Author : Meriol Trevor
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1995-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1883937094
During a school vacation Matt, an orphan, goes to visit his sister Caroline at a remote English estate, where she works as a cook for a mysterious family
Author : Todd Rose
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1401304966
In the seventh grade, Todd Rose was suspended-not for the first time-for throwing six stink bombs at the blackboard, where his art teacher stood with his back to the class. At eighteen, he was a high school dropout, stocking shelves at a department store for $4.25 an hour. Today, Rose is a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Square Peg illuminates the struggles of millions of bright young children -- and their frustrated parents and teachers--who are stuck in a one-size-fits-all school system that fails to approach the student as an individual. Rose shares his own incredible journey from troubled childhood to Harvard, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology along with advances in the field of education, to ultimately provide a roadmap for parents and teachers of kids who are the casualties of America's antiquated school system. With a distinguished blend of humor, humility, and practical advice for nurturing children who are a poor fit in conventional schools, Square Peg is a game-changing manifesto that provides groundbreaking insight into how we can get the most out of all the students in our classrooms, and why today's dropouts could be tomorrow's innovators.
Author : Gertrude Stein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062311069
This classic children’s book is “a treasure trove for admirers of [Stein’s] singular vision and Hurd’s always charming artwork” (Publishers Weekly). Written in her unique prose style, Gertrude Stein’s The World Is Round chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Rose—a whimsical tale that delights in wordplay and sound while exploring the ideas of personal identity and individuality. This volume replicates the original 1939 edition, including all of Clement Hurd’s original blue-and-white art printed on the rose-pink paper that Stein insisted upon. Also featured here are two essays that provide an inside view to the making of the book. The first, a foreword by Clement Hurd’s son, author and illustrator Thacher Hurd, includes previously unpublished photographs and sheds light on a creative family life in Vermont, where his father and mother, author Edith Thacher Hurd, often collaborated on children’s books. The second essay, an afterword by Edith Thacher Hurd, takes readers behind the scenes of the making of The World Is Round, including the numerous letters exchanged between Hurd and Stein as well as images of Stein with the real-life Rose and her white poodle, Love. “The perfect mix of Gertrude Stein’s painterly words and Clement Hurd’s elegant illustrations make The World Is Round an unforgettable treasure.” —Todd Oldham “a book. a beautiful book. arrived. it is pink and it is smart and it is beautiful. bring that book over here so i can look at it. would you like some tea?” —Maira Kalman
Author : Kate Quinn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062943480
“The reigning queen of historical fiction” -- Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer...
Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 1871
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1849838283
Don't miss the latest book in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith, ‘the master of the international thriller’ (New York Times) – available to order now! 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val McDermid 'Makes tension rise through the page like a shark's fin’ Independent *** Not all secrets can stay buried. It's 1872 and mining engineer John Blair wants nothing more than to return to Africa. So when his commissioner asks him to investigate a disappearance in the English coal mining town of Wigan, he jumps on the opportunity in the hopes that a successful undertaking will help fund his next trip. But in a town where the very rich and the very poor live and work side by side, Blair's presence is mistrusted by many. And when he falls in love with Rose, a beautiful 'pit girl', things start to turn deadly. In a place where life is brutish, short and covered in coal dust, Blair must solve a mystery that will force him to confront his own heart of darkness . . . Praise for Martin Cruz Smith 'The story drips with atmosphere and authenticity – a literary triumph' David Young, bestselling author of Stasi Child 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val McDermid ‘Cleverly and intelligently told, The Girl from Venice is a truly riveting tale of love, mystery and rampant danger. I loved it’ Kate Furnivall, author of The Liberation ‘Smith not only constructs grittily realistic plots, he also has a gift for characterisation of which most thriller writers can only dream' Mail on Sunday 'Smith was among the first of a new generation of writers who made thrillers literary' Guardian 'Brilliantly worked, marvellously written . . . an imaginative triumph' Sunday Times ‘Martin Cruz Smith’s Renko novels are superb’ William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier
Author : Satomi Ichikawa
Publisher : Philomel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : France
ISBN : 9780399240294
La La Rose, a young girl's stuffed rabbit, gets lost in Luxembourg Gardens.
Author : Jennifer Potter
Publisher : Atlantic Books (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Flowers
ISBN : 9781848871779
Machine generated contents note: Origins -- 1.A Wild Youth -- 2. Aphrodite's Flower -- 3. Rome's Frenzy -- 4. Of Travels and Trade -- The Symbolic Rose -- 5. The Virgin's Bower -- 6. Sex and Sorcery -- 7. Secrets of the Rosy Cross -- Europe's Old Roses -- 8. Elizabeth's Briar -- 9. Dutch Masters -- 10. Memories of Malmaison -- Roses of East and West -- 11. Chinese Whispers -- 12. The Prophet's Rose -- 13. American Beauties -- The Useful Rose -- 14.A Cure for Divers Ills -- 15. The Housewife's Friend -- 16. Heaven's Scent -- Modern Times -- 17. Rose Mania -- 18. Into the Rose Garden -- 19. The Language of Flowers -- 20. Why the Rose?
Author : Rowan Coleman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Cumbria (England)
ISBN : 0099551276
When Rose Pritchard turns up on the doorstep of a Cumbrian B&B it is her last resort. She and her 7-year-old daughter Maddie have left everything behind and they have come to the village of Millthwaite in search of the person who once offered Rose hope.
Author : Theodore E. Perkins
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Choruses (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
ISBN :
