The Secret Tales of Mrs. Chubbly


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In the great tradition of magical literature we all love, like Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter, you are sure to fall in love with Mrs. Chubbly and her tribe! In a tragic start to a series of enchanting adventures, the mystical healer mouse, Mrs. Chubbly, goes on a Nanny interview in a nest in Chelsea, England, only to find the evil Chesterfield Cat kills and eats Mr. and Mrs. Twingle as soon as she arrives! The paw of destiny has her stay on to watch over the orphans who are left behind. In time she must become a Nanny for Chesterfield Cat, Wendy Lovely a Motherless human child, and all of the mice in the Chelsea Nest. In this world, every young creature is forced, by the violent circumstances of life, to grow up way too soon, and so with the help of Mrs. Chubbly and The Great Creator, they awaken. Like all brilliant mature youth, the youngest of every species lead their elders to open their minds to the oneness of all beings and so the mice, cats, birds and children begin to work together!. Our tribe of rebellious hooligans soon find out through a strange prophesy, that it is their destiny to grow up, travel through space and time, and save the world for every creature. They enlist the aid of Mrs. Chubbly, Wendy Lovely, Uncle Mak, Clatter the Woodpecker, Chesterfield Cat and a cast of other brilliant creatures to train them on their 10 year long journey of mastery, magic and knowledge. Mice, humans and all creatures begin the struggle to create a society of love and peace from a world gone mad with greed and spiritual separation. Will they fulfill the prophecy of Crystal Seer. Will all be lost? If you believe that the good-hearted will prevail, come with us now to stop the destruction, and save our world! Ready? Our adventure begins... If you are looking for heroic characters, and a story of epic magnitude that includes a magical fantasy adventure full of cats that talk to their owners and mice that take care of the cats, and a big dose of courage, birth, death, spiritual awakening & ultimately true love, you have found it in The Secret Tales of Mrs. Chubbly. Before our first tale in the series comes to it's heartbreaking end, our characters vow to travel on through the next 10 years of lessons in mastering The Great Healing Arts and learn to engineer the Flying Machine so they can travel through space and time into the future to discover what happened in New, New York in The Great War Between The Farmers and Technologists, and how can they stop it. Next they join forces with some very powerful magicians to learn how they can travel back in time to stop the destruction of all creatures and humanity. They seek out The Spring of Life and change the course of our history forever. Some readers say that Cindy LeBow weaves a world of incredible detail and warmth with the tales of Mrs Chubbly. like "Little Mouse on the Prairie", transporting one to a place and time long gone from this earth. There hasn't been a mouse this inspiring since Mickey, nor a nanny this magical since Mary Poppins. Mrs. Chubbly will touch the innermost sanctum of your heart. She will remind you of when you were young and small, relying upon a larger world to protect you, with an open heart and a full imagination. It will transport you to your highest and best self, your expression of your compassion, your ongoing evolution, and the desire to become who we are destined to be.




Ghost Girl


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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER. Seven cryptic photographs. A decades-old case. Can one woman find a killer? Before his death, Terry Darnell was a famous detective. His daughter Stella, a cleaner, has inherited his methodical mind. She has also inherited a strange case file: seven photographs of empty streets. Why did her father keep them for so many years? One photo dates from 1966, to a day when a young girl witnessed something that would haunt her forever. As Stella scrubs away at the truth, the events of that day begin to haunt her too... THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES: The Detective's Daughter. Ghost Girl. The Detective's Secret. The House With No Rooms. The Dog Walker.




Mr. Benjamin's Suitcase of Secrets


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A philosopher finds himself at risk when his country begins punishing people for being different, a circumstance that forces him to escape over hills and valleys while carrying a mysterious, heavy suitcase.




The Book of Secrets


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In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the coded history he encounters in its terse, laconic entries. What he uncovers is a story of forbidden liaisons and simmering vengeances, family secrets and cultural exiles--a story that leads him on an investigative journey through his own past and Africa's.




American Herd Book


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The Secret of sex


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The Book of Jakarta


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A young woman takes a driverless taxi through the streets of Jakarta, only to discover that the destination she is hurtling towards is now entirely submerged... A group of elderly women visit a famous amusement park for one last ride, but things don’t go quite according to plan... The day before her wedding, a bride risks everything to meet her former lover at their favourite seafood restaurant on the other side of the tracks... Despite being the world’s fourth largest nation – made up of over 17,000 islands – very little of Indonesian history and contemporary politics are known to outsiders. From feudal states and sultanates to a Cold War killing field and a now struggling, flawed democracy – the country’s political history, as well as its literature, defies easy explanation. Like Indonesia itself, the capital city Jakarta is a multiplicity; irreducible, unpredictable and full of surprises. Traversing the different neighbourhoods and districts, the stories gathered here attempt to capture the essence of contemporary Jakarta and its writing, as well as the ever-changing landscape of the fastest-sinking city in the world. Translated by Mikael Johani, Zoe McLaughlin, Shaffira Gayatri, Khairani Barokka, Daniel Owen, Paul Agusta, Eliza Vitri Handayani, Syarafina Vidyadhana, Rara Rizal and Annie Tucker.




Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer


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As millions of readers know, that intrepid charmer and part-time CIA agent Emily Pollifax is a joy, with a warm heart, nerves of steel, and manners as impeccable as her karate. The New York Times calls her "an enchantress," and Publishers Weekly describes her deeds of derring-do in exotic places as "sheer pleasure." In her new adventure, Mrs. Pollifax accompanies her young friend Kadi Hopkirk to the African country of Ubangiba, where Kadi's childhood friend, Sammat, is soon to be crowned king. This impromptu journey is a response to an S.O.S. from Sammat to Kadi; and Mrs. P., reluctant to allow the girl to venture alone into what she fears may be grave danger, crashes the party. Sunny little Ubangiba is no great shakes as nations go. Under Sammat's selfless leadership it is recovering from the devastation wrought by two greedy presidents-for-life who preceded him in office. But Sammat has dangerous enemies. Everywhere rumors are springing up that he is a sorcerer and that his evil power is responsible for a rash of shocking murders in which the victims appear to have been clawed to death by a lion. These crimes are especially terrifying because there are no lions in Ubangiba. Without the comforting backup of the CIA, Mrs. Pollifax wades into the fray, hunting for the source of the bloody terrorism that threatens Sammat and Ubangiba. Not to mention Kadi and Mrs. Pollifax. Home has never looked so good, or seemed so far away.




Look Both Ways


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"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--




The Secret Life of Stories


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How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their “well-formedness” within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains. In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Bérubé tells a dramatically different tale, in a compelling account of how an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on characters with disabilities, he shows how ideas about intellectual disability inform an astonishingly wide array of narrative strategies, providing a new and startling way of thinking through questions of time, self-reflexivity, and motive in the experience of reading. Interweaving his own stories with readings of such texts as Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip, Bérubé puts his theory into practice, stretching the purview of the study of literature and the role of disability studies within it. Armed only with the tools of close reading, Bérubé demonstrates the immensely generative possibilities in the ways disability is deployed within fiction, finding in them powerful meditations on what it means to be a social being, a sentient creature with an awareness of mortality and causality—and sentience itself. Persuasive and witty, Michael Bérubé engages Harry Potter fans and scholars of literature alike. For all readers, The Secret Life of Stories will fundamentally change the way we think about the way we read.