A Piglet Named Mercy

• Author : Kate DiCamillo
• Publisher : Candlewick Press
• Release : 02 April 2019

Every porcine wonder was once a piglet! Celebrate the joy of a new arrival with this endearing picture-book prequel to the New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson series. Mr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes their lives feel a bit too ordinary. Sometimes they wish something different would happen. And one day it does, when someone unpredictable finds her way to their front door. In a delightful origin story for the star of the Mercy Watson series, a

• Author : Kate DiCamillo,Chris Van Dusen
• Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
• Release : 01 September 2011

Details the adventures of Mercy the pig, as she alerts the neighbors to the need for the fire department, drives an automobile, thwarts a burglar, dresses as a princess for Halloween, eats the neighbors' pansies, and goes to a movie.

• Author : Lisa Albert
• Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
• Release : 08 October 2011

Lily’s mother has slowly been losing herself to MS. When traditional treatment and other therapies fail, it becomes clear that she wants to die. In Oregon, the Death with Dignity Act allows a patient to make the decision to end their own life. Now Lily, a high school sophomore, has to make an unimaginable choice.

• Author : Christopher Kelen,Jo You Chengcheng
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 25 October 2021

Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry investigates a kind of poetry written mainly by adults for children. Many genres, including the picture book, are considered in asking for what purposes ‘animal poetry’ is composed and what function it serves. Critically contextualising anthropomorphism in traditional and contemporary poetic and theoretical discourses, these pages explore the representation of animals through anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and through affective responses to other-than-human others. Zoomorphism – the routine flipside of anthropomorphism – is crucially involved in

• Author : Dave Eggers
• Publisher : Chronicle Books
• Release : 30 April 2019

Rather than focusing on going to bed—and what kid wants to think about going to bed?—this book explores all of the dreamy, wonderful, strange things the next day might bring. Whimsical, witty, and hopeful, this revolutionary rewriting of a classic goodnight book from bestselling author Dave Eggers and award-winning illustrator Lane Smith is a bedtime story for tomorrow ever after.

• Author : Dennis Bjorklund
• Publisher : Praetorian Publishing
• Release : 01 September 2014

Cheers TV Show: A Comprehensive Reference is authored by a sitcom expert who penned the most comprehensive reference book that has ever been written about the show. This definitive guide is the best resource for any fan who is intrigued and enthralled by one of the all-time classic television situation comedies. The contents have been thoroughly researched and all 275 episodes meticulously analyzed to develop an unabridged, credible reference source. Individual chapters are devoted to biographies of the cast (Ted Danson,

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 21 May 2022

• Author : Theresa Bane
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 28 August 2013

Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe.

• Author : England. Curia Regis
• Publisher : Devon & Cornwall Record Society
• Release : 21 May 1985

Eyre rolls give us a wealth of information about crime in the medieval period. This volume presents and translates 776 non-civil cases heard before justices in Devon in 1238, including cases of theft, robbery, assault and murder. It is also unusual in giving detailed evidence about local matters such as the competence of local sheriffs and the impact of shipwrecks on the Devon coast. The Introduction sets out the context of these records, discussing both thirteenth-century justice and the local situation in

• Author : James Mace Ward
• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• Release : 02 April 2013

In Priest, Politician, Collaborator, James Mace Ward offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language biography of the Catholic priest and Slovak nationalist Jozef Tiso (1887-1947). The first president of an independent Slovakia, established as a satellite of Nazi Germany, Tiso was ultimately hanged for treason and (in effect) crimes against humanity by a postwar reunified Czechoslovakia. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ward portrays Tiso as a devoutly religious man who came to privilege the maintenance of a Slovak state over

• Author : S. W. Perry
• Publisher : Atlantic Books
• Release : 06 June 2019

From the author of The Angel's Mark, a CWA Dagger longlisted novel and a Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended Read 2019 'S.W. Perry's ingeniously plotted novels have become my favourite historical crime series.' S. G. MacLean, author of The Seeker series ____________________ Treason sleeps for no man... London, 1591. Nicholas Shelby, physician and reluctant spy, returns to his old haunts on London's lawless Bankside. But, when spymaster Robert Cecil asks him to investigate the dubious practices of a mysterious doctor from

• Author : S. W. Perry
• Publisher : Atlantic Books
• Release : 07 October 2021

The Angel's Mark London, 1590: Amidst a tumultuous backdrop of Spanish plotters, Catholic heretics and foreign wars, Queen Elizabeth I's control over her kingdom is wavering. And a killer is at work, preying on the weak and destitute of London... Idealistic physician Nicholas Shelby becomes determined to end these terrible murders. Joined in his investigations by Bianca, a beautiful but mysterious tavern keeper, the pair find themselves caught in the middle of a sinister plot. With the killer still at large,

• Author : Marianne Talbot
• Publisher : Hay House, Inc
• Release : 04 April 2011

"At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate. Leaping out of bed I found Mum, clothes on over her pyjamas, grumbling she was fed up of being moved from pillar to post and was going home." When her mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Marianne Talbot decided she couldn’t put her into a care home. Instead, for five years, she looked after her mum in her own home. For nearly three of those years

• Author : Dave Duncan
• Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
• Release : 10 October 2017

Medieval magic, murder, and mayhem! It is 1164, and for a hundred years England has been ruled by the Normans. A young Saxon boy named Durwin, crippled by a childhood accident, had caught the eye of a Norman sage teaching at a rural school of magic. Realizing that the boy had promise, Durwin was made stable boy, and eventually allowed to attend classes. Now twenty, Durwin is proficient enough that he is assigned to teach, but the other sages refuse to

• Author : Glenda Dawn Goss
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 15 December 2009

One of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop of Finland’s national awakening, Sibelius will be the definitive biography of this creative legend for many years to come. Glenda Dawn Goss begins her sweeping narrative in the Finland of Sibelius’s youth, which remained under Russian control for the first five decades of