![]() ![]() ![]() This will all wash over the heads of readers who aren't familiar with such titles as Anne of Green Gables, Alice in Wonderland and A Little Princess, but for those who love these stories, it will be a real treat seeing their favourite lovingly worked over and meshed together into a story. It's the start of a book lover's paradise, a wish fulfillment - what if you could travel inside your favourite stories? It did remind me of Inkheart at several points, but used real books and characters known and loved the world over, using real details and scenes from them. and she may be able to go back with them. Tilly soon realises that she is meeting characters from her favourite books. Wanting to know more about her mother, she notices one day strange people appearing in the bookshop that seem somehow familiar. Growing up around books she is a true reader, and despite not knowing her father, her mother disappearing while she was still a baby, books are her respite. Tilly Pages lives above her grandparents' bookshop. Immersive story and famous characters make for a young book lover's dream. Immersive story is a young book lover's dream ![]()
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![]() ![]() 'Skulduggery Pleasant serves up a thoroughly satisfying blend of humour, magic and adventure. I sincerely hope Landy revisits these characters.' Philip Ardagh, Guardian. 'It's exciting, pacy, nicely handled and fun. 'Hugely enjoyable - a thrill-a-minute adventure.' Jonathan Stroud, author of the BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY. ”'A magical mystery that grabs you from the first word and doesn’t let go, not even when you’re finished, and leaves you gasping for more like a fish out of water. ”'A fast evolving plot and a great mix of scariness and humour” - Sunday Express Praise for Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless One:. ”'Derek Landy has been something of a publishing phenomenon.” - Irish Post ”'Landy ability to craft an engaging story from start to finish.” - Inis ![]() ![]() ![]() My life next door / by Huntley Fitzpatrick. 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It was fueled by humiliation, and despair, and the absolute certainty that her father must be turning in his grave. It was the self-loathing of someone who can’t quite bring herself to leave home and have done with it. It was being relegated to a chamber in the attic, with faded furnishings that advertised her relative worth in the household. It was the pitying glances she had from acquaintances who never met her at dinner anymore. ![]() Anger was watching her father’s money be poured into new gowns and bonnets and frilly things…so numerous that her stepmother and stepsister couldn’t find days enough in the year to wear them all. Anger was watching the crops wilt and the hedges overgrow because her stepmother begrudged the money needed to maintain the estate. Daltry – who had held that title for a matter of mere months – started ruling the roost, that Kate really learned the meaning of anger.Īnger was watching tenants on the estate be forced to pay double the rent or leave cottages where they’d lived their whole lives. But it wasn’t until he was gone, and the new Mrs. Before her father died seven years earlier, she found herself sometimes irritated with her new stepmother. It should be said that the condition wasn’t unfamiliar to her. ![]() Miss Katherine Daltry, known to almost all as Kate, got down from her horse seething with rage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cameron certainly doesn’t trust any of the Silvers among them. Cal can’t seem to find his place, and most of the reds don’t trust him. She only wishes to save her brother but finds herself with the somewhat fractured guard. They are in the tunnels of Isabelle, a Scarlet Guard stronghold near a city called Trial. ![]() He also makes her relive her mistakes and Shade’s death.Ĭameron, a newblood who is able to silence other’s powers, is with the Scarlet Guard division that is led by Farley. He is able to extract information from her mind in a very painful process. She has had enough of Mare’s easy treatment and insists that she be interrogated. Mare is under constant guard by the Arvens and wears manacles that suppress her lightning.įinally, she is called forward by Evangeline. Maven, who is engaged to Evangeline, locks Mare away in his castle. Many believe the lies that Maven spins but even some Silvers are against Maven and his tactics. ![]() They make her out to be the leader of the Scarlet Guard. Now, however, he holds Mare prisoner and televises her capture. King Maven held to his end of the bargain and did not pursue them. ![]() Mare has turned herself in after the death of her brother Shade in an attempt to save her friends. King’s Cage starts where Glass Sword left off. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in King’s Cage? If you are wondering what happened in King’s Cage, you are in the right place! Read a full summary of King’s Cage, book #3 of the Red Queen series now! This page is full of spoilers so beware. