| Title | : | The Lives of the Novelists |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 184668157X |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 818 |
This is a complete history of fiction in English, it provides the lives of some 282 novelists writing in English, from the genre s 17th century origins to the present....
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| Title | : | Plague Land (Somershill Manor Mystery, #1) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1605986739 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 |
Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by the Plague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate He finds the years of pestilence and neglect have changed the old place dramatically, not to mention the attitude of the surviv Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at s...
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| Title | : | The Face in the Frost |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 158754105X |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 |
The Face in the Frost is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative story of two separate kingdoms of wizards, stymied by a power that is beyond their control A tall, skinny misfit of a wizard named Prospero lives in the Southern Kingdom a patchwork of feuding duchies and small manors, all loosely loyal to one figurehead king Both he and an imp The Face in the Frost is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative story of two separate kingdoms of wizards...
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| Title | : | Marabou Stork Nightmares |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0393315630 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 |
The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspotting and The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as the best thing that has happened to British writing in a decade London Sunday Times This audacious novel is a brilliant and literal head trip of a book that brings us into the wildly active, albeit coma beset, mind of Roy Strang, whose hallucinatory quest to e The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspotting and The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as the best thing that has...
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| Title | : | Through the Tunnel |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0886823463 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 |
Do your students enjoy a good laugh Do they like to be scared Or do they just like a book with a happy ending No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.We ve taken some of the world s best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them the individual attention they deserve Each book in the series has Do your students enjoy a good laugh Do they like to be scared Or do they just like a book with a happy ending No matter what their taste, ...
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| Title | : | August Sander |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0262192489 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 431 |
A landmark in the history of photography, Citizens of the Twentieth Century completes August Sander s most important and sustained photographic enterprise, an archive of twentieth century man These emphatically objective photographs from the years of the Kaisers, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and the early Federal Republic make up an unprecedented document of both A landmark in the history of photography, Citizens of the Twentieth Century completes August Sander s most important and sustained phot...
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| Title | : | In the Shadow of the Sun King (Darkness to Light, #1) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 159554626X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 366 |
Madeleine Clavell beautiful, fiercely faithful, andan outlaw.As Huguenots in 17th Century France, Madeleine Clavell and her family defy French law daily Though they live in comfort and happiness in the French countryside, their Protestant Christianity is considered traitorous But they are wary Persecution is surely at hand.Then King Louis XIV s dragoons arrive, forc Madeleine Clavell beautiful, fiercely faithful, andan outlaw.As Huguenots in 17th Century France, Madeleine Clavell and her family ...
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| Title | : | The Little House Guidebook |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0064461777 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 |
In her best selling Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder described in loving detail the many places she lived in while growing up on the American frontier All the little houses Laura wrote about, and even some of the little houses Laura lived in but didn t write about, have been turned into sites and museums that thousands of fans visit each year Inside The Little H In her best selling Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder described in loving detail the many places she lived in while growing up on ...
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| Title | : | Words |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1433671700 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 |
I collect words I keep them in a box in my mind I d like to keep them in a real box, something pretty, maybe a shoe box covered with flowered wrapping paper Whenever I wanted, I d open the box and pick up the papers, reading and feeling the words all at once Then I could hide the box But the words are safer in my mind There, he can t take them Ten year old Kaylee W I collect words I keep them in a box in my mind I d like to keep them in a real 4.5 2281
| Title | : | Ecotopia |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0553348477 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 181 |
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell, Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet and our future Ecotopia was found A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, ...
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| Title | : | One Small Boat |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 158542465X |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 |
Black marker line bottom page edges Later printing hardback with worn dust cover....
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| Title | : | Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0691020167 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 |
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy, was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long been preoccupied After publication, the Press was barely able to keep up with demand, and the book has since gon Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had co...
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| Title | : | Nicolas |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1634761898 |
| Format | : | ebook |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 |
Betrayed by a lover, Jamie rents an isolated cabin on Lake Huron, wanting only to be left alone Instead, he is pulled from his solitary existence as an artist and tumbles headlong into the legend of Saint Nicolas.As a young man, Nicolas accidentally killed a man intent on murdering three children, only to have the man s malicious spirit rise up against him Fleeing throug Betrayed by a lover, Jamie rents an isolated cabin on Lake Huron, wanting only to be left alone Instead, he is pulled from his...
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| Title | : | Black Thorn, White Rose |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0809557754 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 381 |
Black Thorn, White Rose...
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| Title | : | My New Friend Is So Fun! (Elephant & Piggie, #21) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1423179587 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 60 |
Gerald is careful Piggie is not Piggie cannot help smiling Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to Gerald and Piggie are best friends In My New Friend Is So Fun Piggie is having so much fun with her new friend But where does that leave Gerald...
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| Title | : | A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0060586621 |
| Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 407 |
The second in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.Something is coming after Tiffany Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic She expects spells and magic not chores and ill tempered nanny goats Surely there must be to witchcraft than this What Tiffany doesn t know is that an insidious, disembodied creature i The second in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.Something is coming after Tiffany Tiffany Aching is r...
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| Title | : | Romeo and Juliet |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0486275574 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 |
One of Shakespeare s most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud between their families The play contains some of Shakespeare s most beautiful and lyrical love poetry and is perhaps the finest celebration of the joys of young love ever written Th One of Shakespeare s most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star crossed lov...
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