![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ![]() For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still resonates today. First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely read novels. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Book Synopsis MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In some areas of France the bird was nailed to a pole decorated with ribbons and GREENERY. The group devised a decorative display for the tiny carcass. The second phase of the wren hunt began when the team returned to town. The man or boy who succeeded in finally killing the bird was lauded as the hero of the day. Afterwards, the band trooped back to town displaying their trophy. In some areas the hunters used bow and arrows or even pistols to bring down their diminutive prey. The hunting party might chase the bird for hours before they succeeded in this task. After spotting one of the dainty brown birds the group flushed it out of the bushes using sticks or stones to stun and, eventually, kill it. On this day bands of men and boys would range the countryside scouring the brush in search of a wren. STEPHEN’S DAY, which was the more commonly accepted date for the hunt. Eventually, however, these local traditions gravitated to the day after Christmas, ST. ![]() CUSTOMS In some locales early accounts of the “wren hunt” or “the hunting of the wren” give Christmas or Christmas Eve as the date of the ceremony. Although this practice declined to near extinction during the twentieth century, the wren still figures as a minor CHRISTMAS SYMBOL, appearing on CHRISTMAS CARDS, ORNAMENTS, and other seasonal decorations. ![]() Wren Hunt In rural communities of ENGLAND, IRELAND, FRANCE, and WALES, the day after Christmas once witnessed a ritualized attack on one of the region’s tiniest and most harmless birds: the wren. ![]() ![]() ![]() The word that would come up if you talked about the complexities of motherhood would be "ambivalence," and I think ambivalence implies that perhaps you wish that you hadn't had a child. I felt like the conversation about motherhood felt a little narrow to me. On how her experience as a mother influenced her writing of the book was that they were just struggling to bridge the person they used to be with the person they were now. And instead, what I saw more often in the women I knew. I think ambivalence implies that perhaps you wish that you hadn't had a child. ![]() ![]() ![]() Violence is outlawed and punishable by exile, and everything is settled through interactions in an MMORPG, including legal disputes, appeals for more equipment for farms, lifesaving surgeries. ![]() hack with a dystopia and you have what Kostick is setting up here. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying the Committee’s tyranny. When teenage Erik dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends must face the Committee. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Summary: (Taken from GoodReads) Welcome to a society governed through computer games! ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() But when the Challenger disaster occurs, Bird finds herself in need of the support she’s been giving. ![]() Bird is enthralled with the space mission and decides she’s going to be a shuttle commander one day. It’s January 1986, and their teacher is gearing them up for the launch of the space shuttle Challenger. The Thomas household is toxic with their parents’ constant fighting, and Bird feels like she has to keep their family from malfunctioning altogether. ![]() Bird likes tinkering with machines but feels invisible. Fitch is good at video games but bad at controlling his temper. He isn’t good at anything, and now he’s repeating seventh grade with his two younger siblings. The Thomas siblings-13-year-old Cash and 12-year-old twins Fitch and Bird-all struggle to navigate the doubts of middle school and their dysfunctional family. Three siblings face their middle school problems as they learn about space. ![]() ![]() ![]() " This celebration of geek culture and fandom promotes diversity and being true to oneself." - School Library Journal "This fun book about fierce friendships gives voice to a group of diverse female characters who are so defined by so much more than just their mental health and sexuality." - Bustle ![]() "The book deals head on with issues of mental health, body shaming, sexuality, and internet celebrity, handling them with a delicate and skillful touch." - Teen Vogue Jen Wilde, author of Queens of Geek, which Seventeen called, “the geeky, queer book of our dreams” is back with a brand new cast of highly diverse and relatable characters for her fans to fall in love with. Will the inevitable fallout turn her into a clickbait scandal (again)? Or will she find the strength to stand on her own? ![]() She knows hooking up with a band member is exactly the kind of trouble she should be avoiding, and yet Emmy and Alfie Just. Luckily, Emmy has her friends and bandmates, including the super-swoonworthy Alfie, to help her pick up the pieces of her life. When a night of partying lands Emmy in hospital, she’s branded the latest tabloid train wreck. But there’s nothing the paparazzi love more than watching a celebrity crash and burn. A teen rockstar has to navigate family, love, coming out, and life in the spotlight after being labeled the latest celebrity trainwreck in Jen Wilde's quirky and utterly relatable novel.Īs a rock star drummer in the hit band The Brightsiders, Emmy King’s life should be perfect. ![]() ![]() ![]() To date, this series has sold more than half a million copies. Francine Rivers’ most popular novel series is her Mark of the Lion series. These novels were so well received that both have big-screen adaptations. ![]() Selling millions of copies of her books all over the world, two of Francine Rivers’ most popular novels are The Last Sin Eater and Redeeming Love. When it comes to her Christian-inspired romance novels, River has written more than 25 books. This includes 8 standalone novels and the Second Chance At Love Series, which features 3 novels. Instead, she started writing inspirational novels with strong Christian themes.ĭuring the period of her career when she wrote romance novels, Rivers published 11 books. ![]() After that, Rivers’ writing moved away from the romance genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives with her husband and their two kids in a house in the woods near Lake Michigan. She loves tales that capture the colorful, exquisite details in ordinary lives and is eager to hear anyone's story. White, bestselling author of the Ladies of the Manor series and Shadows Over England series Joanna Davidson Politano is the award-winning author of Lady Jayne Disappears and A Rumored Fortune. ![]() This book is a treasure in itself and one you won't be able to put down!"- Roseanna M. "Everyone loves a treasure hunt-pair it with a heroine you can't help but love, a hero you can't help but swoon over, and a family mystery that'll keep you on the edge of your seat, and you end up with A Rumored Fortune. She'll have to work with the rough and rusticated vineyard manager to keep the laborers content without pay and discover the key to finding her father's fortune-before someone else finds it first. It doesn't take long for a bevy of opportunists to flock to the estate under the guise of offering condolences. ![]() Now Tressa and her ailing mother are left with a mansion and an immense vineyard and no money to run it. Welcome to Trevelyan Castle, home of the poorest heiress in Victorian England Tressa Harlowe's father kept his vast fortune hidden somewhere on his estate in the south of England and died suddenly, without telling anyone where he had concealed it. ![]() |