![]() ![]() But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl, whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls…There Sophie meets Michael, Howl’s apprentice, and Calcifer, the fire demon, with whom she agrees on a pact with. Check out the books that inspired the animation in this magical three-book collection.ĭeciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. The first book in the series has even been loosely adapted into a 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film by Studio Ghibli of the same name, which was critically acclaimed and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The series, also known as the Howl or Moving Castle series, consists of three fantastical titles: Howl’s Moving Castle (1986), Castle in the Air (1990), and House of Many Ways (2008). She is most famous for her collection of children and young adult series, most notably The Land of Ingary series. Diana Wynne Jones is the mastermind of fantasy fiction for ages 9-14. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “The island drew me to her… I volunteered for the next expedition”. Back on the ship however, he reports to the Captain that the island is uninhabited, and there is nothing to report. Separated from his men, he thinks he sees a figure through the undergrowth. ![]() ![]() The visit to the island is hallucinatory and intense. That night on the ship he has vivid dreams of the island, deepening his connection. Lieutenant Absinthe is already feeling strangely drawn to the island, when he is ordered to lead the first expedition. They crew see fires in the island at night, said in legend to be St Agatha herself breathing. Some strange events have occurred recently including the sinking of some merchant vessels”. The captain explains: “Gentlemen, you’re familiar with all the stories and legends about these islands. The battleship Anselm II arrives to investigate and ‘civilise’ the island St Agatha. Fires is the third graphic novel by Italian artist and illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti, and made his name. ![]() ![]() But after three or four years as a happy husband and respected citizen, Martin Arnaud was accused of being a fraud in a suit to which Bertrande was a party. ![]() About eight years later a brilliant impostor named Arnaud du Tilh with a reasonable resemblance to Martin Guerre showed up in Artigat and was received by everyone (including Bertrande de Vols) with open arms. Not long after that he fell out with his father (committing the unpardonable act, for a Basque, of stealing grain from the older man) and then suddenly disappeared. After more than eight years of impotence, Martin succeeded in consummating the marriage and begetting a son. Both bride and groom were well-to-do and very young, perhaps 12 and 14 respectively. Martin Guerre was a peasant of Basque origins who married Bertrande de Vols in the village of Artigat in 1538. That work in turn drove her to do the minute, exacting research that resulted in this fine little book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Davis is a Princeton historian who collaborated with scenarist Jean-Claude Carrière and director Daniel Vigne on the just-released Retour de Martin Guerre. A scholarly speculative reconstruction of a celebrated episode from 16th-century Languedoc that shapes a mass of dusty archival records into a relaxed, fast-paced, and charming narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has received honorary doctorate degrees from Eastern Connecticut State University, Johns Hopkins University, Haverford College, Williams College, the University of Edinburgh, Duke University, Amherst College, Bowdoin College, SOAS University of London, American University, Georgetown University, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, Skidmore College and University of Johannesburg. ![]() In 2008, she received a MacArthur Fellowship. ![]() She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale University. Purple Hibiscus tells the story of a 15-year-old girl in Nigeria, learning to resist the control of her religious father as the country falls apart under a military coup. Her debut novel, it was first published by Algonquin Books in 2003. She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science. Purple Hibiscus is a novel written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her education on a different path. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. ![]() ![]() Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother’s notorious legacy. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father’s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. ![]() And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. ![]() Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years. Hunter, Autumn, and Summer-three of Kristina Snow’s five children-live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. This gripping conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crank trilogy features a refreshed look and a trade paperback trim size. ![]() ![]() ![]() The honesty of Veronica’s letter is powerful. And because you’re her mother, if she should become a prostitute, you’d become her go-between and deserve the harshest punishment, while her error wouldn’t perhaps be entirely inexcusable because it would have been caused by your wrongdoing.”įranco warns the mother that if her daughter becomes a courtesan, she will also be burdened with the guilt and promiscuity of her daughter. “ Although it’s mainly a question of your daughter’s well-being, I’m talking about you, as well, for her ruin cannot be separated from yours. In a letter to a friend, Franco tries to convince a mother that by influencing her daughter to be a courtesan would not only be a burden on the girl, but her mother as well: Franco knew the reputation of her occupation and the damage it took on the lives of women. ![]() ![]() Veronica Franco did not solely focus on her role of a courtesan in her writings, but also included fair warning to a mother in Venice of her desire to make her daughter a courtesan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Be sure to check out the notes at the end for more breathing and yoga exercises. Overall, this is a nice little picture book. ![]() I also like the fact that the third little pig uses they/them pronouns it's a cute touch that helps the book feel a little more inclusive. The illustrations are basic, but very colourful and kind of cute. One day, he loses his huff and puff, and it's up to a trio of friendly yogis (who also happen to be pigs) to teach him how to reclaim his breath. Sometimes he gets angry, though, and then he huffs and puffs and blows things down. The story follows the structure of the original fairy tale quite well, although the twist is that the wolf is our hero. It teaches kids some basic breathing techniques (as well as a bit of yoga) so they can help regulate themselves when they feel like huffing and puffing and blowing something down. This one, framed by the story of the Three Little Pigs, is fairly strong. ![]() ![]() Classic original wrapper, light shelf wear, rub unclipped 21s net, protected in new clear sleeve. ![]() Pages near fine, no writing slight fox to exterior text block. Magic hour orange full cloth boards, impressed black silhouette cover design of bull mirroring wrapper, red cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, discoloration. printing overall from Jonathan Cape, with superb jacket and design. 1955 third printing of the 1954 reissue, and ninth U. ![]() In an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions, this is the Lost Generation. Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes. ![]() This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway's evolving style. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation. The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. Jacket edges a bit rubbed with small surface tear on rear panel (sticker removal?) and minimal loss from corners. ![]() 1944-53 printing, Toledano 170.1, binding/jacket style 8h, 306 titles on verso, 95 cent jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. ![]() ![]() ![]() I got it and took it home, browsed the book and kept it on my shelf. It had a beautiful painting on the cover, and I had a strong impulse to buy it and read it immediately. ![]() In the new place, during one of my weekend visits to the bookstore, I saw another edition of ‘Possession’. Then I moved cities and countries and my edition of ‘Possession’ ended up in a box in the attic of my parents’ house. I waited for the right time to pick it up, but that never arrived. I was a big fan of Modern Library editions – with their soft paper and beautiful font – at that time (I still am) and so got a Modern Library edition of the book. When I browsed the book before buying, it had a lot of quotes, poetry and letters inside. I knew that it had won the Booker prize and I also knew that it was a literary detective story, involving love letters. I first got a copy of A.S.Byatt’s ‘Possession’ many years back. ![]() ![]() What she discovers raises important questions many people face, and vital issues about the intricacies of America’s healthcare system. After his death, Bennett uses her skills as a veteran investigative reporter to determine the cost of their mission of hope. The Cost of Hope chronicles the extraordinary measures Amanda and Terence take to preserve not only Terence’s life but also the life of their family. Then comes illness, and the fight to win a longer life for Terence. “You’re going to need somebody to take care of you.” Though initially as combative as their courtship, their marriage brings with it stormy passion, deep love and respect, two beloved children, and a life together over two decades. “You are going to be somebody,” he tells her. They are so different-classic and bohemian, bow ties and batik, quirky and sensible. When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda Bennett meets the eccentric, infuriating, yet somehow irresistible Terence Bryan Foley while on assignment in China, the last thing she expects is to marry him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir-a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s quest to save her husband’s life. ![]() |