These intricate, magical drawings from Secret Garden by Johanna Basford are just waiting to be brought to life.' The Guardian It has been translated into over 44 languages. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book was her first book. Johanna Basford has sold over 21 million books worldwide. Use felt tip pens to add a splash of colour or a black pen with a fine nib to create your own doodles and details. There are pictures to colour, mazes to solve, patterns to complete and lots of space for you to add your own inky drawings. This interactive colouring book takes you on a ramble through a garden created in beautifully detailed pen–and–ink illustrations by Johanna Basford. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Bookby Johanna Basford is one of the world's bestselling adult colouring books with 96 colouring pages waiting to be brought to life with colour.
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And, surprise: Moth’s family is at the center of it all! When Moth’s new powers show up, things get totally out-of-control. It turns out that Founder’s Bluff, Massachusetts, has a centuries-old history of witch drama. When some eighth-grade bullies try to ruin her Halloween, something really strange happens. But she’s about to discover that witches aren’t just the stuff of movies, books, and spooky stories. Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. Sabrina the Teenage Witch meets Roller Girl in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind graphic novel about a half-witch who has just discovered the truth about herself, her family, and her town and is doing her best to survive middle school now that she knows everything! A School Library Journal Best Graphic Novel of 2019Ī YALSA 2020 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult ReadersĪ YALSA 2020 Great Graphic Novel for Teens 7/8/2023 0 Comments Nostromo goodreadsAlthough the other crew members manage to avoid taking responsibility for what they have done, Jim will be haunted by this moment of cowardice for the rest of his life. Believing that the Patna is sinking, Jim and the rest of the crew jump into lifeboats and abandon the ship, leaving the pilgrims to their fate. During the voyage, the ship hits an object submerged in the sea and begins to take on water. Published in 1900, Lord Jim is the story of a young seaman – Jim – who, at the beginning of the novel is serving as first mate on the Patna, a ship packed with hundreds of Muslim pilgrims on their way to Mecca. My previous experience with Conrad amounted to a failed attempt to read Heart of Darkness, so I wasn’t really expecting to love this book – and I didn’t, but at least I managed to finish this one! Seeing a few reviews of Joseph Conrad books on other blogs recently reminded me that I’d had a copy of one of his novels, Lord Jim, unread on my shelf for a long time, so a few weeks ago I decided to read it. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Review young mungoMungo is a sensitive soul who fails ‘to see the difference between what someone said and what they truly meant’ with an endless capacity for forgiveness when it comes to his selfish mother. Meanwhile, their mother Maureen, herself a victim of generations of poverty and neglect, spends her days drinking or chasing men and puts in the occasional guest appearance at home. His brother Hamish terrorises the neighbourhood while his sister Jodie, hell-bent on escaping, works like a dog, inside and outside of school. Mungo, 17, is the youngest of three siblings. We’re in post-Thatcher and pre-Blair Glasgow. Still a good read, but not the mind-blower that was Shuggie Bain. In true Stuart style, characters and places rise from the page but I felt some of the pace and immediacy of his debut was missing in this book. A burgeoning love between Mungo and fellow loner James is at the core of this book, the moving tenderness of their relationship in stark contrast to the rough realities on the street and at home. Although the setting is very much the same – Glaswegian tenements, dysfunctional families, absent fathers and alcoholic mothers – the story feels different enough to engage even those who’ve read Shuggie Bain. Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart follows on from Stuart’s outstanding Booker Prize winning debut Shuggie Bain. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Wallace infinite jestWallace were less talented, you would be inclined to shoot him - or possibly yourself - somewhere right around page 480 of ''Infinite Jest.'' In fact, you might anyway.Īlternately tedious and effulgent, ''Infinite Jest'' is set in the near future, specifically in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, which would seem to be about 18 years from now. Wallace's collection of stories, ''Girl With Curious Hair,'' and, to a lesser extent, of the loose, baggy monster that was his debut novel, ''The Broom of the System,'' which I confess to not finishing. (Do you suppose Seymour's parents actually read the whole thing?) I had previously been a great admirer of Mr. Reading David Foster Wallace's latest novel, ''Infinite Jest,'' I couldn't help thinking at times about 7-year-old Seymour Glass's book-length ''letter'' home from camp, published in The New Yorker in 1965 as ''Hapworth 16, 1924.'' I felt a similar feeling of admiration alloyed with impatience veering toward strained credulity. