Author: Alison Reynolds
Publisher: Affirm Press
ISBN: 1922848808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Funny and heartwarming. The most original book I've read in years!' - Rachael Johns 'Delightfully quirky, clever and witty. I absolutely adored it.' - Nicola Moriarty 'In the spirit of the funniest farces, this riotous story and its cast of caustic characters will have you laughing on the train in front of strangers.' - Carrie Cox Meet Daphne Buckley, a psychiatrist in search of a great love. He hasn't turned up yet. But surely he will. He could be any one of the respondents to her old-fashioned 'looking for love' classified. He could be one of the men her overbearing mother tries to set her up with, or even someone she already knows. It doesn't matter. Daphne is determined and brainy and prepared to bend all the rules. With old school friend Celeste by her side and her mother's grooming tips for unkempt leg hair, love is likely just around the corner. Whether Daphne deserves it is another question. And with a psychopath and serial killer lurking, how far she'll go to get it is the biggest question of all. The Near Daphne Experience is a riotous romp about the unedifying search for love, and the most original book you'll read this year.
The Near Daphne Experience
Author: Alison Reynolds
Publisher: Affirm Press
ISBN: 1922848808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Funny and heartwarming. The most original book I've read in years!' - Rachael Johns 'Delightfully quirky, clever and witty. I absolutely adored it.' - Nicola Moriarty 'In the spirit of the funniest farces, this riotous story and its cast of caustic characters will have you laughing on the train in front of strangers.' - Carrie Cox Meet Daphne Buckley, a psychiatrist in search of a great love. He hasn't turned up yet. But surely he will. He could be any one of the respondents to her old-fashioned 'looking for love' classified. He could be one of the men her overbearing mother tries to set her up with, or even someone she already knows. It doesn't matter. Daphne is determined and brainy and prepared to bend all the rules. With old school friend Celeste by her side and her mother's grooming tips for unkempt leg hair, love is likely just around the corner. Whether Daphne deserves it is another question. And with a psychopath and serial killer lurking, how far she'll go to get it is the biggest question of all. The Near Daphne Experience is a riotous romp about the unedifying search for love, and the most original book you'll read this year.
Publisher: Affirm Press
ISBN: 1922848808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Funny and heartwarming. The most original book I've read in years!' - Rachael Johns 'Delightfully quirky, clever and witty. I absolutely adored it.' - Nicola Moriarty 'In the spirit of the funniest farces, this riotous story and its cast of caustic characters will have you laughing on the train in front of strangers.' - Carrie Cox Meet Daphne Buckley, a psychiatrist in search of a great love. He hasn't turned up yet. But surely he will. He could be any one of the respondents to her old-fashioned 'looking for love' classified. He could be one of the men her overbearing mother tries to set her up with, or even someone she already knows. It doesn't matter. Daphne is determined and brainy and prepared to bend all the rules. With old school friend Celeste by her side and her mother's grooming tips for unkempt leg hair, love is likely just around the corner. Whether Daphne deserves it is another question. And with a psychopath and serial killer lurking, how far she'll go to get it is the biggest question of all. The Near Daphne Experience is a riotous romp about the unedifying search for love, and the most original book you'll read this year.
A Year with Marmalade
Author: Alison Reynolds
Publisher: Little Simon
ISBN: 9781442481053
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An adorable kitty helps a young girl understand the nature of friendship in this sweetly uplifting picture book. Ella and Maddy are best friends. But one day Maddy says she is moving away, and she asks Ella to look after her cat, Marmalade. Both Ella and Marmalade cry and cry when Maddy leaves. Ella tries to do fun things—like pick apples, stomp through puddles, and ice skate on the pond—but somehow nothing is fun without her friend Maddy. Then one morning Ella finds Marmalade curled up by her feet, and as they spend more and more time together, a unique friendship begins to grow. A Year with Marmalade is a charming book about about losing friends and making new ones. Set against a beautiful backdrop of the turning seasons, this story of transition reminds us that change, while constant, is not always a bad thing.
