When Oggy, a stubborn turtle, realizes that his shell is due for an upgrade it's off to the store he goes. Oggy does not go willingly and fears what will happen when he gets a new shell. Change is a hard thing for everyone, regardless of age. Children will see that change is not always easy, but may give a better outcome than they ever expected.
This story is the first of many adventures with the Luna brother's. Follow them on their learning journey through new experiences and life lessons that they will carry through life. Gus-Gus finds out what it means to have allergies but with his family by his side, he also learns that these allergies will not stop him from what he wants most Find out what happens and how a solution is uncovered.
Someone’s about to rip off a sleepy little Louisiana town! Chuck’s gang of truckers are geared for looting. When Tom masterminds a false hurricane alert…When sheriff Boshardt orders an evacuation of the town…When Chuck moves in to strip the town clean…Their cool caper escalates into a devastating triple-cross that rips the rooftops off everything from Miami to New Orleans—and nothing—no one will ever be the same!
Her lip trembled, her emotions flooding out, and Felicia pulled back the sob that tried to escape. "You're going to make me love you," she said. That time she felt him smile. She couldn't see his face, of course, but knew it was there, knew she'd fallen into the place he wanted her to be. The rich daughter of a millionaire businessman, on the outside, it looks like Felicia Torrence has everything. Yet, behind the mansion walls, her fragile world is built on a stack of lies, growing larger every day. Her escape is a job at the local children's arcade. Here, she can forget her troubles for a while and watch kids be happy. No one around her needs to be any the wiser. Until, a simple ride home with fellow employee, Levi Galvis, exposes him to the truth. They have nothing in common. He's smart, hard-working, and decidedly middle class. He's also stubborn, a trait that initially makes her angry, but soon proves to be her only way out. Book 1 in the Fabulous Series, a sweet, clean teenage romance, by best-selling author, SUZANNE D. WILLIAMS.
Perfectly executed and chilling... a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes.--The New York Times "Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov.--Wall Street Journal Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane. But the strange, sad, terrifying tricks of chance unravel both his and Felicia's delusions in a story that will magnetize fans of Alfred Hitchcock and Ruth Rendell even as it resonates with William Trevor's own impeccable strength and piercing profundity (The Washington Post Book World).
*WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD *From acclaimed author William Trevor, Felicia's Journey is a tightly woven psychological thriller'A book so brilliant that it compels you to stay up all night galloping through to the end' Daily MailYou're beautiful, Johnny told her. So, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is instead found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless young girls . . .'Immensely readable. The plot twist is both sinister and affecting, and so skilfully done that you remember why authors had plot twists in the first place' GuardianReaders of The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer will adore Felicia's Journey. It will also be cherished by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd.William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature.
This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays, the first to focus on the work of Felicia Hemans, includes new work from important critics in the field - Isobel Armstrong, Stephen Behrendt, Gary Kelly, Susan Wolfson - as well as contributions from emerging scholars. Offering close readings of Heman's poetry, new research on her reception, and analyses of her cultural significance, the collection contributes substantially to our understanding of Hemans and to current debates about romanticism, feminism, canonization, and the relations between gender, culture, and poetry.
A heartwarming new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.
