Kaye Umansky
Kaye Umansky was born in Plymouth in Devon, England. She went to Teacher's Training College, after which she taught in London primary schools for twelve years, specializing in music and drama. In her spare time, she sang and played keyboards with a semiprofessional soul band. She now writes full time and has written more than twenty-five books of fantasy, fiction, and poetry for children. She draws on traditional folktales and modern urban myths for her inspiration and has a sense of humor that is popular with children of all ages, from five to one hundred and five. She lives in London with her family. Among her most popular books are her hilarious Pongwiffy titles. Pongwiffy, Pongwiffy and the Goblins' Revenge, and Pongwiffy and the Spell of the Year, which won the Nottinghamshire Book Award, are available from Minstrel Books.
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The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow
- By: Kaye Umansky
- Narrator: Kaye Umansky
- Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 11, 2008
- Language: English
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Nottinghamshire Book Award winner Kaye Umansky combines humor and a Dickensian atmosphere to bring young readers into the unlikely world of Solomon Snow. Solly’s life stinks. He lives with Ma and Pa Scubbins in a rundown cottage outside of the... Read more
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Witch for a Week
- By: Kaye Umansky
- Narrator: Joan Walker
- Length: 1 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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A Bewitching tale, charmingly told and is certain to delight any witch in the making’ M.G, Leonard, award-winning author of Beetle Boy ‘A gorgeous story that bubbles with charm, wit and magic’ Abi Elphinstone, author of The... Read more
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The Real Romney
“Absorbing and fair-minded.”—New York Times
“Romney’s story in full and clear detail…fascinating in-depth stuff.”—Los Angeles Times
“A fascinating story [that] sheds next light on an elusive subject.”—Boston Globe
Despite his political prominence, Mitt Romney remains an enigma to many in America. Who is the man behind that sweep of dark hair and the high-wattage smile? A ...
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Yoga for the Slopes
Yoga for the Slopes includes the following three audiobooks: Yoga for Snowsports, Vol. 1; Yoga for Snowsports, Vol. 2; and Yoga for Balance.
Yoga for the Snowsports, Vol. 1, is a sixty-minute instructional yoga class devised specifically for boarders and skiers with little or no previous yoga experience. It instructs you in eighteen simple postures that will improve flexibility, strength, ...
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Better, Not Perfect
Negotiation and decision-making expert Max Bazerman explores how we can make more ethical choices by aspiring to be better, not perfect.
Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions–and we needn’t seek ...
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Eggnog Murder
Eggnog Murder: When a gift-wrapped bottle of eggnog proves to be a killer concoction for a Tinker’s Cove local, all Lucy Stone wants for Christmas is to find the murdering mixologist who’s stirring up trouble. Death By Eggnog: Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell has never cared much for Bar Harbor’s grouchy town librarian, Agatha Farnsworth. But after the Scroogy senior has a ...
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Peril in the Parish
March 1933, Dovecote Hatch, England. Florence Norris knows she has found a good man in George ‘Birdie’ Bird, the landlord of the local pub, The Dog & Whistle. They are set to marry in a understated service at the parish church in their beloved village, Dovecote Hatch. But when a mysterious stranger seeks out George, sharing family secrets and talks of an illegal burial years ago, an ominous ...
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Happy 95% of the Time
In his latest book, Walter Doyle Staples invites his readers to experience life as fully aware, fully conscious, and fully functioning individuals. Dr. Staples presents powerful and life-changing ideas and concepts on how to transcend our ego-based state of consciousness to achieve deep peace, profound love, and infinite joy.Happy 95% of the Time explains how our attachment to our ego can only ...
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Friendly Fire
Drafted into the US Army, Michael Mullen left his family’s Iowa farm in September 1969 to fight for his country in Vietnam. Six months later, Michael was killed, not by the North Vietnamese, but by artillery fire from friendly forces. With the government failing to provide the precise circumstances of his death, Mullen’s devastated parents, Peg and Gene, demanded to know the truth. A year ...
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A Stranger’s Game
From New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston, the thrilling seventh Bitter Creek novel featuring passion and intrigue mixed with an explosive, spine-tingling tale of murder, wrongful imprisonment, and a woman who counts no cost too high to see a killer brought to justice.FBI Special Agent Breed Grayhawk has the hottest sex in his life with a stranger who calls herself Grace Smith, only to ...
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Covet
Tracey Garvis Graves, the New York Times–bestselling author of On the Island, returns.
What if the life you wanted, and the woman you fell in love with, belonged to someone else?
Chris and Claire Canton’s marriage is on life support. Downsized during the recession and out of work for a year, Chris copes by retreating to a dark place where no one can reach him, not even Claire. When ...
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Computational Thinking
A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field had a computational branch: computational physics, computational biology, computational sociology. More recently, “computational thinking” has become part of the K-12 curriculum. But what is ...
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