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s why: The topic of astronauts’ bodily functions provides as good an excuse to ask rude questions as you’ll find on this planet or any other. Yet her fluffily lightweight style is at its most substantial and most hilarious in the zero-gravity realm that “Packing for Mars” explores. Each time, what has interested her most is the fringe material: exotic footnotes, smart one-liners, bizarre quasi-scientific phenomena. Roach has already written zealously nosy books about corpses (“Stiff”), copulation (“Bonk”) and charlatans (“Spook”). ![]() “Feel bad for the Air Force security guy assigned to listen to two weeks of bowel sounds to be sure no conversations including classified information had been inadvertently recorded.” “Don’t feel bad for him,” she writes in “Packing for Mars” about that awkwardly wired astronaut. Roach’s style to be less interested in the belly-noise findings than in the freaky-deaky part of the story. In conducting research into the physiology of astronauts in space, Mary Roach found out that one man on a Space Shuttle flight wore a sound monitor on his belly for the duration of his voyage. ![]() ![]() – An updated edition with machines and technologies that have become commonplace since the book’s last major revision in 2016. ![]() – Key scientific principles illustrated with Macaulay’s brand of dry humour, using lighthearted stories involving mammoths. – The use of machines in everyday objects explainde, such as clocks, bikes, and watches, as well as the technology behind complicated machines such as space rockets and nuclear reactors. – The inner workings of each machine, showing the technology in detail but making it accessible through Macaulay’s uniquely playful illustrations. This fascinating machines book for children features: From the basic lever to the modern microprocessor, this bestseller has now been completely updated with the latest technologies – find out how a touchscreen works, look inside an optical mouse, and see the inner workings of a smartphone. The Way Things Work explains every machine you’ve ever wanted to understand, as well as some you’ve probably never thought about before. ![]() In this extensive encyclopedia packed full of simple science for kids aged 9+, David Macaulay’s beautiful illustrations show the inner workings of each machine, from clocks and watches to jet engines and the Internet. Get to grips with how things work inside hundreds of machines with this extraordinary book for kids that explains the science behind technologies and inventions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Turner details family problems, breastfeeding, and even experimenting with pot. ![]() The book feels like an old friend is sharing their day with me. In fact what makes the book funny is the honest open way Turner shares her every day life with the reader. Super mom is controlling, neurotic and needs wine. Turner shares her unapologetic truth about marriage and children as she shares the flaws in what would been a super mom persona 30 yrs ago. I m trying to review this book with out spoiling the plot. The only other criticism I have is the story was scattered in parts. ![]() In the beginning, by the end of the book I’m not sure if the jokes are getting old or if I was too tired to laugh any more. This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store is laugh out loud funny. The best quote I read about the book said "Reading This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store is like going to your neighbor's house for a play date and discovering that she's just as clueless and crazy as you are." -Stacy Dymalski, the author of Confessions of a Band Geek Mom This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps most importantly, it stands as one of the first, and surviving, accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire, the events of, and causes for, the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. ![]() Moreover, it established without precedent the genre and study of history in the Western world, although historical records and chronicles existed beforehand. It is not an impartial record but it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs. ![]() Written from the 450s to the 420s BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known around the Mediterranean and Western Asia at that time. The Histories of Herodotus is considered one of the seminal works of history in Western literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather, she seeks to expand existing interpretations of Rushdie’s work, itineraries, and frameworks in order to take into account the actual conditions of postcolonial cultural production and circulation within a marketplace that is global in both orientation and effects. ![]() She contends that marginality should not be construed exclusively as a basis for understanding Rushdie’s work, since a critical grounding in marginality will predictably involve a reproduction of the traditional postcolonial binaries of oppressor/oppressed and colonizer/colonized that the writer subverts. Mendes argues that how a postcolonial author becomes personally and professionally enmeshed in the dealings of the cultural industries is of particular relevance at a time when the market is strictly regulated by a few multinational corporations. Mendes pays particular attention to Rushdie as a public performer across various creative platforms, not only as a novelist and short story writer, but also as a public intellectual, reviewer, and film critic. ![]() Taking up the roles that Salman Rushdie himself has assumed as a cultural broker, gatekeeper, and mediator in various spheres of public production, Ana Cristina Mendes situates his work in terms of the contemporary production, circulation, and consumption of postcolonial texts within the workings of the cultural industries. ![]() |