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Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass #5) Paperback English by Sarah J. Maas - 06/09/2016
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Sarah J. Maas is the author of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series: Throne of Glass Crown of Midnight Heir of Fire Queen of Shadows and the series prequel The Assassins Blade; as well as the New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury. A New York native Sarah currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and dog.Author 1 Sarah J. MaasBook Description Throne of Glass 5 Empire of StFormat PaperbackEdition Number 0Editorial Review Celaena is as much an epic hero as Frodo or Jon Snow! Praise for HEIR OF FIRE New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce Character motivations and interactions - friendships romances and others - are always nuanced and on point especially as Aelins growing maturity offers her new perspectives on old acquaintances . Impossible to put down Praise for QUEEN OF SHADOWS Publishers Weekly Maas delivers what may be her best work to date ... Enchanting spellbinding and imaginative ... The world-building is stellar as only Maas can imagine it Praise for A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES USA Today A gorgeously written tale as lush and romantic as it is ferocious. Absolutely spellbinding Praise for A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Bracken It just keeps getting better and better with each book Praise for THRONE OF GLASS series Bloggers Heart Books Queen of Shadows is a MUST-READ! Much Loved BooksISBN-10 1408872897ISBN-13 9781408872895View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Sarah J. Maas is the author of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series: Throne of Glass Crown of Midnight Heir of Fire Queen of Shadows and the series prequel The Assassins Blade; as well as the New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury. A New York native Sarah currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and dog.Author 1 Sarah J. MaasBook Description Throne of Glass 5 Empire of StFormat PaperbackEdition Number 0Editorial Review Celaena is as much an epic hero as Frodo or Jon Snow! Praise for HEIR OF FIRE New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce Character motivations and interactions - friendships romances and others - are always nuanced and on point especially as Aelins growing maturity offers her new perspectives on old acquaintances . Impossible to put down Praise for QUEEN OF SHADOWS Publishers Weekly Maas delivers what may be her best work to date ... Enchanting spellbinding and imaginative ... The world-building is stellar as only Maas can imagine it Praise for A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES USA Today A gorgeously written tale as lush and romantic as it is ferocious. Absolutely spellbinding Praise for A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Bracken It just keeps getting better and better with each book Praise for THRONE OF GLASS series Bloggers Heart Books Queen of Shadows is a MUST-READ! Much Loved BooksISBN-10 1408872897ISBN-13 9781408872895View Full Specifications
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Beauty And The Very Beastly Beast - Paperback English by Mark Sperring - 42796
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Mark SperringFormat PaperbackISBN-10 140716483XISBN-13 9781407164830Language EnglishNumber of Pages 32Parental Rating 5+Publication Date 42796View Full Specifications SpecificationsAuthor 1 Mark SperringFormat PaperbackISBN-10 140716483XISBN-13 9781407164830Language EnglishNumber of Pages 32Parental Rating 5+Publication Date 42796View Full Specifications
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Twilight Saga - Paperback
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Stephenie Meyer is the author of the No. 1 bestselling Twilight Saga. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English literature and she lives with her husband and three young sons in Arizona.Author 1 Stephenie MeyerBook Description The Twilight Saga series has entranced millions of readers around the world. Now all 5 books in the series Twilight New Moon Eclipse Breaking Dawn and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner are available in this deluxe white-edition paperback boxed set. When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale dark-haired new girl in town. But not it seems the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella. Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her but she feels a strange attraction to him although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away - until that is he saves her life from an out of control car. Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edwards coldness. He and his family are vampires - and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close.Format PaperbackEditorial Review Praise for The Twilight Saga: "Meyer has like one of her vampires turned into something rare and more than merely human.... People do not want to just read Meyers books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -"Time" "Piles on the suspense and romance." -"USA Today" "A literary phenomenon." -"The New York Times" "[Stephenie Meyer is] the worlds most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice." -"Entertainment Weekly" Praise for The Twilight Saga: "Meyer has like one of her vampires turned into something rare and more than merely human.... People do not want to just read Meyers books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -"Time" "Piles on the suspense and romance." -"USA Today" "A literary phenomenon." -"The New York Times" "[Stephenie Meyer is] the worlds most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice." -"Entertainment Weekly"ISBN-10 349001324ISBN-13 9780349001326Language EnglishView Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Stephenie Meyer is the author of the No. 1 bestselling Twilight Saga. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English literature and she lives with her husband and three young sons in Arizona.Author 1 Stephenie MeyerBook Description The Twilight Saga series has entranced millions of readers around the world. Now all 5 books in the series Twilight New Moon Eclipse Breaking Dawn and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner are available in this deluxe white-edition paperback boxed set. When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale dark-haired new girl in town. But not it seems the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella. Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her but she feels a strange attraction to him although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away - until that is he saves her life from an out of control car. Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edwards coldness. He and his family are vampires - and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close.Format PaperbackEditorial Review Praise for The Twilight Saga: "Meyer has like one of her vampires turned into something rare and more than merely human.... People do not want to just read Meyers books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -"Time" "Piles on the suspense and romance." -"USA Today" "A literary phenomenon." -"The New York Times" "[Stephenie Meyer is] the worlds most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice." -"Entertainment Weekly" Praise for The Twilight Saga: "Meyer has like one of her vampires turned into something rare and more than merely human.... People do not want to just read Meyers books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -"Time" "Piles on the suspense and romance." -"USA Today" "A literary phenomenon." -"The New York Times" "[Stephenie Meyer is] the worlds most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice." -"Entertainment Weekly"ISBN-10 349001324ISBN-13 9780349001326Language EnglishView Full Specifications
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Bleach, Vol. 57 - Paperback English by Tite Kubo - 41457
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Bleach is author Tite Kubos second title. Kubo made his debut with ZOMBIEPOWDER. a four-volume series for Weekly Shonen Jump. To date Bleach has been translated into numerous languages and has also inspired an animated TV series that began airing in Japan in 2004. Beginning its serialization in 2001 Bleach is still a mainstay in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump. In 2005 Bleach was awarded the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award in the shonen boys category.Author 1 Tite KuboFormat PaperbackISBN-10 1421558823ISBN-13 9781421558820Language EnglishNumber of Pages 192Parental Rating 12+View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Bleach is author Tite Kubos second title. Kubo made his debut with ZOMBIEPOWDER. a four-volume series for Weekly Shonen Jump. To date Bleach has been translated into numerous languages and has also inspired an animated TV series that began airing in Japan in 2004. Beginning its serialization in 2001 Bleach is still a mainstay in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump. In 2005 Bleach was awarded the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award in the shonen boys category.Author 1 Tite KuboFormat PaperbackISBN-10 1421558823ISBN-13 9781421558820Language EnglishNumber of Pages 192Parental Rating 12+View Full Specifications
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On The Origin Of Species Paperback
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SpecificationsAbout the Author The grandson of a pre-eminent natural philosopher Charles Darwin 1809-82 devoted his life to the study of all forms of animal and vegetable life. His book The Origin of the Species which was twenty years in the making is his crowning achievement.Author 1 Charles DarwinBook Description "When Darwin set sail at the end of 1831 it was only with a vague notion that all life forms both present and extinct were more strongly related than the Christian version of the worlds creation purported them to be. During his five-year voyage of research and discovery on board HMS Beagle and later from his home in Kent he painstakingly collected a mass of evidence from across the planet - from Paraguay and the Galapagos Islands to Staffordshire and Scotland - building a compelling case for a theory that would change the world we live in - and the way we look at it - for ever. The foundation of evolutionary biology and natural selection - which prompted as huge a revolution in the fields of science and religion as Copernicuss heliocentric model of the universe and Newtons law of gravity Darwins On the Origin of Species is perhaps the most important book of scientific observation ever written."ISBN-10 1847497845ISBN-13 9781847497840Language EnglishNumber of Pages 384Publication Date 2019-08-22View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author The grandson of a pre-eminent natural philosopher Charles Darwin 1809-82 devoted his life to the study of all forms of animal and vegetable