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When we were very young6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() So I thought to myself one fine day, walking with my friend Christopher Robin, "Moo rhymes with Pooh! Surely there is a bit of poetry to be got out of that?" Well, I should have told you that there are six cows who come down to Pooh's lake every afternoon to drink, and of course they say "Moo" as they come. Christopher Robin who feeds this swan in the mornings, has given him the name of "Pooh." This is a very fine name for a swan, because, if you call him and he doesn't come (which is a thing swans are good at), then you can pretend that you were just saying "Pooh!" to show how little you wanted him. Milne (JanuJanuary 31, 1956) tells us in his first book of children's verse When We Were Very Young, a particular friend to Milne's young son. It might surprise you to learn that Winnie the Pooh was a swan before he was a bear. ![]()
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Eight perfect murders review6/29/2023 ![]() Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History.īut no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookstore in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack - which he titled "Eight Perfect Murders" - chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie’s ABC Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin’s Death Trap, A. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the hugely talented author of Before She Knew Him comes a chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders. ![]()
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Changeling by Yasmine Galenorn6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, each book is so short, (it's like a single chapter of a Harry Potter) that the narrative arc is predictable and hasty, and makes one wonder if these were paid by the book, or that the series was extended way beyond what should have been its natural life span by the publisher, or what. There is no psychological development of the main characters (and the secondary characters are quite shallowly described and hard to distinguish throughout the series even the more promising and believable ones, BFFs Bree & Robbie are essentially dropped from the books by #4) a lot of the narrative suspenseful points are all "tell" and no "show", the conclusions are hurried and tied up nicely-except for a minimum of predictable suspense that the publisher made you have to draw people through the series. The first 2-3 books in this series are addictive, a fresh "modern-teen" POV in the tired genre of witches/kids with supernatural powers finding themselves (and the wonder of Wicca) among families/communities who "don't get it".Īfter #3, it goes downhill. ![]()
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Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel6/29/2023 ![]() Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box. The end papers and pages are clean without marks, tears or inscriptions. Giving Up the Ghost is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantels wry, shocking and uniquely unusual five-part autobiography of childhood, ghosts, illness and family. The spine has some shelf wear to the top and bottom edge and has some creases to the top. The boards are clean with some darkening to the top corner of the front board. ![]() This is an Uncorrected Proof in very good condition. The book begins in 1995 with the death of her step-father, travels back to 1950s in the second part in which she recounts her early childhood days, the third part tells of her move into a haunted house, the gain of a step-father and the family's flee to start a new life, her teenage years are recounted in Part 4 and in the final part she tells of the circumstances that led her to become childless and how her earlier life has haunted her life an a writer. Giving Up The Ghost, Hilary Mantel, Fourth Estate, 2003, Uncorrected Non-Fiction Proof Written by the two times winner of the Booker Prize, this is the author's wry, shocking and uniquely unusual five-part autobiography of childhood, ghosts, illness and family. ![]()
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Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() OL88875W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.78 Pages 200 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:079530952X Urn:lcp:aspectsofnovel00fors:lcpdf:488aef9a-5fb5-40f6-8d08-7c909db16854 For the purposes of his study, Forster defines the novel as 'any fictitious prose work over 50,000 words.' The seven aspects offered for discussion are the story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:35:11 Boxid IA114416 Boxid_2 CH108801 Camera Canon 5D City San Diego Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier ![]()
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Josiah bancroft senlin ascends6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Their train shared a direction with a host of caravans, each a slithering line of wheels, hooves and feet. ![]() The ground was the color of rusted chains, and the dust of it clung to everything. They descended through shale foothills, which he said reminded him of a field of shattered blackboards, through cypress trees, which she said looked like open parasols, and finally they came upon the arid basin. Already, they were further from home than they had ever been. First, they had crossed pastureland, spotted with fattening cattle and charmless hamlets, and then their train had climbed through a range of snow-veined mountains where condors roosted in nests large as haystacks. It was a four-day journey by train from the coast to the desert where the Tower of Babel rose like a tusk from the jaw of the Earth. Everyman’s Guide to the Tower of Babel, I. Whimsy, adventure, and romance are the Tower’s real trade. The Tower of Babel is most famous for the silk fineries and marvelous airships it produces, but visitors will discover other intangible exports. ![]()
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Francis fitzgerald fire in the lake6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() She describes the history and culture of the country – the traditional, ancestor worshipping villages and the corrupt, crowded cities – the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, between Catholics and Buddhists, and then the disruption created by French colonialism. With a clarity and authority unrivalled by any book before or since, Fire in the Lake shows how the United States military utterly and tragically misinterpreted the situation in this small, isolated, mostly agricultural Asian society. The war was then far from over, and was proving increasingly divisive. This landmark study was the first to look at Vietnam itself, as it was before the war, and to analyse the massive cultural differences between the two societies which doomed the American intervention to failure from the outset.įitzGerald first went to Vietnam as a reporter in 1966, and this work is based on years of travel and research. ![]() ![]() Winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Winner of the National Book Award - Winner of the Bancroft Prizeįrances FitzGerald's magisterial account of the war in Vietnam was garlanded with awards when it was first published in 1972. ![]()
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A darker shade of magic box set6/29/2023 ![]() The first book, A Darker Shade of Magic, sets up the world-building and introduces the main characters. Don’t miss out on this bestselling young adult series, buy the trilogy now! Together, they get entangled in a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to destroy all the parallel Londons. However, Kell also has a secret job as a smuggler, and it is during one of his smuggling missions that he meets Lila Bard, a thief from Grey London, a world without magic. He is from Red London, a prosperous and magical world where he serves as the adopted son of the royal family. ![]() ![]() The series's protagonist is Kell, a powerful magician who can travel between parallel universes. The three books in the series are A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, and A Conjuring of Light. The series is set in multiple parallel universes, each with its own version of London. ![]() A Darker Shade of Magic is a trilogy of fantasy novels written by V.E Schwab. ![]()
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![]() The Magician's Nephew, the penultimate book to be published, but the last to be written, was completed in 1954. The Chronicles of Narnia is considered a classic of children's literature and is Lewis's best-selling work, having sold 120 million copies in 47 languages.Īlthough Lewis originally conceived what would become The Chronicles of Narnia in 1939 (the picture of a Faun with parcels in a snowy wood has a history dating to 1914), he did not finish writing the first book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe until 1949. The books span the entire history of Narnia, from its creation in The Magician's Nephew to its eventual destruction in The Last Battle. Except in The Horse and His Boy, the protagonists are all children from the real world who are magically transported to Narnia, where they are sometimes called upon by the lion Aslan to protect Narnia from evil. It narrates the adventures of various children who play central roles in the unfolding history of the Narnian world. The series is set in the fictional realm of Narnia, a fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts and talking animals. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 19, The Chronicles of Narnia has been adapted for radio, television, the stage, film and video games. The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven high fantasy novels by British author C. S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It was followed by The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future and Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, both USA Today bestsellers. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, published in 2002, was the first complete graphic novel spin-off from the Captain Underpants series and appeared at #6 on the USA Today bestseller list for all books, both adult and children’s, and was also a New York Times bestseller. He made many other books before being awarded the 1998 California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath, which was published in 1994, and in 1997 he won the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy. He won a national competition in 1986 and the prize was the publication of his first book, World War Won. In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to illustrate and write. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books–the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. ![]() Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. ![]() |