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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of short stories Hegi enters the perspectives of lovers and loners, eccentrics and artists, children and parents: a young man waits in a hospital room with his father, who has received the heart of a twenty-seven-year-old woman; a musician tries to protect her daughter from loving a blind man; a seminary student yearns for the certainty of faith that belonged to him as a boy; a woman transcends her embarrassment for her first love,...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"From one of Britain's most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary short stories that demonstrate what modern England has become. In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display. Her classic wicked humor in each story--which range from a ghost story...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two original short stories, plus puzzles, interviews with characters, and other writings that unlock secrets of the Artemis Fowl books, which feature a twelve-year-old evil genius and his dealings with fairies and other magical beings.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cunning plots, silken style...Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader." - New York Times
From the master storyteller comes a masterful collection of fourteen riveting tales of elaborate confidence tricks, political chicanery, immoral behavior, and dangerously illicit affairs, rendered with the breathtaking narrative twists that have become the Jeffrey Archer hallmark.
Here are stories that will engross and astonish, peopled with a rich...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the colour of hazelnuts and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend, Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Martin Walker presents his first collection of stories featuring all the familiar characters from his Bruno novels and the glories of the Périgord region of France, with ample helpings of food and wine. After a prisoner breaks parole to see his son on Christmas, Bruno must track him down before he throws away his chance at eventual freedom. When a Senegalese man's coffee sells superbly at the market, some café owners become incensed by the new...
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this follow-up to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology, you'll unearth curses old and new. From a very different take on Snow White, to a new interpretation of The Red Shoes, the best in fantasy spin straw into gold, and invite you into the labyrinth"--
Author
Series
Penguin parallel texts volume 2385
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1966]
Physical Desc
276 p. 19 cm.
Language
English
12) Winnie-the-Pooh
Author
Series
Puffin modern classics
A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics volume Volume One
Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne's Pooh classics volume 1
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A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics volume Volume One
Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne's Pooh classics volume 1
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Language
English
Description
For over ninety years, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends--Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore--have endured as the unforgettable creations of A.A. Milne, who wrote this book for his son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape through his illustrations. Now fans can celebrate the legacy of Pooh with a beautiful new gift edition of the original stories as they were first published in the...
14) The jungle book
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the three adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle, as well as other animal stories and songs. Includes discussion questions and explanatory notes.
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
527 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stiff upper lip, Jeeves: Gussie Fink-Nottle must marry Madeleine Bassett or Bertie will be obliged to proffer the ring in his stead, so Jeeves and Bertie visit Totleigh Towers, a rural leper colony. It's suicide, but Gussie's engagement to that drip, Madeleine, must somehow be saved.
The inimitable Jeeves: When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into the mulligatawny, there is work for a wet-nurse....
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