Braddle And The Giant: The Escape

Braddle And The Giant: The Escape
Author: John Mallon
Publisher: Independent Publishing Network
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2024-05-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 180517598X

General Stoo has escaped and taken Braddle hostage. He and his men are far from the city, deep in the jaggeds. His plan is to conquer Carporoo but first he must rid himself of interfering giants. For Alfie, it is the start of the new school term. As well as learning about punctuation, fractions and the enormity of the universe he also learns that his life is in danger from tiny assassins. In this sequel to Braddle and the Giant, the adventures of Braddle and Alfie take an unexpected turn. This time General Stoo does not plan to fail.

Braddle And The Giant

Braddle And The Giant
Author: John Mallon
Publisher: Independent Publishing Network
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2024-05-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1805175971

The summer holidays have started. Alfie Foggle, happy that school has now finished, is looking forward to spending his holidays doing absolutely nothing. A world away, Braddle and every other inhabitant of Carporoo are building a new city, a new home, but people are disappearing and no one knows why. Braddle sets out to solve the mystery and puts himself and everyone he loves in danger. On a quiet summer’s morning, Alfie’s plans for doing nothing are turned upside down as he discovers Carporoo: Braddle needs help and only Alfie can give it.

Braddle And The Giant: The Siege Of Carporoo

Braddle And The Giant: The Siege Of Carporoo
Author: John Mallon
Publisher: Independent Publishing Network
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2024-05-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1805175998

General Stoo has returned home at the head of vast army with his new friend, Grash, the ruler of Tredet. Carporoo is surrounded but refuses to surrender. Once again, Braddle must ask Alfie for help but Alfie has got problems of his own. Luke, Mr Nicholls’ grandson, has learned about the tiny people and now wants them for himself. In this, the third and final book of the ‘Braddle and the Giant’ series, the adventures of Braddle and Alfie come to an explosive end. Will Carporoo and their friendship survive?

The Blue Boy And Other Stories

The Blue Boy And Other Stories
Author: John Mallon
Publisher: Independent Publishing Network
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2024-04-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1805176005

A diverse range of short stories dealing with love and loss; hope and disappointment; the strange and the unexpected. This collection of 24 stories includes: A couple facing the slow transformation of humanity into something radically different and beyond reach. Do they stay with the blue boy and wait their turn or do they leave while they still can? A group of ecstatic, detached heads resurrected far in the future realising, in horror, that The Future has its own plans for the relics from the past. On a cold, dark, winter's evening, a train arrives at the end of the line. One man alights. His only thought is to get home fast but the deserted streets have other ideas. Ever gone on a first date? Well, fifteen year old Jamie is about to if only he can dodge the advice-giving relatives and get out of the house in time. An entrepreneurial crab has a great idea to make a juicy profit and learns business would be less stressful without the customers. If you like stories that deal with the extraordinary within the ordinary, aspects overlooked or forgotten, the eye in the everyday then you will enjoy this book.

The Image of the City

The Image of the City
Author: Kevin Lynch
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1964-06-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262620017

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

The Book of Magic

The Book of Magic
Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982189460

Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love. The Book of Magic is a breathtaking conclusion that celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.

The Namesake

The Namesake
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780008609986

The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan 'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes...' For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' - after his favourite writer. Brought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. And so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss... Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's debut novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. Elegant, subtle and moving, The Namesake is for everyone who loved the clarity, sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies.

Black Tickets

Black Tickets
Author: Jayne Anne Phillips
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2011-11-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307808815

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch: the reputation-making debut short story collection that paved the way for a new generation of writers. • “Brilliant … Phillips is a virtuoso.” —The Chicago Tribune Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Tickets now stands as a classic. With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in our literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their suffering and joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, the impoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural byways of the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one man who wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty into another kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between the love of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. These are great American stories that have earned a privileged place in our literature.

Life in the Iron Mills

Life in the Iron Mills
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681950871

Life in the Iron Hell “In the neighboring furnace-buildings lay great heaps of the refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run. Korl we call it here: a light, porous substance, of a delicate, waxen, flesh-colored tinge. Out of the blocks of this korl, Wolfe, in his off-hours from the furnace, had a habit of chipping and moulding figures,—hideous, fantastic enough, but sometimes strangely beautiful: even the mill-men saw that, while they jeered at him. It was a curious fancy in the man, almost a passion.” - Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills Life in the Iron Mills is one of the first American novels that depicts the precarious state of the impoverished working class. ‘Molly Wolfe’ is a member of this class working 12 hours a day, six days a week to earn a living. Because of his condition, he cannot develop his innate artistic talent. His cousin, Deborah tries to help him but the consequences are devastating. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes