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The Daily Lives of High School Boys 2 (The Daily Lives of High School Boys)
by Yasunobu YamauchiHigh school boys, be fools! Follow the bizarre adventures of Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake at the all boys, Sanada North High School.This is a high school slice of life comedy that will keep you laughing.High school boys, be fools! Follow the bizarre adventures of Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake at the all boys, Sanada North High School.This is a high school slice of life comedy that will keep you laughing.
The Daily Lives of High School Boys 3 (The Daily Lives of High School Boys)
by Yasunobu YamauchiThree Teenaged StoogesYour favorite tasteless testosterone-fueled trio takes the stage again in this third tome of topnotch tomfoolery! This time they&’ll tackle tenacious troubles, tricky moves, twisted imaginations, towers, and much more. So prepare for a triple dose of tee-hees with another trip into the lives of the (not-so-terribly) typical!
The Daily Lives of High School Boys 4 (The Daily Lives of High School Boys)
by Yasunobu YamauchiA High School Life UnimaginableAh, high school! A time of bittersweet memories, crushes, and battles against formidable insects! A time of firsts: the first time you felt disappointed by panties, the first time you choked on rice cake, learning how to ride a bike for the first time—Wait… That doesn&’t sound like high school at all. But it&’s a small sample of the hilarious hijinks and oddball occurrences that Tadakuni, Yoshitake, and Hidenori regularly experience in this fourth volume of The Daily Lives of High School Boys!
The Daily Lives of High School Boys 5 (The Daily Lives of High School Boys)
by Yasunobu YamauchiSilly Times at Sanada North HighThey were teenagers living the humdrum life of Japanese high school boys. By day, they were a four-eyed geek with daddy issues, a ditzy goofball who can&’t stop saying &“surreal,&” and…another boy who barely shows up in the story, but when the final school bell rang, they were…still those people. Enjoy more rollicking inanity as Tadakuni, Yoshitake, and Hidenori continue to experience adolescent awkwardness, antiquated can-based games, and more—all backed by a killer rock score (in your head).To the outside world, their lives were simply absurd marks on paper that some may call &“manga,&” but to each other, this was simply The Daily Lives of High School Boys.
The Daily Lives of High School Boys 6 (The Daily Lives of High School Boys)
by Yasunobu YamauchiMad Lads20XX. Japan is a barren wasteland, and mankind is governed by lawlessness. But in these grim times, a hero shall arise! Known to many as Tadakuni Il Combattante, he journeys in the name of justice with his fellow fighters, Yoshitake and Hidenori, to right wrongs and bring hope to a world drowning in darkness.In this sixth installment of Tadakuni&’s adventures, Il Combattante and his comrades expose untruths, prove their mettle as men, and risk their lives for...sausage?Wait...no—they&’re just ordinary Japanese high school boys with a lot of time on their hands. And their hijinks continue in the latest volume of The Daily Lives of High School Boys!
The Daily Lives of High School Boys 7 (The Daily Lives of High School Boys)
by Yasunobu YamauchiTerminal StupidityFrom misreadings and misunderstandings to manly bonds and menacing chases, the boys of Sanada North High School have just been doing what &“normal&” high school boys do. But all good things must come to an end as we say farewell to the trio of twits with an extra helping of cheese, absurdity, and copious callbacks. Tadakuni, Yoshitake, and Hidenori&’s halcyon days of high school hijinks must now come to a halt, but let&’s laugh, bleat, and bray one last time in this final volume of The Daily Lives of High School Boys.
