October, Eight O'clock

October, Eight O'clock
Author: Norman Manea
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1994-01-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802133717

A collection of short stories stemming from the Romanian author's detention in a Nazi concentration camp as a child evokes a sense of the horror and absurdity of war and Romanian politics.

Eight O'Clock Tales

Eight O'Clock Tales
Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1444930176

Eleven magical short stories to enjoy round the clock from one of the world's best-loved children's authors, Enid Blyton. Join Twiddle the gnome on his search for his grumpy runaway donkey Kick-up. Find out what happens when the rocking-horse, teddy and all the other toys come alive. And laugh at Twisty the Brownie as he learns the hard way why it's unwise to pull nasty faces. Ideal for bedtime, reading aloud or alone, these magical short stories for 5-8 year-olds will enchant a new generation of children. Look out for more O'Clock tales: Five O'Clock Tales, Six O'Clock Tales, Seven O'Clock Tales and Eight O'Clock Tales. Enid Blyton has been delighting readers for more than seventy years with her endless summers of fun, adventure and magic. Enid's best-loved characters include Noddy the wooden boy, Timmy the dog from The Famous Five and the mischievous twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan from the much-loved boarding school series St Clare's! First published in 1944, this edition contains the original text, illustrations and the following stories: The Good Turn; The Boy Who Heard Too Much; The Skittle-Policeman; Tick-Tock's Tea-Party; The Runaway Donkey; The Surprise Party; The Enchanted Doll; When the Toys Came Alive; The Brownie Who Pulled Faces; All the Way to Toy-Town; Poor Old Scarecrow!

The Winter Long

The Winter Long
Author: Seanan McGuire
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101601752

Toby thought she understood her own past; she thought she knew the score. She was wrong. It's time to learn the truth.

On Clowns

On Clowns
Author: Norman Manea
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802133755

Survivor of the Nazi camps and Ceausescu's Romania, winner of the National Book Award, recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Norman Manea, an extraordinary man of letters, "gives us a taste of something beyond the scope of even our twentieth-century imagination. . . . Manea is too profound a witness to place his gift for observation in the service of another sensualist account. . . . What matters for him is the phenomenon of an entire nation's life under this simultaneously grotesque and terrifying rule." -- The New Republic

Chocolate, the Consuming Passion

Chocolate, the Consuming Passion
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1982
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780894801976

Sandra Boynton brings smiles to every chocolate lover.