Cecil County

Location, location, location: this catchphrase speaks to a dominant theme in the shaping of Cecil County's history. Cecil County is at the head of the Chesapeake Bay, with rivers defining two boundari

This book is an attempt to clarify the history of San On County ― the broader Hong Kong area ― centring on the troubled years of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is based on an in-depth stu

After 12 years, spanning two county governors and five culture center directors, teh Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, the first one of its kind in Taiwan, was finally opened to the public on Nove

It?s an exciting day for Almanzo as the Wilder family visits the county fair in this second My First Little House Book adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder?s classic Farmer Boy. There are contests, races

'Someone has to stand against the dark. And you're the only one who can.' For years, the local Spook has been keeping the County safe from evil. Now his time is coming to an end, but who will take ove

‘He’s the seventh son of a seventh son. His name is Thomas J. Ward and he’s my gift to the County. When he’s old enough we’ll send you word. Train him well. He’ll be the best apprentice you’ve ever ha

Theodore Boone is back in action! As all of Strattenburg sits divided over a hot political and environmental issue, Theo finds himself right in the thick of it. The county commission is fighting hard

Everyone's looking forward to a day at the County Fair, but when the Greenstalks' car won't start, it's cows to the rescue. "Gloriously comic."—Kirkus

From Don Winslow, the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film).Jack Wade was the rising star of the Orange County Sheriffs Department’s arson unit, but a minor scandal cost him everyth

It’s report card day at Bear County School–a day Brother Bear has been dreading. He’s received horrible marks in all of his classes, except gym. If only his grades were based on how many strike-outs h

The southernmost county in Maryland, Somerset was established in 1666 by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, and named in honor of his wife's sister, Lady Mary Somerset. The county originally in

Plainsong, set in Kent Haruf''s fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love.‘So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader’ The New York TimesTom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone and, in the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless.Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron – gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished – agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever.A novel of haunting beauty from one of America''s greatest writers, published 25 years ago this year, Plainsong is an essential read from the Picador Collection, a curated list of era-defining modern classics.

In the paperback of The Last Chance for Logan County, the third Legendary Alston Boys mystery from Edgar Award nominee Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed team up with the Epic Ellisons against a corporation that wants Logan County's weirdness for itself!Otto and Sheed are back in yet another legendary adventure that just might take all their deduction skills, and a little help, to solve.With their journey through the last mirror on the left behind them, Otto and Sheed are ready for things to get back to normal. But their trip to that other dimension had side effects, and they come on quickly--starting with a thunderstorm that rains carnivorous frogs!And that's only the beginning. When a suspicious company called GOO, obsessed with Logan County's weirdness, shows up and starts buying all the property in town--and threatening to take Sheed away from Otto--some of the adults start acting stranger than usual, almost... zombie-like?With the help of Otto's mom, Sheed's dad, and the Epic Ellison twi

Heritage and History in the China–Australia Migration Corridor traces the material and social legacy of migration from China to Australia from the 1840s until the present day. The volume offers a multidimensional examination of the material footprint of migration as it exists in the migration corridor stretching between Zhongshan county in south China and Australia. Spanning the fields of heritage studies, migration studies, and Chinese diaspora history, Denis Byrne, Ien Ang, Phillip Mar, and other contributors foreground a transnational approach to the heritage of migration, one that takes account of the flows of people, ideas, objects, and money that circulate through migration corridors, forming intricate ongoing bonds between those who migrated to Australia and their home villages in China.

High Wages (1930) was Dorothy Whipple's second novel. It is about a girl called Jane who gets a badly-paid job in a draper’s shop in the early years of the last century. Yet the title of the book is based on a Carlyle quotation – ‘Experience doth take dreadfully high wages, but she teacheth like none other’ – and Jane, having saved some money and been lent some by a friend, opens her own dress-shop.As Jane Brocket writes in her Persephone Preface: the novel ‘is a celebration of the Lancastrian values of hard work and stubbornness, and there could be no finer setting for a shop-girl-made-good story than the county in which cotton was king.’

獲《Kirkus》《School Library Journal》等專業書評推薦由 David Elliott 與插畫家 Randy Cecil 攜手完成，本書以詩歌形式，向世界上所有生物舉杯致意。從飛翔的鳥、神祕的魚，到黏人又忠心的狗，每一種生命都被描寫得誠懇而有趣。文字節奏輕快，畫面充滿細節與喜感，使閱讀成為一場聲音與圖像的遊戲。Here's to exuberant read-alouds! This picture book ode to joy invites us to celebrate the world's vast diversity - and feel pretty happy with our place in it, too.Here's to the birds!The Feather People!Birds!Here's to the birds and the bears and the bugs! Here's to the weird and wacky, the cute and creepy! From toothy fish to let-you-when-you're-sleeping cats to lick-lick-lick-lick-lick-lick dogs, every creature is unique and lovable . . . especially you! The infectious joy of David Elliott's wonderful read-aloud poem and Randy Cecil's brilliant, amusing artwork is sure to have children reciting along.

