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A Song for Issy Bradley

A Song for Issy Bradley

Carys Bray

WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015 AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2015 Meet the Bradleys.
Beauty Queens

Beauty Queens

Libba Bray

What do you get when you cross America's Next Top Model with Lost? A brilliantly funny novel by the queen of teen satire, Libba Bray.
Rebel Angels

Rebel Angels

Libba Bray

This is the second book in Libba Bray's engrossing trilogy, set in a time of strict morality and barely repressed sensuality, about a girl who saw another way.
It's Just a Jump to the Left

It's Just a Jump to the Left

Libba Bray

Can Agnes and Leta find their way to a new and better friendship? In this short story by New York Times bestselling author of The Diviners, Libba Bray revisits a time when we all felt stuck somewhere between childhood and adolescence.
Dress fitting: basic principles and practice

Dress fitting: basic principles and practice

Natalie Bray

The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry.
The Carnival at Bray

The Carnival at Bray

Jessie Foley

The Carnival at Bray is an evocative ode to the Smells Like Teen Spirit Generation and a heartfelt exploration of tragedy, first love, and the transformative power of music. The book won the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize.
The Carnival at Bray

The Carnival at Bray

Jessie Ann Foley

The Carnival at Bray is an evocative ode to the Smells Like Teen Spirit Generation and a heartfelt exploration of tragedy, first love, and the transformative power of music. The book won the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize.
Lair of Dreams: A Diviners Novel

Lair of Dreams: A Diviners Novel

Libba Bray

In this heart-stopping sequel to The Diviners, Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray takes readers deeper into the mystical underbelly of New York City.
The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Libba Bray

This collection contains the complete text of the three Gemma Doyle novels, a deliciously sweeping and haunting saga that won't let you go. It's the only way to get all three of Libba Bray's critically acclaimed novels in one bundle.
Michael Caine: A Class Act

Michael Caine: A Class Act

Christopher Bray

As Christopher Bray relates in this fascinating biography, Michael Caine's story is the story of Britain during the twentieth century.
More Dress Pattern Designing: Classic Edition

More Dress Pattern Designing: Classic Edition

Natalie Bray

This volume expands the basic course of Natalie Bray’s Dress Pattern Designing and shows the application of the basic principles and methods to more advanced styles as well as to specialised cutting.
Dress Pattern Designing (Classic Edition): The Basic ...

Dress Pattern Designing (Classic Edition): The Basic ...

Natalie Bray

This book - the most popular of Natalie Bray's three works - covers the basic course and includes measurement and block patterns, circular patterns, simple pattern designing, yokes, dart manipulation, sleeves, collars and necklines, skirts, ...
Beauty Queens

Beauty Queens

Libba Bray

From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island. Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall.
A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray

Libba Bray. SIMON AND SCHUSTER First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2006 This edition published by Simon & Schuster Australia Pty Ltd Suite 2, Lower Ground Floor, 1416 Suakin Street, Pymble NSW 2073 ...
Canon Reloaded

Canon Reloaded

Jacqueline Grassmayr

If you are interested in musical canons, you might like to read The Rock Canon ( 20T 0) by Carys Wyn Jones. jz'cfj/ou {new Activity 10. 12 O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  ...
Punk Aesthetics and New Folk: Way Down the Old Plank Road

Punk Aesthetics and New Folk: Way Down the Old Plank Road

John Encarnacao

However, as Carys Wyn Jones notes (2008: 20-21), the notion of a canon calls into existence its Other, the non-canonical. This might include all recordings that, for any of several reasons, are seen to not achieve the values required for entry ...
The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process

The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process

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The committing to paper is done quickly enough, for 2 See Carys Wyn Jones, The Rock Canon: Canonical Values in the Reception of Rock Albums (Aldershot, 2008), 40. everything is already ...
Sweet Sixteen #3: Kari

Sweet Sixteen #3: Kari

Libba Bray

Life begins at 16 .
Current Concepts in Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus

Current Concepts in Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus

Carys M. Bannister

This book discusses all aspects of the effects of spina bifida and hydrocephalus on the fetus, the child, and the adolescent.
The Sweet Far Thing

The Sweet Far Thing

Libba Bray

It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy.
The Songs of Joni Mitchell: Gender, Performance and Agency

The Songs of Joni Mitchell: Gender, Performance and Agency

Anne Karppinen

As Carys Wyn Jones (2008:7) points out, the primary function of canons is 'their ability to bring order to chaos, to essentially tell a story of our cultural history and present it in its most aweinspiring light'. Without canons, we would be faced with a ...
Lair of Dreams: A Diviners Novel

Lair of Dreams: A Diviners Novel

Libba Bray

After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner.
The Song Cycle

The Song Cycle

Laura Tunbridge

61; quoted in Lloyd Whitesell, The Music ofJoni Mitchell (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 4. 40 See, for instance, Carys Wyn Jones, The Rock Canon: Canonical Values in the Reception of Rock Albums (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), ...
Cynicism in British Post-War Culture: Ignorance, Dust and ...

Cynicism in British Post-War Culture: Ignorance, Dust and ...

K. Curran

(Revolution7) Carys Wyn Jones has identified slight currents in popular music academic discourse seemingly devoted to placing the Beatles alongside traditional high cultural practices of yore – for instance, viathe Beatlestudies series of ...
Copyright, Communication and Culture: Towards a Relational ...

Copyright, Communication and Culture: Towards a Relational ...

Carys J. Craig

Michael D. Birnhack, 'Acknowledging the Conflict Between Copyright Law and Freedom of Expression under the Human Rights Act' (2003) 14 Ent. L.R. 24 at 32 –3 [Birnhack, 'Acknowledging the Conflict']. See Ashdown v. Telegraph Group Ltd  ...

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