![]() ![]() In Volume 2 of the Unicorn Island series, Secret Beneath the Sand, Sam and Tuck are on their way to becoming unicorn protectors when they discover new secrets about the island that threaten unicorns’ existence! School Library Journal says that “Fans of unicorns and magic in the real world will enjoy this adventure,” and Foreword Reviews claims it’s “An all-too-human, enchanting middle grade fantasy novel.” ![]() ![]() Unicorn Island is a middle-grade illustrated novel series about a young girl who discovers a mysterious island full of mythical beasts. Unicorn Island: Secret Beneath the Sand (Volume 2)Īndrews McMeel Publishing (Simon & Schuster) We’re both so glad this book has finally arrived after its long journey. We’re both unicorn lovers, and she has another delightful book in her Unicorn Island series to share with us. I’m thrilled to have author Donna Galanti here with me today.
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![]() ![]() ![]() Keri Hulme: the bone people Te Kaihau/The Windeater Lost Possessions. ![]() O元991470W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.74 Pages 250 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0340401745 Keri Hulmes nephew Matt Salmons, her niece Anna Hulme, her publisher Marian. Urn:lcp:tekaihauwindeate00hulm:epub:2788debb-01b3-421c-a7ee-696ffb45daf7 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier tekaihauwindeate00hulm Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t20c6679c Isbn 0807611689 Lccn 86031760 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2737262M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:31:01 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA155101 Boxid_2 CH116301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY DonorĬityofsausalitolibrary External-identifier ![]() ![]() Though there are references to a few books and authors, these are always extremely well known ones, so the likelihood of readers becoming as perplexed as some of the customers featured within should be slim. Final thoughtsĪnother excellent stocking filler – thanks, Santa! – and a great gift for the librarian / bookseller / customer services representative in your life. There’s only three pages of these, but they’re really quite marvellously odd. Rather wonderfully, this book contains a ‘weird things customers have said at weird things customers say in bookshops book signings’ chapter. ![]() ![]() From customers who think Shakespeare is fictional and Harry Potter might have killed Voldemort, to customers who sincerely believe it’s acceptable to discuss the contraceptive choices of the bookseller, there’s plenty of material here to make you laugh and shake your head in mild disbelief. (Also, see here for my review of the first book.) Essentially, it’s 121 pages of brief dialogues between customers and bookshop employees, ranging from the slightly unusual to the outright bizarre. ![]() Jen Campbell, bookseller at Ripping Yarns and author of ‘Weird Things Customers say in Bookshops’ is back with, well, more weird things customers have said to some poor, confused bookseller. ‘Can you recommend a book of spells to raise pets from the dead? Just animals you understand – not people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Custer’s Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history – 130 years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. ![]() When the guns fell silent, no soldier – including their commanding officer, Lt Col. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry – 262 soldiers, comprising officers and troopers – fought desperately but hopelessly. On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors – Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho – converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana’s Little Bighorn River. You can read this before Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn written by Evan S. Brief Summary of Book: Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Evan S. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We’re not lost,” she snaps, taking a right turn and entering a residential area. “I think we’re lost.” That or she’s taking me to the middle of nowhere so she can kill me and bury my body. I spot a sign that reads “Welcome to Silver Springs.” “Are you sure you’re going the right way?” “I’m sure,” she says, her hands tightening on the steering wheel. Thunder echoes around us, and lightning flashes up ahead, illuminating the empty country road. Some vivid memories, wide expanses of nothingness, and too many black holes. A planet surrounded by the empty void of nothingness that is the galaxy. My memories are kind of like my name-Venus. Not that either of those things is particularly unusual. I barely know the girl, and I can’t actually remember saying I would go… or getting into the car. I’m not even sure why I agreed to go on this road trip with her. She lets out an exasperated sigh but doesn’t reply. WHERE ARE WE GOİNG AGAİN?” I ask Neptune as she pulls off the highway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But suddenly, the publisher I work with asked me if I would do a fashion book. Nailing it in the book’s foreword, Franca Sozzani says, ‘Her pictures are not about fashion, even though she respects fashion.’ Behind the enigmatic photographs, we find a spritely 73-year-old eager to share the unconventional beauty she sees.ĭazed Digital: What motivated a book on your fashion photography after all these years?