Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Named one of 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Time magazine! Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. Best-selling author Rick Riordan Presents the graphic novel adaptation of the New York Times best-selling fantasy adventure by Roshani Chokshi, inspired by the great Hindu epics she grew up on.
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5/30/2023 0 Comments My grandmother sends her regardsIt is heartbreaking, hilarious and heartwarming in equal measures. You will read it with a smile on your lips and a lump in your throat. But barring a few things, the book is a total delight, hilarious, witty, and very moving. The Land-of-Almost-Awake, where most of Elsa’s stories come from, may need you to stretch your imagination. The writer touches upon themes like domestic abuse, and adultery, some may not find it okay for kids. The insightfully endearing book will be enjoyed by kids as much as adults. Also, realize that granny is an amazing human being. You fall in love with Elsa, granny and all other characters. Read: The Course Of Love: How to live happily ever afterĪs you read through Fredrik Backman’s second book, you laugh and you cry. When granny dies leaving behind a series of letters apologising to people, she trusts Elsa with the task of handing over those letters. She breaks into a zoo and throws turds at cops who try to stop her and Elsa. She has no friends except for her superhero – granny! Her granny is eccentric and displays total disregard for social norms and etiquettes, also spellings. She gets bullied and beaten up in school. Elsa reads ‘quality literature’ like Harry Potter, and fights for what she believes in, like dressing up as Spiderman. Title: My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologies Fredrik Backman’s My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologies is a book that you, your child and your granny will love alike.Įlsa is an almost-eight-year-old ‘different’ kid with a grandmother who is 77-year-old and crazy. 5/30/2023 0 Comments The 37th parallel bookBut this innocent hobby takes on a sinister urgency when Zukowski learns of mutilated livestock-whose exsanguination is inexplicable by any known human or animal means.Īlong an expanse of land stretching across the southern borders of Utah, Colorado, and Kansas, Zukowski documents hundreds of bizarre incidences of mutilations, and discovers that they stretch through the heart of America. He even takes the family with him on weekend trips to look for evidence of aliens. Like Agent Mulder of The X-Files, microchip engineer and sheriff’s deputy Chuck Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports in Colorado. Here is the “fascinating” ( Publishers Weekly) true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events in remote areas of the western United States and is drawn deeper and deeper into a mysterious conspiracy. A real-life mix of The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mezrich “writes vividly and grippingly…A terrific story… will make a heck of a movie” ( The Washington Post). Bound together by an evil that only they can stop, the two fugitives must join forces to save the galaxy. But soon, Rhee and Aly discover that the assassination attempt is just one part of a sinister plot. The princess and her accused killer are forced to go into hiding – even as a war between planets is waged in Rhee’s name. Their paths collide with one brutal act of violence: Rhee is attacked, barely escaping with her life. Despite his popularity, Aly struggles with anti-Wraetan prejudices and the pressure of being perfect in the public eye. Now, on the eve of her coronation, the time has finally come for Rhee to claim her throne – and her revenge.ĪLYOSHA is a Wraetan who has risen above his war refugee origins to find fame as the dashing star of a DroneVision show. The only surviving heir to an ancient Kalusian dynasty, RHEE has spent her life training to destroy the people who killed her family. Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda BellezaĬROWN PRINCESS RHIANNON TA’AN WANTS VENGEANCE. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Tiny Alice by Edward AlbeeYounger American playwrights, such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960's. His early works reflected a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. His works are considered well-crafted and often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and The American Dream. OL15706162W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.13 Pages 262 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1413184308 Calvin and Hobbes Collections by Bill Watterson. OL24629791M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Blondie: The Complete Daily Comic Strips from 1930-1933 by Chic Young Write The First Customer Review. Publication Year 1993 Format Unknown Type Paperback Number of Pages 256 ISBN 0590471791 ZUBER 98. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:46:46 Boxid IA138301 Boxid_2 CH112301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Comment Set Scanfee to 100 on all Pre-June IA Sponsored Books as per Robert Donor The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury Author Watterson, Bill Language english Publisher Scholastic, Inc. Bill Watterson is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, one of the most popular and well-regarded cartoon strips of the twentieth century. This is a very odd story, and Stella is not that easy to like, or care about. She starts digging for more information about the show and its very odd host, and the more she digs, the creepier it gets. She's more creeped out when she goes back to her parents' house, and they remember it, too. It's not your normal Saturday morning kids' show, and Stella is creeped out. The tapes of those episodes are among the "treasures" Marco has uncovered so far, and he starts playing them. His brother, Denny, was on it, more than once. When she asks her friend, Marco, if he remembers a Saturday morning kids' show called The Uncle Bob Show, she expects him to say he doesn't, because she made it up.īut he does remember it. One thing we need to know about Stella is that she has a habit of making up lies, not for any particular reason, but simply to see if people believe her. A dark fantasy Tor.com Original short story from award-winning author Sarah Pinsker, 'Two Truths and a Lie' Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the strange public broadcast TV show with the unsettling host she and all the neighborhood kids appeared on years ago. « previous 1 2 3 4 next » sort by « previous 1 2 3 4 next » Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author.
