Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608196828
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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"Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence." -Boston Globe Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us. A #1 BookSense Pick "A delightful book."-Los Angeles Times "Collins' gift is that you don't care where you end up. The journey is enough."-Readerville "The real, engaging heart of the tale is Collins' love of books and other people who love them...Collins muses on antiquarian books the way the rest of us remember lost loves."-San Francisco Chronicle "Funny, informative, somewhat chaotic and full of interesting references...there are numerous meanders into peripheral subjects, seen through the astute eyes of an Anglophile American."-Washington Post
Author: Jennifer Bell
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553498452
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Anyone with a Hogwarts-shaped hole in their lives can’t miss this fantasy series opener. Dive into a secret underground city below London where ordinary objects are capable of extraordinary magic! "Part Tim Burton, part J.K. Rowling! A terrific debut." —Soman Chainani, New York Times Bestselling Author of the School for Good and Evil series Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems… When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to the hospital, Ivy Sparrow and her annoying big brother Seb cannot imagine what adventure lies in store. Soon their house is ransacked by unknown intruders, and a very strange policeman turns up on the scene, determined to apprehend them . . . with a toilet brush. Ivy and Seb make their escape only to find themselves in a completely uncommon world, a secret underground city called Lundinor where ordinary objects have amazing powers. There are belts that enable the wearer to fly, yo-yos that turn into weapons, buttons with healing properties, and other enchanted objects capable of very unusual feats. But the forces of evil are closing in fast, and when Ivy and Seb learn that their family is connected to one of the greatest uncommon treasures of all time, they must race to unearth the treasure and get to the bottom of a family secret . . . before it’s too late. Debut novelist Jennifer Bell delivers a world of wonder and whimsy in the start of a richly uncommon series. "An auspicious trilogy opener." -Kirkus Reviews
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: Holly Webb
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544339282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle chase.
Author: Tilly Wallace
Publisher: Tilly Wallace
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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A heart as lonely as the ocean… Hannah and Wycliff arrive at his ancestral estate in Dorset as tragedy strikes the coastal village. A young woman has lost her life to the tempestuous ocean, but only Hannah suspects the woman’s death is anything but a horrible accident. As Hannah learns more about life in the closeknit community, she discovers two other women lost their lives to the sea. Or did they? A rift grows between the young couple, as Wycliff refuses to believe another hand was responsible for the deaths. With her husband consumed by the needs of the long neglected estate, Hannah is left to her own devices and finds herself walking the same lonely path as the dead women. Can Hannah and Wycliff heal the chasm in their relationship, or will Hannah succumb to the call of the ocean…?
Author: Virginia Farmer
Publisher: Love Spell
ISBN: 9780505523853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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In a mock bride auction during her tour of England, Jocelyn Tanner finds herself "in another time, another body, and in a real auction--being claimed by a real hunk of a man."--Cover
Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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A gripping spy thriller with a deserved reputation. Philip sees an announcement in ‘The Times’ from an old friend who has instructed the newspaper to publish only if they don’t hear from him. This sets a trail running through Europe, with the Kremlin, defectors, agitators and the People’s Court setting the background to a very realistic story ...
Author: Proal Heartwell
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498270565
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Goronwy Owen (1723-1769) was a Welsh poet and clergyman who spent the last dozen years of his life in Virginia. As a poet, Owen is still revered in his native land as in his work he revived the ancient bardic meters of Welsh poetry. He lived in obscurity in Virginia, first in Williamsburg where he was the Master of the Grammar School at the College of William and Mary, and then in Brunswick County where he was the rector of St. Andrew's Parish. In Brunswick County, Owen wrote "Marwnad Lewys Morys Yswain," widely considered his second greatest poem. Goronwy and Me: A Narrative of Two Lives traces Owen's tempestuous life from his humble beginnings in Wales to his last years in Virginia. Throughout the narrative, Proal Heartwell explores the many intersections between his own life and that of the exiled bard. Goronwy and Me is not a typical biography, but rather a conversation between the author and the reader on the life of a remarkable Welshman.
Author: Allen Daniel Candler
Publisher:
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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