Milne’s poems are whimsical, entertaining, and touching as they describe the world of make-believe and fantasy that is so appealing to young readers. Classic poems such as “Halfway Down” capture the unique experience of growing up, where a child has one foot in the nursery and one in the grown-up world. “When We Were Very Young” contains over 40 poems that beautifully describe the innocence, magic, and creativity of childhood. Edward Bear” by Milne’s real-life son, Christopher Robin Milne. In the poem “Teddy Bear”, readers are first introduced to Milne’s most famous character, Winnie-the-Pooh, who was originally called “Mr. The introduction to the collection suggests that the narrator is meant to be Christopher Robin, the child at the center of Milne’s famous tales of The Hundred Acre Wood. First published in 1924, “When We Were Very Young” is the timeless collection of poetry by A.
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In Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L'Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author's more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native Alekhin, who knows every square foot of the icy frontier-and who knows that to trap his quarry he must think like a Sioux. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. "For sheer adventure L'Amour is in top form."-Kirkus Reviews Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L'Amour's hallmark. His magic will soon threaten not only the wild and distant Outskirts, but even the Inner Lands themselves. THE BLIND SEARCHHow do you find a man?How, if you have never seen him, never heard him described, did not know where he lived? How, if he wished not to be found?And how, especially, if he were the most powerful wizard in the world?The steerswoman Rowan has discovered that the fall of the Guidestar and the massacre of Outskirter tribes were caused by one man: the secret master-wizard, Slado. Premier John Horgan and Canada’s Minister of Defence, Harjit Sajjan.ĭosanjh has been working with a pair of teachers at L.A. The book has also been endorsed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C. 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A family celebration a century in the making spurred White Rock’s Karen Dosanjh to undertake an ambitious project – documenting the oft-forgotten stories of not just her own ancestors, but those of hundreds of other South Asian families in British Columbia. Gilman has created an endearing character in the feisty Emily Pollifax, but the pic leans more toward fantasy than mystery. An expert at identifying birds and plants from her years with her garden club, she is able to provide important clues for an escape plan.Īfter a breakout and a few double- and triple-crosses, Emily is on her way home when, acting on a hunch, she follows a suspect to a posh hotel in Switzerland and the intrigue starts flying anew. While held captive, the seriously wounded Jack is forced to rely on his unlikely accomplice, and Emily is more than up to the task. The milk run turns sour when Emily and Jack are taken hostage by a mysterious enemy. 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The Changeup is another home run (pun intended read the book, you’ll understand) by Emily Childs. I didn’t mean to shut the guy down so hard, and I didn’t expect to see him in my gym on the first day at the office. He thought I was going to be his next conquest. And Parker certainly had no idea I’m the team owner’s daughter. I didn’t know who he was when we randomly met off the field. Those are only a few reasons why a guy like him is never getting near my heart.Īfter making a move to prove I deserve a place within my dad’s baseball empire, the last thing on my mind is a playboy pitcher. Parker Knight is a smooth-talking pitcher with a smile for days and a roster of broken hearts behind him. I’m a recovering romantic… and his new trainer. The Changeup (The Vegas Kings #1) by Emily C. Told in an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic voice, Mosquitoland is a modern American odyssey, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. But when her thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never see coming, Mim must confront her own demons, redefining her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane. So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.Īfter the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the "wastelands" of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. 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