![]() ![]() ![]() Hanna always ate faster than anyone else. “Your mom says that too?” Hanna Marin asked, throwing away her green-stained Popsicle stick. “Instant Swim Dork! Just add loser!” Alison DiLaurentis had joked when Emily walked in. ![]() “You sound like my mom, Spence.” Emily Fields laughed, adjusting her T-shirt, which had a picture of a baby chicken in goggles on it and said, INSTANT SWIM CHICK! JUST ADD WATER! Her friends had forbidden Emily from wearing her goofy swimming T-shirts. She was referring to the squinty-eyed drunk-pirate face her best friend, Aria Montgomery, was making as she tried to get her Sony Handycam to focus. Your face is going to freeze like that.” Spencer Hastings unwrapped an orange Popsicle and slid it into her mouth. One day she turns around and is a completely different person. Have you ever had a friend turn on you? Just totally transform from someone you thought you knew into someone…else? I’m not talking your boyfriend from nursery school who grows up and gets gawky and ugly and zitty, or your friend from camp whom you’ve got nothing to say to when she comes to visit you over Christmas break, or even a girl in your clique who suddenly breaks away and turns goth or into one of those granola Outward Bound kids. ![]()
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![]() The bad luck of the fire horse seemed to show its colors when Meg flunked twice in freshman Algebra. However, no one was aware of her stigma until she became a teenager. As she was born in the astrological year of the Chinese Fire Horse, she was considered unlucky by some. ![]() Meg was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington as Meggin Patricia Cabot and was raised in the same city. Many of the novels of her series have featured in the New York Times Bestselling lists, which has increased her popularity as an established author. ![]() She has written several successful series in her career, in the Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, and Romance genres. Princess Mia / To the Nines / Bad Heir Dayįorever Princess / Ten Out of Ten / Crowning GloryĪuthor Meg Cabot is a famous novelist from Bloomington, Indiana, United States. 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Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe- time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. ![]() Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way-bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before. and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. ![]() The Nobel Prize-winning physicist offers ten insights that illuminate all you need to know about the Universe In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the truth is that Chani wants to know if those seventy-two hours were as memorable to Gabe as they were to her. She wants to pretend that she's forgotten about the time they spent together. ![]() So when his PR team requests that they reunite for a second interview, she wants to say no. Ten years later, after a brutal divorce and a healthy dose of therapy, Chani is back in Los Angeles as a successful writer with the career of her dreams.Įxcept that no matter what she's promoting, someone always asks about The Profile. All Chani wants to do is keep her cool and nail the piece.īut what comes next proves to be life changing in ways she never saw coming, as the interview turns into a whirlwind weekend that has the tabloids buzzing – and Chani getting closer to Gabe than she had planned. Then she's hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker: her number one celebrity crush and the latest James Bond. While her former classmates are nabbing high-profile book deals, all she does is churn out puff pieces. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. Ten years later and she still has butterflies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Hey!" I yelled, gripping the steel bars that isolated me from the world. But lately, life seemed to be throwing me a lot of things I'd never expected, because here I was, locked away. I'd certainly never expected to spend my life in one. Sometimes I even felt a little bad for criminals, condemned to life in a cell. I couldn't imagine any creature living that way. The first time I went to one, I almost had a claustrophobic attack looking at those poor animals. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have. ![]() John Updike a wizard of language and observation.”- The Philadelphia Inquirer ![]() show more BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick-and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche. Violet cloth over boards, silver lettering. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms Jane, a cellist, floats on the air and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. comedy of the blackest sort.”- The New York Times Book Review “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters The Witches of Eastwick most ambitious works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pickle opens her green-shadowed eyes (literally and figuratively-her eyes are snootily closed up until Sophie Claire's eye-opening proposition) to her niece's more adventuresome world of eggplant ripple ice cream and sky blue shoes. Christine Schneider's fabulously bright illustrations will perk up the most finicky consumer. 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Pickle is very particular about her tastes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Find out why US interest in the Middle East will wane why Australia is now beginning an epic contest with China how Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UK are cleverly positioning themselves for greater power why Ethiopia can control Egypt and why Europe's next refugee crisis looms closer than we think, as does a cutting-edge arms race to control space. Now, in this "wonderfully entertaining and lucid account, written with wit, pace, and clarity" ( Mirror, UK), Marshall takes us into ten regions set to shape global politics. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world has. ![]() Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a "fresh way of looking at maps" ( The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and walls. 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In 1929 Schuster sold publishing rights to various publishing companies who used the same front blindstamp and illustrations by Kurt Wiese. ![]() (I also have one of these First American Editions for sale if you wish to inquire: 1928 ‘First Printing in America’ of Bambi, A Life in the Woods) The very first American Edition (First ever English printing) was published by Simon and Schuster just one year prior. Description SOLD Early 1929 Copy of Bambi by Felix Salten, published by Grosset & Dunlap (‘by arrangement with Simon and Schuster, Inc.’) Beautiful illustrations throughout this book by Kurt Wiese. ![]() ![]() ![]() After a terrifying encounter involving Mrs. Ada Oliver, a widow whose black silk dresses and elegant manners set her apart from other Tidepool residents. When corpses wash up on shore looking as if they’ve been torn apart by something not quite human, Sorrow is ready to return to Baltimore and let her father send in the professional detectives. Residents of the small, shabby oceanside town can’t quite meet Sorrow’s eyes when she questions them about Henry. Defying her father’s orders to remain at home, she travels to Tidepool, the last place Henry visited. ![]() In 1913, Henry Hamilton disappears while on a business trip, and his sister, Sorrow, won’t rest until she finds him. If ye give not willingly, the Lords will rise… “Wilson’s plot hits all the right beats…Devotees of cosmic horror will enjoy this woman-centered take on familiar tropes.” -Publisher's Weekly ![]() |