![]() ![]() The story was inspired by a number of different things – Michael’s boyhood memories, the experiences of Chris McBride with the lions of Timbavati, a meeting Michael had with the actress Viginia McKenna – a great supporter of lions and their welfare, the true story of a World War 1 soldier who saved some circus animals in France, and the glimpse from a train window of the chalk white horse near Westbury.Kaspar – Prince of Cats, Tom’s Sausage Lion, Mossop’s Last Chance, Adolphus Tips and The Nine Lives of Montezuma are also about cats. The Butterfly Lion is not the only one of Michael Morpurgo’s books to feature a cat.When Michael Morpurgo was asked to name his favourite of the books he’s written, he named The Butterfly Lion (along with Kensuke’s Kingdom, War Horse and Private Peaceful).ISBN: 9780008459864 Recommended for children aged: 7+ First published: Hardback November 2021. Published by: Harper Collins Children’s Books. Genre: illustrated gift edition fiction chapter book. ![]() Children’s author: Michael Morpurgo Children’s illustrator: Christian Birmingham. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The overhead lighting was subdued, as was everything else-painted a muted gray-green to match the carpet, even the exposed ductwork in the darkened ceiling above. Wall-to-wall grayish green carpet swallowed idle chatter the windows facing the three walls of walk-in lockers were frosted to allow only diffuse shafts of light from the street above in and even less from the clubhouse out. Sunken in the bowels of Yankee Stadium, it was “like a large subterranean living room,” he recalled, apparently designed to keep the world outside at bay. It was April 9, 1962, and what struck him first was how funereal it was. He never forgot the experience of entering the Yankee clubhouse for the first time. Six months later, and to the surprise of absolutely everybody, Jim Bouton was a New York Yankee. Available here or wherever books are sold. Excerpted from “Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original” by Mitchell Nathanson by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. ![]() Table of contents for Candide, or, Optimism Table of contents for Candide, or, Optimism / Voltaire translated by Burton Raffel.īibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. ![]() ![]() It saddens me that such a promising series has been torpedoed by terrible performances. I don't know how this was ever approved of the finished product. Also in this installment there are some really weird pauses, long enough to make me check if my earbuds had become unplugged. If that isn't bad enough she has this habit of swilling mucus noisily around in her mouth, you can hear her sucking it through her teeth and swallowing, I find it not only disgusting but distracting. I really don't mind the way she voices every other character but the voice she uses to read Aisling is that of a heavy smoker and old lady. ![]() Which brings me to my main issue with this series. ![]() ![]() Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact they’ve had for years. The Aisling in my head does not speak the lines the way the narrator reads them. MacAvoy 1983 Book 1 of 2 in the Black Dragon series Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter, Elizabeth, is in troubleshe just doesn’t know what kind. Parts of the story were a little dramatic for me but I wonder if I would have had the same issue if I were reading the books instead of listening. In this story Aisling's relationship with her demon, lover and mentor all progress with a heavy does of hijinks thrown in. ![]() I still enjoy the plots enough that I will see the series out and with only one more book that is not much of a commitment. I loved the first story and is still in my mind the best, each subsequent installment I have liked less and had a harder time grasping the connections and explanations the authors uses. I continue to feel completely polarized by this series. Somebody please get the narrator a Ricola ![]() ![]() Honor Amelia Dawson's writing style bears strong similarities to ![]() You must try at least one immediately, it will be worth your while, if you like her style ! Don't be surprised if you rush back to get more, they have a good reading rhythm, they are well paced pageturners, with some surprises to heighten the excitement. Honor Amelia Dawson has three full length novels available on Kindle, all exceeding 100,000 words, equivalent to 350 pages approximately The consequences of her grandmother's actions span generations the locals struggle with the emerging truth greed, death, and revenge linger.ĭesperate for consolation Leanne sets herself a quest to uncover this mysterious past.For professional backup, she engages the successful team of Luke Adams and Imogen Morrison. She is confounded by the protracted deception, and a gnawing sense of betrayal. ![]() Leanne grows up believing her mother is dead, that is, until her grandmother dies. ![]() These events have remained a tight secret, never broached nor discussed. Client - Leanne Starkĭecades have past since Leanne's grandmother inherited a vast house after a fatal shooting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Followed by a book of a gladiatorial combat scenario, which was really odd but ultimately interesting. Nevernight is Mia Corvere in school, learning how to become an assassin. The story over the course of the series follows a predictable pattern. And the footnotes just get better as the series goes on, especially when you find out who writes them. ![]() And often they are precipitated by some random thing, like a vase or portrait. And often they are amusing little tales or just a joke. A large portion of the worldbuilding actually takes place in the footnotes – and there are a lot of them. However, it does have FOOTNOTES, so that was really awesome. I really did like reading the series, though. ![]() Like the first book, Mia is at assassin school and everyone is acting like they’re at Hogwarts. The writing was really well done, but different than I am used to. I liked it, but I wasn’t in love with it. Well, Nevernight sure was a different series than I typically go for. Which is quite something on a world with 3 suns that rarely fully set. In addition to being a rater decent killer, she is capable of talking with shadows. Now she wishes to join a group of assassins, on a mission of revenge. Mia Covere’s family was killed, and she barely escaped with her life. Genres: fantasy, epic fantasy, high fantasy, young adult, school setting ![]() ![]() ![]() When the direction we have been traveling will shift. ![]() We rarely know when our lives are about to change. Hollywood Chronicles, a collaboration with USA Today Bestselling Author, Rebecca Shea Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.ĬRAVE – the first in the brand new, sexy, heart-stopping series, Love the Way You Lie, from A.L. Names, characters, places, and plots are a product of the author’s imagination. The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Please protect this art form by not pirating. ![]() Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior permission of the publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bridge-her first name, India, is mentioned in the very first sentence and then rarely referred to again-is the matriarch of an upper-middle-class Kansas City family in the 1930s. Connell’s comedy of Midwestern manners, I recognized my mother. “They’re Malaysian,” my mother said, with a hint of condescension.Īs soon as I started reading MRS. “Those don’t look like ferns,” the neighbor reportedly said. But my mother bought into it wholeheartedly, and according to my sister even gave a spirited defense of their fern-ness when a neighbor spotted the enormous plants from our swimming pool. More specifically, the pot plants my older brother grew on his windowsill all summer, when he was a weed-dealing teenager, and which he told my Wisconsinite mother were “Malaysian ferns.” Even I, an unworldly eight-year-old, could tell they weren’t ferns. ![]() ![]() I forget who urged me to read it first-I remember a classmate in grad school raving about it-but my near-instant infatuation with the book had to do with marijuana. BRIDGE is one of those books that writers love to pass along to other writers, although there’s nothing difficult or “writerly” about it: it’s funny, even hilarious, and written in fleet, nimble, sparely elegant prose. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If Legacy is to win again, she must play her imposter while disguised as someone else. False Legacy has become a hero to the masses, further strengthening Silla’s hold, and it becomes imperative to uncover and defeat her. She is so convincing that the real Legacy is accused of being an imitation. With her friends’ help, she is in training to defend her championship when they discover that another player, operating under the protection of High Consul Silla, is presenting herself as Legacy. In this sequel to Legacy and the Queen (2019), Legacy Petrin and her friends Javi and Pippa have returned to Legacy’s home province and the orphanage run by her father. A young tennis champion becomes the target of revenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today the capital of the Czech Republic). The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. ![]() It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio- bureaucratic powers. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer based in Prague, who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. ![]() |