Peanuts 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar

Peanuts 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar Review

Whether you're a philosopher like Linus, a Flying Ace like Snoopy, or a lovable loser like Charlie Brown, there is something to touch your heart or make you laugh in the beloved comic, Peanuts. Peanuts is a touchstone that generations embrace with love and loyalty. Bring some warmth and happiness into your home or office with the Peanuts 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar featuring the entire Peanuts gang.

Fans can enjoy their favorite characters each day in the Peanuts 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar, which features a year's worth of full-color Peanuts comic strips. Whatever amusing situations Charlie Brown, Linus, or Snoopy find themselves in, it's always guaranteed entertainment.

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Peanut Buttered Roast Squid: A Boomer Travels Solo

Peanut Buttered Roast Squid: A Boomer Travels Solo Review

Susan Merrill Thomas, like her name suggests, is the classic boomer. She had two children, a boy and a girl, a husband, aging parents, a teaching job, a dog, a red brick and taupe suburban home, and a gray minivan. When it all turned upside down, she retired and set out to see the world in an unorthodox way.
Peanut Buttered Roast Squid: A Boomer Travels Solo is a memoir and travel book that begins with a series of losses that set the author on an uncharted path from suburban Michigan to exotic locations around the world. While her story illustrates the redemptive power of change, it is primarily a primer and guidebook for solo travelers who want to explore affordable and exciting locations.

From her initial dive off the deep end with a month-long trip to Japan and Korea, to her determination to escape Michigan winters in Central America, Thomas learns from mistakes, does her pre-voyage research, and shares it all in an inspiring series of informal travel tales. After 30 years of teaching English, she struggles through a Prague-based training program for teaching English as a second language while observing the lasting effects of communist rule. In day trips and long-weekend travels through central Europe, she goes off the most touristic path and remembers the Cold War fears that were part of a mid-century American childhood. In Guatemala and Nicaragua she guides us through friendly ex-pat communities and the layers of Spanish and indigenous cultures. While she wonders at her limited knowledge of the countries’ political struggles recorded in murals, her place in the world gently shifts.

For the tourist who wants a local experience as reflected in a region’s food, street life, folk and fine art, history, and idiosyncrasies, Peanut Buttered Roast Squid provides a quirky and appreciative view of the world. This is not from the perspective of the back-packers who shared the road in Phnom Penh and Copan Ruinas, Bangkok and Krakow, but from an active, older traveler who needs a clean, safe bed and a good meal, preferably with wine or beer.

The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What's Causing It and How to Stop It

The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What's Causing It and How to Stop It Review

A must-read for any parent of a child with peanut allergies, this compelling history explains why this epidemic is popping up in modern nations around the world.

Why is the peanut allergy an epidemic that only seems to be found in Western cultures? Over four million people in the United States alone are affected by peanut allergies, while there are no reported cases in India, a country where peanuts are the primary ingredient in many baby food products. Where did this allergy come from, and does medicine play any kind of role in the phenomenon? After her own child had an anaphylactic reaction to peanut butter, historian Heather Fraser decided to discover the answers to these questions.

In The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, Fraser delves into the history of this allergy, trying to understand why it largely develops in children and studying its relationship with social, medical, political, and economic factors. In an international overview of the subject, she compares the epidemic in the United States to sixteen other geographical locations, finding that in addition to the United States, in countries such as Canada, the UK, Australia, and Sweden there is a one in fifty chance that a child, especially a male, will develop a peanut allergy. Fraser also highlights alternative medicines and explores issues of vaccine safety and other food allergies, making his book a must-read for every parent, teacher, and health professional.

I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother

I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother Review

In this delightfully engaging picture book, our narrator, big brother, uses his boundless imagination to wonder what his new sibling will look like.

Baby brother or sister, will you look like me? I blend from semisweet dark
Daddy chocolate bar and strawberry cream Mama’s milk.
My hair is soft crunchy billows of cotton candy.
I’m your peanut butter big-brother-to-be.

Selina Alko’s lyrical and jazz-like text, matched with the vibrant energy of her illustrations, perfectly captures the excitement of a new baby for an older sibling, while celebrating the genuine love of family.

Selina Alko is the illustrator of My Taxi Ride and My Subway Ride. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Sean Qualls, who is also an illustrator, and their two children.

Mr. Peanut (Vintage Contemporaries)

Mr. Peanut (Vintage Contemporaries) Review

David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can’t imagine a remotely happy life without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead, and David is both deeply distraught and the prime suspect.

The detectives investigating Alice’s suspicious death have plenty of personal experience with conjugal enigmas: Ward Hastroll is happily married until his wife inexplicably becomes voluntarily and militantly bedridden; and Sam Sheppard is especially sensitive to the intricacies of marital guilt and innocence, having decades before been convicted and then exonerated of the brutal murder of his wife.

Still, these men are in the business of figuring things out, even as Pepin’s role in Alice’s death grows ever more confounding when they link him to a highly unusual hit man called Mobius. Like the Escher drawings that inspire the computer games David designs for a living, these complex, interlocking dramas are structurally and emotionally intense, subtle, and intriguing; they brilliantly explore the warring impulses of affection and hatred, and pose a host of arresting questions. Is it possible to know anyone fully, completely?Are murder and marriage two sides of the same coin, each endlessly recycling into the other? And what, in the end, is the truth about love?

Mesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart—and a first novel of the highest order.


From the Hardcover edition.

Peanuts A Treasury of Happiness

Peanuts A Treasury of Happiness Review

Oh joy—here comes the first single-volume treasury containing every one of the eight Happiness Is… books! These are Charles M. Schulz’s most beloved titles, and this attractive 568-page collection is a tremendous value. With facsimile art that looks just like the original, Peanuts® A Treasury of Happiness is as warm, wise, and wonderful as ever.
The Peanuts’ gang has lost none of its popularity through the decades; fans snapped up our collectible doghouse-shaped Box Set, and the first printing completely sold out. This once-in-a-lifetime book is sure to fly out of bookstores too!

 

The Peanuts® A Treasury of Happiness includes:

Christmas is Together-Time

Happiness Is a Sad Song

Happiness Is a Warm Puppy

Home Is on Top of A Dog House

I Need All the Friends I Can Get

Love is Walking Hand in Hand

Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket

Suppertime!