![]() ![]() Sitting was for those in command, walking for the commanded. WHEN LORCAN WALKED, He did so deliberately, slowly, as if to gauge just how deeply his fine shoes sank into the mud. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.įlights and Chimes and Mysterious Times CHAPTER ONE But some things don’t stay dead forever.įans of books like Splendors and Glooms and Doll Bones will find Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times irresistible! The Gearwing grants wishes-or it did, before it was broken-before it was killed. ![]() ![]() His only hope of escape lies with a legendary clockwork bird. Over it all rules the Lady, and the Lady has demanded a new son-a perfect flesh-and-blood child. The people wear goggles to protect their eyes, brass grill insets in their nostrils to filter air, or mechanical limbs to replace missing ones. Londinium is a smoky, dark, and dangerous place, home to mischievous metal fairies and fearsome clockwork dragons that breathe scalding steam. Ten-year-old Jack Foster has stepped through a doorway and into quite a different London. A boy discovers a mysterious mechanical world he may never escape in this steampunk fantasy that’s “a thrill a minute” ( Kirkus Reviews), set in nineteenth-century England. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Jackie Cassada - Library Journal This third omnibus volume of a six-book series presents two classic tales of the doomed albino king of the lost world of Melniboné. Gorgeously illustrated by Steve Ellis, and featuring a foreword by Holly Black, The Sleeping Sorceress is a must-have for all lovers of fantasy. This volume is the third of Del Rey’s definitive collections featuring the tales of Elric and other aspects of Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion, along with essays, a selection of classic artwork, and new material never seen in book form. But the great lords of Law and Chaos have other plans for this tormented adventurer. ![]() Sustained by drugs and the vampiric powers of his black sword, Stormbringer, haunted by visions of a tragic past and a doomed future, Elric wanders the world in quest of oblivion. Last king of a fallen empire whose cruelty was surpassed only by its beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() The mission of the Little House on the Prairie Museum is to encourage a love of reading, Kansas history, the Kansas Prairie, and help keep the memory of Laura Ingalls Wilder alive through the preservation of the Kansas homestead of the Laura Ingalls Wilder. The books depict the adventures of her family as they traveled across American pioneer country by covered wagon. ![]() She then created a series of nine books geared towards children but loved by all. Memories of her time here later inspired her to pen the indelible classic, Little House on the Prairie. The museum stands on the original land where Laura Ingalls Wilder lived with her family in a one-room log cabin in 1870. As a 501(c)3 organization, the goal is to continue to educate the public about the author Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie Books, and life on the Prairie in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. LHOPM is a non-profit historical site and museum dedicated to preserving the homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder, 13 miles Southwest of Independence, Kansas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she was told that she was going to be given as a wedding gift to Martha Washington's granddaughter, Ona made the bold and brave decision to flee to the north, where she would be a fugitive. ![]() Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington's "favored" dower slave. "A brilliant work of US history." - School Library Journal (starred review) "Gripping." - BCCB (starred review) "Accessible.Necessary." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A School Library Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life-now available as a young reader's edition In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons when they were the First Family-and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape from one of the nation's Founding Fathers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. ![]() Mencken wrote of him, " there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. In 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.įirst edition of Lewis’ later masterpiece. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has a genuine but funny take on faith."- The Boston Globe "If I told you that Elna Baker had written a frank and self-deprecating memoir about dating which is unlike any other frank and self-deprecating memoir about dating, you probably would not believe me. Baker is a fish-out-of-water Mormon NYU grad who loses 80 pounds, tries acting and stand-up comedy and, as you learn in the acknowledgments, ends up chummy with Elizabeth Swados and Ira Glass. Baker is both self-absorbed and generous, whip-smart and nave she apologizes for none of it."- People, "An original, witty piece of celibate chick lit. A peachy, astute, witty 27-year-old Mormon who has never had sex."- Louise France, The Observer (England ) "A funny, touching story about coming to the big city, where she loses the certainty of her beliefs, if not her way."- Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News "A wickedly funny debut. "An original, witty piece of celibate chick lit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has to date created covers for nearly 40 books including Lauren St. To find out more, visit her website at David Dean studied illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University and has been working as an illustrator since 1999. When not rescuing leopards and dolphins, she is a full-time valet to her rescued, and not in the least demanding, Bengal cat, Max. A passionate conservationist, Lauren is an Ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, a patron for horse sanctuary, Mane Chance, and the founder of Authors4Oceans. Along with her veterinary nursing training, it served as perfect research for her Kat Wolfe mystery series and The Snow Angel, a standalone MG novel. Before becoming a children's author, she worked as a journalist for The Sunday Times, writing about sports, music and spies. ![]() Dead Man's Cove, the first in her Laura Marlin Mystery series, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. ![]() Lauren St John grew up surrounded by horses, cats, dogs and a pet giraffe on a farm and game reserve in Zimbabwe, the inspiration for her bestselling White Giraffe and One Dollar Horse series, as well as her YA horse novel, The Glory. Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction.Children's / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories.Children's / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() She writes with detail on her career in psychiatric nursing and gives real insight in to what it was like to work in this field as recently as the 1980's. However I needn't have worried, I actually enjoyed this book more than the follow-up, Jo's account of working in growing up and eventually becoming a psychiatric nurse were gripping and very interesting to read. Prior to reading this I must admit that I was a bit put off as this book doesn't cover the section of her life she is most known for and the only section of her life that I knew up until I read this book. This book covers the early years of Jo's life up until she became a stand-up comedian. I read this book and then read the follow up back to back based upon how much I enjoyed reading this. ![]() ![]() The tone of the novel is generally light and hopeful though the story describes dark events, including an assassination plot against the royal family of the kingdom of Sleyne. The limited third-person narrative is told from the perspective of eleven-year-old Princess Celie who possesses a strong emotional tie to a magical castle that can change its shape at will. The timeframe spans approximately one month with no specific mention of the time of year during which the action occurs, though it is presumably the summer season. Tuesdays at the Castle takes place in a medieval European fantasy realm. Standalone titles include Silver in the Blood and Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow. ![]() ![]() In addition to the Tuesdays at the Castle series, she writes the Rose Legacy series, the Twelve Dancing Princesses series, and the Dragon Slippers trilogy. George is a New York Times bestselling author who pens multiple series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We're accustomed to perceiving our world and all the objects in it by naming them. Naming is the origin of all particular things." The second line of Mitchell's translation opens up the nature of the dysfunction. ![]() It's the compulsive need to answer unanswerable questions that is, in Taoist philosophy, the mind's great dysfunction. If that first line resembles the famous zen koan "what is the sound of one hand clapping?", it is because it's derived from a parallel philosophical tradition, and exists to fulfil the same purpose. ![]() Many readers derive more anger than comfort from the philosophy of the Tao Te Ching. Mitchell does a remarkable job of interpreting the more abstruse metaphors of the fourth-century mind for modern audiences - although, this does of course leave the possibility that it is actually the wisdom of Mitchell, not Laozi, shining through these words. The third is from the most popular modern translation by Stephen Mitchell. The tao that can be told, is not the eternal Tao. The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. Take this collection of more than 100 versions of the famous opening verse: Texts as old as the Tao Te Ching are subject to the problems of both translation and interpretation. ![]() |