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Overlord: Dark Legend $5.99 Overlord: Dark Legend Wii… |
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Pink Hello Kitty Cute Princess Fairy game Decal Cover SKIN 5 for Sony PSP 1000 Playstation Portable $5.88 -We have over 7 years of online selling experience! -100% Money Back Guarantee! -If you are not satisfied in ANY way, please let us know and we will replace or refund at no charge! -All items ship out within one business day!… |
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(20×28) Isabelle Jacque Little Red Riding Hood Wall Stickers $40.00 (20×28) Isabelle Jacque Little Red Riding Hood Wall Stickers… |
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Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre: The Complete Collection $32.38 One of the first gems of the cable TV age, Faerie Tale Theatre brings 26 classic tales to life. Produced over a five-year span (1982-87) for Showtime, FTT brought together creative dramatics and whimsical writing with some of the top talents of the day. Executive producer/host Shelley Duvall (who was coming off her breakout role in The Shining) shepherds this mix of theatrical simplicity and grand… |
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Faerie Tale Theatre – The Three Little Pigs $6.98 Three pig brothers leave home to build their own houses, only to be confronted by a wolf who is hungry for pork…. |
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Fairy Bad Day by Ashby, Amanda Edition , 0 $14.99 While most students at Burtonwood Academy get to kill demons and goblins, fifteen-year-old Emma gets to rid the world of little annoying fairies with glittery wings and a hipster fashion sense. She was destined to be a dragon slayer, but cute and charming Curtis stole her spot. Then she sees a giant killer fairy – and it’s invisible to everyone but her! If Emma has any chance of stopping this evil fairy, she’s going to need help. Unfortunately, the only person who can help is Curtis. And now, not only has he stolen her dragon-slayer spot, but maybe her heart as well! Why does she think it’s going to be a fairy bad day? |
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Fairy $6 Fairy |
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Rebel Teen Fairy Costume $26.96 Teenagers vampire costume features a dress, choker, belt, 1 fishnet glovelettes and printed wings. The Teen Rebel Fairy exchanges pixie dust for party dust. This hardcore Goth style fairy costume says you’re bad and sexy with out being trashy. The dress features a black bodice with r… |
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Bad $6 Bad |
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The Bad And The… $159 The Bad And The… |
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Flax the Feral Fairy by Mandrake, Tiffany; Chatterton, Martin Edition ILL, 0 $15.49 Flax Lilykicker is a young bad fairy who has somehow ended up in Miss Kisses' Academy of Sweetness for Little Fairies—and Miss Kisses is determined to give her a pink makeover. What's a bad fairy to do? Her plan is to earn a Badge of Badness, and get into a school for bad fairies. Together with her new friend the dog-face, Flax hatches a plan that's badder than bad. But will it all work out bad in the end? |
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Emma the Easter Fairy by Meadows, Daisy Edition , 0 $15.49 Just in time for Easter, a brand-new Special Edition fairy — and a brand-new adventure!Every year, Emma the Easter Fairy paints the three special eggs that make Easter sparkle. But this year, Jack Frost has ruined everything! The magic eggs have disappeared. Now the chocolate is melting, the eggs are going bad, and the Easter Bunny is missing!Can Rachel and Kirsty hop to it and help Emma the Easter Fairy save the holiday? Or will this Easter be totally rotten, thanks to Jack Frost and his goblins?Find the magic painted eggs in all three stories inside this Rainbow Magic Special Edition and help save Easter! |
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Kanji – Fairy $14.34 Kanji – Fairy |
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The Fairy’s Mistake by Levine, Gail Carson Elliott, Mark Edition , 0 $13.49 In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, the fairy Ethelinda rewards one twin sister for good behavior and punishes the other for bad, only to discover that her punishment is more pleasing than her reward. |
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Beauty Fairy $6 Beauty Fairy |
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Shining Fairy $6 Shining Fairy |
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Snow Fairy $6 Snow Fairy |
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Night Fairy $6 Night Fairy |
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Rain Fairy $6 Rain Fairy |
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Fairy Luv $6 Fairy Luv |
