![]() ![]() ![]() Some books may have a name or inscription on one of the first few pages, some may have a price sticker on the front or back cover and some may show normal wear. ![]() All of these books are in good used condition unless otherwise noted below. Some of these books are vintage editions and some are newer editions. I’m also including two additional books that will be enjoyed by Serendipity lovers, so there are actually thirty-eight books in this lot. Lot 36+2 Serendipity Books/Stephen Cosgrove/Robin James/Leo the Lop/Activity Book This auction is for a lot of thirty-six gently used, soft cover books from the Serendipity series by Stephen Cosgrove and illustrated by Robin James (including on Serendipity activity book!). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Can Verity accept who Ash must become or will he turn away the only woman he's ever loved? As they explore their long-buried passion, it becomes harder for Ash to face the music. She knows from bitter experience that she isn't cut out for romance, but the more time she spends with Ash, the more she wonders if maybe she's been wrong about herself.Īsh has a month before his identity is exposed, and he plans to spend it with Verity. Lately it seems she's not getting anything she wants. Without a family or a proper education, he's had to fight for his place in the world, and the idea of it-and Verity-being taken away from him chills him to the bone.Īll Verity wants is to keep her brother out of prison, her business afloat, and her hands off Ash. The last thing he needs is to discover he's a duke's lost heir. Now he has his hands full illustrating a book and trying his damnedest not to fall in love with his best friend. But he's never been able to deny Verity Plum. ![]() If anyone else had asked for his help publishing a naughty novel, Ash would have had the sense to say no. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Katherine Vaz’s new collection of short fiction, beauty is continually and painfully present in all places–in a Thanksgiving dinner assembled by a widowed DMV worker being stalked by an irate customer in a middle-aged Hollywood actress who captivates a young studio animator for decades in the aftermath of an unthinkable tragedy and in a daughter’s memories of the ethereal, melting ice sculptures made by a woman embroiled in an affair with a wealthy lawyer.Īmid their complex, turbulent relationships in a chronic state of crisis, Vaz’s wise and restless protagonists carry within them the seeds of a vanished, gracious world of urbane dinner parties and passionate affairs–a humane and cultured civilization whose flawed inhabitants are redeemed by their ability to blend the aesthetic imperative with the power to love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the occurrences told via Francie’s perspective are deeply personal to the author, which translates clearly to the reader through the sheer amount of detail used to describe each character, setting, and object. The novel is heavily based on Smith’s own childhood experiences growing up in Brooklyn in the 1910s. The plot follows Francie as she blossoms from being a carefree child to learning how to balance her education and supporting her family as a teenager. The novel’s protagonist is Francie Nolan, the daughter of two first-generation Americans living in poverty in Brooklyn, New York. In honor of Women’s History Month, The Catalyst recommends “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn,” a 1943 novel by American author Betty Smith. An Armed Services Edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943). ![]() ![]() ![]() When Anjali’s mother is jailed, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother’s work, ensuring that her little part of the independence movement is completed. Anjali is forced to get over her past prejudices as her family becomes increasingly involved in the movement. Then her mother decides to reach out to the Dalit community, the “untouchables” of society. First the family must trade in their fine foreign-made clothes for homespun cotton, so Anjali has to give up her prettiest belongings. And with this change comes many more adjustments designed to improve their country and use “ahimsa”-non-violent resistance-to stand up to the British government. In 1942, after Mahatma Gandhi asks Indians to give one family member to the freedom movement, ten-year-old Anjali is devastated to think of her father risking his life for the freedom struggle.īut it turns out he isn’t the one joining. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, there’s a reason why I just used the word jabroni to refer to Kross he has come up short in his most important matches on the main roster, and it has hurt his ability to rise up the card beyond mid-card status. A loss to a jabroni like Kross will hurt any kind of main event credibility that Nakamura is hoping to establish once he becomes a fixture on the red brand. Shinsuke has already thrown his name into the hat when it comes to his interest in winning the new World Heavyweight Championship on Raw. ![]() There’s a good argument to make for either man as the winner of this match, and they both kind of need it. Shinsuke is moving over to Raw when new rosters go into effect next week, so this appears to be a short-lived feud that is ending just as soon as it got off the ground. One of the key matches on tonight’s episode of SmackDown is Shinsuke Nakamura vs. One of these men is no longer Triple H’s favorite This is the final SmackDown episode during the five week build towards Backlash, which takes place tomorrow night in the very same venue. ![]() ![]() SmackDown airs tonight (May 5) with a live show from Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ![]() ![]() Much of the novel focuses on the protagonist figuring out why those around him are living underground and why many of them believe that he is a physicist named Poreyra. ![]() Given instructions by a mysterious Mechanism to study the people living in the shelter, the protagonist proceeds as if he is a living machine given a modicum of free will (as explained by the Mechanism). His identity confusion derives from his “birth” on an assembly line under a kind of bell jar. One might even call Robot surrealist science fiction and liken it to Kafka’s work, or even Lem’s Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, since the main character spends most of his time wandering around the halls of an underground shelter, unsure of his own identity and his place in the community that has formed following an apocalyptic event on the surface. Indeed, both Robot and Lem’s His Master’s Voice (published in Polish just a few years apart) take up the fascinating but insoluble problem of whether or not we’re alone in the universe. ![]() If reading Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg’s Robot (Penguin Classics, 2021), translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz, makes you think about Stanislaw Lem’s work, you’re not alone. Thinking Outside the Perceptual Box: Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg’s Robot, by Rachel Cordasco ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Michele Wolfson, Wolfson Literary. Alexander and Theo are white Wil has brown skin. The caper moves briskly toward a tidy end, popping with witty dialogue and gothic puns, and pitting the twins, their technologically distracted sister, and a newfound ally against avaricious forces while hinting at larger series mysteries around the siblings’ parents and collective memories. 1 by Kiersten White RELEASE DATE: JThere’s something suspicious about the summer vacation that the Sinister-Winterbottom siblings are expected to spend with their Aunt Saffronia. Widow, the amusement park thrills adrenaline fanatic Theo and unnerves cautious Alexander as they wander the grounds under Wil’s nominal supervision, avoiding the lone eatery’s mince pie and seeking the recently disappeared Mr. WRETCHED WATERPARK From the Sinister Summer series, Vol. A middle-grade mystery series thats spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists. In the middle of a night marked by “urgency and candles,” the siblings are transported to a mysterious home to stay with equally mysterious maternal aunt, Saffronia Sinister, who “by all appearances, had never encountered an actual human child before.” Telling them to “find what was lost,” she drops them off at the Victorian-flavored, unusually grim Fathoms of Fun Waterpark, which features a slide named Oblivion and a wave pool called Cold, Unknowable Sea. Read 'Wretched Waterpark' by Kiersten White available from Rakuten Kobo. Twelve-year-old twins Theodora and Alexander Sinister-Winterbottom, and their 16-year-old sister Wilhelmina, encounter the summer-vacation unexpected via White’s (the Camelot Rising trilogy) archly told, gleefully macabre series opener. Wretched Waterpark By Kiersten White Hardcover 16. ![]() ![]() ![]() Adorable black-and-white illustrations by Richard Cowdrey bring Ellie and her world to life. ![]() People can be lost in many ways, and to do the job she was born to do, Ellie needs to find a way to save the people she loves best.Įllie's Story is an inspiring tale for young animal lovers. Her handlers-widowed Jakob, lonely Maya-need her too. It's what she was meant to do.īut Ellie must do more. She can track down a lost child in a forest or an injured victim under a fallen building. ![]() From puppyhood, Ellie has been trained as a search-and-rescue dog. Bruce Cameron.Įllie is a very special dog with a very important purpose. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture!Įllie's Story is a heartwarming illustrated novel adapted for young readers from the beloved and New York Times bestselling A Dog's Purpose by W. ![]() |
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