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Ducky and Bunny Help Out! (Step into Reading)
by RH DisneyThis deluxe Step into Reading is based on the exciting Disney/Pixar Toy Story movies!Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 4 opened a new chapter in the lives of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of the Toy Story gang, including introducing them to some brand-new toys. This original story will feature two of the breakout stars from Toy Story 4, Ducky and Bunny! This book is perfect for girls and boys ages 4 to 6. Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.
Ducky's California Diaries: Diary One, Diary Two, and Diary Three (California Diaries)
by Ann M. MartinTeenager Christopher &“Ducky&” McCrae deals with feeling isolated in this spin-off from the Newbery Award–winning author&’s Baby-sitters Club series. Ducky has great new friends in Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, and Amalia. But as much as he enjoys spending time with the girls, sometimes he misses the connection he had with his former friends Jay and Alex, who&’ve recently drifted away. With his parents always traveling and his brother too busy to spend time with him, lately Ducky feels like the loneliest teenager on the West Coast. So when one of his female friends develops a crush on him—no one is more surprised than Ducky . . . The next chapter following Ann M. Martin&’s bestselling Baby-sitters Club series, the California Diaries are the first-person journals of Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, Amalia, and Ducky—five teenagers dealing with the ups and downs of growing up. This collection includes the complete set of Ducky&’s three California Diaries.
Ducky: Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, Amalia, And Ducky (California Diaries #10)
by Ann M. MartinAll Ducky wants is the comfort of his family—but when they&’re around, he feels lonelier than ever Ducky has been worried about Alex ever since the party at Jay&’s, when Alex &“accidentally&” tried to hurt himself. He can&’t talk to Sunny about it—she&’s got enough going on with her terminally ill mom. Jay is still hanging with the Cro Mags, the jocks who push Ducky around. And Ducky&’s older brother, Ted, just wouldn&’t understand. Fortunately, Christmas is around the corner and his parents are coming back from Ghana, so Ducky will finally have the family support he&’s desperately been missing. But when they return, the McCraes don&’t seem to care about what&’s been going on in Ducky&’s world, either, and can&’t wait to leave again. With no one to turn to for advice, Ducky decides to confront Alex—and his deepest fears are confirmed. This time, there&’s no mistaking Alex&’s actions for an accident. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author&’s collection. Ducky: Diary Two is the 10th book in the California Diaries, which also includes Amalia: Diary Two and Dawn: Diary Three.
Ducky: Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, Amalia, And Ducky (California Diaries #15)
by Ann M. MartinDucky and Sunny get along so well—does that mean they should be dating? Ducky and Sunny have a pretty special friendship. And working together at Sunny&’s dad&’s bookstore has only brought them closer. But when Ducky notices Sunny laughing a little too hard at his jokes and giving him moony eyes, he doesn&’t know what to do. His guy friends aren&’t available and Dawn, Maggie, and Amalia are too close to Sunny to understand. Ducky knows most guys would love to be with Sunny, but he can&’t pretend to be into her when he&’s not. Right now, the last thing Sunny can handle is more pain. How can he let her know without hurting their friendship? This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author&’s collection. Ducky: Diary Three is the 15th book in the California Diaries, which also includes Maggie: Diary Three and Amalia: Diary Three.
Ducky: Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, Amalia, And Ducky (California Diaries #5)
by Ann M. MartinDucky&’s old buddies have changed, leaving him feeling alone . . . Maybe he doesn&’t need guy friends anyway Sophomore Christopher McCrae has been called &“Ducky&” for as long as he can remember. It wasn&’t his choice, but it fits because it&’s weird and funny, just like him. Ducky&’s nickname has not changed, but other things have: His best friend, Jay, has started hanging with the Cro Mags—the kind of guys who spend their energy picking on guys like Ducky—and his other friend Alex is always spaced out and moody. Hanging out with his new friends Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, and Amalia has been cool, but he misses the connection to his guy friends. His parents are in Ghana for a year, and have left him alone with his older brother, Ted, who is gone most of the time. When Jay throws a party and invites Ducky and Alex, Ducky thinks things might be turning around. But when the night takes an unexpected turn, Ducky realizes it&’s not so easy to reconnect with his old friends. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author&’s collection. Ducky: Diary One is the 5th book in the California Diaries, which also includes Amalia: Diary One and Sunny: Diary One.
