Six Car Lengths Behind An Elephant

Author : Lillian McCloy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997596304
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant written by Lillian McCloy and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A charming and unusual portrait of the secret life." - John le Carré, author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and A Legacy of Spies"It's charming, often troubling, and sometimes hilarious and is altogether a fascinating read." - Berkeleyside book review"If you're married to a spy, the always fraught arena of a relationship turns into a positive minefield. What does that all-night absence mean? What can you begin to say to the kids? In Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant, Lillian McCloy gives us the story of a life spent around secret intelligence that is funny and charming and in every wonderful sense, deeply spooky." - Pico Iyer, author of The Art of Stillness and Video Nights in Kathmandu"Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant by Lillian McCloy is an engrossing, decades-long memoir of foreign life under deep cover for the CIA. McCloy reveals the intrigue, danger, and humor of clandestine life in her thoroughly entertaining account of a CIA family's nomadic lifestyle."- Alan B. Trabue, CIA (Ret.), author of A Life of Lies and Spies

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593315723
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Raise an Elephant written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this latest installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie’s pet projects. Precious Ramotswe loves her dependable old van. Yes, it sometimes takes a bit longer to get going now, and it has developed some quirks over the years, but it has always gotten the job done. This time, though, the world—and Charlie—may be asking too much of it, for when he borrows the beloved vehicle, he returns it damaged. And, to make matters worse, the interior seems to have acquired an earthy smell that even Precious can’t identify. But the olfactory issue is not the only mystery that needs solving. Mma Ramotswe is confronted by a distant relative, Blessing, who asks for help with an ailing cousin. The help requested is of a distinctly pecuniary nature, which makes both Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and Mma Makutsi suspicious. And there is no peace at home, either, as the new neighbors are airing their marital grievances rather loudly. Still, Mma Ramotswe is confident that the solutions to all of these difficulties are there to be discovered—as long as she is led by kindness, grace, and logic and can rely on the counsel of her friends and loved ones.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724867
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shooting an Elephant written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. Shooting an Elephant, the fifth in the Orwell’s Essays series, tells the story of a police officer in Burma who is called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant. Thought to be loosely based on Orwell’s own experiences in Burma, the tightly written essay weaves together fact and fiction indistinguishably, and leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, with the words ‘when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys’ echoing from the page. 'A remarkable piece.' (Jeremy Paxman) 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' (Irish Times)

Author : Mo Willems
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781338213713
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let's Go for a Drive! written by Mo Willems and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.

Author : Tommy Tomlinson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501111620
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by Tommy Tomlinson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).

Author : Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140884981X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Can't Take An Elephant On the Bus written by Patricia Cleveland-Peck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't take an elephant on the bus ... It would simply cause a terrible fuss! Elephants' bottoms are heavy and fat and would certainly squash the seats quite flat. Never put a camel in a sailing boat, or a tiger on a train, and don't even THINK about asking a whale to ride a bike ... This riotous picture book is filled with animals causing total disaster as they try to travel in the most unsuitable vehicles. A real romp of a book, with hilarious rhyming text and spectacular illustrations.

Author : Holly Goldberg Sloan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735229961
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by Holly Goldberg Sloan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s comes a heartfelt story about "the importance of compassion and bravery when facing life’s challenges” (Kirkus) for fans of The One and Only Ivan and Front Desk. It's been almost a year since Sila's mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States. The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with an unusual boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places. A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humor that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s. “I couldn’t stop reading—I had to find out what would happen. An unusual and lovely real-life fairy tale.” —Linda Sue Park, New York Times Bestselling author of A Long Walk to Water “A gorgeous and emotional novel. I loved every page.” —Cynthia Kadohata, Newbery Medal-winning author of Kira-Kira

Author : Mo Willems
Publisher : Elephant and Piggie
ISBN 13 : 9781406338478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Friend is Sad written by Mo Willems and published by Elephant and Piggie. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elephant demonstrates how important friends are.

Author : Kristin McCloy
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452272736
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Girls written by Kristin McCloy and published by Plume. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip, fresh, and beautifully crafted, this radiant new novel by the author of Velocity explores the erotic possibilities of friendship. As a young woman struggles to come to terms with her newly-found independence after moving to New York, she is befriended by her dazzingly beautiful and mysterious neighbor.

Author : Bill Slavin
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554538076
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Top Otto written by Bill Slavin and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otto and Crackers continue to search for Georgie. A lead takes them on a road trip of small town USA.