Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101566981
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A funny, heartbreaking, stunning book by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried - and found guilty - by his heavenly peers for a murder he did not commit. His sentence: to live on the planet Earth until he can carry out a seemingly impossible mission - the recovery of a deadly weapon known as the Zoi. The first lesson Sirius learns in his lowly earthly form is that humans have all the power. The second is that even though his young mistress loves him, she can't protect either of them. The third - and worst - is that someone out there will do anything to keep Sirius from finding the Zoi. Even if it means destroying Earth itself. This funny, heartbreaking, stunning book features an introduction by Neil Gaiman, an avid fan of Diana Wynne Jones.
Dogsbody
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101566981
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A funny, heartbreaking, stunning book by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried - and found guilty - by his heavenly peers for a murder he did not commit. His sentence: to live on the planet Earth until he can carry out a seemingly impossible mission - the recovery of a deadly weapon known as the Zoi. The first lesson Sirius learns in his lowly earthly form is that humans have all the power. The second is that even though his young mistress loves him, she can't protect either of them. The third - and worst - is that someone out there will do anything to keep Sirius from finding the Zoi. Even if it means destroying Earth itself. This funny, heartbreaking, stunning book features an introduction by Neil Gaiman, an avid fan of Diana Wynne Jones.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101566981
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A funny, heartbreaking, stunning book by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried - and found guilty - by his heavenly peers for a murder he did not commit. His sentence: to live on the planet Earth until he can carry out a seemingly impossible mission - the recovery of a deadly weapon known as the Zoi. The first lesson Sirius learns in his lowly earthly form is that humans have all the power. The second is that even though his young mistress loves him, she can't protect either of them. The third - and worst - is that someone out there will do anything to keep Sirius from finding the Zoi. Even if it means destroying Earth itself. This funny, heartbreaking, stunning book features an introduction by Neil Gaiman, an avid fan of Diana Wynne Jones.
Hidden Turnings
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Greenwillow
ISBN: 9780688091637
Category : Fantasy fiction, English.
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A collection of twelve fantasy stories on the theme of the supernatural touching and changing everyday life.
Publisher: Greenwillow
ISBN: 9780688091637
Category : Fantasy fiction, English.
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A collection of twelve fantasy stories on the theme of the supernatural touching and changing everyday life.
HEAVEN & HELL
Author: Rosslyn Scott
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Nick Henderson and Gabriel Swann are so very happy with their love affair. They have had five years of being alone with each other, and they have talked about having a third party in their relationship. Being bisexual they both love women but they both agree it would take someone so special to love both of them. All Millie Ashton wants is a family who loves her. Her mother has zero internal instinct, and her two older half-sisters, twins and fashion models Pearl and Ruby, use her as a slave! After a massive row over a ruined top, Millie leaves home. On a wet and windy March day, Millie walks into what seems to be akin to a tiger's den. Superstar rock-god musicians Nick Henderson and Gabriel Swann, need a housekeeper. Was looking after the twins a case of better the devil you know, or will Millie find the most wonderful family.
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Nick Henderson and Gabriel Swann are so very happy with their love affair. They have had five years of being alone with each other, and they have talked about having a third party in their relationship. Being bisexual they both love women but they both agree it would take someone so special to love both of them. All Millie Ashton wants is a family who loves her. Her mother has zero internal instinct, and her two older half-sisters, twins and fashion models Pearl and Ruby, use her as a slave! After a massive row over a ruined top, Millie leaves home. On a wet and windy March day, Millie walks into what seems to be akin to a tiger's den. Superstar rock-god musicians Nick Henderson and Gabriel Swann, need a housekeeper. Was looking after the twins a case of better the devil you know, or will Millie find the most wonderful family.
A Blink of the Screen
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385538316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with Terry's inimitable brand of humour. With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385538316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with Terry's inimitable brand of humour. With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.
Fire and Hemlock
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110156699X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110156699X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.
The Turning
Author: Andrew E. Hunt
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814736351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in which a substantial number of military personnel actively protested the war while it was in progress. In The Turning, Andrew Hunt reclaims the history of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), an organization that transformed the antiwar movement by placing Vietnam veterans in the forefront of the nationwide struggle to end the war. Misunderstood by both authorities and radicals alike, VVAW members were mostly young men who had served in Vietnam and returned profoundly disillusioned with the rationale for the war and with American conduct in Southeast Asia. Angry, impassioned, and uncompromisingly militant, the VVAW that Hunt chronicles in this first history of the organization posed a formidable threat to America's Vietnam policy and further contributed to the sense that the nation was under siege from within. Based on extensive interviews and in-depth primary research, including recently declassified government files, The Turning is a vivid history of the men who risked censures, stigma, even imprisonment for a cause they believed to be "an extended tour of duty."
