, racism and feminism, crime and punishment, capitalism, prostitution, homosexuality, reason and rationality, literature, drug use, freedom of the press, Richard Nixon, New Left militants, HUAC, chess, comedy, suicide, masculinity, Mark Twain, improper questions, and more.

Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Ayn Rand Novel Collection Ayn Rand Two landmark epics from the famed philosopher and "a writer of great power" (The New York Times Book Review), The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged explore themes of individuality, freedom, and fascism and feature two of Ayn Rand's most famous characters, Howard Roark and John Galt. The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand Reader

The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.