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A Funny Thing Happened... (Mills And Boon Vintage Cherish Ser. #Vol. 427)
by Caroline AndersonIt should have been so simple
Funny Valentine
by Amy JenkinsStevie was a young woman who took life very seriously indeed: wouldn't drink coffee if it came from a chain, would never buy a card on Valentine's day. Why would she, of all people, be sent to spend a week with a film star? Why would she, of all people, fall in love with him? Why would she, of all people, get involved in the fame game? Why would she, of all people, send him a Valentine? A Valentine that blows it all apart. Funny Valentine.
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
by Olivia Laing'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art’ TelegraphIn this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century.Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining its role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keefe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time.We’re often told art can’t change anything. Laing argues that it can. It changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living.‘A warm, thinking, enticing sweep of a book, like spending the afternoon with your brainiest friend.’ Kate Mosse, author of The Burning Chambers
Funnybones: The Black Cat (Funnybones)
by Allan Ahlberg Andre AmstutzIn a dark dark streetThere is a dark dark house . . .In this FUNNYBONES story, the skeletons go sledging - WHEE! - and crashing - BANG!They can't see their bones in the white snow but they can see a black cat . . . until she slips into their dark, dark cellar . . .
Funnybones: The Pet Shop (Funnybones)
by Allan Ahlberg Andre AmstutzIn a dark dark streetThere is a dark dark house . . .In this FUNNYBONES story, the big skeleton and the little skeleton are fed up with the dog skeleton and decide to swap him at the pet shop. They start off with a goldfish but soon get tired of him and swap him for a parrot - but soon they get bored of him too . . . Eventually the pet shop owner gives them a box to take home with a surprise pet inside. What do you think it will be?
Funnybones: Dinosaur Dreams (Funnybones)
by Allan Ahlberg Andre AmstutzDinosaur Dreams is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers!The big skeleton and the little skeleton are being chased by dinosaurs . . . in their dreams! Luckily dogs can dream too - and save the day.'There can be few families in the British Isles who do not possess at least one well-thumbed Ahlberg' - Independent on SundayAllan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created such award-winning children's picture books, including Peepo!, Each Peach Pear Plum and the Kate Greenaway Medal winning The Jolly Postman. Other titles in the Funnybones series include Funnybones, Mystery Tour, The Ghost Train, The Pet Shop, Bumps in the Night, The Black Cat, Skeleton Crew, Give the Dog a Bone and A Brilliant Bone Rattling Collection, all of which are available from Puffin.
Funnybones: Bumps In The Night (Funnybones)
by Allan Ahlberg Andre AmstutzBumps in the Night is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers!No matter where they are, the two skeletons keep going bump in the night - clonk!There's only one thing to do: "Send for Doctor Bones!"'There can be few families in the British Isles who do not possess at least one well-thumbed Ahlberg' - Independent on SundayAllan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created such award-winning children's picture books, including Peepo!, Each Peach Pear Plum and the Kate Greenaway Medal winning The Jolly Postman. Other titles in the Funnybones series include Funnybones, Mystery Tour, The Ghost Train, The Pet Shop, The Black Cat, Dinosaur Dreams, Skeleton Crew, Give the Dog a Bone and A Brilliant Bone Rattling Collection, all of which are available from Puffin.
Funnybones: A Bone Rattling Collection (Funnybones)
by Allan Ahlberg Andre AmstutzIn this big, big book there is a dark, dark hill.And on that dark, dark hill there is a dark, dark town.And in that dark, dark town . . . some skeletons live!A bumper collection of three spooktacular stories!
Funnybones: Bumps In The Night (Funnybones)
by Janet Ahlberg Allan AhlbergA new edition of this beloved and bestselling Hallowe'en classic.DescriptionThis is how the story begins.On a dark dark hillthere was a dark dark town.In the dark dark townthere was a dark dark street . . .Janet and Allan's frightfully funny Hallowe'en classic tells the story of three skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton - who venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, only to find that everyone is in bed. Who will they scare now?!
Fup: A Modern Fable (Canons Ser. #38)
by Jim DodgeThere's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. Thanks to his home-distilled hooch, Ol' Death Whisper, he reckons he's in with good shot at immortality. And then there's Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent. And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound mallard, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee household. Hilarious, heartwarming and magical, Fup is a contemporary fable that inspires an almost evangelical fervour in all who read it. It is a work of enormous originality with a giant heart.
