Some Bugs by Angela DiTerlizzi7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Encourage young readers to find a word to describe how their pets move, make sounds, eat, or show affection, and, if appropriate, discuss the difference between nouns and verbs. Readers will have many observations about the animals in this story, as well as comments about their own pets or other animals they have known. ![]() The bright, colorful illustrations are at their best when showing animals dressed for a costume party. Humorous illustrations flesh out the simple text with mixed-media art that includes lots of cut-paper collage and what appear to be googly eyes. The story ends with a statement about what all pets have in common. Some pets scurry round and round.” Verbs describe how pets move, how they make sounds, how they eat, and how they show affection to their owners. This bright and bouncy story in verse is about an array of pets and what they do. ![]()
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Plane insanity by elliott hester6/30/2023 ![]() Caldwell, the union spokeswoman, says her constituents are being pushed beyond their limits.īut don't expect relief anytime soon. ![]() The Federal Aviation Administration recently conducted a study on flight attendant fatigue and promised to release it in June, according to the Association of Flight Attendants. And having a flight attendant sing an in-flight safety announcement makes her seem more like an in-flight MC than an enforcer.īut laughter will get you only so far. Allowing flight attendants to practice their stand-up comedy routines does wonders for airlines like Southwest and Song. Humor can take the edge off a tense situation, too. ![]() ![]() He said he would think twice before asking an attendant for help again. How to defuse this mile-high standoff? Bowman avoided a pillow fight and vowed to "develop a thicker skin" as a traveler. ![]() The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron6/30/2023 ![]() Others may find this attempt to create a biography for Merlin less of an organic novel than a showcase for the author's deft recycling of Welsh myth. ![]() Merlin learns of his Fincayran birthright, but in the clumsily handled conclusion he looks off into the future (and to the planned sequel), having decided that although he has found his past and his identity he has not found his ""true home."" Some readers-mostly teens or adults-will be looking eagerly with him. ![]() This part of the tale draws heavily on the Welsh Mabinogion some of Merlin's adventures thus resemble Taran's in Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, which also uses that body of legend. ![]() For USED books, we cannot guarantee supplemental materials such as CDs, DVDs. There he gets drawn into a great conflict between good and evil, and the story mutates into a high fantasy quest populated by weird and mythic creatures. All orders ship by next business day This is a new paperback book. After some misadventures when his supernatural powers develop, he decides to set about ""finding my past, my identity."" Somehow he makes his way across the ocean to Fincayra, a strange place not quite of this world. ![]() Merlin himself narrates, at first in realistic mode as a child called Emrys in a grubby village in Wales, where he had washed ashore five years earlier he is haunted by his inability to remember his earlier life. In this coming-of-age fantasy, Barron (The Merlin Effect) investigates what he perceives as the mystery of the great enchanter's little-mentioned childhood and adolescence. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos, Porthos and Aramis, "the three musketeers" or "the three inseparables" – and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. ![]() Set between 16, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas, in French. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of the eight selections represented, five of them are new to the Second Edition, including Pasquale Villari's comic portrayal of Machiavelli's first diplomatic post in 1499, Francesco Guicciardini's lofty rebuttal to Machiavelli, and a collection of Tuscan Sayings to further the reader's understanding of this timeless text.Īn updated Selected Bibliography is also included. "Marginalia" is an eclectic collection of writings germane to both Machiavelli and The Prince. The Prince: A Revised Translation Backgrounds Interpretations Marginalia. "Interpretations" retains three of the previous edition's seminal essays while adding five selections by Felix Gilbert, Federico Chabod, J. In Act Three of Niccolo Machiavellis play La Mandragola, Fra Timoteo and. Included are excerpts from The Discourses, a report from a diplomatic mission, a collection of private letters, and two poems from Carnival Songs. ![]() ![]() "Backgrounds" relies entirely upon Machiavelli's other writings to place this central Florentine in his proper political and historical context. Hale, Felix Gilbert, Leo Strauss, and others', 'This work is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Accurate, highly readable, and thoroughly revised for the Second Edition, this translation renders Machiavelli's 1513 political tract into clear and concise English. 'The complete text of Machiavellis best-known work, along with excerpts from some of his other writings and letters, and critical essays by J.R. ![]() |