The Daily Mirror
by David LehmanFollowing in the footsteps of such poets as Emily Dickinson, William Stafford, and Frank O'Hara, David Lehman began writing a poem a day in 1996 and found the experience so rewarding that he continued for the next two years. During that time, some of these poems appeared in various journals and on Web sites, including The Poetry Daily site, which ran thirty of Lehman's poems in as many days throughout the month of April 1998. For The Daily Mirror, Lehman has selected the best of these "daily poems" -- each tied to a specific occasion or situation -- and telescoped two years into one. Spontaneous and immediate, but always finely crafted and spiced with Lehman's signature irony and wit, the poems are akin to journal entries charting the passing of time, the deaths of great men and women, the news of the day. Jazz, Sinatra, the weather, love, poetry and poets, movies, and New York City are among their recurring themes. A departure from Lehman's previous work, this unique volume provides the intimacy of a diary, full of passion, sound, and fury, but with all the aesthetic pleasure of poetry. More a party of poems than a standard collection, The Daily Mirror presents an exciting new way to think about poetry.
A Daily Rate (Grace Livingston Hill Classic Ser. #4)
by Grace HillCelia Murray was unhappy living in a drab, dirty boardinghouse with other “homeless" people. The food was poorly cooked and tasteless, the rooms dark and drafty. But she could afford nothing better. After inheriting an abundant yearly allowance, Celia and her Aunt Hannah were able to take over the boardinghouse, and they immediately began making improvements--both material and spiritual. These two godly women, assisted by Horace Stafford, a young minister, taught the boarders about Christ's love--a love that brought them together as a "family." As Celia became involved in the lives of her boarders, she knew she was falling in love with the kindhearted pastor. But she soon realized this feeling could never be returned. Distressed, Celia sought comfort from the Lord, but her troubled spirit gave her no peace. She had learned to trust Cod daily as she saw Him work in the lives around her--but could she trust Him in the matter of her own heart? She loved a man who cherished another woman. Celia Murray, an impoverished, beautiful young woman--orphaned at an early age--found the desires of her prayerful heart answered by an unexpected inheritance. Now she was able to provide for her beloved Aunt Hannah and change her oppressive life-style in a dreary Philadelphia boardinghouse. One night an educated young man, Horace Stafford, came to rent a room. Celia was attracted to him, but was sure he loved another. Didn't he treasure the locket that contained a picture of a young woman? Ashamed and angry with herself, Celia fought her growing affection, but Horace's strong faith and good works stirred her heart. Was Celia's love for this man of God never to be fulfilled? Look in the Bookshare library for over 40 of Grace Livingston Hill's warm, romantic, encouraging novels.
Daily Reading Comprehension: Grade 4
by Evan-MoorDaily instruction on the reading strategies and comprehension skills your students need to improve reading comprehension and raise test scores! Engage your students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of passages and texts!
Daily Reading Comprehension Grade 4 - Student Practice Book
by Evan-MoorReading Comprehension Workbook for Grade 4
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
by Mason CurreyFranz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, "time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers." Kafka is one of 161 inspired--and inspiring--minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his "male configurations". . . Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day . . . Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced "every pleasure imaginable." Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books . . . Karl Marx . . . Woody Allen . . . Agatha Christie . . . George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing . . . Leo Tolstoy . . . Charles Dickens . . . Pablo Picasso . . . George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers . . . Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to "clear the brain"). Brilliantly compiled and edited, and filled with detail and anecdote, Daily Rituals is irresistible, addictive, magically inspiring.
