![]() When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to a new home, an Enchanted Wood is on their doorstep. The Magic Faraway Tree is the second story in the Faraway Tree series by the world’s best-loved children’s author, Enid Blyton. Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? Come on an amazing adventure – there’ll be adventures waiting whatever happens. ![]() And when they discover the Faraway Tree, that is the beginning of many magical adventures! Join them and their friends Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. ![]() The Enchanted Wood is the first magical story in the Faraway Tree series by the world’s best-loved children’s author, Enid Blyton. ![]()
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It is a common practice among great authors to write books that are, in some way, based on certain emotional times of their lives. ![]() John after hearing Rochester’s voice calling out to her to return home to him. ![]() Climax: Jane turns down the marriage proposal of St.Setting: Ferndean, Moor House, Lowood, Gateshead Hall, Thornfield Hall.Amid the wildness of the 19th-century society in which she finds herself, with the fact that there’s an existing bias against women in general, ‘ Jane Eyre’s’ main character stops at nothing to reach her goals, even if that means enduring a cruel aunt, going destitute for three days, and working for a mean man. ![]() ![]() Then came the death threats: first on Facebook, then through terrifying anonymous phone calls. After connecting with Jews and Christians on social media, and at various international interfaith conferences, Mohammed became an activist, making it his mission to promote dialogue and cooperation in Yemen. ![]() But when Mohammed was twenty-three, he secretly received a copy of the Bible, and what he read cast doubt on everything he’d previously believed. A 2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALISTīorn in the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class doctors, Mohammed Al Samawi was a devout Muslim raised to think of Christians and Jews as his enemy. ![]() The Fox Hunt tells one young man’s unforgettable story of his harrowing escape from Yemen's brutal civil war with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West. "A gripping account of terror and escape.” - New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() ![]() The woman is the daughter of Joseph Waite, a wealthy self-made man who has lavished her with privilege but kept her in a gilded cage. It's now early Spring of 1930, Stratton is investigating a murder case in Coulsden, while Maisie has been summoned to Dulwich to find a runaway heiress. ![]() She has proven herself as a psychologist and investigator, and has even won over Detective Inspector Stratton of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad - an admirable achievement for a woman who worked her way from servant to scholar to sleuth, and who also served as battlefield nurse in The Great War. Since starting a one-woman private investigation agency in 1929 London, she now has a professional office in Fitzroy Square and an assistant, the happy-go-lucky Billy Beale. An eventful year has passed for Maisie Dobbs. Book has previous owner's initial written on the front free endpaper, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. M4 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then again, maybe a contract will be the best thing that ever happened to us both. If only this contract didn’t complicate things, if only there wasn’t a marriage clause attached, if only this rugged mountain man wasn’t about to be my boss. ![]() The type of man that doesn’t exist in the city. He’s tall, muscular, sexy, rugged, a little broken, and unbelievably protective. ![]() But Johnathan is nothing like the hermit I was expecting. I tell myself I’ll drop the package and leave, speed off the mountain as fast as I sped up, get back to the city where I belong. It’s the least I can do after all he did for me. But I promised my boss, I’d deliver his last will and testament to his estranged son. Eliza I’d rather be anywhere but the mountains. But she’s come with a purpose, a contract of sorts, and life is about to get complicated. She’s curvy, beautiful, and smart as hell. ![]() Will this loner mountain man give up a life in the wild for a chance at love? Johnathan I’m content living life free from the hustle of Toronto In fact, I can’t imagine things any other way. Join us in Toronto, for sexy, sweet and a little bit taboo intra office romance stories to celebrate Administrative Professional’s Day. Sixteen of your favorite steamy short romance authors bring you a brand-new series of contemporary office romances that are #Not Safe For Work. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot follows Ari, who is the 42nd reincarnation of King Arthur (42nd? Definite Douglas Adams vibe). With important themes like illegal refugees and corporatocracy, I had wrongly assumed this book would feel more drama-and-politics-based. I didn't realize this before reading, but Once & Future is that strange blend of sci-fi and quirky comedy that some people seem to love- think The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but way more diverse and modern. There were some moments of comedy gold in this book, and so much wonderful diversity and queerness, but, overall, I think I have to admit that this book was written in a particular style that has never been to my tastes. It's times like this when I really wish I'd never started leaving star ratings for books because it just doesn't adequately express all that I want to say. ![]() "Why are you being so nice to them right now?" Hex asked. Then another apology - "sorry, quite sorry" - as he zinged the one holding Hex. He apologized for breaking his promise not to use magic as he took down the guard with the needle. ![]() ![]() Villani shares his favorite songs, his love of manga, and the imaginative stories he tells his children. ![]() You're privy to the dining-hall conversations at the world's greatest research institutions. You join him in unproductive lulls and late-night breakthroughs. Villani's diaries, emails, and musings enmesh you in the process of discovery. It doesn't simplify or overexplain rather, it invites readers into collaboration. It invites readers inside the mind of a great mathematician as he wrestles with the most important work of his career.But you don't have to understand nonlinear Landau damping to love Birth of a Theorem. ![]() Birth of a Theorem is Villani's own account of the years leading up to the award. In 2010, French mathematician Cédric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof which he devised with his close collaborator Clément Mouhot to explain one of the most surprising theories in classical physics. ![]() ![]() |a Conservation of natural resources |x Fiction. ![]() ![]() |a The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home. |a 1 volume (unpaged) : |b color illustrations, color maps |c 29 cm While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child. This gorgeous picture book about a man who exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. 'Spectacular. The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry is the perfect book to discuss deforestation and environmental issues in KS1 and KS2. |a San Diego : |b Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, |c A modern fable with an urgent message for young environmentalists. ![]() |a The great kapok tree : |b a tale of the Amazon rain forest / |c by Lynne Cherry. ![]() ![]() ![]() LaValle handles the development of the characters with mental illness well. Pepper’s cohorts include: Dorry, an old-timer with schizophrenia who’s been on the ward for decades Coffee, an African immigrant, who is struggling with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and Loochie, a hot-headed teenager with bipolar disorder. This nightmarish event provides a rallying point for Pepper and several other patients who come together and fight back against the creature, the hospital’s staff and their own demons. The next morning other patients confirm that after dark the creature roams the hallways. But on his first night inside, Pepper is attacked by a horrifying creature that is quickly removed from his room by hospital staff. But when he finds he’s been taken to a mental hosptial, he decides to wait it out the 72 hour hold and go home. ![]() Pepper is a big, rowdy brawler guilt of petty crimes, but does not have a mental illness. As only someone who has been there could, novelist Victor LaValle author of The Devil in Silver takes the reader inside New Hyde Mental Institution in Queens, New York, where the main character, Pepper, is admitted in handcuffs for a 72 hour psych evaluation at the end of a cop’s night shift. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the final scene, he commits the Manichean heresy by excommunicating the whole planet over FTL radio while a bumbling human engineer accidentally blows it up. ![]() ![]() In the book’s second half, set on a dystopian Earth, he finally concludes that their innocence is Satanic. Father Ramon is bothered by the apparent innocence of the Lithians. His arrival interrupts Father Ramon’s Jesuitical musings on the nature of evil and innocence. In the first paragraph, we meet a biologist with the symbolic name of Cleaver slamming a door in frustration because he has gotten something like trench mouth from a local fruit. The first half explores what Star Trek would come to call the Prime Directive, in which human corporate technology is shown to be inferior to the stable non-technological culture of the Lithians. E-book, ed., Open Road, 2017.Ī Case of Conscience is almost two different books. ![]() |