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Fairy Collection $6 Fairy Collection |
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Fairy Fantasy $6 Fairy Fantasy |
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Fairy Night $6 Fairy Night |
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Fairy On The Moon $6 Fairy On The Moon |
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Glowing Fairy $6 Glowing Fairy |
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Pear Fairy $6 Pear Fairy |
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Diamond Fairy $6 Diamond Fairy |
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$4.89 shipped–$4.71 shipped–Creative Magic Fairy Plants with a Skeleton Head Porcelain Pot (White) $4.89 Growing plants on skeleton head means scaring away bad luck and keeping wealth. |
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3 Little Pigs $4.01 “It has always been one of my favorite fairy tales. It is a joyful, heart-thrilling story in which children can easily recognize their emotions. They see their own doubt, insecurity, fear, and courage in every one of the little pigs and in the big bad wolf himself, which makes the story an empowering tale about growing up and acquiring intelligence and cleverness.” — Marie-Louise Gay |
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A Book of Fairy Tales $22.15 New – Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to |
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A Book of Fairy Tales $19.16 Used – Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to |
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A Book of Fairy Tales $16.6 Used – Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to |
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A Book of Fairy Tales $15.35 New – Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to |
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A Good Kitty and a Bad Egg Adapted by Ilanit Oliver, Illustrated by Brigette Barrager $3.99 Based on the <I>Puss in Boots</i> movie, this Ready-to-Read tells the story of Puss in Boot’s relationship with Humpty Dumpty, from the first day they met. |
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A Good Kitty and a Bad Egg Adapted by Ilanit Oliver, Illustrated by Brigette Barrager $5.99 Based on the <I>Puss in Boots</i> movie, this Ready-to-Read tells the story of Puss in Boot’s relationship with Humpty Dumpty, from the first day they met. |
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A Journey $29.98 Authors Note: We all have our own journeys in life to face as we travel in this life; I hope yours is a blessed one in all that you face.Seek out all the good you face each day and the bad things will somehow fade away, because the good should always triumph over the bad, you just have to seek it and then you will fi nd it.God’s blessings be upon all that read this book and that by sharing this part of my journey I pray it will help others in the journey they travel as well. Look at all of the people that come and go in our lives and the events that you got to share with them for in sharing yourself with others makes you a gift to them as well as they are a gift to you.I don’t say that all of life is roses and fairy tales but it is of the learning to dream and seeking to walk in those dreams that makes life good.Dare to dream and then believe that those dreams will come true and you will find them in your Journey! |
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A Kaleidoscope of Thoughts, Poems, Short Stories and Other Whimsey $3.99 A Kaleidoscope of Thoughts, Poems, Short Stories and Other Whimsey, Volume One is full of personal experiences, reflections, thought provoking poems and one-liners. In this book Elvera takes the reader from serious to silly. Elvera opens her book with a challenging statement on thinking followed by the poem ‘For What’, as she leads the reader down the paths of captivity, slavery, the civil rights movement and to the present. It’s theme, History forgotten, History bound to repeat, becomes evident as you follow its progression and its seemingly regression. In her comments on Being Silly, Elvera writes “silliness should flush through your mind every now and then like a laxative through your system”. To this end, she explores some old Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes giving them a new look and a different spin. ‘The Trial of the “Big Bad” Wolf ‘, gives the wolf’s version of the Three Pig’s story. Although it’s intended to be humorous, Elvera still manage to deal with the issue of hatred and being bullied. This is a story not only for adults but for children as well. Even before this distribution, Elvera’s ‘The Trial of the “Big Bad” Wolf ‘ was adapted in play format and performed for elementary age children by the Fine Arts Department of Howard Community College. Her one-liners on Thinking, says a lot in so few words. Years before becoming Maryland’s Majority leader in the State Senate and a family friend, the late Senator Clarence Blount as her elementary school teacher, would say to her class: “Think young people, Think!” Elvera never forgot those words and in remembrance of him, wrote the one-liners to jog our thinking process. This thought provoking book is also designed to give the reader another insight into Death, Depression, Alzheimer and Aging. In Elvera’s questioning ‘Who is Schindler’, you may be surprised at the answer. Scattered throughout the book are blank pages to encourage the reader to immediately jot down any thoughts they wish to elabora |