Duct-Taped Roses
by Billeh NickersonIn Duct-Taped Roses, Billeh Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss.As a bush pilot, Nickerson's father would duct-tape his planes to keep them flying. The poignancy of his relationship with his father is celebrated here in the long poem "Skies." Other poems reminisce about love and the complex resiliency of gay men.Through his signature irreverence, honesty and wit, Nickerson explores what can be repaired, what must be celebrated, and what—inevitably—is lost to time.
Dude Mama
by Michael P. ThomasWhen button-down biracial lawmaker Cassidy Uematsu meets hardscrabble fry cook Buford “Jax” Jackson, it’s lust at first sight. They’re only too happy to jump into the sack, and when Jax loses his condom mid-getting-to-know-you, Cassidy urges him forward, damn the consequences. What’s the worst that can happen?After a couple weeks of morning sickness and a few months gaining weight, Cassidy learns an unfathomable secret about the men in his family that he’s pretty sure he was happier not knowing. Jax is a fan of Cassidy’s rapidly rounding belly, and of the sexy “Dude Mama” roleplay it inspires.But the night he feels a kick inside Cassidy’s growing belly, Jax hightails it, certain at least one of them has lost his damn mind. A pregnant dude? That’s impossible. As the ninth month since the condom mishap approaches, Cassidy sure hopes he’s right.
Dude Ranch (Saddle Club #6)
by Bonnie BryantThe founders of The Saddle Club -- Stevie Lake, Carole Hanson, and Lisa Atwood -- gear up for the adventure of their lives when their friend Kate Devine invites them to her family's dude ranch. They will have a whole week of cowboy-style riding, plus the fun of making Kate a club member.But when they arrive, the girls soon realize there's more to the West than Hollywood shootout and colorful costumes. To show a cowhand that they're not just "dumb dudes," they pitch in with chores and help on a cattle roundup, where Stevie has a run-in with a dangerous rattlesnake. Another sour note for Stevie: Her birthday is coming up, and no one seems to care. Little does she know that her Saddle Club buddies have a top-secret surprise in the works for her!
Dude Ranch Detective (The Nancy Drew Notebooks #37)
by Carolyn KeeneA spooky legend ropes Nancy right in!At the Galloping Grits Dude Ranch, Nancy and her friends hear a creepy story: Any horse that drinks from the lake under a full moon disappears. That night there's a full moon -- and the next day Nancy's pony, Star, vanishes!Josh Fleckner is the biggest pest in the West, and he really wants a horse. Annie, the ranch manager's daughter, acts as if Star belongs to her. Now cowgirl Nancy is taking the reins, to corral the most beautiful Star in the West!
Dude Ranch Nights
by Deirdre O’dareWhen New York socialite Carole “C.J.” VanDemont loses the uncle with whom she went adventuring, life looks bleak and dull. Then an ad sends her to Arizona to visit La Riata guest ranch and experience wilderness adventures with guide and rancher Cameron Greenway.In Cam she finds everything she imagined and more. He puts a whole new twist on adventure for her until she becomes helplessly addicted to his brand of excitement. Must and can she return to the staid life awaiting her?
Dude on Arrival • The Bridled Groom: An F&M Duet (Sarah Deane)
by J.S. BorthwickSarah Deane has her traveling shoes on again and we all know a sleuth never gets a peaceful vacation. It&’s holidays at a swanky Arizona resort for English professor Sarah Deane, her fiance, and her feisty Aunt Julia, but somebody&’s notion of Yuletide appears to include increasingly unpleasant pranks...which turn from nasty to deadly on Christmas morning. In a tip of the hat to Golden Age mysteries, the police are clueless, but Sarah is unhappily certain the killer—the Dude?—is one of the hotel&’s guests, someone with whom she&’d been singing carols only hours earlier. In The Bridled Groom, Sarah and Alex are once again vacationing with Aunt Julia, this time in horse country, where the two young'uns are planning their wedding. Aunt J would love to join in but keeps getting distracted by weird threats delivered with the morning paper—and by the possibility that those threats are connected to a series of sinister accidents. Will this ugliness derail the nuptials, or does Sarah have the horse sense required to catch the culprit? You know the answer, but it&’s heaps of fun getting there.
