![]() With fresh new title pages and endpapers, reset text and printed on a fine quality paper, these new editions make a charming gift for all Flower Fairy enthusiasts. ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Discover magical books and learn all about your favourite Flower Fairies. Her charming poetry and delicate illustrations have sparked the imaginations of children for over ninety years and continue to inspire a life-long love for fairies and all things magical. Since the publication of Cicely Mary Barker's first book in 1923, the Flower Fairies have been ethereal companions to generations of readers around the world. Perfect for fans of all ages, this wonderful collection includes all the original Flower Fairy poems and illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker from the classic books. This complete collection of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies features a brand-new enchanting cover. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() He is bored with his life, and he goes on a thrilling, erotic journey of suspense and confusion. It was a bit like Lord of the Flies meets the TV programme Lost, where events create moral and emotional reactions, and most of the time you don't have any idea what is really going on! The novel takes us through the journey of Nicholas Urfe (a play on the word Earth) through the labyrinth of his soul. I think it is one of those love or hate novels, and I loved it. The Magus is a strange novel and certainly not everyone's cup of tea. ![]() I've read my "Classic Challenge" book for February, but having found out Tom Burke has recorded The Magus for BBC Radio 4 with Charles Dance, I decided I had to read it! I really should tip my hat to Tom, he's encouraged me to read far more diverse literature than my university professors ever did (and what's more he doesn't even know it!) ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() If you like your fantasy with an extra dark twist, exceptional world building and deeply. And the only thing more unbearable than endless winter is facing a lifetime of springs without the Huntress. Anna Burke, award winning author of THORN and COMPASS ROSE. There is only one problem―if she can find a way to lift the curse, she will have to return to the life she left behind. Torn between her family loyalties, her guilty relief at escaping her betrothal to the charming but arrogant Avery Lockland, and her complicated feelings for the Huntress, Rowan must find a way to break the curse before it destroys everything she loves. Raised in Upstate New York, Anna Burke graduated from Smith College in 2012 with degrees in English Literature and Studio Art. Rowan, who once scorned the villagers for their superstitions, now finds herself at the heart of a curse with roots as deep as the mountains, ruled by an old magic that is as insidious as the touch of the winter rose. The rose is followed by the Huntress, a figure out of legend. Tall, cruel, and achingly beautiful, she brings Rowan back with her to a mountain fastness populated solely by the creatures of the hunt. Thorn by Anna Burke On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan’s father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose. On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan’s father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was madness in any direction, at any hour. but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change). ![]() Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket. My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights-or very early mornings-when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. ![]() San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era-the kind of peak that never comes again. ![]() “Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. ![]() ![]() In his new book, Thich Nhat Hanh ushers us to the practicality and beauty of doable acts of peace amidst our encounters in the hyper-global world: while shopping, eating, washing the dishes, using the phone and computer, and even while driving the car. The Vietnamese Buddhist monk, known for his earlier books “Peace is Every Step” and “The Art of Power,” is dubbed the second most influential Buddhist leader next to the Dalai Lama. ![]() MANILA, Philippines – In his most recent book, “Peace is Every Breath,” Thich Nhat Hanh brings the practice of peace within easy reach, especially amidst our busy lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So the reader can eliminate suspects as Esther and the other math campers find the clues. The thing that really sets this book apart from anything else I've ever read is that the central mystery can be solved with a logic puzzle grid that's provided in the book itself. The characters explain the solutions to these puzzles in a way that makes sense. And you don't have to take the time to figure out the puzzles on your own if you don't want to. These are fun to do even for people who don't enjoy, or are not good at math. We're talking about visual puzzles, logic puzzles, encoded messages, etc. Before you're turned off by the fact that there's math in this book, I'm not talking about boring arithmetic here. The premise of this book is wonderful: a murder mystery set at a summer math camp! And Van Dolzer brilliantly built math-based puzzles into the narrative in a way that the reader can actually solve them as well while they read along. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is nothing exactly the same, and this is not because the political invasion and significance of intercourse is banal up against these other hierarchies and brutalities. There is no analogue in occupied countries or in dominated races or in imprisoned dissidents or in colonialized cultures or in the submission of children to adults or in the atrocities that have marked the twentieth century ranging from Auschwitz to the Gulag. There is no analogue anywhere among subordinate groups of people to this experience of being made for intercourse: for penetration, entry, occupation. You can’t possibly read a passage like this and think, “Yeah, men can be women”: ![]() There’s just no way an honest person could read the book and come away thinking that anyone is going to get free by “identifying” with male or female gender roles. If you read Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin’s thinking is OBVIOUSLY incompatible with the trans movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Flipping through the cards for the first time was an absolute joy they stand on their own as pieces of art, but also tie together to make the deck feel unified, almost like a story. From the very first card, the artistry is impeccable: clean detailed lines, bright vibrant colors, expressive faces and beautiful settings. The first thing that anyone will notice about the Star Spinner Tarot is the gorgeous art, apparent before you even open the box. The Star Spinner Tarot, on the other hand, is considered his “flagship” deck, with larger cards and more detailed art, and it was sure worth the wait. (Yes, there are four distinct designs to represent the Lovers! I’ll talk about that more later.) I already own another deck designed by Trungles, the also-very-popular Very Little Tarot, which is extremely cute but only has minimal symbolism. ![]() It’s always exciting for the tarot community when a new indie deck by a popular artist comes out, and particularly so when it’s a project I’ve been excited about for so long! I’ve been following the progress of Trungles’ Star Spinner Tarot since about 2015, when I first saw the gorgeous four Lovers cards. ![]() ![]() I rolled up the short sleeves of my midnight black shirt, then went to work tying a knot above my belly button, just like Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island.īut then I smiled, remembering why I was wearing it and what I was doing in this crowd of sweaty bodies. ![]() As I glanced up at the cloudless, azure sky, the midday sun hit me square in the eye, blinding me. Sweat poured down the back of my T-shirt, and I momentarily cursed my fashion choice. I’d smacked more hands off my butt in that one afternoon than in the entire time I’d worked at Pete’s Bar. It was even more revolting when some of those people decided that being crammed together like sardines gave them the freedom to invade my personal space. It was revolting to have strangers rubbing up against my body. As I was jostled, smashed into, and bumped up against, I felt the afternoon heat in the clammy skin of every person who touched me. Since I’d only been there a little over a year, I took the kind man’s word for it. According to the Channel Four weatherman, it was the hottest summer on record in Seattle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And they toured the county visiting the regenerative farms and producers who shared their back-to-basics mindset. ![]() Over the summer they did up the interior – opening up the bar, giving the place a chic paint job and decorating with pictures and mismatched furniture, much of which was sourced by Hughes, an interior designer, at local auction houses. It was a long-held dream for Orrock, who had spent the past decade in advertising, and McKenzie, who left a seven-year stint at The River Café. But in late October when thirtysomething friends Will Orrock, his fiancé Cassidy Hughes and chef Harry McKenzie opened the Greyhound Inn in Pettistree – a tiny village so off the radar that even locals would need to think long and hard to place it – there was a palpable frisson of excitement. Buzz is not a familiar sensation on the resolutely understated Suffolk coast. ![]() |