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A Midsummer Night’s Fairy Tale $18 Building on the dazzling success of “Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, ” Windling and the brilliantly talented dollmaker Wendy Froud present a charming and visually stunning faery tale about true love and simple truths. 22 color photos. |
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A Poem for Tink $119.89 New – Terence likes everything about Tinker Bell. In fact, he likes her so much that one day he writes a poem about her. Too bad Terence is too shy to give it to Tink. But, in magical Never Land you never know where a poem might end up! Readers will love tracking the whereabouts of the poem as they enjoy the special extras on each spread such as a pull-out fairy letter, hologramatic foil, scents, and 3-D elements. |
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A Poem for Tink $79.07 New – Terence likes everything about Tinker Bell. In fact, he likes her so much that one day he writes a poem about her. Too bad Terence is too shy to give it to Tink. But, in magical Never Land you never know where a poem might end up! Readers will love tracking the whereabouts of the poem as they enjoy the special extras on each spread such as a pull-out fairy letter, hologramatic foil, scents, and 3-D elements. |
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A Poem for Tink $115.81 Terence likes everything about Tinker Bell. In fact, he likes her so much that one day he writes a poem about her. Too bad Terence is too shy to give it to Tink. But, in magical Never Land you never know where a poem might end up! Readers will love tracking the whereabouts of the poem as they enjoy the special extras on each spread such as a pull-out fairy letter, hologramatic foil, scents, and 3-D elements. |
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A Poem for Tink $113.34 New – Terence likes everything about Tinker Bell. In fact, he likes her so much that one day he writes a poem about her. Too bad Terence is too shy to give it to Tink. But, in magical Never Land you never know where a poem might end up! Readers will love tracking the whereabouts of the poem as they enjoy the special extras on each spread such as a pull-out fairy letter, hologramatic foil, scents, and 3-D elements. |
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A Poem for Tink $75.26 New – Terence likes everything about Tinker Bell. In fact, he likes her so much that one day he writes a poem about her. Too bad Terence is too shy to give it to Tink. But, in magical Never Land you never know where a poem might end up! Readers will love tracking the whereabouts of the poem as they enjoy the special extras on each spread such as a pull-out fairy letter, hologramatic foil, scents, and 3-D elements. |
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Acting Out $16.99 Six masterful children”s authors have become master playwrights in this collection of one-act plays that might just make you want to ACT OUT!In The Raven, Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office while Susan Cooper shows the environment fighting back against overdevelopment in The Dollop, Patricia MacLachlan puts a twist on detention in The Bad Room and Katherine Paterson gives us a new twist on a classic fairy tale in The Billionaire and the Bird, Richard Peck”s Effigy in the Outhouse is the story of schoolboys doing their best to trick a spooky substitute while Avi”s Not Seeing Is Believing has words playing tricks on everyone. With a star-studded lineup of writers there”s a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains! |
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Acting Out By Avi, Susan Cooper, Sharon Creech, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson and Richard Peck $16.99 With a star-studded lineup of writers, there’s a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains!<P>Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office in <I>The Raven</I>, and the environment fights back against overdevelopment in Susan Cooper’s <I>The Dollop</I>. Patricia MacLachlan puts a twist on detention in <I>The Bad Room</I>, and Katherine Paterson revives a classic fairy tale in <I>The Billionaire and the Bird</I>. Richard Peck has schoolboys doing their best to trick a spooky substitute in <I>Effigy in the Outhouse</I>, and Avi’s <I>Not Seeing Is Believing </I>has words playing tricks on everybody. There’s something for everyone in this all-star lineup. |
