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What do readers say about Spinning Silver?
fairy-tale style magical & imaginative mankind’s battle with winter an old-fashioned taleWith the Nebula Award-winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now. Spinning Silver draws reader... More details on Spinning Silver
The real story is, the miller’s daughter with her long golden hair wants to catch a lord, a prince, a rich man’s son, so she goes to the moneylender and borrows for a ring and a necklace and decks her...
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What do readers say about Hattie Big Sky?
homesteading during wwi homesteading in early-20th-century montana young adult novel a great historical bookThis Newbery Honor winning, New York Times bestseller celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American frontier.
For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hat... More details on Hattie Big Sky
I ran into your mother today at Uncle Holt’s store. She said word is you are heading for England soon, France after that. I won’t hardly be able to look at the map behind Miss Simpson’s desk now; it w...
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What do readers say about The Penderwicks?
friendship and family nothing much happens well-written, innocent, and enchanting light-hearted and nicely pacedThis series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. Over one million copies sold, now with a brigh... More details on The Penderwicks
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What do readers say about The Lost World?
very entertaining and fun old-fashioned escapist literature edwardian adventure yarn archetypal adventure storyWhen the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher, notorious for man h... More details on The Lost World
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth, — a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If a...
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What do readers say about Wakenhyrst?
a gothic story super suspense novel a gothic mystery an old-fashioned gothic tale1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family - a historian, scholar and land-owner, he's an upstanding member of the local community. But a... More details on Wakenhyrst
Maud had only been there three times before. It lay behind not one but two pairs of double doors, so that Father could work undisturbed. When you opened the first pair, you were trapped in a nasty sha...
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What do readers say about Swallows and Amazons?
old-style gentle adventure one family’s summer adventures imagination and play the story is compellingFriendship, resourcefulness, adventures Here's the classic tale of two families of children who band together against a common foe: an uncle who claims he's too busy for his nieces.
The Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger) are on school ho... More details on Swallows and Amazons
ROGER, AGED SEVEN, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zigzags, to and fro, across the steep field that sloped up from the lake to Holly Howe, the farm where they were staying for pa...
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What do readers say about The Ocean at the End of the Lane?
love, sacrifice, and magic how visual it is fairy tale horror straightforward but never boringLocus Award
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.
This bewit... More details on The Ocean at the End of the Lane
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the centre of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. ...
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What do readers say about Silk?
obsession, longing, and love poetic and sensual spare, beautiful prose love and passionThe year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and... More details on Silk
Stay like that, I want to look at you, I looked at you so much but you weren't for me, now you are mine, don't come near me, please, stay as you are, we have one night for us, and I want to look at yo...
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What do readers say about The Tenderness of Wolves?
simple and engaging multiple points of view complex and struggling characters taut and masterfulA brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread) Book of the Year... More details on The Tenderness of Wolves
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What do readers say about A Well Favored Gentleman?
alien romance novels very disjointed story no more rape love the storyWhere has she been? The rumors fly throughout the Scottish countryside about Lady Alanna, the beautiful and mysterious displaced mistress of Fionnaway Manor.
And now she has emerged from hiding, only to find her beloved estate besieged by greedy rela... More details on A Well Favored Gentleman
Someone held a knife to his throat, and it wasn’t the first time, but this time he’d been caught by surprise. He hadn’t had time to make enemies in Scotland. He’d arrived only today, and had found his...
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