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Couldn't get enough of Love, Simon or Red, White and Royal Blue? This is the (slightly NSFW) book for you!'Jack of Hearts might be the most important queer novel of the decade' Gay Times'Jack of Hearts won my heart' Courtney Act 'This book is filth' Julian Clary ---------------'My first time getting it in the butt was kind of weird. I think it's going to be weird for everyone's first time, though.'Meet Jack Rothman. He's seventeen and loves partying, makeup and boys - sometimes all at the same time.His sex life makes him the hot topic for the high school gossip machine. But who cares? Like Jack always says, 'it could be worse'.He doesn't actually expect that to come true.But after Jack starts writing an online sex advice column, the mysterious love letters he's been getting take a turn for the creepy.Jack's secret admirer knows everything: where he's hanging out, who he's sleeping with, who his mum is dating. They claim they love Jack, but not his unashamedly queer lifestyle. They want him to curb his sexuality, or they'll force him.As the pressure mounts, Jack must unmask his stalker before their obsession becomes genuinely dangerous...Praise for Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)'The affirming, sex-positive, brilliant new book that puts the "adult" into young adult literature' Attitude'Humane, sex-positive writing of the funniest, filthiest and most heartening kind' The Guardian
Jack and the Beanstalk
DK Children
2019
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Based on the traditional fairy tale, this picture book remains a firm favourite for parents looking for children's classics to read with their little one. When Jack sells his cow for a handful of magic beans, he doesn't expect a huge beanstalk to grow outside his window! Join Jack as he goes on an exciting and magical adventure up to the top of the towering beanstalk and discovers a peckish giant, a golden goose, and a magical harp.The charming illustrations by Giuseppe Di Lernia in this picture book are sure to capture the imaginations of little ones, and the large format of this book is ideal for sharing with children aged 3 to 5 and reading together at bedtime.
A story about dealing with temper tantrums when tiny monsters don't get their way. Welcome to Monster Town! The monsters here are perfectly friendly, but they're not always very well-behaved . . . Jack is sweet and kind most of the time, but throws the BIGGEST tantrums Monster Town has ever seen when he gets upset. Will he ever learn how to keep his temper? With playful illustrations and reassuring text, this picture book series is perfect for adults and children to enjoy together, and provides practical tips to help manage tricky toddler behaviours.
Jack and the Beanstalk: Read It Yourself - Level 3 Confident Reader
Penguin Random House Children's UK
2025
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Based on the well-loved classic tale. When a young boy trades his family’s cow for some magical beans, it’s the start of a big adventure. Join Jack on an enchanting journey to the top of the magic beanstalk outside his window!Jack and the Beanstalk is from Confident Reader Level 3 and is perfect for more confident readers aged from 6+ who can read simple stories with help.Each book has been carefully checked by educational and subject consultants and includes comprehension puzzles, book band information, and tips for helping children with their reading.With five levels to take children from first phonics to fluent reading and a wide range of different stories and topics for every interest, Read It Yourself helps children build their confidence and begin reading for pleasure.
Cool Water is the 1st of two books. (Jack 1: Jack 2) A novel, based on real places, real people and real life events, Synopsis Jack 1. Describes the lifestyle of four Yorkshire teenage miners, in the late 1950s. Of their sexual frustrations, struggles and successes, as they grow into maturity. How the mother of one of them has a very serious problem, and the fours reaction to it, culminating in a murder. A mining disaster entombs the main character, Jack.
Join Jack on his amazing adventure with the friendly alien, Zim Zam, who he meets in his back garden one Sunday afternoon.Cleverly written in rhymes, this cute exciting book encourages reading and development of a childs imagination.Suitable for ages 7-10
Breve resoconto del viaggio che ho fatto tra settembre e novembre 2018 attraverso Sri Lanka e India. I profitti del libro finanzieranno il progetto Bibliomula della Cooperativa Caribana. Sul sito www.giacomosanesi.it e possibile trovare materiale fotografico e video inerente al viaggio.
