The Girl With Glass Feet

Author : Ali Shaw
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429979863

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The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw Pdf

An inventive and richly visual novel about young lovers on a quest to find a cure for a magical ailment, perfect for readers of Alice Hoffman Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda's Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander who has visited the islands only once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure. Midas Crook is a young loner who has lived on the islands his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart. Love must be paid in precious hours and, as the glass encroaches, time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly imaginative and magical first novel, a love story to treasure.

Author : Berenice Wakefield
Publisher : Wyrd Books Ltd
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780956668523

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The Girl with Glass Eyes by Berenice Wakefield Pdf

When Ai becomes lost in a deep forest where snow gathers and darkness creeps, she encounters a group of strange children who are telling stories around a camp fire. The stories frighten her, but more than that, the children are scary too. Who are they and why are they out in the woods in the middle of the night? Only the girl with glass eyes has the answer, but Ai must listen to each story carefully before everything becomes clear...... 'He stood in the field going slowly insane, while the lightening crashed and the wind tossed the rain, he tore off his head, threw it into the stream, then screwed on the pumpkin and let out a scream!'

Author : Sandy Hogarth
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785071768

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Glass Girl by Sandy Hogarth Pdf

Say thank you to your sister for me. His parting words cause sixteen year old Ruth to flee to Australia in shame and fear, telling her mother, it's just a year mum, then I'll be home. But even there her secret drives her to the isolation of the outback. Seven years later the death of her mother brings Ruth home to England. Now she must confront her sister, Alexis. But there are darker secrets that threaten to tear apart the family she thought she knew and Alexis' betrayals are not over. Sometimes you can't keep running. In a world of lies and betrayal by the people she loved, is Ruth strong enough?

Author : Horace R. Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : NYPL:33433007625084

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The American Farm and Home Cyclopedia by Horace R. Allen Pdf

Author : T. A. PALMER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027005920

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Grand Christmas Pantomime ... Cinderella and the Little Glass Slipper, Etc by T. A. PALMER Pdf

Author : Mukul Kesavan
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : India
ISBN : 0143100742

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Looking Through Glass by Mukul Kesavan Pdf

At The Close Of The Twentieth Century, A Young Photographer On A Train To Lucknow Suddenly Finds Himself In The Deep End Of 1942. Adrift In The Final Years Of The Raj, He Improvises A Life, And Is Caught Up In The Fates Of Ammi, Forever Waiting For A Vanished Husband; Masroor, Desperate To Stall A Hindu Vs Muslim Cricket Match; Chaubey, A Rebel Turned Repertory Star; Parwana, Who Starts Life As An Orphan And Nearly Ends It As An Ersatz Widow On A Make-Believe Pyre; Gyanendra, A Pioneering Pornographer; Carrick, A Parson Worried About The Millions Starving In Bengal; And The Narrator S Own Grandmother, Whom He Personally Cremated Not So Long Ago. But Hindsight Tells Him That Partition Will Destroy This World. And In His Desperate Struggles To Avert The Inevitable, We Discover, Often With An Almost Unbearable Poignance, How The Possibilities In India S Past Were Squandered, Some Wantonly, Others Accidentally.

Author : Robert Wallace
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547683742

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The Phantom Detective: 5 Murder Mysteries in One Volume by Robert Wallace Pdf

This carefully edited Phantom Detective collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Phantom is actually the wealthy Richard Curtis Van Loan. He is a world-famous detective, whose true identity is only known by one man—Frank Havens, the publisher of the Clarion newspaper. Richard Curtis Van Loan is orphaned at an early age but inherits wealth. Before World War I, he leads the life of an idle playboy, but during the war he becomes a pilot and downs many German planes. Contents: Empire of Terror Death Flight The Sinister Dr. Wong Fangs of Murder Tycoon of Crime

Author : L. Frank Baum
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum Pdf

Table of Contents To My Readers 1. Mount Munch 2. The Hawk 3. Two Bad Ones 4. Conspirators 5. A Happy Corner of Oz 6. Ozma's Birthday Presents 7. The Forest of Gugu 8. The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble 9. The Isle of the Magic Flower 10. Stuck Fast 11. The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu 12. Kiki Uses His Magic 13. The Loss of the Black Bag 14. The Wizard Learns the Magic Word 15. The Lonesome Duck 16. The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag 17. A Remarkable Journey 18. The Magic of the Wizard 19. Dorothy and the Bumble Bees 20. The Monkeys Have Trouble 21. The College of Athletic Arts 22. Ozma's Birthday Party 23. The Fountain of Oblivion

Author : Lynne Tapper
Publisher : Troubador Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Magic realism (Literature)
ISBN : 1848766602

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Living with Feet Too Big for a Glass Slipper by Lynne Tapper Pdf

