![]() ![]() ![]() His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. ![]()
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Asia Book Company Limited (the “Company”) may use Cookies and other similar technologies for collecting your data while you are using services or visiting the Company’s website which include visiting or using through the other channels such as mobile application (collectively called the “Site”) for improving Site and your experience in visiting the Site.Ĭookies are a type of files comprising of texts. ![]() ![]() This is, instead, a mix of murder mystery and thriller, tied off with a dash of the supernatural. That’s about as close as this gritty six-part drama gets to Doctor Who, though. ![]() When Peter Capaldi, here playing mysterious criminal Gideon Shepherd, says “my perception of time is better than anyone’s,” it’s clear that The Devil’s Hour creator Tom Moran is having a little fourth-wall-breaking fun with his former Time Lord leading man. Yet with its fantastic cast, period-perfect tone, and phenomenal soundtrack-one that’s warranted its own release as the album Aurora, by the series’ eponymous band- Daisy Jones & the Six takes on a life of its own. If it all sounds a bit Fleetwood Mac, that should come as no surprise-the author of the book the series is based on, Taylor Jenkins Reid, has said the legendary folk-rock band was an inspiration. Soon, her soulful vocals and insightful songwriting help propel The Six to the top of the charts-but at the height of their careers, everything comes tumbling down as years of wandering hearts, illicit sex, battles with sobriety, and the rigors of rock ‘n’ roll take their toll. ![]() In the late ‘60s, talented but listless ingenue Daisy (Riley Keough) meets aspiring rocker Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) and his aspiring group, eventually joining the band herself. Spanning a decade, Daisy Jones & the Six follows the formation, stratospheric success, and crushing break-up of the greatest band the 1970s never saw in reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is composed of child-friendly illustrations, quizzes, case studies and advice designed to help young readers better understand smart money management. In A Smart Girl's Guide to Money: How to Make It, Save it, And Spent It, American Girl offers a guide book about navigating finances. My only complaint is that it takes the "soft" view of making sure everyone feels comfortable with their money conversation instead of empowered. Girls especially want to know how to navigate the social conversation around money, and the book certainly addresses this. Holyoke covers how emotions as well family background all tie into the hows and whys of spending and saving money. The book really shines when it talks about spending habits. While it seems easy to walk a dog, it's a lot harder to understand how to market the business, schedule the business, keep track of money going in AND OUT (supplies as well as labor)and deal with the hiccups. The section on ideas to earn money clearly shows this book is geared for older girls (or those whose parents are willing to do just about everything for them). ![]() In these few words, kids might actually understand an oversimplified view on investments and how to participate in investing themselves. There's a brief section on investment at the end which is shockingly age-appropriate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the danger from the Titans erupts with devastating consequences, the dark allure of power calls to Seth again - but this time, Josie may not be able to pull him back from the brink. Filled with action, heart wrenching twists and the most delicious romance, this unputdownable novel comes with a warning: keep a fan close by, because the temperatures are about to rise. But letting her go requires a level of selflessness that just isn't Seth's style. Armentrout has woven a new fantasy universe that will leave you reeling. The aether in Josie is drawing Seth in deeper, and when lust mixes with love and gives way to power, he knows being close to her is becoming explosively dangerous. Only one thing is more dangerous than a bunch of starved Titans, and that's an out-of-control Apollyon in the form of Seth. ![]() Seth must prepare Josie for battle, which means teaching her how to control her newfound demigod abilities.and they need to find and rescue the other demigods before their enemies - the Titans - find them first. ![]() War between the races seems inevitable, and it couldn't come at a worse time. Jennifer Armentrout Mint Condition at the best online. The Covenant University has become the frontline for the escalating violence between pure-bloods and half-bloods. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for THE RETURN: A TITAN NOVEL By L. Now, things are about to get even more dangerous. In The Return, Seth and Josie's story ended on the ultimate cliffhanger. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Covenant and Lux series comes the second novel in the pulse-pounding, electric Titan series. ![]() ![]() ![]() I write you in the utmost haste, trusting in God that I will find a safe way to deliver this letter unto your hands. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But even more extraordinary is the contents of the manuscript’s vellum pages, which may have dire repercussions for the Catholic Church and could very well rewrite the origins of Christianity. Hidden within the sacred box is the most beautiful illuminated manuscript Alex has ever seen. Modern day: Alexandra Patterson, an appraiser of medieval relics, has been summoned to Kildare to examine a reliquary box believed to belong to Saint Brigid. When Brigid assigns Decius a holy task-to create the most important and sacred manuscript ever made-he finds himself at odds with his original mission and faces the most difficult decision of his life. ![]() Hearing accounts of Brigid’s power, the Church deems her a threat and sends Decius, a Roman priest and scribe, on a secret mission to collect proof of Brigid’s heresy.Īs Decius records the unorthodox practices of Brigid and her abbey, he becomes intrigued by her. Followers flock to her Kildare abbey and scriptorium. Rich in historical detail, Heather Terrell’s mesmerizing novel Brigid of Kildare is the story of the revolutionary Saint Brigid and the discovery of the oldest illuminated manuscript in the annals of the Church, a manuscript that contains an astonishing secret history.įifth-century Ireland: Brigid is Ireland’s first and only female priest and bishop. ![]() ![]() an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood. Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor.īut Apollo has many enemies-gods, monsters, and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. ![]() PublishDateText mediaType Audiobook shortDescription How do you punish an immortal?Īfter angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages ![]() ![]() OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images Sutter County Main Branch Children's Area ![]() Maxwell Branch Library Juvenile Collection ![]() ![]() There's no way the haughty Duke of Autenberry would deign to wed a working class girl. Avon, 7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-222254-1 In this predictable but satisfying opening to the Rogue Files Regency-era. Just like he knows the infuriating Poppy is a liar. BUY THIS BOOK While the Duke Was Sleeping Sophie Jordan. An illegitimate second son, Struan may have built an empire and established himself as one of the wealthiest men in Britain, but he knows he will always be an outsider among the ton. the fantasy of her duke or the reality of one smoldering Scot who challenges her at every turn. ![]() ![]() Soon Poppy isn't sure what she wants more. But one person isn't fooled: his arrogant and much too handsome half-brother, Struan Mackenzie. After she pulls him to safety, the duke lapses into a coma and Poppy is mistaken for his fiancee. unlike the carriage Poppy spies bearing down upon the unsuspecting duke. Shop girl Poppy Fairchurch knows its pointless fantasizing about the Duke of Autenberry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From that moment on it seemed that he wanted to personally thank every person he met for saving his life.” Dewey went to every staff person and purred at them, wanting to be held. The pads on all four paws were frostbitten and over the next week they turned white and peeled off. “I put him down on the table,” says Vicki. The water turned grey – and a handsome, long-haired ginger male emerged. Vicki and her staff gave the icy kitten a bath to warm it up. “I knew we were going to be friends forever – and I knew he was the right cat for the library.” “As I picked him out of the book drop and looked into his eyes, I knew he wasn’t just a cat,” says Vicki, who grew up on a farm. Thinking it was a chipmunk, she opened the lid – and found a filthy, shivering kitten inside. ![]() ![]() The night before, the temperature had reached minus 15 and when Vicki opened the drop-off box she heard a strange sound. It was January 18, 1988, and bitterly cold in Spencer, a small town in Iowa in America’s mid West. His story took the world by storm, but it could have turned out very differently for the little ginger cat with the mesmeric golden eyes… Dewey was found as a tiny kitten in below-freezing temperatures by librarian Vicki Myron, huddled at the bottom of the drop-box where borrowed library books were left overnight. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the completion of the terracotta horse, a community is enraged, and the pair of lovers flee into exile. One day, a lost dog, Chinna, appears, adopting the potter. ![]() A neighbor, Sara, becomes both witness and chronicler of his days, as she entwines herself into his life as his apprentice. Elango is a Hindu rickshaw driver and potter whose dream is to create a terracotta horse, and whose crime is falling in love with Zohra, the granddaughter of a blind, Muslim calligrapher. The Earthspinner deftly revisits the themes that Roy’s novels are well known for-history, memory, myth, and love. And so, in an effort to celebrate underappreciated art forms, ancient traditions, and unique occupations, I present a list of books that have informed the texture of my writing. Perhaps it is my own training as a traditional printmaker that inevitably directs my attention to these now-rare, highly intricate, labor-intensive disciplines that have sadly been swallowed by the modern and automated. The Book of Everlasting Things is at its heart a love story, but it’s also very much about characters who continue to practice traditional crafts-perfumery, distillation, calligraphy and illumination, paper-making, Ayurvedic medicine, carpet weaving, leatherwork and tanning-in a changing world. ![]() |
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