Supports the Common Core State Standards. This is a stand-alone read, but if you would like to explore more of the Narnian realm, pick up The Horse and His Boy, the third book in The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis's classic fantasy series, which has been drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over sixty years. A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. Now younger children can share the magical experience, stepping into a world of enchantment that will forever lure them back. In the fifty years since it was written, The Lion, the Witch And the Wardrobe has become one of the great classics of childrens literature. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. Lewis’s classic bestseller, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, perfect for storytime with the youngest readers Now available for the first time ever as a board book, a whole new generation of readers will fall in love with The Chronicles of Narnia in this abridged retelling of C.S. If they fail, the Witch will make them her prisoners forever. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change. This edition features cover art by Cliff Nielsen and interior black-and-white illustrations by the series' original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.įour adventurous siblings-Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie-step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. A mass-market paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia.
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It snares you early and draws you inexorably to one of the most nerve-shattering finales in years. Better than Rosemary's Baby, The Other, and The Exorcist." - Hartford Courant This edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. The basis for a classic 1976 film adaptation and an acknowledged influence on Stephen King's The Shining, Burnt Offerings is one of the most original and scariest haunted house novels ever written. As the suspense builds towards a revelation of what really lies behind that locked door, the Rolfes will discover that their cheap vacation rental comes at a terrible cost. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals.īut Mrs. Burnt Offerings 1976 Overview Synopsis Credits Photos & Videos Film Details Articles & Reviews Notes Brief Synopsis A family moves into a haunted house that seems to be stealing their lives. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. Hawaii, the Outer Banks, a tropical island – it really doesn’t matter as long as there is sand, sun, and a beautiful beach that I can imagine myself on.Ī great beach read for me is also an epic love story that just captures my heart, maybe tears it up a bit, and sews it back together with a perfect happy ending. Preferences on what makes a great beach read probably differ from person to person but for me, a great beach read is one that whisks me away to a beautiful summer destination. I want to lounge on a comfy chair, dig my feet in the sand or surf and settle in with a book that is absolutely perfect for reading on the beach. These beach reads are what summer is all about and what I want to experience each and every year. If I start to second guess whether I should plan a trip to the beach in the summer, I just have to take a look at this book list and remember that yes, yes I do! There is nothing I am more terrified of than being in another person’s thrall like that. I’ll be straight up, the romantic politics of BGCSISDAW horrify me. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept was a glorious means of understanding the fury, focus and frailty that arises when we see the future we had imagined thwarted. And I often find that the clean, fresh, pared back language that is favoured in contemporary writing doesn’t do justice to the messiness of these deep, but reasonable, feelings. There was Jenny Hval’s Paradise Rot last week, Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood, and Beverley Farmer’s Alone. These books have allowed me to sit with some fairly deep and conflicting emotions that I’ve had to process over the last twelve months, feelings related to my position as a Dedicated Spinster, feelings related to the likelihood that I won’t be a mother (old, single, precarious employment/no mat leave) and the reality that even if I do, my father, who is very unwell, won’t ever meet any of my children (beyond the furbaby, Dr Felix). I’ve been reading a lot of florid fiction of late. Her obvious discomfort in crowds or groups of people makes her answers short, and while this can be telling, it also limits what the audience is able to glean about her. On the other hand, the nature of Frances’ character and her lack of vulnerability at the beginning of the story necessitates a certain closed-off attitude that can be hard to identify with when it’s seen only on-screen and from the outside. The dialogue and prose both flow naturally, and that smooth flow from plot beat to plot beat is mimicked in the TV series as well. Dialogue is an important part of the book, but author Sally Rooney made the interesting and notable decision to leave out quotation marks, merging the plot seamlessly with discussions between characters. The novel is an easy read, fittingly written in a conversational tone from the point of view of Frances ( Alison Oliver). The faithful adaptation doesn’t just get most of the facts right. Small changes like Bobbi’s ( Sasha Lane) nationality changing from Irish to American, turning emails into texts, and slight differences in character interactions change the dynamic between them only slightly for the most part, and the plot is largely the same: A love square between four complicated people who gradually try to find their ways again. As far as book to film adaptations go, the 2022 BBC miniseries Conversations With Friends stays refreshingly true to the source material with only a few minor alterations. 