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Acting Out By Avi, Susan Cooper, Sharon Creech, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson and Richard Peck $5.99 With a star-studded lineup of writers, there’s a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains!<P>Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office in <I>The Raven</I>, and the environment fights back against overdevelopment in Susan Cooper’s <I>The Dollop</I>. Patricia MacLachlan puts a twist on detention in <I>The Bad Room</I>, and Katherine Paterson revives a classic fairy tale in <I>The Billionaire and the Bird</I>. Richard Peck has schoolboys doing their best to trick a spooky substitute in <I>Effigy in the Outhouse</I>, and Avi’s <I>Not Seeing Is Believing </I>has words playing tricks on everybody. There’s something for everyone in this all-star lineup. |
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Acting Out: Six One-Act Plays $2.79 Six masterful children’s authors have become master playwrights in this collection of one-act plays that might just make you want to ACT OUT! In The Raven, Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office while Susan Cooper shows the environment fighting back against overdevelopment in The Dollop. Patricia MacLachlan puts a twist on detention in The Bad Room and Katherine Paterson gives us a new twist on a classic fairy tale in The Billionaire and the Bird. Richard Peck’s Effigy in the Outhouse is the story of schoolboys doing their best to trick a spooky substitute while Avi’s Not Seeing Is Believing has words playing tricks on everyone. With a star-studded lineup of writers there’s a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains! Newbery Medal-winning and beloved authors Avi, Susan Cooper, Sharon Creech, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck have come together and written six original one-act plays to be read, shared, and acted out by the audience they know best. The playwrights could write about anything and anyone they wanted, but one thing would need to tie the stories all together. Each author had to choose one word and share it with the group. These six words then had to be written into each of the plays. The words they chose were “dollop,” “hoodwink,” “Justin,” “knuckleball,” “panhandle,” and “raven.” To find out the funny, odd, and creative ways they were used…Well, you’ll have to read for yourself. |
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Acting Out: Six One-Act Plays $0.01 Six masterful children’s authors have become master playwrights in this collection of one-act plays that might just make you want to ACT OUT! In The Raven, Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office while Susan Cooper shows the environment fighting back against overdevelopment in The Dollop. Patricia MacLachlan puts a twist on detention in The Bad Room and Katherine Paterson gives us a new twist on a classic fairy tale in The Billionaire and the Bird. Richard Peck’s Effigy in the Outhouse is the story of schoolboys doing their best to trick a spooky substitute while Avi’s Not Seeing Is Believing has words playing tricks on everyone. With a star-studded lineup of writers there’s a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains! Newbery Medal-winning and beloved authors Avi, Susan Cooper, Sharon Creech, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck have come together and written six original one-act plays to be read, shared, and acted out by the audience they know best. The playwrights could write about anything and anyone they wanted, but one thing would need to tie the stories all together. Each author had to choose one word and share it with the group. These six words then had to be written into each of the plays. The words they chose were “dollop,” “hoodwink,” “Justin,” “knuckleball,” “panhandle,” and “raven.” To find out the funny, odd, and creative ways they were used…Well, you’ll have to read for yourself. |
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Airy Fairy $3.95 • Meet Airy Fairy • Her wand is bent, her wings are covered with bandages, and her spells are always a muddle!But she’s the cutest fairy around • It’s nearly Christmas and all the fairies are looking forward to their Christmas party.• Except for Airy Fairy. Her school report is so bad that she’s been sent to sit on top of a• prickly Christmas tree! And she has just six spells to work some fancy magic or she• won’t be going to the party at all. |