Dude, That's Rude!: (Get Some Manners) (Laugh and Learn)
by Elizabeth Verdick Pamela EspelandKids today need manners more than ever, and Dude, That’s Rude! makes it fun and easy to get some. Full-color cartoons and kid-friendly text teach the basics of polite behavior in all kinds of situations—at home, at school, in the bathroom, on the phone, at the mall, and more. Kids learn Power Words to use and P.U. Words to avoid, why their family deserves their best manners, and the essentials of e-tiquette (politeness online). It seems like light reading, but it’s serious stuff: Manners are major social skills, and this book gives kids a great start.
Dudes, the School Is Haunted! (Rotten School #7)
by R. L. StineWhen the most timid boy in Rotten School's fourth grade becomes the target of its biggest bully, Bernie Bridges decides to fight brawn with brains by convincing the bully that a ghost is out to get him.
Dudley's Day at Home
by Renee Andriani Karen Kaufman Orloff"What does Dudley do all day while we're away?" Sam wonders. Mom explains that Dudley does ordinary dog things: he eats, naps, guards the house, and plays. But in Sam's mind, Dudley's day at home is anything but ordinary. Delightful digital paintings depict the human activities Sam imagines Dudley is doing – which don't quite match Mom's explanations. Dudley's Day at Home is a funny, fetching picture book that uses minimal text and maximal visual storytelling to share a day in a dog's life.
Due Considerations
by John Updike"A drop of truth, of lived experience, glistens in each." This is how John Updike, one of the world's most acclaimed novelists, modestly describes his nonfiction work, the brilliant and graceful essays and criticism he has written for more than five decades. Due Considerations is his sixth collection, and perhaps the most moving, stylish, and personal volume yet. Here he reflects on such writers and works as Emerson, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Colson Whitehead, The Wizard of Oz, Don DeLillo, The Portrait of a Lady, Margaret Atwood, The Mabinogion, and Proust. Updike also provides a whimsical and insightful list of "Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido," from Pocahontas and John Smith to Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky; muses on how the practice of faith changes but doesn't disappear; and shares his reaction to the attacks on 9/11 (in Brooklyn that day, "Freedom, reflected in the street's diversity and quotidian ease, felt palpable"). Due Considerations proves that John Updike is, as noted in The Boston Globe, "our greatest critic of literature."Praise for Due Considerations:A New York Times Notable Book"The prose is clean, elegant, exquisitely calibrated. . . . [Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century."-Los Angeles Times Book Review"Updike's scope is rather breathtaking. . . . When I do not know the subject well-as in his finely illustrated art reviews of Bruegel, Dürer and Goya-I learn much from what Updike has to impart. When he considers an author I love, like Proust or Czeslaw Milosz, I often find myself appreciating familiar things in a new way."-Christopher Hitchens, The New York Times Book Review"With his pack-rat curiosity . . . his prodigious memory and attendant knack for choosing the 'just-right' fact or quote, and his ever-present astonishment at both the stupidity and genius on display wherever he looks, Updike is in many ways an ideal critic. . . . It is a privilege to be in the company of this wonderfully American voice."-Rocky Mountain News"Updike knows more about literature than almost anyone breathing today. . . . He's beyond knowledgeable-he makes Google look wanting."-Baltimore Sun"Provocative and incisive . . . This volume reminds us that [Updike's] prose sets our literary bar very high indeed."-The Charlotte Observer"Updike offers an effortless mastery of form and content."-The Boston GlobeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
Due Diligence
by Anna ZaboA business trip leads to a surprise encounter with an old flame in this sexy romance from the author of Just Business. After Fazil Kurt breaks up with his girlfriend, a business trip to Seattle offers some much-needed time away. Sent by S.R. Anderson Consulting, Fazil is there to help audit Singularity Storage, a company they are trying to save. His first discovery is intriguing to say the least: One of Singularity's engineers is Todd Douglas, Fazil's first love. He knows better than to get personally involved on a job like this. Back in high school, Todd broke Fazil's heart more times than he could count, but both men have grown so much since then--and Fazil never could say no to Todd...
