![]() Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal), and placed in the care of the lioness Shiegra but thereupon adopted by the Wood Nymph, Necile. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark. ![]() Please check out our other Antique Christmas book and ornament listings. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. I don't know if any illustrations are missing other than the one between pages 10 and 11.Please feel free to email with any questions. I counted 4 color image pages, and 8 not full color illustrations. ![]() The main issues are with the illustrations : a few are still bound into the book, but almost all are loose, some with tears. There is a tear and pencil name on the inside endcover, pencil name on first two blank pages, hole and tape mark on page adjacent to title page, name on page 3, torn and missing image between page 10 and page 11. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz), beautifully illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark (1871-1950).Condition: The book is in FAIR to POOR condition. Bound in the original pictorial red cloth (with Santa in a green coat sitting atop a chimney) with lettering in white and black to upper cover, and black Santa Claus outlined in white to spine.A rare First Edition of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. ![]() Illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark with a colored title page. This is the First State with section headings Book First, Book Second and Book Third. Up for auction is this First Edition Hardcover "Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1902. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Beauty Dates the Beast” is the first novel in the “Midnight Liaisons” series and was released in the year 2011. She writes a lot, reads a lot (including comic books), and plays video games. She is a New York Times and USA Today best selling author. The series has both novellas and novels to the series. Under the Sims name, she writes the “Midnight Liaisons” series, which she started in the year 2011, when “Beauty Dates the Beast” was released. Then under this name, Jessica Sims, she writes fun shape shifter paranormal novels that are quite sexy. There is her own name (that she writes erotic contemporary romance) and Jill Myles (that she writes just a bit of everything under which includes zombie fairy tales and sexy and humorous urban fantasy). ![]() Jessica Sims is one of the three names that author Jessica Clare uses when publishing she figures, why write under only two names, when you can write under three of them. ![]() Out of africa author isak dinesen5/22/2023 ![]() While she didn't win the World Cup of Literature (a.k.a. The Baroness did pretty well for herself, winning the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat, the Danish award for women in arts. It was published in 1937, giving her a little bit of distance from the emotional events she describes, including several deaths of friends, the loss of her farm, and her painful decision to leave Africa. What a dirtbag.īlixen lived in Kenya from 1914 until about 1931, sixteen years that provide the content for Out of Africa. Dinesen was her maiden name, which we can understand she'd prefer as her pen name, since her husband cheated on her and gave her syphilis. You'll notice that she is referred to as the Baroness in the book that's because she married her Swedish cousin, Baron Blixen. Isak Dinesen was a Danish writer whose legal name was Karen Blixen. It's part memoir, part amateur ethnography, and offers us a peek at what colonial Africa was like in the early 20th century. Never been on a safari? Well, Out of Africa, with its lion-shooting, bird-photographing, coffee-farming narrator is as close as you can get without changing out of your zebra-striped slippers. ![]() Tedd arnold books list5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Source notes by co-authors Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, professional storytellers known as Beauty and the Beast, provide information about the traditional stories that inspired Mac and Mac’s mishaps and give suggestions for further reading. They invite readers to use their noodles to spot holes in the brothers’ grand plans. It is co-written and illustrated by Tedd Arnold, known for his popular Fly Guy series.īased on traditional world folktales and stories of fools, the Noodleheads encourage critical thinking. ![]() Short chapters-full of wordplay, jokes, and slapstick humor-follow Mac and Mac through their funny a adventures. This sixth book in the Noodleheads graphic novel series is perfect for comic fans and reluctant readers. Then…while counting grains of sand, they realize THEY’VE WALKED AROUND THE WORLD!!! They decide to count grains of sand instead. ![]() Mac and Mac rescue the fallen stars, but then lose count. They reach a bazillion when they see that some of the stars have fallen into Mom’s washtub. But when Mom says it’s too far for them to go, they decide to count the stars. How? By doing the impossible! You’ll laugh out loud at the funny adventures in this comic-style book.