Author: Larry Niven
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441653171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A murder on the moon sends investigator Gil "The Arm" Hamilton on the trail of the killer while trying to clear the beautiful Naomi Mitchison from the suspect list.
The Patchwork Girl
Author: Larry Niven
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441653171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A murder on the moon sends investigator Gil "The Arm" Hamilton on the trail of the killer while trying to clear the beautiful Naomi Mitchison from the suspect list.
Publisher: Ace Books
ISBN: 9780441653171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A murder on the moon sends investigator Gil "The Arm" Hamilton on the trail of the killer while trying to clear the beautiful Naomi Mitchison from the suspect list.
The Patchwork Girls
Author: Elaine Everest
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529016010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Set in Kent during the turbulence of the Second World War, The Patchwork Girls by Elaine Everest is a moving story about the ties of friends and family. 1939. After the sudden and tragic loss of her husband, Helen is returning home to her mother’s house in Biggin Hill, Kent – the one place she vowed she’d never go back to again. Alone and not knowing where to turn, Helen finds herself joining the local women’s sewing circle – despite being hopeless with a needle and thread. These resourceful women can not only make do and mend clothes, quilts and woolly hats, but their friendship mends something deeper in Helen too. Lizzie is a natural leader, always ready to lend a helping hand or a listening ear. Effie has uprooted her life from London to keep her two little girls away from the bombing raids, and the sewing circle is a welcome distraction from her worries – about how to keep a roof over their heads and about her husband too, now serving in active duty overseas. When the reason for Helen's husband's death comes to light, her world is turned upside down yet again. The investigating officer on the case, Richard, will leave no stone unturned, but it’s not long before his interest in Helen goes beyond the professional. As she pieces together old fabrics into a beautiful quilt, will Helen patch up the rifts in her own life? A beautiful story of female friendship in hard times, The Patchwork Girls is perfect for readers of Margaret Dickinson and Elaine's Teashop Girls series. Praise for Elaine Everest: 'Sweet as a Woolies pick ’n’ mix' – Milly Johnson, author of The Happiest Ever After 'Heartwarming . . . a must-read' – Woman's Own 'A lovely read' – Bella 'Charming' – S Magazine
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529016010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Set in Kent during the turbulence of the Second World War, The Patchwork Girls by Elaine Everest is a moving story about the ties of friends and family. 1939. After the sudden and tragic loss of her husband, Helen is returning home to her mother’s house in Biggin Hill, Kent – the one place she vowed she’d never go back to again. Alone and not knowing where to turn, Helen finds herself joining the local women’s sewing circle – despite being hopeless with a needle and thread. These resourceful women can not only make do and mend clothes, quilts and woolly hats, but their friendship mends something deeper in Helen too. Lizzie is a natural leader, always ready to lend a helping hand or a listening ear. Effie has uprooted her life from London to keep her two little girls away from the bombing raids, and the sewing circle is a welcome distraction from her worries – about how to keep a roof over their heads and about her husband too, now serving in active duty overseas. When the reason for Helen's husband's death comes to light, her world is turned upside down yet again. The investigating officer on the case, Richard, will leave no stone unturned, but it’s not long before his interest in Helen goes beyond the professional. As she pieces together old fabrics into a beautiful quilt, will Helen patch up the rifts in her own life? A beautiful story of female friendship in hard times, The Patchwork Girls is perfect for readers of Margaret Dickinson and Elaine's Teashop Girls series. Praise for Elaine Everest: 'Sweet as a Woolies pick ’n’ mix' – Milly Johnson, author of The Happiest Ever After 'Heartwarming . . . a must-read' – Woman's Own 'A lovely read' – Bella 'Charming' – S Magazine
The Patchwork Girl
Author: Hasani Walker
Publisher: Patchwork Girl
ISBN: 9780979835568
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Continuing their Journey, Patch and Poco come across a town full of dolls and insects just like them. But while Patch is excited to make new friends, Poco starts to question his relationship to his rag doll companion.
Publisher: Patchwork Girl
ISBN: 9780979835568
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Continuing their Journey, Patch and Poco come across a town full of dolls and insects just like them. But while Patch is excited to make new friends, Poco starts to question his relationship to his rag doll companion.
The Patchwork Quilt
Author: Valerie Flournoy
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803700970
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803700970
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
The Patchwork Bike
Author: Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536221686
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
“The words and images in this snapshot story pulse with resourceful ingenuity, joyful exuberance, and layered meanings.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) When you live in a village at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a license plate from bark if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for whooping and laughing as you bumpetty bump over sand hills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home. A Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, this joyous story from Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van Thanh Rudd, is now available as an ebook.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536221686
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
“The words and images in this snapshot story pulse with resourceful ingenuity, joyful exuberance, and layered meanings.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) When you live in a village at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a license plate from bark if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for whooping and laughing as you bumpetty bump over sand hills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home. A Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, this joyous story from Maxine Beneba Clarke, beautifully illustrated by street artist Van Thanh Rudd, is now available as an ebook.
A Patchwork Planet
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143196359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos. But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel. Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex-wife would just as soon he didn't show up ever to visit their little girl, Opal. Even the nice, steady woman (his guardian angel?) who seems to have designs on him doesn't fully trust him, it develops, when the chips are down, and it looks as though his world may fall apart again. There is no one like Anne Tyler, with her sharp, funny, tender perceptions about how human beings navigate on a puzzling planet, and she keeps us enthralled from start to finish in this delicious new novel.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143196359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos. But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel. Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex-wife would just as soon he didn't show up ever to visit their little girl, Opal. Even the nice, steady woman (his guardian angel?) who seems to have designs on him doesn't fully trust him, it develops, when the chips are down, and it looks as though his world may fall apart again. There is no one like Anne Tyler, with her sharp, funny, tender perceptions about how human beings navigate on a puzzling planet, and she keeps us enthralled from start to finish in this delicious new novel.
