![]() There are a few small spots of light wrinkling to the upper cover. This book is hard-bound in green cloth, with giltstamping and a color, pictorial paste-down on the upper cover and gilt stamping to the spine, in a very nice dust jacket with light edge-wear. This unique edition contains an immaculate CD with two versions of "Puff, the Magic Dragon," plus the amusing "Froggie Went A Courtin," and "The Blue Tail Fly" by Yarrow, as well as his daughter Bethany, and cellist Rufus Cappadoccia. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's greatest hits, "Puff, the Magic Dragon". IMMACULATE COPY with a VF sealed CD in rear "cup." Peter Yarrow (born 1938) is an American singer and songwriter who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. The charmingly illustrated, dreamy adventures of a boy and his gentle and lovable dragon buddy. ~ pages + CD embedded into rear pastedown with 4 classic songs ("Puff" et al.) by Yarrow & Lipton. Oblong quarto / 4to (10 3/4" H x 11 3/4"W), green cloth with gold lettering on spine and inset glossy picture of Puff on the front cover, illustrated with entrancing pictures by Eric Puybaret, map endpapers of Honalee, N.P. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hayden is hard-working, loving, responsible but she’s also a smartass and I love that aspect of her. I love Hayden, even more with Tanya Eby’s voice, which I thought was perfect. Yet the promise of money pushes her to answer, only to discover that the author of the ad is Samantha Thomson, the most arrogant and rudest surgeon at the hospital. When she stumbles upon an ad on craigslist looking for a temporary bride, the idea seems ludicrous at first. A lot of what she earns goes to her family in Miami. ![]() Hayden Pérez is a nurse in New York who, despite working as much as she can and being very careful with her expenses, is struggling financially. I won’t spoil but when the reader, along with Hayden, finds out why Sam needed that fake marriage, I loved Sam even more. I think this one has the best reason I have read. If it needs me to suspend my disbelief, I might still enjoy it if the writing is good but it won’t be the same. I usually like the fake-romance trope but it has to have a believable reason. I really liked Tanya Eby’s narration and the different voices, including Hayden’s nephew (children are not easy). This time, I listened to the audiobook version, and it was also wonderful. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For a start, the 24 books we read were all prize winners – which ones to cut and why? We were also not choosing the most distinguished work of non-fiction from the past 25 years but the best of the Baillie Gifford, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize. The judging process was long, enjoyable but also challenging. As chair of the judges, I announced the winner. The prize was celebrating its 25th anniversary and the dinner was held in the atrium of the Grand Gallery at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street. I was back in the city for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction Winner of Winners Award events. ![]() It’s a small city – so much is conveniently accessible to the walker or flâneur – but, apart from in August, when the mood changes during festival time, Edinburgh never seems too crowded, or hurried, or restless. I love the ordered formality and wide streets of the Georgian New Town the architectural grandeur that awaits as you emerge from the lower depths of Waverley Station the absence of security barriers outside Bute House, the First Minister’s official residence on Charlotte Square the sounds of the distant seagulls in the skies above, and the presence of the castle on the rock that looms but never threatens or menaces as Kafka’s did. I never tire of visiting Edinburgh, one of my favourite cities and surely one of the world’s greatest. ![]() ![]() ![]() He met Marilyn in 1957 when he was a doctoral candidate at Harvard teaching a class on American culture in which she was a student. James, the academically gifted child of Chinese immigrants, spent his life yearning to belong. The death of Lydia leads James and Marilyn to reflect on their lives. As the police investigate, her parents discover that, contrary to their belief that Lydia was popular and doing well in school, she was actually very lonely with almost no friends and that her grades had severely slipped. Lydia's parents, James and Marilyn, are horrified by their daughter's death. After several days, her body is dredged out of the town lake. On May 3, 1977, Lydia Lee, the middle child of the Lee family, is missing. ![]() ![]() Ng spent six years writing the novel, going through four different full drafts. The novel is about a mixed-race Chinese-American family whose middle daughter Lydia is found drowned in a nearby lake. ![]() The novel topped Amazon's Best Books of the Year list for 2014. Book by Celeste Ng Everything I Never Told YouĮverything I Never Told You is the 2014 debut novel by Celeste Ng. ![]() ![]() He is a 2016 Caldecott Honoree and also received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his art in Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña de la Peña himself took home the 2016 Newbery Medal, awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children for the "most distinguished book for children." Leo: A Ghost Story, illustrated by Robinson and written by Mac Barnett, was named a 2015 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year. He's the winner of the 2014 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, as well as the 2013 Marion Vannett Ridgeway Honor. Thanks!