![]() ![]() Comical watercolor illustrations provide the punch lines to many jokes within the well paced text. After the talent show, Farmer Brown suspects nothing until he hears boings coming from the barn. ![]() Fortunately, Duck steps in to save the day with a winning version of Born to Be Wild. At the talent show, the cows and sheep impress some of the judges, but lack of sleep has the pigs truly snoring when it is time to perform. How the suspicious farmer could ever confuse all this noise with routine snoring is a bit of a stretch, but the hilarious late night practice scenes inside the barn will help readers make the leap. The cows and sheep concentrate on their singing while the pigs work on interpretive dance. ![]() Kindergarten Grade 3When Duck discovers an ad in the paper announcing a talent show at the county fair first prize, a slightly used trampoline, Farmer Brown’s animals are unstoppable. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With his mission now complete Garrett faced the struggle of his life - could he live without Nikki Redfern. ![]() The cute rancher made his heart quiver but he felt compelled to return to his ho-hum existence. While acting as chauffeur for a former Dry Creek resident Garrett Hamilton fell hard for Nicki. Binding is solid no crease to spine corners slight crease along spine edge of front cover slight wear to edges and corner tips 'X' in ink at top corner of front endpaper otherwise pages are clean no marks to text no owner information gift messages store stamps remaimder marks stains or moisture damage. Near Fine Printing Not Statedv Mass Market Paperback 251 pages 284 grams/10 oz. New York New York U.S.A.: Steeple Hill Books 2003. Dry Creek Montana #8:Hero for Dry Creek #228 Love Inspired ![]() United States Estados Unidos Estados Unidos États-Unis ![]() ![]() ![]() And in seeking to help Mawat reclaim his city, Eolo discovers that the Raven's Tower holds a secret. It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo - aide to Mawat, the true Lease - arrives. And they have made their own alliances with other gods. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes.īut the power of the Raven is weakening. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. Clarke Awards.įor centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. ![]() Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It showed a man with a moustache groomed so carefully it looked painted on. There was another old photograph in the house, one that Francis discovered when we were small, shelved secretly in Mother’s bedroom cupboard. It was a place populated by relatives we had met only briefly, who existed now in old black-and-white photographs, ghostly images that were supposed to explain our eyes and way of smiling, our hair and bones. ![]() Somehow, we felt that the West Indies made sense of other equally strange objects in our home, like the snow globe of Niagara Falls, or the lurking threat of Anne Murray’s ‘Snowbird’ 45. ![]() It was a place that accounted for the presence in our house of certain drinks like mauby and sorrel and also the inexplicably named Peardrax, which Francis had once fooled me into believing was bathroom cleanser. It was a place that Francis and I, both born and raised here in Canada, had visited once and could recognize vaguely in words and sounds and tastes. Our mother had come from Trinidad, in what parents of her generation called the West Indies. But before all of this, he was the shoulder pressed against me bare and warm, that body always just a skin away. His was a name a toughened kid might boast of knowing, or a name a parent might pronounce in warning. ![]() ![]() Now Percy and his friends, along with the Hunters of Artemis, have only a week to find the kidnapped goddess and solve the mystery of the monster she was hunting. An ancient monster has arisen - one rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus - and Artemis, the only goddess who might know how to track it, is missing. The titan lord Kronos has devised his most treacherous plot yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey. The demigods rush to the rescue to find that Grover has made an important discovery: two powerful half-bloods whose parentage is unknown. ![]() He knows he will need his powerful demigod allies at his side, his trusty bronze sword Riptide, and… a ride from his mom. ![]() When Percy Jackson gets an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. ![]() |