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Airy Fairy Boxed Set $1.49 Meet Airy Fairy! • Publisher’s Weekly says that Margaret Ryan tells her comical Airy Fairy stories• “…in kid-pleasing fashion.” • Four funny Airy Fairy books inside— • It’s Fairy Gropplethorpe’s birthday party and all the fairies are making a birthday surprise. —All except Airy Fairy, whose good intentions dissolve into a Magic Mess! • It’s Christmas, but Airy Fairy’s report card is so bad that she can’t go to the party unless she does some extra work. She’s ordered to become the Christmas tree fairy! • The fairies are going camping for summer vacation. But Airy Fairy is worried. There are bound to be crawly things and enormous spiders in the campground. • Airy Fairy’s academy is having an athletic competition—running … riding…climbing ropes. What a lot of chances for accident-prone Airy Fairy to get into a muddle! • Stories by Margaret Ryan • Illustrations by Teresa Murfin |
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Ally’s World: Butterflies, Bullys and Bad, Bad Habits $46.87 New – “Rowan’s been acting strange (well, OK, more strange than usual). One minute she’s crying over who-knows-what, and the next she’s tripping into the house with all this new stuff (which has to come from the shopping fairy, since I know she’s got zero money). Then there’s the graffiti at school: ‘Rowan Love is a muppet’ (and I don’t think it’s meant in a friendly, Kermit is cool kind of way). Just what is going on with my sister?” |
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Ally’s World: Butterflies, Bullys and Bad, Bad Habits $67.95 New – “Rowan’s been acting strange (well, OK, more strange than usual). One minute she’s crying over who-knows-what, and the next she’s tripping into the house with all this new stuff (which has to come from the shopping fairy, since I know she’s got zero money). Then there’s the graffiti at school: ‘Rowan Love is a muppet’ (and I don’t think it’s meant in a friendly, Kermit is cool kind of way). Just what is going on with my sister?” |
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America’s Report Card $0.99 America’s Report Card offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connection in a world overshadowed by the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind — a world in which hulking government bureaucracies and vast corporations join forces to numb the populace into apathy with various standardization and surveillance programs. But McNally sees hope in the daily experiences of his characters: sometimes, haphazardly, by going about their own very particular lives, people circumvent the official program and begin to actively claim lives of freedom and dignity. America’s Report Card is an arresting and humane portrait of life taking place in the margins, outside the stunted imagination of government and media. As in his critically acclaimed novel The Book of Ralph, McNally dazzles with characters like Jainey O’Sullivan — a lonely, confused, purple-and-green-haired sometime truant, Jainey cares so little about high school that on her final standardized test, she writes an essay heaping scorn on the test administrators even as she asks her faceless reader for help. Charlie Wolf leads a fairy-tale graduate student life, with just enough money and clout to keep him in books, vodka, a threadbare apartment, and a beautiful, intellectual girlfriend. But the bohemian dream starts to crumble when Charlie takes a job scoring standardized tests and finds himself surrounded by people who are either plodding blindly along or caught up in wild conspiracy theories. When Charlie and Jainey stumble upon one another, they also stumble upon their own bravery and compassion. They try to protect each other from their habitual bad luck and the shadowy threats lurking at the edges of their lives, and what ensues doesn’t follow any prescribed course. The official version of American |
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America’s Report Card $10.99 America’s Report Card offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connection in a world overshadowed by the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind — a world in which hulking government bureaucracies and vast corporations join forces to numb the populace into apathy with various standardization and surveillance programs. But McNally sees hope in the daily experiences of his characters: sometimes, haphazardly, by going about their own very particular lives, people circumvent the official program and begin to actively claim lives of freedom and dignity. America’s Report Card is an arresting and humane portrait of life taking place in the margins, outside the stunted imagination of government and media. As in his critically acclaimed novel The Book of Ralph, McNally dazzles with characters like Jainey O’Sullivan — a lonely, confused, purple-and-green-haired sometime truant, Jainey cares so little about high school that on her final standardized test, she writes an essay heaping scorn on the test administrators even as she asks her faceless reader for help. Charlie Wolf leads a fairy-tale graduate student life, with just enough money and clout to keep him in books, vodka, a threadbare apartment, and a beautiful, intellectual girlfriend. But the bohemian dream starts to crumble when Charlie takes a job scoring standardized tests and finds himself surrounded by people who are either plodding blindly along or caught up in wild conspiracy theories. When Charlie and Jainey stumble upon one another, they also stumble upon their own bravery and compassion. They try to protect each other from their habitual bad luck and the shadowy threats lurking at the edges of their lives, and what ensues doesn’t follow any prescribed course. The official version of American |
