Sixpence House

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781608196821

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Sixpence House by Paul Collins Pdf

"Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence." -Boston Globe Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us. A #1 BookSense Pick "A delightful book."-Los Angeles Times "Collins' gift is that you don't care where you end up. The journey is enough."-Readerville "The real, engaging heart of the tale is Collins' love of books and other people who love them...Collins muses on antiquarian books the way the rest of us remember lost loves."-San Francisco Chronicle "Funny, informative, somewhat chaotic and full of interesting references...there are numerous meanders into peripheral subjects, seen through the astute eyes of an Anglophile American."-Washington Post

Author : Jennifer Bell
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553498462

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The Uncommoners #1: The Crooked Sixpence by Jennifer Bell Pdf

Anyone with a Hogwarts-shaped hole in their lives can’t miss this fantasy series opener. Dive into a secret underground city below London where ordinary objects are capable of extraordinary magic! "Part Tim Burton, part J.K. Rowling! A terrific debut." —Soman Chainani, New York Times Bestselling Author of the School for Good and Evil series Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems… When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to the hospital, Ivy Sparrow and her annoying big brother Seb cannot imagine what adventure lies in store. Soon their house is ransacked by unknown intruders, and a very strange policeman turns up on the scene, determined to apprehend them . . . with a toilet brush. Ivy and Seb make their escape only to find themselves in a completely uncommon world, a secret underground city called Lundinor where ordinary objects have amazing powers. There are belts that enable the wearer to fly, yo-yos that turn into weapons, buttons with healing properties, and other enchanted objects capable of very unusual feats. But the forces of evil are closing in fast, and when Ivy and Seb learn that their family is connected to one of the greatest uncommon treasures of all time, they must race to unearth the treasure and get to the bottom of a family secret . . . before it’s too late. Debut novelist Jennifer Bell delivers a world of wonder and whimsy in the start of a richly uncommon series. "An auspicious trilogy opener." -Kirkus Reviews

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Book collectors
ISBN : 1402565380

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Sixpence House by Paul Collins Pdf

Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the little cobblestone village of Hay-on-Wye, the 'Town of Books' that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Antiquarian bookstores, no less.

Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547391029

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The Moon and Sixpence by William Somerset Maugham Pdf

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. It is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1417726245

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Sixpence House by Paul Collins Pdf

In this national bestseller, bibliophile Collins relates how he and his family uprooted themselves from San Francisco and settled in the small Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, the Town of Books that boasts a population of 1,500 and 40 antique bookstores.

Author : Holly Webb
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544339286

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The Case of the Stolen Sixpence by Holly Webb Pdf

Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle chase.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : United States
ISBN : OXFORD:555039445

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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : Charles James Longman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015058489298

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Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman Pdf

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Session laws
ISBN : CORNELL:31924064742145

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The Public General Statutes by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32437121364257

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The Law Reports by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11576231

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Parliamentary Debates by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kirsten Holst Petersen,Anna Rutherford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032459128

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Displaced Persons by Kirsten Holst Petersen,Anna Rutherford Pdf

Author : Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Charities
ISBN : OXFORD:555096936

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Appendix to Mr. Brougham's Letter: by Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux Pdf

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780393245158

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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins Pdf

“Well-researched and beautifully written.…Collins knows how to build suspense.” —San Francisco Chronicle On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never left the Medical School building alive. His shocking discoveries in a chemistry professor’s laboratory engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. John White Webster. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbery, and dismemberment, it became a landmark case in the use of medical forensics and the meaning of reasonable doubt. Paul Collins brings nineteenth-century Boston back to life in vivid detail, weaving together newspaper accounts, letters, journals, court transcripts, and memoirs from this groundbreaking case. Rich in characters and evocative in atmosphere, Blood & Ivy explores the fatal entanglement of new science and old money in one of America’s greatest murder mysteries.

Author : Edmund Samuel Gunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Clerks
ISBN : WISC:89095944351

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Business Training Manual ... by Edmund Samuel Gunn Pdf