Publication date: 2002-10-17
Price: $43.06
Review Thomas (Deptford Histories) / Hodder Children's Books:"Thomas" begins four years after the fall of Jupiter, when Thomas Triton, a midshipmouse, is tormented by horrific visions of the past: stormlashed seas, ferocious battles, lost cities and terrifying heathen gods. But now the time has come to confront the most chilling memory of his youth, a dark and dreadful secret.
Publication date: 2006-08
Price: $40.00
Review Alphabet of Dreams / Listening Library:Mitra and her little brother, Babak, are beggars in the city of Rhagae, scratching out a living as best as they can with what they can beg for-or steal. But Mitra burns with hope and ambition, for she and Babak are not what they seem. They are of royal blood, but their father's ill-fated plot against the evil tyrant, King Phraates, has resulted in their father's death and their exile. Now disguised as a boy, Mitra has never given up believing they can rejoin what is left of their family and regain their rightful standing in the world. Then they discover that Babak has a strange gift: If he sleeps with an item belonging to someone, he can know that person's dreams. Mitra believes that they can use this gift to find passage back to the city of Palmyra and their remaining kinsmen. But soon Babak and his abilities come to the attention of a powerful Magus - one who has read portents in the stars of the coming of a new king and the dawn of a new age. Soon Mitra and Babak find themselves on the road to Bethlehem. [+]The acclaimed author of Shadow Spinner returns to ancient Persia in this spellbinding saga - a tale filled with the color of the caravansaries and the heat of the desert, a tale that reimagines the wonder and spirit of a lost age.
Creator: Johanna Ward
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $56.95
Price: $35.88
Review The Arabian Nights: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:This elegant edition of 10 classic tales of The Arabian Nights features a powerful introduction by Mark Helprin, offering new insight into the "thousand mercurial forms" and "inexact nature" of these Eastern tales. Helprin probes for fresh understanding of our culture's deep engagement with these fantastical imaginings which, after being passed along orally for thousands of years, evolved into what we have come to know as The Arabian Nights. Accompanied by 12 full-color Maxfield Parrish illustrations from the 1909 edition, the wondrous narrative that began in what is now the Middle East and spread outward to encompass the globe is here reborn in an edition expertly translated by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. The stories here include Aladdin which tells of an aimless street urchin who is seduced by the wiles of a magician and finds himself trapped in a cave filled with sumptuous jewels, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in which a poor man discovers the secret lair of a band of looters, and The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water the story of two princes and a princess who are stolen from their parents at birth and raised by a kindly gardener.
Publication date: 2002-10-17
Price: $43.06
Review Thomas (Deptford Histories) / Hodder Children's Books:"Thomas" begins four years after the fall of Jupiter, when Thomas Triton, a midshipmouse, is tormented by horrific visions of the past: stormlashed seas, ferocious battles, lost cities and terrifying heathen gods. But now the time has come to confront the most chilling memory of his youth, a dark and dreadful secret.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1981-01-01
List Price: $48.00
Price: $37.92
Review The Prince And The Pauper / Books on Tape:On the same day in 16th century London were born Tom Canty, destined to become a street beggar, and Edward Tudor, son of Henry VII, a future king. Several years later, young Canty invades the royal precincts hoping to see the Prince. The boys discover they are identical in appearance and exchange clothes. Mistaken for the beggar boy, Prince Edward is thrown into the streets. Tom Canty, too frightened to confess his true identity, assumes the mantle of the Prince of Wales.
Authors
- Stuart Redman
- Robert Ellis
Dewey code: 428
Price: $19.95
Review A Way With Words: Book 1: Vocabulary Development Activities for Learners of English / Cambridge University Press:This text takes a learner-centred and creative approach to vocabulary learning. It combines a teacher's book, a student's book and a cassette. This cassette contains the recordings for the listening exercises and pronunciation checks of difficult words and phrases at level one.
Creator: Susan Jameson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-02
Price: $32.95
Review Monster Mission / Chivers Audio Books:Three children have been kidnapped by some mysterious, mad aunts and panic is spreading. But Myrtle, Coral and Etta are far from killers - they need the children to help them in a very caring mission. The secret island where they live is a sanctuary for strange and wonderful creatures - mermaids, selkies, the amazing boobrie bird, and even the great Kraken himself. The kidnapped children love their magical new life - but the Island of Monsters has become the target of some dangerous villains who want to turn it into a theme park. Crazy characters and wildly funny adventures make Eva Ibbotson's seventh comic fantasy novel for children another certain winner. 'For children who like Roald Dahl, Eva Ibbotson's Monster Mission will be a discovery. it is engaging, funny and opinionated. [+]a treat not to be missed' - "Sunday Times".
