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Vote For Me!
by Ben ClantonA hilarious political satire by the creator of the bestselling Narwhal and Jelly series.Hey, you! Yes, you with the dazzling smile! The donkey wants your vote. So does the elephant. And each will do just about anything to win your support. Brag? Sure! Flatter? Absolutely! Exaggerate, name-call, make silly promises and generally act childish? Yes, yes, yes and yes. Soon, the tension mounts, and these two quarrelsome candidates resort to slinging mud (literally) and flinging insults. And what happens when the election results are in? Well, let's just say the donkey and the elephant are in for a little surprise--and a certain bewhiskered, third-party candidate is in for a first term!
¡Voto a Bríos! (Mundodisco #Volumen 21)
by Terry Pratchett¡El Mundodisco está en guerra! Llega la entrega n.º 21 de esta genial e hilarante serie de fantasía. La isla perdida de Leshp ha emergido inopinadamente de entre las aguas. Aparte de ser un reto arqueológico, este nuevo territorio ocupa una posición estratégica inmejorable en caso de guerra. Y por la curiosa lógica que suele prevalecer en estos casos, todos toman rápido las armas para reclamar su posesión. Ankh-Morpork, la mayor ciudad-estado del Mundodisco, y Klatch, el antiguo imperio desértico de los turbantes y los camellos, se preparan para verse las caras en el campo de batalla. Mientras se forman los regimientos, la Guardia de la Ciudad de AnkhMorpork se enfrenta a soflamas incendiarias, turbas callejeras, cierta aversión a los restaurantes exóticos y, por si fuera poco, al asesinato del embajador de Klatch, en cuya investigación empieza a cobrar sentido la Teoría del Segundo Arquero. El comandante Sam Vimes y su cada vez más variopinta tropa deberán salvaguardar la paz en la ciudad, tomada por una clase militar ansiosa de pelea, e intentar impedir el único crimen que increíblemente no es ilegal: la guerra. En esta entrega del Mundodisco se reúnen el género policíaco, los libros de aventuras y la novela bélica mezclados en la irónica coctelera de Terry Pratchett, que, como de costumbre, resulta más hilarante cuanto más serio es el tema que trata. Reseña:«¡Voto a bríos! es una novela antibelicista; una crítica a la xenofobia, el orgullo de raza mal entendido y la histeria colectiva que se adueñan de las personas y las naciones. Y eso sin olvidarse de ser muy, muy divertida. Ábranla por cualquier página.»The Washington Post
A Vow to Secure His Legacy: The Italian's Ruthless Seduction Awakened By Her Desert Captor A Vow To Secure His Legacy Required To Wear The Tycoon's Ring (One Night With Consequences)
by Annie West"Marry me. This week." After losing her mother, Imogen Holgate believes she's living on borrowed time with the same terminal illness. So the cautious accountant blows all her savings on a once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world, where she meets sexy Parisian Thierry Girard. But after two steamy weeks there are permanent consequences to their temporary affair... Now with more than herself to think about, Imogen turns to Thierry to help, but the last thing she expected was for him to imprison her with a gold ring!
The Vows of Silence: A Simon Serrailler Mystery
by Susan HillAnother wrenching Simon Serrailler novel of love, loss, dreadful crimes, and terror. We met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence, the fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors. A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Laffterton. What, if anything, links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun? With the complexity and character study that earned raves for The Pure in Heart and the relentless pacing and plot twists of The Various Haunts of Men, The Vows of Silence is truly the work of a writer at the top of her form.
The Vows of Silence: A Simon Serrailler Mystery
by Susan HillAnother wrenching Simon Serrailler novel of love, loss, dreadful crimes, and terror. We met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence, the fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors. A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Laffterton. What, if anything, links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun? With the complexity and character study that earned raves for The Pure in Heart and the relentless pacing and plot twists of The Various Haunts of Men, The Vows of Silence is truly the work of a writer at the top of her form.
