Focusing on the bond between abandoned dogs and their rescuers, this heartwarming narrative explores themes of love, hope, and redemption. It highlights the struggles faced by these animals and the compassionate individuals who dedicate their lives to saving them. Through touching stories, the book showcases the transformative power of kindness and the deep connections formed between humans and dogs, inspiring readers to reflect on the importance of empathy and the impact of second chances.
The city of Paris wanted to tear down the Eiffel Tower! Gustave Eiffel, an engineer and amateur scientist, had built the incredible structure for the 1889 World's Fair. Created using cutting-edge technology, it stood taller than any other building in the world! More than a million delighted people flocked to visit it during the fair. But the officials wondered, beyond being a spectacle, what is it good for? It must come down! But Eiffel loved his tower. He crafted a clever plan to make the tower too useful to tear down. He would turn it into 'a laboratory such as science has never had at its disposal'. As the date for the tower's demolition approached, Eiffel raced to prove its worth. Could science save the Eiffel Tower?
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A prisoner gardens his way to freedom in this inspiring picture-book biography.When Elliott Michener was locked away in Alcatraz for counterfeiting, he was determined to defy the odds and bust out. But when he got a job tending the prison garden, a funny thing happened. He found new interests and skills--and a sense of dignity and fulfillment. Elliott transformed Alcatraz Island, and the island transformed him.Told with empathy and a storyteller's flair, Elliott's story is funny, touching, and unexpectedly relevant. Back matter about the history of Alcatraz and the US prison system today invites meaningful discussion.
'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times. "Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'. Here, Emma Smith shows us why. Portable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us. Gathering together a millennium's worth of pivotal encounters with volumes big and small, Smith reveals that, as much as their contents, it is books' physical form - their 'bookhood' - that lends them their distinctive and sometimes dangerous magic. From the Diamond Sutra to Jilly Cooper's Riders, to a book made of wrapped slices of cheese, this composite artisanal object has, for centuries, embodied and extended relationships between readers, nations, ideologies and cultures, in significant and unpredictable ways. Exploring the unexpected and unseen consequences of our love affair with books, Portable Magic hails the rise of the mass-market paperback, and dismantles the myth that print began with Gutenberg; it reveals how our reading habits have been shaped by American soldiers, and proposes new definitions of a 'classic'-and even of the book itself. Ultimately, it illuminates the ways in which our relationship with the written word is more reciprocal - and more turbulent - than we tend to imagine"--Publisher's description
Er will sie. Sie will ihn. Ihr denkt, einfacher geht es nicht? Nun, dann kennt ihr Seth & Lou noch nicht! Lou Was tust du, wenn du mit siebzehn Jahren zum ersten Mal so richtig verliebt bist? Genau, du schleichst dich in sein Schlafzimmer, um für immer mit ihm zusammen zu sein. Schon klar! Ich habe definitiv zu viele Groschenromane gelesen. Aber was ich nicht habe kommen sehen, ist, dass er mir am nächsten Tag das Herz bricht. Weil er sich an nichts mehr erinnern kann, was uns in der Nacht verbunden hat. Jahre später kennt niemand mein Geheimnis - nicht einmal Seth. Warum auch? In meinem Leben ist einfach kein Platz für einen Typen, der eine feste Beziehung für eine chronische Krankheit hält. Das Leben besteht aus Notlügen. Nur ... diese eine Lüge könnte mich das kosten, was er hätte haben können. Seth Stell dir vor, dein Leben ist perfekt. So perfekt, dass dir deine Unabhängigkeit, die unzähligen One-Night-Stands und deine beruflichen Erfolg ... nichts mehr wert sind. Womöglich liegt es an dem irrwitzigen Liebesglück von meiner Schwester und Cameron. Oder es liegt daran, dass ich immer öfter Lou und ihren Sohn ansehe und merke, was ich hätte haben können? Bevor ich realisiere, was mir da all die Jahre entgangen ist, muss ich erst mal mein Leben auf die Reihe kriegen, Lous neuen Lover loswerden, meiner irren Ex endlich den Waffenschein entziehen und - ach ja, meine Familie zurückbekommen.