books: in the night ...     books:       In the Night Kitchen (Caldecott Collection)101 reviews HarperCollins, 1996 My feelings have changed about this book over time As a mother and a teacher, I am always looking for quality books to read to my fourth graders as well as my 3 year old daughter. Although I would never be able to read In the Night Kitchen to my class (parent complaints and such), it didn't take long for my little girl to fall in love with this book. Sadly, many children today are lacking a tremendous amount of imagination, getting caught up in ...             A Night in the Lonesome October45 reviews Roger Zelazny Avon Books (Mm), 1994 "Carpe baculum!" Snuff: "I am used to curses, and no one can tell when I smile." Snuff, the narrator of A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, is a watchdog. His master is Jack the Ripper. They're the good guys, and this is mostly their story. SPOILERS alert. Three or four times each century, a full moon waxes on the last day of October, on All Hallow's Eve. On these rare and portentous occasions, a gateway ...             The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time27 reviews Mark Haddon Vintage, 2004 Life through different lenses Why spend a few good evenings re-discovering life through the eyes of an autistic boy? The answer to that lies in this intriguing novel. While most fifteen-year-olds spend their time playing basketball or crunching popcorn at the movies, Christopher Boone - our protagonist - prefers cracking difficult maths puzzles and investigating the death of his neighbour's poodle. The latter event eventually ...             Nights in Rodanthe278 reviews Nicholas Sparks Grand Central Publishing, 2003 couldn't put it down this was an amazing story, it is one of those you couldn't put down. you know you had other things to do, but one more chapter or one more page. actually i read it in two days. can't wait for his next one.             Bears in the Night (Bright & Early Books)25 reviews Collins, 1991 Making Memories with Books I read this book to my son when he was young. He memorized the words and read it back to me and my mother. Now I am reading it to my grandsons. They love this book and it is perfect to increase reading readiness.             Night in the Country9 reviews Cynthia Rylant Aladdin, 1991 BEAUTIFUL BOOK...GREAT TO READ WITH THE YOUNG ONES. Night in the country is a beautiful work. I love the illustrations by Mary Szilaggi. It, like the title states, deals with night in the country, in particular, night sounds, which can, if a young child is not use to them, be a bit alarming. I have found this book quite useful with young grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends who are unfortunate enough to live in the city. When they visit, ...             Nights in Rodanthe Nicholas Sparks Grand Central Publishing, 2003             Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir39 reviews Nick Flynn W. W. Norton, 2005 Senior Writers Seminar - Dominski This memoir recounts the story of a young man who, fatherless as a boy, gets to know his father for the first time through his job at a homeless shelter. The story alternates between chapters about the author's childhood, or even before he was born, and chapters about him as a grown man, encountering his homeless father. The author's very detailed descriptions of his job at the shelter provide ...             The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden25 reviews Catherynne M. Valente Spectra, 2006 Please excuse my spoiler I haven't read any fantasy quite like Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales duology. This is the story of a young orphan girl who is shunned because of the dark smudges that appeared on her eyelids when she was a baby. She lives alone in a sultan's garden because people think she's a demon and nobody will claim her. However, one of the young sons of the sultan, a curious fellow, finds her in ...             The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time1450 reviews Mark Haddon Vintage, 2004 Curiously Interesting The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was an exciting and fun to read novel. Mark Haddon makes the story of a fifteen year old Christopher Boone with Asperger's (a form of autism) enjoyable to audiences young and old. Christopher must use deductive reasoning and the laws of logic to solve the killing of his neighbor's dog, of which he as been falsely accused. Because Christopher has ...             