The Vows of Silence (Simon Serrailler #4)
by Susan Hill'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.' It is late October, and the inhabitants of the Cathedral town of Lafferton are getting ready for the Remembrance Day parade. This year will be grander than usual because of a VIP visitor. Leonard Cramm is preparing himself, as he always does; his grandfather was a hero of the First World War, his father a hero of the Battle of Britain. But then a couple walking their dogs go into a copse on the outskirts of the town, and one of them breaks an ankle after falling over something deep in the undergrowth. Remembrance takes on a different aspect, and Simon Serrailler - recently promoted to Detective Chief Superintendent - faces a terrifying situation, in which a great many lives are threatened, not least his own.
Vows They Can't Escape
by Heidi RiceStill legally wedded... Xanthe Carmichael has just discovered two things: 1. Her ex-husband could take half of her business. 2. She's actually still married to him! When she jets off to New York, divorce papers in hand, Xanthe is prepared for the billionaire bad boy's slick office...but not for the spear of lust that hits her the moment she sees Dane Redmond again! Has her body no shame, no recollection of the pain he caused? But Dane is stalling... Is he really checking the fine print or planning to stir the smoldering embers of their passion and tempt her back into the marriage bed?
Vows to Save His Crown (Mills And Boon Modern Ser.)
by Kate HewittSparks of passion fly in this royal marriage of convenience romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Hewitt.The only solution: A royal wedding of convenience!To save his kingdom, intensely private Prince Mateo Karavitis must take the throne — and a bride! But he can’t trust just anyone with the role. And he certainly can’t trust emotions to drive this all-important decision. Luckily, he has an ideal candidate in mind…Rachel Lewis is completely thrown by Mateo’s proposal. She’s known him for years, and has secretly yearned for him every single second. It’s an irresistible offer… But can she really share his palace — and his royal bed — without getting hurt?From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.
The Voyage
by Murray BailFrank Delage, a middle-aged Australian, arrives in Vienna with the most daring of propositions. He has invented a revolutionary piano and means to market it to the grand old world of classical music. A chance meeting with one Amalia von Schalla brings new possibilities - a soirée, an introduction to her daughter Elisabeth, dinner with an avant-garde composer. But when the sheer audacity of his campaign dawns on him, he takes a slow boat home to the southern hemisphere. As it meanders through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal, he is afforded ample time to reflect on tensions between the old world and the new. And, for all his travails, he is not going home empty-handed...
The Voyage
by Murray BailFrank Delage, a middle-aged Australian, arrives in Vienna with the most daring of propositions. He has invented a revolutionary piano and means to market it to the grand old world of classical music. A chance meeting with one Amalia von Schalla brings new possibilities - a soirée, an introduction to her daughter Elisabeth, dinner with an avant-garde composer. But when the sheer audacity of his campaign dawns on him, he takes a slow boat home to the southern hemisphere. As it meanders through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal, he is afforded ample time to reflect on tensions between the old world and the new. And, for all his travails, he is not going home empty-handed...
The Voyage of the UnderGod
by Kirby SmithPolitics is everywhere these days; we are drowning in it. The Voyage of the UnderGod holds up a mirror to this sad state of affairs by creating a world animated by partisan political feeling, every utterance up for grabs as an allusion or parody or gag or prank or desperate cry for help.In a reality TV show a 19th-century tall ship sails the south Atlantic, doubling back to Rio de Janeiro, then down the coast to the deadly Cape Horn. Its celebrity captain is Luther Dorsey, a presidential hopeful whose back-story combines elements of Reagan, Limbaugh, and George W. The tone is mock-heroic yet charged with dramatic intensity as Luther makes his last grasp at the greatness he thinks he deserves.
