Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
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- ISBN13: 9780810970687
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The highly anticipated third book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series takes the art of being wimpy to a whole new level.
Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to clarify that to Greg’s father. You see, Frank Heffley really thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and additional “manly” endeavors. Of course, Greg is able to easily sidestep his father’s efforts to change him. But when Greg’s dad threatens to send him to military college, Greg realizes he has to shape up . . . or get shipped out.
Greg and his family tree and friends, who make the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books a must-read for middle school readers, are back and at their best in this hilarious new installment of the series, which is sure to please current fans while attracting new ones.
Publishers Weekly-1/19/2009:
The third book in this genre-busting series is certain to enlarge Kinney’s presence on the bestseller lists, where the previous titles have taken up residence for the past two years. Kinney’s spot-on humor and winning formula of deadpan text set against cartoons are back in full force. This time, Greg starts off on New Year’s Day (he resolves to “help additional people improve,” telling his mother, “I reflect you should work on chewing your potato chips more quietly”) and ends with summer trip. As he fends off his father’s attempts to make him more of a man (the threat of military school looms), Greg’s hapless adventures include handing out anonymous valentines expressing his right feelings (“Dear James, You smell”), attempting to impress his classmate Holly and single-handedly wrecking his soccer team’s perfect season. Kinney allows himself some insider humor as well, with Greg noting the “racket” children’s book authors have going. “All you have to do is make up a character with a snappy name, and then make sure the character learns a lesson at the end of the book.” Greg, self-centered as ever, may be the exception proving that rule. Ages 8–12. (Jan.)
F&P level: T
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
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- ISBN13: 9780810983915
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It’s summer trip, the weather’s fantastic, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn.
Greg, a self-confessed “inside person,” is living out his essential summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg’s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer . . . one packed with outdoor activities and “family tree togetherness.”
Whose vision will win out? Or will a new addition to the Heffley family tree change everything?
Greg, a self-confessed “inside person,” is living out his essential summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg’s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer . . . one packed with outdoor activities and “family tree togetherness.”
Whose vision will win out? Or will a new addition to the Heffley family tree change everything?
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Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
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When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his right identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret…
Perfectly rendered, this first installment of Twilight: The Graphic Novel is a must-have for any collector’s library.
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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This edition, first published in 1890, was later subjected to various edits and rewrites following the advice of Wilde’s peers who establish the material too treacherous to publish. The subsequent British edition, containing 6 additional chapters, was to become an underground classic and literary masterpiece. The Picture of Dorian Gray remains Wilde’s only novel.
In his introduction, Jeremy Reed contends that this original Lippincott’s edition is both radically different from the later version and far more homoerotic. Arguably, it is this version which remains closest to Wilde’s initial preconception.
Misogynistic, anarchic, unethical, and overtly homo-erotic, The Picture of Dorian Gray has become a blueprint for subversive fiction and has inspired subsequent literary outlaws such as Jean Genet, William Burroughs and J.G.Ballard. It remains a right classic of renegade literature and, one hundred years on, continues to shock in its disaffiliation from ethics.Amazon.com Review
A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a gorgeous, young man’s portrait, his theme’s frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes right. Dorian Gray’s picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, “as surely as if I had cut her small throat with a knife,” Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. “The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden.”
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-pleased friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful “When we are pleased we are permanently excellent, but when we are excellent we are not permanently pleased.” But despite its many bone idle pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel’s drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde’s supposed aims, not least “no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.” Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: “All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment.”
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