![]() ![]() Decorated endpapers show 6 Potter character animals with intricate border lines. Original text pages are glossy, and printed on 1 side only, the reverse being clean, but apparently numbered, or counted as a page, for the text do so when again numbered. ![]() old black leather (replaced) spine strip to matte Grey Hard board cover with white titles, scallop corners to original color ilust of HEDGEHOG pasted in center of cover. GOOD Condition Grey Hardcover, Neatly hand written gift name ep "Dudley from Miss Vail Xmas 1908" in appropriate area ep. Illustrated by Glossy Color Ilust (illustrator). Description text copyright 2011 BooksForComfort. Lucy's handkerchiefs keep mysteriously disappearing, and you will laugh when you find out where they are all going. ![]() Just when it looks like he won't be able to do it in time, help arrives. A poor tailor is faced with a big challenge, making the most beautiful coat anyone has ever seen. Cassette 2: The Tailor of Gloucester read by Sir Michael Hordern. Nutkin behaves very badly and teases Old Brown, the big owl. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, read by Gary Bond. Two mice take over a house that doesn't belong to them and create lots of trouble along the way. Cassette 1: The Tale of Two Bad Mice read by Sir Michael Hordern. Published by Frederick Warne & Co, New York, NY, 1991. ![]() Tiggy-Winkle, 2 Cassettes by Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester & The Tale of Mrs. ![]()
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In a world where people’s power of belief shapes the actual world, fanatics and sociopaths rise to power, and the mentally ill twist the world around them. Beyond Redemption is a chilling, stunningly dark fantasy work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist-and World War I veteran-in the fourth entry in the bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth. 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She's received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Her works have been reviewed by Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Library Journal, and the New York Times. Her love of history and lattes overwhelmed her passion for math and led to the publication of over twenty titles. Her research skills have helped NASA, GM, Hewlett Packard, and several startups. ![]() Vanessa also earned a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Penn State University. ![]() This Southern, Irish, Trini girl holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and an MS in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University. Her novels pull heartstrings, elicit laughs, and share insights into the diverse history of the Georgian, Regency, and Victorian eras. 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It is a book that is recommended by nearly anyone in the business & entrepreneurship fields. Robert Greene has written several other popular books including The Laws of Human Nature, Mastery, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, and The 50th Law.īy far, his most popular book is The 48 Laws of Power. ![]() The 48 Laws of Power is a multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller, written by Robert Greene. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() French aristocrat Christien de Vries yearns to prove himself as a surgeon in the Order of St John, to which he was pledged as an infant but joined only as a result of a life-altering oath. She joins a group of Jews - forced by their Christian rulers to renounce their faith - who continue their rituals clandestinely. Maria, stranded in Malta with unsympathetic parents, makes her own plans to escape the island and find her brother. Extraordinary events lead him to the court of Suleiman, the magnificent Sultan of the Ottomans. Taken to Algiers to be the personal slave of a wealthy merchant, he becomes a pawn in household politics and sets out to escape. Nico and Maria, Maltese brother and sister, are separated when young Nico is abducted by Moorish slavers. ![]() John in Malta, this is a novel of the timeless struggle between the religions and cultures of the east and west. From the cruelty of the slave markets of Algiers to the majesty of Topkapi, the sultan's seraglio in Istanbul, to the convent of the noble Knights of St. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2005 his book, Acquainted With The Night: Excursions into the world after dark, was nominated for both a Governor General's Award and the Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction, and was published in 7 countries.ĭewdney was featured in the 1982 documentary Poetry in Motion. He is the author of 4 books of non-fiction as well as 11 books of poetry.ĭewdney is a past winner of the CBC Literary Competition and the Harbourfront Festival Prize, and a 4-time nominee for the Governor General’s Literary Award. He is the long-time partner of writer Barbara Gowdy. ![]() He is the son of Canadian artist and historian Selwyn Dewdney, brother of Alexander Keewatin Dewdney, and great-grand-nephew of Edgar Dewdney (Lieutenant-governor of the Northwest Territories, 1881-1888, and British Columbia, 1892-1897).ĭewdney lives in Toronto, where he is a professor at York University. ![]() 3.1.1 Natural History of Southwestern Ontarioĭewdney was born in London, Ontario. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has written over two dozen books for children and young adults, and has enjoyed writing every one of them. SMITH, Lisa Jane Smith, is the New York Times #1 Bestselling author of The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, The Forbidden Game, Dark Visions, Wildworld and Night World series. I have a new blog about my Vampire Diaries fanfic. ![]() Together, Rob and Gabriel's opposing forces start to threaten the group's stability, and when an experiment traps the five teens in a psychic link - a link that threatens their sanity and their lives - Kaitlyn must decide who to trust and who to love. Rob is a healer - kind and gentle, he's surrounded by good energy, while Gabriel is aggressive and mysterious - a telepath concealing his true nature. But those friendships quickly become complicated when Kait finds herself torn between two irresistible guys. Tired of being shunned, Kait accepts an invitation to attend the Zetes Institute, where she can study with other psychic teens and have a fresh start.Īs Kaitlyn learns to hone her abilities with four other gifted students, she starts to discover the intensity of her power - and the joy of having true friends. Her haunting eyes and prophetic drawings have earned her a reputation as a witch. Kaitlyn Fairchild has always felt like an outsider. ![]() ![]() ![]() Something about the new groom catches her eyes, and makes her think he's not who he pretends to be-and even more shockingly, stirs her senses. ![]() Pragmatic and clever, Ailsa Mackenzie has been left in charge of the family estate and her unruly grandmother in her father's absence. But his plans go awry when he falls under the cool gray gaze of the laird's daughter. Wanting to avoid an international incident, Nik plans to quietly slip into enemy territory disguised as a groom at Castle Cromartie. ![]() "What more could New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins's fans desire" than the "sharp repartee, clever plotting, memorable characterization, and sizzling sexual tension" ( RT Book Reviews ) of her sparkling Oxenburg Princes fairy tale romance series? Nikolai Romanovin, a royal prince of Oxenburg, has travelled to the deepest wilds of Scotland to rescue his grandmother the Grand Duchess, who was abducted while visiting an old friend in the Highlands. ![]() ![]() an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-BloodĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:05:49 Boxid IA1813420 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go. But Apollo has many enemies - gods, monsters, and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor." ![]() "After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Įxclusive edition: includes Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades If I fail, the Beast will control the future, but worse - I'll be stuck as a teenage boy, forever. My first task? Protect the final Oracle, hidden away for millennia. ![]() I figured that regaining Zeus's favour would involve a series of harrowing trials, and I was right (I usually am). ![]() Demigods are going missing and the all-seeing Oracles have fallen to a mysterious enemy known only as 'the Beast'. I persuaded Percy Jackson to give me a life to Camp Half-Blood. But that was before I was cast down from Olympus (a terrible misunderstanding) and woke up in a New York dumpster. ![]() |