life. His book The Origin of the Species which was twenty years in the making is his crowning achievement.Author 1 Charles DarwinBook Description "When Darwin set sail at the end of 1831 it was only with a vague notion that all life forms both present and extinct were more strongly related than the Christian version of the worlds creation purported them to be. During his five-year voyage of research and discovery on board HMS Beagle and later from his home in Kent he painstakingly collected a mass of evidence from across the planet - from Paraguay and the Galapagos Islands to Staffordshire and Scotland - building a compelling case for a theory that would change the world we live in - and the way we look at it - for ever. The foundation of evolutionary biology and natural selection - which prompted as huge a revolution in the fields of science and religion as Copernicuss heliocentric model of the universe and Newtons law of gravity Darwins On the Origin of Species is perhaps the most important book of scientific observation ever written."ISBN-10 1847497845ISBN-13 9781847497840Language EnglishNumber of Pages 384Publication Date 2019-08-22View Full Specifications
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Leprechaun In Late Winter - Paperback English by Mary Pope Osborne
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Mary Pope OsborneFormat PaperbackISBN-13 9780375856518Language EnglishParental Rating 6 - 8 Years SpecificationsAuthor 1 Mary Pope OsborneFormat PaperbackISBN-13 9780375856518Language EnglishParental Rating 6 - 8 Years
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Summer Of The Sea Serpent Paperback English by Mary Pope Osborne
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Mary Pope OsborneBook Description Magic Tree House 31 Summer ofFormat PaperbackEdition Number 0ISBN-13 9780375864919Language EnglishNumber of Pages 0Parental Rating 6 - 8 YearsView Full Specifications SpecificationsAuthor 1 Mary Pope OsborneBook Description Magic Tree House 31 Summer ofFormat PaperbackEdition Number 0ISBN-13 9780375864919Language EnglishNumber of Pages 0Parental Rating 6 - 8 YearsView Full Specifications
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The Beautiful and Damned - Paperback English by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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365 Qesa An Akhlaq - Paperback
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Magic Tree House 3 The: Secret Of The Pyramid Paperback English by Mary Pope Osborne - 2019-05-08
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 Mary Pope OsborneBook Description Eight-year-old Jack and his little sister Annie are playing in the woods during their summer holiday when they find a mysterious tree house full of books. But these are no ordinary books . . . And this is no ordinary tree house . . .Format PaperbackEdition Number 1Editor 1 Penguin Books LtdGrade NewISBN-10 1862305250ISBN-13 9781862305250View Full Specifications SpecificationsAuthor 1 Mary Pope OsborneBook Description Eight-year-old Jack and his little sister Annie are playing in the woods during their summer holiday when they find a mysterious tree house full of books. But these are no ordinary books . . . And this is no ordinary tree house . . .Format PaperbackEdition Number 1Editor 1 Penguin Books LtdGrade NewISBN-10 1862305250ISBN-13 9781862305250View Full Specifications
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Avatar: The Last Airbender# The Promise Part 1 Paperback
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Gene Luen Yang is an Asian-American cartoonist. He is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of graphic novels and comics at comic book conventions and universities schools and libraries.Author 1 Gene Luen YangAuthor 2 Brian KonietzkoAuthor 3 Michael Dante DiMartinoBook Description The wait is over! Ever since the conclusion of Avatar: The Last Airbender its millions of fans have been hungry for more - and its finally here! Think of it as Book season Four of Avatar! This series rejoins Aang and friends for exciting new adventures beginning with a faceoff against the Fire Nation that threatens to throw the world into another war testing all of Aangs powers and ingenuity! Written by National Book Award Nominee Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese in close collaboration with series creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko this is the story that Avatar lovers have been clamoring for as well as a perfect jumping-on point for new fans!ISBN-10 1595828117Language EnglishNumber of Pages 80View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Gene Luen Yang is an Asian-American cartoonist. He is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of graphic novels and comics at comic book conventions and universities schools and libraries.Author 1 Gene Luen YangAuthor 2 Brian KonietzkoAuthor 3 Michael Dante DiMartinoBook Description The wait is over! Ever since the conclusion of Avatar: The Last Airbender its millions of fans have been hungry for more - and its finally here! Think of it as Book season Four of Avatar! This series rejoins Aang and friends for exciting new adventures beginning with a faceoff against the Fire Nation that threatens to throw the world into another war testing all of Aangs powers and ingenuity! Written by National Book Award Nominee Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese in close collaboration with series creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko this is the story that Avatar lovers have been clamoring for as well as a perfect jumping-on point for new fans!ISBN-10 1595828117Language EnglishNumber of Pages 80View Full Specifications
