Author : Grimly Darkwood
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2018-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781946892164
When Peter comes to live with his aunt and uncle at their shop on Peculiar Hill, nothing is as he expected. He learns about bogeys and heeble-greebs, strange vegetables, and the odd stuff that bubbles up out of the ground. But when he finds out what happens to tourists in the Vale of Strange, it's up to him to set things right.
Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 159474839X
The New York Times #1 best-selling series. Includes 3 novels by Ransom Riggs and 12 peculiar photographs. Together for the first time, here is the #1 New York Times best seller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and its two sequels, Hollow City and Library of Souls. All three hardcovers are packaged in a beautifully designed slipcase. Also included: a special collector's envelope of twelve peculiar photographs, highlighting the most memorable moments of this extraordinary three-volume fantasy. MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in this groundbreaking novel, which mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling new kind of reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. HOLLOW CITY: September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary adventure continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. LIBRARY OF SOULS: A boy, a girl, and a talking dog. They're all that stands between the sinister wights and the future of peculiar children everywhere. Jacob Portman ventures through history one last time to rescue the peculiar children from a heavily guarded fortress. He's joined by girlfriend and firestarter Emma Bloom, canine companion Addison MacHenry, and some very unexpected allies.
Author : J. Spencer Fluhman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807837407
Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In "A Peculiar People", J. Spencer Fluhman offers a comprehensive history of anti-Mormon thought and the associated passionate debates about religious authenticity in nineteenth-century America. He argues that understanding anti-Mormonism provides critical insight into the American psyche because Mormonism became a potent symbol around which ideas about religion and the state took shape. Fluhman documents how Mormonism was defamed, with attacks often aimed at polygamy, and shows how the new faith supplied a social enemy for a public agitated by the popular press and wracked with social and economic instability. Taking the story to the turn of the century, Fluhman demonstrates how Mormonism's own transformations, the result of both choice and outside force, sapped the strength of the worst anti-Mormon vitriol, triggering the acceptance of Utah into the Union in 1896 and also paving the way for the dramatic, yet still grudging, acceptance of Mormonism as an American religion.
Author : Laura L. Sullivan
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1429942037
Meg and her siblings have been sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with elderly relatives. The children are looking forward to exploring the ancient mansion and perhaps discovering a musty old attic or two filled with treasure, but never in their wildest dreams did they expect to find themselves in the middle of a fairy war. When Rowan pledges to fight for the beautiful fairy queen, Meg is desperate to save her brother. But the Midsummer War is far more than a battle between mythic creatures: Everything that lives depends on it. How can Meg choose between family and the fate of the very land itself?
Author : Dennis Kirkland
Publisher : Blake Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Comedians
ISBN : 9781857825459
How and why did Benny Hill live the way he did? If he was so rich, why didn't he buy himself a beautiful home? Why did he never marry and did he only pretend to love the ladies? And whatever did he do with all that money? In this biography, Dennis Kirkland answers all these questions and more.
Author : Daniel Delis Hill
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814208908
The author focuses on the marketing perspective of the topic and illustrates how women's roles in society have shifted during the past century. Among the key issues explored is a peculiar dichotomy of American advertising that served as a conservative reflection of society and, at the same time, became an underlying force of progressive social change. The study shows how advertisers of housekeeping products perpetuated the Happy Homemaker stereytype while tobacco and cosmetics marketers dismantled women's stereotypes to create an entirely new type of consumer.
Author : Emma Carroll
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399556079
From the critically acclaimed author of In Darkling Wood comes a spine-tingling novel inspired by Frankenstein with more than a hint of mystery and suspense. One stormy June evening, five friends meet at Villa Diodati, the summer home of Lord Byron. After dinner is served, they challenge each other to tell ghost stories that will freeze the blood. But one of the guests--Mary Shelley--is stuck for a story to share. Then there's an unexpected knock at the front door. Collapsed on the doorstep is a girl with strange scars on her face. She has traveled a long way with her own tale to tell, and now they all must listen. Hers is no ordinary ghost story, though. What starts as a simple tale of village life soon turns to tragedy and the darkest, most dangerous of secrets. Sometimes the truth is far more terrifying than fiction . . . and the consequences are even more devastating. Praise for Emma Carroll's In Darkling Wood: "A haunting and poignant exploration of family, loss, and redemption." --Booklist, Starred "A tale brimming with emotion and atmosphere. . . . [In Darkling Wood] is absorbing and well written. Hand this to readers who enjoy fantasy, fairy tales, and magical realism."--School Library Journal, Starred "Magic and mystery adds appeal to this already compelling family drama...and Carroll manages to wrap all of the threads into a wholly satisfying ending."--Bulletin
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 1965
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations
Publisher :
Page : 1380 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 1965
Category : United States
ISBN :
