Eight Wild Nights

Eight Wild Nights
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Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing ™
Total Pages : 28
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ISBN-10 : 9781512488432
ISBN-13 : 1512488437
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Eight Wild Nights by : Brian P. Cleary

Download or read book Eight Wild Nights written by Brian P. Cleary and published by Kar-Ben Publishing ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With humor and rhyme, a Jewish family celebrates and survives the eight days of Hanukkah. Every Jewish family will relate to this roller coaster of joys and adventures as an assortment of relatives and friends descends on the household.

Wild Nights

Wild Nights
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780465094851
ISBN-13 : 0465094856
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Wild Nights by : Benjamin Reiss

Download or read book Wild Nights written by Benjamin Reiss and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the modern world forgot how to sleep Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's hidden history -- one that leads to our present, sleep-obsessed society, its tacitly accepted rules, and their troubling consequences. Today we define a good night's sleep very narrowly: eight hours in one shot, sealed off in private bedrooms, children apart from parents. But for most of human history, practically no one slept this way. Tracing sleep's transformation since the dawn of the industrial age, Reiss weaves together insights from literature, social and medical history, and cutting-edge science to show how and why we have tried and failed to tame sleep. In lyrical prose, he leads readers from bedrooms and laboratories to factories and battlefields to Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond, telling the stories of troubled sleepers, hibernating peasants, sleepwalking preachers, cave-dwelling sleep researchers, slaves who led nighttime uprisings, rebellious workers, spectacularly frazzled parents, and utopian dreamers. We are hardly the first people, Reiss makes clear, to chafe against our modern rules for sleeping. A stirring testament to sleep's diversity, Wild Nights offers a profound reminder that in the vulnerability of slumber we can find our shared humanity. By peeling back the covers of history, Reiss recaptures sleep's mystery and grandeur and offers hope to weary readers: as sleep was transformed once before, so too can it change today.

The Night Before Hanukkah

The Night Before Hanukkah
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 9780698193444
ISBN-13 : 069819344X
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Night Before Hanukkah by : Natasha Wing

Download or read book The Night Before Hanukkah written by Natasha Wing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest title in the bestselling Night Before series is the perfect gift for every girl and boy who celebrates Hanukkah! It's the night before the eight-day celebration of Hanukkah begins, and everyone is excited! Each evening, the family gathers to light the candles and share holiday traditions such as playing dreidel, eating latkes, and exchanging gifts. The seventeenth title in Natasha Wing's bestselling series, The Night Before Hanukkah captures all the joy and love in one of the most wonderful times of the year!

The Eight Nights of Hanukkah

The Eight Nights of Hanukkah
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Publisher : Troll Communications
Total Pages : 36
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0816745501
ISBN-13 : 9780816745500
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Eight Nights of Hanukkah by : Judy Nayer

Download or read book The Eight Nights of Hanukkah written by Judy Nayer and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca, Josh, and their family celebrate the eight nights of Hanukkah in this full-color story and activity book all in one! Readers will learn the story of Hanukkah; its traditions and songs; and how to make a menorah, a dreidel, a picture frame, potato latkes, and more!

Snowy Bear

Snowy Bear
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 9781619639065
ISBN-13 : 1619639068
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Snowy Bear by : Tony Mitton

Download or read book Snowy Bear written by Tony Mitton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a bear who has nowhere to go, so he's plodding along through the cold winter snow. In the icy-cold heart of winter, a little snow bear wanders through the snow and searches for a home. But where can he go? Each warm place has been claimed, and there is no room for a bear, no matter how little. Suddenly he sees a flickering of light, orange and bright against the snowy ground. It's a house! As Snow Bear pushes open the creaking door, he feels warmth spread over him. There's a girl by the window, who's also looking for a friend, and, somehow, deep down, Snow Bear knows that he is home. This read-to-me eBook will warm your heart.

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780812998924
ISBN-13 : 0812998928
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by : Salman Rushdie

Download or read book Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights written by Salman Rushdie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Harper’s Bazaar • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • The Kansas City Star • National Post • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling. In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub–Stan Lee creation. Abandoned at the mayor’s office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence, marking the guilty with blemishes and boils. A seductive gold digger is soon tapped to combat forces beyond imagining. Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil. Centuries ago, Dunia, a princess of the jinn, fell in love with a mortal man of reason. Together they produced an astonishing number of children, unaware of their fantastical powers, who spread across generations in the human world. Once the line between worlds is breached on a grand scale, Dunia’s children and others will play a role in an epic war between light and dark spanning a thousand and one nights—or two years, eight months, and twenty-eight nights. It is a time of enormous upheaval, in which beliefs are challenged, words act like poison, silence is a disease, and a noise may contain a hidden curse. Inspired by the traditional “wonder tales” of the East, Salman Rushdie’s novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in today’s world. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is satirical and bawdy, full of cunning and folly, rivalries and betrayals, kismet and karma, rapture and redemption. Praise for Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights “Rushdie is our Scheherazade. . . . This book is a fantasy, a fairytale—and a brilliant reflection of and serious meditation on the choices and agonies of our life in this world.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian “One of the major literary voices of our time . . . In reading this new book, one cannot escape the feeling that [Rushdie’s] years of writing and success have perhaps been preparation for this moment, for the creation of this tremendously inventive and timely novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A wicked bit of satire . . . [Rushdie] riffs and expands on the tales of Scheherazade, another storyteller whose spinning of yarns was a matter of life and death.”—USA Today “A swirling tale of genies and geniuses [that] translates the bloody upheavals of our last few decades into the comic-book antics of warring jinn wielding bolts of fire, mystical transmutations and rhyming battle spells.”—The Washington Post “Great fun . . . The novel shines brightest in the panache of its unfolding, the electric grace and nimble eloquence and extraordinary range and layering of his voice.”—The Boston Globe

Too Many Dolphins! (Mermicorn Island #3)

Too Many Dolphins! (Mermicorn Island #3)
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9781338743401
ISBN-13 : 1338743406
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Too Many Dolphins! (Mermicorn Island #3) by : Jason June

Download or read book Too Many Dolphins! (Mermicorn Island #3) written by Jason June and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half mermaid, half unicorn, and totally adorable! Lucky the mermicorn has a special talent for finding just the right kind of magic to help his friends. So when Echo the dolphin needs extra dolphins to enter the Perfect Pearl Path Scavenger Hunt, Lucky swims to her rescue.By using a new, fin-credible shell that can multiply anything, Lucky creates extra Echos. But extra dolphins soon become more than even the Fin-tastic Four can handle! The dolphin copies are causing all kinds of chaos, all over Mermicorn Island. Lucky has to put a stop to it-before the real Echo takes all the blame!