Für ein Europa der Übergänge: Interkulturalität und Mehrsprachigkeit in europäischen Kontexten (Interkulturelle Germanistik #2)
by Iulia-Karin Patrut Reto Rössler Gesine Lenore SchiewerEuropa kann neu gedacht werden: nicht von den Grenzen und Leitdifferenzen her, sondern von den Übergängen. Die aus vier Kontinenten stammenden Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger befassen sich mit der Frage, inwiefern die Fähigkeit, ästhetische, sprachliche und kulturelle Übergänge angesichts hoher Heterogenität hervorzubringen, Europa am ehesten ausmacht. Von Fatou Diome bis Yoko Tawada, von mehrsprachigen Räumen wie Siebenbürgen bis zur Mährischen Walachei untersuchen sie Texte, Semantiken und kulturelle Praktiken des Übergangs. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur, der Erinnerung an den Holocaust sowie postkolonialen Perspektiven.
"Für eine aufmerksamere und nachdenklichere Welt": Beiträge zu Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Gegen die Stereotypisierungen als »moderne Klassikerin« und »große alte Dame der deutschen Literatur« eröffnet der gewachsene historische Abstand die Chance zu einer neuen, zugleich kritischen und interessierten Auseinandersetzung mit dem vielfältigen Werk einer der wichtigsten Autorinnen der westdeutschen Nachkriegsjahrzehnte, die darüber hinaus in ihrem Leben und Werk grundlegende Entwicklungslinien des 20. Jahrhunderts repräsentiert. Ihr literarischer Weg führt aus konventionellen Anfängen zu einer intensiven Zeitgenossenschaft, in der autobiographisches Schreiben und Zeitkritik sich in moderner Formensprache miteinander verflechten. Die Texte engagieren sich für »eine aufmerksamere und nachdenklichere Welt« als Antwort auf die Gewalterfahrungen und Gefährdungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Band geht hervor aus einer Tagung, die zum 100. Geburtstag von Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901 1974) von der Katholischen Akademie Franz Hitze-Haus in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Deutsche Philologie II der Universität Münster abgehalten wurde.
Furball and the Mokes (Animal Antics)
by A. N. WilsonSneak behind the skirting board with Furball the trusting hamster, and run riot with the Mokes - a gang of cockney mice...It's a scary world out there, especially if you're a pet hamster who likes nothing better than snuggling into a cashmere sock with a pouch full of honey seeds. So when Furball escapes her cozy cage and goes gallivanting with a gang of cockney mice who call themselves the Mokes, it can only end in trouble. Suddenly this brave little hamster is dodging fearsome winged Fevvas in the garden, and smelly long-tailed Narks in the cellar. And she'll have to be very careful not to be caught out by poisonous Floor Food, lethal Sticky Traps, or the dreaded Ole Snapper.Meanwhile the Humans, (or 'Ooms', if you're a Moke) are on the hunt for their beloved pet. And while they're searching high and low for their beloved pet, they're also dealing with a serious mouse problem...A.N. Wilson's children's books have been hugely well received: 'delightful' - Daily Mail'clever, moving, imaginative' - Daily Telegraph 'An excellent book... for the whole family' - Spectator
Furetiere's Roman Bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange: Titular Economies
by Craig Moyes"'If Furetiere (1619-1688) hadn't been friends with Racine and Boileau, if he hadn't been famous for his Dictionary and for his battle with the Academie Francaise, it is unlikely that we would still be speaking of the Roman bourgeois (1666). Its qualities are decidedly few. One cannot even say in its favour that it bears witness to a period and a moment in our literary history.' So writes Antoine Adam in his magisterial history of 17th-century French literature. But whatever one might feel about the aesthetic value of the Roman bourgeois - and following Adam it is usually classified as a precocious though failed example of narrative realism, sadly out of step with the classicism of its time - can we really say that it bears no witness to its period? Craig Moyes shows on the contrary how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Furetiere - the titular abbot, the sitting academician, the secret lexicographer, the experimental novelist - was uniquely placed to explore a changing literary economy marked most spectacularly by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet (1661-1664), the decline of aristocratic largesse, and the subsequent centralization of artistic patronage around the personal reign of Louis XIV and the new administration of Colbert."