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Gone forever harlan cobenAlot of twists and turns occur and at times it is difficult to keep track with all that is happening but eventually in the final five chapters it all unravels, as usual with Mr Coben. Matt doesn't want to believe the scenario enlisting old school friends and 'not so friends' in the search for her true whereabouts and situation. All begins to go wrong when Olivia, supposedly on a working trip is videoed making out with a strange guy in a hotel room. Then it swaps back to the story when Matt exits prison and gets involved with Olivia, a dead nun, various members of the police force and some dubious FBI agents. Beginning with Matt going to prison over an accidental killing of a school colleague it then jumps to the Lasa Vagas with a young girl looking for her mother who had her adopted due to impossible working conditions. I'm sure I've read it before but can't remember when or where. Short Synopsis: This book stops and starts a number of stories that eventually are all connected. One Sentence Summary: This is the story of Matt and Olivia Hunter, Olivia's previous life as a stripper in Vagas and the authorities searching for a tape recording of underage sex. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Louise erdrich's tracksDorris returned to Dartmouth that same year and the two were married in October of 1981.Įrdrich's marriage to Dorris began not only a domestic partnership but also a literary one. In 1981 Erdrich returned to Dartmouth as a writer-in-residence in the Native American Studies Program. The two exchanged addresses and began a lengthy correspondence while he was in New Zealand and she in New Hampshire. After John Hopkins, Erdrich worked at The Circle, the Boston Indian Council Newspaper.Įrdrich met Michael Dorris again when she was invited to return to Dartmouth to read her work. For her thesis Erdrich wrote poetry that would later be published in the collection Jacklight. In 1979, Erdrich earned her Master of Arts degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. She majored in English and creative writing, and took courses in the Native American Studies program headed by her future husband, Michael Dorris. In 1972, Erdrich was among the first women admitted to Dartmouth College. In high school, Erdrich continued her writing by keeping a journal. Her father paid her a nickel a story and her mother made covers for her first books. At an early age Erdrich was encouraged by her parents to write stories. She grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs school. The eldest of seven children, Louise Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota on July 6, 1954. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Bare Bones by Tim Underwood127170 Stephen King Underwood, Tim Chuck Miller BARE BONES Conversations on Terror with Stephen King 1st Edition 1st Printing Hardcover New York McGraw-Hill 1988 Conversations on terror with Stephen King. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Stephen King Underwood, Tim Chuck Miller BARE BONES Conversations on Terror with Stephen King 1st Edition 1st Printing Hardcover New York McGraw-Hill 1988 Conversations on terror with Stephen King. When ordering from the US, parcels may be subject to import tax and duty charges, which the buyer is responsible to pay.Stephen King Underwood, Tim Chuck Miller BARE BONES Conversations on Terror wit This product data sheet is originally written in English. Item: 166079043340 Stephen King Underwood, Tim Chuck Miller BARE BONES Conversations on Terror wit. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Love and gelato book 2I love how there’s a touch of family and mystery too. Why wouldn’t I? It’s different in terms of not focusing on “teenage romance” thing. It looked so alone and lonely that I picked it up, read the blurb and bought it. Its pastel color pales in comparison against the vivid and chaotic front covers of Divergent, The Maze Runner, and Shatter Me. The things I was looking for were across the dystopian kind of books and it kind of just stood out. I told myself I won’t buy any books in 2017, but one day, when I went to National Bookstore to look for crafting/scrapbook items. It’s more important than reading the blurb because I wouldn’t pay attention if the book didn’t call me. Here’s the story on how I got my hands on this. People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father-and even herself. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.īut then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Coraline gaimanJacqueline Boatswain: Miss Spink and Other Miss SpinkĪdjoa Andoh: Miss Forcible and Other Miss ForcibleĪdrian Schiller: Mr. Katherine Kingsley: Mother and Other Mother They want to change her and never let her go.īefore long, the miraculous turns sinister, and Coraline must use her wits and courage to save herself―and the other trapped souls she finds along the way.įilled with enchantments and terrors alike, this winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Awards is a dazzling feat of imagination from a modern literary master. There another mother and another father greet her, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. Intrigued, she ventures deep into a mysterious mirror realm, a world eerily similar yet darkly different from her own. While exploring her new home, a young girl named Coraline unlocks a door to reveal a hidden passage. A full cast edition to celebrate the 20th anniversary of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, Coraline. |