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814736351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in which a substantial number of military personnel actively protested the war while it was in progress. In The Turning, Andrew Hunt reclaims the history of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), an organization that transformed the antiwar movement by placing Vietnam veterans in the forefront of the nationwide struggle to end the war. Misunderstood by both authorities and radicals alike, VVAW members were mostly young men who had served in Vietnam and returned profoundly disillusioned with the rationale for the war and with American conduct in Southeast Asia. Angry, impassioned, and uncompromisingly militant, the VVAW that Hunt chronicles in this first history of the organization posed a formidable threat to America's Vietnam policy and further contributed to the sense that the nation was under siege from within. Based on extensive interviews and in-depth primary research, including recently declassified government files, The Turning is a vivid history of the men who risked censures, stigma, even imprisonment for a cause they believed to be "an extended tour of duty."
Turning Pages
Author: Sachin Rathod
Publisher: Unité Publication
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
The book 'Turning Pages’ is the dream project of Sachin Rathod. Since he loves to write, his dream was to publish his own book. He got the opportunity to write this book. The theme he choose for the book are the topics which he loves to write the most. This is his first book. He tried to show one sided love story and it’s end in this book. This book is very close to his heart. He explained various perspective that change according to person. He got one friend named Rajvi Shah. She is the founder of Unité Publication. With her help the story of this book started. He is happy and excited about this book and the content in it. He has tried to show how the situation changes as day changes in the life of a person who is in love. That’s why the name of the book is 'Turning Pages’.
Publisher: Unité Publication
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
The book 'Turning Pages’ is the dream project of Sachin Rathod. Since he loves to write, his dream was to publish his own book. He got the opportunity to write this book. The theme he choose for the book are the topics which he loves to write the most. This is his first book. He tried to show one sided love story and it’s end in this book. This book is very close to his heart. He explained various perspective that change according to person. He got one friend named Rajvi Shah. She is the founder of Unité Publication. With her help the story of this book started. He is happy and excited about this book and the content in it. He has tried to show how the situation changes as day changes in the life of a person who is in love. That’s why the name of the book is 'Turning Pages’.
The Secret Key to Heaven
Author: Thomas Brooks
Publisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
“Secret duties are the most soul-enriching duties," writes Brooks in this treatise on private prayer. "Look! as secret meals make fat bodies—so secret duties make fat souls. And as secret trades brings in great earthly riches, so secret prayers makes many rich in spiritual blessings and in heavenly riches. Private prayer is that secret key of heaven which unlocks all the treasures of glory to the soul. The best riches and the sweetest mercies, God usually gives to His people—when they are in their closets upon their knees. All the graces of the saints are enlivened, and nourished, and strengthened by the sweet secret influences which their souls fall under, when they are in their closet-communion with God. Certainly there are none so rich in gracious experiences, as those who are most exercised in closet duties. As the tender dew which falls in the silent night makes the grass and herbs and flowers to flourish and grow more abundantly than great showers of rain which fall in the day; so secret prayer will more abundantly cause the sweet herbs of grace and holiness to grow and flourish in the soul, than all those more open, public, and visible duties of religion, which too, too often, are mingled and mixed with the sun and wind of pride and hypocrisy.”
Publisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
“Secret duties are the most soul-enriching duties," writes Brooks in this treatise on private prayer. "Look! as secret meals make fat bodies—so secret duties make fat souls. And as secret trades brings in great earthly riches, so secret prayers makes many rich in spiritual blessings and in heavenly riches. Private prayer is that secret key of heaven which unlocks all the treasures of glory to the soul. The best riches and the sweetest mercies, God usually gives to His people—when they are in their closets upon their knees. All the graces of the saints are enlivened, and nourished, and strengthened by the sweet secret influences which their souls fall under, when they are in their closet-communion with God. Certainly there are none so rich in gracious experiences, as those who are most exercised in closet duties. As the tender dew which falls in the silent night makes the grass and herbs and flowers to flourish and grow more abundantly than great showers of rain which fall in the day; so secret prayer will more abundantly cause the sweet herbs of grace and holiness to grow and flourish in the soul, than all those more open, public, and visible duties of religion, which too, too often, are mingled and mixed with the sun and wind of pride and hypocrisy.”
New Magics
Author: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765300157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This brand-new collection of award-winning fantasy stories just for teens includes works by such notable authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Jane Yolen, Neil Gaiman, Harry Turtledove, and Orson Scott Card.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765300157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This brand-new collection of award-winning fantasy stories just for teens includes works by such notable authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Jane Yolen, Neil Gaiman, Harry Turtledove, and Orson Scott Card.
Collection of the best works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 1773139835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2251
Book Description
Collection of the best works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky includes: The Insulted And The Injured Notes from Underground Crime and Punishment The Gambler The Idiot Demons
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 1773139835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2251
Book Description
Collection of the best works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky includes: The Insulted And The Injured Notes from Underground Crime and Punishment The Gambler The Idiot Demons