![]() Dust jacket ($7.95) has slight rubbing with mild bumping and chipping to top spine and top flap fold ends, 3" crease to top corner front flap with slight fading to spine, small faint damp stain to inside only at bottom spine with thin subtle damp stain along top rear cover. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 Book binding tight, minor rubbing to bottom corners else boards straight and clean mild splash soiling to top edge with moderate toning to edges, Universal Pictures phone number on front paste down in blue pen with small damp stain to top corner rear free end page else text free of marks, appears unread. ![]() ![]() Enjoy and lose some sleep Best Jeff" Complete number line. Jeffrey Konvitzs New York Times-bestselling horror novel about a young woman descending into demonic madness who discovers its not simply in her mind. Fortunately, you're also very considerate so I did not have to scream and howl about the lack of copies of my book. ![]() Inscribed by author on front free end page in blue pen, "To Cheryl- From an old lecher who can't resist a pretty face. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway as James and Bob himself, coming November 6. His books A Street Cat Named Bob and The World According to Bob, written with the author. A GIFT FROM BOB: HOW A STREET CAT HELPED ONE MAN LEARN THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS Read Online Free Without Download - PDF, ePub, Fb2 eBooks by James Bowen A Gift From Bob: How a Street Cat Helped One Man Learn the Meaning of. In this new story of their journey together, James looks back at the last Christmas they spent scraping a living on the streets and how Bob helped him through one of his toughest times – providing strength, friendship and inspiration but also teaching him important lessons about the true meaning of Christmas along the way. James Bowen is an author and busker currently based in London. STREET CAT BOB and James, stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob and The World According to Bob that touched millions of hearts around the world, return in a festive standalone special as they spend a cold and challenging December on the streets of London together in a new adventure.įrom the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their lives and, through the bestselling books A Street Cat Named Bob and The World According to Bob, touched millions around the world. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway as James and Bob himself. ![]() ![]() The festive standalone from James and Bob, the stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even now, there’s not much attraction to the music – I own a couple of Nirvana tracks (including their ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ which is AWESOME – that guitar sound on the solo is spellbinding) and a Pearl Jam single (‘Given To Fly’ anyone ? God knows where that came from, although I don’t mind it).ĭespite not really caring too much for the music, I really enjoyed this book. At that time, it was all about R.E.M., Tori Amos, and Crowded House for me. ![]() ![]() Soundgarden’s ‘Spoonman’ made me prick up my ears but again, the interest left as swiftly as it came. Alice in Chains briefly snagged my interest with ‘Would ?’ but I don’t think my parents noticed me playing that dirge at high volume on MTV so it passed without incident. I’d heard of Mudhoney, and Tad, but equally Melvins and the U-Men were new to me. ![]() The same went for Nirvana, without the covers band I suppose no-one felt like taking on Cobain’s howl. Lots of friends were into them, enough that there was an 18th at the local football club that included a sort of 6th form college supergroup doing Pearl Jam covers. I briefly entertained Pearl Jam, although it was a pretty standard bit of teenage bandwaggoning – they were hip, I was trying to be etc. It gradually occurred to me, as I was reading this excellent and enjoyable oral history, that I didn’t, still don’t really like Grunge, or at least, any of the acts that this jerry-rigged genre supposedly covers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, although the core of this book is serious, and deals with elements of Colombia’s history such as political violence, rebellion and caudillismo (the leadership of a ‘strongman’), it is also a fun read: fantastical events combine with the banal to create a world that is at once ordinary and extraordinary. This portrayal of Colombia through the ages comes to life as every line is suffused with detail: scents, flavours, textures… And yet it is at the same time unreal and magical: the reader constantly experiences a sense of déjà vu as the names of characters and their fates repeat themselves, creating a seemingly never-ending pattern of the same characters succumbing to the same ends, perhaps a metaphor for the history of Colombia doomed to repeat itself, its people trapped in an endless cycle. ![]() ![]() 100 Years of Solitude follows the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and Macondo, the town founded by the family’s patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía. ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Books for Boys Books for Girls Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+). ![]() BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of the characters have believable strengths, faults, and motivations. If Joe were a nuclear physicist, and the characters components in his lab, BEST SERVED COLD would be one hell of a bomb. In BEST SERVED COLD Abercrombie introduces a smattering of new characters who meet up with some of the most interesting supporting cast from his First Law Trilogy to great effect (Nick literally cheered out-loud when the Northman took the ‘stage’). They say Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and Monza Murcatto makes that sound like a silly understatement. It’s a fast-paced, action and twisted humor-filled tale of a woman’s pursuit of revenge. Right from the get-go you know what this book about, and it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. In other words, Steve ran around squealing like a 15-year-old girl and clapping excitedly. So when we first heard word of BEST SERVED COLD ( Amazon) we could barely contain our excitement. There are few books we have looked forward to more, after finishing THE LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS ( Amazon), than Abercrombie’s next. ![]() We will leave you for the weekend with our review of this stand-alone novel by Joe Abercrombie set in First Law Trilogy universe. ![]() ![]() McLuhan (1964) argues that since electric light is only a medium through which no message is apparent (unless of course light is used to spell out content on a billboard as an example), it is in a way profound in terms of the way in which it “shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action.” Here, an example of electric light is provided to better understand what McLuhan is referring to. Because what we observe through a medium is obvious in its nature in terms of the message from a content standpoint, McLuhan (1964) argues that we often overlook what the medium itself introduces into our human affairs over a period of time. ![]() ![]() Briefly elaborating on this, McLuhan (1964) refers to the message of a medium being the personal or social consequences resulting from an increased extension of ourselves through any newly invented technology or innovation. ![]() McLuhan (1964) starts by stating that it sometimes comes as a shock to us when we consider the medium to be the message. Marshall McLuhan introduced the well-renowned media concept of “Medium is the Message” in chapter one of his 1964 book entitled “Understanding Media: The Extension of the Man.” What McLuhan meant by this implication was that it was the media that should become the focus of the study, and not the content of which it carries. ![]() ![]() Rosenfeld published a sequel to What She Saw.- Why She Went Home (Random House)-in 2004. ![]() The book was excerpted in The New Yorker as a part of its Debut Fiction series (under the title, “The Male Gaze”) -and optioned by Miramax Films. Each chapter revolves around (and is named after) a boy or man who played a role in Phoebe’s life. The book follows the romantic travails of a girl named Phoebe Fine, beginning in elementary school and continuing into her mid-twenties. Her first novel, What She Saw in Roger Mancuso, Gunter Hopstock, Jason Barry Gold, Spitty Clark, Jack Geezo, Humphrey Fung, Claude Duvet, Bruce Bledstone, Kevin McFeeley, Arnold Allen, Pablo Miles, Anonymous 1-4, Nobody 5-8, Neil Schmertz, and Bo Pierce was published by Random House in hardcover in September 2000. Lucinda Rosenfeld (born Decemin New York City) is an American novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() The typical Boyle story introduces a handful of quirky, comic characters, puts them in a car, and drives them off a bridge. Although he is a gleeful humorist, his plots tend to go sour. His hilarious novel about the travails of pot growing in California, Budding Prospects, shows him familiar with doper life but hardly sympathetic.įew people would call Boyle a sentimental novelist. ![]() The pretentious name, the urbane coverleaf photos, the wickedly precise syntax, the take-no-prisoners plots. ![]() Sure, Boyle covered it up pretty well for years. Often, it’s the stink of hypocrisy as much as it is patchouli and rank-foot. Normally, it doesn’t take much of a nose to smell a hippy a mile off. But I do know about one thing, and that is hippies. I don’t know much about contemporary fiction, and I’m not a Boyle expert either, though I’ve read most of his novels and stories as they’ve come out. I always thought Boyle was a hipster, and his most recent novel, Drop City, confirms it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It includes more than 500 pages of vintage Clowes: seminal serialized graphic novels, strips, and rants, such as "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron," "Ghost World," "Pussey," "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," "Art School Confidential," "On Sports," "Zubrick and Pogeybait," "Hippypants and Peace-Bear," "Grip Glutz," "The Sensual Santa," "Feldman," and many more. Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and filmmaker. ![]() "Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology, Eightball it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more, newly designed for paperback by the author. ![]() |