A clergyman's daughter

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in L…

Gabriel Finley & The Raven's riddle

Dulu, setiap manusia memiliki seekor raven sebagai amicus, sahabatnya, sebelum semua berubah .... Gabriel Finley hanyalah anak laki-laki biasa yang sangat menyukai teka-teki. Kejutan dalam hidup Gabriel dimulai saat dia berulang tahun yang kedua belas, dan mendapatkan hadiah sebuah buku harian. Buku harian milik ayahnya yang sudah menghilang tiga tahun lamanya. Buku itu bukan buku hari…

Tales of space and time

There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy looking shop near Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of ”C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities,” was inscribed. The contents of its window were curiously variegated. They comprised some elephant tusks and an imperfect set of chessmen, beads and weapons, a box of eyes, two skulls of tigers and one h…

Myself

Changes that children go through as they grow up'

Pancake face

Alice Peasbody has no nose. People point and stare. Only the birds in the garden are Alice's friends. She tries to hide away, but it's hard to hide a pancake face for ever ... A brilliantly accessible short story with a reading age of 6, designed to help severely struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+

The richest man in Babylon: the success secrets of the ancients

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9789815144949

Collation

180 p. ; 21 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

650 CLA T

Montessori: letter work

Learn letters the Montessori way! Based on the proven Montessori teaching method, the board book Letter Work introduces readers to letters by their sounds and shapes first—featuring illustrations by Alyssa Nassner. Written by Bobby and June George, founders of the Baan Dek Montessori School, Letter Work is part of the Abrams Montessori series that introduces young readers to key concepts b…

My side of the mountain

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780142401118

Collation

177 p. ; 18 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

800 CRA m

A swim in a pond in the rain: In which four russians give a master class on w…

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in thi…

Animal farm

Suatu malam, Major, si babi tua yang bijaksana, mengumpulkan para binatang di peternakan untuk bercerita tentang mimpinya. Setelah sekian lama hidup di bawah tirani manusia, Major mendapat visi bahwa kelak sebuah pemberontakan akan dilakukan binatang terhadap manusia; menciptakan sebuah dunia di mana binatang akan berkuasa atas dirinya sendiri. Tak lama, pemberontakan benar-benar terjadi. Ke…