Publication date: 1986-09
Price: $9.95
Review Keep on Shaking / Gentle Wind:
Creator: Rebecca Macauley
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-01-30
List Price: $48.00
Price: $45.54
Review Looking For Alibrandi: Library Edition / Bolinda Publishing:For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it’s just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it’s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn’t be any stricter—but that doesn’t seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world values of her Italian grandmother, the nononsense wisdom of her mom, and the boys who continue to mystify her, Josephine is on the ride of her life. This will be the year she falls in love, the year she discovers the secrets of her family’s past—and the year she sets herself free. Told with unmatched depth and humor, this novel—which swept the pool of Australian literary awards and became a major motion picture—is one to laugh through and cry with, to cherish and remember. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Alibrandi is no stranger to conflict. If she's not caught between her strict single mom and her even stricter grandmother, then she's trying to choose between wealthy good boy John Barton and working-class bad boy Joseph Coote. Josephine is always in trouble with the nuns at her Catholic school (who everyone calls "penguins because of them wearing wimples and all that Sound of Music gear") because she fights with native Australian kids over her mixed Australian/Italian heritage. Just when she thinks her situation couldn't possibly get more complicated, her mysterious, long-lost biological father comes back and Josephine must decide if it's worth getting to know this person who abandoned her and her mother. [+]But through it all-including a startling revelation from her grandmother and the suicide of a close friend-Josephine manages to hold on to her sense of humor, as in this reflective moment: "I could have been a model for Hot Pants. Except that when I finally put my glasses on, reality set in. Hot Pants would have to wait. " Award-winning Australian author Melina Marchetta has created a strong and sassy role model in Josephine, whom girls with growing pains on both sides of the Pacific will love. With its accurate and insightful portrayal of a young woman's coming of age, Looking for Alibrandi will have female teens waiting eagerly for Marchetta's next novel. (Ages 12 and older) -Jennifer Hubert.
Creator: Rebecca Macauley
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-01-30
List Price: $48.00
Price: $45.54
Review Looking For Alibrandi: Library Edition / Bolinda Publishing:For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it’s just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it’s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn’t be any stricter—but that doesn’t seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world values of her Italian grandmother, the nononsense wisdom of her mom, and the boys who continue to mystify her, Josephine is on the ride of her life. This will be the year she falls in love, the year she discovers the secrets of her family’s past—and the year she sets herself free. Told with unmatched depth and humor, this novel—which swept the pool of Australian literary awards and became a major motion picture—is one to laugh through and cry with, to cherish and remember. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Alibrandi is no stranger to conflict. If she's not caught between her strict single mom and her even stricter grandmother, then she's trying to choose between wealthy good boy John Barton and working-class bad boy Joseph Coote. Josephine is always in trouble with the nuns at her Catholic school (who everyone calls "penguins because of them wearing wimples and all that Sound of Music gear") because she fights with native Australian kids over her mixed Australian/Italian heritage. Just when she thinks her situation couldn't possibly get more complicated, her mysterious, long-lost biological father comes back and Josephine must decide if it's worth getting to know this person who abandoned her and her mother. [+]But through it all-including a startling revelation from her grandmother and the suicide of a close friend-Josephine manages to hold on to her sense of humor, as in this reflective moment: "I could have been a model for Hot Pants. Except that when I finally put my glasses on, reality set in. Hot Pants would have to wait. " Award-winning Australian author Melina Marchetta has created a strong and sassy role model in Josephine, whom girls with growing pains on both sides of the Pacific will love. With its accurate and insightful portrayal of a young woman's coming of age, Looking for Alibrandi will have female teens waiting eagerly for Marchetta's next novel. (Ages 12 and older) -Jennifer Hubert.
Authors
- Robert Ellis
- Stuart Redman
Dewey code: 428
Price: $19.95
Review A Way With Words: Book 1: Vocabulary Development Activities for Learners of English / Cambridge University Press:This text takes a learner-centred and creative approach to vocabulary learning. It combines a teacher's book, a student's book and a cassette. This cassette contains the recordings for the listening exercises and pronunciation checks of difficult words and phrases at level one.