There's plenty of fast banter, funny patter and ridiculous rhyme to enjoy in this traditional panto script by Channel 4 comedy writer Brian Luff. It's a script packed with great new comedy routines. Hapless palace guards Kosh & Bosh have numerous opportunities to show off their comic chemistry, including a messy gym scene, a "Standing Very Still" sketch and a pacy routine about a bunch of "Spies Behind the Pork Pies." Meanwhile, Dame Plump & her farmhand Charlie perform an hilarious sketch called "Counting Potatoes," which may turn out to be a bit of a panto classic. Charlie also hooks up with handsome hero Jack for a very funny "Eye Test" routine. Jack and the Magical Beanstalk is traditional family pantomime at its very best.
Breve resoconto del viaggio che ho fatto tra settembre e novembre 2018 attraverso Sri Lanka e India. I profitti del libro finanzieranno il progetto Bibliomula della Cooperativa Caribana. Sul sito www.giacomosanesi.it e possibile trovare materiale fotografico e video inerente al viaggio.
Jack and the Weed Stalk - From Hemperor to Budtender The philosophical musings of a retiree suffering from cannabis induced dementia blathering about God and evolution, the end of life, re-incarnation and the scientific god of Infinity. Jack, one day, comes across a Chinaman at the foot of a bonsai tree. The Chinaman calls it the Journey. It's not what it seems. Jack is looking at a giant weed stalk, shaped like a bonsai, reaching into heaven. Jack must decide if he'll continue the Journey toward Infinity or go back down the weed stalk and pursue his Theory of Infinity from home in a down to earth human way. Musings is a jumble of thoughts that occur to Jack, self-declared Hemperor, a retiree whose appetite for youth hasn't waned, spends his last days on the Weed Stalk as Budtender. This collection of fantasies constitutes light reading for those who inhale, heavy reading for heavy users, and controversial for virgins that don't share the Weed Attitude.
He's not demented. Jack is retired and actually quite serene in his new job as senior Budtender. He considers himself a gentleman horticulturist and retired "magic carpet" cosmologist. There's nothing backbreaking about being high especially here since he acquires his high by osmosis, in symbiosis with the Universe. His daily routine includes dropping in on the people who populate the planet, catching bits and pieces of their conversations. He's cryptic in his diaries, chronicles and hallucinations but only because his typing can't keep up with his fantasies. "I am the man who wants to know everything and I've had to adapt my way of thinking to that of a chameleon philosophy ready to bear the colors of all tartans."
Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey, also known as the Manassa Mauler, began his boxing career as a skinny boy of sixteen, riding the rails and participating in hastily staged saloon bouts against miners and lumberjacks. In this incisive, fast-paced biography, Randy Roberts charts the life and career of a man widely regarded as one of the toughest ever to enter the ring. He details Dempsey's transition from barroom fights to professional boxing and his emerging reputation for fast, brutal knockouts. Roberts draws on a wealth of newspaper articles and interviews to chronicle Dempsey's rise to the heavyweight championship and his six title defenses. Also included are accounts of the eventual loss of his title to Gene Tunney in 1926, and the rematch in 1927, which Dempsey also lost in the infamous "long count." After continuing to fight in exhibitions, Dempsey retired from boxing in 1940 with an astonishing 64 victories, 49 of them knockouts. Roberts tells of the building of this record, including accounts of Dempsey's forays into Hollywood, the controversy over his alleged draft-dodging, his long life after retirement, and his enduring legacy as one of the greatest fighters in boxing history.
