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![]() A murderer who quietly crashes the party.Īnd he wants to dance with the birthday girl.Ĭontributor Bio(s): Stine, R. It's a private party - no parents, no cops.in fact, no one around for miles.Įxcept there's a madman loose on the island. It's Cindy's birthday, and her friends are throwing her a surprise party on Fire Island. Reading Level: 3.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 3.0įear Street - Where Your Worst Nightmares Live. Review Citations: Ingram Paperback Advance pg. Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure - Survival Stories Young Adult Fiction | Thrillers & Suspense Reissue.Ĭlick for more in this series: Fear Street ![]() ![]() ![]() Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: Stine's original Fear Street series is back with a killer new look for six ofits top-selling titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many frequently appeared motifs and storylines of Murakami’s works. I enjoyed to read this book, but I couldn’t find new things. (Only First Person Singular is described by WATASHI (私), the first singular noun of women and serious adult men.) ![]() And I felt the purity of Murakami by the voice or connotation of BOKU (僕) the Japanese first person singular noun of which boys and men use and speak. I think readers should read these stories are Murakami’s real experiences. So the stories appears to be made by real personal experiences, and their mysterious occurrences and unexpected plots have certain realities and worths. This book is consist of eight short stories.ĭescriptions of each of the stories are wrote by simple first person singular noun and its view. First Person Singular is a short story collection book by Haruki Murakami, originally published in 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. ![]() Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. ![]() ![]() Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.īorn into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The contrast is not merely personal Asch and Bashevis represent the two basic modes of Yiddish prose developed during the half-century embraced by their work. Like the originals of most of his recent books, the Yiddish version of The Prophet has remained in manuscript.Įven in translation one can sense how different these two writers are as Yiddish stylists. The Prophet, on the other hand, is Asch’s latest work, the fourth of his “neo-Christian” novels and perhaps the least successful. Satan in Goray established itself as a classic some twenty years ago, and is still so regarded. It is a little unfair to set The Prophet and Satan in Goray side by side, one of Asch’s poorest books, one of Bashevis Singer’s test. The two foremost living Yiddish writers of fiction, seventy-five-year-old Sholem Asch and Isaac Bashevis Singer, younger by nearly a quarter of a century, are each represented on the publishers’ lists this season with a novel in English translation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hanson teases out the resonances between the ways that plants and humans use seeds. What makes The Triumph of Seeds more than a routine pop botany book is the way Mr. ![]() A fascinating scientific adventure, it is essential reading for anyone who loves to see a plant grow. ![]() This is a book of knowledge, adventure, and wonder, spun by an award-winning writer with both the charm of a fireside story-teller and the hard-won expertise of a field biologist. Thanks to this stunning new book, they can be overlooked no more. Yet, despite their importance, seeds are often seen as commonplace, their extraordinary natural and human histories overlooked. ![]() Seeds are fundamental objects of beauty, evolutionary wonders, and simple fascinations. Just as the search for nutmeg and pepper drove the Age of Discovery, coffee beans fueled the Enlightenment and cottonseed sparked the Industrial Revolution. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life: supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Mark Kurlansky, New York Times Book Review We live in a world of seeds. The genius of Hansons fascinating, inspiring, and entertaining book stems from the fact that it is not about how all kinds of things grow from seeds it is about the seeds themselves. Book Synopsis As seen on PBSs American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Raised-outside of Philadelphia, PA, USA.The first book in the All Souls Trilogy is A Discovery of Witches (2011), and the third is The Book of Life (2014). Here, Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.ĭeborah Harkness has crafted a gripping journey through a world of alchemy, time travel, and magical discoveries, delivering one of the most hotly anticipated novels of the season. ![]() Now, picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the mysterious School of Night that includes Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh. ![]() The novel introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont together they found themselves at the center of a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. "Together we lifted our feet and stepped into the unknown"-the thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller A Discovery of Witches.ĭeborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, A Discovery of Witches, Book One of the magical "All Souls Trilogy" and an international publishing phenomenon. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can read a full plot description here.ĭoes the story feel authentic? Yes and Ruth Park calls on all our senses with her glorious descriptions of this area in 1873. ![]() But when Abigail is drawn in, the game is quickly transformed into an extraordinary, sometimes horrifying, adventure as she finds herself transported to a place that is foreign yet strangely familiar." In Playing Beatie Bow Abigail, a fourteen year old girl who lives with her mother in the Rocks area of Sydney, finds herself transported back to 1873.īlurb: "The game is called Beatie Bow and the children play it for the thrill of scaring themselves. ![]() How will the character go back in time? how will the character return to their 'real life'? and most importantly what has happened to time itself? The other complex issue comes when the story involves a timeslip. The author has to do detailed research so that the period in history feels authentic while ensuring the story feels fresh and does read like a list of history facts piled one after another. ![]() ![]() With often ambitious, off-kilter vantage points, his images of ballerinas numbered approximately 1,500 works, all deeply invested in the physicality and the discipline of dance. His subjects centered on the teeming, noisy streets of Paris, as well as its leisure entertainments, such as horse racing, cabarets, and, most particularly, ballet. The elder scion of a wealthy family, Degas cofounded a series of exhibitions of Impressionist art, but soon disassociated himself from the group in pursuit of a more realist approach. Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in fact defied easy categorization and instead developed a unique style, strongly influenced by Old Masters, the body in motion, and everyday urban life. ![]() |