Book Description
A phantom reveals himself to save the post office in Ghastly after the U.S. Postal Service decides to replace regular mail with new technology
Author : Kate Klise
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2013-04-06
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ISBN : 9781627650472
A phantom reveals himself to save the post office in Ghastly after the U.S. Postal Service decides to replace regular mail with new technology
Author : Kate Klise
Publisher : Sandpiper
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544022812
With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois.
Author : Kate Klise
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780606316682
For use in schools and libraries only. With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois.
Author : Kate Klise
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152057275
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590175905
Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-Office Girl. The Grand Budapest Hotel has elements that were sort of stolen from both these books. Two characters in our story are vaguely meant to represent Zweig himself — our “Author” character, played by Tom Wilkinson, and the theoretically fictionalised version of himself, played by Jude Law. But, in fact, M. Gustave, the main character who is played by Ralph Fiennes, is modelled significantly on Zweig as well." 2009 PEN Translation Prize Finalist The logic of capitalism, boom and bust, is unremitting and unforgiving. But what happens to human feeling in a completely commodified world? In The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig, a deep analyst of the human passions, lays bare the private life of capitalism.Christine toils in a provincial post office in post–World War I Austria, a country gripped by unemployment. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from Christine’s rich American aunt inviting her to a resort in the Swiss Alps. Christine is immediately swept up into a world of inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed: nothing is impossible. But then, abruptly, her aunt cuts her loose. Christine returns to the post office, where yes, nothing will ever be the same. Christine meets Ferdinand, a bitter war veteran and disappointed architect, who works construction jobs when he can get them. They are drawn to each other, even as they are crushed by a sense of deprivation, of anger and shame. Work, politics, love, sex: everything is impossible for them. Life is meaningless, unless, through one desperate and decisive act, they can secretly remake their world from within. Cinderella meets Bonnie and Clyde in Zweig’s haunting and hard-as-nails novel, completed during the 1930s, as he was driven by the Nazis into exile, but left unpublished at the time of his death. The Post-Office Girl, available here for the first time in English, transforms our image of a modern master’s achievement.
Author : Raymond Flynn
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1444753142
Someone is blackmailing a local supermarket chain. And getting away with it, thanks to a very clever payoff method involving hole-in-the-wall bank machines and a bit of glaring police incompetence. When the blackmailers descend on Eddathorpe, Robert Graham is called in. He thinks it's an inside job - and sets out to prove it. He doesn't know the case is going to escalate from fraud to murder; or that its unravelling could change his life...
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Electrical engineering
ISBN :
Author : Kate Klise
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0544105672
"The unsuspecting trio at Spence Mansion starts a greeting card company--and winds up on the adventure of a lifetime!"--
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Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Labor unions
ISBN :
Author : Norton Juster
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 1988-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0394820371
With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. “Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!