Author: Marcia Muller
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1609986571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
To tourists, bay-windowed Victorian mansions are quaint, peaceful symbols of old San Francisco, but on the secluded hill above Steiner Street, the gingerbread has sparked a bitter battle. Ambitious developers are pushing for restoration, and residents are fighting for their homes—until a controversial restorationist is found dead on the job, awash in garish house paint. Private investigator Sharon McCone is called in only to discover a second bitter feud, this time between the developers and members of the city's powerful architectural community. As workmen rip through layers of drywall plaster, and wallpaper, McCone unearths an older crime: a cache of stolen antiques comes to light, and a missing one-of-a-kind Tiffany lamp emblazoned with the glowing profile of the Cheshire Cat becomes McCone's most important clue. To catch a killer, she must follow its eerie, knowing grin before its hidden eye foresees a fatal future.
The Cheshire Cat’s Eye
Author: Marcia Muller
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1609986571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
To tourists, bay-windowed Victorian mansions are quaint, peaceful symbols of old San Francisco, but on the secluded hill above Steiner Street, the gingerbread has sparked a bitter battle. Ambitious developers are pushing for restoration, and residents are fighting for their homes—until a controversial restorationist is found dead on the job, awash in garish house paint. Private investigator Sharon McCone is called in only to discover a second bitter feud, this time between the developers and members of the city's powerful architectural community. As workmen rip through layers of drywall plaster, and wallpaper, McCone unearths an older crime: a cache of stolen antiques comes to light, and a missing one-of-a-kind Tiffany lamp emblazoned with the glowing profile of the Cheshire Cat becomes McCone's most important clue. To catch a killer, she must follow its eerie, knowing grin before its hidden eye foresees a fatal future.
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1609986571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
To tourists, bay-windowed Victorian mansions are quaint, peaceful symbols of old San Francisco, but on the secluded hill above Steiner Street, the gingerbread has sparked a bitter battle. Ambitious developers are pushing for restoration, and residents are fighting for their homes—until a controversial restorationist is found dead on the job, awash in garish house paint. Private investigator Sharon McCone is called in only to discover a second bitter feud, this time between the developers and members of the city's powerful architectural community. As workmen rip through layers of drywall plaster, and wallpaper, McCone unearths an older crime: a cache of stolen antiques comes to light, and a missing one-of-a-kind Tiffany lamp emblazoned with the glowing profile of the Cheshire Cat becomes McCone's most important clue. To catch a killer, she must follow its eerie, knowing grin before its hidden eye foresees a fatal future.
Through A Looking Glass Darkly
Author: Jake Fior
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527256903
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527256903
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Cheshire Cheese Cat
Author: Carmen Agra Deedy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1561458104
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this playful homage to Charles Dickens, Skilley, an alley cat with an embarrassing secret, longs to escape his street-cat life. Hoping to trade London's damp alleyways for the warmth of ye olde Cheshire Cheese Inn, Skilley strikes a bargain with Pip, an erudite mouse. Skilley will protect the mice who live at the inn, and in turn, the mice will provide Skilley with the thing he desires most. But when Skilley and Pip are drawn into a crisis of monumental proportions, their new friendship is pushed to its limits. The escalating crisis threatens the peace not only of the Cheshire Cheese Inn but the entire British Monarchy! New York Times best-selling author Carmen Agra Deedy and coauthor Randall Wright collaborate on this compelling story set in Victorian England. With the artwork of award-winning illustrator Barry Moser, The Cheshire Cheese Cat is filled with charming characters and strong themes of friendship and loyalty.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1561458104
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this playful homage to Charles Dickens, Skilley, an alley cat with an embarrassing secret, longs to escape his street-cat life. Hoping to trade London's damp alleyways for the warmth of ye olde Cheshire Cheese Inn, Skilley strikes a bargain with Pip, an erudite mouse. Skilley will protect the mice who live at the inn, and in turn, the mice will provide Skilley with the thing he desires most. But when Skilley and Pip are drawn into a crisis of monumental proportions, their new friendship is pushed to its limits. The escalating crisis threatens the peace not only of the Cheshire Cheese Inn but the entire British Monarchy! New York Times best-selling author Carmen Agra Deedy and coauthor Randall Wright collaborate on this compelling story set in Victorian England. With the artwork of award-winning illustrator Barry Moser, The Cheshire Cheese Cat is filled with charming characters and strong themes of friendship and loyalty.