Furetiere's Roman Bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange: Titular Economies
by Craig Moyes"'If Furetiere (1619-1688) hadn't been friends with Racine and Boileau, if he hadn't been famous for his Dictionary and for his battle with the Academie Francaise, it is unlikely that we would still be speaking of the Roman bourgeois (1666). Its qualities are decidedly few. One cannot even say in its favour that it bears witness to a period and a moment in our literary history.' So writes Antoine Adam in his magisterial history of 17th-century French literature. But whatever one might feel about the aesthetic value of the Roman bourgeois - and following Adam it is usually classified as a precocious though failed example of narrative realism, sadly out of step with the classicism of its time - can we really say that it bears no witness to its period? Craig Moyes shows on the contrary how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Furetiere - the titular abbot, the sitting academician, the secret lexicographer, the experimental novelist - was uniquely placed to explore a changing literary economy marked most spectacularly by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet (1661-1664), the decline of aristocratic largesse, and the subsequent centralization of artistic patronage around the personal reign of Louis XIV and the new administration of Colbert."
The FurFins and the Mermaid Wedding (Furfins Ser.)
by Alison RitchieIn the enchanting underwater kingdom of Coralia, home to mermaid-animals called FurFins, the princess is getting married--and CherryTail is baking the Royal Wedding Cake!Deep beneath the silvery waves, in a kaleidoscope of colorful coral, lies the magical kingdom of Coralia. This is where the mermaid-kitten FurFins live and play. Today is a VERY special day . . . the mermaid princess is getting married! CherryTail, the best baker in all of Coralia, is making the Royal Wedding Cake. Everything is ready, but then disaster strikes--the cake has DISAPPEARED! Luckily, her best friends StarTail and TinyTail are ready to help. Can they save the day in time for the mermaid wedding? With delightful color illustrations, this underwater adventure comes to life with evergreen themes of friendship and teamwork.
The FurFins and the Mermaid Wedding
by Alison RitchieIn the enchanting underwater kingdom of Coralia, home to mermaid-animals called FurFins, the princess is getting married--and CherryTail is baking the Royal Wedding Cake!Deep beneath the silvery waves, in a kaleidoscope of colorful coral, lies the magical kingdom of Coralia. This is where the mermaid-kitten FurFins live and play. Today is a VERY special day . . . the mermaid princess is getting married! CherryTail, the best baker in all of Coralia, is making the Royal Wedding Cake. Everything is ready, but then disaster strikes--the cake has DISAPPEARED! Luckily, her best friends StarTail and TinyTail are ready to help. Can they save the day in time for the mermaid wedding? With delightful color illustrations, this underwater adventure comes to life with evergreen themes of friendship and teamwork.
The FurFins and the Sparkly Sleepover (FurFins)
by Alison RitchieIn the enchanting underwater kingdom of Coralia, the mermaid-animals called FurFins are getting ready for a sleepover! But will everything go as planned?Deep beneath the silvery waves, in a kaleidoscope of colorful coral, lies the magical kingdom of Coralia. This is where the FurFins live, and today is a very special day: StarTail has invited her friends to a sleepover!StarTail is nervous--what if it doesn't go well? But soon RubyTail is helping put up a cozy tent for them to sleep in, TinyTail is making friendship bracelets, and they all help CherryTail to bake her famous cupcakes for a midnight feast. That's what friends are for! But when they hear a scary noise outside the tent during the night, will everything be ruined? Or will it be the best sleepover ever?With a sparkly cover and adorable, pastel illustrations, this charming underwater adventure continues the exciting picture book series featuring the endearing FurFins with their glittery tails and adorably furry faces.
The FurFins and the Sparkly Sleepover (FurFins)
by Alison RitchieIn the enchanting underwater kingdom of Coralia, the mermaid-animals called FurFins are getting ready for a sleepover! But will everything go as planned?Deep beneath the silvery waves, in a kaleidoscope of colorful coral, lies the magical kingdom of Coralia. This is where the FurFins live, and today is a very special day: StarTail has invited her friends to a sleepover!StarTail is nervous--what if it doesn't go well? But soon RubyTail is helping put up a cozy tent for them to sleep in, TinyTail is making friendship bracelets, and they all help CherryTail to bake her famous cupcakes for a midnight feast. That's what friends are for! But when they hear a scary noise outside the tent during the night, will everything be ruined? Or will it be the best sleepover ever?With a sparkly cover and adorable, pastel illustrations, this charming underwater adventure continues the exciting picture book series featuring the endearing FurFins with their glittery tails and adorably furry faces.
