Walter Benjamin Reimagined

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262353571
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis Walter Benjamin Reimagined by : Frances Cannon

Download or read book Walter Benjamin Reimagined written by Frances Cannon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments. Walter Benjamin was a man of letters, an art critic, an essayist, a translator, a philosopher, a collector, and an urban flâneur. In his writings, he ambles, samples, and explores. With Walter Benjamin Reimagined, Frances Cannon offers a visual and literary response to Benjamin's work. With detailed and dreamlike pen-and-ink drawings and hand-lettered text, Cannon gives readers an illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's thoughts—a graphic translation, an encyclopedia of fragments. Cannon has not created a guide to Benjamin's greatest ideas—this is not an illustrated Walter Benjamin cheat sheet—but rather a beautifully rendered work of graphic literature. Cannon doesn't plod through thickets of minutiae; she strolls—a flâneuse herself—using Benjamin's words and her own drawings to construct a creative topography of Benjamin's writing. Phrases from “Unpacking My Library,” for example, are accompanied by images of flying papers, stray books, stacked books—books “not yet touched by the mild boredom of order”—and a bearded mage. Cannon takes the reader through different periods of Benjamin's writing: “Artifacts of Youth,” nostalgic musings on his childhood; “Fragments of a Critical Eye,” early writings, political observations, and cultural criticism; “Athenaeum of Imagination,” meditations on philosophy and psychology; “A Stroll through the Arcades,” Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus; and “A Collection of Dreams and Stories,” experimental and fantastical writings. With drawings and text, Cannon offers a phantasmagorical tribute to Benjamin's wandering eye.

Guantanamo Voices

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 164700120X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Guantanamo Voices by : Sarah Mirk

Download or read book Guantanamo Voices written by Sarah Mirk and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever. In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantánamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 prisoners who would be held there—and forty inmates still remain. Eighteen years later, very few of them have been ever charged with a crime. In Guantánamo Voices, journalist Sarah Mirk and her team of diverse, talented graphic novel artists tell the stories of ten people whose lives have been shaped and affected by the prison, including former prisoners, lawyers, social workers, and service members. This collection of illustrated interviews explores the history of Guantánamo and the world post-9/11, presenting this complicated partisan issue through a new lens. “These stories are shocking, essential, haunting, thought-provoking. This book should be required reading for all earthlings.” —The Iowa Review “This anthology disturbs and illuminates in equal measure.” —Publishers Weekly “Editor Mirk presents an extraordinary chronicle of the notorious prison, featuring first-person accounts by prisoners, guards, and other constituents that demonstrate the facility’s cruel reputation. . . . An eye-opening, damning indictment of one of America’s worst trespasses that continues to this day.” —Kirkus Reviews

Goodnight Stranger

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488051011
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Goodnight Stranger by : Miciah Bay Gault

Download or read book Goodnight Stranger written by Miciah Bay Gault and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirley Jackson Award Finalist: A “deeply compelling” literary thriller about two siblings and a man who could be the brother they never knew (George Saunders, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo). Lydia and Lucas Moore are in their late twenties when a stranger enters their small world on Wolf Island. Lydia, the responsible sister, has cared for her pathologically shy brother ever since their mom’s death a decade before. They live, comfortable yet confined, in their family house by the sea, shadowed by events from their childhood. When Lydia sees the stranger step off the ferry, she feels an immediate connection. Lucas is convinced the man, Cole Anthony, is the reincarnation of their brother, who died as a baby. Cole knows their mannerisms, their home, the topography of the island—what else could that mean? Lydia is doubtful, but she can’t deny she is drawn to his magnetism, his energy, and his warmth. To discover the truth about Cole, Lydia must finally face her anxiety about leaving the island, and summon the strength to challenge Cole’s grip on her family’s past and her brother. “One of the best literary thrillers you’ll read this year.” —Cosmopolitan “Gault finesses the mechanics of her puzzle . . . an intriguing subtext about the infantilizing hazards of familial devotion.” —The New York Times Book Review “Taut, evocative . . . shows us what binds us to places and what sets us free.” —The Boston Globe “Quietly chilling . . . A suspenseful meditation on the many ways in which the past, consciously or not, shapes the present, the novel flirts with fantasy but ultimately stays grounded in the elemental realities of wind, tides, and the eroding foundations of memory.” —Booklist “Reminds me of Karen Russell, Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn, and Marilynne Robinson all at once . . . a monster debut.” —Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A Comic Year

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Publisher : Finishing Line Press
ISBN 13 : 9781646626540
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis A Comic Year by : Meg Reynolds