Creator: Susan Jameson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-02
Price: $32.95
Review Monster Mission / Chivers Audio Books:Three children have been kidnapped by some mysterious, mad aunts and panic is spreading. But Myrtle, Coral and Etta are far from killers - they need the children to help them in a very caring mission. The secret island where they live is a sanctuary for strange and wonderful creatures - mermaids, selkies, the amazing boobrie bird, and even the great Kraken himself. The kidnapped children love their magical new life - but the Island of Monsters has become the target of some dangerous villains who want to turn it into a theme park. Crazy characters and wildly funny adventures make Eva Ibbotson's seventh comic fantasy novel for children another certain winner. 'For children who like Roald Dahl, Eva Ibbotson's Monster Mission will be a discovery. it is engaging, funny and opinionated. [+]a treat not to be missed' - "Sunday Times".
Authors
- Susan House
- Katharine Scott
List Price: $35.67
Price: $35.67
Review Story Magic 3: Class Cassettes (Story magic) / Macmillan ELT:"Story Magic" is a four-level, story-based approach to language learning, supported by large, colour story cards. In "Story Magic" 3 and 4 pupils follow the adventures of a gang of young detectives as they solve mysteries and go on exciting adventures together.
Creator: Johanna Ward
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $56.95
Price: $35.88
Review The Arabian Nights: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:This elegant edition of 10 classic tales of The Arabian Nights features a powerful introduction by Mark Helprin, offering new insight into the "thousand mercurial forms" and "inexact nature" of these Eastern tales. Helprin probes for fresh understanding of our culture's deep engagement with these fantastical imaginings which, after being passed along orally for thousands of years, evolved into what we have come to know as The Arabian Nights. Accompanied by 12 full-color Maxfield Parrish illustrations from the 1909 edition, the wondrous narrative that began in what is now the Middle East and spread outward to encompass the globe is here reborn in an edition expertly translated by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. The stories here include Aladdin which tells of an aimless street urchin who is seduced by the wiles of a magician and finds himself trapped in a cave filled with sumptuous jewels, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in which a poor man discovers the secret lair of a band of looters, and The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water the story of two princes and a princess who are stolen from their parents at birth and raised by a kindly gardener.
Publication date: 1986-09
Price: $9.95
Review Keep on Shaking / Gentle Wind:
Authors
- Susan House
- Katharine Scott
List Price: $35.67
Price: $35.67
Review Story Magic 3: Class Cassettes (Story magic) / Macmillan ELT:"Story Magic" is a four-level, story-based approach to language learning, supported by large, colour story cards. In "Story Magic" 3 and 4 pupils follow the adventures of a gang of young detectives as they solve mysteries and go on exciting adventures together.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1981-01-01
List Price: $48.00
Price: $37.92
Review The Prince And The Pauper / Books on Tape:On the same day in 16th century London were born Tom Canty, destined to become a street beggar, and Edward Tudor, son of Henry VII, a future king. Several years later, young Canty invades the royal precincts hoping to see the Prince. The boys discover they are identical in appearance and exchange clothes. Mistaken for the beggar boy, Prince Edward is thrown into the streets. Tom Canty, too frightened to confess his true identity, assumes the mantle of the Prince of Wales.
Run time: 270 min.
Creator: Scott Brick
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-01
List Price: $45.00
Price: $40.00
Review Bless the Beasts and Children / Listening Library:One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. A group of misfit boys on a summer camp in Arizona, appalled by the bestiality of one of the local tourist attractions, determine to do something about it.
Publication date: 2006-08
Price: $40.00
Review Alphabet of Dreams / Listening Library:Mitra and her little brother, Babak, are beggars in the city of Rhagae, scratching out a living as best as they can with what they can beg for-or steal. But Mitra burns with hope and ambition, for she and Babak are not what they seem. They are of royal blood, but their father's ill-fated plot against the evil tyrant, King Phraates, has resulted in their father's death and their exile. Now disguised as a boy, Mitra has never given up believing they can rejoin what is left of their family and regain their rightful standing in the world. Then they discover that Babak has a strange gift: If he sleeps with an item belonging to someone, he can know that person's dreams. Mitra believes that they can use this gift to find passage back to the city of Palmyra and their remaining kinsmen. But soon Babak and his abilities come to the attention of a powerful Magus - one who has read portents in the stars of the coming of a new king and the dawn of a new age. Soon Mitra and Babak find themselves on the road to Bethlehem. [+]The acclaimed author of Shadow Spinner returns to ancient Persia in this spellbinding saga - a tale filled with the color of the caravansaries and the heat of the desert, a tale that reimagines the wonder and spirit of a lost age.
Run time: 270 min.
Creator: Scott Brick
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-01
List Price: $45.00
Price: $40.00
Review Bless the Beasts and Children / Listening Library:One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. A group of misfit boys on a summer camp in Arizona, appalled by the bestiality of one of the local tourist attractions, determine to do something about it.
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