Ĭhristian Robinson is the illustrator of many award-winning children's books. ![]() ![]() When ordering, please incude the name of your school in the NOTES section of your order. Please click on the book cover to see descriptions, age ranges, author bio, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have been dabbling with Forex for about two years now. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally to Lisbon, where the refugees embarked for safer ports. In 1940, Varian Fry-a Harvard-educated American journalist-traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. ![]() ![]() The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then I became the mother of boys: Christopher, now about to turn 25, and Gregory, now about to turn 21. I looked forward to having daughters of my own with whom I could share the beloved texts from our childhood, chief among them the Betsy-Tacy books of Maud Hart Lovelace, the “Shoes” books of Noel Streatfeild, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and other classic girls’ stories. Fortunately for me, her husband became a bookstore owner, so every Christmas I open packages under the tree to find childhood favorites that nobody on earth but my sister would know that I wanted: teen romances from a bygone era like Double Date by Rosamond du Jardin and Jean and Johnny by Beverly Cleary. We spent most of our childhood doing nothing but reading, and we loved all the same books. I grew up reading with my one-year-younger sister, Cheryl. Mills shares a wonderful list of her family’s favorite books that feature girl protagonists-she encourages you to share them with both boys and girls, alike. Published: SeptemClaudia Mills, PhilosophyclaudiaĬlaudia Mills is the author of many chapter and middle-grade books, including 7 x 9=Trouble! How Oliver Olson Changed the World Kelsey Green, Reading Queen and, most recently, Zero Tolerance. She also teaches philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. ![]() ![]() Rice pudding is the dish of the day, as a delighted Gregg Wallace visits the Ambrosia factory in Devon, where he learns that they produce 23 million cans each year. “Sorry I’m late,” says Miep, arriving at the office, “the checkpoint was crazy!” SK When it does happen, A Small Light makes a point of highlighting how ordinary even the most extraordinary situations can become. ![]() All the while, people make small talk about whether Hitler will invade the Netherlands. This week’s two-episode premiere follows her as she becomes a secretary for Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber), before meeting her husband Jan (Joe Cole). This is thanks to the fantastic lead performance of Bel Powley (best known for Everything I Know About Love), whose Miep is as charming and charismatic as she is sincere and relatable. This remarkable new drama seeks to illuminate another important figure in the tale: Miep Gies, the woman who risked her life for two years to hide the Frank family and their friends in an attic.Ī Small Light is produced by National Geographic, although it is nowhere near as stuffy as that sounds. ![]() There are few among us who do not know the story of Anne Frank, the teenage girl whose diary chronicling her time hiding from the Nazis during the Second World War became a global bestseller and an enduringly important historical document. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ambition and accomplishment are givens in these families, where it’s understood that nothing less than attending a top-flight school and entering an honored profession (medicine, law, academics) will satisfy. Their offspring, who are generally the protagonists of these stories, are typically more Americanized, adopting a value system that would scandalize their parents, who are usually oblivious to the college lives their sons and daughters lead. ![]() The parents feel a tension between the culture they’ve left behind (though to which they frequently return) and the adopted homeland where they always feel at least a little foreign. Each of these eight stories, most on the longish side, a few previously published in magazines, concerns the assimilation of Bengali characters into American society. The London-born, American-raised author of Indian descent returns with some of her most compelling fiction to date. Lahiri ( The Namesake, 2003, etc.) extends her mastery of the short-story format in a collection that has a novel’s thematic cohesion, narrative momentum and depth of character. ![]() |