The Tiger Rising
Title | The Tiger Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Kate DiCamillo |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2009-09-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763649449 |
A National Book Award finalist by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things—like memories, and heartache, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever. Featuring a new cover illustration by Stephen Walton.
The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
Title | The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo PDF eBook |
Author | Nat Reed |
Publisher | On The Mark Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781554950003 |
Because of Winn-Dixie
Title | Because of Winn-Dixie PDF eBook |
Author | Kate DiCamillo |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2009-09-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763649457 |
A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis.
Rising Tiger
Title | Rising Tiger PDF eBook |
Author | Brad Thor |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2023-04-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1982182164 |
Deadly operative Scot Harvath faces down the country’s most powerful enemy in #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor’s new white-knuckle thriller. An unprecedented, potentially nation-ending threat has materialized on the world stage. Fearful of the global consequences of engaging this enemy, administration after administration has passed the buck. The clock, however, has run out and doing nothing is no longer an option. It is time to unleash Scot Harvath. As America’s top spy, Harvath has the unparalleled skills and experience necessary to handle any situation, but this assignment feels different. Thrust into a completely unfamiliar culture, with few he can trust, the danger begins mounting the moment he arrives. Amidst multiple competing forces and a host of deadly agendas, it becomes nearly impossible to tell predator from prey. With democracy itself hanging in the balance, Harvath will risk everything to untangle the explosive plot and bring every bad actor to justice.
The Magician's Elephant
Title | The Magician's Elephant PDF eBook |
Author | Kate DiCamillo |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763652989 |
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Title | A Crooked Kind of Perfect PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Urban |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2009-04-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0152066691 |
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias has perfect piano dreams. She can practically feel the keys under her flying fingers; she can hear the audience's applause. All she needs is a baby grand so she can start her lessons, and then she'll be well on her way to Carnegie Hall. But when Dad ventures to the music store and ends up with a wheezy organ instead of a piano, Zoe's dreams hit a sour note. Learning the organ versions of old TV theme songs just isn't the same as mastering Beethoven on the piano. And the organ isn't the only part of Zoe's life in Michigan that's off-kilter, what with Mom constantly at work, Dad afraid to leave the house, and that odd boy, Wheeler Diggs, following her home from school every day. Yet when Zoe enters the annual Perform-O-Rama organ competition, she finds that life is full of surprises—and that perfection may be even better when it's just a little off center. This ebook includes a sample chapter of Hound Dog True.
Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger
Title | Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger PDF eBook |
Author | Vu Hong Lien |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2014-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1780233884 |
Outside of its war with the United States, Vietnam’s past has often been neglected and understudied. Whether as an aspiring subordinate or a rebel province, Vietnam has been viewed by most historians in relation to its larger neighbor to the north, China. Seeking to reshape these accounts, Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger chronicles the vast sweep of Vietnam’s tumultuous history, from the Bronze Age to the present day, in order to lay out the first English-language account of the full story of the Vietnamese people. Drawing on archeological evidence that reveals the emergence of a culturally distinct human occupation of the region up to 10,000 years ago, Vu Hong Lien and Peter D. Sharrock show that these early societies had a sophisticated agricultural and technological culture much earlier than previously imagined. They explore the great variety of cultures that have existed in this territory, unshackling them from the confined histories of outsiders, imperial invaders, and occupiers in order to show that the country has been central to the cultural, political, and ethnic development of Southeast Asia for millennia. Unrivaled in scope, this comprehensive account will be the definitive history of the Vietnamese people, their culture, and their nation.