Author: Philippa Gregory
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008403317
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she’s no ordinary princess...
The Mammoth Adventure (The Princess Rules)
Author: Philippa Gregory
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008403317
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she’s no ordinary princess...
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008403317
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she’s no ordinary princess...
The Mammoth Book of On The Edge
Author: Jon E. Lewis
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780337337
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Written by the bestselling author of Meadowland and The Running Hare, Featuring: ·Heinrich Harrer - first conqueror of the notorious Eigerwand. ·Robert Bates - the classic account of the ill-fated American 1953 expedition to K2. ·Maurice Herzog - his unstoppable ascent of Annapurna at the cost of frostbite. ·Walter Bonatti - tragedy on the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc. ·George Leigh Mallory - surviving an avalanche on the 1922 Everest expedition. ·René Desmaison - his epic story of 14 days stuck on The Grandes Jorasses in winter. ·Jon Krakauer - recalling his solo ascent of The Devil's Thumb in Alaska. The price of the summit is often measured in human suffering, yet for those who succeed the rewards can be incalculable. Nerve-wracking and unputdownable.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780337337
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Written by the bestselling author of Meadowland and The Running Hare, Featuring: ·Heinrich Harrer - first conqueror of the notorious Eigerwand. ·Robert Bates - the classic account of the ill-fated American 1953 expedition to K2. ·Maurice Herzog - his unstoppable ascent of Annapurna at the cost of frostbite. ·Walter Bonatti - tragedy on the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc. ·George Leigh Mallory - surviving an avalanche on the 1922 Everest expedition. ·René Desmaison - his epic story of 14 days stuck on The Grandes Jorasses in winter. ·Jon Krakauer - recalling his solo ascent of The Devil's Thumb in Alaska. The price of the summit is often measured in human suffering, yet for those who succeed the rewards can be incalculable. Nerve-wracking and unputdownable.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
Author: Sean Wallace
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780331355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
An anthology focusing on newer elements of steampunk, one which deconstructs the staples of the genre and expands on them, rather than simply repeating them, with a greater spread both in terms of location and character. This is steampunk with a modern, post-colonial sensibility. Contributors include: Jeff VanderMeer, Caitlín Kiernan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cherie Priest, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine and many more.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780331355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
An anthology focusing on newer elements of steampunk, one which deconstructs the staples of the genre and expands on them, rather than simply repeating them, with a greater spread both in terms of location and character. This is steampunk with a modern, post-colonial sensibility. Contributors include: Jeff VanderMeer, Caitlín Kiernan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cherie Priest, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine and many more.
The Princess Rules
Author: Philippa Gregory
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008339791
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she's no ordinary princess... These three stories were originally published under the titles Princess Florizella, Princess Florizella and the Wolves and Princess Florizella and the Giant.
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008339791
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she's no ordinary princess... These three stories were originally published under the titles Princess Florizella, Princess Florizella and the Wolves and Princess Florizella and the Giant.
The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
ISBN: 9780786714957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Written in homage to the master of science fiction, this anthology of stories--by Ian Watson and Adam Roberts, among others--inspired by Verne's vision presents stories that recall characters and plots from the author's fictional milieu. Original.
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
ISBN: 9780786714957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Written in homage to the master of science fiction, this anthology of stories--by Ian Watson and Adam Roberts, among others--inspired by Verne's vision presents stories that recall characters and plots from the author's fictional milieu. Original.
New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Author: Packages
Publisher: Packages
ISBN: 9780785818809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
After Arthur Conan Doyle created the detective, Sherlock Holmes, many writers borrowed him to be the hero of their stories. The anthology offers a selection, old and new.
Publisher: Packages
ISBN: 9780785818809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
After Arthur Conan Doyle created the detective, Sherlock Holmes, many writers borrowed him to be the hero of their stories. The anthology offers a selection, old and new.
Princess Florizella
Author: Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140326574
Category : Princes and princesses
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
"Princess Florizella is an extremely unusual princess! She wears patched jeans, and she climbs trees. She rides her horse Jellybean, and she goes on picnics. She doesn't care how she looks and worst of all for her parents who wanted an ordinary fairy-tale princess, she won't be rescued by anybody, and she won't get married."--Page [i].
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140326574
Category : Princes and princesses
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
"Princess Florizella is an extremely unusual princess! She wears patched jeans, and she climbs trees. She rides her horse Jellybean, and she goes on picnics. She doesn't care how she looks and worst of all for her parents who wanted an ordinary fairy-tale princess, she won't be rescued by anybody, and she won't get married."--Page [i].
The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth
Author: Ellie Hattie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610675925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Enter a magical world where dinosaurs and knights have come to life in this fact-filled, lift-the-flap caper!It's midnight in the museum and there's a mammoth on the loose! Can Oscar catch him before the witching hour is up?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610675925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Enter a magical world where dinosaurs and knights have come to life in this fact-filled, lift-the-flap caper!It's midnight in the museum and there's a mammoth on the loose! Can Oscar catch him before the witching hour is up?
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780762436262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“Unrecorded” cases of the world's greatest detective are found in this collection of original fiction by Stephen Baxter, Michael Moorcock, H.R.F. Keating, and more. The stories are linked by a running biography of Sherlock Holmes, identifying the “gaps” in the canon.
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780762436262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“Unrecorded” cases of the world's greatest detective are found in this collection of original fiction by Stephen Baxter, Michael Moorcock, H.R.F. Keating, and more. The stories are linked by a running biography of Sherlock Holmes, identifying the “gaps” in the canon.
The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance
Author: Trisha Telep
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1849012571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Time travel romance is not the same thing as sci-fi romance, though some stories may be set in an imagined future; it is romantic fiction set in various different eras, usually from around the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A woman may fall asleep in Central Park in the present to wake up in the arms of a Scottish laird in the sixteenth century. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance contains 25 stories of adventure and love; settings include medieval Scotland, sixteenth-century England, the nineteenth-century 'Wild West'. Some stories are set in the present and a few in the future. Stories include an Elizabethan nobleman whisked into the present day, a troubled young woman who lands in the sixteenth century able to break a curse of lost love. Includes stories from: Nina Bangs, Jude Deveraux, Sandra Hill, Linda Howard, Lynn Kurland, Karen Marie Moning, and many more.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1849012571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Time travel romance is not the same thing as sci-fi romance, though some stories may be set in an imagined future; it is romantic fiction set in various different eras, usually from around the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A woman may fall asleep in Central Park in the present to wake up in the arms of a Scottish laird in the sixteenth century. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance contains 25 stories of adventure and love; settings include medieval Scotland, sixteenth-century England, the nineteenth-century 'Wild West'. Some stories are set in the present and a few in the future. Stories include an Elizabethan nobleman whisked into the present day, a troubled young woman who lands in the sixteenth century able to break a curse of lost love. Includes stories from: Nina Bangs, Jude Deveraux, Sandra Hill, Linda Howard, Lynn Kurland, Karen Marie Moning, and many more.