Product Description: Jacques Duvalier had a voice that could melt steel-plus looks, charm, and enough sex appeal to send any woman running for a cold shower. For years, Laura Williams resented that "awful French boy." Her Uncle Beau had given his stepson all the time and attention Laura had wanted-once...read more

Feeling lonely, the fuzzy duckling looks for a friend, but the colts, calves, turkeys, geese, lambs, pigs, and puppies won't play with her

Product Description: Presents the concepts and techniques that support almost any system development approach, involving computers, people or machines. This book considers object structure, object behaviour and concepts like composition, diagrams, meta-modelling and power types...read more

Provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to the study of anatomy and physiology. The book emphasizes homeostasis and the relationship between structure and function and is organized by body system. This edition presents updated material on immunity and added clinical notes.

A lonely puffin, living on an island in the bright blue sea, makes friends with some fishes.

Product Description: Meet Sophie and her new friend, Goose, in this adorable picture book by debut author-illustrator Laura Wall! Sophie loves to dress up and play with her dolls and swing on the swings, but she wishes she had a friend to join in the fun...read more

When a group of singing birds arrives outside her home, lonely Old Sophie is happy to befriend them and finds a new purpose in life by cooking her guests freshly made bread every morning, but when the gang turns loud and demanding, Old Sophie begins to wonder if having such friends around is a good thing after all.

Product Description: There are six eggs in Mother Hen’s nest, but--Chip! Chip! Chip! Chip! Chip!--only five eggs hatch! The sixth egg goes on a high-rolling adventure across the barnyard, past the pig and the tomato patch, and, finally, into Mother Hen’s waiting wings...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jon Jeffers is the loneliest nine-year-old on earth. It's 1935, and he's stuck on a tiny island off the coast of San Francisco with his mom and lighthouse-keeper father. So when the ghost of an ancient magician appears and offers to teach him to fly, Jon seizes the chance...read more

Presents the concepts and techniques that support almost any system development approach, involving computers, people or machines. This book considers object structure, object behaviour and concepts like composition, diagrams, meta-modelling and power types. It also outlines design considerations.

Before she hatches from her egg, a baby chick takes quite a trip around the farm--with her mother and other animals in pursuit

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Product Description: The Double Life of Alfred Buber . . .Did you know it won the Dactyl Foundation's 2013 Award for Literary Fiction and the Movie Rights were just optioned too?Praise for The Double Life of Alfred Buber . . ."...a truly remarkable literary creation...read more

Product Description: Have you heard of the Beasts? No? Well, Im not surprised. Not many people have. Thats because the Beasts are very rare. This is the tale of one Beast, the rarest of the rare, a Beast who decides he is lonely and sets out to find the other Beasts...read more

Product Description: At school, Pearl is a group of one, and at home her beloved granny is fading. A poignant gem of a tale about independence, grief, and finding your place.Pearl likes to write poems, but despite the insistence of her teacher, Ms. Bruff, Pearl's poems don't rhyme, and neither does she...read more

In this companion to her acclaimed 2005 novel, A Dog's Life, Ann M. Martin tells the parallel stories of a stray dog (the brother of the dog featured in A Dog's Life), a boy dealing with unspeakable loss, and a boy whose most ardent wish is to own a dog―and everything for a dog.Bone and his sister, Squirrel, are stray dogs born in a shed. Left motherless as puppies, the two dogs survive together for a while, but are soon wrenched apart. Bone doesn't know if his sister is still alive, and must now go on, alone. Charlie is a boy who has suffered a terrible loss. And, as he's healing with the help of his dog, another tragedy occurs. Henry's best friend has moved away. All Henry has wanted is a dog of his own. But his parents won't let him.Bone, Charlie, and Henry live very different lives, but they are fated to intersect in surprising ways. Award-winning author Ann M. Martin has written a powerful, heartfelt novel that's perfect for anyone who has ever longed for a dog, or loved one.

Product Description: WINNER —McNally Robinson Book for Young People GOLD MEDAL WINNER —Moonbeam Awards