![]() ![]() ![]() His heart immediately grows three sizes, and he returns to Who-ville to deliver all the presents he stole. Shocked by their joy despite not having any gifts, the Grinch realizes that Christmas is not about material possessions but about community, kindness, and love. Crumpit, he hears the Whos below singing. In the middle of his scheme, he meets a little girl named Cindy-Lou Who, who shows the Grinch compassion and kindness.Īs the Grinch attempts to dump all of his stolen goods over the top of Mt. As the Grinch becomes more and more annoyed with the noise, he devises a plan to "steal" Christmas: he dresses up as Santa Claus and sneaks into the homes of the Whos, taking their presents, food, and even their Christmas trees. The festive season is their favorite time of year, and they have very large and noisy celebrations in their town. ![]() While nobody knows why the Grinch detests Christmas so much, the narrator posits that it is because his heart is two sizes too small.īy contrast, the Whos of Who-ville are kind-hearted creatures who absolutely love Christmas. Crumpit above a small town called Who-ville. How the Grinch Stole Christmas tells the story of the hateful and bitter Grinch, a Christmas-hating creature who lives in a cave on Mt. ![]()
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![]() The book includes a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more. ![]() One of the greatest legends of all time, with an inspiring introduction by David Almond, award-winning author of Clay, Skellig, Kit's Wilderness and The Fire-Eaters. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table By Roger Lancelyn Green, Lotte Reiniger. ![]() From the magical moment when Arthur releases the sword in the stone to the quest for the Holy Grail and the final tragedy of the Last Battle, Roger Lancelyn Green brings the enchanting world of King Arthur stunningly to life. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Paperback). King Arthur is one of the greatest legends of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in Los Angeles and is an associate fellow of Pauli Murray College at Yale University. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology-and much more. She would be delighted if you visited her at and fairly giddy if you liked her selfies on Instagram. ![]() For information on new releases and appearances, sign up for her newsletter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapman’s releases include Amish romance, cozy mystery, novellas, romantic suspense, and dystopian/disaster fiction. She speaks around the country on writing, how to publish, and steps to finding an agent and landing a publishing contract. She blends the familiar components consumers love in Amish books-faith, community, simplicity, family-with an innovative who-done-it plot that keeps readers. She has taught for numerous writing groups and colleges. In this first book of a three-book series, author Vannetta Chapman brings a fresh twist to the popular Amish fiction genre. She's received numerous awards including the ACFW Carol Award for best mystery (Falling to Pieces), and she was a Christy Award finalist (Anna's Healing).Ĭhapman has a BA and MA in English literature from the University of Texas at Arlington. ![]() She has written for Abingdon Press and Harvest House Publishers, and she currently writes for Kensington Books and Harlequin/Love Inspired. With over 1 million copies sold, Vannetta Chapman is a USA Today and PW Bestselling author of over 40 books. ![]() ![]() ![]() To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother’s tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. ![]() Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”Īlice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother’s stories are set. Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. Welcome to Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood―the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller with seven starred reviews everyone is raving about! Received: Netgalley provided an e-arc in exchange for an honest review I also love that each item has some significance to the story. ![]() The cover for this novel is gorgeous! I love the shiny gold mixed with the black and white. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sanderson originally intended to make Mistborn a nine-part series: The first trilogy as it now stands, a second modern-day trilogy, then a third science-fiction trilogy set in the future. "I had not seen anyone do a fantasy series where they did this great epic trilogy and then set another trilogy in the present day of that world." "The other fantasy novel worlds were very static, meaning the same technology level, the same sort of culture that existed for thousands of years," Sanderson, a Brigham Young University graduate and adjunct faculty member there, said while on tour in Kentucky. "The Alloy of Law" occurs 300 years after the epic trilogy finale in a world of awakening technology and increasingly complicated politics. ![]() 1 New York Times best-selling author, has thrown a curve ball at the fantasy world in his new release, "The Alloy of Law." Fans of the exciting Mistborn series will find the same world, same magic but a different time period. Well, perhaps it isn't much like the other books at all.īrandon Sanderson, author of the acclaimed "Mistborn" trilogy and No. It's the typical "Mistborn" novel - captivating action, politics with a twist, magic, and hardened gunslingers who commit train robberies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus far, she has published over 30 books ranging in topic from feminist theory to a set of books about love, to multiple children’s books. ![]() Hooks has spent her career studying and teaching the intersections of race, gender, and class from a feminist perspective as a tenured professor at the University of Southern California, Oberlin College, and Berea College, where she founded the bell hooks Institute in 2014. Her pen name is stylized in lowercase so as to divert attention away from her as an individual and towards her ideas, as well as to highlight the matriarchal line of her family. It was at this time that she assumed her pen name, which is an homage to her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. hooks began her first book, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, as an undergraduate, which was published during her PhD in 1981. ![]() She earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1973 and her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1976, followed by a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1983, all in English literature. Bell hooks (née Gloria Jean Watkins) was born on Septemin rural Hopkinsville, KY as one of seven children. ![]() ![]() Originally published in 1982 in the collection Different Seasons (alongside "The Body," "Apt Pupil," and "The Breathing Method"), it was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption in 1994. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption - about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book.Ī mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Encompassing the city's Spanish missionary past, a gold rush, a couple of earthquakes, the Beats, the hippies, and the dot-com boom, this book is at once a rambling walking tour, a natural and human history, and a celebration of place itself-a guide to loving any city more faithfully and fully. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site or intersection in the city, from the mighty Golden Gate Bridge to the raunchy Tenderloin to the soaring sea cliffs at Land's End. Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal history, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Kamiya's symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure." - New York Times Book Review The bestselling love letter to one of the world's great cities, San Francisco, by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon. "A kaleidoscopic homage both personal and historical. ![]() ![]() In the course of researching his novel Empires of Sand, he crossed the Sahara desert four times, and got lost there only once. He has lived and worked in various parts of Africa. He has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia Unive David Ball has been to 60 countries on six continents. He has renovated old Victorian houses in Denver and pumped gasoline in the Grand Tetons. He installed telecommunications equipment in Cameroun and explored the Andes in a Volkswagen bus. ![]() A former pilot, sarcophagus maker, and businessman, David has driven a taxi in New York City and built a road in West Africa. Research trips for other novels have taken him to China, Istanbul, Algeria, and Malta - a little island where so far he hasn't gotten lost at all. ![]() ![]() David Ball has been to 60 countries on six continents. ![]() |