Due Diligence
by Paul BennettNick Shannon is out. Out of prison and out for justice. All he wants is to put his life back together- and to find the man who crippled his sister and killed her boyfriend.He's got a job in 'due diligence'- assessing the price to be paid to take over a company- so at least that's a start. Then his boss is murdered, and what better prime suspect than an ex-con? John's mutilated body is only the first of Nick's discoveries. As he struggles to clear himself, Nick turns over the stone which reveals John's secret life of fraud, sexual entrapment and blackmail. It emerges that the man tipped off to be the next Chancellor is top of the list of John's victims, that a million pounds has disappeared and that he's inherited a dead man's enemies.What he hasn't got is time. Just three days to identify who's paying money into his account, three days to work out why someone wants to steal his future.
Due Diligence (Attorney Rachel Gold Mysteries #0)
by Michael A. Kahn"Quite definitely addictive . . . a must-read, written with wit and humor and peopled with multidimensional characters. What more could a reader ask for?" —Mary Balogh, New York Times bestselling authorThe phone call Rachel Gold received from a nervous CPA almost seemed routine. Rosenthal wanted to meet with her to discuss something confidential about a corporate merger. Hardly an unusual request of a lawyer. But Rosenthal never made it to the meeting—and when his corpse is discovered, it was clear he had died under circumstances too bizarre to believe. Having never even met the murdered CPA, Rachel is willing to let the police try to close the case. But that all changes with the next victim—someone so dear to Rachel that the hunt for the killer becomes her personal vendetta.What lethal facts did the slain accountant find buried in the books of Armstrong Bioproducts while doing the pre-merger due diligence? Was there any connection between that pharmaceutical company and the presidential campaign of Rachel's political hero, Dr. Douglas Armstrong? Armstrong, the founder of Armstrong Bioproducts, is now the junior senator from Missouri. And what was the significance, if any, of the yellowed typewritten lists of names of residents of two St. Louis nursing homes that had gone out of business decades earlier?Teaming up again with her best friend, Benny Goldberg, Rachel seeks her own measure of vengeance. As other corpses show up, her pursuit will take her from the upper strata of St. Louis society to the elaborate network of limestone caves far beneath the streets of St. Louis, where the answers to the mystery—along with the murderers themselves—await her arrival.
Due Diligence: A Thriller
by Jonathan RushHE'S GOT THE DEAL OF HIS LIFE … NOW HE JUST HAS TO SURVIVE ITWhen Louisiana-based CEO Mike Wilson needs to do a deal in a hurry, he turns to Wall Street investment bank Dyson Whitney. If they succeed in helping him buy transatlantic rival BritEnergy, there'll be a $70 million fee. If they fail, there's nothing. Rookie associate Rob Holding is thrown onto the team, doing due diligence at the investment bank. He quickly finds reason to suspect that there's more to the urgency of this deal than Mike Wilson has revealed. With their eyes on a huge fee, no one else at Dyson Whitney wants to know if there are problems. But when a body turns up and Rob realizes it was meant to be him, he has no choice but to prove that he's right – or die in the attempt. Due Diligence is set vividly in the post-credit-crunch world of international big business, the suspense never lets up as the action swings from war room to boardroom, from New York to London and back again in this action-packed and lightning-fast thriller.
