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The Emporium of Imagination

Author : Tabitha Bird
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1760145068
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Emporium of Imagination written by Tabitha Bird and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of A Lifetime of Impossible Days (winner of the Courier-Mail People's Choice QLD Book of the Year Award) comes this beautiful and uplifting story, that will make you laugh and make you cry. Welcome to The Emporium of Imagination, a most unusual shop that travels the world offering vintage gifts to repair broken dreams and extraordinary phones to contact lost loved ones. But, on arrival in the tiny township of Boonah, the store’s long-time custodian, Earlatidge Hubert Umbray, makes a shocking realisation. He is dying . . . The clock is now ticking to find his replacement, because the people of Boonah are clearly in need of some restorative magic. Like Enoch Rayne – a heartbroken ten-year-old boy mourning the loss of his father, while nurturing a guilty secret. Like Ann Harlow, who has come to the town to be close to her dying grandmother. Though it’s Enoch’s father who dominates her thoughts - and regrets . . . Even Earlatidge in his final days will experience the store as never before - and have the chance to face up to his own tragedy . . . 'Prepare to immerse yourself in wonder, childish delight and dark, dark trauma in this unique novel from a new and important Australian literary voice.' Australian Women's Weekly on A Lifetime of Impossible Days

The Nowhere Emporium

Author : Ross MacKenzie
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 1782501908
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book The Nowhere Emporium written by Ross MacKenzie and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident. Before long, the 'shop from nowhere' -- and its owner, Mr Silver -- draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic and enchantment. Recruited as Mr Silver's apprentice, Daniel learns the secrets of the Emporium's vast labyrinth of passageways and rooms -- rooms that contain wonders beyond anything Daniel has ever imagined. But when Mr Silver disappears, and a shadow from the past threatens everything, the Emporium and all its wonders begin to crumble. Can Daniel save his home, and his new friends, before the Nowhere Emporium is destroyed forever? Scottish Children's Book Award winner Ross MacKenzie unleashes a riot of imagination, colour and fantasy in this astonishing adventure, perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Corneila Funke and Neil Gaiman.

The Elsewhere Emporium

Author : Ross MacKenzie
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 1782505385
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book The Elsewhere Emporium written by Ross MacKenzie and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nowhere Emporium has been stolen. The shop from nowhere has vanished without a trace. Will it ever reappear? As they search for the lost Emporium, Daniel and Ellie encounter magical bookshops, deserted islands in the dead of nig

Empire of Imagination

Author : Michael Witwer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632862794
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Imagination written by Michael Witwer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life story of Gary Gygax, godfather of all fantasy adventure games, has been told only in bits and pieces. Michael Witwer has written a dynamic, dramatized biography of Gygax from his childhood in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to his untimely death in 2008. Gygax's magnum opus, Dungeons & Dragons, would explode in popularity throughout the 1970s and '80s and irreversibly alter the world of gaming. D&D is the best-known, best-selling role-playing game of all time, and it boasts an elite class of alumni--Stephen Colbert, Robin Williams, and Junot Diaz all have spoken openly about their experience with the game as teenagers, and some credit it as the workshop where their nascent imaginations were fostered. Gygax's involvement in the industry lasted long after his dramatic and involuntary departure from D&D's parent company, TSR, and his footprint can be seen in the genre he is largely responsible for creating. But as Witwer shows, perhaps the most compelling facet of his life and work was his unwavering commitment to the power of creativity in the face of myriad sources of adversity, whether cultural, economic, or personal. Through his creation of the role-playing genre, Gygax gave two generations of gamers the tools to invent characters and entire worlds in their minds. Told in narrative-driven and dramatic fashion, Witwer has written an engaging chronicle of the life and legacy of this emperor of the imagination.

A Lifetime of Impossible Days

Author : Rhyannon Byrd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760899905
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book A Lifetime of Impossible Days written by Rhyannon Byrd and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Prepare to immerse yourself in wonder, childish delight and dark, dark trauma in this unique novel from a new and important Australian literary voice' Australian Women's Weekly 'Every so often a book comes along that reaffirms the glory and beauty of life. Tabitha Bird has gifted us this wonder' Cass Moriarty Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 . . . 33 . . . and 93. On one impossible day in 1965, eight-year-old Willa receives a mysterious box containing a jar of water and the instruction- 'One ocean- plant in the backyard.' So she does - and somehow creates an extraordinary time slip that allows her to visit her future selves. On one impossible day in 1990, Willa is 33 and a mother-of-two when her childhood self magically appears in her backyard. But she's also a woman haunted by memories of her dark past - and is on the brink of a decision that will have tragic repercussions . . . On one impossible day in 2050, Willa is a silver-haired, gumboot-loving 93-year-old whose memory is fading fast. Yet she knows there's something she has to remember, a warning she must give her past selves about a terrible event in 1990. If only she could recall what it was. Can the three Willas come together, to heal their past and save their future, before it's too late? 'A magical tale of healing . . . it's sure to cast a spell over readers' Mindfood magazine 'A wonderful debut . . . An uplifting story about the power of forgiveness, the ability to heal and the magical idea of being able to travel back in time to fix a broken future.' Good Reading Magazine 'A courageous and magical debut novel that reminds us that while we can't change events from our past, we do have the power to change the story we tell ourselves about them.' Sally Piper