Voyage of Vengeance (Mission Earth #7)
by L. Ron HubbardThe end is near!<P> The Voltarian terrorists have won!<P> Earth is history!<P> But don't believe everything you read. Or hear. Or see. Because the road to victory is paved with bad intentions--and lies, betrayal and deception are all in play. So who are the players in this treacherous game... ?<P> Countess Krak: victim of a spectacular kidnapping, she is bound for a distant dungeon where she faces a venomous fate... <P> Royal Officer Jettero Heller: convinced the Countess is dead and overcome by grief, he is holed up in a Connecticut roadhouse--and standing square in an assassin's crosshairs...<P> Soltan Gris: together with a young temptress named Teenie Whopper, he undertakes a drug-fueled voyage across the Atlantic. But the journey's about to be cut short, as he goes from getting stoned with Teenie to nearly getting stoned to death in Turkey...<P> So who is in command? Who is the puppet master pulling the strings? And, finally, is there any hope for planet Earth? The answers lie at the end of an extraordinary VOYAGE OF VENGEANCE.<P>
The Voyage Out
by Virginia WoolfRachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in this modern version of the mythic voyage. In one of Woolf's wittiest, most satirical novels, we are introduced to Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The mismatched jumble of passengers on the ship provide Woolf with ample opportunity to satirize Edwardian life.
Voyage to Kazohinia
by Sandor Szathmari Inez KemenesA page-turning dystopian classic that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels, Voyage to Kazohinia is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here published in English for the first time outside of Hungary. Sándor Szathmári's comical novel chronicles the travels of a modern Gulliver on the eve of World War II. A shipwrecked English ship's surgeon finds himself on an unknown island whose inhabitants, the Hins, live a technologically advanced existence without emotions, desires, arts, money, or politics. Soon unhappy amid this bleak perfection, Gulliver asks to be admitted to the closed settlement of the Behins, beings with souls and atavistic human traits. He has seen nothing yet. A massively entertaining mix of satire and science fiction, Voyage to Kazohinia has seen half a dozen editions in Hungary in the seventy years since its original publication and remains the country's most popular cult classic.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe
by Robert TwiggerBest-selling author of Angry White Pyjamas travels across the Rocky Mountains by canoeFifteen years before Lewis and Clark, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie travelled by bark canoe and had a cache of rum and a crew of Canadian voyageurs, hard-living backwoodsmen, for company. Two centuries later, Robert Twigger decides to follow in Mackenzie's wake. He too travels the traditional way, having painstakingly built a canoe from birchbark sewn together with pine roots, and assembled a crew made up of fellow travelers, ex-tree-planters and a former sailor from the US Navy. Several had tried before them but they were the first people to successfully complete Mackenzie's diabolical route over the Rockies in a birchbark canoe since 1793. Their journey takes them to the remotest parts of the wilderness, through Native American reservations, over mountains, through rapids and across lakes, meeting descendants of Mackenzie and unhinged Canadian trappers, running out of food, getting lost and miraculously found again, disfigured for life (the ex-sailor loses his thumb), bears brown and black, docile and grizzly.
Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe
by Robert TwiggerBest-selling author of Angry White Pyjamas travels across the Rocky Mountains by canoeFifteen years before Lewis and Clark, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie travelled by bark canoe and had a cache of rum and a crew of Canadian voyageurs, hard-living backwoodsmen, for company. Two centuries later, Robert Twigger decides to follow in Mackenzie's wake. He too travels the traditional way, having painstakingly built a canoe from birchbark sewn together with pine roots, and assembled a crew made up of fellow travelers, ex-tree-planters and a former sailor from the US Navy. Several had tried before them but they were the first people to successfully complete Mackenzie's diabolical route over the Rockies in a birchbark canoe since 1793. Their journey takes them to the remotest parts of the wilderness, through Native American reservations, over mountains, through rapids and across lakes, meeting descendants of Mackenzie and unhinged Canadian trappers, running out of food, getting lost and miraculously found again, disfigured for life (the ex-sailor loses his thumb), bears brown and black, docile and grizzly.
Voyeur: 'A Sizzling Summer Debut' Esquire
by Francesca Reece'Set to rule the literary summer' Sunday Times StyleOne of Elle Magazine's 'Dazzling 2021 Debuts''[A] stirring debut' Harper's BazaarWRITER SEEKS ASSISTANT TO HELP WITH ARCHIVING/RESEARCH FOR A NEW NOVEL. Don't bother to apply if your name is Shakespearean or classical. PARIS AND SOUTH. PART-TIME.Leah, a young woman who has found herself 'ambitioned' out of London, is now aimlessly adrift in Paris. Tired of odd jobs in cafés and teaching English to unresponsive social media influencers, her heart skips a beat when she spots an advert for a writer seeking an assistant. Michael was once the bright young star of the London literary scene, now a washed-up author with writer's block. He doesn't place much hope in the advert, but after meeting Leah is filled with an inspiration he hasn't felt in years. When Michael offers Leah the opportunity to join him and his family in their rambling but glorious property in the south of France for the summer, she finally feels her luck is turning. But as she begins to transcribe the diaries from his debauched life in 1960s Soho, something begins to nag at Leah's sense of fulfilment; that there might be more to Michael than meets the eye.'For fans of Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times, this is sultry antidote to our Groundhog Year' Elle'A devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' Louise O'Neill'A sultry, summery book . . . devastatingly witty, compulsively readable . . . like Sally Rooney meeting Martin Amis in Paris' Francine Toon, author of Pine
Voyeur: 'A genuinely thrilling summer holiday read' Stylist
by Francesca Reece'[A] sizzling summer debut, a one-way ticket to the south of France' Esquire 'Set to rule the literary summer' Sunday Times Style'Unsettling, addictive, razor-sharp' Louise O'NeillWRITER SEEKS ASSISTANT TO HELP WITH ARCHIVING/RESEARCH FOR A NEW NOVEL. Don't bother to apply if your name is Shakespearean or classical. PARIS AND SOUTH. PART-TIME.Leah, a young woman who has found herself 'ambitioned' out of London, is now aimlessly adrift in Paris. Tired of odd jobs in cafés and teaching English to unresponsive social media influencers, her heart skips a beat when she spots an advert for a writer seeking an assistant. Michael was once the bright young star of the London literary scene, now a washed-up author with writer's block. He doesn't place much hope in the advert, but after meeting Leah is filled with an inspiration he hasn't felt in years. When Michael offers Leah the opportunity to join him and his family in their rambling but glorious property in the south of France for the summer, she finally feels her luck is turning. But as she begins to transcribe the diaries from his debauched life in 1960s Soho, something begins to nag at Leah's sense of fulfilment; that there might be more to Michael than meets the eye.'Tense and sultry... addictive... With a complicated love triangle, glamorous settings, a cast of enigmatic characters and a mystery that will keep you guessing right until the end, it's a genuinely thrilling summer holiday read' Stylist'A devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' Louise O'Neill'A sultry, summery book . . . devastatingly witty, compulsively readable . . . like Sally Rooney meeting Martin Amis in Paris' Francine Toon, author of Pine
Voyeur: 'Unsettling, addictive, and razor-sharp'
by Francesca Reece'Unsettling, addictive, and razor-sharp, Francesca Reece is a devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' Louise O'NeillWRITER SEEKS ASSISTANT TO HELP WITH ARCHIVING/RESEARCH FOR A NEW NOVEL. Don't bother to apply if your name is Shakespearean or classical. PARIS AND SOUTH. PART-TIME.Leah, a young woman who has found herself 'ambitioned' out of London, is now aimlessly adrift in Paris. Tired of odd jobs in cafés and teaching English to unresponsive social media influencers, her heart skips a beat when she spots an advert for a writer seeking an assistant. Michael was once the bright young star of the London literary scene, now a washed-up author with writer's block. He doesn't place much hope in the advert, but after meeting Leah is filled with an inspiration he hasn't felt in years. When Michael offers Leah the opportunity to join him and his family in their rambling but glorious property in the south of France for the summer, she finally feels her luck is turning. But as she begins to transcribe the diaries from his debauched life in 1960s Soho, something begins to nag at Leah's sense of fulfilment; that there might be more to Michael than meets the eye.(P) 2021 Headline Publishing Group Limited
Voz: Ensayos por Jaydeep Shah
by L. B Jaydeep Shah"El poder sobrenatural dado por Dios es la Voz. No lo desperdicies en el silencio." -Jaydeep Shah Voz es un libro de no ficción que incluye ensayos sobre culturas y valores y temas sociales que la situación actual en todo el mundo en función de diversas perspectivas de las culturas y los valores, la estratificación social, y asuntos de la comunidad.