ĭeborah Turbeville: A few of the books I’ve done before have some of the fashion photographs but converted and reinvented, so I never really felt the need to do one. 'Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures' reveals what makes her one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers – despite a career spanning 40-odd years, she retains a strong conviction to her vision whether in its historic or artistic value, or its successful transcendence of time and classification. But from the New England-raised photographer comes another wonderful monograph essential in enriching one’s experience with her work, the slow burners that they are. ![]() One might wonder what defines a fashion picture to Deborah Turbeville – there’s seldom a clear distinction whether she’s shooting a Balenciaga collection or a Venetian family, an editorial for one of the Vogues or a masquerade in a Russian theatre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book really isn’t so much nature writing, however, as it is travel writing. Thankfully, Kaufman commits neither of these sins his writing on birds maintains a delicate balance between the two. Too many nature writers err too far on the side of either poetry or science. Through his adventures, we see the youth of the American Birding Association and the nascent beginnings of the extensive birding communications network that exists today. In this book, Kaufman is to birding what Forrest Gump is to jogging. At this period in history, birding was gaining popularity and just starting to grow into a national pastime. In this memoir, Kaufman details his 1973 attempt at a Big Year-that is, to be the birder who spots the most species in North America in a given calendar year. ![]() With his parents’ permission, he left his home in Wichita, Kansas to travel around the country viewing birds in the wild. When Kaufman was 16 years old, he dropped out of high school to pursue his love of ornithology. I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to read his 1997 book Kingbird Highway, but I can finally scratch this birding memoir off my life list. When I do go birding, I always carry his Kaufman Focus Guide to the Birds of North America in my back pocket. I don’t get out as much as I’d like to, and I’m certainly not in Kenn Kaufman’s league. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the problem with having a history of playing practical jokes is that no one believes James-not even his parents. Now James and Ava need to figure out who is sending the letters before they become the next victims in their neighborhood’s long history of missing children.īecause one thing is clear: Uncovering the truth about the Keeper is the only thing that will keep them alive. Inspired by a terrifying true story, acclaimed author Guadalupe Garcia McCall. James and his sister, Ava, are obviously in danger. Read The Keeper by Guadalupe Garca McCall available from Rakuten Kobo. Someone who is looking for “young blood.” Guadalupe García McCall was born in Mexico and moved to Texas as a young girl, keeping close ties with family on both sides of the border. ![]() James always knew moving from Texas to Oregon was going to be horrible. But no sooner have he and his family arrived in their "perfect" new home in their "perfect" new town than he starts getting mysterious letters from someone called the Keeper. Inspired by a terrifying true story, acclaimed author Guadalupe Garcia McCall creates a twisty tale about a boy desperately trying to survive in a new town with a secret past. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sabran is being pressured to accept a husband and have a daughter, who will then be heir to the throne. Ead's purpose in Sabran's court is to ensure that Sabran remains safe, in case her line is tied to the Nameless One. Ead, however, holds with a different set of beliefs, though she pretends to bow to the Six Virtues. Sabran's beliefs are centered around an entire religion known as the Six Virtues. The Nameless One will not return as long as Sabran's lineage continues. ![]() Sabran is descended from a warrior who had battled a horrific dragon known as the Nameless One. Kindle AZW file.Įad seems to be a servant in the court of Sabran, Queen of Inys, but she is actually a member of the Priory of the Orange Tree, a secret organization of mages that is sworn to kill dragons. ![]() Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, New York, 2019. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Shannon-Jones, Samantha, The Priory of the Orange Tree. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune. ![]() A Nabokovian cat’s cradle” on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, the internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York’s art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. ![]() Hailed by The Washington Post as “Siri Hustvedt’s best novel yet, an electrifying work,” The Blazing World is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman’s struggle to be seen. Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction Louis Post Dispatch’s Best Books of 2014 ** The Independent Fiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One of Buzzfeed’s Best Books Written by Women in 2014 ** San Francisco Chronicle’s Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** ’s Best of 2014 Fiction Named one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** Boston Globe’s Best Fiction of 2014 ** The Telegraph’s Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** St. ![]() |