Ocean Emporium

Author : Susie Brooks
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580898289
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Emporium written by Susie Brooks and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure trove of extraordinary ocean animals. Beneath the ocean waves lies a web of life that ties together creatures great and small. Fan favorites like hermit crabs and great white sharks share space with mysterious bottom-dwellers like mimic octopuses and giant sea spiders in this gorgeous exploration of the sea. Dive in and encounter some of the earth's most remarkable animals in this gloriously illustrated compendium. A perfect gift for all nature lovers.

Magic Wanda's Travel Emporium

Author : Joshua Searle-White
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558965102
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Magic Wanda's Travel Emporium written by Joshua Searle-White and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Storyteller of the Year competition, Searle-White has performed and conducted successful storytelling workshops throughout the United States. This collection brings his off-the-wall characters and their fantastic adventures to the page. This lively collection of 15 stories proves that anything is possible. Searle-White's colorful characters navigate the world of human relationships, using imagination and humor to illuminate themes of love, commitment, fear, and faith. His character inhabit leaky boats, magical islands, and far-off planets and his stories combine jokes for adults with a silliness kids will love. Magic Wanda's Travel Emporium is the perfect book for reading out loud. Searle-White's commitment to rhyme, alliteration and wordplay-all the things that make him a great storyteller-are employed in this collection. Stories include: * Two pompous pirates squaring off against each other in the sailing race of the century * A round rubber ball that struggles to tell a secret to her friend without them both bouncing away * A clarinet whose love for a saxophone is almost doomed by their vast cultural differences

Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination

Author : Susan Florio-Ruane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113568944X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination written by Susan Florio-Ruane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is a rich account of the author's investigation of teacher book club discussions of ethnic literature, specifically ethnic autobiography--as a genre from which teachers might learn about culture, literacy, and education in their own and others' lives, and as a form of conversation and literature-based work that might be sustainable and foster teachers' comprehension and critical thinking. Dr. Florio-Ruane's role in the book clubs merged participation and inquiry. For this reason, she blends personal narrative with analysis and description of ways she and the book club participants explored culture in the stories they told one another and in their responses to published autobiographies. She posits that autobiography and conversation may be useful for teachers not only in constructing their own learning about culture, but also, by doing so, in participating in the transformation of learning within the teaching profession.

The Toymakers

Author : Robert Dinsdale
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473582253
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Toymakers written by Robert Dinsdale and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, magical novel set in a mysterious toyshop - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Stephanie Garber's Caraval and Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist. The Christmas Emporium opens with the first sign of frost . . . It is 1917, and while war wages across Europe, in the heart of London, there is a place of hope and enchantment. The Emporium sells toys that capture the imagination of children and adults alike: patchwork dogs that seem alive, toy boxes that are bigger on the inside, soldiers that can fight battles of their own. Into this family business comes young Cathy Wray, running away from a shameful past. The Emporium takes her in, makes her one of its own. But Cathy is about to discover that the Emporium has secrets of its own . . . Complete your collection with Paris by Starlight, the next novel from the author of the The Toymakers, out now ***** 'This vivid, haunting novel is both vast and intimate. A wonderful and thought-provoking read.' KATHERINE ARDEN, author of The Warm Hands of Ghosts Engaging and enchanting . . . A fairytale for adults, with all the wonder – and terror – that that entails.' GUARDIAN 'There is magic at the heart of The Toymakers, a glittery inventiveness that shimmers through the dark corners of a story about love, war and sibling rivalry.' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'I was gripped, and thrilled, and touched, and above all I was completely swept into the magic of the book . . . Just astonishing' ADAM ROBERTS, author of Jack Glass 'Anyone who’s ever stepped inside a traditional toyshop and marvelled at the wonders on display will instantly be captivated by this book' CULTUREFLY

