The Tender Moments of Saffron Silk

The Tender Moments of Saffron Silk
Author: Glenda Millard
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0730495086

The sixth book in the much-loved and multi-award-winning KINGDOM OF SILK series. Ages: 7+ Flame-haired Saffron is the youngest of the five Silk sisters. Her family know that she has a talent for becoming Anne of Green Gables or Cleopatra, and that she loves reading myths and legends. But they don't know about the firebirds that come to warn her of terrible headaches. And Saffron doesn't know how to tell them. In a big family, it's easy to be overlooked. But when Saffron is sent to the city to see a specialist, she learns that her family's love for her is deeper than she ever imagined. And that when you're a Silk, miracles are never far from home ... Another heart-warming story in Glenda Millard's multi-award-winning Kingdom of Silk series. Ages: 7+ Shortlisted for the 2013 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards Shortlisted for the 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards

The Naming of Tishkin Silk

The Naming of Tishkin Silk
Author: Glenda Millard
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374354812

Griffin Silk feels responsible for the absence of his mother and baby sister, but he and his new friend Layla find the perfect way to make everyone feel a little bit better.

Layla, Queen of Hearts

Layla, Queen of Hearts
Author: Glenda Millard
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2010-04-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374343608

Even though she loves the family of her best friend, Griffin Silk, especially grandmother Nell, Layla Elliott, who no longer has a grandmother, determines, despite many difficulties, to find an old person of her own to bring to the school's Senior Citizens' Day.

We

We
Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2023-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9356844836

We is a dystopian novel written by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. Originally drafted in Russian, the book could be published only abroad. It was translated into English in 1924. Even as the book won a wide readership overseas, the author's satiric depiction led to his banishment under Joseph Stalin's regime in the then USSR. The book's depiction of life under a totalitarian state influenced the other novels of the 20th century. Like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, We describes a future socialist society that has turned out to be not perfect but inhuman. Orwell claimed that Brave New World must be partly derived from We, but Huxley denied this. The novel is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State which assists mass surveillance. Here life is scientifically managed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by reason as the primary justification for the construct of the society. By way of formulae and equations outlined by the One State, the individual's behaviour is based on logic.

Perry Angel's Suitcase

Perry Angel's Suitcase
Author: Glenda Millard
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0730495485

The third instalment in the award-winning KINGDOM OF SILK series. It has taken Perry Angel almost seven years to find the place where he belongs. He arrives at the Kingdom of Silk one day on the ten-thirty express, carrying only a small and shabby suitcase embossed with five golden letters. What do those letters mean? And why won't Perry let go of his case? This is a gentle and moving story about finding your place in the world - and there could be no better place than with Griffin Silk, his family and his best friend, Layla. Following on from the success of the Naming of Tishkin Silk and Layla, Queen of Hearts comes this third instalment in Glenda Millard's award-winning Kingdom of Silk series. The Naming of Tishkin Silk was shortlisted for the 2004 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and was an Honour book in the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Awards. Layla, Queen of Hearts was shortlisted in the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Awards and won the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for best children's book. Perry Angel's Suitcase was shortlisted in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the WA Premier's Literary Awards and won the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers. JUDGES' COMMENTS 'this heart warming story of a young orphan boy who finally finds a home is depicted with beautiful use of language. Millard offers young readers moving insights into the business of being family, and how 'belonging' can be a wide and generous experience. Neatly sidestepping overt sentimentality, much of the charm of this work lies in the gentleness and goodness inherent in the people who inhabit the book' - WA Premier's Literary Award judges, 2008 'together the individual characters in this story nurture and encourage each other, revealing a heart-warming picture of how delightfully rewarding fostering can be for all concerned. this third book in the Kingdom of Silk series is as engaging as the first two titles. Like the previous stories, it is wonderfully written and can be read as a stand-alone book which is not always the case for books in a series. Millard has a wonderful way of developing her characters, drawing the reader into the context of the story' - NSW Premier's Literary Award judges, 2009

Eternally Yours (Immortal Beloved Book Three)

Eternally Yours (Immortal Beloved Book Three)
Author: Cate Tiernan
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1848949928

At the end of DARKNESS FALLS, the second Immortal Beloved novel, Nastasya has fought back against the dark immortals with her own brand of magick... but can she fight against true love? In the exhilarating finale to the Immortal Beloved trilogy, Nastasya ends a 450-year-old feud and learns what 'eternally yours' really means.

Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Mrs. Spring Fragrance
Author: Sui Sin Far
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1513276867

Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) is a collection of short stories by Sui Sin Far. Inspired by her experience living among Chinese Americans in San Francisco and Seattle, Mrs. Spring Fragrance is considered one of the earliest works of fiction published in the United States by a woman of Chinese heritage. In “The Inferior Woman,” Mrs. Spring Fragrance encounters her neighbors, the Carmans, as they try to find someone to marry their son. While Mrs. Carman wants him to marry into a family of higher social standing, her son is in love with a local girl who works as a legal secretary. Known by Mrs. Carman as the “Inferior Woman,” she has risen through hard work and perseverance to achieve her position at the law firm. Sympathetic toward her neighbor’s son, Mrs. Spring Fragrance advocates on his behalf. “In the Land of the Free” is the story of a Chinese immigrant who is separated from her young son upon arrival due to insufficient paperwork. Exploring the struggles of this woman to reclaim her son, Sui Sin Far exposes the discrimination and hardships faced by Chinese Americans due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, illuminating the byzantine and restrictive immigration policies which sadly continue under a different guise in modern America. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance is a classic of Chinese American literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Story-book of Science

The Story-book of Science
Author: Jean-Henri Fabre
Publisher:
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1917
Genre: Natural history
ISBN:

A book about metals, plants, animals, and planets.

The Gods of Gotham

The Gods of Gotham
Author: Lyndsay Faye
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425261255

New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.