Strange Orphans

Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781594745133

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Pdf

The #1 New York Times best-selling series. Bonus features • Q&A with author Ransom Riggs • Eight pages of color stills from the film • Sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. “A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars “With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+”—Entertainment Weekly “‘Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”—People “You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—Seventeen

Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781594748394

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Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Boxed Set by Ransom Riggs Pdf

The New York Times #1 best-selling series. Includes 3 novels by Ransom Riggs and 12 peculiar photographs. Together for the first time, here is the #1 New York Times best seller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and its two sequels, Hollow City and Library of Souls. All three hardcovers are packaged in a beautifully designed slipcase. Also included: a special collector's envelope of twelve peculiar photographs, highlighting the most memorable moments of this extraordinary three-volume fantasy. MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in this groundbreaking novel, which mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling new kind of reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. HOLLOW CITY: September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary adventure continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. LIBRARY OF SOULS: A boy, a girl, and a talking dog. They're all that stands between the sinister wights and the future of peculiar children everywhere. Jacob Portman ventures through history one last time to rescue the peculiar children from a heavily guarded fortress. He's joined by girlfriend and firestarter Emma Bloom, canine companion Addison MacHenry, and some very unexpected allies.

Author : Beatrix Taumann
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African American dramatists
ISBN : 3826016815

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"Strange Orphans" by Beatrix Taumann Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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the strange children by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kate Charles
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405523479

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Strange Children by Kate Charles Pdf

Married to the perfect man, and with a baby on the way, motherless Tessa looks forward to getting to know her new mother-in-law. But before that can happen, Linda Nicholls is murdered, and Tessa is determined to find out why. Her quest for answers plunges her into a nightmare world of secrets, where nothing is as it seems, and her own life - and the life of her unborn child - are in danger...

Author : Henry Thomas FLETCHER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021552573

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Strange Children. A sermon [on Ps. cxliv. 11, 12] preached ... May 19th, 1854 by Henry Thomas FLETCHER Pdf

Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781594745133

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Pdf

The #1 New York Times best-selling series. Bonus features • Q&A with author Ransom Riggs • Eight pages of color stills from the film • Sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. “A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars “With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+”—Entertainment Weekly “‘Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”—People “You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—Seventeen

Author : Olga Kucherenko
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191610998

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Little Soldiers by Olga Kucherenko Pdf

Germany's war against the Soviet Union raised a small army of child soldiers. Thousands of those below the enlistment age served with regular and paramilitary formations, even though they were not formally mobilised or allowed at the front. For several decades after the war, these youngsters played an important part in Soviet remembrance culture, though their true experiences were obscured by the myth of the Great Patriotic War. Situated at the crossroads of social, cultural, and military history, Little Soldiers is the first to tell the story of the Soviet Union's child soldiers in a critical and systematic fashion. Focusing on the mechanisms and psychological consequences of propaganda on Soviet children, as well as their combat deployment, Kucherenko adopts a three-tier approach to writing the history of childhood: 'from above', 'from below', and 'from within'. A wide variety of new sources provide insight into young soldiers' combat motivations and the roles they played in the field, as well as their routine experiences and relationship with older comrades. Far from being victims, Soviet child soldiers emerge as independent social actors capable of making choices about their behaviour . Little Soldiers interconnects with matters of increasing importance: the role of propaganda in military conflicts, the totalization of warfare, child-soldiering, and social reflexivity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0010594521

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The British Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Allon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101076368750

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The British Quarterly Review by Henry Allon Pdf

Author : Leonard Fokou
Publisher : Harmattan Cameroun
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782343001913

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The eventful life of a child in a lost world by Leonard Fokou Pdf

A mind torn between socio-political ills and a sort of educational decadence leaves the author in a medley of paint-up trauma and despair. As a matter of fact, Mohkeleh hardly finds facts to put together in order to reach out to his dreams. This interesting debut of purposeful prose written by the author leaves his readers awe-stricken in contemplating the ups and downs of life as we lived it yesterday, are living today and will do the next day ... (Martin Ntinwoh).

Author : Stephen J. Davis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300149456

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Christ Child by Stephen J. Davis Pdf

Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. One collection of such tales was the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, known in antiquity as the Paidika or “Childhood Deeds” of Jesus. In it, Jesus not only performs miracles while at play (such as turning clay birds into live sparrows) but also gets enmeshed in a series of interpersonal conflicts and curses to death children and teachers who rub him the wrong way. How would early readers have made sense of this young Jesus? In this highly innovative book, Stephen Davis draws on current theories about how human communities construe the past to answer this question. He explores how ancient readers would have used texts, images, places, and other key reference points from their own social world to understand the Christ child’s curious actions. He then shows how the figure of a young Jesus was later picked up and exploited in the context of medieval Jewish-Christian and Christian-Muslim encounters. Challenging many scholarly assumptions, Davis adds a crucial dimension to the story of how Christian history was created.

Author : Epes Sargent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : English drama
ISBN : HARVARD:HXG9UX

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The Modern Standard Drama by Epes Sargent Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555043542

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The Children's prize [afterw.] The Prize for boys and girls [afterw.] The Prize by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368304294

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Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit Pdf

Reproduction of the original.