![]() ![]() ![]() Lilias Craven died after an accident in the garden ten years prior, and the devastated Archibald locked the garden and buried the key. Over time, she becomes less temperamental and befriends her maid, Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about Lilias, who would spend hours in a private walled garden growing roses. She dislikes her new home, the people living in it and, most of all, the bleak moor on which it sits. When escorted to Misselthwaite by the housekeeper Mrs Medlock, she discovers Lilias Craven is dead and that Mr Craven is a hunchback.Īt first, Mary is as sour and rude as ever. He lives on the Yorkshire Moors in a large English country house, Misselthwaite Manor. She is soon sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, whom her father's sister Lilias married. ![]() She is discovered by British soldiers who place her in the temporary care of an English clergyman, whose children taunt her by calling her " Mistress Mary, quite contrary". After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, the few surviving servants flee the house without Mary. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoilt, demanding and self-centred. ![]() At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore her. ![]()
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![]() The Darkest Minds was released in the United States on August 3, 2018, by 20th Century Fox. Stenberg was cast two years later on Septemand principal photography began in April 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. On September 15, 2014, it was announced that 20th Century Fox had bought the rights to the novel and that Levy would produce the film through his 21 Laps Entertainment. It follows a group of young children and teenagers who are on the run from the government after mysteriously obtaining superpowers. The film stars Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson, Mandy Moore and Gwendoline Christie. Based on Alexandra Bracken's 2012 young adult novel of the same name, it was produced by Shawn Levy and Dan Levine. ![]() The Darkest Minds is a 2018 American dystopian science fiction film directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and written by Chad Hodge. ![]() ![]() To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. ![]() Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. ![]() James, who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.' We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an enormous appeal for the modern reader. ![]() ![]() James In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight'. ![]() ![]() The baseball games of Goodwin's New York City youth are dramatically and beautifully narrated-it is refreshing to read about a girl's passion for the sport her childhood love of the game and the three teams that played in the city in the 1950s is evident in every paragraph. The word ""recollections"" in the subtitle rather than ""reflections,"" say, is an apt designation of the book's content, which is charming and endearing, though does not allow access into the author's inner life. This memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (No Ordinary Time) is a moving ode to her father and to their shared love of baseball. ![]() ![]() This is certainly the Lisbon girls’ fate. The narrator’s perspective could be seen as a reification of ‘the feminine mystique,’ an eroticized picture of girls and women that ignores the misery they experience as domestic slaves. The only salient feature of the girls’ identity is their palpable sadness, which seems to emanate from the core of their being. The (unnamed) narrator, who speaks on behalf of all of the neighbourhood boys, romanticizes the girls almost to the point of deification, although he admits to seeing them as a vague amalgam of blonde hair, breasts, lingerie, and feminine hygiene products, with each girls’ distinct personality an indecipherable blur. ![]() Jeffrey Eugenides’ first novel, ‘The Virgin Suicides,’ is a haunting, sad, and disturbing story about four teenage girls (Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary, and Therese Lisbon), told from the perspective of a nebulous group of neighbourhood boys, who harbour romantic illusions about the Lisbon sisters even though they can’t tell them apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether written by creator Parker or torch carrier Ace Atkins, these books show how this kind relationship is done. and ended up as the textbook detective-sidekick relationship. Parker’s series to take on white knight PI Spenser. Hired gun Hawk was brought in by the bad guys during the fourth book in Robert B. Spenser and Hawk Created by Robert Parker Anybody who has a dealt with a self destructive, yet entertaining friend will recognize these two. Tom works with the CIA, has no filter and will drink anything in a bottle and chase anyone in a skirt. For morally ambiguous tasks, he often relies on a friend from his FBI days, Tom Green. Hugo Marston, the square-jawed head of security at the American Embassy in Paris, has a sense of morality that could put a boy scout to shame. Signed copies available! Hugo Marston & Tom Green Created by Mark Pryor You can find copies of Coben’s latest on our shelves and via. If you like great banter with a sketchy sidekick who always has the hero’s back, here are three other crime fiction bromances I’d suggest. One of the keys to the success of this series is his relationship with his rich and lethal buddy, Win. ![]() Recently, Harlan Coben delivered a new Myron Bolitar novel, Home, after what seemed like a long wait. ![]() Post by Crime Fiction Coordinator Scott Montgomery. ![]() ![]() ![]() If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.” – Pema Chödrön
![]() Throughout his exploration of the ocean and its currents, he developed innovative sailing and navigation techniques that aided the expedition’s successful journey across open water. The expedition’s success was due in large part to Heyerdahl’s meticulous preparations and organization it was a major achievement. ![]() He was among the adventuresome who embarked on a raft from Peru to Polynesia, expecting to arrive more than four thousand miles from their starting point. The 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, led by Thor Heyerdahl, was one of the most ambitious and successful transoceanic expeditions in history. The museum is dedicated to the life and work of Thor Heyerdahl, and houses a large collection of artifacts from his expeditions, including the Kon-Tiki raft. ![]() ![]() The Kon-Tiki Museum is located in Oslo, Norway. ![]() ![]() Everything seems to be going well in Lily and Ryle’s relationship until an incident occurs which results in Lily getting hit by Ryle and there by starting a cycle of abuse. Lily is excited to start her relationship and open her flower shop. The first book “It Ends With Us” follows our main character Lily Bloom who is currently in a relationship with Ryle Kincaid. ![]() I read for hours and it was the first book that I finished within two weeks.”Īnother fan Tiffany Guerrero replied, “I really liked Lily’s growth throughout the book and that she got to reconnect with Atlas in the end.” When asked their thoughts on the books, fan of “It Ends With Us” Raman Kaur replied, “In the first book I liked how the books never got boring. The book follows right where we left off in the first book with Lily and Atlas being in contact with each other again. ![]() ![]() On October 18, “It Starts With Us,” the highly anticipated sequel to “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover was released. ![]() ![]() Sharing his intimate knowledge of animal habitats and behavior and his familiarity with hunting strategies and techniques, Frison argues that this kind of firsthand knowledge is crucial for understanding hunting in the past.", Noted archaeologist George Frison brings a lifetime of experience as a hunter, rancher, and guide to bear on excavation data from the region relating to hunting, illuminating prehistoric hunting practices in entirely new ways. Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey on JSTOR. ![]() ![]() ![]() "item_description" : "The North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains have yielded many artifacts and other clues about the prehistoric people who once lived there, but little is understood about the hunting practices that ensured their survival for thousands of years. In 'Survival by Hunting, 'he describes personal experiences leading to the insights and perspectives that set him apart from the majority of his colleagues, who know of large game hunting only secondhand.'-Michael B. ![]() |