![]() ![]() ![]() Over several stormy days, Veronica and Stoker discover that everyone is concealing painful secrets and ulterior motives. In order to finally discover what has become of Rosamund, Malcolm has gathered everyone who was present on the day she went missing: his estranged family, his long-time staff, and Tiberius, who harbored a secret passion for the mysterious Rosamund. Maddern’s Isle is owned by Tiberius’s oldest friend, Malcolm Romilly, whose bride, Rosamund, disappeared three years earlier, on their wedding day. Incidentally, Veronica hopes to sort out her disturbing feelings for Tiberius’s brother, Revelstoke “Stoker” Templeton-Vane-a plan that’s complicated when Stoker invites himself along. In March 1888, Veronica Speedwell agrees to accompany Tiberius, Viscount Templeton-Vane, to a windswept Cornish isle, the home of a rare butterfly, in Raybourn’s deliciously gothic fourth mystery featuring the adventurous lepidopterist (after 2018’s A Treacherous Curse). ![]()
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![]() By the turn of the last page, children will immediately begin imagining the next adventure. Sweeps readers away on the very best kind of journey … a stirring sense of adventure … will draw girls and boys back to it again and againĬaptivating … for a wide range of ages. Show Less Product DetailsĪn unusually deep and extremely powerful reading experience. Can it also guide her home and to happiness? In this exquisitely illustrated book, an ordinary child is launched on an extraordinary, magical journey towards her greatest and most rewarding adventure of all. ![]() ![]() ![]() who knows where? When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound. The winner of the prestigious Caldecott Honor, and described by the New York Times as 'a masterwork', Aaron Becker's stunning, wordless picture book debut about self-determination and unexpected friendship follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. ![]() Be swept away on an elaborate flight of fancy in this Caldecott award-winning, wondrously illustrated picture book about self-determination and unexpected friendship. Num Pages: 40 pages, chiefly illustrations (colour). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom. Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events. She learns about a hidden treasure, which she knows will save her family - if she can find it. Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from the tenements, who supports her family as a hotel maid when tragedy strikes and her father can no longer work. ![]() ![]() ![]() What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?įrances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. ![]() Things were very different, I guess, but that's all over now. ![]() Last year - before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of A-Levels and university applications and the fact that one day I really will have to start talking to people - I had friends. 'The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age' The Times The acclaimed novels from Alice Oseman, the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless Alice Oseman Four-Book Collection Box Set (Solitaire, Radio Silence, I Was Born For This, Loveless) Alice Oseman € 51.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her lover, Wick, is an ex-Company employee who makes biotech in his swimming pool laboratory. Our protagonist, Rachel, is a scavenger in the dangerous post-Company landscape. ![]() Only three named humans inhabit this world. There are artificial living creatures such as feral children with wings and poisoned claws, and transgenic species that can morph from human to bear. Diagnostic beetles can enter a human system and heal illnesses and wounds. These include humans, mutants, animals and hybrid creatures which are revealed to be failed or aborted biotech experiments. In a world laid waste by a biotech company called, simply, “Company”, Mord, a massive flying bear more than five storeys high, is terrorising survivors. Now, splicing together the DNAs of Godzilla and Frankenstein, VanderMeer gives us Borne. The alien intelligence that infected Area X in the Southern Reach trilogy was capable of such a profound biochemical mimicry that it shone a harsh light on the primitive nature of human cognition. J eff VanderMeer’s deeply strange and brilliant new novel extends the meditation on the central question of non-human sentience in his earlier work. ![]() ![]() ![]() One door leads to heaven and one door leads to hell. ![]() Here’s the basic idea: You’re met with a choice between two identical doors with an identical guard at each. It is probably most well known for having a role in the 1986 movie Labyrinth. The riddle was coined by mathematician Raymond Smullyan and goes by many names-“A Fork in the Road,” “Heaven and Hell,” and “The Two Doors,” among them. Now string them together and answer me this, which creature are you unwilling to kiss? - The Sphinx 5. Next tell me what’s the last to mend, the middle of middle and the end of end.