Welcome to the mythical kingdom of It Is What It Is, where everything is as it seems and people are the perfect performers in the game of life. In the year of 1212 B.R., Before Reason, the beautiful Princess Innocent is born in the Royal Borough of Look At Me, one of the many Drama Districts that constitute the Kingdom.Having been raised on the propaganda of the fairytale, Princess Innocent is ill-prepared for her life’s journey when she leaves the castle to find her one true prince. Unfortunately she finds Prince Badboy, Captain Unavailable, Lord Lie-A-Lot and Prince Rescue-Me, among others.Both a parody of the fairytale and modern-day satire on the search for love in all the weird and wacky places, Innocent’s fraught journey captures the essence of what it is to be fantastically human.A whimsical tale of magical realism that takes readers on a journey to a mythical Kingdom, Living with Feet Too Big for a Glass Slipper is the first of five in The It Is What It Is Chronicles. It is illustrated by Monica Alesina.

Author : Carl Long
Publisher : Carl Long
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Glass by Carl Long Pdf

The Glass is a contemporary Gothic Horror ghost story. Christopher Higson procures an ornate, cheval-glass mirror amongst the cultural carrion at a house clearance on the ancient and heirless Bradley Estate, a gift for his wife, Maria, to help save their dying marriage. Their young son, William, caught in the crossfire in the battle between his parents, suddenly finds an imaginary friend, Jenny, and the only time he sees her is in the mirror. Amongst the blood and broken glass, Christopher and Maria try to save their marriage, and themselves, as they discover the horrible truth about William's imaginary friend. Does anyone know the damage we inflict upon our children? Innocently or deliberately, ignorantly or purposefully, does anyone see anything more than themselves in a mirror? There is no horror except that which we create for ourselves.

Author : Ashley Herring Blake
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316515498

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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake Pdf

A Stonewall Children's & Young Adult Honor Book! In the wake of a destructive tornado, one girl develops feelings for another in this stunning, tender novel about emerging identity, perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish. When a tornado rips through town, twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed and her family of five is displaced. Ivy feels invisible and ignored in the aftermath of the storm--and what's worse, her notebook filled with secret drawings of girls holding hands has gone missing. Mysteriously, Ivy's drawings begin to reappear in her locker with notes from someone telling her to open up about her identity. Ivy thinks--and hopes--that this someone might be her classmate, another girl for whom Ivy has begun to develop a crush. Will Ivy find the strength and courage to follow her true feelings? Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World exquisitely enriches the rare category of female middle-grade characters who like girls--and children's literature at large.

Author : Frederick William Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065708727

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A Bridge of Glass by Frederick William Robinson Pdf

Author : Richard E. Peck
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307781314

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Final Solution by Richard E. Peck Pdf

For years universities have been restive sounding boards for those who talk of revolution, of a new system, of freedom for every man. This chilling tale begins with a university, and a student riot — only this time the riot becomes a revolution and produces a new epoch in the American Way of Life. Robert Kiley, a member of the faculty, seems to endorse the change as a giant step forward in the educational process. After all, his name appears on the plan that created the change. But his efforts at reform have brought him near death, saved only by a colleague’s experimental research in cryogenics. Awakening years in the future, Kiley finds that he is still on the university campus where, through some strange metamorphosis, he has become the spiritual leader of the people — against his every wish. He can’t understand where he fits, in a new era when everyone speaks in distorted versions of today’s ghetto jargon, everyone (literate or not) has a Ph.D., and the university has become a miniature hell, isolated from the new paradise of America. But the money still comes from Washington and as the new “leader,” Kiley goes to fetch it, a journey across America which reveals just how alien he — or his world — has become. Often hilarious, this devastating first novel shows how easily the best intentions can produce a nightmare.

Author : Lisa Jewell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982144920

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The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell Pdf

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2015 by Century as The girls"--Title page verso.

Author : Lauren DeStefano
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062491336

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The Glass Spare by Lauren DeStefano Pdf

The first in a new fantasy duology, The Glass Spare is a gorgeously told tale of love, loss, and deadly power from Lauren DeStefano, the bestselling author of the Chemical Garden series. Perfect for fans of Shannon Hale and Renee Ahdieh. Wilhelmina Heidle, the fourth child and only daughter of the king of the world’s wealthiest nation, has grown up in the shadows. Kept hidden from the world in order to serve as a spy for her father—whose obsession with building his empire is causing a war—Wil wants nothing more than to explore the world beyond her kingdom, if only her father would give her the chance. Until one night Wil is attacked, and she discovers a dangerous secret. Her touch turns people into gemstone. At first Wil is horrified—but as she tests its limits, she’s drawn more and more to the strange and volatile ability. When it leads to tragedy, though, Wil is forced to face the destructive power within her and finally leave her home to seek the truth and a cure. But finding the key to her redemption puts her in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas for what to do with Wil’s power. With a world on the brink of war and a power of ultimate destruction, can Wil find a way to help the kingdom that’s turned its back on her, or will she betray her past and her family forever?