Download or read book The Wish House and Other Stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber of Traffic,” and “The Eye of Allah,” the poems “The Runners,” “The Return of the Children,” and “The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, “The Man Who Would Be King.” Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, “We need to think about Kipling. He is our greatest short-story writer, but one whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognize.”
Download or read book The Wish House written by Celia Rees and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chilling, thrilling and sexy teenage novel from a best-selling author. In the summer of 1976, on holiday in South Wales, fifteen-year-old Richard is shocked and fascinated to meet the tenants of the historic Wish House. Jay Dalton is a well-known artist, and his large, bohemian family - casually stripping naked on the beach, smoking dope, ignoring convention - seem astonishingly glamorous. Richard falls under the spell of beautiful, free-spirited Clio, Jays daughter. She seduces him in a secret forest grotto, where they spend idyllic days playing out her favourite Celtic myths of brave grail knights and powerful enchantresses. But why does Jay paint so many nudes of Clio? Why is he obsessed with the need to paint Richard? Why does his wife grow poisonous plants in her Witchs Garden? The Daltons dark secrets draw Richard into a world of disturbing relationships, where he discovers, too late, that his innocent arrival at the Wish House was no accident .
Download or read book Fish Had a Wish written by Michael Garland and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish has a wish. He wishes he were a bird so he could fly. He wishes he were a skunk so he could make a big stink. . . or a snake that says HISSSSSSSSS. But after enjoying a delicious mayfly snack, Fish realizes he's happy exactly as he is. The stunning artwork draws from Asian and classical European wildlife art, and is both elegant and bold. An I Like to Read (R) book. Guided Reading Level E.
Download or read book Murder in a Wish Book House written by and published by Mind Wings Audio. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wish Book written by Derek McCormack and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other form of amusement has ever been devised that appeals as strongly to the public and raises the excitement to the highest pitch as Wish Book . Popular and fascinating, this book is a high class article, not a cheap junky affair. A varied collection of the best and latest rube jokes, tramp stories, monologues, funny sayings, etc., Wish Book will attract and hold the reader, and is far more popular than the ordinary book. Order today. This book makes a hit anywhere. A very good souvenir or favour. Always a big seller. Always popular. Collapsible. The author of this successful book is one of the most prolific authors of his generation.
Download or read book The Ash House written by Angharad Walker and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unsettling, gripping middle grade debut about searching for a sense of belonging in the wrong places, and the bravery it takes to defy those who seek to control us. This is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children meets Lord of the Flies for fans of Neil Gaiman and Holly Black. When Eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster.The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name like theirs. They show him the dorms and tell him about the wonderful oasis that the Headmaster has created for them. But the new boy already has a name. Doesn't he? At least he did before he walked through those gates...This was supposed to be a healing refuge for children like him. Something between a school and a summer camp. With kids like him. With pain like his. But no one is allowed to get sick at the Ash House. NO ONE.And then The Doctor arrives...Strange things are about to happen at the mysterious Ash House. And the longer Sol spends on the mysterious grounds, the more he begins to forget who he is, the more the other children begin to distrust him, and the worse his pain becomes. But can he hold onto reality long enough to find an escape? And better yet, can he convince the others?
Download or read book The House in the Cerulean Sea written by TJ Klune and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER! A 2021 Alex Award winner! The 2021 RUSA Reading List: Fantasy Winner! An Indie Next Pick! One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020" One of Book Riot’s “20 Must-Read Feel-Good Fantasies” Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune’s bestselling, breakout contemporary fantasy that's "1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in." (Gail Carriger) Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours. "1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in." —Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of Soulless At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Dark Lies written by Clarissa Wild and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every dark wish,Costs a lie to make reality. "Punish me."Just two words sealed my fate.Eli took me and made me his.I didn't know the submission he'd demand from me.Or the secrets I kept buried deep inside.But there was more beyond this dark wish of mine.More hidden behind those perfect dark lies of his.Because it wasn't just my soul that craved redemption.And when a powerful man becomes obsessed with a woman ...He'll do whatever it takes to twist her...Keep her...And own her.Dark Lies is the follow up to the exciting Dark Romance novel Dark Wish by New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Clarissa Wild. This is book 2 in this duet.WARNING: This book includes scenes that may be disturbing to some readers.
Download or read book The Big House written by George Howe Colt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
Download or read book The Tiny Wish written by Lori Evert and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anja makes a wish to become small during a game of hide and seek - and her wish comes true! Or does it?"--
Download or read book Wish written by Barbara O'Connor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Barbara O'Connor comes a middle-grade novel about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers the true meaning of family.
Download or read book The House That She Built written by Mollie Elkman and published by Builderbooks. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House That She Built is inspired by and dedicated to the REAL women behind the home built exclusively by a team of women in construction, skilled tradeswomen, and women-owned companies. The House That She Built educates young readers about the people and skills that go into building a home. One by one, children learn about the architect, framer, roofer and many more as they contribute their individual skills needed to complete the collective project -- a new home. With illustrations that connect and empower and words that build upon each other with each page, this book will leave all kids (she, he, and they) excited about their own skills and interested in learning new ones.
Download or read book Lizzie s Wish The Historical House written by Adèle Geras and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1857: On an extended visit to her cousins in London, country girl Lizzie struggles to adapt to her new life of stiff manners and formal pastimes at No. 6 Chelsea Walk. And her dream of becoming a gardener is certainly frowned upon. But like her elder cousin, who wants to defy her middle-class upbringing and become a nurse, Lizzie has the strength of will to act against stifling Victorian conventions. And the chance to visit the newly opened Kew Gardens presents her with the ideal opportunity to start working towards her grand ambition... Adele Geras has previously been shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book Award and Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal. "Dramatic stories with a real sense of atmosphere." - The Guardian
Download or read book I Survived a House Fire I Wish My Stuff Had written by Candace Quinn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2002, Michael and Candace Quinn had just returned to their eighty-year-old home from their whirlwind wedding and honeymoon. Exhausted, they fell into bed, wanting to sleep late the next morning. Their home, however, had other ideas. At 3:10 a.m., their world changed forever as they watched a merciless fire rapidly consume their home and belongings. Candace Quinn relies on her personal experience as a fire victim combined with a firefighter family background in order to educate others on how to prevent a fire, protect personal belongings, and create a plan of action should a home disaster occur. Quinn teaches specifically how to: Inventory, document, and store possessions Develop a "grab-and-go" list for each room Practice a fast escape and arrange a meeting location Secure a fire-safe home through vigilant observations This practical how-to guide will help any family learn the precautionary steps required to minimize the devastation created by a personal disaster. "Ms. Quinn's mix of personal experience with statistically correct data combines for an easy, informative read...one every homeowner or dweller should do. After 28 years as a fire chief, even I learned a couple things. This book is what everyone should know BEFORE [fire] happens to you." -Chief Eric Madison, Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Fire Department visit the author's website: www.isurvivedahousefire.com
Download or read book The Wish House written by Celia Rees and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Wish You Happiness written by Michael Wong and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with endless heartfelt wishes and beautifully cute illustrations, I Wish You Happiness is an inspiring book of hope and happiness for wishers of all ages. This timeless book is a truly thoughtful gift for any occasion.
Download or read book Hansard s Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
