Author: Alvin Schwartz Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0064440907 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 68
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Creak... Crash... BOO! Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards...all to chill your bones! Share these seven spine-tingling stories in a dark, dark room.
Author: Enid Bagnold Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 0486828824 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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"The book is one that horse lovers of every age cannot fail to enjoy." — The New York Times "Humorous, charming, National Velvet is a little masterpiece." — Time "Put on your not-to-be-missed list." — The New Yorker A butcher's daughter in a small Sussex town ends her nightly prayers with "Oh, God, give me horses, give me horses! Let me be the best rider in England!" The answer to fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown's plea materializes in the form of an unwanted piebald, raffled off in a village lottery, who turns out to be adept at jumping fences—exactly the sort of horse that could win the world's most famous steeplechase, the Grand National. Richly atmospheric of rural English life between the World Wars, National Velvet has enchanted generations of readers since its 1935 debut. The heroine's grit and determination, backed by the support of her eccentric and loving family, offer an inspiring example of the struggles and rewards of following a dream.
Author: Christie Adams Publisher: Club Aegis ISBN: 9781910791684 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Every day is torture for former SAS officer Alex Lombard. Every day, he has to go into his office and work beside the woman he craves down to the last atom of his being. The snag is, he doesn't date his employees, but even if he did, he's too damaged to be the man she deserves. Beth Harrison wants to be a writer, but like everyone else, she has bills to pay. Her job as Alex Lombard's assistant not only pays those bills, it puts her in close proximity to the man who provides the inspiration for the hero in her first novel, and who lives in her dreams as the lover she longs for. When a street crime throws them together as more than employer and employee, the secrets revealed change their relationship forever. However, someone from Alex's past is out for revenge, and his sights aren't only on destroying Alex's business... NOTE: This work was previously published. It has been retitled, expanded and re-edited for this release. "I could not put this superb book down ... What a page turner" - Goodreads review "Heart wrenching and heartwarming, delightful and disturbing, a lovely story that takes the reader through the mundane, to the thrilling, wrapping it all up in a beautiful ribbon of tender devotion between two souls." - Goodreads review
Author: Anne Weil Publisher: Clarkson Potter ISBN: 0451499212 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 194
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Modern weaving projects like you've never seen—within easy reach of anyone. Weaving is a satisfying hobby for making home or clothing accessories that look plucked from your favorite stores. Here are Pinterest-worthy projects for creating earrings, clutches, pillows, wall hangings, and more, all organized by skill level. From complete beginner to intermediate, Weaving Within Reach allows you to craft at your comfort level, even if you don’t yet know the difference between the warp and the weft. Lacking a loom? Most of the materials can be woven on found objects—such as an embroidery hoop or cardboard box—or achieved with a simple over-under pattern using no loom at all. As you progress, there are plenty of exciting designs for a frame loom to keep you inspired. With a detailed introduction, stunning lifestyle and step-by-step photographs, and a helpful resource section, Weaving Within Reach unravels the possibilities of the beautiful things you can make with your hands.
Author: Alexandre Dumas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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Synopsis: On his deathbed, Charles Nodier bequeathed "the woman with the black velvet collar" to Alexander Dumas to record the mess that the German writer ETA Hoffman experienced, in the turbulent years of the Jacobin terror France, a Paris with its monuments closed, but the scaffold always ready, where the aforementioned writer almost lost his head, figuratively and literally, by the beautiful Arsene, dancer of the Paris opera and lover of the revolutionary Danton
Author: Carmen Maria Machado Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 1555979807 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 229
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Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
Author: A. S. Byatt Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307426637 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 153
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An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race.” —The New York Times Book Review Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
Author: Alvin Schwartz Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062682849 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film! Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time. Available for the first time as an ebook, Stephen Gammell’s artwork from the original Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark appears in all its spooky glory. Read if you dare! And don't miss More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Scary Stories 3!
Author: Nadine Dorries Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786697483 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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'As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express. Tarabeg is a small village on the West Coast of Ireland. In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women are waiting there for ambitious Michael Malone to return home. Rosie is the local schoolteacher and most people think she is promised to him. Just a few have guessed that he has secretly begun to woo Sarah, whose brutal fisherman father would kill her if he knew. Both Rosie and Sarah love Michael, both hope to become his wife and their lives will interweave in a tale of tangled secrets, old promises and new feuds. Michael Malone's choice will have fateful consequences for everyone – especially, in due course, for his young daughter. This is the first in a new sequence of novels with a brilliant cast of characters and a story that will lead to Liverpool in Mary Kate and back to Ireland in The Velvet Ribbon.
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