![]() They hide under the dining room table, their Action Man back packs filled with essentials - er.dinosaur stickers, toy tanks, dummies, teddies - you know the kind of things I'm sure. My children go off in very large huffs, especially if their desires are thwarted. It's trouble, it's big, big, big trouble. The three friends argue and fight, soup goes everywhere:ĭoes that sound at all familiar? I'll bet it does. One day Duck takes a fancy to soup stirring. ![]() Each has a job to do and things are happy and peaceful. They work in harmony, these three friends, even at bedtime when they 'pop off to bed, in a quilt stitched together by the Cat, embroidered by the Squirrel and filled with fine feathers by the Duck'. Cat slices the pumpkin, Squirrel cooks and stirs and Duck 'scoops up a pipkin of salt, and tips just enough in'. They always have a huge pan of the best pumpkin soup you ever tasted sitting on the stove. They play music during the autumn evenings Cat has bagpipes, Squirrel has a banjo and Duck sings. If they like it, you can always buy it!Ĭat, Squirrel and Duck live in an old white cabin deep in the woods. It perhaps overdoes the sentimentality, but is certainly worth borrowing from the library. ![]() ![]() Summary: Beautifully illustrated, simple, rhythmic and with some useful messages about friendship and loyalty, Pumpkin Soup is a class act of a picture book. ![]()
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![]() Dramatic and historic, this reads more like fiction than the modern standard-bearer of the epic tale of exploration and invasion, John Hemmings's Conquest of the Incas. MacQuarrie writes a detailed and narrative history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca. Though his conclusions about what he'd found are inaccurate, one can't help but be drawn into his very real-life jungle adventure. Another of his discoveries at Espiritu Pampa was confirmed as the lost city in the 1970s. With Machu Picchu, he'd absolutely found a lost city, just not the lost city. Bingham reconfirmed what he thought he'd found at Machu Picchu-the fabled last stronghold of the Inca. ![]() ![]() Bingham wrote his classic synthesis of adventure, discovery, and history in 1948, 37 years after his discovery of Machu Picchu and just a few years before his death. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poirot becomes interested in the mystery of how some colleagues of his were able to obtain a much desired flat in a fancy part of town so cheaply. ![]() "The Adventure of the Cheap Flat" concerns a rather trivial matter that escalates into a tale of murder and intrigue. "The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor" is about an insurance agent who asks Poirot to investigate a man who dies of an internal hemorrhage just weeks after signing up for a hefty life insurance policy. "The Adventure of the Western Star" concerns an American film star named Miss Mary Marvell who receives a threatening letter demanding that she return her most prized diamond jewel to the eye of an idol where it was found. ![]() The collection contains eleven stories all starring Christie's most famous creation, the detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot Investigates is a 1924 short story collection by the famed English mystery novelist Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Camilleri is as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is an investigator.” -The Washington Post Book World “The idiosyncratic Montalbano is totally endearing.”- The New York Times Praise for Andrea Camilleri and the Montalbano Series The Terra-Cotta Dog (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery #2) With sly wit and a keen understanding of human nature, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness, compassion, and imagination make him totally irresistable. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily's past and into one family's darkest secrets. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious têtê à têtê with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. ![]() ![]() Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowĪndrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. ![]() Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood - altogether transporting. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. ![]() ![]() Bond becomes his opponent in a game of baccarat - a game set on a 'luminous and sparkling stage', with violence lurking in the wings. Le Chiffre's unsavoury predilections have left him bankrupt and desperate for money, and his defeat lies in the hands of 'the finest gambler available to the Service'. Few characters have come to define a genre as James Bond has done, and this introduction to his world, with its merciless villains, spectacular dangers, ill-fated romances and exotic settings, is Fleming at his best.Darker and more visceral than those new to the novels might imagine, Casino Royale plunges Bond into a battle of luck, wits and physical endurance against Le Chiffre, a corrupt agent of the feared Soviet organisation, SMERSH. ![]() Will be packaged with care.From FS:This lavish edition, with artwork by acclaimed illustrator Fay Dalton, and an introduction by Booker-Prize winning author John Banville, pays homage to the enormous success of Ian Fleming's iconic novels. The book is brand new and still in the shrink wrap from the publisher. ![]() ![]() Up for sale is The Folio Society's recently published, exquisitely produced edition of the very first of Ian Flemings' James Bond novels, Casino Royale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “How dare they insult the intelligence of our readers by placing them in a box”. Though a bit of a rebel, when some authors told her that no one would ever read a story set in the Missouri Ozarks, nor would they wish to read a mixed genre, that was all it took. To not do so, creates hostility, depression and emptiness.”