Daily Rituals: Women at Work
by Mason CurreyMore of Mason Currey's irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull of husbands, wives, children, obligations, in order to create their creations. From those who are the masters of their craft (Eudora Welty, Lynn Fontanne, Penelope Fitzgerald, Marie Curie) to those who were recognized in a burst of acclaim (Lorraine Hansberry, Zadie Smith) . . . from Clara Schumann and Shirley Jackson, carving out small amounts of time from family life, to Isadora Duncan and Agnes Martin, rejecting the demands of domesticity, Currey shows us the large and small (and abiding) choices these women made--and continue to make--for their art: Isak Dinesen, "I promised the Devil my soul, and in return he promised me that everything I was going to experience would be turned into tales," Dinesen subsisting on oysters and Champagne but also amphetamines, which gave her the overdrive she required . . . And the rituals (daily and otherwise) that guide these artists: Isabel Allende starting a new book only on January 8th . . . Hilary Mantel taking a shower to combat writers' block ("I am the cleanest person I know") . . . Tallulah Bankhead coping with her three phobias (hating to go to bed, hating to get up, and hating to be alone), which, could she "mute them," would make her life "as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water" . . . Lillian Hellman chain-smoking three packs of cigarettes and drinking twenty cups of coffee a day--and, after milking the cow and cleaning the barn, writing out of "elation, depression, hope" ("That is the exact order. Hope sets in toward nightfall. That's when you tell yourself that you're going to be better the next time, so help you God.") . . . Diane Arbus, doing what "gnaws at" her . . . Colette, locked in her writing room by her first husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars (nom de plume: Willy) and not being "let out" until completing her daily quota (she wrote five pages a day and threw away the fifth). Colette later said, "A prison is one of the best workshops" . . . Jessye Norman disdaining routines or rituals of any kind, seeing them as "a crutch" . . . and Octavia Butler writing every day no matter what ("screw inspiration"). Germaine de Staël . . . Elizabeth Barrett Browning . . . George Eliot . . . Edith Wharton . . . Virginia Woolf . . . Edna Ferber . . . Doris Lessing . . . Pina Bausch . . . Frida Kahlo . . . Marguerite Duras . . . Helen Frankenthaler . . . Patti Smith, and 131 more--on their daily routines, superstitions, fears, eating (and drinking) habits, and other finely (and not so finely) calibrated rituals that help summon up willpower and self-discipline, keeping themselves afloat with optimism and fight, as they create (and avoid creating) their creations.
The Daily Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World's Greatest Detective (A Year of Quotes)
by Arthur Conan Doyle“Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” said Stamford, introducing us.“How are you?” he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.”“How on earth did you know that?” I asked in astonishment.“Never mind,” said he, chuckling to himself. At that first sight of Watson, Sherlock Holmes made brilliant deductions. But even he couldn’t know that their meeting was inaugurating a friendship that would make himself and the good Doctor cultural icons, as popular as ever more than a century after their 1887 debut. Through four novels and fifty-six stories, Arthur Conan Doyle led the pair through dramatic adventures that continue to thrill readers today, offering an unmatched combination of skillful plotting, period detail, humor, and distinctive characters. For a Holmes fan, there are few pleasures comparable to returning to his richly imagined world—the gaslit streets of Victorian London, the companionable clutter of 221B Baker Street, the reliable fuddlement (and nerves of steel) of Watson, the perverse genius of Holmes himself. It’s all there in The Daily Sherlock Holmes, the perfect bedside companion for fans of the world’s only consulting detective. Within these pages readers will find a quotation for every day of the year, drawn from across the Conan Doyle canon. Beloved characters and familiar lines recall favorite stories and scenes, while other passages remind us that Conan Doyle had a way with description and a ready wit. Moriarty and Mycroft, Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson; the Hound, the Red-Headed League, the Speckled Band, and the dread Reichenbach Falls—it’s all here, anchored, of course, in that unforgettable duo of Holmes and Watson. No book published this year will bring a Holmes fan more pleasure. Come, readers. The game is afoot.
Daimon: The Prequel To Half-blood (Covenant #1)
by Jennifer L. ArmentroutThis short novella is part of the Covenant series. 17-year-old Alexandra is living quietly with her pure-blood mother in the fully mortal world. As a half-blood, Alex has some special talents. Ghouls come, kill her mother, and Alex is on the run.
Daimon
by Georgette GouveiaHe was a romantic and a realist, a lover of strong women and beautiful men. And though he was at one time the richest, most powerful man in the world, his most prized possession was a book -- Homer’s The Iliad, annotated by his tutor, Aristotle.Most of all, he was as much a myth as a man and a mystery ... even to himself.When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 B.C. a month shy of his 33rd birthday and after conquering and reordering Persia, he left a sprawling empire and a burning question: What drove him?Before Alexander, culture flowed East to West. After, it would flow West to East, and we are the heirs of the continuing tension between the two.In this historical novel, Alexander encounters the only two enemies he cannot defeat: death and time. Surrendering to both, he considers a life that attempted to bridge seemingly irreconcilable opposites -- East and West, Persians and Greeks, a brutal father and a ruthless mother, a wily wife and a male soulmate. And above all, a tempered mind and ungovernable passions.
