Just Right for Christmas, Birdie Black

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Look at the Birdie
ISBN: 0099548852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099548850
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction
ISBN: 0385343728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385343725
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "Relentlessly fun to read."--Dave Eggers - A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction

In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post-World War II America--a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.

Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut's trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. A quack psychiatrist turned "murder counselor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. While these stories reflect the anxieties of the postwar era that Vonnegut was so adept at capturing--and provide insight into the development of his early style--collectively, they have a timeless quality that makes them just as relevant today as when they were written. It's impossible to imagine any of these pieces flowing from the pen of another writer; each in its own way is unmistakably, quintessentially Vonnegut.

Featuring a foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit and illustrated with Vonnegut's characteristically insouciant line drawings, Look at the Birdie is an unexpected gift for readers who thought his unique voice had been stilled forever--and serves as a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.

Includes these never-before-published stories:

"Confido"
"FUBAR"
"Shout About It from the Housetops"
"Ed Luby's Key Club"
"A Song for Selma"
"Hall of Mirrors"
"The Nice Little People"
"Hello, Red"
"Little Drops of Water"
"The Petrified Ants"
"The Honor of a Newsboy"
"Look at the Birdie"
"King and Queen of the Universe"
"The Good Explainer"

" Look at the Birdie] brings us the late writer's young voice as he skewers--sometimes gently, always lethally--post World War II America."--The Boston Globe

Автор: Spinelli, Eileen
Название: Birdie
ISBN: 0802856047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802856043
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Описание: If influencers have power over us, who are you allowing to influence you?

Автор: Colbert Brandy
Название: The Revolution of Birdie Randolph
ISBN: 0316448540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316448543
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: From Stonewall Award winner Brandy Colbert comes a novel about first love, family, and hidden secrets that will stay with you long after turning the last page.

Dove "Birdie" Randolph works hard to be the perfect daughter and follow the path her parents have laid out for her: She quit playing her beloved soccer, she keeps her nose buried in textbooks, and she's on track to finish high school at the top of her class. But then Birdie falls hard for Booker, a sweet boy with a troubled past . . . whom she knows her parents will never approve of.

When her estranged aunt Carlene returns to Chicago and moves into the family's apartment above their hair salon, Birdie notices the tension building at home. Carlene is sweet, friendly, and open-minded -- she's also spent decades in and out of treatment facilities for addiction. As Birdie becomes closer to both Booker and Carlene, she yearns to spread her wings. But when long-buried secrets rise to the surface, everything she's known to be true is turned upside down.

Автор: Black Edie
Название: The Price of Fame
ISBN: 0692306560 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692306567
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Автор: Matos Gagic, Diana
Название: Great welsh women colouring book
ISBN: 1916007252 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781916007253
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Описание: Becoming a True Athlete offers a counterpoint to the win-at-all-costs culture of sport that is so prevalent and destructive today. By drawing on ancient wisdom and modern psychology the book describes how athletes can achieve more of their athletic potential, enhance well-being and think more deeply about the true meaning and value of sport.

Автор: Birdie Black
Название: Just Right for Christmas
ISBN: 085763030X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857630308
Издательство: Nosy Crow
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Описание: On Christmas eve, the king buys some soft red cloth to make a cloak for the princess - little does he know that the left-over cloth will be used to make presents for many more of the kingdom`s inhabitants.

Автор: Colbert, Brandy ; Lang, Andrea
Название: The Revolution of Birdie Randolph (Library)
ISBN: 1549182226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781549182228
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Автор: Luthman Wanda
Название: Little Birdie Grows Up
ISBN: 0692745106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692745106
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Автор: Shirley Cindy L.
Название: A Song for Birdie: A Child`s Journey with Autism
ISBN: 1732425620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732425620
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Описание:

Birdie Williams finds herself struggling to focus at school. During a parent/teacher conference, the topic of Autism comes up. Reluctantly, the decision to place Birdie in a special needs class is made. Through an unusual connection with a tiny songbird, the young girl finds comfort in her art and music. This beautiful story is both inspiring and heartwarming for readers of all ages. Families that were chosen to love a gifted child will fall in love with these wonderful characters.