![]() So they lie in wait outside his hole, ready to shoot, starve or dig him out. But his plots and disguises are foiled by the animals in the jungle - especially by Trunky, the Elephant.įANTASTIC MR FOX: Boggis, Bunce and Bean are just about the nastiest and meanest three farmers you could meet. He boasts that he is going to eat a child for lunch and sets out to trick all the children in his attempts for food. Wonderfully brought to life, here we meet THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE. In a bold attempt to outdo his rival, Mr Hoppy devises an ingenious plan to make Alfie grow and grow and grow. She would so love Alfie to grow bigger, she says. THE GIRAFFE AND PELLY AND ME: In this classic story of the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company, we accompany Billy, who is lucky enough to join in the many remarkable and entertaining adventures of the Company's animals: the giraffe with an incredible stretching neck, the pelican with a magical beak and the dancing monkey.ĮSIO TROT: Here's a very tortoisey one that will become an instant favourite! Mr Hoppy is in love with Mrs Silver, but she only has eyes for her tortoise Alfie. ![]() ![]() This special CD pack contains four of Roald Dahl's much-loved stories. ![]()
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Hannah’s whole life has been spent in motion. ![]() Rebecca Podos, Lambda Award-winning author of Like Water, returns with a contemporary Jewish fantasy of enduring love, unfathomable loss, and the power of stories to hold us together when it seems that nothing else can. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Published by Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster in 2017. And now that she is finally free to be her own person outside the constricting walls of her home life, Kiko learns life-changing truths about herself, her past, and how to be brave.įrom debut author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes a luminous, heartbreaking story of identity, family, and the beauty that emerges when we embrace our true selves. ![]() So when she receives an invitation from her childhood friend to leave her small town and tour art schools on the west coast, Kiko jumps at the opportunity in spite of the anxieties and fears that attempt to hold her back. ![]() With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a half-Japanese heritage she doesn’t quite understand, Kiko prefers to keep her head down, certain that once she makes it into her dream art school, Prism, her real life will begin.īut then Kiko doesn’t get into Prism, at the same time her abusive uncle moves back in with her family. Kiko Himura has always had a hard time saying exactly what she’s thinking. A gorgeous and emotionally resonant debut novel about a half-Japanese teen who grapples with social anxiety and her self-absorbed mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was notable as well because the first movie adaptation came out in 2012, which rocketed Hunger Games to more of a global phenomenon. The third installment of the Hunger Games book series, Mockingjay, got the midnight party treatment in 2010. The midnight release cemented the Twilight series as a must-read, have-to-have book product. ![]() Breaking Dawn’s publication date was August 2, 2008, and the Twilight film came out on November 21, 2008. ![]() The Breaking Dawn midnight book releases also probably served to cross-promote and generate more interest in the film adaptation of Twilight. I’ve heard anecdotally about many Twilight-release parties around the United States as well. 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La Vuelta Femenina: Jumbo-Visma win opening team time trialĬhloé Dygert, Élise Chabbey, Kasia Niewiadoma (all Canyon-SRAM), Liane Lippert, Annemiek van Vleuten (both Movistar Team), Demi Vollering, Marlen Reusser, and Niamh Fisher-Black (all Team SD Worx), Juliette Labous, and Esmée Peperkamp (both Team DSM) all finished in the front echelon and consequently did not lose time on GC.ĭygert is second overall, only 13 seconds behind Vos, and has shown her strength in the TTT, the sprints and the echelons. ![]() ![]() La Vuelta Femenina: Vos outkicks Kool for stage 3 victory after echelon frenzyĬharlotte Kool wins stage 2 as Vos gains race lead ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book has been popular since its publication, and a logo featuring the Cat adorns all Dr. He cleans up the house on his way out, disappearing seconds before the mother arrives. 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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, or simply Civil Disobedience, was an important reflection of transcendentalist philosophy which has since come to shape American theories on the role of citizens. Thoreau argues that individual citizens must not simply be subject to the decisions of government, but should question every political act to ensure that the system remains a tool for justice and morality-a message that continues to resonate powerfully in modern times. ![]() ![]() Penned by American philosopher and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience examines the role of the individual’s conscience in governmental rule. ![]() ![]() Jackson (“The Cask of Amontillado”), Stephanie Kuehn (“The Tell-Tale Heart”), Emily Lloyd-Jones (“The Purloined Letter”), amanda lovelace (“The Raven”), Hillary Monahan (“The Masque of the Red Death”), Marieke Nijkamp (“Hop-Frog”), Caleb Roehrig (“The Pit and the Pendulum”), and Fran Wilde (“The Fall of the House of Usher”). Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in both Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and in the 13 unique and unforgettable ways that they've been brought to life.Ĭontributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining “Ligeia”), Kendare Blake (“Metzengerstein”), Rin Chupeco (“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”), Lamar Giles (“The Oval Portrait”), Tessa Gratton (“Annabel Lee”), Tiffany D. His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined Dahlia Adler Flatiron Books, Young Adult Fiction - 352 pages 4 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.Įdgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Books of Wonder is delighted to host the launch party for the newest anthology featuring 13 of Edgar Allan Poes most unsettling tales reimagined, His. ![]() ![]() ![]() of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting, though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on despair and love will linger long after the last page. With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. ![]() She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. As they confront an array of common catastrophes – a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions – the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. Jenny Offill’s heroine, referred to in these pages as simply “the wife,” once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. ![]() It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. ![]() |