įinally give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard to find word. Harry is tasked with cracking this puzzle:įirst think of a person who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Rowling gives a nod to the Sphinx by putting one in the maze during the Triwizard Tournament. The Harry Potter series is teeming with playful language and cleverness, so it’s only right that a juicy riddle made its way into the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet certain novels remain intertwined with a particular frontispiece or cover design. Therefore, the illustrated novel is not a work graced by a single decorated cover or frontispiece. The term illustrated novel refers to an extended narrative with multiple images that, together with the text, produce meaning. Illustrations accompany religious texts, works of nonfiction, poetry, and narrative prose fiction, but the illustrated novel developed in the eighteenth century, primarily in France and England, and reached its height in the nineteenth century. The history of illustration ranges from ancient Egyptian papyrus to twenty-first-century computer-generated images. The Encyclopedia of the Novel - Peter Melville Logan 2014 Illustrated Novel ![]() ![]() Philip is always being rude and sneaking up on her. My favorite part about her is that she is always resilient to stay in character and has a warm glow. She has a lot of cool spy gadgets and gizmos, and she knows how to use them. My favorite character is Daisy because she has a bright and sunny personality, or so it seems. For example, how can Daisy pull taffy and make it look easy? How can Logan control bees? Why is Philip so rude? And why is Miles so obsessed with the afterlife? These questions stumped me while I was reading the book, but you’ll have to read it yourself to find out the answers. ![]() ![]() As the author Wendy Mass says, “The secret unravels as the book goes along.” Many strange things happen throughout the book which make the reader question what is going on. ![]() As they go along, they make friends and enemies, and recall things about their past. In this mouth watering book, a narrator explains each person’s perspective. There are five main characters named Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy. The Candymaker s by Wendy Mass is a book about children all competing in a candy making competition. I ran up to my room and took the book, and I was hooked right from the first sentence. Then one day I remembered my brother read a book by Wendy Mass, called The Candymakers. I was a Wendy Mass fan from the very beginning, but I had finished all of her books that I knew about. ![]() This book has many twists and turns that will make you wonder what is real and what is not. The Candymakers, by award winning author Wendy Mass, is an amazing book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Numerous English translations of the work have been made, the first by William Caxton in 1480. Today the Metamorphoses continues to inspire and be retold through various media. There was a resurgence of attention to his work towards the end of the 20th century. Numerous episodes from the poem have been depicted in works of sculpture, painting, and music, especially during the Renaissance. One of the most influential works in Western culture, the Metamorphoses has inspired such authors as Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Shakespeare. Ovid took inspiration from the genre of metamorphosis poetry and some of the Metamorphoses derives from earlier treatment of the same myths however, he diverged significantly from all of his models. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar in a mythico-historical framework comprising over 250 myths, 15 books, and 11,995 lines.Īlthough it meets some of the criteria for an epic, the poem defies simple genre classification because of its varying themes and tones. The Metamorphoses ( Latin: Metamorphōsēs, from Ancient Greek: μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. Hayden White Rare Book Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz Title page of 1556 edition published by Joannes Gryphius (decorative border added subsequently). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She finds herself checking her privilege at a fast-food restaurant. She considers online memes in this time of COVID-19. The essays are also nimble ruminations on vignettes from her daily life. ![]() Intimations is as personal as it is political, covering Trump, Black Lives Matter, and Dominic Cummings’ breaking of his own Lock Down rules. Her new collection of meditations on this peculiar time of liberty and captivity beguiles with its meticulous thought patterns, alluring felicities and rhapsodic turns of phrase. Fortunately, the New York-based British author Zadie Smith is as deft an essayist as she is a novelist. A global pandemic and a lock down forcing us to re-examine and reconfigure our parameters of normality would seem tailor-made for analysis via the interrogative gaze of the essay genre. ![]() |