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A laugh-out-loud, brilliantly wacky, highly illustrated adventure
for readers of 8+ from an award-winning comedy writer - a perfect
longer read for fans of Pamela Butchart and Grimwood. Someone or
something in the village of Knobbly Bottom is eating up EVERYTHING!
When a chocolate cake goes missing, Maggie gets the blame. But when
entire vegetable plots are devoured overnight, huge bite marks are
found in garden furniture and even her friend Fred's grandad's
disgusting courgettes are gobbled up, she kicks off an
investigation! However, when the ravenous local pigs start doubling
in size and acting VERY strangely, Maggie and Fred wonder whether
they have bitten off more than they can chew. How can they fend off
the rise of the ZOMBIE PIGS? Genuinely laugh-out-loud jokes and
puns on every page to delight kids and grown-ups alike, with an
instantly relatable cast of family and friends Hilarious
black-and-white artwork and dynamic design throughout, ideal even
for readers who lack confidence A fiercely determined girl hero and
a cast of brilliant monster-battling characters!
A laugh-out-loud, brilliantly wacky, highly illustrated children's
debut for readers of 8+ from an award-winning comedy writer - a
perfect longer read for fans of Pamela Butchart and Grimwood.
Maggie McKay is NOT happy that her mum has decided to move from
their flat in Leicester to a house in Knobbly Bottom (the most
BORING village ever invented). Knobbly Bottom has got NO soft play
centres, NO toy shops and NO horse that her mum had (sort of)
promised her. There are just fields, church fetes, and a bunch of
boring old sheep! But Maggie soon discovers that Knobbly Bottom is
also full of SECRETS. The sheep are growing FANGS, their eyes are
turning RED, and they're planning to take over the world... When
Mum thinks she's just making up another silly story, it's up to
Maggie, her little sister Lily and their new friend Fred - with the
help of a strange old lady called Nan Helsing and some stinky
garlic bread - to save Knobbly Bottom from the ATTACK OF THE
VAMPIRE SHEEP! Genuinely laugh-out-loud jokes and puns on every
page to delight kids and grown-ups alike, with an instantly
relatable cast of family and friends Hilarious black-and-white
artwork and dynamic design throughout, ideal even for readers who
lack confidence A fiercely determined girl hero and a cast of
brilliant monster-battling characters!
As one of the world's most loved poets, Rumi's poems are celebrated
for their message of love and their beauty, but too often they are
stripped of their mystical and spiritual meanings. The Gift of Rumi
offers a new reading of Rumi, contextualising his work against the
broader backdrop of Islamic mysticism and adding a richness and
authenticity that is lacking in many Westernized conceptions of his
work. Author Emily O'Dell has studied Sufism both academically, in
her work and research at Harvard, Columbia, and the American
University of Beirut, and in practice, learning from a Mevlevi
master and his whirling dervishes. She weaves this expertise
throughout The Gift of Rumi, sharing a new vision of Rumi's classic
work. At the heart of Rumi's mystical poetry is the "religion of
love" which transcends all religions. Through his majestic verses
of ecstasy and longing, Rumi invites us into the religion of the
heart and guides us to our own loving inner essence. The Gifts of
Rumi gives us a key to experiencing this profound and powerful
invitation, allowing readers to meet the master in a new way.
As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane
Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the
President's children. Born Trump is the explosive narrative of her
findings as an insider within the most influential family in
America. Journalist Emily Jane Fox has developed a personal
relationship with Ivanka and has cultivated sources close to Eric,
Donald Jr., and Tiffany. She has scoured their Instagram accounts,
combed through all their public speeches, spoken to their childhood
friends, college acquaintances, business associates, close
advisors, and campaign operatives. She's become the foremost expert
on the Trump kids and, now, in this exclusive account, Fox
chronicles the experiences of the Trump children, individuals who
possess more control than any other First Children in the history
of the presidency. Wonderfully gossipy, Born Trump examines what
shaped the Trump children into who they are - a shared familial
history that will inevitably form American history in the coming
years. Born Trump explores what it was like to grow up Trump and
what this reveals about living in Trump's America, in turn painting
an intimate portrait of the 45th President of the United States
from the perspective of his most inner circle. Given their father's
need to be in the spotlight, his bellicose and litigious nature,
and how often his personal life played out in public, it seems
astonishing that his children remain so close to him. And yet this
is part of the Trump ethos - like royalty, they stand together,
encased not in palaces, but in Trump Tower. Fox looks at the
childhood privileges and traumas, the individual adolescences and
early adulthoods that have been lightly chronicled in the tabloids
but never detailed thoughtfully or in depth, the family business
that brought them back together and the dynamics therein, the
campaign that tested the family in ways the children could not have
imagined, and now, the wide-open slate in front of them in
Washington, D.C. Full of surprising insights and previously untold
stories, Born Trump will quench the ever-increasing desire for a
greater understanding of who these people are, how they were
raised, and what makes them tick.
The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking
on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly
accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to
both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French
attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first
half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers
on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot's
emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris,
founded by Valentin Hauy, the great benefactor of blind people.
Weygand paints a moving picture of the blind admitted to the
institutions created for them and of the conditions under which
they lived, from the officially-sanctioned beggars of the medieval
Quinze-Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind
Workers. She has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an
impressive array of poems, plays, and novels.The book concludes
with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave
blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading
and to written communication.
In 1846 a small book entitled "Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton
Bell"appeared on the British Literary scene. The three psuedonymous
poets, the Bront? sisters went on to unprecedented success with
such novels as Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and Jane Eyre, all
published in the following year.
As children, these English sisters had begun writing poems and
stories abotu an imaginary country named Gondal, yet they never
sought to publish any of their work until Charlotte's discovery of
Emily's more mature poems in the autumn of 1845. Charlotte later
recalled: "I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume of verse in my
sister Emily's handwriting....I looked it over, amd something more
than surprise seized me -- a deep conviction that these were not
common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write.
I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. To my ear
they had also a peculiar music -- wild, melancholy, and
elevating."
The renowned Hatfield edition of "The Complete Poems of Emily
Jane Bront?" includes the poetry that captivated Charlotte Bront? a
century and a half ago, a body of work that continues to resonate
today. This incomparable volume includes Emily's verse from "Poems
by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell" as well as 200 works collected
from various manuscript sources after her death in 1848. Some were
deited and preserved by Charlotte and Arthur Bell Nichols; still
others were discovered years later by Bront? scholars.
Originally released in 1923, Hatfield's collection was the
result of a remarkable attempt over twenty years to isolate Emily's
poems from her sisters' and to achieve chronological order.
Accompanied by an interpretive preface on "The Gondal Story" by
Miss Fannie E. Ratchford, author of "The Bront?'s Web of
Childhood," the edition is the definitive collection of Emily
Bront?'s poetical works.
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