5/29/2023 0 Comments Nietzsche beyond good and evilThere is a parallel to this escalation in the art market itself. Today this escalation has caught up every form of art, every style and all, without discrimination, have entered the transaesthetic world of simulation. It was in fact with hyperrealism and pop art that everything began, that everyday life was raised to the ironic power of photographic realism. And once freed from reality, we can produce the 'realer than real' - hyperrealism. Once freed from the 'true' Mondrian, we are at liberty to 'out-Mondrian Mondrian' freed from the true naifs, we can paint in a way that is 'more naif than naif', and so on. Thus painting currently cultivates, if not ugliness exactly - which remains an aesthetic value - then the uglier-than-ugly (the 'bad', the 'worse', kitsch), an ugliness raised to the second power because it is liberated from any relationship with its opposite. For, once liberated from their respective constraints, the beautiful and the ugly, in a sense, multiply: they become more beautiful than beautiful, more ugly than ugly. Beyond this indifference, however, another kind of fascination emerges, a fascination which replaces aesthetic pleasure. “In this sense, therefore, inasmuch as we have access to neither the beautiful nor the ugly, and are incapable of judging, we are condemned to indifference. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Atramentum by M.J. DuncanThankfully for her, however, George doesn't give up so easily. When the woman in question turns out to be a famous actress, Cam promises to keep her secret safe. Joss is immediately smitten with her beautiful neighbor, but their conversations walk the line between friendliness and flirtation like it's a tightrope, and Joss is reluctant to do anything that will risk their budding friendship. During her morning exercise, yoga instructor Cam Saunders finds herself rescuing a young woman who has walked into the sea, seemingly intent on taking her own life. Before Joss can recover from being tackled by the Great Dane, she finds herself face to face with George's mom, Maeve Dylan. Cupid strikes as she's moving into her new place outside Sky and, contrary to popular belief, Cupid has four legs and a tail, hits like a linebacker, and answers to the name George. Atramentum, Duncan, MJ 5.60 Free shipping Atramentum - Paperback By Duncan, MJ - VERY GOOD 15.15 Free shipping BUY 1, GET 1 AT 5 OFF (add 2 to cart) See all eligible items and terms Hover to zoom Have one to sell Shop with confidence eBay Money Back Guarantee Get the item you ordered or get your money back. Burned out on public accounting after too many sixteen-hour days, the allure of operating a small, independent bookstore is too tempting to resist, and Joss decides to walk away from the career she spent the last decade building to move back to the resort town high in the Rockies. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Lock and key by sarah dessenShe manages okay for a while, keeping her mom’s job (delivering lost luggage for airlines) and mostly paying the bills, until the dryer breaks and the landlord comes to check it out and turns her into social services. In fact, she’d been planning to move out as soon as she turned eighteen, so she just figured things have started a little early. Her mom is a bit of an alcoholic and pretty unpredictable, so Ruby isn’t terribly sad. Lock and Key narrated by Ruby, a seventeen year old girl who has been living with her mom, on the verge of poverty, until she comes home one day from school to find her mom is gone. Because obviously I wanted the book to feel at home. Sarah Dessen is a very popular young adult author and after watching her name and books show up in every possible location (the bookstore! the library! blogs! book lists!) I finally picked Lock and Key up at the library.Īnd then I let it sit on my bedside table for weeks. |
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