The Marvelous

Author: Claire Kann
Publisher: Swoon Reads
ISBN: 1250192706
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
From the author of Let’s Talk About Love and If It Makes You Happy, this exuberant YA Novel follows six teens locked together in a mansion, contending for a life-changing cash prize in a competition run by a reclusive heiress. Everyone thinks they know Jewel Van Hanen. Heiress turned actress turned social media darling who created the massively popular video-sharing app, Golden Rule. After mysteriously disappearing for a year, Jewel makes her dramatic return with an announcement: she has chosen a few lucky Golden Rule users to spend an unforgettable weekend at her private estate. But once they arrive, Jewel ingeniously flips the script: the guests are now players in an elaborate estate-wide game. And she’s tailored every challenge and obstacle to test whether they have what it takes to win--at any cost. Told from the perspective of three dazzling players--Nicole: the new queen of Golden Rule; Luna: Jewel’s biggest fan; and Stella: a brilliant outsider--this novel will charm its way into your heart and keep you guessing how it all ends because money isn’t the only thing at stake. Praise for Let's Talk About Love: "This book is so charming and funny and bighearted. ... I recommend this one for fans of Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl and Sandhya Menon's When Dimple Met Rishi." —Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda "Claire Kann makes an admirable debut with this milestone for ace visibility." —Entertainment Weekly

Marvelous

Author: Travis Thrasher
Publisher: Tyndale House
ISBN: 1612917208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
Brandon Jeffery’s summer started out with a bang—as in, a friend crashed his car and now he has to work two jobs to pay it off. It’s at Fascination Street Records that he’s introduced to a beautiful but quiet girl named Marvel. She’s new to Hidden Cove and looking for a summer job, so Brandon secretly strikes a deal with their boss to work for free so she can be hired. When a classmate is found murdered, however, their summer takes a turn for the mysterious. Brandon’s friend Devon is sure he knows just who’s to blame: the creepy recluse of the town quarry. But the police have few leads, and Brandon has the sneaking suspicion he’s being watched. That’s not what’s in the forefront of on his mind, though. More than trying to pay off his car to his unemployed, alcoholic father and protecting Seth Belcher from the school bullies, he’s determined to date Marvel. He doesn’t understand why they seem so close and she refuses to date him, but as the mystery behind her tragic past begins to unravel, Marvel finally confesses her reason: God has revealed she’s destined to die saving others—and it’s going to be soon.

Madly Marvelous

Author: Donna Zakowska
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647004721
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
From the award-winning costume designer of Amazon Prime Video's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a collection of the show’s costumes, with never-before-seen photography, sketches, production stills, and more Amazon Prime Video’s Emmy- and Golden Globe–winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel centers on Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a 1950s New York City woman whose seemingly perfect life suddenly takes an unexpected turn, taking her from a comfortable life on Riverside Drive through the basket houses and nightclubs of Greenwich Village as she embarks on a groundbreaking standup comedy career. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (creator and showrunner of Gilmore Girls), and starring Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, and Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has garnered fan and critical praise alike, with much of the attention focused on the exquisitely designed period costumes. Madly Marvelous: The Costumes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel explores the inner workings of award-winning costume designer Donna Zakowska’s process, as well as the many inspirations for the show’s wardrobe, including period photography, American and European fashion trends, and the various cultures and countercultures of late-1950s New York. The clothes of Mrs. Maisel are gorgeous, authentically detailed, and carefully crafted. Illustrated with sketches, photographs from Zakowska’s workspace, behind-the-scenes shots, and production stills, the book follows the series from season to season, showing how the vocabulary of fashion—context, style, color, cut, accessories, and more—is integral to defining and developing the characters in the show. Madly Marvelous is a must-have for fans of the show and fashionistas alike, providing readers with a curated and well-informed look at an integral period in fashion history.

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

Author: Karen Foxlee
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385753543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.

Marvelous Me

Author: Lisa Bullard
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1666341746
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21

Book Description
"From what you look like, to your favorite food, to what makes you mad, glad, or sad, there is no one quite like you! It's incredible but true, so go and be your best you!" --

Marvelous!

Author: Matthew M. Price
Publisher: Price Family Books
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
"Faith can feel cold in the winter months. Fruit, flowers, and everything beautiful seems to fade, But I want you to know it's the destiny of a season not only to change but blossom, and you are too.” Marvelous is a short story about my family's journey through our mother being infected with cancer this past year. Thinking about this season while looking forward inspired its namesake and what I wanted this fragrance to represent.Time is a powerful tool for understanding the sweetness and bitterness of life, and we celebrate the perspective we've come to find in-season change. We hope this story encourages you, too, no matter what season of life you're walking through (and its inherent beauty.) This short story is an excerpt from Behind the Collections (unreleased), stories that built the House of Petra Living.

The Marvelous Toy

Author:
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 1607343533
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
It's a major publishing event! For nearly half a century, "The Marvelous Toy"--composed by the legendary singer/songwriter Tom Paxton--has enchanted children and adults alike. A simple tale about a mysterious, magical, and mystical toy that a father gives to his son--and that eventually gets passed down to the next generation--it celebrates a child's sense of wonder. The witty, evocative lyrics spark the imagination. No surprise, then, that the song has been recorded by countless major artists, from Peter, Paul, and Mary to the Chad Mitchell Trio to John Denver, and won legions of fans through the years. Paxton's marvelous song has finally become a stunning picture book, featuring incredible and wildly imaginative art by Steve Cox, illustrator of the award-winning PIGS MIGHT FLY. Parents, grandparents, friends, and family worldwide will remember this classic from their own youth--and joyfully share it with their own children.

Marvelous Journeys

Author: Margaret Heady
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820476100
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Marvelous Journeys explores the transition from a modernist to a postmodernist consciousness in twentieth-century Caribbean writings on identity that is reflected through a corresponding evolution in the use of the marvelous as a literary tool. For the three novelists who are the focus of this study - Jacques-Stephen Alexis, Alejo Carpentier, and Simone Schwarz-Bart - the discourse of the marvelous offers a uniquely Caribbean vehicle for capturing an elusive Caribbean «essence» as well as for coming to terms with the seemingly contradictory demands of a Parisian intellectual formation and an authentic Caribbean sensibility. This book engages with recent debates in criticism and theory and will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers interested in Francophone literature, Caribbean studies, and literary and postcolonial theory. It contributes to the burgeoning field of Caribbean literary studies by adopting a transcultural approach to a neglected but increasingly important area of study: the circulation of ideas and influences among the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean islands and the African and European continents.

Marvelous Possessions

Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652518X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
A masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, particularly in the New World. In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was manipulated by Columbus and others in the service of colonial appropriation. Much more than simply a collection of the odd and exotic, Marvelous Possessions is both a highly original extension of Greenblatt’s thinking on a subject that has permeated his career and a thrilling tale of wandering, kidnapping, and go-betweens—of daring improvisation, betrayal, and violence. Reaching back to the ancient Greeks, forward to the present, and, in his new preface, even to fantastical meetings between humans and aliens in movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Greenblatt would have us ask: How is it possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other, and possessiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder—for tolerant recognition of cultural difference—from being poisoned?

Mr. Marvelous

Author: Adam Hargreaves
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451534085
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Embrace your inner marvelousness with the most marvelous man in the classic Mr. Men series! Mr. Marvelous can out-tickle Mr. Tickle, outrun Mr. Rush, and out-chatter Little Miss Chatterbox. He is simply a marvel! But when he tries to out-naught Little Miss Naughty, he finds that there's nothing marvelous about playing tricks on people. Will he lose himself in a prank fight, or learn to embrace his naturally marvelous personality?