When Dewey and Bundy see the sign about the new summer soccer league, they're psyched. Then they read the fine print and learn about the contest: Whoever draws the best team logo will be named captain of his or her team and see the logo reproduced on team t-shirts.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 15 October 2011
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Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
After years of bullying others as a high-flying public relations boss, Agatha takes early retirement to a picture-perfect village in the Cotswolds. And how better to make friends than by entering the local quiche-making competition? To ensure first prize Agatha buys her entry at a London delicatessen. Alas, Agatha's perfect product is soon exposed - as not only store-bought but poisoned. The contest judge succumbs after eating it, and with him go Agatha's chances of rural bliss - unless she can discover the real poisoner...
His reputation freshly restored after his actions in France, Lymond travels to the Isle of Malta, home to the Crusading Order of Knights Hospitaller of St John, just before the Ottoman Turks lay it under siege. There he becomes embroiled in a contest of wits with a man who may or may not be a living saint, and discovers a secret that will transform that intellectual contest into a visceral struggle for his native Scotland.
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd and edited in London. Its average circulation tops 1.2 million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America. The newspaper aims "to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.
Judy Moody did not set out to save the world. She set out to win a contest. A Band-Aid contest. It all started with the Crazy-Strip contest - and the dream that she, Judy Moody, might one day see her very own adhesive-bandage design covering the scraped knees of thousands. But when her "Heal the World" motif merits only an honorable mention, Judy Moody realizes it's time to set her sights on something bigger. Class 3T is studying the environment, and Judy is amazed to learn about the destruction of the rain forest, the endangered species (not) in her own backyard, and her own family's crummy recycling habits.