你還在煩惱一口菜英文要怎麼向外國人介紹台灣嗎？你還在比手劃腳應對外國人問路嗎？別‧擔‧心！Don’t worry本書整理出台灣的景點、夜市、節慶等等在地特色，並且模擬實境對話讓你輕輕鬆鬆介紹台灣，當外國朋友最道地的導遊！準備好《輕鬆用英語介紹台灣》就能和外國朋友一起環島了！Let’s GO！─情境對話─A: Do you know anything about Orchid Island?　你聽過蘭嶼嗎？B: Is it one of the islands that surround Taiwan?　那是台灣周圍的一個島嶼嗎？A: Yes, it is on the sea, southeast of Taitung County.　對，是在海上，台東縣東南方。B: Who are the residents on that island?　誰住在島上呢？A: The indigenous people living there are the Tao people.　達悟族是住在那裡的原住民。　They have their own traditional canoes and Flying Fish Festival.　他們有自己的拼板舟和飛魚祭。

囊括亞裔美國演員的一世紀璀璨身影首部以亞裔為主的電影百科全書8大主題分類　逐一盤點亞裔影人經典形象收錄100餘張劇照　亞裔畫家手繪精美電影海報亞裔美國人如何躍上大銀幕，成就我們今日所見的光景？這本集錦涵蓋了130多部電影，時間跨度超過100年——從1915年西席地密爾（Cecil B. DeMille）的《矇騙》（The Cheat），到李安（Ang Lee）的《囍宴》（The Wedding Banquet）、王穎（Wayne Wang）的《喜福會》（The Joy Luck Club），再到2022年丹尼爾雙人組（Daniel Kwan、Daniel Scheinert）橫掃奧斯卡的《媽的多重宇宙》（Everything Everywhere All at Once）。透過亞裔插畫家精美的作品，還有好萊塢各地編劇、演員、製片人和導演的個人軼事，這部開創性的書籍探討了這些標誌性的電影如何塑造了美國對亞洲人的觀感，以及亞裔美國人如何看待自己。書中收錄了多名好萊塢知名面孔的評論和對話，如劉思慕（Simu Liu）、金大賢（Daniel Dae Kim）、楊燕子（Janet Yang）、錢信伊（Ronny Chieng）、伍思薇（Alice Wu）和鄭肯（Ken Jeong），了解啟發當今的明星們進入電影製作領域的電影經典，以及他們如何將所汲取的養分傳承給下一代的創作者。柯克斯書評（Kirkus Review）「本書一旦打開，就很難闔上。裡頭有豐富的劇照和插圖作品，揭示了美國亞裔電影的歷史，其中不乏對重要人物的採訪。這是一部有趣，且內容豐富的作品。無論你選擇用何種方式閱讀，它都會將一段隱藏的歷史帶入日常生活。」

屢獲殊榮的Life on Mars作者又帶來了新的搞笑故事，一個女孩正在奇特的不尋常動物收容所裡尋找她的完美寵物。科普利縣動物收容所有土豚，蜥蜴，鵝，鼬鼠等等。 但是他們有小狗嗎？ 帶著馬車的女孩準備領養狗－－而不是土豚，蜥蜴或鵝！ 收容所經理可以幫助她找到一隻完美寵物嗎？A girl seeks her perfect pet at a wonderfully unusual animal shelter in this comical read-aloud by the award-winning creator of Life on MarsThe Copley County Animal Shelter has an aardvark, a lizard, a goose, a weasel, and plenty more. But do they have a puppy? The girl with her wagon is ready to adopt a dog—not an aardvark, lizard, or goose! Can the shelter manager help her to find her perfect pet?

All the awwws of animal adoption stories are combined with sugary sweetness is this new, fun-filled chapter book series about a cat caf?Kira Parker lives above The Purrfect Cup, the cat caf?that her family owns and runs. Every day is a new adventure with her friends (read: the cats)! Except lately, The King County Dog Show seems to be the only thing the regulars can talk about! Kira doesn't get why everyone is so excited. After all, her friends are much smarter and more talented than those dogs. Her cat, Pepper, can do all kinds of tricks. Okay, three tricks . . . but she's really good at them! That gives Kira a GREAT IDEA -- she's going to train the cats, and enter them in the competition. It's sure to be her best plan yet!

Traversing from the rapidly urbanising county-level city of Fuqing to the remote mountainous kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa, Searching for Sweetness is one of the first and most extensive ethnographies linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa. Against the backdrop of China’s national struggle for modernity and globalisation, Sarah Hanisch examines Chinese migrant women’s complex and ever-shifting struggles for upward social mobility across different generations and localities in China and Lesotho. Embedding the women’s individual portraits into larger historical contexts, Hanisch illustrates how these women interpret and narrate their migratory and everyday experiences through and beyond powerful state metanarratives on ‘sweetness’ and ‘bitterness’. In her exploration of migratory identities and projects that have been overlooked by previous studies, Hanisch brings uniquely gendered, multi-sited, and intergenerational perspectives to existing sc

In this new Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar-nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed must embark on their most dangerous journey yet, bringing a fugitive to justice in a world that mirrors their own but has its own rules to play by. Unlike the majority of Logan County's residents, Missus Nedraw of the Rorrim Mirror Emporium remembers the time freeze from The Last Last-Day-of-Summer, and how Otto and Sheed took her mirrors without permission in order to fix their mess. Usually that's an unforgivable offense, punishable by a million-year sentence. However, she's willing to overlook the cousins' misdeeds if they help her with a problem of her own. One of her worst prisoners has escaped, and only the Legendary Alston Boys of Logan County can help bring the fugitive to justice. This funny and off-the-wall adventure is perfect for readers of Jonathan Auxier and Lemony Snicket.