Popular Literature

Bobbi’s searching for inspiration at the local chocolate milk shop, heading out to cook up a few new short story ideas with a friend. Unfortunately, this typically productive location has become quite distracting thanks to the seasonal arrival of pumpkin spice lattes, which Bobbi despises. Hoping to seem cool and counteract the extreme basicness of this situation, Bobbi orders a cup of rock milk, but when she spots author Chuck Tingle at one of the café tables, Bobbi starts to wonder if rock milk was the way to go.

The title is Search Party, the idea being that we’re all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself. A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a Cambridge education; a social consciousness with a satirical wit and infectious rhythm--George the Poet is the voice of a new generation. Search Party is a thought-provoking and deeply autobiographical collection.

Exploring more than 100 of the world's most important literary works and the literary geniuses that created them, this book is the perfect introduction to the subject of literature and writing. The Literature Book features some of the world's most celebrated books, plays and poetry, including Latin American and African fiction, and best-selling masterpieces from the most renowned authors ever to have lived.

Childhood rivals Alana and Xavier meet again after six years apart. As the two begin to spend more time together, Alaina realizes that Xavier is no longer the same boy she used to know. As she tries to help him fight his inner demons and reckon with his tragic past, the two slowly begin falling in love.

Maddie is beyond done with her cousin Genesis' entitled and shallow entourage. Genesis is so over Miami's predictable social scene, with its velvet ropes, petty power plays, and backstabbing boyfriends. While Maddie craves family time for spring break, Genesis seeks novelty - like a last-minute getaway to an untouched beach in Colombia. And when Genesis wants something, it happens. But paradise has its price.

В сборник вошли наиболее известные сказки зарубежных писателей: Братья Гримм "Храбрый портняжка"; В. Гауф "Маленький Мук"; Г. Андерсен "Соловей"; Ш. Перро "Золушка"; Д. Харрис "Братец Лис и Братец Кролик"; Р. Киплинг "Слоненок"; О. Уайльд "Преданный друг"; Э.

Twenty-five years ago, a group of ninth-graders produced a Saturday Night Live-style videotape to cheer up their ailing friend. The show's running time was only 90 minutes, but it had a lasting impact: Becca laughed her way through recovery, and the group - Jordana, Seth, Holly, and Lex - became her supporting cast for life. On the silver anniversary of Becca Night Live, the friends reunite over the Fourth of July to celebrate Becca's good health - but nothing goes as planned. The happy holiday-card facades everyone's been hiding behind quickly crumble.

When the spoiled Anusha Singh turns 25, her father forces her to marry the son of his friend. Siddharth Khanna is a successful steel industrialist who falls in love with the displeased Anusha on sight, but unfortunately for him, she doesn’t feel the same way. Will he be able to win her heart in the end?

Sixty-five short stories by the master storyteller, Saki.

In this remarkable audiobook, Anna Quindlen, one of America's favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, once again gives us wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life.

Paski and her father move to Southern California, where his comic strip has been optioned for a movie. At her new high school, money is everything and the haters rule, especially beautiful, cruel Jessica Nguyen. While Paski tries to concentrate on mountain biking and not thinking too much about ultra-hot Chris Cabrera, she is troubled by visions.

El presente audiolibro está compuesto de los siguientes cuentos: "El rey del frio", "Basilisa la Hermosa", "El corredor veloz", y "El pez de oro".

""حمد وعيشى أخوان يحبان أن يقضيان أوقاتهما في تجربة الألعاب الشعبية ويستمتعان معا بها برفقة أبناء الحي"". تأخذ هذه القصة بأيدينا إلى عالم الألعاب الشعبية القديمة في الإمارات؛ من لعبة الصبّة إلى الحالوسة والرقاق والكرابي، ألعاب كان لها دورٌ حاسم في تنمية خيال الأطفال وتحسين قدراتهم الجسدية؛ ذلك أن ما تحتاجه هذه الألعاب متوفرٌ بكثرة في البيئة المحيطة، كما أنها تخلو من التسهيلات التي تكون في الألعاب الإلكترونية ما يدفع الأطفال إلى استنفاد خيالهم في تركيبها وتجريبها حتى تحقق لهم أعظم متعة. ينصح به للأطفال من سن 9 سنوات إلى 12 سنة.

Sixth formers Kerry and Annie are nerdy, horny, hilarious, and exceptionally uncool. They’re never invited to parties, picked for sports teams or included in jokes, yet together they form a unit so great that they don’t need anyone else. But, when they’re approached by the popular Heather and invited to one of the coolest parties in town to help her find out who’s been trolling her from an account claiming to be her dead dad, their investigations take a turn. Heather’s best friend is found murdered. Suffocated with a mooncup.

Just as his music career was taking off, Juan Vidal received life-changing news: He’d soon be a father. Throughout his life, neglectful men were the rule - his own dad struggled with drug addiction and infidelity - a cycle that, inevitably, wrought Vidal with insecurity. At age 26, with only a bare grip on life, what lessons could he possibly offer a kid? Determined to alter the course for his child, Vidal did what he’d always done when confronted with life’s challenges. He turned to the counterculture.

J. Ivy is a true pioneer and trendsetter who's bridged the worlds of hip-hop and poetry through his appearances on HBO's Def Poetry and his collaborations with Kanye West and Jay-Z. But throughout his success, he carried with him the pain of being abandoned by his father and growing up in the tough neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side. So he sat down with pen and paper and processed his pain the only way he knew how - through poetry. he resulting poem, Dear Father, became his vehicle of forgiveness and healing.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. La presente narración recoge los siguientes cuentos populares: "La cruz del diablo", "El aguinaldo", "El alfiletero de la Anjana" ,"El hombre del saco", "El laud maravilloso", "El príncipe Tomás", "El puente de San Martín", "El río Zapardiel", "El vado del moro", " Hernando el halconero", "Juan bobo", "La brecha de Roldán".

Senior spring at Alexandria Prep was supposed to be for sleeping through class and partying with friends. But for Anna Soler, it's going to be a lonely road. She's just been dumped by her gorgeous basketball star boyfriend - with no explanation. Anna's closest friends, the real ones she abandoned while dating him, are ignoring her. The endearing boy she's always had a complicated friendship with is almost too sympathetic. But suddenly Anna isn't the only one whose life has been upended.

When co-workers Mira and Jake miss their flight home from Paris to New York, they’ll spend the next 24 hours unwittingly stuck together in the city of love.

In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related compositions, including poems, songs, children's stories, romances, novels, histories, and even humorous pieces.