Sometimes you just have to raise your hand and take a chance. With its profound simplicity and vibrant illustrations, The Two of Us: My Teacher and I collects important truisms shared between teachers and their pupils, and captures the essence of this often special bond. The best day for a test is always tomorrow, but sometimes it has to be today. Everyone, even teachers, looks forward to recess. You may not care what you pack in your lunch in the morning, but you will at noon. People who seem to have all the answers usually have a lot of them wrong. Really good teachers can teach and teach and never run out of things to teach. Some really smart people were a little messy with their homework, like Madame Curie and Albert Einstein. My teacher and I could be friends. In fact, we are. For students looking to celebrate the end of the school year and honor a particularly special teacher, The Two of Us: My Teacher and I is the ideal way to say, "Thank you for a great year.
Women often share a special bond that starts with secret giggles in childhood and lasts, well, forever. In The Two of Us, authors Ellen Small and Jim Dale pay tribute to those special relationships between girlfriends of every age. The Two of Us helps girlfriends tell each other just how they feel about their most special alliance. In this delightful gift book, they'll find touching words about the true meaning of friendship and photographs that evoke a spirit of warmth and camaraderie. The two of us . . . * cry at TV commercials about reunions . . . but would never admit it to anyone else. * can eat a party-size bag of M and M's in one sitting. * have a sense when things will go on sale. * love dancing and would dance with each other if it wasn't so queer.
THE BEST SICK DAY EVER and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book debut. Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee's case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his animal friends decide it's time they returned the favor. A Sick Day for Amos McGee is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year and the winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal. This title has Common Core connections.
Oy! So you've got a Jewish mother . . . and you're not even Jewish. Overbearing? Nagging? Shrugs her shoulders deeply and often? Turns all statements into questions? The master of the sigh? Read more about those characteristics we've come to know and love.
Hidden in the Nevada desert is America’s most advanced aerospace weapons testing facility. Dreamland is the place where the nation’s top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Force’s top guns come to test them—on the front lines of a new era in warfare… The fiasco of a spy’s infiltration has the Pentagon looking for an excuse to close Dreamland down. To clean up the mess—and save Dreamland from the Congressional chopping block—Lt. Colonel William Tecumseh “Dog” Bastian is sent in. He’s just the guy to shake things up…and does when a situation erupts in Somalia. Into a hotter-than-hot war zone, he sends his own daughter—the pilot of a Megafortress bomber—and a high-tech, unmanned flight system that could make or break the future of Dreamland…
Together you have cried, laughed, shopped, dined, shared secrets, and shopped some more. She drives you crazy sometimes, but only because she reminds you of yourself. You wouldn't change a thing about her. More than just mother and daughter, now you are friends. From the authors of The Two of Us: A Book About Friendship, and The Two of Us: A Book About Dogs and Their Owners, this warm, humorous gift book marries touching illustrations and candid observations to illustrate the unique bond between mothers and daughters. The Two of Us says all the things you have wanted to say to the woman who has been such an important part of your life. The two of us . . . share so much in common: genes (and maybe jeans), a certain expression, a way of doing things, family memories. The two of us...may not always see eye to eye, but we can always speak heart to heart. Mothers and daughters will smile in recognition at the funny, honest sentiments, secrets, confessions, and tender moments captured in this heartwarming gift book.
Finally! A concise set of practical, ignore-at-your-own risk guidelines that married couples and about-to-be-marrieds can consult for the definitive word on matrimonial relations. Rules for Husbands and Rules for Wives lay down the law in a way that's both hilarious and so close to the truth it hurts. James Dale covers it all, from "an appliance is not a gift" to "let him hold the TV remote; it makes him feel like he's in control of something." A gift for all occasions, or just to say "I love you" with a laugh.
USAF Captain Breanna Stockard is training Brunei pilots to fly the EB-52 Megafortress. But when an attempted kidnapping threatens a major arms deal, Breanna and her husband, Major Jeff "Zen" Stockard, must uncover a plot that could mean Armageddon. Original.