I Loved Jesus in the Night: Teresa of Calcutta-A Secret Revealed Paul Murray Paraclete Press (MA), 2008 The world was shocked when the letters of Mother Teresa were published last year for the first time. The media focused attention at once on the unexpected phenomenon of darkness in the life of the saint, the astonishing revelation that, for decades, Mother Teresa had struggled mightily with belief in God. To some, this seemed to lend support to the arguments of the "new atheists." But what we are offered in this beautiful book is, at last, a ...             Five Little Bats Flying In The Night Steve Metzger CARTWHEEL BOOKS, 2006 2 books--a storybook and an activity book-- in one!In the rhyming story, children can count down from 5 to 1 as five little bats get into mischief!In the activity book, kids can color objects in the story, do a word search puzzle, find hidden pictures, and more. The coloring and activity pages are educational and fun!Three crayons are attached in a blister pack to the front of the book.             In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel11 reviews Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, ... Atria, 2008 Excitement & Suspense Rule Ten is back, and his return is even better than his very good debut in Casanegra. This time around Ten is investigating the death of an O.J. Simpson type, who before his untimely demise, may have offed his ex and her fiancee. Juicy. Juicy. Anyway, Ten's dad, a wheel-chair bound, stroke-impaired ex-cop, rolls in to help his son. This story line is perfect, far superior to the pages of exhausting, ...             Fumi Yoshinaga's: Lovers in the Night (Yaoi)5 reviews Fumi Yoshinaga Blu, 2007 More of what I love about Fumi Yoshinaga In the same vein as Gerard and Jacques, this is another sweet, sexy tale of aristocracy/commoner love. It's told in several short stories--one of which is missing and can be found in the soon-to-be released 'Truly, Kindly' (an anthology of Fumi Yoshinaga short stories). I can't wait to read the missing piece to Claude and Antoine's tale, but I'm sure it'll just make me wish there was more. ...             The House in the Night4 reviews Susan Marie Swanson Houghton Mifflin, 2008 In the cold cold night Sometimes, just sometimes, you want to read a beautiful picture book. Not a pretty picture book or a mildly lovely one or a picture book that will please you the first ten times you read it to a child and then hardly anymore after that. No, I'm talking about a jaw-dropping, kick-you-in-the-pants, douse your cigar hussy of a beautiful picture book. The kind that works against your book-loving ...             Nights in Rodanthe [Large Print] Nicholas Sparks Doubleday Large Print Home Library, 2002 At 45, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's perfect getaway will be ruined-until a guest naed Paul Flanner arrives. At 54, Paul has just sold his medical practice ...             Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East15 reviews Pico Iyer Vintage, 1989 Late 80s Asia Pico Iyer has written an interesting set of annecdotes on Asia during the late 80s boom years. It covers the isolation of Burma, the sex trade in Thailand, the night life in Nepal, and everything inbetween. The book takes a deeper view beyond the stereotypes to understand the complexities of the cultural merging. The book really has two main values. First, it gives an annecdotal view of a ...             "As a Thief in the Night..."2 reviews Celestial, 1999 A beautiful book This book is the result of a study made by the author about all prophecy about the latter days as contained in the Bible, in the LDS Scriptures (The Book of Mormon, another Testament of Jesus Christ - Doctrine and Covenants) and in the words of modern prophets and apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It shows how Scriptures are consistent in affirming that the Second ...             By Night in Chile9 reviews Roberto Bolano New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003 small poems within larger stories What I have come to appreciate reading Bolaño's book is the fact that he takes you on several small journeys getting you from plot-point to plot-point. You almost don't realize that he is doing it until you finish one of these tangents and get led carefully back to the main storyline. That Bolaño trusts his talents enough to introduce characters that are only there to make a single point, that ...              search for books another, bright, bullshit, calcutta, calcutta-a, caldecott, collection, country, curious, flying, hardwick, incident, kathmandu, kitchen, little, lonesome, lovers, memoir, night-time, nights, not-so-far, october, orphan, reports, revealed, rodanthe, secret, tennyson, teresa, yoshinaga books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen electronics: ATLANTIC 1386 Wave Innovative Modern-Style Steel DVD Storage Tower leave a comment home  impressum - about us