![]() "First published in 1918"-Title page verso These magical tales are brought to life by one of the best-known illustrators of the time, Arthur Rackham." Steel takes the reader on a journey from Cornwall to Bamborough Castle, via a palace by the sea and high into the sky, where a giant lives. Originally published in 1918 it reflects the nationalistic concerns of the period. ![]() Steel's retellings of forty-one 'English Fairy Tales' is a classic collection of such stories which range from the familiar-'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'Little Red Riding-Hood', and 'The Three Little Pigs'-to the perhaps less well-known-'The Black Bull of Norroway', 'Nix Nought Nothing', and 'The Red Ettin'. "Fairy tales are written to both entertain and educate, and published in the shadow of the First World War, F. ![]()
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Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Obscured text on back cover due to sticker attached. For fans of The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono, Silk by Alessandro Baricco and Sandor Marai's Embers, Seethaler looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are. Its English translation (by Charlotte Collins), short-listed for the Man Booker International. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. Seethaler’s latest book, A Whole Life (Ein ganzes Leben) was a huge bestseller in Germany. Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. 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Jim Crace Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Everyone I trust is telling me to read this book. “Gripping!”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Nothing short of amazing.”- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”-Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review Being the second book in a series theres always the risk it can can sometimes take a nose dive, but The Infinite Sea manages to hold itself up high with the 1st. “A modern sci-fi masterpiece.”- USA Today As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.Ĭassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. The riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave, hailed by Justin Cronin as wildly entertaining. The riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave, hailed by Justin Cronin as “wildly entertaining.” ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s uniqueness feels something like reading a play without stage directions. The writing style’s like none other I’ve read. And given that I am very adept at solving mysteries, thanks to my study of all of the Nancy Drew canon, this is unusual. Not only beguiled, but unable to develop my theory or suspect for the murders that occur in both novels. Keigo Higashino’s The Devotion of Suspect X and Salvation of a Saint both had me beguiled from the first sentences to the final pages. Thank you, Sarah! This one was a keeper, which led me to purchase another Higashino book, The Devotion of Suspect X. Knowing my passion for the genre, she passed it to me to read. ![]() Sarah received a review copy of one of Keigo Higashino’s books translated from Japanese into English a few weeks ago ( Salvation of a Saint, out in October). ![]() Just give me a thriller or mystery and I’m happy as long as there’s some suspense and a bit of fuel for the imagination-and a really, really good one (i.e., Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series) is a real treasure. ![]() I admit I can be lax when it comes to quality. To hell with sleep when there’s a good mystery unfolding before me. I trace the seeds of said obsession to my early years when I would hide under my quilt with a flashlight to continue reading without parental interference. I confess my addiction to books shrouded in mystery and intrigue. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. ![]() As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility-but also danger.ĭespite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. ![]() When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. “A mesmerizing new historical novel” ( O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. ![]() ![]() ![]() For her work, she adopts the codename the Nightingale. Isabelle, who refuses to live passively under German authority, joins the French resistance movement and begins guiding Allied airmen out of France after their planes are shot down. Vianne continues to follow the rules even when it means allowing a Nazi officer to live in her home and the abuse and arrest of her Jewish neighbors. The Nazi invasion of France heightens these differences. Vianne, the older sister, is a rule-follower, whereas Isabelle is rebellious and speaks her mind. ![]() Since their mother died when they were children, Vianne and Isabelle have always been at odds. ![]() Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale tells the story of Vianne (Rossignol) Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, two French sisters who resist the occupying Nazi forces during World War II (WWII) by hiding Jewish children so they are not taken to concentration camps (the Holocaust) and by leading the escape of Allied pilots whose planes have been shot down over France. ![]() |