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Peppa Pig Dentist Trip - Paperback English by Ladybird - 06/10/2015
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SpecificationsAuthor 1 LadybirdBook Description Dentist Trip is a colourful and entertaining storybook based on the award-winning television character Peppa Pig. Peppa George and Mr Dinosaur are going to the dentist. Its Georges first visit and hes a teeny bit nervous. Find out how their trip goes in this lovely adventure. This series of Peppa Pig storybooks are created to help reassure children through new experiences. The Peppa Pig range of books are fun interactive and educational ideal for encouraging children to start to read by themselves. Titles available from Ladybird include: Peppa Goes Camping Peppas First Glasses Fun at the Fair and many more.Format PaperbackEditorial Review Dentist Trip is a colourful and entertaining storybook based on the award-winning television character Peppa Pig. Peppa George and Mr Dinosaur are going to the dentist. Its Georges first visit and hes a teeny bit nervous. Find out how their trip goes in this lovely adventure. This series of Peppa Pig storybooks are created to help reassure children through new experiences. The Peppa Pig range of books are fun interactive and educational ideal for encouraging children to start to read by themselves. Titles available from Ladybird include: Peppa Goes Camping Peppas First Glasses Fun at the Fair and many more.ISBN-10 1409301931ISBN-13 9781409301936Language EnglishNumber of Pages 24View Full Specifications SpecificationsAuthor 1 LadybirdBook Description Dentist Trip is a colourful and entertaining storybook based on the award-winning television character Peppa Pig. Peppa George and Mr Dinosaur are going to the dentist. Its Georges first visit and hes a teeny bit nervous. Find out how their trip goes in this lovely adventure. This series of Peppa Pig storybooks are created to help reassure children through new experiences. The Peppa Pig range of books are fun interactive and educational ideal for encouraging children to start to read by themselves. Titles available from Ladybird include: Peppa Goes Camping Peppas First Glasses Fun at the Fair and many more.Format PaperbackEditorial Review Dentist Trip is a colourful and entertaining storybook based on the award-winning television character Peppa Pig. Peppa George and Mr Dinosaur are going to the dentist. Its Georges first visit and hes a teeny bit nervous. Find out how their trip goes in this lovely adventure. This series of Peppa Pig storybooks are created to help reassure children through new experiences. The Peppa Pig range of books are fun interactive and educational ideal for encouraging children to start to read by themselves. Titles available from Ladybird include: Peppa Goes Camping Peppas First Glasses Fun at the Fair and many more.ISBN-10 1409301931ISBN-13 9781409301936Language EnglishNumber of Pages 24View Full Specifications
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James And The Giant Peach Paperback English by Lane Smith - 25-Apr-96
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Roald Dahl 1916-1990 was born in Llandaff South Wales and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to"a wonderful faraway place. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his childrens books brought him increasing popularity and when he died children mourned the world over particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.The BFG is dedicated to the memory of Roald Dahls eldest daughter Olivia who died from measles when she was seven – the same age at which his sister had died fron appendicitis over forty years before. Quentin Blake the first Children’s Laureate of the United Kingdom has illustrated most of Roald Dahl’s children’s books.Author 1 Lane SmithAuthor 2 Roald DahlBook Description "For young James Henry Trotter life with the exceedingly nasty Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker is pure misery. Jame dreams of a better life but hes totally unprepared for the wild adventures ahead of him when he drops the magic crystals he receives from a strange old man. Before long James is off on a weird wonderful journey inside a giant peach with a bizarre group of companions - including a human-sized Earthworm Ladybug and Centipede! show more"ISBN-10 0140374248ISBN-13 9780140374247Language EnglishNumber of Pages 144View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Roald Dahl 1916-1990 was born in Llandaff South Wales and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to"a wonderful faraway place. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his childrens books brought him increasing popularity and when he died children mourned the world over particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.The BFG is dedicated to the memory of Roald Dahls eldest daughter Olivia who died from measles when she was seven – the same age at which his sister had died fron appendicitis over forty years before. Quentin Blake the first Children’s Laureate of the United Kingdom has illustrated most of Roald Dahl’s children’s books.Author 1 Lane SmithAuthor 2 Roald DahlBook Description "For young James Henry Trotter life with the exceedingly nasty Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker is pure misery. Jame dreams of a better life but hes totally unprepared for the wild adventures ahead of him when he drops the magic crystals he receives from a strange old man. Before long James is off on a weird wonderful journey inside a giant peach with a bizarre group of companions - including a human-sized Earthworm Ladybug and Centipede! show more"ISBN-10 0140374248ISBN-13 9780140374247Language EnglishNumber of Pages 144View Full Specifications
