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"A dark and bitingly humorous collection of short stories from the "brilliantly evocative" (Time) Paul Theroux A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young...
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Tweed is looking forward to spending the summer with his uncle Rainer. His uncle Ray lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in a small mountain cabin he named the chink-a-pen. Tweed and his two friends, Nolan and Lonnie, explore Blood Mountain, searching for the mountain zombie. The boys get caught up in a mystery when they find a skull in a muddy creek bed. Their adventures will take them to a lost cave in the mountain where they hope to find hidden...
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After a tour of duty overseas, the eccentric character Augustus Tibbetts (known as "Bones" to his associates) returns to London to embark on civilian life. In a series of loosely connected but consistently hilarious tales and vignettes, Bones inadvertently stumbles into a series of improbable but exciting adventures and too-good-to-be-true business ventures.
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Having been defeated in Australia and Antarctica, the evil Mr. Bones hides out somewhere he's sure he won't be found: the Moon! But the joke's on him. The young dino tracker Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, take to space to face off against their enemy in a lunar showdown of dino-sized proportions! But when they finally track him down, they realize Mr. Bones isn't at all what he seems to be.
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"Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump's White House is unprecedented and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the couple has created, depicting themselves as the voices of reason in an otherwise crazy presidency, and reveals that Jared and Ivanka are not just the President's chief enablers:...
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Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, pursue the dangerous Mr. Bones to Australia, where he has reanimated an Allosaurus and may be seeking more complete dinosaur skeletons to bring to life--but they discover that actually he and his sister have a more profitable scheme in mind.
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To find the evil Mr. Bones, Mike and Shannon will have to follow the fossils-even if it leads them to an ancient dinosaur graveyard in Antarctica! (Hint: it does.) Because of continental drift, the dinosaur fossils Mr. Bones thought were in Australia are actually in Antarctica. But make no bones about it-this villain still intends to cover every continent with reborn dino-slaves ... and take over the world! Each book in this action-packed series is...
12) Someday Angeline
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As an eight-year-old genius in the sixth grade, Angeline is not too popular, but she tries to adjust to being different.
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What seems to Mike Evans like a boring dinosaur dig in China turns suddenly dangerous when he finds evidence of a live dinosaur in the neighborhood--and he and his friend Shannon run into a villain in a skull mask called Mr. Bones who is controlling both a feathered dino, and a fierce carnivore.
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There's a place, where real and surreal collide.
At the mercy of a madman, a phantom, Mr. Bones joins a cursed Krewe and chases the horizon in a race against his time left on earth, to find the Ocean's Daughter before, the 'Wicked' one finds them first!
"She bears the power to free their very souls from a life never asked for, a life never wanted. But, will they find a Savior in this spirit before the sword of Damocles buries their souls at sea?"
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15) TimBuktu
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2021
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Mr. Bones é um cão de raça indefinida e companheiro inseparável de William Gurevitch, um vagabundo, um poeta errante, um excêntrico sobrevivente das revoluções dos anos sessenta. Juntos percorreram a América e sobreviveram aos duros invernos de Brooklyn. Agora, em Baltimore, depara-se-lhes aquela que será talvez a última aventura. William, que pressente a chegada da morte, embarca numa missão: encontrar Bea Swanson, sua professora de liceu....
16) 77 dream songs
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A wild, masterful cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds.
As Henri Cole notes in his elegant, perceptive introduction, Berryman had discovered "a looser style that mixed high and low dictions with a strange syntax." Berryman had also discovered his most enduring alter ego, a paranoid, passionate, depressed, drunk, irrepressible antihero named Henry or, sometimes, Mr. Bones: "We touch at certain points," Berryman claimed,...
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Jeremy Bone is a retired schoolmaster who lives alone in a large schoolhouse. He dislikes modern technology, so is appalled when he mistakenly receives a mobile phone through the mail. Roger Bennet is a boy of junior school age who has some learning difficulties. Each week he delivers an apple pie to Mr Bone in exchange for an hour's tuition. He activates the phone which has mystical powers and a great adventure begins. During the story's progress...
18) Little Bones
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I have three names: I was born Leigh-Ann. I became Cherrie. When I was a child, they called me Little Bones... My father was Mr Bones, the notorious serial killer of 20 years ago.
As a child I witnessed his crimes.
Everything is different now. I have a new identity. I'm a mother. I am finally free.
Until that podcast. I should never have listened.
They're linking a recent kidnapping to the crimes of the past.
They know who I am. They're calling me...
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His Toy, His Dream, His Rest continues and concludes the poem, called The Dream Songs, begun in 77 Dream Songs, which was published in 1964 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It is a much longer volume than the earlier one and contains 308 songs in all, starting of course with number 78.
"Some of the people who addressed themselves to 77 Dream Songs went so desperately astray," writes the author, "that I permit myself one word. The poem then,...
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It took centuries of scientific effort--and a lot of luck--to discover and establish the diversity of dinosaur species we now know. How did we learn that Triceratops had three horns? Why don't many paleontologists consider Brontosaurus a valid species? What convinced scientists that modern birds are relatives of ancient Velociraptor? In this book, Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the most important fossil finds and the intrepid...
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