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Lion at School and Other Stories

Lion at School and Other Stories

Philippa Pearce

A collection of gorgeous, classic stories from award-winning Philippa Pearce, bringing a little bit of magic to the everyday!
Tom's Midnight Garden

Tom's Midnight Garden

Philippa Pearce

Philippa Pearce. I. n following the course of Tom's historical researches and his reasoning, we have gone a little ahead upon the order of events—as Tom perceived them—in the garden. The treehouse in which he and Hatty quarrelled was ...
Tom's Midnight Garden

Tom's Midnight Garden

Philippa Pearce

When Tom is sent to his aunt's house for the summer he resigns himself to weeks of boredom.
The Rope and Other Stories

The Rope and Other Stories

Philippa Pearce

Intense experiences of childhood are vividly brought to life in this beautifully written collection of short stories by the author of Tom's Midnight Garden.
The Battle of Bubble and Squeak

The Battle of Bubble and Squeak

Philippa Pearce

Sid, Peggy and Amy adore the two gerbils, Bubble and Squeak, but their mother detests them.
The Little Gentleman

The Little Gentleman

Philippa Pearce

This isn't just any mole. This mole can speak, he is more than 300 years old and he has an amazing tale to tell. So begins an extraordinary friendship between a lonely little girl and The Little Gentleman in Black Velvet.
The Children of Charlecote

The Children of Charlecote

Philippa Pearce

Set before the first First World War, this book tells the story of Tom, Laura, Hugh, and Margaret, whose home is the great house, Charlecote, set in the Warwickshire countryside.
Amy's Three Best Things

Amy's Three Best Things

Philippa Pearce

Amy wants to stay three nights with her granny - all by herself Granny gives her a lovely time, but each night Amy feels homesick. Luckily, she has brought three things with her which help in remarkable ways.
Familiar and Haunting

Familiar and Haunting

Philippa Pearce

Familiar Here are stories of everyday life, as familiar as a piece of rope and ... as haunting as fear: Mike knows that he can't swing over the river on the knotted rope, but with everyone watching him, he has to try. ... as haunting as a ...
Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister

Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister

Liz Kessler

Sparkling with magic, warmth and charm, this is the first book in the Philippa Fisher series from bestselling Emily Windsnap author Liz Kessler - full of friendship and fairies.
The Real Events Industry: My Story

The Real Events Industry: My Story

Philippa Sue Richardson

The Events Industry is so diverse, from community and sporting events to arts and music festivals. During the last decade Philippa Richardson has experienced firsthand what it is like to be a part of dozens of events around Australia.
Soppy

Soppy

Philippa Rice

The throwaway moments in life become meaningful when you spend them in the company of someone you love. Soppy is Philippa Rice’s collection of comics based on real-life moments with her boyfriend.
Philippa Fisher and the Stone Fairy's Promise

Philippa Fisher and the Stone Fairy's Promise

Liz Kessler

The third magical fairy novel in the Philippa Fisher series from bestselling Emily Windsnap author, Liz Kessler.
Fall and Winter Handbook for FFA Chapters

Fall and Winter Handbook for FFA Chapters

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WISCONSIN STAR AGRI BUSINESSMAN- SCOTT PEARCE, ASHLAND FFA Scott Pearce, son of Mrs. Henrietta Pearce, Ashland, was named the Star Agribusinessman of Wisconsin for 1987. Scott's Supervised Occupational Experience ...
Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design

Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design

Peter Pearce

Many of the ideas explored in this book have already undergone "reduction to practice" in the firm Pearce founded, Synestructics, Inc.
Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in ...

Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in ...

Joseph Pearce

Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs
The Republican

The Republican

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PEARCE, BYWATER AND 00.! HOW ANGRY THEY GROW! WHEN SHEWN UP so so: THE readers of “ The Republican” know that we have had two.Christian opponents in Sheffield, Abel nywater and J. P., Joseph Pearce. Abel is a cutler by  ...
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile

Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile

Joseph Pearce

Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce's biography of the renowned Russian dissident provides profound insight into a towering literary and political figure.
Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc

Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Pearce

With access to previously unpublished material in the form of Hilaire Belloc's letters and photographs, Pearce's major new biography uncovers a romantic, complex, and solitary character. Illustrations.
The Republican

The Republican

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PEARCE, BYWATER AND CO.! HOW ANGRY THEY GROW! WHEN SHEWN UP SO SO! The readers of " The Republican" know that we have had two Christian opponents in Sheffield, Abel By water and J. P., Joseph Pearce. Abel is a cutler ...
Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in ...

Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in ...

Joseph Pearce

Fulfilling the promise he made in his previous book, The Quest for Shakespeare, bestselling literary writer Joseph Pearce analyzes in this volume three of Shakespeare's immortal plays — The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and King Lear — in ...
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Phillipa Pearce's second book, Tom's midnight garden, was published in 1958 and won the Carnegie Medal. In John Rowe Townsend's opinion, it is the best book ever to have won this award, and indeed, the best book Phillipa Pearce has  ...
The Republican

The Republican

W. T. Sherwin

PEARCE, BYWATER AND CO.! HOW ANGRY THEY GROW! WHEN SHEWN UP SO SO! The readers of " The Republican" know that we have bad two Christian opponents in Sheffield, Abel Bywater and J. P., Joseph Pearce. Abel is a cutler by  ...
Chinese Religious Art

Chinese Religious Art

Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky

Scott Pearce, Audrey Spiro, and Patricia Ebrey, eds., Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm 200–600 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001): 37. 2. Scott Pearce, “Form and Matter: Archaizing Reform in Sixth ...
Violins and Violin Makers. Biographical dictionary of the ...

Violins and Violin Makers. Biographical dictionary of the ...

Joseph PEARCE (Printer, of Sheffield.)

Joseph PEARCE (Printer, of Sheffield.) ' 168 ADDENDA. ANTONIAZZI, GAETANO, Cremona, 1860. This maker sent a violin to the Exhibition of 1862, but is much behind his predecessors. FALGO, Cremona, 1752. Made well proportioned ...
Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to ...

Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to ...

Joseph Pearce

In Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love, Pearce himself takes the reader through his journey from racist revolutionary to Christian, including: The youthful influences that lead him to embrace the National ...
Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games ...

Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games ...

Celia Pearce

In Communities of Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures in networked digital worlds -- actions by players that do not coincide with the intentions of the game's designers.
Stanford University 1916-1941

Stanford University 1916-1941

John Pearce Mitchell

STANFORD UNIVERSITY 1916-1941 J. PEARCE MITCHELL The second twenty -five years of Stanford University was a period of great growth and development. The prestige acquired, the educational and physical gains made, the services ...

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