Publisher: Little Simon
ISBN: 9781442481053
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An adorable kitty helps a young girl understand the nature of friendship in this sweetly uplifting picture book. Ella and Maddy are best friends. But one day Maddy says she is moving away, and she asks Ella to look after her cat, Marmalade. Both Ella and Marmalade cry and cry when Maddy leaves. Ella tries to do fun things—like pick apples, stomp through puddles, and ice skate on the pond—but somehow nothing is fun without her friend Maddy. Then one morning Ella finds Marmalade curled up by her feet, and as they spend more and more time together, a unique friendship begins to grow. A Year with Marmalade is a charming book about about losing friends and making new ones. Set against a beautiful backdrop of the turning seasons, this story of transition reminds us that change, while constant, is not always a bad thing.
Teddy Is Brave
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741786149
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
These beautifully illustrated board books help children deal with their own negative feelings - and respect the feelings of others. The stories, featuring a small teddy bear, are fun in their own right.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741786149
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
These beautifully illustrated board books help children deal with their own negative feelings - and respect the feelings of others. The stories, featuring a small teddy bear, are fun in their own right.
The House on the Strand
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316252999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A man becomes addicted to a drug that allows him to time travel into the past in this gothic thriller that is “prime du Maurier” (New York Times). Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus’s potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wears off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda . . . Praise for Daphne Du Maurier: “No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction, and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of “real literature,” something very few novelists ever do.” ―Margaret Forster, author of Daphne Du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller “She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality” —The Guardian
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316252999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A man becomes addicted to a drug that allows him to time travel into the past in this gothic thriller that is “prime du Maurier” (New York Times). Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus’s potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wears off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda . . . Praise for Daphne Du Maurier: “No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction, and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of “real literature,” something very few novelists ever do.” ―Margaret Forster, author of Daphne Du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller “She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality” —The Guardian
The King's General
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402217080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"Daphne du Maurier has no equal." Sunday Telegraph As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402217080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"Daphne du Maurier has no equal." Sunday Telegraph As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors
Invisible Years
Author: Daphne Geismar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567926590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Invisible Years tells the story of an extended Jewish family in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, who, when faced with imminent deportation and death, split up and went underground. With intimate firsthand accounts, photographs, artifacts, and historical references, award-winning book designer Daphne Geismar weaves together her family's multi-generational experience during World War II." --
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567926590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Invisible Years tells the story of an extended Jewish family in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, who, when faced with imminent deportation and death, split up and went underground. With intimate firsthand accounts, photographs, artifacts, and historical references, award-winning book designer Daphne Geismar weaves together her family's multi-generational experience during World War II." --
The Near Daphne Experience - Free Reading Copy
Author: Alison Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922806208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922806208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Jamaica Inn
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Why I Love My Dad
Author: Alison Reynolds
Publisher: little bee books
ISBN: 9781499800357
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There are so many reasons why we love our dads, and this unique gift book lets you show why your dad is special! In Why I Love My Dad, kids can read the sweet story and then personalize the book by writing and drawing in the pages in the back. On the final two pages, children can draw pictures of their dads and the things they love to do together. And, they can even use a photo to feature their own dad on the cover!
Publisher: little bee books
ISBN: 9781499800357
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There are so many reasons why we love our dads, and this unique gift book lets you show why your dad is special! In Why I Love My Dad, kids can read the sweet story and then personalize the book by writing and drawing in the pages in the back. On the final two pages, children can draw pictures of their dads and the things they love to do together. And, they can even use a photo to feature their own dad on the cover!
The Island of the Day Before
Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547563892
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this “astonishing intellectual journey" by the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (San Francisco Chronicle). In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked—on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing. As Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he looks back on various episodes from his life: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of Casale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years' War in which he lost his father and his illusions; and the lessons given him on Reasons of State, fencing, the writing of love letters, and blasphemy. In this “intellectually stimulating and dramatically intriguing” novel, Umberto Eco conjures a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and an old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood (Chicago Tribune).
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547563892
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this “astonishing intellectual journey" by the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (San Francisco Chronicle). In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked—on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing. As Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he looks back on various episodes from his life: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of Casale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years' War in which he lost his father and his illusions; and the lessons given him on Reasons of State, fencing, the writing of love letters, and blasphemy. In this “intellectually stimulating and dramatically intriguing” novel, Umberto Eco conjures a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and an old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood (Chicago Tribune).