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Wheres Wally In Hollywood - Paperback English by Martin Handford - 39510
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Martin Handford is the creator of the hugely popular Wheres Wally? series. Beginning in 1987 the books went on to become a multi-million-selling global success.Author 1 Martin HandfordFormat PaperbackEditorial Review "Wonderful." The Observer"ISBN-10 140631322XISBN-13 9781406313222Language EnglishNumber of Pages 32View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Martin Handford is the creator of the hugely popular Wheres Wally? series. Beginning in 1987 the books went on to become a multi-million-selling global success.Author 1 Martin HandfordFormat PaperbackEditorial Review "Wonderful." The Observer"ISBN-10 140631322XISBN-13 9781406313222Language EnglishNumber of Pages 32View Full Specifications
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The Lost Landscape Paperback
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SpecificationsAbout the Author Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award. Her recent work of non-fiction on grief and bereavement A Widows Story was a critically-acclaimed success.Author 1 Joyce Carol OatesBook Description A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers as weve never seen her before. In The Lost Landscape Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it colours everything that comes after. With memories ranging from her first friendships to her first experiences with death this is an arresting account of the ways in which Oatess life and her life as a writer was shaped by early childhood and how her later work was influenced by a hard rural upbringing. Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision and transports the reader to a bygone place and time - the lost landscape of the writers past but also the lost landscapes of our own earliest and most essential lives.Editorial Review `A compelling and at times mysterious testimony to a life of letters like no other I know Richard Ford `Every piece merits re-issue ... here and there we glimpse the gothic seam Oates has since mined in her fiction Suzi Feay Financial Times `The spareness of the prose belies a hinterland of suffering . . Steely lean and bleakly allusive The Lost Landscape gives an unsettling insight into the ways in which Oatess writing career has emerged Times Literary Supplement Praise for Joyce Carol Oates: `Simply the most consistently inventive brilliant curious and creative writer going Gillian Flynn author of Gone Girl Oatess prose contains a deep felt rawness which hovers between hope despair and love Guardian `Joyce Carol Oates is an writer who always takes your breath away Mail on Sunday `Oates is a writer of extraordinary strengths. Her great subject naturally is love Guardian Oates is an inspired writer and a formidable psychologist. She has a thrilling way of grasping an emotion wasting no time and launching herself straight at the aching heart of the matter IndependentISBN-13 9780008146610Language EnglishNumber of Pages 368Publication Date 9/20/2016View Full Specifications SpecificationsAbout the Author Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award. Her recent work of non-fiction on grief and bereavement A Widows Story was a critically-acclaimed success.Author 1 Joyce Carol OatesBook Description A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers as weve never seen her before. In The Lost Landscape Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it colours everything that comes after. With memories ranging from her first friendships to her first experiences with death this is an arresting account of the ways in which Oatess life and her life as a writer was shaped by early childhood and how her later work was influenced by a hard rural upbringing. Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision and transports the reader to a bygone place and time - the lost landscape of the writers past but also the lost landscapes of our own earliest and most essential lives.Editorial Review `A compelling and at times mysterious testimony to a life of letters like no other I know Richard Ford `Every piece merits re-issue ... here and there we glimpse the gothic seam Oates has since mined in her fiction Suzi Feay Financial Times `The spareness of the prose belies a hinterland of suffering . . Steely lean and bleakly allusive The Lost Landscape gives an unsettling insight into the ways in which Oatess writing career has emerged Times Literary Supplement Praise for Joyce Carol Oates: `Simply the most consistently inventive brilliant curious and creative writer going Gillian Flynn author of Gone Girl Oatess prose contains a deep felt rawness which hovers between hope despair and love Guardian `Joyce Carol Oates is an writer who always takes your breath away Mail on Sunday `Oates is a writer of extraordinary strengths. Her great subject naturally is love Guardian Oates is an inspired writer and a formidable psychologist. She has a thrilling way of grasping an emotion wasting no time and launching herself straight at the aching heart of the matter IndependentISBN-13 9780008146610Language EnglishNumber of Pages 368Publication Date 9/20/2016View Full Specifications
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