![]() ![]() sortTitle Hold Me Closer Necromancer lexileScore 650 crossRefId 2393791 series Necromancer publisher Recorded Books, Inc. Douglas thinks Sam might have the right touch for necromancing, and when this turns out to be all too true, Sam faces unimaginable dangers. But his world gets a whole lot more complicated when he crosses paths with Douglas, a necromancer who gets paid to raise the dead. Sam can't complain about much, even if his job isn't the most glamorous one around. PublishDateText mediaType Audiobook shortDescription The riveting debut work from celebrated newcomer Lish McBride, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer drops a seemingly average boy into the adventure of a lifetime. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A title this good has a lot to live up to, and debut author McBride proves she's largely up to the task in this scary and irreverent romp. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages Hold Me Closer, Necromancer is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images ![]()
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Unsurprisingly for a book that privileges philosophising over narrative drive, Should We Stay or Should We Go features a lot of arguments which, one senses, Shriver herself would like to be having. ![]() ![]() ![]() In one chapter, Eileen writes to Alice about how “structural symptoms, like the mass drowning of refugees and the repeated weather disasters triggered by climate change, are beginning to be understood as manifestations of a political crisis.” As she shifts to questioning the very purpose of having children while approaching civilizational collapse, she adds, “I’m probably thinking about all this now because I saw Aidan randomly on the street the other day and immediately had a heart attack and died.” Hyperbolic, dialectical and eerily familiar, these exchanges form entire chapters. In long emails interspersed between the central narrative, Eileen and Alice ruminate about everything from climate change to white privilege, from the history of writing to their ambivalence toward motherhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Original red hard-grain morocco by Paul Manne (d. Loosely inserted in this copy is a publisher's slip containing a short biography of Fini. ![]() She had a passion for the stage, and worked for several theatres as a costume and poster designer. ![]() A friend of De Chirico, Picasso, Ernst and Dalí, who influenced her work, Fini exhibited for the first time in Christian Dior's gallery, and her first major show was held in 1936 at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York. 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Above the sound of the blood pulsing through her ears, she could just make out the sharp click of its ticks, as the second hand laboured around the circumference of the dial.ĭon't look, she thought. The image of the clock's hands burned into her retinas as she stared, willing her eyes to stay focused, there, on that spot. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Rachel and Kirsty meet on the ferry to Rainspell Island they have no idea the incredible magical adventures in store for them! 'These stories are magic they turn children into readers!' Read all seven fairy adventures in the Rainbow Fairies set! Ruby the Red Fairy Amber the Orange Fairy Saffron the Yellow Fairy Fern the Green Fairy Sky the Blue Fairy Izzy the Indigo Fairy and Heather the Violet Fairy If you like Rainbow. ![]() 1 bestselling series for girls aged 5 and up. Rachel and Kirsty meet on the ferry, on the way to magical Rainspell Island for a holiday with their families. Rachel and Kirsty first meet on a boat trip to Rainspell Island in the first book of the Rainbow Magic series, Ruby the Red Fairy. ![]() It is the first storybook in Daisy Meadowss Rainbow Magic book series. Get ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. The Rainbow Fairies are a group of fairies that make up Fairylands color scheme. Num Pages: 80 pages, colour illustrations. Series: Rainbow Magic: The Rainbow Fairies. Join the seven Rainbow Fairies and Rachel and Kirsty for lots of magical fun! Illustrator(s): Ripper, Georgie. ![]() Description for Amber the Orange Fairy (Rainbow Magic) Paperback. by Daisy Meadows(Author), Georgie Ripper (Illustrator) Format: Paperback Pages: 80 Publisher: Orchard Published. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His Jaguar goes flying over the guardrail of the high-speed highway he was driving on and crashes on the titular concrete island below. 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