The Fly Trap

Author : Fredrik Sjöberg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101872284
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fly Trap written by Fredrik Sjöberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, entomologist Fredrik Sjöberg has collected, cataloged, and obsessed over the hoverflies that populate the remote Swedish island he calls home. As confounded by his unusual vocation as anyone, here Sjöberg explores what drives the obsessive curiosity of collectors, along the way finding time to muse on everything from art to lost love, and drawing on sources as disparate as D. H. Lawrence and the fascinating and forgotten naturalist René Edmond Malaise. A mesmerizing memoir, The Fly Trap is one remarkable individual’s meditation on the unexpected beauty of small things and an examination of the history of entomology itself. Weaving a fascinating web of associations, histories, and personal memories, Sjöberg revels in the wonders of the natural world and, through indelible images and stories, opens up into it a dazzling, irresistible pathway.

Author : Frances Hardinge
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683350790
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fly By Night written by Frances Hardinge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of The Lie Tree “has created a distinctly imaginative world full of engaging characters, robust humor, and true suspense” (School Library Journal, starred review). Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. Mosca Mye’s father insisted on teaching her to read—even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye died, leaving behind an orphaned daughter with an inauspicious name and an all-consuming hunger for words. Trapped for years in the care of her cruel uncle and aunt, Mosca leaps at the opportunity for escape, though it comes in the form of sneaky swindler Eponymous Clent. As she travels the land with Clent and her pet goose, Mosca begins to discover complicated truths about the world she inhabits and the power of words. “Intricate plotting, well-developed and fascinating characters, delicious humor, and exquisite wordcraft envelop readers fully into this richly imagined world.” ?The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) “Hardinge’s stylish way with prose gives her sprawling debut fantasy a literate yet often silly tone that calls to mind Monty Python.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Mosca’s ferocity and authentic inner turmoil [are] both reminiscent of Philip Pullman’s Lyra Belacqua.” ?Booklist “Incredibly well written.” ?The Seattle Times

Author : Tom Angleberger
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1684520657
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inspector Flytrap (Book #1) written by Tom Angleberger and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: From husband-and-wife team Tom Angleberger, creator of the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series, and Cece Bell, author/illustrator of the Newbery Honor graphic novel El Deafo, comes the start to a funny and clever illustrated chapter-book series about a mystery-solving Venus flytrap. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, this early-chapter-book series is a must for beginning readers. Inspector Flytrap in the Da Vinci Cold introduces kids to the humorous and wacky world of Inspector Flytrap’s Detective Agency, home to the world-renowned solver of BIG DEAL mysteries. The plant detective works tirelessly with his assistant Nina the Goat on his community’s unsolved cases. There’s no case too big, but there are definitely cases too small for this endearingly self-important plant detective. Celebrating the disabled yet enabled, the character of Inspector Flytrap is wheeled everywhere (on a skateboard, of course) by his goat sidekick as this mystery-solving duo works on cases such as “The Big Deal Mystery of the Stinky Cookies” and “The Big Deal Mystery of the Missing Rose.” On his first caper, Inspector Flytrap heads to the Art Museum’s Secret Lab to discover what important message lies in a mysterious glob on a recently discovered Da Vinci flower painting. The ingenious solution: Da Vinci was allergic to flowers, and the glob is, er, evidence of that ancient sneeze. Combining wacky humor and a silly cast of characters with adventure, friendship, and mystery, the powerhouse team of Tom Angleberger and Cece Bell have created a uniquely engaging series that is perfect for newly independent readers and fans of Ricky Ricotta, Captain Underpants, and the Galaxy Zack series. Also included in these books are some graphic novel–style pages that will attract reluctant readers.

Author : Susan A. Phillips
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226667677
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Fly Trap written by Susan A. Phillips and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted for the precision with which the task force targeted and removed gang members otherwise entrenched in larger communities. In Operation Fly Trap, Susan A. Phillips questions both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it. Based on in-depth ethnographic research with Fly Trap participants, Phillips’s work brings together police narratives, crime statistics, gang cultural histories, and extensive public policy analysis to examine the relationship between state persecution and the genesis of violent social systems. Crucial to Phillips’s contribution is the presentation of the voices and perspectives of both the people living in impoverished communities and the agents that police them. Phillips positions law enforcement surveillance and suppression as a critical point of contact between citizen and state. She tracks the bureaucratic workings of police and FBI agencies and the language, ideologies, and methods that prevail within them, and shows how gangs have adapted, seeking out new locations, learning to operate without hierarchies, and moving their activities more deeply underground. Additionally, she shows how the targeted efforts of task forces such as Fly Trap wreak sweeping, sustained damage on family members and the community at large. Balancing her roles as even-handed reporter and public scholar, Phillips presents multiple flaws within the US criminal justice system and builds a powerful argument that many law enforcement policies in fact nurture, rather than prevent, violence in American society.

Author : Frances Hardinge
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230759130
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twilight Robbery written by Frances Hardinge and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight Robbery is the extraordinary sequel to the award-winning Fly By Night by Costa winner Frances Hardinge. The city at night is a dangerous place . . . Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, the strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price. By day, the city is well-mannered and orderly; by night, it's the haunt of rogues and villains. Wherever there's a plot, there's sure to be treachery, and wherever there's treachery, there's sure to be trouble – and where there's trouble, Clent, Mosca and the web-footed apocalypse Saracen the goose can't be far behind. But as past deeds catch up with them and old enemies appear, it looks as if this time there's no way out . . . 'Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now' - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.

Author : Frances Hardinge
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1683352688
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fly Trap written by Frances Hardinge and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having successfully wreaked revolution upon the City of Mandelion, the pair find themselves escaping catastrophe by the skin of their teeth and seeking refuge in Toll. In this strange, aptly named gateway town, visitors may neither enter nor exit without paying a steep price. By day, the city is well-mannered and orderly; by night, chaotic and debaucherous. Each resident, visitor, and passerby is allowed out in public only during one of these phases, with the segregation dependent on their name. When Mosca and Clent are separated by this quirky law, they hatch a plot to escape. But wherever there’s a plot, there’s sure to be treachery, and wherever there’s treachery, there’s sure to be trouble—and trouble is what Mosca, Clent, and Saracen the Goose love best. With each trip around the clock, past deeds catch up with them and old enemies reappear. This time, it seems as if there’s no way out . . .

Author : Tim S. Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908787101
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venus's Flytrap written by Tim S. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eugene Gagliano
Publisher : Discover the World
ISBN 13 : 9781585363506
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book V is for Venus Flytrap written by Eugene Gagliano and published by Discover the World. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plant world is explored from A to Z, with a poem to introduce each topic, and an expository text that provides details.

Author : Jeanetta Rich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736210420
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Venus Fly Trap written by Jeanetta Rich and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanetta Rich is a mother and poet based in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the emotional lives of voiceless women, those who have been silenced through poverty and/or lack of education. Her work was recently featured in Texte zur Kunst 30th Anniversary issue, "The Feminist." Black Venus Fly Trap is her debut poetry collection.

Author : Molly Cone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395243763
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mishmash and the Venus Flytrap written by Molly Cone and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the owner of a Venus flytrap, Miss Patch becomes suspicious when her dog Mishmash disappears.