MGM was interested in adapting Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945). The Loved One was written as a result of Evelyn Waugh's trip to Hollywood in February and March 1947. The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy is a short satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. A dust wrapper is not called for, this copy is encased in a mint robust red paper covered slipcase. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in orange cloth covered boards with a red flaming heart design and bright gilt titling to the spine.
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Gobble Gracker shows up and Dory's ocean adventure takes a surprising turn. Just when things can't get any worse, Dory's old enemy, Mrs. But Mary has gone off with an exciting new friend of her own and Dory is crushed with jealousy. At sea, Dory longs for her imaginary friend Mary. In search of the treasure, Dory meets up with a real pirate crew and finds that a pirate's life is harder than she thought. But Dory's active imagination takes over, and she is sure that Violet's lost treasure (a friendship bracelet) has something to do with pirates. When her big sister Violet has friend trouble at school, Dory tries to come to her rescue. The fifth adventure in the enormously popular Dory Fantasmagory series takes on the tried-and-true theme of childhood friendships, and turns it on its head, Dory-style. Juvenile Fiction | Readers - Chapter Books WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions What is wrong with the magical tree, and can it be saved before it's too late?Ĭonnie is the outsider in this Faraway Tree tale and she comes to stay with Jo, Bessie and Fanny as a paying guest of sorts. Even so, they explore a host of lands, including Nursery Rhyme Land, the land of Dame Slap, and climb up the Ladder That Has No Top, but then disaster strikes: The Faraway Tree is dying – its leaves curling up and no fruit growing on its branches. Review by Terry Gustafson Brief Summary by Robert Houghton: When Curious Connie comes to stay with Jo, Bessie and Fanny, the three children are keen to introduce her to their magical friends in the Faraway Tree – but Connie doesn't believe in magic, or fairy-folk, and pours scorn on everything she sees. She avoids criticizing Clinton for missteps in last year’s presidential campaign, skips weighing in on the myriad internecine fights inside the Democratic party, and only touches on her own brief considerations to run last year. Warren’s book, according to early reviews, seems designed to avoid unnecessarily foreclosing any doors. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accompanied by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in Cincinnati, Ohio on Monday, June 27, 2016. The group plans to send operatives with video cameras to track Warren's public appearances, launch Freedom of Information Act requests to dig up records, and hit her in the press with the goal of damaging her both in 2018 and ahead of 2020. The opposition research group, which started digging up dirt on Clinton when she launched her pre-campaign book tour three years ago, announced Tuesday that it was starting “The Elizabeth Warren Initiative" to “make Warren’s life difficult." Conservatives are reading Warren’s new book as “a soft launch of her 2020 presidential run,” as Colin Reed, the executive director of the super PAC America Rising, put it in a memo to reporters. In the following prologue of her new book, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class (Metropolitan Books), Senator Elizabeth Warren describes watching the results. So when Nora's friends start mysteriously dying gruesome deaths in their sleep, she isn't altogether surprised when the police direct their suspicion at her. The Sandman is the only one she can turn to for answers. But the truth might be more than she bargained for.įor the last five years, the Sandman has spent every night protecting Nora. When he hid the secret to the Nightmare Lord's escape inside her dreams, he never expected to fall in love with her. Neither did he think his nemesis would find her so quickly, but there's no mistaking his cruel handiwork. The Nightmare Lord is tired of playing by the rules and will do anything to release his deadly nightmares into the world, even if that means tormenting Nora until she breaks. Elizabeth would rather stay at home alone, but her aunt and uncle lock her out of the house, leaving a few items of clothing in a bag on the front porch. Suddenly, Elizabeth's aunt and uncle tell her that they are going on a vacation and she must take a lengthy train and bus trip to a hotel called Winterhouse. Orphan Elizabeth Somers has lived with her poor and unpleasant aunt and uncle since her mother and father died when she was four years old. Mystery, adventure, and beautiful writing combine in this exciting debut richly set in a hotel full of secrets. But will it be at the cost of losing the people she has come to car for, and even Winterhouse itself? As fate would have it, Elizabeth is the only person who can break the hotel’s curse and solve the mystery. But the deeper she delves into the hotel’s secrets, the more Elizabeth starts to realize that she is somehow connected to Winterhouse. It’s not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms-most notably its massive library. Orphan Elizabeth Somers’s malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. An enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut-the first book in a trilogy-set in a magical hotel full of secrets. 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Brief Summary of Book: Undefeated (Undefeated, #1-4) by Charity Parkerson From the beginning, Winter is attracted to Randall’s self-confident demeanour and somewhat brash independence, yet while she appreciates his care of her, she is also affronted at times by his behaviour and the two develop a mutual attraction that is complicated by circumstance and convention. Leaving India for England an orphan at the age of six, she is raised by her great-grandfather the Earl of Ware, but a match is made for her at the tender age of eleven to a man twenty years her senior, and at seventeen she prepares to leave for India escorted by Captain Alex Randall, the subordinate of her betrothed, Conway Barton, the Commissioner of the Lunjore district. Set during the great Indian Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, Shadow of the Moon follows the life of Winter, Condesa de Ballesteros who is the daughter of a Spanish nobleman and an English mother. As a result, Josie does her best to stay away from her mother, especially because her mother is dating a violent criminal named Cincinnati. Josie has a poor relationship with her mother, who is quick to hit and resents being a mother, blaming Josie for dragging her life down. Josie has lived in a small but cozy apartment over the bookshop since she was young, provided by Patrick and his father so Josie could stay away from her mother. She earns money from Willie Woodley’s brothel in the French Quarter where she works as a housemaid, and from working at Marlowe’s Bookshop with the owner’s son, Patrick. When the novel begins, Josie has saved up a few hundred dollars to put her plan into action. “Out of the Easy” is a young adult novel by Ruta Sepetys which follows 17-year-old Josie Moraine’s efforts to get out from under the shadow of her mother’s work as a prostitute, to leave New Orleans, and to attend college in Massachusetts. In "Black Canaan," even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers-and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. Included in this collection is Howard's masterpiece "Pigeons from Hell," a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation-and into the maw of its fatal secret. In this collection of Howard's greatest horror tales, some of the author's best-known characters-Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them-roam the forbidding locales of Howard's fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa. In a career spanning only twelve years, Howard wrote more than a hundred stories, with his most celebrated work appearing in Weird Tales, the preeminent pulp magazine of the era. Howard, renowned creator of Conan the barbarian, was also a master at conjuring tales of hair-raising horror. |