![]() She also writes engaging children's stories and inspiring gift books that warm the heart. With over 23 million in sales, her historical novels portray the lives of early North American settlers from many walks of life and geographical settings. After graduating from Mountain View Bible College in Canada where she met her husband, Edward, they pastored churches in Canada and the U.S., and they raised their family of four children, including twin boys, in both countries Janette Oke writes with a profound simplicity of what she knows best-real life, honest love, and lasting values. ![]() Janette was born during the depression years to a Canadian prairie farmer and his wife, and she remembers her childhood as full of love and laughter and family love. ![]() Janette Oke writes with a profound simplicity of what she knows best-real life, honest love, and lasting values. ![]()
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![]() Richard Scarry was posthumously awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators in 2012. No other illustrator has shown such a lively interest in the words and concepts of early childhood. ![]() His books have sold over 100 million copies around the world, and are currently published in over twenty languages. Publisher: Random House Childrens BooksJuvenile Fiction / Transportation - Cars. ![]() RICHARD SCARRY is one of the world's best-loved children's authors EVER! In his extraordinary career, Scarry illustrated over 150 books, many of which have never been out of print. Richard Scarrys Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most heroes work for various governments, for instance, with secure penthouses to keep them safe, at the cost of having to deal with governmental bureaucracy. You’ll find some obvious analogues to superheroes you’re familiar with – Greg aka Fortress is for all intents and purposes Superman, (without the alien heritage), and Vigilante shares quite a bit personality-wise with Batman, though this particular iteration has powers of his own besides impressive deductive reasoning.īeyond that, however, the author has set up her own version of powered existence. It’s set in a slightly adjacent world from our own, where powered people have existed from the time of Greek heroes, rising and falling in prevalence for no reason anybody can track. This new villain can turn powers back on people, and it has plans for Meg that don’t require her to be alive.įEAR AND FURY is an urban fantasy superhero adventure that blends action, romance, and a splash of darkness into a diverting bite-sized adventure. But when Meg attracts the attention of a new villain who won’t take no for an answer, she grudgingly has to turn for help from the heroes that she has flipped off more times than she can count. Meg doesn’t want anything to do with any of them, but her ability to control a person’s sense of fear makes her a liability or an asset for either side. It’s hard to lead a normal life when villains and superheroes alike are constantly knocking on your door trying to recruit you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am still trying to work out why I read so many of her books. This minor storyline was obviously essential to the plot! I am struggling to think of a Lynne Graham book where the heroes previous girlfriends are not complete cows. I am particularly refering to an ex-girlfriend suddenly appearing and declaring that Rauf is actually in love with her (despite said girlfriend sleeping with one of his best friends). On the downside, it sometimes felt like Lynne Graham had a checklist beside her which she was marking off. Rauf (after the first 70 or so pages anyway) isn't quite as "Alpha" as many Lynne Graham heroes, which was also a plus. Lily has been tormented by her brother-in-law for years so the impact he had on Lily and Rauf's relationship seems plausible. The best bit of it for me was that the pair (Turkish tycoon Rauf and nursery nurse Lily) actually spend most of the book together and many of the mis-understandings are cleared up fairly early on. ![]() It occurred to me about 60 pages in that I had read this before. Did I mention he is a jouster? Why aren't there more books with part-time re-enactors as heroes? Who also save lives? 4/5 starsĢ. Emergency doctor and nurse Dominic and Louisa heal each other's inner wounds with the help of Louisa's son Tyler and lots of horses. I thought this was a sweet read, just the thing to start off Advent 2013. Bought in the January sales for a fiver, this has been sitting on my floor for nearly a year. ![]() ![]() Orsk is a fictionalized American knock-off of mass minimalist Ikea, right down to the maze-like floor plan, calibrated cozy of model rooms and the built-in café. Either he’s making a sly, slickly patronizing assumption about the lives of low-wage retail workers here, or exposing some economic fault line as it relates to the lives of low-wage workers. Money, duty and the pursuit of fame is why any of the characters appears to do anything and who better to embody these tensions, Hendrix posits, than a group of big box store employees. Capitalist tensions, particularly the numbing, oppressive cycle of work, is the force that sets Horrorstör, in motion. This is the setting into which Grady Hendrix sets his big-box horror story. Jobs, convenience and choice are touted as some solace, masking the more complex and insidious of these woes we both love and revile the big box. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their gleaming cubes, bottomless buffets of options, are the site of endless sociological discontents and phenomena: gentrification, the growing lateralization of the middling classes, worker exploitation and income disparity. Leading retailers continue to storm fast-growing boroughs and cities, from downtown Toronto to Shenzhen, China. From Loews to Costco, the big box store has long been the setting for fierce, nimble and sometimes privileged critiques of first world consumerism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'One of the bravest men in the British army, and one of the funniest' Ben Macintyre 'An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour and surprising incident' Financial Times 'A man of daring character' Winston Churchill ![]() 'This book literally changed my life' Simon Sebag Montefiore ![]() Maclean is the original British action hero and this is blistering reading. In 1943 he parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia as Winston Churchill's personal representative to Josip Broz Tito and remained there until 1945, all enemy attempts to capture him proving unsuccessful.