Due Process: Vigilante Serial Killer—Justice Dispatched with Extreme Prejudice
by Lyle O’connorEnter the realm of a serial killer; share his thoughts, his emotions, his pain, and his need to assassinate. Walter, an ordinary factory worker, obsessing over the mistreatment of victims by the courts becomes a vigilante for justice. Appalled by adjudicators coddling criminals under the guise of civil rights, Walter factors himself in as a lethal consequence for depraved individuals walking out of court with a-slap-on-the-wrist as punishment for heinous crimes. He has no particular skill-sets qualifying him to fight crime. He relies on cunning, isolation, and his hunting and tracking skills to take down targets and bring about his form of justice. A kaleidoscope of dreams and apparitions thrusts Walter into a nightmarish world where the lines of good and evil are discernible. When applying justice he finds right and wrong interchangeable; body count is his only measure of success.
Due cuori a Firenze
by Elisabetta Bricca A. M. WillardSono Raven e questa è la storia di come ho trovato l’amore in Italia con un uomo che non conoscevo. L’Arte è ciò che conosco, ed è ciò per cui vivo. Mi aiuta a non occuparmi della vita reale, senza sapere cosa mi sto perdendo. Com’è possibile che questo misterioso sconosciuto possa conoscermi meglio di quanto io conosca me stessa? L’ho vista in giro, e qualcosa in lei ha riacceso il mio interesse. Ora ho l’occasione per mostrarle il mondo attraverso occhi diversi. Forse, solo forse, aprirà il suo cuore all’amore proprio come fa mentre è intenta ad ammirare le opere d’arte. Riusciranno Raven e Pierce a lasciarsi andare alla passione che divampa durante un week end a Firenze, o tutto andrà in pezzi una volta tornati negli Stati Uniti?
Due for Discard (The Aimee Machado Mysteries #1)
by Sharon St. GeorgeThe debut novel in a perfect series for cozy fans, featuring “a twisty mystery, a fast-paced plot, lots of laughs, and a spunky heroine” (Steve Brewer, author of A Box of Pandoras). Aimee Machado is thrilled to start her first job as a forensic librarian at the Timbergate, California medical center. Though her mood is somewhat dampened by her recent breakup with her boyfriend, Nick. Not to mention a little matter of murder . . . On Aimee’s first day, the body of her supervisor’s wife is found in the hospital dumpster. And one of the last people to see the woman alive happens to be Aimee’s little brother, Harry. Aimee knows he’s innocent—and a little snooping reveals that the victim made plenty of enemies with her wild partying and man-stealing ways. But Aimee’s extracurricular sleuthing has also made her a target. Even with Nick, Harry, and a dashing hospital lothario vowing to protect her, Aimee knows it’s only a matter of time before the killer tries to file her under D for dead—in “a sparkling debut featuring a charming sleuth with common sense and a most unusual herd of sidekicks” (Terry Shames, author of the Samuel Craddock Mysteries).
Due idraulici
by Terry M. WestLiam e Pierce vivono in un paese devastato da una malattia misteriosa chiamata comunemente “la piaga”. Questa malattia trasforma le sue vittime in macchine della morte conosciute come “appestati”. Le autorità lottano ininterrottamente per impedire agli appestati di prendere d’assalto città, borghi e distretti. Liam e Pierce sono due idraulici che vengono spediti quotidianamente nelle zone infette per mantenere operative le tubature e il sistema fognario al fine di preservare le ormai scarseggianti risorse nazionali. Trascorrere una tipica giornata a bordo del loro furgone significa trascorrere una giornata a scavare buche, sistemare tubi, saldare, prendere le misure una volta, prendere le misure una seconda volta, tagliare, sturare, affrontare appestati in situazioni raccapriccianti e raccontare storielle esplicite. Per quanto un incarico possa essere orrido e raccapricciante, per i nostri idraulici è solo un’altra giornata di lavoro! “Due idraulici”, di genere commedia nera/horror, è un romanzo breve dell’autore de “La stanza verde”, “Honger”, “Creature notturne” e “What Price Gory”, acclamata raccolta di racconti horror “vecchia scuola”.
Due ladroni e il tempio di Artemis Lusia
by Patrice Martinez Simona PunturelloQuando Euphelitos e Callimarchos si addentrarono nel tempio di Artemis Lusia, non sapevano quanti rischi avrebbero corso per aver violato il recinto sacro...