The FurFins: StarTail and the Sparkly Sleepover (FurFins)
by Alison RitchieDeep beneath the silvery waves, in a kaleidoscope of colourful coral, lies the magical kingdom of Coralia. This is where the FurFins live, and today is a VERY special day: StarTail has invited her friends to a sleepover!StarTail is nervous – what if it doesn't go well? But soon RubyTail is helping to put up a cosy tent for them to sleep in, TinyTail is making friendship bracelets, and they all help CherryTail to bake her famous cherry buns for a midnight feast. That's what friends are for! But when they hear a scary noise outside the tent during the night, will everything be ruined? Or will it be the best sleepover ever?With a sparkly cover and gorgeous colour illustrations, this charming underwater adventure is the third in an exciting picture book series featuring the endearing FurFins with their glittery tails and adorably furry faces.
Furia
by Yamile Saied MéndezA REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal One of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020 A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library &“An engrossing #OwnVoices novel.&” —PopSugar &“This book will set your dreams on fire . . . It&’s fabulous.&” — Reese WitherspoonA powerful contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams. In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother&’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother&’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she&’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university. But the path ahead isn&’t easy. Her parents don&’t know about her passion. They wouldn&’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn&’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren&’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her. Filled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance, and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl&’s journey to make her life her own.
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed
by Margaret Atwood Ali Smith Emma Donoghue Kirsty Logan Chibundu Onuzo Caroline O'Donoghue Linda Grant Susie Boyt Stella Duffy Kamila Shamsie Helen Oyeyemi Rachel Seiffert CN Lester Claire Kohda Eleanor CrewesA FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW AND ORIGINAL STORIES by Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O'Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeymi, Rachel Seiffert, Kamila Shamsie and Ali Smith - introduced by Sandi Toksvig. DRAGON. TYGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story.In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.
The Furies
by Mandy BeaumontCynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure that she must be somewhere else now, wherever that is.Cynthia knows that she doesn't belong here. Her mother never belonged here either. This is the place of violence. Despair. The long dry. Blood caked under the nails. Desperate men. Long silences. The place where mothers go mad in locked bedrooms, where women like Cynthia imagine better futures.As a threatening wind begins to dry-whirl around her, seldom seen black clouds form above, roll over the golden-brown land - is that Mallory she can hear in the growling mass? In the harsh drought-stricken landscape of outback Queensland a woman can be lost in so many ways. The question is, will Cynthia be one of them?Defiant, ferocious and unyielding - The Furies is a debut novel by Mandy Beaumont that explores the isolation felt by so many women, and how powerful we can be when we join together. It puts her firmly on the literary map, blazing forth from the terrain of Charlotte Wood, Margaret Atwood and Carmen Maria Machado, with a unique and breathtaking power.
The Furies: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the twentieth book in the globally bestselling series (Charlie Parker Thriller)
by John ConnollyEVIL TAKES MANY FORMS.PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CHARLIE PARKER HUNTS THEM ALL.'John Connolly is the creator of a unique blend of thriller and horror who receives rave reviews every time' Sunday TelegraphThe Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Now, private investigator Charlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies in two linked stories. In The Sisters Strange, the return of the criminal Raum Buker to Portland, Maine brings with it chaos and murder, as an act of theft threatens not only to tear apart his own existence but also that of Raum's former lovers, the enigmatic sisters Dolors and Ambar Strange. And in The Furies Parker finds himself fighting to protect two more women as the city of Portland shuts down in the face of a global pandemic, but it may be that his clients are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined . . .From the number one Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestselling author John Connolly comes two linked stories in one novel and the most compelling and unsettling Charlie Parker case yet.The Charlie Parker novels can be read and enjoyed in any order. The Furies is the landmark twentieth book in this globally bestselling series.
The Furies
by Katie Lowe‘An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness’ THE TIMES ‘Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder…a guaranteed good read’ STYLIST ‘Witchcraft, murder, and adolescent passion’ HEAT