Alice on the Shelf

Alice on the Shelf
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Publisher : Crossroad Press
Total Pages : 110
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis Alice on the Shelf by : Bill Gauthier

Where's Alice? Down the Rabbit Hole. When Brad awakens with this question on his lips but his friend Miranda on his mind, a sense of unease fills him. When he finds she isn't home, and a strange visitor is outside her house looking for a missing pocket watch, Brad knows something is amiss. The world is familiar but different. Storybooks, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and fantasies should have prepared Brad for the trip he is about to embark on to find the woman he loves, but the darkness that has filled this fantastic world has twisted it almost beyond recognition. Though he is searching for his friend, Brad may discover something much darker when he finds... Alice On The Shelf

A is for Alice: An Alphabet Book

A is for Alice: An Alphabet Book
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 24
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ISBN-10 : 9781509859290
ISBN-13 : 1509859292
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis A is for Alice: An Alphabet Book by : Lewis Carroll

A is for Alice: An Alphabet Book is a delightful introduction to the alphabet, using characters and objects from Lewis Carroll's iconic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. A is for Alice, E is for for Egg (Humpty Dumpty of course), Q is for the Queen, not forgetting R for the Rabbit who started off the whole adventure. With charming, traditional colour illustrations by Sir John Tenniel and beautiful Victorian-style decorations and backgrounds, this is a really special book for young children and, together with One White Rabbit: A Counting Book, forms a classy introduction to the classic Macmillan Alice.

Alice on the Shelf

Alice on the Shelf
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 126
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ISBN-10 : 0983221111
ISBN-13 : 9780983221111
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Alice on the Shelf by : Bill Gauthier

Where's Alice? Down the Rabbit Hole. When Brad awakens with this question on his lips but his friend Miranda on his mind, a sense of unease fills him. When he finds she isn't home, and a strange visitor is outside her house looking for a missing pocket watch, Brad knows something is amiss. The world is familiar but different.

Alice's Book

Alice's Book
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Publisher : MacLehose Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9781529416336
ISBN-13 : 1529416337
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Alice's Book by : Karina Urbach

"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour "Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson "In a remarkable new book, Alice's granddaughter Karina, a noted historian, has traced what happened to her family but also what happened to the cookbook" Daniel Finkelstein "This fascinating book, by Alice's granddaughter Karina Urbach, shines a spotlight on this lesser-known aspect of Nazi looting" The Times "A gripping piece of 20th-century family history but also something much more original: a rare insight into the 'Aryanisation' of Jewish-authored books during the Nazi regime" Financial Times What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned in Dachau, and her older son, having emigrated to the United States, became an intelligence officer in the struggle against the Nazis. Returning to the ruins of Vienna in the late 1940s, she discovers that her bestselling cookbook has been published under someone else's name. Now, eighty years later, the historian Karina Urbach - Alice's granddaughter - sets out to uncover the truth behind the stolen cookbook, and tells the story of a family torn apart by the Nazi regime, of a woman who, with her unwavering passion for cooking, survived the horror and losses of the Holocaust to begin a new life in America. Impeccably researched and incredibly moving, Alice's Book sheds light on an untold chapter in the history of Nazi crimes against Jewish authors. "As this engaging memoir makes clear, the theft of the cookbook remained for Alice's entire life the symbol of everything that had been taken from her" TLS Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

The Open Shelf

The Open Shelf
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 770
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112041689032
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis The Open Shelf by :

The Lonely Book

The Lonely Book
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Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Total Pages : 41
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ISBN-10 : 9780375862267
ISBN-13 : 0375862269
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lonely Book by : Kate Bernheimer

When a wonderful new book arrives at the library, at first it is loved by all, checked out constantly, and rarely spends a night on the library shelf. But over time it grows old and worn, and the children lose interest in its story. The book is sent to the library's basement where the other faded books live. How it eventually finds an honored place on a little girl's bookshelf—and in her heart—makes for an unforgettable story sure to enchant anyone who has ever cherished a book. Kate Bernheimer and Chris Sheban have teamed up to create a picture book that promises to be loved every bit as much as the lonely book itself.

Alice By Heart

Alice By Heart
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9780451478153
ISBN-13 : 0451478150
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Alice By Heart by : Steven Sater

A young girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, in the debut novel from Tony Award-winning playwright Steven Sater. London, 1940. Amidst the rubble of the Blitz of World War II, fifteen-year-old Alice Spencer and her best friend, Alfred, are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. Sick with tuberculosis, Alfred is quarantined, with doctors saying he won't make it through the night. In her desperation to keep him holding on, Alice turns to their favorite pastime: recalling the book that bonded them, and telling the story that she knows by heart--the story of Alice in Wonderland. What follows is a stunning, fantastical journey that blends Alice's two worlds: her war-ravaged homeland being held together by nurses and soldiers and Winston Churchill, and her beloved Wonderland, a welcome distraction from the bombs and the death, but a place where one rule always applies: the pages must keep turning. But then the lines between these two worlds begin to blur. Is that a militant Red Cross Nurse demanding that Alice get BACK. TO. HER. BED!, or is it the infamous Queen of Hearts saying...something about her head? Soon, Alice must decide whether to stay in Wonderland forever, or embrace the pain of reality if that's what it means to grow up. In this gorgeous YA adaption of his off-Broadway musical, the Tony Award-winning co-creator of Spring Awakening encourages us all to celebrate the transformational power of the imagination, even in the harshest of times.