A splashy treat for visual learners and pre-readers, kids can discover the facts, feel, and functions of over two dozen marine animals.As you move through each page, young readers can touch shiny scales and bumpy barnacles, turn a flap to find a clownfish hiding among an anemone, touch a shark's sandpapery skin, and discover who can squirt ink and change color! It's a trip to an underwater world that's just a touch away. Touch and Explore: The Ocean is a multisensory journey for children who want to do more than just listen! Scales, tails, flippers, and fins-let's dive into the ocean: The Touch and Explore™ series, already bestsellers in their original French editions, are well-crafted interactive titles that encourage hands-on engagement, learning and knowledge retention.
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Now they were forced to relive the past few hours. A man ought not be judged for doing what he’s called to do. They had ridden only a few yards before El turned to shout over his shoulder. The men nodded briefly before reining their horses in opposite directions. Removing his hat, the oldest, El Johnson, spoke first, his voice dry and void of emotion. Reaching the crossroad, the soldiers paused to shake hands. With fear in their hearts and prayers on their lips, mothers had watched their sons ride into battle.įathers had stood by, grim faced, throats working against painful knots that choked the very life from their hearts. The South would give them what-for and send them packing, tails tucked in shame. Fatigue and bitterness marked their features now their eyes darted warily to every bush and ditch.Ĭould it have been only three short years since they had ridden away from their families, filled with idealism, confident of victory? 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A year later, Colton is struggling to push his music forward in a new direction. But for her, it was a love him and leave him situation. Country music's golden boy Colton Wheeler felt the most perfect harmony when he was with Gretchen Winthrop. Tis the season for a Bromance Book Club matchmaking mission! This time, they're pulling out the mistletoe for everyone's favorite country music star, Colton, and his second chance at love. "The Fifth Season is a powerful, epic novel of discovery, pain, and heartbreak. is a master at what she does."- RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!) "Jemisin might just be the best world builder out there right now. "A must-buy.breaks uncharted ground."- Library Journal (starred review) "Jemisin's graceful prose and gritty setting provide the perfect backdrop for this fascinating tale of determined characters fighting to save a doomed world."- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Jemisin maintains a gripping voice and an emotional core that not only carries the story through its complicated setting, but sets things up for even more staggering revelations to come."- NPR Books Jemisin's work itself is part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and fantasy."- Guardian " an ambitious book, with a shifting point of view, and a protagonist whose full complexity doesn't become apparent till toward the end of the novel. "Intricate and extraordinary."- The New York Times Susin Nielsen has brought a hard topic, children who are homeless, to the forefront. There are difficult topics and there are ones where socially we like to pretend they don't exist. She is delighted to have finally figure out how to "claim" her author profile on Goodreads! She lives in Vancouver with her family and two naughty cats. Susin’s new novel, We Are All Made of Molecules, will be published in Canada, the US and the UK in Spring of 2015. Her books have been translated into multiple languages. Author Wally Lamb named it his top YA pick for 2012 in his “First Annual Wally Awards,” and recently Rolling Stone magazine put it at #27 in their list of “Top 40 Best YA Novels.” It went on to win the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, the Canadian Library Association’s Children’s Book of the Year Award, and a number of Young Readers’ Choice Awards. Her third novel, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. It won multiple Young Readers’ Choice Awards, as did her second novel, Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom. Her first young adult novel, Word Nerd, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim. Since then, Nielsen has written for over 20 Canadian TV series. Nielsen went on to pen sixteen episodes of the hit TV show. They hated her food, but they saw a spark in her writing. Susin got her start feeding cast and crew on the popular television series, Degrassi Junior High. As one character's life is chased to extinction, Safran Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person's last day everyone's story. Tree of Codes is the story of 'an enormous last day of life'. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favourite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first - as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Tree of Codes, is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. 'Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances' Entertainment Weekly 'A modern sci-fi masterpiece. Now Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope. To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors. NOW IS THE DAWN OF THE 5TH WAVE On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs. After 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze Runner After the1st wave, only darkness remains. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' The New York Times The 5th Wave is the first book in the bestselling series from award-winning Rick Yancey. NOW A MAJOR FILM by Sony Pictures, starring Chloe Grace Moretz 'Wildly entertaining. Solaria shows up as planned and quickly encounters a kryptonite infused gas. She sets a “damsel-in-distress” trap using herself as bait. No more will she have to live in Solaria’s shadow. When Hera offers to turn Elektra into a more powerful version of herself in exchange for taking down Solaria and then Redwing, Elektra can’t resist. Synopsis: Elektra, Blue Swan’s lesser-than protoge has been living in Redwing’s and Solaria’s shadow, taunted and teased by the media and continuously feeling disrespected. 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The book includes a note from forest scientist Suzanne Simard of the University of British Columbia, whose studies showed that entire forests can be connected by “using chemical signals sent through the fungal networks around their root tips” and led to the term “the wood-wide web.” Wohlleben anthropomorphizes his subject, using such terms as friendship and parenting, which serves to make the technical information relatable, and he backs up his ideas with information from scientists. They do so using a variety of methods, including the secretion of scents and sound vibrations to warn neighboring plants of potential attacks by insects and hungry herbivores, drought, and other dangers. Wohlleben, who worked for the German forestry commission for 20 years and now manages a beech forest in Germany, has gathered research from scientists around the world examining how trees communicate and interact with one another. This fascinating book will intrigue readers who love a walk through the woods. Where the story could have been told without fantastic elements at all, although it would be a different story in that case. Both are essentially historic stories where the fantastic elements are not so much secondary as very lightly overlaid. In one important way it reminds me strongly of “Wakulla Springs”, the Hugo and Nebula shortlisted novella Klages co-authored with Andy Duncan. It’s a quick and engrossing read and is an excellent example of how the same world-building techniques essential to SFF are put to good use in period settings. Framed by modern bookends steeped in the culture of geeky collectables. “Passing Strange” by Ellen Klages is a lightly fantastic tale of life in San Francisco’s lesbian culture in the 1940s. |