Jack Ward Thomas, an eminent wildlife biologist and U.S. Forest Service career scientist, was drafted in the late 1980s to head teams of scientists developingstrategies for managing the habitat of the northern spotted owl. That assignment led to his selection as Forest Service chief during the early years of the Clinton administration. It is history's good fortune that Thomas kept journals of his thoughts and daily experiences, and that he is a superb writer able to capture the moment with clarity and grace.The issues Thomas dealt with in office and noted in his journals lie at the heart of recent Forest Service policy and controversy, starting with President Clinton's Timber Summit in Portland, Oregon, dealing with the spotted owl issue, and the 1994 loss of fourteen firefighters in the Storm King Mountain fire in Colorado. Against a constant backdrop of partisan politics in the White House and Congress, Thomas discusses issues ranging from grazing in the national forests, long-term pulp timber sales in Alaska, and the Forest Service Law Enforcement Division to the New World Mine near Yellowstone National Park. He considers the timber salvage rider and its linkage to forest health, the Department of Justice and Counsel on Environmental Quality influence on Forest Service policies, and interagency management for the Columbia River Basin.Woven throughout these excerpts from his diary is Thomas's conviction that the effective, ethical management of wildlife depends on how the management effort is situated within the broader human context, with all its intransigence and unpredictability. Writing in 1995, Thomas says, "Things simply don't work the way that students are taught in natural resources policy classes--not even close. . . .There is simply no way that scholars of the subject can understand the ad hoc processes that go on within only loosely defined boundaries." Wildlife management, he says, is "90 percent about people and 10 percent about animals," and when it comes to learning about people, wildlife managers are on their own. This book is the record of how one man met that challenge.
Press coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. This engrossing book examines how fourteen London newspapers—dailies and weeklies, highbrow and lowbrow—presented the Ripper news, in the process revealing much about the social, political, and sexual anxieties of late Victorian Britain and the role of journalists in reinforcing social norms.L. Perry Curtis surveys the mass newspaper culture of the era, delving into the nature of sensationalism and the conventions of domestic murder news. Analyzing the fourteen newspapers—two of which emanated from the East End, where the murders took place—he shows how journalists played on the fears of readers about law and order by dwelling on lethal violence rather than sex, offering gruesome details about knife injuries but often withholding some of the more intimate details of the pelvic mutilations. He also considers how the Ripper news affected public perceptions of social conditions in Whitechapel.
Experts agree that Jack the Ripper murdered five London women, but how many others did he slaughter in Britain or across the seas? The number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on five individuals. These five canonical cases have been examined at length in Ripper literature, but other contemporary murders and attacks bearing strong resemblance to the gruesome Ripper slayings have received scant attention. These unsolved cases are the focus of this intriguing book. The volume devotes separate chapters to a dozen female victims who were attacked during the years of Jack the Ripper’s murder spree. Their terrible stories—a few survived to bear witness, but most died of their wounds—illuminate key aspects of the Ripper case and the period: the gangs of London’s Whitechapel district, Victorian prostitutes, the public panic inspired by the crimes and fueled by journalists, medical practices of the day, police procedures and competency, and the probable existence of other serial killers. The book also considers crimes initially attributed to Jack the Ripper in other parts of Britain and the world, notably New York, Jamaica, and Nicaragua. In a final chapter, the drive to find the identity of the Ripper is examined, looking at contemporary and later suspects as well as several important theories, revealing the lengths to which some have gone to claim success in identifying Jack the Ripper.
The emergence of Jack Teagarden as an important jazz stylist was a significant feature of the'20s jazz scene. He brought a maturity to the sound of the trombone and until late in his life played with a laconic grace that few, if any, on his instrument have equaled. His collaboration with Louis Armstrong,who rated their musical relationship higher than any he had known,was one of the great partnerships in jazz history. The story of this funny, happy Texan is told with affection and detail in this, the only biography of Jack Teagarden. Obviously a man like Teagarden, with his mastery of his instrument, might have stepped into almost any kind of music and made a career for himself. But one thing this book makes clear is that Jack could not have been any kind of musician except a jazz musician. A jazz musician simply has to make his music and dedicate his life to it, even though he may not tell you (or himself) why he has to. He may not, indeed, even be able to say why, or need to say why. The need is to make music and, necessarily, lead the life that makes that possible. All of which has little or nothing to do with ego or acclaim or money. He needs to give his music to the world and he hopes the world will understand.You will find out about that need in these pages. You will also find plenty of the pranks and boys-will-be-boys anecdotes that seem so prevalent, diverting, and (under the surface) necessary a part of the musical life.",Martin Williams, from his new preface.