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Barnacle Love
by Anthony De SaA tale of two generations spanning from the Azores to Toronto’s Portuguese community: “Immense emotional and truthful power” (Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn). These “beautiful [and] profoundly moving” interlinked stories of a father and son explore the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience (Booklist, starred review). Moving from a small Portuguese fishing village in the Azores Islands to the shores of Newfoundland, Barnacle Love then takes us into the dark alleys of Toronto’s Portuguese community in the 1970s. The first half of the story is told through the perspective of the father, Manuel Rebelo, who fled his homeland—and the crushing weight of his mother’s expectations—to build a future for himself in a new land. Manuel struggles to adjust, but fulfilling the promise of his adopted home is not as simple as he had hoped. The tale transitions to the candid point of view of Manuel’s son, Antonio, who—along with his sister and mother—lives in the shadows cast by Manuel’s failures. With fantastic, sometimes magical details and passionate empathy, this is a haunting journey into the lives of a family and its secrets. Hailed as “tender and raw, morbid and surprisingly gentle” by the Vancouver Sun, Barnacle Love was a finalist for Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize.
Barney (The Puppy Place #57)
by Ellen MilesWelcome to the Puppy Place! Where every puppy finds a home.Welcome to the Puppy Place!Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Lizzie Peterson is excited to watch her best friend Maria in an equestrian competition. As the horses get ready to compete, a curious dachshund races straight into the ring! When Lizzie finds that the puppy belongs to a family who is a bit overwhelmed, she decides to help them re-home Barney. But finding the perfect owners for this loud and peppy dog might not be so easy.
Barney Says "Please and Thank You"
by Stephen WhiteA pretend birthday party becomes a real opportunity to practice using good manners. Barney and Baby Bop happily use the words "please" and "thank you" while enjoying lots of party surprises. Good manners are fundamental and Barney makes them fun.
Barney Sweet Dreams
by Brooke ZimmermanRead favorite bedtime stories, poems and lullabies with Barney and his friends. Picture descriptions present.
Barney Thomson, Zombie Killer
by Douglas Lindsay<p> One government.<br /> One empire.<br /> One murderer.<br /> One barber.<br /> One zombie infestation about to consume planet earth.</p> <p> The coalition government is in crisis, limping from one disaster to the next. The Prime Minister has a plan. Get the world's finest barber in to give him a new haircut. His defence minister, however, has an entirely different and more compelling plan. Using the all-new zombie-control gene developed by British scientists, the government will harvest an army of the living dead and use it to take over the world.</p> <p> As a series of gruesome murders takes place in London, and the restless ranks of the Conservative party start to close in on a beleaguered Prime Minister, the zombie contagion is unleashed upon planet earth, the British Empire begins to expand, and Queen Victoria can at last stop turning in her grave. What could possibly go wrong?</p> <p> Featuring barbershop legend Barney Thomson, murder, political intrigue, scenes of gratuitous flesh-eating, Humphrey Bogart, Satan, and the return of femme fatale Harlequin Sweetlips, BARNEY THOMSON, ZOMBIE KILLER is this year's must-read zombie political satire crime thriller comedy thing.</p> <p> BARNEY THOMSON, ZOMBIE KILLER is a 29,000-word novella.</p> <p> <strong>THE BARNEY THOMSON novels in order:</strong></p> <p> #1 THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON<br /> #2 THE BARBER SURGEON'S HAIRSHIRT (aka THE CUTTING EDGE OF BARNEY THOMSON)<br /> #3 MURDERERS ANONYMOUS (aka A PRAYER FOR BARNEY THOMSON)<br /> #4 THE RESURRECTION OF BARNEY THOMSON (aka THE KING WAS IN HIS COUNTING HOUSE)<br /> #5 THE LAST FISH SUPPER<br /> #6 THE HAUNTING OF BARNEY THOMSON<br /> #7 THE FINAL CUT</p> <p> <strong>THE BARNEY THOMSON novellas:</strong></p> <p> THE END OF DAYS<br /> THE FACE OF DEATH<br /> BARNEY THOMSON, ZOMBIE KILLER</p> <p> <br /> <strong>About the author</strong></p> <p> Douglas Lindsay is the author of the Barney Thomson barbershop crime series, as well as the thriller, LOST IN JUAREZ and the police procedurals, THE UNBURIED DEAD and WE ARE THE HANGED MAN. He lives in Somerset.</p>
Barney and BJ Go to the Zoo
by Mark S. BernthalLions and monkeys and bears. You never know what you'll find when you visit the zoo with Barney. The dinopals meet lots of new animal friends in this delightful "Go-To" photography book.
