![]() ![]() The 5th Wave follows 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that have already devastated the Earth's population and knocked humankind back to the Stone Age. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. ![]() After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Emily returns home in the morning with the feeling that her mermaid adventures have just begun. When she has the same sensation in her legs, she realizes they’ve turned into a tail, and she’s a mermaid! She meets another mermaid, Shona, and the two become friends and explore the ocean. ![]() That night, she sneaks off the boat and goes into the ocean. Her instructor tells her she got a cramp and has her rest by the side of the pool, but Emily can’t stop thinking about what it was like being in the water. She feels right at home until she gets a strange sensation in her legs, like they’re sticking together. ![]() When Emily gets a chance to try swimming lessons at school, she’s excited and dives right into the pool. Her mother warns her that the water is dangerous. Summary: Even though Emily and her mother live on a houseboat, young Emily isn’t allowed to go into the ocean. ![]() ![]() Then he trained Peter to become a model and the starting-point of his success. Watching Peter's antics one evening, he was tempted to do a small study of kittens, which was promptly accepted by a magazine editor in London. Wain's home, when not in London, is at Bendigo Lodge, Westgate, Kent.It was his own cat 'Peter' who first suggested to Louis Wain the fanciful cat creations which have made his name famous. From Concerning Cat Artists: ".Who does not know Louis's Wain's Cats? - that prince of English illustrators. Such a nice copy is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. ![]() XOX." Published more than 100 years ago, it is now out of print and scarce. Nineteen hundred and one." Another gift inscription on ffep: "ApTo Bonita with Love from Carl W. ![]() Lovingly, Mary Amanda Smith, December twenty-fifth. ![]() A gift inscription on a blank front page: "To Irene - In remembrance of Laself and all its pleasures, and many wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Scarce.A nice copy of this scarce and interesting book. ![]() Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1900. HELEN WINSLOW: CONCERNING CATS/MY OWN & OTHERS/1900 1ST CONCERNING CATS: MY OWN AND SOME OTHERS. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL20831110W Page_number_confidence 94.07 Pages 390 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200929123822 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 603 Scandate 20200925113038 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781616142407 Tts_version 4. Mark Hodder Books Overview The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack Sir Richard Francis Burton explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman his reputation tarnished his career in tatters his former partner missing and probably dead. ![]() Solution playfully satisfies serve grotty stuff and give the game away my Chambers disagrees, suggesting it. ![]() Serve grotty stuff and give the game away (4,3,4) Answer: DISH THE DIRT. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:05:28 Boxid IA1949008 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Mark Hodder’s debut novel, THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK, is a remarkably sophisticated and well-executed manifestation of the steampunk sub-genre He has created a compulsively readable romp that recalls the best of Tim Powers and James Blaylock. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McCloskey's characters have warmth and kindness and a healthy curiosity but they are not above a few minor faults and foibles. The chapter titles are as enticing as the chapters themselves: The Hide-a-Ride, Looking for Gold, Ever So Much More So, Experiment 13, Grampa Hercules and the Gravitty-Bitties, Pie and Punch and You-Know-Whats.Mr. Homer Price is a boy with a good supply of common sense-and ingenuity!Homer's Grampa Hercules is a delightful old rascal and his extravagent reminiscences of his youth are the starting point of many of the episodes. In Centerburg, along with the routine of day-to-day living, the most preposterous things keep happening.But nothing fazes Homer Price! Ragweeds taller than fire ladders, music that sets a whole town dancing-he solves these problems calmly and efficiently. But there's a subtle and delightful difference. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the uncooperative citizen, unbusinesslike Uncle Ulysses and his friendly lunchroom, the flustered sheriff, the pompous judge-they are all as American as they come. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately his message is clear we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. ![]() Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only one rat escapes, and the speaker tells how that rat swam to family and told the story of the Piper for the rest of his days. Almost immediately, the rats come out from everywhere and follow him as he plays and dances through the streets, until he finally gets to the river and leads them all to their deaths by drowning. The piper heads outside and begins to play his flute. They quickly up his offer to 50,000 gilders. He says he uses his talent "on creatures that do people harm" and asks for one thousand gilders if he can rid the town of rats. ![]() He explains that he has heard of their problem and has a "secret charm" that leads creatures to follow him when he wants. They also notice he has a flute hanging around his neck, which he continues to finger while they talk. He is extremely gangly, garbed in bizarrely colored clothing, and old-fashioned. The Mayor and Corporation have a stressful meeting, but can discover no viable option until "the strangest figure" arrives. Rats had overrun the city, to the point that the public demanded of the Mayor and "our Corporation" that the rats be destroyed or else the people would remove them from power. The speaker introduces the lovely river town of Hamelin in Brunswick and tells of its serious vermin problem 500 years before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never-before-seen publicity photos and candids from the sets of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade, My Fair Lady, How to Steal a Million, and Two for the Road.Rare and classic images digitally restored from their original negatives and transparencies. ![]() Now, in Audrey: The 60s, he has gathered spectacular museum-quality work from her key photographers?Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Cecil Beaton, Douglas Kirkland, William Klein, Terry O'Neill, Howell Conant, Bob Willoughby, Pierluigi Pratulon, Bud Fraker, and many others?to create this stunning portfolio of images that pays homage to the most beloved and enduring style icon of the ?decade of change.? Among the highlights: Curator and photographic preservationist David Wills has amassed one of the world's largest private collections of original Audrey Hepburn photographs. By the 1960s she had transformed into a trendsetting sophisticate and achieved unrivaled careers as an actress, model, movie star, and champion for underprivileged children worldwide. Audrey Hepburn charmed audiences in the 1950s as a new type of cinema personality?gamine, doe-eyed, and refreshingly casual. ![]() ![]() ![]() She regularly says and does the wrong thing- like hitting a boy over the head with a shovel in school to break up a fight, or asking to eat a dead budgie in the park, struggling completely to understand why these things were unacceptable. Keiko is socially awkward, and a constant worry to her family. While autism is never mentioned in the book, many autistic women have felt a real connection with Keiko and her struggles. Things become so bad that Keiko goes so far as to adopt an obnoxious former employee at the store as a room mate/ “pet” to get the world off of her back and to let them assume that she is in a relationship and finally acting “normal”. ![]() ![]() As she approaches her late thirties, her family and friends become increasingly invasive in their questioning of her lifestyle- why has she never moved on from the store? Why hasn’t she married? Why won’t she try to be like everyone else? Everyone wants to “fix” Keiko so that she will become a “normal”, functioning member of society. Keiko is considered somewhat of an anomaly in Japanese society, as convenience store jobs are considered stop gaps for students, job seekers, housewives etc. But as content as Keiko may be, the world is not content with her life. She is content with her life in the store, happily set in routine as a functional cog in the “machine of society”. The book tells the story of convenience store (or konbini) worker Keiko Furukura, a 36 year old woman who has worked part time in her local store for the last 18 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or at least she could make enough money-as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman-to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend. If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn't beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. ![]() Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. "An inspiring story that manages to be painful, honest, shocking, bawdy and hilarious." -The New York Times Book Reviewįrom stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of ( extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. ![]() |