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"Boisterous prose alternates with playful rhyming sequences as the author takes us on a journey to well below freezing temperatures. Vibrant watercolour illustrations cap this tribute to winter" Cf. Our choice, 2000.
A small boy is fairly bursting with happiness when his older sister takes him on a trip to the seaside.
It was a muggy, sluggy, hair-teasing, air-squeezing, can't-get-out-of-bed, both-legs-filled-with-lead kind of hot.
Jane Champion is a talented, good-natured and independent woman, but she's very aware that she's no beauty. In fact, she's too tall, very plain, and expects she'll spend her life as a spinster. Garth Dalmain is a painter who is vibrant, wealthy, extraordinarily handsome, and well...
"In Impact, 21 women writers consider the ramifications of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex...
JoJo is a small boy with big dreams. He enters a race in order to win a pair of running shoes, but must overcome his doubts and the bullying of the big kids and run the race of his life.
"An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young. Th...
A gentle and caring grandpa answers his grandson's questions about what it was like to serve in the war. As the two make a game of preparing for a memorial service, the child comes to understand the importance of the solemn occasion and the act of remembering.
Despite the threats against her life, Danielle Barclay thinks having a bodyguard is unnecessary. Or at least that's what she tells herself before meeting Jake Rabb. A former Delta Force soldier, Jake is used to rope-lining from helicopters into enemy territory--not following arou...
The Rosary was released to remarkable success in 1909, eventually becoming the bestselling book of 1910. Still popular more than a century after its publication, the novel centers on Jane Champion, an independent spirit who has many male friends, but who has never found true lov...
Lindsay Abercrombie is an ambitious young solicitor specialising in family law. When the senior partner asks her to take on a private case involving cosmetics millionairess Ursula Guyler, it turns out to be both a challenging and distressing case.
"Founded by Odile Hellier in 1982, The Village Voice Bookshop in Paris was a hub for anglophone literary life and a meeting place for French, American and English literati for over three decades. Hellier's collective memoir brings to life authors, publishers, and friends of the b...