![]() ![]() Join May, Eric and Nuala in the first unputdownable book in a fast-paced, mysterious and adventurous new series from million-copy-bestseller, Robin Stevens. If they can prove it, the Ministry will have to take them on.īut there are more secrets at Elysium Hall than May or Eric could ever have imagined. They suspect that one of the Vereys is passing information to Germany. Masquerading as evacuees, they travel to Elysium Hall, home to the wealthy Verey family – including snobby, dramatic Nuala. ![]() When May and her friend Eric are turned away by the Ministry, they take matters into their own hands. After all, grown-ups always underestimate children like her. May knows that she would make the perfect spy. The world is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies.Įnter May Wong: courageous, stubborn, and desperate to help end the war so that she can go home to Hong Kong (and leave her annoying school, Deepdean, behind forever). ‘Robin Stevens is Agatha Christie for children’ – Katherine Rundell on the Murder Most Unladylike seriesġ940. Murder Most Unladylike Mini Mysteries Short Stories/Novellas In Chronological Order The Case of the Drowned Pearl (2020) The Case of the Blue Violet (2016). The start of a thrilling new World War Two mystery series from the number-one-bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike. Children’s Comic Strip Fiction & Graphic Novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Lathe of Heaven (1971) is a novel from the celebrated science-fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Next, when Haber tells George to dream of a world where people stop making war and come together in peace, he wakes to find that an alien invasion has united the population of the world. He tells George to dream of a world that is less crowded – only for George to wake and find that six billion people, three-quarters of the population, have died in a plague. Excited about the possibilities, Haber ignores George’s warnings and places him under again while suggesting other things. He places George under hypnosis and is startled after suggesting that George dream of it no longer perpetually raining that the pollution outside clears and the sun is shining again. Haber at first dismisses George’s claims that his dreams can change reality, that when he wakes everything has changed and only he can remember otherwise. George explains that he took the drugs in an effort to stop himself dreaming. Facing prosecution for overusing his medications, George Orr voluntarily places himself into the care of Dr William Haber, an oneirologist (someone who specialises in dreams). ![]() ![]() ![]() : 30 Clarke also had a slight stammer which remained his whole life. Clarke was born with his left arm at least two inches shorter than the right, which prevented him from joining the army, though he became an accomplished diver in his days at Cholmeley Grammar, Highgate School. He was the nephew of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Clarke, a Governor of Western Australia, and grandson of a retired military medical officer, Dr Andrew Clarke, who made his fortune in the West Indies and settled in Ireland. ![]() Marcus Clarke was born in 11 Leonard Place Kensington, London, the only son of London barrister William Hislop Clarke and Amelia Elizabeth Matthews Clarke, who died when he was just four years old. It has been adapted into many plays, films and a folk opera.īiography Background and early life He is best known for his 1874 novel For the Term of His Natural Life, about the convict system in Australia, and widely regarded as a classic of Australian literature. Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke FRSA (24 April 1846 – 2 August 1881) was an English-born Australian novelist, journalist, poet, editor, librarian, and playwright. ![]() Novelist, journalist, poet, editor, librarian and playwrightįor the Term of His Natural Life (published 1874) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. Adhesive tape stain on reverse side of dust-jacket along length of spine. Dust stains and some foxing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket separated into two pieces along spine. Previous owner's name and address on front endpaper. ![]() The cover has some light discolouration, and a few small tears, the endpaper partly browned but a very good copy. Above a drawing of a mermaid by his wife Yvonne together with a hearty greeting. those who were created as mermaids from the waist up, and as humans from the waist down! ". Nilsson on the front endpaper (translated): " should have come with us on the journey and taken care of the half-women mermaids we met on arrival, i.e. The dedication is written by Thor to bookseller J.H. The original Kon-Tiki raft is now on display at a museum in Bygdøy (Oslo). ![]() It was republished and translated into several languages. Heyerdahl's book about his experience was first published in Norwegian in 1948 and became a best-seller. Exceptional copy with a dedication by Yvonne and Thor Heyerdahl.The Kon-Tiki was a raft in which the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands in 1947. Advance copy of the first Swedish edition, translated by Bengt Danielsson, member of the expedition. With two maps (one coloured folded) and many photo illustrations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mizuki is the recipient of many awards including Best Album award for his book NonNonBa (published in 2012 by Drawn & Quarterly) and Heritage Essential award for Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, at the Angouleme International Comics Festival, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Special Award, Kyokujitsu Sho Decoration, Shiju Hos. Currently in Japan, the life of Mizuki and his wife has been made into an extremely popular television drama that airs daily. Mizuki's list of accolades and achievements is long and detailed. Mizuki was a soldier himself (he was severely injured and lost an arm) and uses his experiences to convey the devastating consequences and moral depravity of the war. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki Graphic Novel Comic Book at the best online. The soldiers are instructed that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive. ![]() Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English and is a semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War Two. The soldiers were told that they must go. Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of gekiga/manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today - a true living legend. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is a semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II. ![]() ![]() Years of frustration and righteous rage are channeled into the trenchant essay “An Open Letter to My Health Insurance Company,” in which Lawson shares what it’s like to rely on medication controlled by an impenetrable and uncaring health care system. She’s in fine form in this collection of essays, which offers support, humor and her take on society’s ills and wonders. Lawson, aka the Bloggess, believes “we are so much less alone if we learn to wear our imperfections proudly.” Her brand of sharing has created a community endlessly drawn to her hilarious confessions of foibles and fears conversations with her loving yet exasperated husband, Victor and chronicles of her experiences with mental and physical illness.īroken (in the best possible way), Lawson’s fourth book, is a loop-de-loop of an emotional roller coaster that swoops from poetic to profane, madcap to moving and back again. ![]() Bestselling author Jenny Lawson’s writing often elicits a range of emotional responses, from gasp-laughs to sympathetic murmurs to the particular type of groan that accompanies massive secondhand embarrassment. ![]() ![]() It will be interesting to see how things develop on and off the planet. This 2nd in the series reveals much more about the aliens' purpose and intentions on Earth, and the original trio is assigned a pivotal role. After an electricity experiment sets his brains tingling, it turns out the ' brain fryer' made him smarter and he begins to see the world differently. ![]() Duncan tries to solve the mystery of which of the school's new teachers is the alien, but it's hard to do on your own, with everyone mad at you. But when he shows his evidence to a lovely lady reporter named Honey Flint, that gets him into even more trouble. Along the way, he finds out that there's still at least one alien teacher around. ![]() It only gets worse, especially after he pulls the fire alarm and sets off an alien scare. So he starts seventh grade late and feeling bad. It's set in Kennituck Falls.ĭuncan bullies others because his big brother Patrick beats on him for no particular reason - it's the norm for their family. ![]() This second in the series is mainly Duncan's story. This is the sequel to My Teacher is an Alien, in which narrator Susan, nerd Peter and class bully Duncan foiled the plans of their alien teacher to abduct students (aside from Peter who went willingly). My Teacher Fried My Brains by Bruce Coville ![]() ![]() ![]() He signifies, therefore, Jesus by two letters, and the cross by one." Ĭlement of Alexandria (c. And because the cross was to express the grace by the letter Τ, he says also, 'Three Hundred'. The ten and the eight are thus denoted-Ten by Ι, and Eight by Η. The Epistle of Barnabas (late first century or early second) gives an allegorical interpretation of the number 318 (in Greek numerals τιη’) in the text of Book of Genesis 14:14 as intimating the crucifixion of Jesus by viewing the numerals ιη’ (18) as the initial letters of Ἰησοῦς, Iēsus, and the numeral τ’ (300) as a prefiguration of the cross: "What, then, was the knowledge given to him in this? Learn the eighteen first, and then the three hundred. The Greek letter tau was used as a numeral for 300. ![]() ![]() Crucifixion scene with a tau cross, by Konrad Witz (1400–1447) ![]() ![]() This child will not ruin her plans.įrom early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, and operated on-in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother’s mind. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to "get to the bottom of this." She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. A remarkable memoir that speaks in an original and distinctive Midwestern voice, rising to indelible scenes in prose of scathing beauty and fierce humor.Ī young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One sister is brave, dreaming of adventure the other is timid, relying on her sister, afraid of spiders and many other things. Their father is a weak king, completely ineffectual, an interesting variation on the character of kings in fairy tales. This story is about sisters, princesses in a kingdom in which people die of a mysterious illness called the Grey Death. Her reworking of the Cinderella story in Ella Enchanted was a 1998 Newbery Honor Book. To quote from the review of the hard-cover in KLIATT, May 2001: Levine contributes to our literature with modern fairy tales-ones that still have ogres, fairies, dragons, magical swords, boots, cloths, and so forth. ![]() The two princesses of Bamarre." Retrieved from The two princesses of Bamarre." The Free Library. ![]() |