Daimon: The Prequel To Half-blood (Covenant Series)
by Jennifer L. ArmentroutFor three years, Alexandria has lived among mortals - pretending to be like them and trying to forget the duty she'd been trained to fulfil as a child of a mortal and a demigod. At seventeen, she's pretty much accepted that she's a freak by mortal standards... and that she'll never be prepared for that duty. According to her mother, that's a good thing.But as every descendent of the gods knows, Fate has a way of rearing her ugly head. A horrifying attack forces Alex to flee Miami and try to find her way back to the very place her mother had warned her she should never return - the Covenant. Every step that brings her closer to safety is one more step toward death... because she's being hunted by the very creatures she'd once trained to kill.The daimons have found her.
Daimones
by Massimo Marino Ignacio Iribarnegaray GarcíaUna invasión letal y silenciosa deja a los supervivientes aturdidos, recelosos y deshechos. Un primer contacto y un Apocalípsis cuyas raíces cuentan con millones de años de antigüedad.Dan Amenta se levanta una mañana para descubrir que el mundo ha cambiado.La muerte se propaga por todo el planeta. Sin embargo, Dan y su familia permanecen intactos. Este comienza a temer que sean los tres últimos supervivientes que queden en la Tierra. No lo son. Los esfuerzos para sobrevivir y establecer contacto con otros revelan una verdad perturbadora sobre el exterminio humano. Dan encuentra a Laura, quien les revelará aún más. Su presencia, es decir, la de una jovencita sensual y perjudicial, añade interrogantes sobre lo que es moral y ético en la nueva realidadEntonces, las experiencias paranormales que le llegan por otros supervivientes empujan a Dan a buscar explicaciones sobre su propio pasado. El recuerdo de unas alucinaciones de su infancia le golpean con la fuerza de un mazazo al enfrentarse con un secreto que existe desde hace varios millones de años. El planeta Tierra se encuentra en manos de un antiguo poder, uno que Dan jamás imaginó y al que no se atreve a desobedecer."Incluso con la mejor de las intenciones, la crueldad está a la vuelta de la esquina".Un primer contacto y una colonización alienígena sientan las bases de la trilogía sobre un cataclismo galáctico, así como una guerra en el espacio.
Daimones
by Massimo Marino Nina IordacheDescrierea cărţii: După o invazie mortală şi tăcută supravieţuitorii rămân dezorientaţi, îngrijoraţi şi sfâşiaţi de durere. Un Prim Contact şi o Apocalipsă cu rădăcini vechi de milioane de ani. Dan Amenta se trezeşte într-o dimineaţă şi descoperă că lumea s-a schimbat. Moartea s-a întins peste toată planeta. Cu toate acestea, Dan şi familia lui au rămas neatinşi. Începe să-i fie teamă că sunt singurii trei oameni în viaţă de pe Pământ. Nu sunt. Eforturile lor de a supravieţui şi de a lua legătura cu alţii dezvăluie adevăruri tulburătoare despre exterminarea specie umane. Dan o găseşte pe Laura care-i dezvăluie şi mai multe. Prezenţa ei - o tânără seducătoare şi tumultuoasă - ridică problema conceptului etic şi moral în această nouă realitate. Apoi experienţele supranaturale relatate de alţi supravieţuitori îl obligă pe Dan să caute explicaţii în propriul său trecut. Amintirile halucinaţiilor din copilărie îl lovesc cu forţa unui ciocan, făcându-l să se confrunte cu un secret vechi de milioane de ani. Planeta Pământ este în mâinile unei puteri străvechi, pe care Dan nu şi-ar fi putut-o imagina şi pe care nu îndrăzneşte s-o nesocotească... "Oricât de bine intenţionaţi ar fi fost, cruzimea îşi iţea capul mereu de după vreun colţ." Un prim contact şi o colonizare extraterestră sădesc seminţele în trilogie pentru prefacerea galactică şi războaiele cu extratereştrii.