'A delightful, romantic romp that also deftly examines class and privilege, Half a Soul is the definition of a comfort read' Hannah Whitten author of For the Wolf Pick up HALF A SOUL, and be stolen away into Olivia Atwater's charming, magical version of Regency England! but the longer Dora spends with Elias Wilder, the more she begins to suspect that one may indeed fall in love, even with only half a soul.īridgerton meets Howl's Moving Castle in this enchanting historical fantasy, where the only thing more meddlesome than faeries is a marriage-minded mother. If Dora's reputation can survive both her curse and her sudden connection with the least-liked man in all of high society, then she may yet reclaim her normal place in the world. Dora hopes to be a quiet, sensible wallflower during the London Season - but when the strange, handsome and utterly uncouth Lord Sorcier discovers her condition, she is instead drawn into dangerous and peculiar faerie affairs. It's difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you're a young lady with only half a soul.Įver since she was cursed by a faerie, Theodora Ettings has had no sense of fear or embarrassment - a condition which makes her prone to accidental scandal. 'Whimsical but never frivolous, sweet but not sugary, deeply kind rather than merely nice. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these challenges. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Here they settle in a new home made of sod beside the banks of Plum Creek. The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Walnut Grove, Minnesota. The fourth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor-now available as an ebook! This digital version features Garth Williams’s classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. For this is itself one of the disputed points…I have a reluctance to say much about temptations to which I myself am not exposed… I should be very glad if people would not draw fanciful inferences from my silence on certain disputed matters…There are questions at issue between Christians to which I do not think we have been told the answer…you cannot even conclude, from my silence on disputed points, either that I think them important or that I think them unimportant. turns out to be something not only positive but pungent” Omitted Topics …I have thought that the best…service I could do for my unbelieving neighbours was to explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times…So far as I can judge…the book…did at least succeed in presenting an agreed, or common, or central, or ‘mere’ Christianity…it may possibly be of some help in silencing the view that, if we omit the disputed points, we shall have left only a vague and bloodless. You can look at my more detailed notes, but this is an overview of the content of Book I of “Mere Christianity”… Preface Quotations Mere Christianity Klappentext From BookTok sensation and New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a riveting companion novel to Bully. They live in New England with their husband and daughter. Their books have been translated into twenty languages and include The Fall Away Series, The Hellbent Series, The Devil's Night Series, and the stand-alones, Misconduct, Punk 57, Birthday Girl, Credence, and Tryst Six Venom. Her writing is phenomenal and she is most definitely one of my favorite authors.HopelessBookLovers Informationen zum Autor Penelope Douglas is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. I am completely head over heels in LOVE, and it's all because of a boy named Jared.BookLovers Lace圜at A must read will just completely blow you away, again. Penelope Douglas delivers big time.As the Pages Turn blog This is truly one of the most unique love stories I have reada MUST read! Jared and Tate are true soul mates and their love story is heartbreakingly Absolutely Oh lord. Zusatztext Fans of Bully will not be disappointed with Until You. Although portrayed as humorless, Green - like Buffett - sometimes demonstrated subtle humor, generosity to those less fortunate and empathy for all humankind. She lived frugally, providing generously for the two children she eventually brought into the world, but denying herself all ostentation.īiographer Janet Wallach suggests that Hetty Green can be compared validly to current tycoon Warren Buffett, and the comparison indeed seems apt. She rarely if ever invested on a whim, instead researching every potential transaction carefully. With seed money from her father and occasional assistance from her late-in-life husband, Edward Green, Hetty invested wisely in railroads, commercial real estate and so many other industries that keeping track became difficult. Eventually, Hetty's father, Edward, noticed the unusual talent exhibited by a "mere woman," and began to view her as a family asset.īy the time Hetty died in 1916, she had been portrayed in the media for decades as the richest female in the United States. Hetty's grandfather, Gideon Howland, taught her from a young age about the importance of understanding business affairs, and she demonstrated a talent for numbers. So her devout Quaker parents cast her away, placing Hetty with her maternal grandparents, where she struggled for attention. But her parents had wanted a boy, not a girl. Her family earned a nice fortune in New Bedford, Mass., the center of the whaling industry. Born in 1834, Hetty Robinson (later Hetty Green) faced dismal prospects. |