New Releases by Linda Bailey

Mamma Toad does everything she can think of to save her unruly brood from Fox''s frying pan, including offering herself. She eventually persuades Fox to try her own secret recipe for Toad-in-a-Hole, a tasty treat that they all end up enjoying together. The secret? No toads! Full color.

The thesis explores current debates about postfeminism, social class and new forms of femininity within the context of young women''s social drinking practices. A pervasive culture of intoxication has emerged amongst contemporary young drinkers where drunkenness is constructed as integral to a good night out. This is played out in highly visible public displays where gender, femininities and class are performed, positioned and reconfigured. The culture of intoxication therefore provides a productive arena to undertake an in depth analysis of how postfeminism works and how different social groups of young women navigate gender relations, new formations of femininity and class within this terrain. Data are in the form of middle-class and working-class young women''s accounts of their social drinking in bars and clubs within a relatively small city in the South West of England. The data was collected through 2 phases of semi-structured focus groups with 6 friendship groups of 24 women between 19-24 years of age. A Foucauldian discourse analysis was employed to identify key discourses in young women''s talk, focusing on the intersection between postfeminism and the culture of intoxication. These young women are called on to occupy positions of excess through drinking practices and display a hyper-sexualised form of femininity. This produces an impossible dilemma for young women. The young women drew on four discourses to construct drunkenness as a cultural norm. Within these discourses a particular level of drunkenness was constituted as highly desirable but also as a precarious risky state. Femininity was defined around a ''right'' look and a ''wrong'' look within two interlinking discourses and the young women drew on discourses that re-inscribed the gendered politics of drinking. The working-class and middle-class young women drew on different discourses to articulate class differentiation and class was reproduced through highly coded terms. There was an absence of feminist discourse throughout the young women''s accounts and this was involved with re-producing the sexual double standard and with constructing classed postfeminist subjectivities. The thesis concludes by considering the implications of a new classed femininity within an absence of feminist discourse in the context of postfeminism.

When Stanley the dog''s people bring home a cat, he is miffed. Nobody asked him!

Behind the Closet Door is an electrifying trip through the world of love, money, power and abuse. Shera, a beautiful small-town girl, suddenly finds herself in a world of unseen passions, exotic trips, and lavish gifts. Most of all, she meets a man who seems to love her beyond all reason. Her newfound world is shattered as she takes a very slow downhill spiral into despair. Shera fights for survival as she slowly finds the courage to cut free from the unseen ropes that bind her. From the outside, no one can see the nightmare beyond the fairytale. Surviving it and breaking free from it is her only chance.

For fifty years the animals on Stolski''s farm have played their hearts out for the Stolski Cup --- the dream of every hockey team all over the northland. And every year the Farm Team has lost to the nastiest, smelliest, snarlingest bunch of varmints ever to don skates --- the Bush League Bandits. As soon as the puck drops for this year''s playoff game, the Bandits, playing as dirty as ever, take an early lead. A Bandit porcupine named Needles starts ramming Farm Team players, while the weasels slash and spear. But the Farm Team''s goalie Big George blocks some tough shots, while Billy the goat and Vera the goose net three goals to tie things up. Then the Bandits bring in a bruiser of a substitute player so big and mean that these plucky underdogs could be in for a serious mauling. From the award-winning team of Linda Bailey and Bill Slavin and packed with on-ice action and laughs, this is the picture book hockey fans of every age have been waiting for.

In this fun follow-up to Stanley''s Party, Stanley discovers a way out of the yard and soon joins other dogs are on the lam. Soon they''re off to have the kind of fun they can''t find in a yard--chasing tomcats, sampling tasty garbage, and soaking fire hydrants. Full color.

Cochonnette pourra-t-elle enfin dormir! Les jeunes enfants s''amuseront à compter les cochonnets qui, l''un après l''autre, viennent envahir la chambre de la pauvre Cochonnette. Tous les moyens sont bons pour la garder éveillée : no 2 allume la lumière; no 3 regarde la télévision toute la nuit et no 4 est un as de la jonglerie! Et il en reste encore 6! Avec un nouveau cochonnet qui fait son entrée chaque minute, c''est le délire dans la chambre de la petite Cochonnette no 1. Entendra-t-elle enfin les mots doux : Bonne nuit, Cochonnette! Des illustrations adorables et un texte en rimes que les petits voudront relire, jour après jour, avant d''aller au lit.

Count the pigs as they help the one little pig go to sleep.

Historic Photos of Cincinnati captures the history of The Queen City in still photography from various collections held at the Cincinnati Museum Center. The book follows life, government, educations and events spanning two centuries. It captures unique and rare scenes through the original lens of hundreds of historic photographs. Published in a large format with multiple links on heavy art paper, these images portray the building of a unique and prosperous city.

Join the Binkertons as they return to the Good Times Travel Agency only to find themselves deep-frozen in the Ice Age.

A young athlete overcomes setbacks and finds her own way to shine.

Join the Binkertons as they go on a time travel adventure back to ancient Egypt.

Stephanie a enfin l''occasion de mener sa propre enquête : sa mère, qui travaille pour une association vouée au recyclage, s''est fait voler l''argent d''une collecte et risque de perdre son emploi. Dans le voisinage, les suspects ne manquent pas ; en particulier, le propriétaire d''un fast-food peu soucieux de ses déchets. Et, parce que les indices sont parfois dans de drôles d''endroits, un bon détective ne doit pas hésiter à retrousser ses manches et à se salir les mains. Quoique...

An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Greece fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.

In this Stevie Diamond Mystery, Stevie and her partner discover that a rash of accidents has a movie cast and crew believing the production is cursed.

Based on a true story of a young girl growing up on a northern prairie farm in the 1930s.

Justin, Emma et la petite Lea esperaient visiter les prochains Jeux olympiques. Mais voilà qu''ils se retrouvent plutot dans la Grece antique. Rien d''etonnant avec l''Agence Prends ton temps! Les Thibodeau parviennent a se faufiler dans le stade olympique, mais les anciens Jeux sont differents de ce a quoi ils s''attendaient…

An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about the Vikings fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.

Combats barbares, voyages en drakkar, pillage de villes et de villages? bienvenue au temps des Vikings! Emma et Justin s''etaient pourtant bien jure de ne pas remettre les pieds a l''agence Prend ton temps? mais la petite Lea les entraine encore une fois dans une perilleuse aventure dans le passe.

Join Josh, Emma and Libby as they go back to the Middle Ages.

An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Egypt fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.