*Beast:*Former hip-hop artist Ebony βThe Beastβ Trent has wrapped her persona around herself like a protective wall of bitterness. Belinda Jansen is confident, intelligent, sexy, andβto Ebony's fascinationβnot the least bit intimidated by Ebonyβs beastly demeanor. Can Beauty truly tame The Beast?
Holy cow: a modern-day dairy tale
β Scribed by David Duchovny
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 360 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0374535906
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**A rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won't soon forget
**
Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that--her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture; but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls, Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright Box God--and what the Box God reveals about something called an "industrial meat farm" shakes Elsie's understanding of her world to its core.
There's only one solution: escape to a better, safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Jerry--excuse me, Shalom--a cranky, Torah-reading pig who's recently converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave (in his own mind, at least) turkey who can't fly, but who can work an iPhone with his beak. Toting stolen...
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