Strangeling
Author: Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780738743219
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shares reproductions of the artist's fantasy-themed paintings along with personal insights and a discussion of her characters' histories.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780738743219
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shares reproductions of the artist's fantasy-themed paintings along with personal insights and a discussion of her characters' histories.
Alice in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Seven Books
ISBN: 3988655856
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.
Publisher: Seven Books
ISBN: 3988655856
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.
The Looking Glass Wars
Author: Frank Beddor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101221461
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Myth: Alice was an ordinary girl who stepped through the looking glass and entered a fairy-tale world invented by Lewis Carroll in his famous storybook. The Truth: Wonderland is real. Alyss Heart is the heir to the throne, until her murderous aunt Redd steals the crown and kills Alyss? parents. To escape Redd, Alyss and her bodyguard, Hatter Madigan, must flee to our world through the Pool of Tears. But in the pool Alyss and Hatter are separated. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Yet he gets the story all wrong. Hatter Madigan knows the truth only too well, and he is searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland so she may battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101221461
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Myth: Alice was an ordinary girl who stepped through the looking glass and entered a fairy-tale world invented by Lewis Carroll in his famous storybook. The Truth: Wonderland is real. Alyss Heart is the heir to the throne, until her murderous aunt Redd steals the crown and kills Alyss? parents. To escape Redd, Alyss and her bodyguard, Hatter Madigan, must flee to our world through the Pool of Tears. But in the pool Alyss and Hatter are separated. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Yet he gets the story all wrong. Hatter Madigan knows the truth only too well, and he is searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland so she may battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.
After Alice
Author: Gregory Maguire
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062410822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Lewis Carroll’s beloved classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice’s disappearance? In After Alice, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings—and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll’s enduring tale. Ada, a friend of Alice’s mentioned briefly in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her friend, but arrives a moment too late—and tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself. Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and see her safely home from this surreal world below the world. If Eurydice can ever be returned to the arms of Orpheus, or Lazarus can be raised from the tomb, perhaps Alice can be returned to life. Either way, everything that happens next is “After Alice.”
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062410822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Lewis Carroll’s beloved classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice’s disappearance? In After Alice, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings—and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll’s enduring tale. Ada, a friend of Alice’s mentioned briefly in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her friend, but arrives a moment too late—and tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself. Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and see her safely home from this surreal world below the world. If Eurydice can ever be returned to the arms of Orpheus, or Lazarus can be raised from the tomb, perhaps Alice can be returned to life. Either way, everything that happens next is “After Alice.”
Mystery Women, Volume One (Revised)
Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.
This Freedom
Author: Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
THIS FREEDOM
Author: A. S. M. HUTCHINSON
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This Freedom by A. S. M. Hutchinson is a deeply touching narrative that explores the complexities of personal freedom, family, and the constant search for happiness. Join Rosalie, the vibrant and determined protagonist, on her journey through life's ups and downs in a society wrestling with shifting norms. Encompassing a range of human emotions and experiences, This Freedom is a testimony to Hutchinson's skill in crafting characters that resonate with readers. His masterful storytelling illuminates life's simple joys, stark realities, and everything in between. But This Freedom isn't just a novel—it's a mirror reflecting societal evolution and individual pursuit of happiness. Hutchinson's incisive exploration of personal freedom and the human condition remains as relevant today as when first published. If you're searching for a book that combines an engaging narrative with timeless reflections on life, This Freedom by A. S. M. Hutchinson is the choice for you. Order your copy today and immerse yourself in a moving and thought-provoking journey.
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This Freedom by A. S. M. Hutchinson is a deeply touching narrative that explores the complexities of personal freedom, family, and the constant search for happiness. Join Rosalie, the vibrant and determined protagonist, on her journey through life's ups and downs in a society wrestling with shifting norms. Encompassing a range of human emotions and experiences, This Freedom is a testimony to Hutchinson's skill in crafting characters that resonate with readers. His masterful storytelling illuminates life's simple joys, stark realities, and everything in between. But This Freedom isn't just a novel—it's a mirror reflecting societal evolution and individual pursuit of happiness. Hutchinson's incisive exploration of personal freedom and the human condition remains as relevant today as when first published. If you're searching for a book that combines an engaging narrative with timeless reflections on life, This Freedom by A. S. M. Hutchinson is the choice for you. Order your copy today and immerse yourself in a moving and thought-provoking journey.