Mount Emily Revisited

Mount Emily Revisited
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Publisher : Epigram Books
Total Pages : 163
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789814757171
ISBN-13 : 9814757179
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Mount Emily Revisited by : Low Ying Ping

Patsy Goh and her best friend Elena Tan travel back to 1988 again. This time, they’re on a mission to save their friends who have been kidnapped by a member of the Midnight Warriors cult. Patsy also makes a startling discovery about herself that might just change her life forever… Mount Emily Revisited is the second in a series of books which centre on two time-traveling 13-year-old students at Mount Emily Girls’ School. The books feature time travel with a strong focus on female teen friendship whilst exploring the girls’ family backgrounds and how they deal with their very different problems.

Mount Emily

Mount Emily
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Publisher : Epigram Books
Total Pages : 106
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ISBN-10 : 9789814655941
ISBN-13 : 9814655945
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Mount Emily by : Low Ying Ping

While digging around their school’s backyard in search of an urban legend, Patsy Goh and her best friend Elena are whisked back in time to 1987. Trapped in their mums’ 13-year-old bodies, the duo race against the clock to hunt down the magical time crystal that got them in this mess, before the evil Midnight Warriors find it and cause a time crisis that could destroy all of existence.

Goodbye, Mount Emily

Goodbye, Mount Emily
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Publisher : Epigram Books
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9789814757805
ISBN-13 : 9814757802
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Goodbye, Mount Emily by : Low Ying Ping

In the concluding book of the Mount Emily series, Patsy and Elena are now in Secondary Four and face having to leave Mount Emily Girls’ School by the end of the year. However, they soon find that graduating from their beloved school is the least of their concerns, as unexpected circumstances lead them to have a final showdown with the Midnight Warriors, and in so doing, change the course of time travel forever.

I Like to Watch

I Like to Watch
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780525508960
ISBN-13 : 0525508961
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis I Like to Watch by : Emily Nussbaum

The big picture : how Buffy the vampire slayer turned me into a TV critic -- The long con ("The Sopranos") -- The great divide : Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and the rise of the bad fan -- Difficult women ("Sex and the city") -- Cool story, bro ("True detective," "Top of the lake" and "The fall") -- Last girl in Larchmont : the legacy of Joan Rivers -- Girls girls girls : "Girls," "Vanderpump rules," "House of cards and Scandal," "The Amy Schumer show," "Transparent" -- Confessions of the human shield -- How jokes won the election -- In praise of sex and violence : "Hannibal," "Law et order : SVU," "Jessica Jones," -- "The jinx," "The Americans" -- The price is right : what advertising does to TV -- In living color : Kenya Barris' -- Breaking the box : "Jane the virgin," "The comeback," "The good wife," "The newsroom," "Adventure time," "The leftovers," "High maintenance." -- Riot girl : Jenji Kohan's hot provocations -- A disappointed fan is still a fan ("Lost") -- Mr. big : how Ryan Murphy became the most powerful man in television.

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9780393609318
ISBN-13 : 0393609316
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by : Martha Ackmann

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, this engaging, insightful portrayal of Emily Dickinson sheds new light on one of American literature’s most enigmatic figures. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson’s life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified “Master,” and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinson’s inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render an “enjoyable and absorbing” (Scott Bradfield, Washington Post) portrait of American literature’s most enigmatic figure.

Prophecy of the Underworld

Prophecy of the Underworld
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Publisher : Penguin Books
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9814954160
ISBN-13 : 9789814954167
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Prophecy of the Underworld by : Low Ying Ping

When the prophesied hero dies one day before the world needs saving, 13 year-old Julian Kee is randomly chosen as a last-minute replacement. With absolutely no world-saving skills whatsoever, he must nonetheless lead his friends into the Underworld to retrieve a magical rock that can save their world. The problem is that the ruling council of the Underworld objects to their quest, and the rock can only be obtained by passing through a series of terrible trials, including navigating an unsolvable maze, enduring unspeakable tortures in the dungeons of the council's citadel, and facing a really cute bunny. And is the Underworlder who cheerfully volunteers to risk her life to help them simply a girl with a very kind, selfless heart, or is she really a spy for the council? A fast-paced adventure filled with lots of exciting twists and turns, this hilarious spoof of adventure/hero stories will be enjoyed by both the young and the not-so-young!

The Great Persuasion

The Great Persuasion
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9780674067431
ISBN-13 : 0674067436
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Persuasion by : Angus Burgin

Just as economists struggle today to justify the free market after the global economic crisis, an earlier generation revisited their worldview after the Great Depression. In this intellectual history of that project, Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider the most basic assumptions of a market-centered world.

Marianne Dreams

Marianne Dreams
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Publisher : Faber & Faber Children's Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0571313272
ISBN-13 : 9780571313273
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Marianne Dreams by : Catherine Storr

A powerful and haunting classic about a girl haunted by her own dreams.

The Cowkeeper's Wish

The Cowkeeper's Wish
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Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Total Pages : 463
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ISBN-10 : 9781771622035
ISBN-13 : 1771622032
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cowkeeper's Wish by : Tracy Kasaboski

In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.

Harvest Moon

Harvest Moon
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Publisher : LUNA
Total Pages : 380
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780373803347
ISBN-13 : 0373803346
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Harvest Moon by : Mercedes Lackey

This anthology features novellas from Lackey's Five Hundred Kingdoms series, Michelle Sagara's Chronicles of Elantra series, and Cameron Haley's Underworld Chronicles.