Patchwork
Author: Ellen Banda-Aaku
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1803288868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Winner of the 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing. In this coming-of-age novel, acclaimed author Ellen Banda-Aaku offers a profound exploration into the effects of stigma, class, and family dynamics in 1970s Zambia. Pumpkin is a nine-year-old girl pulled between two vastly different worlds – that of her father, the wealthy and power-hungry Joseph Sakavungo, and her mother, his unstable mistress. As Pumpkin attempts to come to terms with her own identity, she struggles to fashion a future for herself out of the torn patchwork of her parents' lives. Beautifully constructed, Banda-Aaku has crafted a story that is in equal parts uplifting and bittersweet.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1803288868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Winner of the 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing. In this coming-of-age novel, acclaimed author Ellen Banda-Aaku offers a profound exploration into the effects of stigma, class, and family dynamics in 1970s Zambia. Pumpkin is a nine-year-old girl pulled between two vastly different worlds – that of her father, the wealthy and power-hungry Joseph Sakavungo, and her mother, his unstable mistress. As Pumpkin attempts to come to terms with her own identity, she struggles to fashion a future for herself out of the torn patchwork of her parents' lives. Beautifully constructed, Banda-Aaku has crafted a story that is in equal parts uplifting and bittersweet.
Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 3
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 9781442485495
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explore the wonder of Oz in this collection of books seven through nine in L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairy tale series. The seventh, eighth, and ninth titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection! In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, the Munchkins Unc Nunkie and Ojo the Unlucky call on the Crooked Magician, who introduces them to his latest creation: a living girl made out of patchwork quilts and cotton stuffing. But when an accident leaves beloved Unc Nunkie a motionless statue, it is up to Ojo to save him. Can the mighty Wizard of Oz help? In Tik-Tok of Oz, Betsy Bobbin and her loyal mule, Hank, wash up on the shores of an unknown fairyland during a storm. There they meet the clockwork man Tik-Tok and find themselves trapped in a battle with the king of the Nomes. In The Scarecrow of Oz, Cap’n Bill and Trot journey to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrow the cruel King Krewl of Jinxland, who has been busy gathering an army for an invasion of Oz. Will they be able to stop the invasion?
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN: 9781442485495
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explore the wonder of Oz in this collection of books seven through nine in L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairy tale series. The seventh, eighth, and ninth titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection! In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, the Munchkins Unc Nunkie and Ojo the Unlucky call on the Crooked Magician, who introduces them to his latest creation: a living girl made out of patchwork quilts and cotton stuffing. But when an accident leaves beloved Unc Nunkie a motionless statue, it is up to Ojo to save him. Can the mighty Wizard of Oz help? In Tik-Tok of Oz, Betsy Bobbin and her loyal mule, Hank, wash up on the shores of an unknown fairyland during a storm. There they meet the clockwork man Tik-Tok and find themselves trapped in a battle with the king of the Nomes. In The Scarecrow of Oz, Cap’n Bill and Trot journey to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrow the cruel King Krewl of Jinxland, who has been busy gathering an army for an invasion of Oz. Will they be able to stop the invasion?
The Patchwork Girl of Oz Illustrated
Author: L Frank Baum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum is a children's novel, the 7th set in the Land of Oz. Characters include the Woozy, Ojo "the Unlucky", Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, Scraps (the patchwork girl), and others. The book was first published on July 1, 1913, with illustrations by John R. Neill. In 1914, Baum adapted the book to film through his "Oz Film Manufacturing Company."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum is a children's novel, the 7th set in the Land of Oz. Characters include the Woozy, Ojo "the Unlucky", Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, Scraps (the patchwork girl), and others. The book was first published on July 1, 1913, with illustrations by John R. Neill. In 1914, Baum adapted the book to film through his "Oz Film Manufacturing Company."
Patchwork USA
Author: Heidi Staples
Publisher: Lucky Spool
ISBN: 9781940655406
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Planning a sewing getaway? Heidi Staples of sewing blog Fabric Mutt presents everything needed to have a successful trip, including helpful packing and organizing tips. Each section of this fun, colorful book is organized with travel in mind, offering small, medium, and large projects to be achieved while on the perfect sewing retreat: --Daytrips: Small projects include a Bookmobile Sleeve, Road Trip Pillow, Snapshot Needlebook, Sewing Bee Pincushion, and Coffee Shop Coasters --Weekend Retreats: Bigger projects include a Patio Pillow, Beachcomber Pouch, Kitchenette Set, Scout's Honor Pouch, and a Color Book --Summer Vacations: Extended projects include a Big Bear Cabin Quilt and Palm Springs Bag Get ready to have a fabulous sewing retreat!
Publisher: Lucky Spool
ISBN: 9781940655406
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Planning a sewing getaway? Heidi Staples of sewing blog Fabric Mutt presents everything needed to have a successful trip, including helpful packing and organizing tips. Each section of this fun, colorful book is organized with travel in mind, offering small, medium, and large projects to be achieved while on the perfect sewing retreat: --Daytrips: Small projects include a Bookmobile Sleeve, Road Trip Pillow, Snapshot Needlebook, Sewing Bee Pincushion, and Coffee Shop Coasters --Weekend Retreats: Bigger projects include a Patio Pillow, Beachcomber Pouch, Kitchenette Set, Scout's Honor Pouch, and a Color Book --Summer Vacations: Extended projects include a Big Bear Cabin Quilt and Palm Springs Bag Get ready to have a fabulous sewing retreat!