The Onion Ambassador
Title | The Onion Ambassador PDF eBook |
Author | Rhonda Frost Kight |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2001-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780970910509 |
A south Georgia farmer and his wife discover a giant onion named Yumion. His mission is to tell the world about Vidalia onions.
Stealing the Ambassador
Title | Stealing the Ambassador PDF eBook |
Author | Sameer Parekh |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2002-03-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0743238117 |
Caught between a father who thought success and freedom could be found only in America and a grandfather who risked his life to guarantee such ideals in their homeland of India, twenty-three-year-old Rajiv Kothari is lost in a nation he has always called home and beckoned by the one his father left long ago. Stealing the Ambassador is a literary page-turner that blends the experiences of a first-generation Indian American with those of his immigrant father and revolutionary grandfather, their intertwined stories probing the balance between fiction and history, between old country and new, between fathers and sons. Following his father's sudden death, Rajiv finds himself alone and bewildered. As he attempts to reconstruct his father's life, he begins to better understand his own, and when he chances to meet a new Indian immigrant, eerily reminiscent of his own father, their uncanny interaction grants Rajiv insight into the euphoria that his father felt when he first arrived in the country and its gradual deterioration into frustrated estrangement. Events lead Rajiv to a reverse migration, back to the subcontinent of his father's birth. There he reconnects with his aged grandfather -- once a saboteur responsible for bombings in pre-Independence British India and now mysteriously destitute. Discovering the source of this impoverishment, Rajiv is awakened to a second understanding of his childhood hero, a reconsideration that illuminates the relationships between grandfather, father, and grandson while pointing to new definitions of bravery and familial loyalty. Stealing the Ambassador is a stunning debut from the young Sameer Parekh. In depicting the ways that families are at the source of both our frustration with and our loyalty to identity, Parekh sheds new light on the immigrant experience and on the complexity and power of family relations.
Lowriders in Space
Title | Lowriders in Space PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy Camper |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 2014-11-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1452143145 |
Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria love working with cars. You name it, they can fix it. But the team's favorite cars of all are lowriders—cars that hip and hop, dip and drop, go low and slow, bajito y suavecito. The stars align when a contest for the best car around offers a prize of a trunkful of cash—just what the team needs to open their own shop! ¡Ay chihuahua! What will it take to transform a junker into the best car in the universe? Striking, unparalleled art from debut illustrator Raul the Third recalls ballpoint-pen-and-Sharpie desk-drawn doodles, while the story is sketched with Spanish, inked with science facts, and colored with true friendship. With a glossary at the back to provide definitions for Spanish and science terms, this delightful book will educate and entertain in equal measure.
State of the Onion
Title | State of the Onion PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Hyzy |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2008-01-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101206527 |
Introducing White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras, who is rising-and sleuthing-to the top. Includes recipes for a complete presidential menu! Never let them see you sweat-that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen in the world. She's hell-bent on earning her dream job, Executive Chef. There's just one thing: her nemesis is vying for it, too. Well, that and the fact that an elusive assassin wants to see her fry.
The Pancake King
Title | The Pancake King PDF eBook |
Author | Seymour Chwast |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2016-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1616894873 |
Relates the saga of Henry who, because he could not stop making pancakes, became wealthy and famous.
Our Dumb Century
Title | Our Dumb Century PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Dikkers |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 0609804618 |
The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin. Witness the march of history as Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's award-winning writing staff present the twentieth century like you've never seen it before.
Date Night on Union Station
Title | Date Night on Union Station PDF eBook |
Author | E. M. Foner |
Publisher | Earthcent Ambassador |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2017-11-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780972380195 |
"Good SciFi comedy is as rare as hen's teeth. This was a fun read." Kelly Frank is EarthCent's top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she's in hock up to her ears for her furniture, which is likely to end up in a corridor because she's behind on rent for her room. Sometimes she has to wonder if the career she has put ahead of her personal life for fifteen years is worth it. When Kelly receives a gift subscription to the dating service that's rumored to be powered by the same benevolent artificial intelligence that runs the huge station, she decides to swallow her pride and give it a shot. But as her dates go from bad to worse, she can only hope that the supposedly omniscient AI is planning a happy ending.