The Otherwhere Emporium

Author : Ross MacKenzie
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 1782506829
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book The Otherwhere Emporium written by Ross MacKenzie and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious Nowhere Emporium has appeared once more. With its shining bricks the colour of midnight, and rich scents of melting chocolate and exotic spices, it's easy to see why inquisitive Lucy isn't the only one bewitched by the magical store. Behind the Emporium's red velvet curtain lies a palace of unimaginable treasures glittering jewels and gleaming gold, sparkling diamonds and shining armour. But hidden among these wonders, something sinister is lurking. The Emporium is under the control of a menacing figure in a top hat who calls himself Vindictus Sharpe. Who is he? And where is the Emporium's rightful owner, Daniel? Return to a world where imagination is power and anything is possible in the heart-stopping finale to the multi-award-winning Nowhere Emporium trilogy.

The Hearing Trumpet

Author : Leonora Carrington
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374641
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Hearing Trumpet written by Leonora Carrington and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”

Love Objects

Author : Emily Maguire
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1761061399
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Love Objects written by Emily Maguire and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning novel of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident. 'Bold, furious, unapologetic and deeply insightful.' Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours 'A stunning, immersive novel that will change the conversation about class and about what possessions mean. It's important and funny and sad and beautiful and I absolutely adored it.' Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace and Fury 'One of the most big-hearted novels I've ever read. Each person fully formed, each scene and new catastrophe rooted in truth.' Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull Nic is a forty-three-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to the neighbourhood's stray cats. She's also the owner of a decade's worth of daily newspapers, enough clothes and shoes to fill Big W three times over and a pen collection which, if laid end-to-end, would probably circle her house twice. The person she's closest to in the world is her beloved niece Lena, who she meets for lunch every Sunday. One day Nic fails to show up. When Lena travels to her aunt's house to see if Nic's all right, she gets the shock of her life, and sets in train a series of events that will prove cataclysmic for them both. By the acclaimed author of An Isolated Incident, Love Objects is a clear-eyed, heart-wrenching and deeply compassionate novel about love and family, betrayal and forgiveness, and the things we do to fill our empty spaces.

Thieves Emporium

Author : Max Hernandez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988703001
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Thieves Emporium written by Max Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fawn got to the shelter too late for dinner, so she just wanted a safe place to sleep. But a dark stranger offered her more. A ticket to a new world, filled with opportunity. And danger. Welcome, Fawn, to the New Badlands. A place beyond the reach of any government. Without laws or regulations of any kind. Where everyone is free. But no one is safe. This is the story of a young mother's attempt to survive in the new digital underworld. Follow her as she becomes a pioneer, a smuggler, a spy, and a freedom-fighter while dodging forces that threaten to destroy the foundations of the modern nation-state.

The Orphan Master's Son

Author : Adam Johnson
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0812992792
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Orphan Master's Son written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us.

Three Moments of an Explosion

Author : China Miéville
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 1101884738
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Three Moments of an Explosion written by China Miéville and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Kirkus Reviews • The fiction of multiple award–winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected ways. London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse’s bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collection—many published here for the first time. By turns speculative, satirical, and heart-wrenching, fresh in form and language, and featuring a cast of damaged yet hopeful seekers who come face-to-face with the deep weirdness of the world—and at times the deeper weirdness of themselves—Three Moments of an Explosion is a fitting showcase for one of literature’s most original voices. Praise for Three Moments of an Explosion “China Miéville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence.”—The New York Times “You can’t talk about [China] Miéville without using the word ‘brilliant.’ . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian “[A] gripping collection . . . Miéville expertly mixes science fiction, fantasy and surrealism. . . . Amid the longer stories are more cerebral, poetic flash pieces that will haunt the reader beyond the pages of this exceptional book.”—The Washington Post “The stories shine . . . with a winking brilliance.”—The Seattle Times “Mind-bending excursions into the fantastic.”—NPR “Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Three Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities.”—Entertainment Weekly “Miéville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Suitcase of Stars

Author : Pierdomenico Baccalario
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1623700396
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Suitcase of Stars written by Pierdomenico Baccalario and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finley McPhee is an ordinary thirteen-year-old living outside a small town in northern Scotland--until he meets Aiby Lily and is caught up in the deadly, centuries-old fight for ownership of the Enchanted Emporium, where genuinely magical items are safely stored.

Emporium

Author : Adam Johnson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1784160105
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Emporium written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013 and the EFG/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014 * 'An idiosyncratic and compelling voice' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest - these are some of the compelling themes explored in this funny, sad, brilliantly bizarre debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on Los Angeles police payroll, a post apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman - each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids parents and lovers should fill.