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Baby's Got the Blues by Carol Diggory Shields
Category: Children's
Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of an infant is really like? In this bluesy story, sometimes being a baby is enough to make you cry! Oh, baby, wouldn't it be grand to be a baby? No worries, no woes, the whole world doing everything for you. Like floating down easy street. But just wait one ...Show more
Baby's Got the Blues by Carol Diggory Shields
Category: Children's
Oh, baby, wouldn't it be grand to be a baby? No worries, no woes, the whole world doing everything for you. Like floating down easy street. But just wait one guitar-pickin' minute. That's a lie! Babies can't talk, can't walk, can't even really chew. It's enough to make the baby in this story blue, blue, ...Show more
Bugliest Bug by Carol Diggory Shields
Category: unmapped
A rollicking rhyme about a contest for bugs that nearly ends in disaster! When damselfly Dilly hears about the Bugliest Bug contest, she goes along to see who will win. There are fireflies, ladybirds, stink bugs, click beetles, crickets ... and some very suspicious-looking judges! Can Dilly alert h ...Show more
Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife
FS Duet by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields' tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life. Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others: her eccentric husband, her secretive children a ...Show more
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time.'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW'An excellent biography' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Shields on Austen offers up a delicious prospect. And we are not disappointed' SCOTSMANJane Austen was one of t ...Show more
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
An observant and revealing biography of this remarkable writer whose characters are as alive today in their longings as they were two hindred years ago, when Jane Austen first gave them breath.
LARRY'S PARTY by CAROL SHIELDS
Category: Fiction
The "San Diego Tribune" called "The Stone Diaries" a "universal study of what makes women tick." With "Larry's Party" Carol Shields has done the same for men. Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony, and tenderness. "Larry's Party" gives us, a ...Show more
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court's Maze.