Ī free-lance author and poet, she embraces stories that have meaning and purpose. I believe in giving everyone the opportunity to go after their passions in life. ![]() In her own words, “Life is truly an adventure. She views herself as a citizen of all the States, finding that people throughout the country are warm, caring and most want the same things in life, to enjoy their passions, make a living and be surrounded by those they love. Louis, MO area, which was the inspiration of her newest book, The Turn of the Karmic Wheel. Brinkman lived in the Philadelphia, PA area, relocated to the California Bay, where she resided for thirty years and now resides in the St. Join Monica Brinkman, author of the paranormal suspense novel, The Turn of the Karmic Wheel (All Things That Matter Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in November and December her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Monica Brinkman ![]() ![]() There are even pages where you can finish the drawings yourself, so be creative. The pages are beautifully drawn and the book is a kind of treasure hunt where you look for things hidden in all of the doodles. ![]() I'm not sure if the salesclerk told me that just to get me to buy the book, but it really doesn't matter what language this book is in - it is a coloring book for adults or really artistic and patient kids. I purchased the French version of the Secret Garden coloring book because my local bookstore ran out of the English version and as an added bonus, I was told that the French version also had 2 posters to color. ![]() ![]() If you loved DoodleArt, then you will absolutely enjoy the Secret Garden Coloring book. Are any of you old enough to remember DoodleArt? These were posters that you colored in with markers and if you were lucky, those markers lasted long enough to complete the entire poster. ![]() ![]() ![]() On display are blatant classism (colors of society: Red = police, Purple = medical, Blue = people basically owned by the `Labor Companies', etc.), phonetic literacy, a body called the Council which directs Graham's assets and determines societies status quo and the Councils direct opposition - Ostrog `The Boss', the lead revolutionary, the man who is going to stop the Councils tyranny over the oppressed laborers. `The Sleeper' falls into a coma, depicted 20 years into his coma and his aides assert him benefactor to the gains of their endeavors.Īwakening 200 years (203, precisely) into the coma, Graham or `The Sleeper' is found in London's future. Six days sleep deprived and suicidal, a stranger is taken in by the man who spots him upon the beach. ![]() Wells predicted the wide-spread use of airplanes technically 5 years before the first flight recorded (Wright Bros) as you'll see airplanes become a central theme during the militarization of the classes. Originally written in graphic form in 1898, Wells re-wrote it, more to his satisfaction in 1910. How little of a man's day is his own - even at the best!' ![]() ![]() ![]() While there have been countless academic histories of the trials, “The Witches” is the first major commercial nonfiction book on the subject in decades. “As he could not be declared guilty of witchcraft, he was excommunicated as a suicide,” Stacy Schiff writes in “The Witches: Salem, 1692,” her haunting new book on the Salem witch trials. (Contrary to popular myth, none were burned.) One suspect refused to confess and was tortured to death, crushed slowly under rocks. Well over 100 men and women in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were accused of witchcraft and taken into custody. The ensuing hysteria that engulfed Salem, Mass., over nine months in 1692 is infamous. Within days, Abigail and Betty named three local women as their tormentors. She ordered a household servant to make a witch cake, mixing the girls’ urine into rye flour that was baked in embers, then fed to a dog, in an attempt to reveal who had bewitched them. ![]() Weeks later, a well-meaning neighbor hit on a solution. Friends and neighbors gathered in their house to pray and sing psalms. They howled, writhed, went rigid and spoke gibberish. ![]() ![]() Then Abigail Williams, 11, and her cousin Betty Parris, 9, complained of feeling pinches and bites. It started with a prickling sensation on their skin. ![]() ![]() ![]() But one step out of line, one mistake, could mean life or death. ![]() ![]() As the war drags on and the pressure intensifies, Niki begins to question the rules she's been instructed to follow, and a colleague unexpectedly captures her heart. But her work is also a way to escape devastating truths about the family she left behind in Czechoslovakia and a future with her controlling American husband. Contributor Bio(s)MICHELLE GABLE is the New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment, Ill See You in Paris, The Book of Summer, and The Summer I. Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers and others - now nicknamed The Lipstick Bureau - find success, forming a bond amid the cobblestoned streets and storied villas of the newly liberated city. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan. ![]() Inspired by a real-life female spy, a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost. Inspired by a real-life female spy, a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost. ![]() |