Vroom, Zoom, Bud (Penguin Young Readers, Level 1)
by Patricia LakinVroom zoom with Bud as he tries to win the race!Bud always loves to be muddy. When he enters a race, he gets distracted by a mud puddle! Should he jump in, or finish the race?
La vuelta al mundo en 80 días
by Julio Verne Shia Green¡Recorre el mundo de punta a punta con las mejores aventuras de Julio Verne! Nadie cree a Phileas Fogg cuando asegura que dará la vuelta al mundo… ¡en solo ochenta días! Parece una misión imposible, sobre todo con la policía pisándole los talones y con todo tipo de obstáculos en el camino. Desde trenes averiados hasta peligrosas travesías acuáticas, ¡e incluso estampidas de bisontes! Las grandes novelas de Julio Verne, adaptadas por Shia Green e ilustradas por Fran H-T
La vuelta al mundo en ocho días y medio (Colección Judy Moody #Volumen 7)
by Megan McDonaldNuevas aventuras de la intrépida Judy Moody y sus inseparables amigos. Esta vez intenta llevar a cabo ella sola un trabajo escolar sobre Italia que debían hacer en grupo. Judy Moody no puede creer lo que está oyendo. Ahí, en la mesa del comedor, una chica llamada Amy Namey está entrevistando a sus mejores amigos, Rocky y Frank. ¿Será esta chica la nueva peor enemiga de Judy? ¿O su nueva mejor amiga? Judy Moody va a aprender cómo se construye una amistad mientras se embarca con toda su clase en una apasionante gira por el mundo.
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series)
by Ian BrodieIn A Vulgar Art, Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize—“literature” or “theatre”; “editorial” or “morality”—and analyze it accordingly. A Vulgar Art begins with a more fundamental observation: someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them directly, and trying to make them laugh. So, this book takes the moment of performance as its focus, that stand-up comedy is a collaborative act between the comedian and the audience. Although the form of talk on the stage resembles talk among friends and intimates in social settings, stand-up comedy remains a profession. As such, it requires performance outside of the comedian's own community to gain larger and larger audiences. How do comedians recreate that atmosphere of intimacy in a roomful of strangers? This book regards everything from microphones to clothing and LPs to Twitter as strategies for bridging the spatial, temporal, and sociocultural distances between the performer and the audience.
Vulnerability Is My Superpower: An Underpants And Overbites Collection (Underpants and Overbites Collection)
by Jackie E. DavisVulnerability Is My Superpower features Jackie Davis's relatable diary comics about self-discovery, mental health, relationships, and childhood. From bouts with anxiety and insecurity to the thrill of simple pleasures like secretly trying on other people&’s coats at a party, she&’s figuring things out as she goes along, navigating domestic life with her husband, Pat (aka &“the Purple Guy&”), and sharing her most embarrassing thoughts and habits so you don&’t have to.For anyone who struggles with self-confidence or just likes to scrutinize the curious workings of relationships and everyday life, the confessional comic gems in this book invite laughter at even the most awkward and vulnerable moments while making you feel less alone.