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Oliver the tortoise looks back on his happy life as he wonders why his pet human, Ike, who he has had for eighty years, has stopped visiting the garden.

A goldfish gives a personal account of his experiences while swimming around his bowl as it slowly fills with fish and other accessories, only to realize when he is relocated for a cleaning how much he misses them.

"Join a brilliant, but stubborn, parrot as he endures the banality of the pet store before being purchased by an equally insufferable young man. But while things between parrot and owner get off to a rocky start, the delights of having a pet (or human) bring them both around in the end"-Provided by the publisher.

Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have ’Tis, the story...

"Dawkins shares with us his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life's brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture" -- provided by publisher.

"When Marine Private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to Heaven or return to Earth. The Boss has a mission for him. He's a Marine: he chooses the mission. Eventually, it appears that God's will is for Chad to join a group called "Monster Hunters International" and protect people from things that go bump in the night. From there, things trend downhill"--...

Bestselling mystery writer Fran Stewart shares her sense of adventure with you as she discusses not only bees of all sorts, but the ghosts in the Tower of London, moon photos and chicken eggs, vultures and dammit dolls, car wrecks and appendicitis, and a real-life cow car wash. She continues her well-loved BeeAttitudes at the end of each daily entry, and rollicks along on this joyous journey through life. In this sixth and final volume of her beekeeping...

Picking up where he left off in My Booky Wook, movie star and comedian Russell Brand details his rapid climb to fame and fortune in a shockingly candid, resolutely funny, and unbelievably electrifying tell-all: Booky Wook 2. Brand's performances in Arthur, Get Him to the Greek, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall have earned him a place in fans' hearts; now, with a drop of Chelsea Handler's Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, a dash of Tommy Lee's Dirt, and a spoonful...

"Everything is different in New Orleans. The climate. The food. The monsters. The real reason why is that a larval Great Old One is growing there and is just about ready to pop. If Chad Gardenier can't convince 'the powers that be' to get involved not only New Orleans--but the entire world--is going to fall under the power of the nastiest of nasties. On the outs with the US government and his usual job, Chad must rally the forces of light. Fortunately,...

"Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world's premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career. Three years after her fateful...