Life and Adventures of an Unfortunate Author
Author: Life
Publisher:
Published: 1878
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
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A Series of Unfortunate Events 01. The Bad Beginning
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781405266062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on . . . In The Bad Beginning the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune and cold porridge for breakfast. Then again, why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? With 5 million copies sold in the UK alone, one might consider Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events to make him one of the most successful children’s authors of the past decade. We, however, consider these miserable so-called adventure stories and the Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey that accompanied the books for children as nothing more than a dreadful mistake.
Fortunately, Unfortunately
Author: Michael Foreman
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1467743941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMom sends Milo on an errand to return Granny's umbrella to her. Fortunately, Milo doesn't realize that he's about to encounter several unfortunate setbacks with pirates, dinosaurs, and aliens. But it all turns into one amazing, fortunate adventure.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Lemony Snicket
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2003-05-06
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0060562250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Warning from the Publisher: Many readers have questions about Lemony Snicket, author of the distressing serial concerning the trials of the charming but unlucky Baudelaire orphans, published under the collective title A Series of Unfortunate Events. Before purchasing, borrowing, or stealing this book, you should be aware that it contains the answers to some of those questions, such as the following: 1. Who is Lemony? 2. Is there a secret organization I should know about? 3. Why does Lemony Snicket spend his time researching and writing distressing books concerning the Baudelaire orphans? 4. Why do all of Lemony Snicket's books contain a sad dedication to a woman named Beatrice? 5. If there's nothing out there, what was that noise? Our advice to you is that you find a book that answers less upsetting questions than this one. Perhaps your librarian, bookseller, or parole officer can recommend a book that answers the question, "Aren't ponies adorable?"
The Wilder Life
Author: Wendy McClure
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-04-14
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1101486538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession. Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder-a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she's never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family- looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She immerses herself in all things Little House, and explores the story from fact to fiction, and from the TV shows to the annual summer pageants in Laura's hometowns. Whether she's churning butter in her apartment or sitting in a replica log cabin, McClure is always in pursuit of "the Laura experience." Along the way she comes to understand how Wilder's life and work have shaped our ideas about girlhood and the American West. The Wilder Life is a loving, irreverent, spirited tribute to a series of books that have inspired generations of American women. It is also an incredibly funny first-person account of obsessive reading, and a story about what happens when we reconnect with our childhood touchstones-and find that our old love has only deepened.
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone
Author: Jaclyn Moriarty
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2019-10-03
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1913101215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA witty and entertaining magical novel telling the story of a ten-year-old girl and her quest to visit all ten aunts in order to discover the fate of her parents - were they really killed by pirates at sea? Encountering dragons, witches and water-sprites among others, Bronte is taken on an adventure she could only have imagined...
Infortunate
Author: Susan E. Klepp
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780271041131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rare memoir from the early eighteenth century by an Englishman who traveled to the New World as an indentured servant.
When Did You See Her Last?
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1443401978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe suspiciously successful second volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling series In the fading town of Stain’d-by-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a new case to solve when he and his chaperone are hired to find a missing girl. Is the girl a runaway? Or was she kidnapped? Was she seen last at the grocery store? Or could she have stopped at the diner? Is it really any of your business? These are all the wrong questions. Praise for “WHO COULD THAT BE AT THIS HOUR?”: A New York Times Notable Children’s Book of 2012 A Kirkus Best of 2012 selection “Will thrill fans of the author’s earlier works and have even reluctant readers turning pages with the fervor of seasoned bookworms. A must-have.” SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) “Fans of the Series of Unfortunate Events will be in heaven." KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) “Full of Snicket's trademark droll humor and maddeningly open-ended, this will have readers clamoring for volume two.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) “Full of Snicket's characteristic wit and word play . . . this book belongs in all collections.” VOYA (starred review) Praise for “WHEN DID YOU SEE HER LAST?”: “The author's trademark wit and talent for sustaining suspense make this fast-paced, noir mystery a fun choice for kids who enjoy a good whodunit.” SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL “Snicket introduces a sometimes charming, more often alarming cast of characters...all of whom keep the pages turning. The droll young Snicket makes a perfect presenter as he careens from difficulty to difficulty, yet always with his eye on the ball.” BOOKLIST
"Who Could That Be at This Hour?"
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 0316225029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read. This is the first volume.
The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton, Or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life
Author: Robert J. Begiebing
Publisher: Upne
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert J. Begiebing's first novel, The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin, was hailed by Annie Proulx in the New York Times Book Review as "a striking and original work by a gifted writer with an extraordinary feeling for the past." Begiebing delivers on the promise of that first book with his new novel, a lively, colorful, and exciting "portrait of the artist as a young woman" set in the early years of the republic.