Written with warmth and humor, The Two Of Us: A Book About Dogs And Their Owners is a tribute to true dog lovers. This gift book combines contemporary black-and-white photographs with funny, honest sentiments, secrets, confessions, and tender moments shared by dogs and their owners.
The edgy sentiments in this gift book are sure to produce guffaws at the expense of the birthday boy and perhaps serve up a little friendly revenge for barbs of birthdays past. The book includes such ribbing as: Remember when you were a kid and you hunted for fossils? Now you are one. Scientists now have a theory about why you feel bad on your birthday. You're very old. Don't get down about getting older. Some lizards live to be over 200 (but no one wants to touch them). Now that you're older, admit it. You watch the Weather Channel. To reinforce just how old your friend is, a "vintage" black-and-white photo accompanies each tidbit of devilish humor.
An easygoing, storytelling style makes this offering from Tiger Woods's high school coach a delight. Tiger Woods Made Me Look Like a Genius weaves Don Crosby's golfing techniques into the story of coaching the champion and how Woods's own methods meshed with and enhanced Crosby's approach. Coach Don Crosby has only a 12-week season to turn ragtag teenage duffers into championship contenders. With no time to waste, he focuses on five basics that can take ten strokes off anyone's score: The Practice Range-good for two shots off your game The Short Game-the surest way to lower your score is to chip away at it Putting-imagine no three-putt greens Course Management-a course you know is two shots easier than one you don't Stats-you can't get better unless you know how you're doing Tiger Woods Made Me Look Like a Genius is a handbook of Crosby's golfing techniques and strategies, sprinkled liberally with his personal recollections and anecdotes of the good old days when he coached the young Tiger. The stories, "Crosby's True Tales," bring the mechanics of golf to life, illustrating how these five techniques work and what to expect from them, while offering an intimate look at the evolution of champion Tiger Woods. The book also features an insert with photographs and memorabilia from these special days of coaching.
The Too-Bad-It's-Your-Birthday Book is like the best outrageous birthday cards rolled into one. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, the book's edgy humor needles everyone who's suffered the slings and arrows of one too many birthdays: Your friends got together to light your birthday candles. Oops, not enough friends. Who's older . . . you or the Earth? Now that you're older, admit it. You watch the Weather Channel. It's now estimated the universe is a trillion years old. That's two years older than you. Exaggerated sentiments in The Too-Bad-It's-Your-Birthday Book will make the birthday girl roll with laughter-and start plotting her revenge!
The hunt is on for a mystery weapon shooting down American planes over Iraq in the New York Times–bestselling author’s high-tech military thriller series. Hidden in the Nevada desert is Dreamland—a top-secret research center developing experimental artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. It is also home to Whiplash—a covert team of special forces trained to deploy the high-tech weapons in extreme situations. Whiplash’s latest mission begins when a series of American planes are shot down over Iraq in mysterious circumstances. There is no way that conventional weapons could have executed the deadly efficient strikes. Can the Iraqis have developed a laser capable of causing such mayhem? Fearing a major international crisis, the President sends a call out to Dreamland. Within hours, some of the most sophisticated aircraft in the world are heading for the Gulf, with orders to track down the mystery weapon—and destroy it.
In a volatile world, America’s worst nightmares canbecome real—anywhere, anytime, and with no warning. But there is one potent defense: a top-secret military facility in the Nevada desert where the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed. Masters of astonishing military technology that enables them to deploy almost instantaneously to any part of the Earth, the Dreamland team must now stop a dangerous revolution in the making in Eastern Europe—where a mysterious group of insurgents has blown up an essential pipeline, thereby disrupting Europe’s gas supply. With NATO and the EU paralyzed by the crisis, it falls to Dreamland’s best and brightest to keep the world from the brink of another Cold War. But the secret hand of an old enemy is pulling the strings from the shadows, hoping to reap the rewards of chaos. And the devastating results could erupt with intense, white-hot fury.