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America’s Report Card: A Novel By John McNally $14 <I>America’s Report Card</i> offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connection in a world overshadowed by the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind — a world in which hulking government bureaucracies and vast corporations join forces to numb the populace into apathy with various standardization and surveillance programs. But McNally sees hope in the daily experiences of his characters: sometimes, haphazardly, by going about their own very particular lives, people circumvent the official program and begin to actively claim lives of freedom and dignity. <I>America’s Report Card</i> is an arresting and humane portrait of life taking place in the margins, outside the stunted imagination of government and media.<P>As in his critically acclaimed novel <I>The Book of Ralph</i>, McNally dazzles with characters like Jainey O’Sullivan — a lonely, confused, purple-and-green-haired sometime truant, Jainey cares so little about high school that on her final standardized test, she writes an essay heaping scorn on the test administrators even as she asks her faceless reader for help. Charlie Wolf leads a fairy-tale graduate student life, with just enough money and clout to keep him in books, vodka, a threadbare apartment, and a beautiful, intellectual girlfriend. But the bohemian dream starts to crumble when Charlie takes a job scoring standardized tests and finds himself surrounded by people who are either plodding blindly along or caught up in wild conspiracy theories. When Charlie and Jainey stumble upon one another, they also stumble upon their own bravery and compassion. They try to protect each other from their habitual bad luck and the shadowy threats lurking at the edges of their lives, and what ensues doesn’t follow any prescribed course.<P>The official version of American life today may get th |
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America’s Report Card: A Novel By John McNally $10.99 <I>America’s Report Card</i> offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connection in a world overshadowed by the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind — a world in which hulking government bureaucracies and vast corporations join forces to numb the populace into apathy with various standardization and surveillance programs. But McNally sees hope in the daily experiences of his characters: sometimes, haphazardly, by going about their own very particular lives, people circumvent the official program and begin to actively claim lives of freedom and dignity. <I>America’s Report Card</i> is an arresting and humane portrait of life taking place in the margins, outside the stunted imagination of government and media.<P>As in his critically acclaimed novel <I>The Book of Ralph</i>, McNally dazzles with characters like Jainey O’Sullivan — a lonely, confused, purple-and-green-haired sometime truant, Jainey cares so little about high school that on her final standardized test, she writes an essay heaping scorn on the test administrators even as she asks her faceless reader for help. Charlie Wolf leads a fairy-tale graduate student life, with just enough money and clout to keep him in books, vodka, a threadbare apartment, and a beautiful, intellectual girlfriend. But the bohemian dream starts to crumble when Charlie takes a job scoring standardized tests and finds himself surrounded by people who are either plodding blindly along or caught up in wild conspiracy theories. When Charlie and Jainey stumble upon one another, they also stumble upon their own bravery and compassion. They try to protect each other from their habitual bad luck and the shadowy threats lurking at the edges of their lives, and what ensues doesn’t follow any prescribed course.<P>The official version of American life today may get th |
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Amy Brown Burlesque Fairy Costume $44.99 Some faeries are good and some faeries are mischievous and some faeries are bad girls with wings – which kind of a faerie is the Amy Brown Burlesque Fairy – you decide! Fantasy artist Amy Brown is |
