![]() ![]() ![]() Stuffed with cornball hymns, genetic mutations worth of Thomas Pynchon and a pharmaceutical company run amok, it reads like dystopia verging on satire. ![]() The Year of the Flood is a slap-happy romp through the end times. ![]() “Atwood spins the most arresting alternate mythologies to our hell-bent world. “Atwood renders this civilization and these two lives within it with tenderness and insight, a healthy dread, and a guarded humor.” - O, the Oprah Magazine Memorable characters, a tightly controlled pace and shockingly plausible scenes make it fly-to a mysterious, skin-prickling ending.” -San Francisco Chronicle Atwood tells a good story, one filled with suspense and even levity.” -USA Today The Year of the Flood isn’t prophecy, but it is eerily possible.” -The New York Times Book Review “Atwood is funny and clever, such a good writer and real thinker. “Leave it to Atwood to find humor in a post-apocalyptic world as she covertly, and brilliantly, addresses questions of how we need to live on an imperiled planet.” - Kansas City Star “A heart-pounding thriller.” - The Washington Post Book World at the pinnacle of her prodigious creative powers.” - Elle A gripping and visceral book that showcases pure storytelling talents.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “ energy, inventiveness, and narrative panache. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Their son, Bruce Robert Wood, was also an illustrator, which makes art a five generation tradition in the family. Since its publication, Don has illustrated nearly 20 of her books. They began collaborating on children's literature seven years after their marriage, their first book together entitled Moonflute. Her husband, Don, is the illustrator of many of her books, including King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, which received a Caldecott Honor. An example of this would be her famous book, The Napping House. ![]() ![]() She loves step-and-repeat stories for the "music of language". Her work creates a sense of imagination and excitement. Wood uses children's literature to practice art, music, drama, dance, and writing. By the time she was in fourth grade, her ambition was to become an author/illustrator. She would use her parents' art books and make up stories about the paintings. ![]() As the oldest, she began her gift of storytelling with her younger sisters. As Audrey became friends with the characters of the circus, she heard stories about them from the family of "little people" who lived next door to her family. Wood's first memories of storytelling were in Sarasota, Florida, where her father was employed by Ringling Brothers Circus, commissioned to repaint the big top and sideshow murals. Wood resides in Santa Barbara, California. Audrey Wood (born August 12, 1948) is an American children's author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Martin Lings’s biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the Prophet, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. General readers will find a well-written, straight forward chronological narrative Muslim readers will appreciate the favorable treatment of Muhammad while specialists will find a faithful and convenient rendering of source material.” ![]() “Lings provides a wealth of detail on the life of Muhammad, the time and place of many Koranic revelations, and the foundation of Islam, all based exclusively on 8th and 9th century Arabic biographical sources and collections of the sayings attributed to Muhammad. “This work is widely recognized as the most readable account of the life of the Prophet to date.” ![]() ![]() The vehicle is on permanent loan to the Foundation from The Ford Motor Company, UK. This is the first vehicle that new James Bond, Daniel Craig, drives on screen. to United Kingdom Quantity: 1 Add to Basket Hardcover. Seller Rating: Contact seller First Edition Used - Hardcover £ 482.87 Convert currency £ 31.16 Shipping From U.S.A. This prototype Ford Mondeo was used by James Bond in the Bahamas to drive to his hotel from the airport. CASINO ROYALE Ian Fleming Published by The First Edition Library - FEL Jonathan Cape, Shelton, CT Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, U.S.A. He learns his most important lesson: Trust no one. "M" places Bond under the watchful eye of the Treasury official Vesper Lynd. ![]() ![]() Bond is sent on his first mission that takes him to Madagascar, the Bahamas and eventually leads him to Montenegro to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless financier, who is attempting to restore his funds in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale. But Bond is no less dangerous and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to "00" status. (2006) - Casino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his licence to kill. ![]() ![]() Three people who are about to discover that Christmas is the time of year when anything is possible, and when wishes have a way of finding the path home…īONUS MATERIAL INCLUDED: 1st chapter of Lisa Kleypas’s newest novel RAINSHADOW ROAD, coming February 2012. Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor A Novel By Lisa Kleypas, Read by Tanya Eby On Sale: Ap18.99 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC. And when she meets Holly Nolan, she sees a little girl in desperate need of a little magic. As the owner of a toy shop, she lives what she loves. But she does believe in the magic of imagination. Now a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie (CHRISTMAS WITH HOLLY), the first book in New York Times bestseller Lisa Kleypass Friday Harbor series begins. ![]() Maggie Collins doesn’t dare believe in love again, after losing her husband of one year. His sister’s will gives him the instructions: There’s no other choice but you. But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her life whole again. 4 2011 by Lisa Kleypas (Author) 624 ratings Book 1 of 4: Friday Harbor See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 14.66 21 Used from 10.69 3 New from 19. The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor: A Novel Mass Market Paperback Oct. ![]() And since that night, she has never again spoken a word. One rain-slicked night, six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother Victoria. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas’s new series begins during the most magical time of year ![]() ![]() Yet none of these things contented them, because they wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for, and though they had been married several years, no child had come to them.Įvery day the King would look at the Queen and say: Ah, if we only had a little child, and the Queen would look at the King and sigh, and they were both very miserable about it. They were rich they lived in a wonderful palace full of the costliest treasures their kingdom was at peace, and their people were prosperous. ![]() Everything else that the heart could wish for was theirs. ONCE upon a time there were a King and a Queen who were very unhappy because they had no children. ![]() This ebook was created with StreetLib Write ( )īy Simplicissimus Book Farm Table of contents ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() the rapid-fire suspense builds to a terrifying, graphic conclusion that leaves tantalizing room for future installments in the series” Publishers Weekly “James dreams up a horrific intersection of extreme perversion and Internet technology in his frightening, expertly constructed second Det. “Sharply plotted, suitably sordid” Daily Express “I couldn't put it down” Mark Timlin - Independent But when they plan the murder of the Bryce family, it’s not just revenge – it’s entertainment. Learning that Tom has made a statement to Grace’s team, the killers have to act. ![]() But this attempted act of kindness makes him the sole witness to that same vicious murder. ![]() When a young woman's body is found butchered in Brighton, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace cannot help but think of his own missing wife and her unsolved fate.Įlsewhere in the city, when Tom Bryce finds a disc left on a train, he simply tries to do the right thing – return it to its owner. Looking Good Dead is the second bestselling title in the Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series from number one author Peter James. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse-the magic-in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything.Īs a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden.Ĭerys knows this all too well: When she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. ![]() It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale–inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard.Ĭerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir is sure to shock those already familiar with Valenti's work and enthrall those who are just finding it. Valenti shares personal stories since her childhood about being treated as a sex object and her daily encounters with sexism, painting an image of an adult whose identity has been entirely shaped by these experiences. Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti's adolescence and young adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner life than the confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her generation. Sex Object: A Memoir is a 2016 memoir and the sixth book written by Jessica Valenti. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential. 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