Barney and the UFO
by Margaret Goff ClarkBarney is afraid to tell his foster parents that he has seen a UFO behind the house even when a hasty promise to a space boy leads him into trouble.
Barney on Mars
by Margaret Goff ClarkWhen Barney's young friend's dog is taken to Mars, extraterrestrial acquaintance Tibbo helps them try to get it back.
Barney the Bear and Friends
by Fern PaisleyThis story takes us on an adventure about a bear and his two best friends, Owen the owl and Lee the lemur, who all live in the woods. Owen, the night owl, helps Barney the bear at night mainly. Lee the lemur sees him during the day. One day we learn that Barney the bear likes playing silly jokes on his friends but Barney soon realizes that sometimes it’s not that nice to play jokes on our friends. He feels like his friends are unhappy with him and runs to think about what he did. He writes a letter to his mum as he is on his own without his mum in the woods… but do his friends know this and that he is missing her? Will they find out? Will they find the truth about Barney the bear? Why not have a read and see! So join in on the fun and see lovely friends come to life! This book is to celebrate the birth of my beautiful boy, Jacob Charles Keith Crump, born the 5th of February.
Barney's In, Out and All Around
by Mary Ann Dudko Margie LarsenIt's a car. It's a boat. It's a rocket ship. No--it's a cardboard box! But with a little imagination, Barney turns an ordinary box into extraordinary fun. The fun photography book introduces more early learning concepts to little ones.
Barney's Version
by Mordecai RichlerCharged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career.Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping . . .From the Hardcover edition.
Barnyard Banter
by Denise FlemingAll the farm animals are where they should be, clucking and mucking, mewing and cooing, except for the missing goose.
Barnyard Battle (Sweet Valley Twins #59)
by Jamie Suzanne Francine PascalThe battle is on, and both sides are determined to win! When Jessica and Elizabeth's social studies class spends a weekend at a pioneer farm without benefit of modern conveniences, the boys say the girls can't live without hair dryers, and the girls insist the boys need their TV and junk food.
Barnyard Buddies (Good Dog #7)
by Cam HigginsIn this irresistible seventh book of the Good Dog series, Bo doesn&’t want to miss any of the barnyard fun!Bo loves having lots of friends on the farm. There&’s always something to do and a barnyard buddy to play with. Bo doesn&’t want to lose out on a single second with any of them, but he can&’t be in two places at once! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.
Barnyard Dance!
by Sandra BoyntonStomp your feet! Clap your hands! Everybody ready for a BARNYARD DANCE! AND 5 MORE BOOKS TO LOOK FOR: HEY! WAKE UP! PAJAMA TIME! Oh my Oh my Oh DINOSAURS! BIRTHDAY MONSTER! ONE, TWO, THREE Great little books for great little kids.
Barnyard Hullabaloo (Early Reader Ser.)
by Francesca Simon Emily BolamEarly Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.Naughty Fox is on the prowl again, and the animals of Potter's Barn must come up with a plan to get rid of him once and for all. It's time to create a Barnyard Hullabaloo!
Barnyard Hullabaloo (Early Reader)
by Francesca SimonEarly Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.Naughty Fox is on the prowl again, and the animals of Potter's Barn must come up with a plan to get rid of him once and for all. It's time to create a Barnyard Hullabaloo!
