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A poetic response to life in the 21st-Century, comprising religion, philosophy and the ubiquitous search for meaning, as well as romantic encounters often only being made, accessible by invocation of wit, though eschewing sarcasm, supposedly the lowest form of it.
Certified bookworm from an early age, Halcyon youth followed by dysthymic adolescence incorporating introversion marked by immersion in study of Chess and European languages. Troubled University...
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Most days things start out so normally. Then sometimes everything goes off the rails. Luckily none of the things in these stories would ever, ever happen to you. Right? In this second collection, Brian Schell joins forces with Kevin L. Knights to bring you thirteen fresh tales of evil, horror, and fear. Untouched by human hands, and never before seen by human eyes, every one is short but guaranteed to be unpleasantly fun. Or funnily unpleasant. Whether...
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The controversy over filmmaker Jonas Mekas's memories of his WWII Lithuanian youth are delicately and humanely approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile.
Stemming from a New York Review of Books article by a Jewish historian condemning the widely-beloved Jonas Mekas, known as the 'Godfather of American avant-garde cinema', this essayistic, self-reflective, and analytic book flowers into an inquiry about memory and forgetting; the...
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Riff Raff's cave has become crowded, and with the mice pirates in close quarters, things are getting a bit rowdy! Can the brave buccaneers evade Gorgon Zola's gang and make it to a new cave, safe and sound?
Riff Raff stars in another hilarious I Can Read, perfect for beginning buccaneers-and readers!
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Brrrrr... Carson is cold! Grab your favorite blanket and enjoy the delightful story of one chilly little boy. Simple text and engaging illustrations will keep younger audiences enthralled as various members of Carson's family do their best to warm him up. 'A book is a door, a magic door. It can take you places you have never been before!' Each story in this lighthearted series begins with an invitation to open a magic door and visit a land where tales...
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The Morton family are cursed and their home, old Dunadd House, is haunted by ghostly figures and whispers in the night. Trapped by snow and ice in the remote Stirlingshire countryside, can the Morton children and their friend Samuel unravel the family's secrets and lift the ghostly curse. Or will they be doomed to repeat the past forever Chill was the winner of a Scottish Children's Book Award and Shiver is its bone-chilling sequel.
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Shivers! volume 3
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[2019]
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First Edition.
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"Now that Shivers has a brand-new, just built, scare-proof ship, the Groundhog, things have FINALLY taken a turn for the cozy. Theres just one problem-- not a SINGLE drop of water can fall on the ships deck for its whole first day a-sail or the pirate who owns it will be CURSED. Theres just one more problem-- on Shiverss first night on the ship, theres the biggest thunderstorm since ol Davey Jones opened his locker for the first time. Now guess whos...
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Jennie Redhead mysteries volume 1
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[2017?]
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First world edition.
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"When Mary Corbet walks into private investigator Jennie Redhead's rundown Oxford office one pleasant spring day in 1974, she is a desperate woman. Although sh'e convinced her daughter has been murdered, she can get neither the police nor her husband to agree with her. Jennie is not convinced either, but more out of compassion than conviction agrees to take the case. The only clue she has to go on is a fragment of an obscure 17th century poem she...
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Squiffy is the idea man in his neighborhood. The Vine Street Boys are his willing accomplices. Squiffy's scheme to build a pirate ship on the crown of a tree-and invite alls fifteen of the Vine Street Boys to join him-has hilarious consequences for Captain Squiffy when the Boys suddenly abandon ship and send their leader hurtling through the air and right into a pig sty.
80) Mr. Shivers
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It is the time of the Great Depression.
Thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing and one thing only. Revenge.
Because out there, riding the rails, stalking the camps, is the scarred vagrant who murdered Connelly's daughter. No one knows him, but everyone knows his name, Mr. Shivers.
In this extraordinary debut, Robert Jackson Bennett tells the story...
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