Best Selling Books by Ann Martin

Karen''s class is putting together a celebrity-family cookbook. Karen enters one of her grandmother''s secret recipes--without permission--and learns a lesson in truthfulness.

Uses the metaphor of a bucket filled with good feelings show how easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love on a daily basis.

A brief presentation of the life of the zoologist who brought chimpanzee behavior to the attention of the world.

A real-time spectrogram instrument has been developed to provide an inexpensive and field-portable instrument for the analysis of animal sounds. The instrument integrates a computer graphics display package with a PC-AT computer equipped with an A/D board and a digital signal processing board. It provides a real-time spectrogram display of frequencies up to 50kHz in a variety of modes: a running display, a signal halted on screen, successive expanded views of the signal. The signal amplitude may also be displayed. Portions of the scrolled data may be saved to disk file for future viewing, or as part of a database collection. The screen display may be manipulated to adapt to special needs. Program source listings are included in the text. Keywords: Computer systems, Spectrography, Computer programs. (cp).

At the bottom of Miss Heatherbell’s garden lives the last Wodge in the world. Nancy and Dom’s photographer father is in the Antarctic, and Nancy and Dom are not. They’re staying with the eccentric Miss Heatherbell and her hordes of free-range guinea pigs. But Miss Heatherbell’s house is large and mysterious, full of surprising rooms, odd objects, and a creature called Wodge. With Miss Heatherbell and Mrs Pikelet soon leaving for Sydney, Nancy and Dom must deal with a very annoying Mrs Biddlethorpe, a very hungry Wodge, a very bad-tempered fairy, and a very uninvited bulldozer – all the while rehearsing for the school concert. What could go wrong? Packed with daring escapades and oodles of laughs. With hints of classic adventure stories like Narnia and The Magic Faraway Tree, Wodge and Friends: Take the Stage is also bursting with outlandish and distinctly modern humour – perfect for 7+ fans of laugh-out-loud adventures such as How to Train Your Dragon.

The author recounts his experiences as Director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, Secretary of the Navy, arms control negotiator, and Ambassador at Large

On Christmas Eve