Įastern Approaches is Maclean's classic, gripping account of the sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, the thrill of remote travel in the then-forbidden zones of Central Asia, and the violence and adventure of world-changing tours in North Africa and Yugoslavia. There Maclean specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. In 1942 he fought as a founder member of the SAS in North Africa. Posted to Moscow as a young diplomat before the Second World War, Fitzroy Maclean travelled widely, with or without permission, in some of the wildest and remotest parts of the Soviet Union, then virtually closed to foreigners. 'A classic' Observer | 'A legend' Washington Post | 'The best book you will read this year' Colonel Tim Collins 70th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this thrilling installment of Lauren Tarshis's New York Times bestselling I Survived series, one child finds safety only to head back into the treacherous waters to make sure his neighbors are safe. By morning, hundreds of homes were destroyed. But what started as entertainment soon turned into a nightmare as those wild waves crashed into the city. They gathered on the beach to cheer on the wild waves. Galveston was prone to flooding, but just a few years before, a weather forecaster had said the idea of a hurricane striking Galveston was absurd.So when a storm started brewing on September 8, 1900, no one believed it would be any worse than previous storms. ![]() Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the horrible event churns with page-turning action and bold hope.īy 1900, the city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. More than a century later, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is still America's deadliest disaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the event, Henry's name is drawn in a raffle to receive $50 worth of beauty-treatment coupons at the supermarket's beauty parlor. One day Henry and his family attend the grand opening of the town's new supermarket. Each chapter centers around Henry's ideas to get a bicycle, including selling boxes of bubble gum he found abandoned in an alley and buying a bike from an auction. But he only earns a penny for every empty Coke bottle turned in for recycling, so it will take a long time to get that bike. So he decides to start a bicycle fund, and save up the $59.95 himself. ![]() One of the older boys in the neighborhood, Scooter McCarthy, has a new red bike, and Henry imagines himself riding one up and down Klickitat Street just like Scooter. Henry Huggins really wants a bicycle, but his family can't afford one this year. Finally his friend Beezus gives him an idea that actually works. Henry comes up with many ways to earn money for the new red bicycle he wants, but they all seem to end up with him in trouble. This humorous children's novel was written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1952. Henry and Beezus is the second book in the Henry Huggins series. ![]() ![]() He was called upon to capture many momentous occasions of the new. Throughout, a variety of contextual material-contact sheets, test shots, outtakes, sketches, letters, journals, tear sheets-helps build a detailed picture of Beaton’s methods, the relationships he developed with his sitters, and how the portraits were received.ĭrawing on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s unparalleled collection of Beaton’s photographs, this volume will appeal not only to those interested in the photographer and his work, but also to anyone for whom the distinction between the private world and the public face of the royal family remains a source of fascination. Sir Cecil Beaton, the photographer behind the official coronation portraiture, was a preeminent fashion photographer. Organized chronologically, from the 1930s to the 1970s, each of the book’s four chapters comprises an introductory essay, plates with extended captions, and one or two in-depth analyses of a particular sitting. (331 mm x 249 mm) Acquired from the estate of Cecil. ![]() ![]() Offering a fresh appraisal of Beaton’s portraits of the British royal family, the book explores not only the finished images but also the sittings in which they were created, revealing Beaton’s central role in shaping the public face of the House of Windsor and the ways in which he collaborated with his subjects. by Cecil Beaton semi-matte cibachrome print, 2 June 1953 13 3/8 in. ![]() Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits looks back in time to tell a very modern tale: the creation of a public image. ![]() ![]() His talents soon attracted attention, and he was promoted to official duties in the service of the State. There he gave lessons in elocution, and acted as counsel in several law-cases. ![]() After having for some time practised as a “Rhetorician,” that is, advocate or jurist, in his native land, he seems to have migrated early to Byzantium or Constantinople. Procopius, the most important of the Byzantine historians, was born at Caesarea in Palestine towards the beginning of the sixth century of the Christian era. ![]() _LITERALLY AND COMPLETELY TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK FOR THE FIRST TIMEĪTHENS: PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY: MDCCCXCVI_ THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT OF JUSTINIAN Eckrich, Post-Processor the PG Online Distributed Proofreaders Team ![]() Produced by Ted Garvin, Project Manager Keith M. ![]() |