![]() ![]() Now Wendy\'s about to journey to a magical world she never knew existed, one that\'s both beautiful and frightening. But it isn\'t long before he reveals the truth: Wendy is a changeling who was switched at birth―and he\'s come to take her home. Every encounter leaves her deeply shaken…though it has more to do with her fierce attraction to him than she\'d ever admit. She\'s not the person she\'s always believed herself to be, and her whole life begins to unravel―all because of Finn Holmes.Finn is a mysterious guy who always seems to be watching her. ![]() Eleven years later, Wendy discovers her mother might have been right. Prepare to be enchanted…When Wendy Everly was six years old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. Amanda Hocking is an indie publishing sensation whose self-published novels have sold millions of copies all over the world, and Switched is the book that started the phenomenon. ![]()
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![]() It’s been this beautiful extension of the love that I feel for my children combined with a more seasoned perspective. And I’ve found that being a grandparent does just that. ![]() I always say that a “spark” is an idea that takes up residence in both my head and my heart. ![]() And it’s always such an honor to be a guest interviewee. I love and learn so much from Picture Book Builders. Jean: Hi Andrea! It’s so great to be back. So I’m delighted to interview my friend Jean Reidy, whose new book, A GRAND DAY, is all about the love between grandparents and grandchildren.Īndrea: Welcome back to Picture Book Builders, Jean! In your interview with Jill last year about GROUP HUG, you said, “For me, writing a picture book starts with a spark.” What was the spark that eventually became A GRAND DAY? Although we didn’t really speak the same language, we shared a language of the heart. I hope, too, that you were able to see friends and family this year (chosen family counts!) I was lucky to grow up visiting my maternal grandparents pretty often. I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying these last days of 2022. ![]() This rhyming, warmhearted picture book celebrates the unique bond between grandparents and grandchildren in every kind of family. ![]() Whether planting a garden, having a picnic, or baking, any day spent together is sure to be GRAND. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. ![]() As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.ġ940. ![]() ![]() ![]() For many years, he has had a secret love whose name was Mrs Silver. Mr Hoppy is a shy elderly man who lives alone in an apartment, tending to his many plants, which have been the center of his life since he retired from his job in a bus garage several years before. In 2015 it was adapted by Richard Curtis into a BBC television film, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, featuring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench as the couple, with James Corden narrating. In 1994, Monty Python star Michael Palin provided the English language audiobook recording of the book. Unlike other Dahl works (which often feature tyrannical adults and heroic/magical children), Esio Trot is the story of an ageing, lonely man (Mr Hoppy), trying to make a connection with a person that he has loved from afar (his widowed neighbour, Mrs Silver). Published on 3 September 1990, it was the last of Dahl's books to be published in his lifetime he died just two months later. Esio Trot is a children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. ![]() ![]() Fired, his next job is as a Hot Dog salesman, dressed in a pirates outfit he wreaks havoc on the Old Quarter of New Orleans. He lands a filing job at Levy Pants where we meet the loveable dotty octogenarian Miss Trixie and by the end of his time there he has organised a mass revolt by the factory workers. Following an attempted arrest of Ignatius by policeman Mancuso and an automobile accident his mother forces the 30 year old hermit out to find work. In his comedy he hates the whole world and the whole world suffers. The greatest is the protaganist Ignatius J Reilly the obese mediaevalist pouring out his scorn of the twentieth century on all and sundry, writing his thoughts in Big Chief Tablets. ![]() ![]() This Pullitzer Prize winning novel is a comic masterpiece woven with a cacophony of humourous and eccentric characters all of whom you will love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wrok – Beyers de Vos R80.The Sins of the Father – Jeffrey Archer R65.00 Add to cart dead at daybreak by Deon Meyer RELEASE DATE: Aug. ![]() An antiques dealer in Cape Town is found dead, killed execution-style with a single shot to the back of the head. The President’s Keepers – Jacques Pauw R65.00 Add to cart Book Summary Deon Meyer recreates the beauty, wildness, and danger of modern Africa with an immediacy and force no other writer has achieved.Now ex-cop Zatopek ‘Zed’ van Heerden has fourteen days in which to fill in the blanks in this dead man’s past – a past which only seems to begin in 1983…Set against the backdrop of a society on the verge of breakdown, “Dead at Daybreak” spins the reader from the lush suburbs of Capetown, to a gripping climax in the searing heat of the Veldt. By: Deon Meyer Narrated by: Saul Reichlin Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins 4.5 (46 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. The contents of the safe are missing and the only clues are a scrap of blank paper and the unusual weapon used, the choice of mercenaries, not burglars. An antiques dealer is burned with a blow torch, then killed, execution-style – a single shot to the back of the head with an M16. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel's apparent drive to closure is thereby undermined by paradox: “we buy peace through cruelty, and disinterested love through self-interested calculation”. The key figure here is Mathilde who intrudes on his dream of romantic inviolability and revives the ruthlessly calculating side of his personality. However, the final chapters resist this sort of apotheosizing closure by insisting on Julien's inevitable sociality. The way the text plays with this distinction in its treatment of Julien's love affairs and the convention of the hero of uncertain birth seems to require us to read the ending as a celebration of the untouchable Self. The contrast in Julien Sorel between the parvenu and the âme tendre is a contrast between a social self and an ‘essential’ self, conceived as being prior to social determination, that Christopher Prendergast has referred to as “the untouchable Self”. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Adeline learns of two ladies’ plot to trick Frits into marriage with one of them, she offers to help him evade them, and, in the process, gives in to her simmering attraction to him. ![]() Despite her wariness, Adeline bonds with Frits at society events as they discover their shared interests and compatible personalities. Adeline is wary of Frits, both because he jilted her friend and because of his wider reputation as a rake. Running into Lady Dorie is inevitable and awkward, especially as he’s smitten with Dorie’s new friend, Lady Adeline Wivenly. Lord Frederick “Frits” Littleton returns to London from his estate in Surrey to seek a wife after deciding against marrying Lady Dorie Calthorp, with whom he quickly realized he had nothing in common. Quinn (the Marriage Game Series) opens her Lords of London Regency series with this sparkling romance between a purported rake and the young debutante helping to save him from being tricked into marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() His work explores diaspora stories, LGBTQ+ themes, and the role of fairy tales in the popular imagination. Trungles (Trung Le Nguyen) is a Vietnamese American comic book artist and illustrator. Traditional tarot decks are 78 cards this set contains 81 cards, including multiple Lovers cards to reflect a range of romantic expression.Perfect for anyone seeking a modern, diverse, inclusive, or LGBTQ+ way to explore the tarot.A great gift for tarot collectors and enthusiasts, or anyone seeking guidance and personal growth.Contents: 81 full-color cards and a 160-page guidebook.Featuring beloved indie comic artist Trungles' enchanting illustrative style, the Star Spinner Tarot reinterprets classic tarot imagery for a more inclusive and diverse reflection of the modern world, with illustrations drawn from a wide range of stories, myths, and fairy tales. ![]() Enter a world where fairies play, mermaids yearn, and threads of the familiar and fantastic are spun together to guide you on your own personal journey. ![]() |