įirst they decide to walk around the world. Do you want to be famous? Mac and Mac do. ![]() Author of cold comfort farm5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Also the fact that not all the secrets were revealed is very gothic, we thought more of the time that the secrets were nothing big and scary but just a literary device. Once you realise this is a parody there is an awful lot more to laugh at including the massive amounts of references to gothic books of the time with people "taking to their beds" something i think we would all like to do at one time or another. ![]() For example, we all found it hilarious when Urk charged out of the farmhouse with Merium. Having said this there are a few moments in the book that are laugh-out-loud funny but mostly towards the end of the novel. This ensures that you go into the book understanding that it's a parody and not something that is as funny as a stand alone novel. The book group have one major thing to say about this book, and that is you must read the prologue to the book! Possibly read the prologue after having read the book as well as before. ![]() What's Up, Buttercup? by Jane Cousins5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Trust me, you’ll learn to love my style, no doubt I’ll quickly become the centre (yes – that spelling is correct too) of your universe. Which basically means I have a deep and abiding love of the letter ‘u’ – delighting in finding ways to insert it into as many words as possible: colour, neighbour, saviour etc. ![]() Being Australian, I adhere to British English grammar. Timeline wise? – this book is set some fourteen years earlier than the events that take place in To Vex A Valkyrie. I kept wondering what their world was like now that the Valkyrie Empire had gone Corporate. There was just something about the heroine, Brodie, and her blunt, bloodthirsty Sister Valkyries that kept my Muse up at nights. Inspired by book 9 of that series - To Vex A Valkyrie. ![]() This series sits adjacent, but separate, to the world I created for my Southern Sanctuary series. Not a day goes by that I don’t count myself so very lucky to have you in my life. You are not just my family but my best friends. We wouldn’t be the strong, independent and quite frankly, awesome people we are today, if not for your love, support and inspirational example. Do not host on any website without the express permission of the author. Do not copy or re-distribute either in part or in full. Copyright © 2020 All rights reserved by the author. ![]() On mystic lake by kristin hannah5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Mystic, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving, too-silent six-year-old daughter, Izzie. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was-the woman she is now desperate to become again. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that for years she has been slowly disappearing. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. A poignant and tender story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale "A beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story."-Diana Gabaldon Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. ![]() Kaylynn flanders shielded5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Agent: Laura Crockett, Triada US Literary. Nevertheless, there’s plenty to enjoy in this series opener. When 17-year-old Princess Jennesara of Hálendi learns she’s been betrothed to Prince Enzo of Turia to secure an. Title: Untethered Author: Kaylynn Flanders Series: Shielded 2 Page Length: 464 Publication Date: JPublisher: Delacorte Press Synopsis: Although King Athren’s sister, Jennesara, saved Hlendi from the Gray Mage, the reprieve came at a steep pricethe life of their father. ![]() With so many elements at play, some aspects feel underdeveloped-Jennesara careens from one crisis to the next with little recovery time, and her foes are more ciphers than fully fleshed characters. In this ambitious but complicated debut, Flanders pits her resourceful heroine against myriad threats, weaving action, intrigue, and romance into a fast-paced tale. But with traitors in court, she’s not sure who to trust. Even as she researches how to defeat her enemies and avenge her loved ones, Jennesara strives to master the magic she’s been forced to hide. ![]() After surviving a harrowing ordeal in the sorcerous Wild, Jennesara takes refuge under an assumed identity in the court of Turia, where she befriends Prince Enzo and his family. However, on the way to Turia, a mage attacks her entourage, and she alone escapes simultaneously, her father and brother are slain. ![]() When 17-year-old Princess Jennesara of Hálendi learns she’s been betrothed to Prince Enzo of Turia to secure an alliance for her beleaguered land, which is under attack by outside forces and dark magic, she reluctantly agrees. ![]() The roddenberry archive5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Roddenberry Estate and OTOY unveil beautiful and fully realized recreations of Gene Roddenberry's iconic Starship Enterprise bridge across time and space - with testimony from Star Trek luminaries including William Shatner. ![]() The Roddenberry Archive brings every iteration of Star Trek's USS Enterprise bridge to life - with William Shatner, Terry Matalas and John de Lancie ![]() Jen winston greedy5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Or waitmaybe she isnt Actually, she definitely is. Agent: Wendy Sherman, Wendy Sherman Assoc. If Jen Winston knows one thing for sure, its that shes bisexual. In playfully queering the coming-of-age story, Winston has written something wholly original, and entirely delightful. Winston’s regular use of content warnings and Twitter handles may put off some readers, but those whose lives have been similarly shaped by social media will appreciate the roles these signifiers play in this story of searching for love by a writer to watch. One of her greatest strengths is in pivoting from acerbic wit to earnest reflection, as she does in a standout essay about the social construction of ugliness and masturbating on AIM-aptly titled “True Life: I Masturbate Wrong”-and in another about the importance of setting boundaries. ![]() In a series of essays, Winston viscerally describes the sense of being unmoored without language to describe herself and the difficult path to finding it, all with a breezy irreverence that will enamor her to fans of millennial essayists like Samantha Irby and Jia Tolentino. ![]() In this sparkling debut, Winston dives headlong into a life of confusion and second-guessing her queer desire, only to realize that “maybe confusion is as queer as it gets.” As someone who grew up in the cornfields of Indiana in the early aughts, she struggled to find “sexually fluid role models” to help her understand her bisexuality. ![]() |