The Dain Curse
by Dashiell HammettThe nameless detective known only as the Continental Op is tasked with investigating the theft of diamonds from the Leggets, who have ties to the Dain family - a family that is said to be plagued by a terrible curse that leads those near them to <P> gruesome deaths. The Op will have to solve the mysteries behind lies, murders, and even a cult if he's going to get to the heart of the matter. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
The Dain Curse: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man (Murder Room #601)
by Dashiell Hammett'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMESMiss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts and finds himself confronting something infinitely more dangerous.This is the Continental Op's most bizarre case and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
The Dain Curse: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man (Library Of America Dashiell Hammett Edition Ser. #1)
by Dashiell HammettWhen eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren&’t the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a suicide. His daughter, one of the suspects, Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, has a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying. Might Gabrielle be the victim of an arcane family curse? Or is the truth about her stranger and even more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op&’s most bizarre cases and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
Daintree Reflections
by Anthony W. BuirchellSuddenly there was an explosion in the centre of the billabong and a gigantic crocodile launched itself into the path of the incoming geese. The crocodile opened its massive jaws and seemed to hover in the air. The boys sat transfixed. Several magpie geese saw the danger and tried to swerve. The crocodile had selected one that was on a direct course to where its jaws would clamp shut around it. Black and white feathers flew in all directions and the crocodile's massive body whacked back into the water. Wave after wave rippled across the water and then all was still as if nothing had happened. "Jesus Christ," said Keith. "Did you see that?" Not only crocodiles but the ever present dangers of floods, wild pigs, cyclones, pythons, cassowaries, flash floods and taipans confronted the family daily. Did they all survive the years 1926 - 1936 as a family in the Daintree? Not only read about their quest for survival but also the fun and mischief they got up to.
Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary (A Sunflower Café Mystery #1)
by Amy LillardLooking for a fresh start, advice columnist Sissy Yoder heads to small-town Yoder, Kansas, to help in her aunt&’s café. But when a milkman is murdered, the newcomer becomes the prime suspect . . . After Sissy&’s rodeo cowboy boyfriend turns out to be more of a rodeo clown, she packs a bag; picks up her Yorkshire terrier Duke; and leaves Tulsa, Oklahoma, bound for her parents&’ former hometown. There are still plenty of Yoders in Yoder, Kansas, including Sissy&’s aunt Bethel, who owns the Sunflower Café but recently broke her leg. It&’s a homecoming of sorts as Sissy arrives to help in the café and reunite with her pregnant cousin Lizzie. Plus she can continue to secretly write her newspaper advice column as seventy-year-old &“Aunt Bess.&” But it&’s Sissy who could use some advice when she finds the milk deliveryman out behind the café with a knife in his back. As the sheriff&’s prime suspect, it&’s up to Sissy to catch the backstabber herself—before someone else gets creamed . . .
Dairy Farm: Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
by Mary Alice Downie Barbara Robertson Elizabeth Jane Errington Ella C. SykesThis selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman’s wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of a dangerous voyage out from France, a famous children’s writer writes home about the fun of canoeing, and a German general’s wife describes habitant customs. All demonstrate how women’s experiences not only shared, but helped shape this new country.
Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen Trilogy Ser.)
by Catherine Gilbert MurdockWhen you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. can't help admitting, maybe he's right.When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.Stuff like why her best friend, Amber, isn't so friendly anymore. Or why her little brother, Curtis, never opens his mouth. Why her mom has two jobs and a big secret. Why her college-football-star brothers won't even call home. Why her dad would go ballistic if she tried out for the high school football team herself. And why Brian is so, so out of her league.When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.Welcome to the summer that fifteen-year-old D. J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, learns to talk, and ends up having an awful lot of stuff to say.