![]() This board book edition has sturdy pages and is a good size for the youngest readers. Inspired by a memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes real-when the imagination takes over inside a cardboard box, and through play, a child is transported tnoo a world where anything is possible. From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit shows that a box will go as far as the imagination allows. ![]() ![]() Don't miss this wholly original celebration of the power of imagination, winner of a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor AwardĪ box is just a box.unless it's not a box. ![]()
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Nathan Lochmueller studies birds, earning just enough money to live on. **NPR's Best Books of the Year 2013** A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people. ![]() ![]() One of the hallmarks of Schama’s work is his flair for description: ‘he gets arcane matters to walk, in fact dance, off the page’ according to fellow historian Peter Hennessy. It was Plumb’s influence which instilled in him the importance of narrative and written style in order to gain an audience for history outside academia. ![]() Here he was taught by Sir John Plumb whose other students: Linda Colley, Roy Porter and John Brewer are now central to British historical thought. Forced to choose between the two he opted to read history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. When his parents moved to London he won a scholarship to Haberdashers’ Aske’s School where his two great loves were English and History. ![]() ![]() The son of a textile merchant with Lithuanian and Turkish grandparents, he spent his early years in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. ![]() ![]() ![]() When explosive information surfaces linking Sam to the still unsolved assassination plot, the stakes are raised. Much to her dismay, Alyssa is assigned to help with the murder investigation and once again the two are face to face. ![]() The last time she saw Sam was six months earlier, when they worked together to stop terrorists from assassinating the U.S. His daughter is gone and the body of a brutally murdered woman lies on the floor.įBI agent Alyssa Locke’s relationship with Sam has been overwhelmingly intense and nearly catastrophic, yet it refuses to end. But when Sam shows up at the door of his ex-wife’s home in Sarasota, Florida, he makes a grisly discovery. ![]() Now, he’s waiting for a divorce and determined to stay active in his young daughter’s life. In his private life, Sam–the king of one-night stands–has done little right. In his career as one of America’s elite warriors, Lt. ![]() Navy SEAL and an FBI agent race to unravel a mystery– while confronting their own unresolved feelings for each other… Now, in her widely anticipated hardcover debut, she spins a story of action, intrigue, and romance, as a U.S. In her sizzling, award-winning novels of suspense, bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann delves into the adrenaline-rushed world of counterterrorism–and taps into the real passions of its brave men and women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, Fritz Leiber received the Grand Master of Fantasy (Gandalf) Award, the Life Achievement Lovecraft Award, and the Grand Master Nebula Award. Leiber creates a tense, claustrophobic SF mystery, and a brilliant, unique locked-room whodunit. The most notable work of the series is the Hugo Award-winning novel The Big Time, in which doctors, entertainers, and wounded soldiers find themselves treacherously trapped with an activated atomic bomb inside the Place, a room existing outside of space-time. One of his major SF creations is the Change War, a series of stories and short novels about rival time-traveling forces locked in a bitter, ages-long struggle for control of the human universe where battles alter history and then change it again until thereis no certainty about what might once have happened. One of his comeback works was the two-part Galaxy serial, The Big Time, in. But in the late fifties, he came back in force. Leiber then fell silent for four years (largely, he has said, the result of his battle with alcoholism). Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) may be best known as a fantasy writer, but he published widely and successfully in the horror and science fiction fields. Fritz Leiber's The Green Millenium (1953) was a satire on many of the darker sides of life in the early fifties. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A virtuosic storyteller and historian, the Works of the Venerable Bede displays an incredible breadth of scholarship from an extraordinary man of faith. Contained in this three volume collection is Bede’s masterwork The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, a remarkable anthology of his selected short writings and letters, and his commentary on the Book of Revelation, Explanation of the Apocalypse. One of the most important intellectuals, writers, and scholars of his day, the Venerable Bede earned the title “The Father of English History” after chronicling one of the most significant books on Anglo-Saxon history and the early expansion of Christianity in England. Logos Research Subscription for Schools. ![]() ![]() ![]() The wind has gently murmured through the blinds, or puffed with feathery softness against the windows, and occasionally sighed like a summer zephyr lifting the leaves along, the livelong night. Writing in the winter of 1843, shortly after Margaret Fuller’s mentorship made him a writer, the twenty-five-year-old Thoreau awakens to a snow-covered wonderland and marvels at the splendor - a singularly earthly splendor - of a world reborn: Long before he contemplated winter cabbage as a lesson in optimism, Thoreau explored winter’s rapturous yet overlooked rewards in a stunning, meandering meditation titled “A Winter Walk,” included in his indispensable Excursions ( free ebook | public library). ![]() “Human beings make metaphors as naturally as bees make honey,” Adam Gopnik wrote in his wondrous love letter to winter, and no one has honeyed the spirit with more splendid metaphors wrung from winter than Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817–May 6, 1862). ![]() ![]() ![]() My heart soared and shook and panted.' BOLU BABALOLA 'A must read for all romance lovers' is a dream of a writer. The only problem is, she's falling for the one man she absolutely can't have. And as the sun goes down on her old life our heroine also might just be ready to open her heart to someone new. I cannot put it down.' you fallen for this INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING novelist's sizzling hot entrance into the world of romance?įeyi is about to be given the chance to escape the City's blistering heat for a dream island holiday: poolside cocktails, beach sunsets, and elaborate meals. 'Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous.' hello to the book of the summer'. 'This book filled me with excitement and possibilities.' Jenny Colgan NOMINATED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR ROMANCE ![]() SHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE EVENING STANDARD'S BLOCKBUSTER BOOK TRENDS OF THE YEAR ![]() ![]() ![]() Bloom also examines the changing publishing industry, the coming of book clubs and reading groups and the cult of the author. ![]() Looking beyond dubious publishers' statistics, Bloom has found that while Christie, du Maurier, Innes et al can be numbered with today's till-ringers such as Binchy, Collins and Welsh, so can such forgotten names as Dolf Wyllarde, Steve Francis and Sydney Horter. In July, Clive Bloom takes a longer view in Bestsellers: What the British have been Reading over the Last 100 Years and Why (Palgrave). The accompanying BBC book comes from John Sutherland. For the past few weeks, Reading the Decades has been providing welcome quality time on BBC2, throwing up surprising snatches of archive film (the rush to the shops after the Chatterley ban was lifted) and some equally surprising validations of writers long out of fashion - Carmen Callil and Germaine Greer both extolling the virtues of Georgette Heyer. ![]() ![]() She has taken it upon herself to write her memoirs, specifically about the period she was acquainted with Ned Gillespie, a forgotten Scottish artist and - according to Harriet, an unfairly neglected genius. Part of the reason for Gillespie's obscurity is that he destroyed most of his work before tragically taking his own life. Harriet describes him as her "dear friend and soul mate," revealing that she was closest to him and knew him better than members of his own family. Harriet Baxter is an elderly spinster living in London in the 1930's. ![]() Gillespie and I is one of those books that I find difficult to talk about because too much information would spoil it. You can just wrap up in a blanket, have a hot drink nearby, and just lose yourself in it. ![]() ![]() I find something so cozy about reading a chunky historical fiction during the colder months. ![]() |