Baron (The Knickerbocker Club #2)
by Joanna ShupeNew York City's Gilded Age shines as bright as the power-wielding men of the Knickerbocker Club. And one pragmatic industrialist is about to learn that a man may make his own destiny, but love is a matter of fortune . . . Born into one of New York's most respected families, William Sloane is a railroad baron who has all the right friends in all the right places. But no matter how much success he achieves, he always wants more. Having secured his place atop the city's highest echelons of society, he's now setting his sights on a political run. Nothing can distract him from his next pursuit--except, perhaps, the enchanting con artist he never saw coming . . . Ava Jones has eked out a living the only way she knows how. As "Madame Zolikoff," she hoodwinks gullible audiences into believing she can communicate with the spirit world. But her carefully crafted persona is nearly destroyed when Will Sloane walks into her life--and lays bare her latest scheme. The charlatan is certain she can seduce the handsome millionaire into keeping her secret and using her skills for his campaign--unless he's the one who's already put a spell on her . . . Raves for Magnate "Original and captivating . . . Complex and layered." --Publishers Weekly, Starred "An engaging romance." -- Library Journal, Starred "A sexually charged, intense, poignant and powerfully written love story." --RT Book Reviews "A beautiful romance . . . Sexy and clever." --The Washington Post
Baron Bagge
by Alexander Lernet-HoleniaThis astonishing short novel concerns the unfathomable, otherworldly experiences of an aristocratic young calvary officer in WWI A novel of love and valor, war and stupidity, life and death (as well as what may lay beyond our mortal coils), Baron Bagge concerns a young Austrian cavalry lieutenant in the Carpathian mountains at the beginning of WWI. The baron leads a desperate charge across a bridge to meet the Russian forces, following the orders of his mentally unstable commander: “We were soon to have proof of his unreliability… But perhaps it is not right to place the blame on him. Perhaps his foolishness was merely the instrument of fate, and the disaster into which he led his squadron, the slaughter of so many men and horses, took place in order that something which could no longer happen within the realm of the living—because it was too late—could happen after life.” And, swaying in a kind of fugue, the baron wanders off the bridge into unknown realms, where—mesmerized by Lernet-Holenia’s phosphorescent style—the reader joins his waking dream.
Baron Korff
by Naftoli EhrmannA pious Galician Jew finds an abandoned Christian baby boy and raises him with his own children for the first nine years of his life. The uncanny wisdom of an old rabbi, the perceptive eye of a Galician count, the overwhelming guilt of a Russian baron, the disciplined brilliance of a Romanian ex-abbot, and the sublime orchestration of a fascinating cast of supporting characters all add ferment to the fascinating developments in this extraordinary boy's life. Join Abram on his quest to find himself to find his way in life, and to solve the mystery of his origin.
Baron Orgaz (The Doctor Orient Novels #4)
by Frank LauriaFifty shades of noir: Nazi sadists, occult killers, and underground BDSM bars are all part of a paranormal investigator's job description When Dr. Owen Orient is asked to investigate a young man's sudden disappearance, he reluctantly agrees. What begins as a missing-person case quickly morphs into murder, and before long, Orient is thrust into an international manhunt that takes him from Manhattan's S&M underground to the heart of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza. After years of dedicated study in Tibet, Dr. Orient has honed his telepathic skills to become a formidable psychic investigator. But he finds himself the target of a powerful Nazi cult and becomes involved with a beautiful woman whose concept of sexual loyalty is slippery at best. With the help of his assistant, Sordi, Dr. Orient faces hostile cops, psycho Nazis wielding massive occult powers, and a hot war in Egypt in a case that races from drug and sex parties at a fabulous Hamptons mansion to the secrets of the ancient world. But will this adventure of a lifetime steal his soul?
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
by László KrasznahorkaiAt last, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part masterwork Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and what follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town’s alternately drab and absurd existence. All along, the Professor—a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town—offers long rants and disquisitions on his attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged as death and the abyss loom over the unsuspecting townfolk.