![]() ![]() When the cousins stumble upon Nura, a tenacious girl from Turkey, she promises to help them track down the parcel and rescue Colonel Battersea. Before he can do so, however, Grandpa vanishes without a trace. Soon after they settle in, Grandpa receives a cryptic telegram and promptly whisks the cousins off to New York City to meet an unknown courier and collect a very important package. ![]() Whatever the cousins expected, Colonel Battersea isn't it. As smart as it is action-packed." -The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books On a stormy May day in 1929, William and Maxine arrive on the doorstep of Battersea Manor to spend the summer with a grandfather they barely remember. "Combining a 1920s New York setting with ancient Turkish and Arabian folklore and history, this novel reads like a young Indiana Jones adventure. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s time Poppy finds out just who I am and what I’m willing to do to take what’s mine. I’ve stayed away, but I’m tired of watching her from afar. She innocently bares her heart and body to me, and I soak up every fucking second of it. ![]() During the day, I watch her from my computer. I know all her secrets, her habits, her preferred coffee, what she does in her spare time, her favorite lingerie brand, and that she sleeps naked.Īt night, I watch her from her window. But I’ve done things… things she may not be able to forgive. She unknowingly became mine the moment my eyes touched her beauty. She may know me as two different men, but she doesn’t have a clue what I’ve done. ![]() I’ve silently watched her for a year, staying hidden in the shadows, biding my time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Artworks from Daisy Comes Home Gingerbread Baby Hedgie Blasts Off! The Three Snow Bears The Animals’ Santa The Mermaid Cinders, A Chicken Cinderella On Noah’s Ark The Turnip and The Snowy Nap are among the full-color originals from the artist’s books to be enjoyed. Favorite stories, from Gingerbread Friends, The Umbrella, and Honey…Honey to her most recent published book, Cozy, are represented by more than eighty original artworks, as well as reference materials and selections from the artist’s collection of unique objects and artifacts. This lively exhibition explores the breadth of Brett’s art and the travel experiences that have inspired her many children’s books and characters. With over forty million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost and most widely read author/illustrators for children. ![]() ![]() ![]() army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. ![]() Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. "In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, News of the world : a novel / Paulette Jiles Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Books ![]() |