The elite Dreamland team faces their most deangerous mission as terrorists plot a massive nuclear attack on American soil in this military techno-thriller. Dreamland, a top-secret military facility in the Nevada desert, is where high-tech innovations are developed to keep America safe from its enemies. After defusing threats across the globe, the team must now use its stealth, raw nerve, and technology to stop a terror from striking at home. With more than two dozen nuclear devices unaccounted for, the global masters of terror have set a catastrophe in motion: a surprise attack more deadly than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined. If the nation is to survive, Lieutenant Colonel Tecumseh “Dog” Bastian and his crew will have to reach deep into their cutting-edge arsenal. And they’ll have to do it short-handed—because two of Dreamland’s best and bravest have been lost at sea.
New York Times–Bestselling Authors: When terrorists take to the sea, America attacks from the air . . . In the Nevada desert, the high-tech future of warfare is being built at a top-secret military facility called Dreamland . . . As extremist Islamic pirates, armed and supported by a powerful Saudi terrorist, prey on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Aden, America aggressively answers with serious muscle—a next-generation littoral warship with a full range of automated weapons systems that the enemy has dubbed “Satan's Tail.” But unforeseen technological problems—combined with the suicidal tendencies of a fanatical foe—mean support is needed from above, and a pair of Dreamland’s awesome Megafortresses and their Flighthawk escorts are dispatched to the war zone. However, bitter professional rivalries threaten to damage, perhaps even destroy, the mission, as a vengeful opponent takes advantage of the disruption to strengthen his outlaw navy and set its sights horrifically high—raising the stakes in a battle the U.S. and the world simply cannot afford to lose. Acclaim for Dale Brown “When a former pilot turns his hand to writing thrillers you can take their authenticity for granted. His writing is exceptional and the dialogue, plots and characters are first-class.” —Sunday Mirror “Few novelists can craft an aerial battle scene more strategically.” —Publishers Weekly “Brown puts us into the cockpits of wonderful machines and gives us quite a ride . . . authentic and gripping.” —The New York Times
In a series of mother-to-mother phone conversations expressed through prose and cartoons that span the book, the Dales take readers from pregnancy to the kids going to college. Illustrated.
A perfect antidote to disparaging over-the-hill humour at birthdays, this gift book illuminates the bright side of baldness, wrinkles, bifocals, waning sex drive and other symptoms of ageing.
A high-tech covert strike force takes aim at a nuclear armed extremist in the New York Times–bestselling co-author’s military techno-thriller. The world is watching as the U.S. and Iran agree to lay down their swords. But one man hiding in Africa holds the power to obliterate the peace. Shrouded by the bloody madness of tribal warfare, Iranian functionary-turned-fanatic Bani Aberhadji has created a vast network dedicated to unleashing a nuclear nightmare. Only by chance are American agents now learning of its existence . . . and it may already be too late. The covert strike force Whiplash is armed and ready to spring into action. Born from the ashes of Dreamland, it possesses the most cutting-edge military technology on Earth. But Aberhadji’s web of death is wide and well concealed . . . and the doomsday clock is ticking.
A volatile U.S. ally has fallen prey to the terrorist beast. India is the target of radical Islamic jihadists, and the world watches breathlessly as tensions escalate between the uneasy giant and its longtime nemesis Pakistan—with China waiting in the wings, eager to flex its military might. A nuclear showdown seems inevitable, unless the masterminds at Dreamland can get to the mysterious source of the terror and end it, swiftly and permanently. Every technological wonder the military possesses must be employed to avert an all-out Apocalypse—from an awesome new hybrid Navy destroyer to robot Flighthawks. But the fate of the region and the world will depend on the newest brainchild of the Dreamland team: an unproven instrument of ultimate power code-named End Game.
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