Download or read book A Comic Year written by Meg Reynolds and published by Finishing Line Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meg Reynolds has found her voice in the niche genres of diary comics and visual poetry. She excels in both elements of this hybrid genre: her skills as a writer and artist come together to form this powerful book. The content is vulnerable, honest, and effective. The characters are amusing, tragic, and sexy. The speaker sings and shouts from the page through tears and laughter and over spilled wine and ink. She reaches out to the reader with tenderness, loneliness, and agency. Meg's book will find its place on my shelf of visual poets, in a position of honor with the texts of Edward Gorey, Lynda Barry, Maira Kalman, and Bianca Stone. Each page is a poetic diary entry, illuminated with Meg's eerily beautiful drawings. These passages are ripe with puns, double entendres, tales of loss, and evidence of personal growth. This is a stunning accomplishment. -Frances Cannon, author of The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big Little Frank Melancholy and wry observation pervades the pages of Meg Reynolds's collection, A Comic Year. Part captain's log, part comic, part memoir and part instruction manual, this litany of days takes us on a journey of honest reflection. The candid voice, hilarious and adept at pointing out what it's like to be a poet and artist dating, is paired with sharp fine-line drawings, with enchanting detail and composition. Meg Reynolds is a natural comics artist, with the sensibility of a poet. Here we get the best of both worlds. -BIANCA STONE, author of The Mobius Strip Club of Grief A Comic Year is intimate, patient, and breath-taking. What is on the surface the story of a year in the life of a woman following a breakup unfolds and explodes into gorgeous layers of complexity, masterfully weaving together themes of love, desire, safety, family, poetry, time, and longing. Poems and drawings are at one turn heartbreaking, and then suddenly very funny, and then awe-inspiring and back again. Altogether, it is an indescribable triumph; a book that is just as much about everyone alive as it is about the author. Reynolds has given us a true gift. -Sophie Lucido Johnson, author of Many Love Virginia Woolf wrote, "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well" in A Room of One's Own. Meg Reynolds wrote, "I'm on my own again...My love for myself achieved delicate (precarious) purchase when I bought myself a sandwich: a BLT. Obviously". Reynolds was not afraid of releasing "the flying doubt monkeys from their brain cage" in her poetry comic, while she was a castaway in an urban desert. The documentary was a catharsis of sorts, with her and her micron pens & graphite drawing pencils. "To portray something in art is to worship it and make record. Here, I make an icon of my bedroom window. I pray to this close thing." I felt her energy in this book -survive- and I'm glad she did. -Naoko Fujimoto

The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank

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Publisher : Gold Wake Press Collective
ISBN 13 : 9781945603570
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank by : Frances Cannon

Download or read book The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank written by Frances Cannon and published by Gold Wake Press Collective. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir exploring the relationship between mother and daughter.

Life After Rugby

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Publisher : Gold Wake Press Collective
ISBN 13 : 9781640084650
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (846 download)

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Book Synopsis Life After Rugby by : Eileen G'Sell

Download or read book Life After Rugby written by Eileen G'Sell and published by Gold Wake Press Collective. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I take deep pleasure in these poems, wishing to park in front of them--sexy and larger than life as they are--with my feet up and a big bowl of popcorn." In a collection peppered with odes to films and stars, an elegy for Whitney Houston, and more than a few surprises, Eileen G'Sell gives us more than a little 'history, hilarity, the strewn blooms of rhyme.' Settle in, my friends. You are in for a treat." --D.A. Powell

A Wrinkle in Time

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429915641
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis A Wrinkle in Time by : Madeleine L'Engle

Download or read book A Wrinkle in Time written by Madeleine L'Engle and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years! "A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg Cabot Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murray, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract--a wrinkle that transports one across space and time--to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murray is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murray but the safety of the whole universe. A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet.

In the Kettle, the Shriek

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ISBN 13 : 9780985919122
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Kettle, the Shriek by : Hannah Stephenson

Download or read book In the Kettle, the Shriek written by Hannah Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'I could care less, ' Hannah Stephenson says with a faux shrug, feigning that tone of contemporary diffidence and cool, but everywhere in In the Kettle, the Shriek this fine new poet indicates that "instead, I care so much." Here is a poet of clarity and connective grace, full of good will and wily stories alike-funny, neighborly, amused, observant, she's a storyteller with an aphorist's flair for precision. And in In the Kettle, the Shriek she gives testimony to our lives together and our struggles alone, turning at the deepest moments to her highest virtues of sanity and acceptance: 'the things that are going to happen, / let me let them.' This is how Hannah Stephenson makes poetic testimony into a manner of lyric, laic testament." -David Baker// "In the Kettle, The Shriek is excellent: inquisitive, taut, ironic, tough, smart, sensitive, tensed, ready. Nothing is taken for granted in these poems, not the cosmic or the molecular. Stephenson explores how we hold ourselves together lately, what can be named or called into us, and our relations with the allegedly inanimate. The unpunctuated questions that comprise many of the poems are an essential part of what this poet is up to. Those queries become the glue of this universe, the building blocks of its matter and anti matter, and also a voice of the zeitgeist." -Amy Gerstler

The Forgotten World

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ISBN 13 : 9781649219190
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis The Forgotten World by : Nick Courtright

Download or read book The Forgotten World written by Nick Courtright and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his third collection, poet Nick Courtright explores the world at large in an effort to reconcile selfhood as an American in the international community, while also seeking anchors for remembering a wider world often lost to view in our shared though increasingly isolated experience of reality. Beginning in Africa with investigations of religion and love, The Forgotten World then moves to Latin America to tackle colonialism and whiteness. From there it travels to Asia to discuss economic stratification and Europe to explore art and mental health, culminating in a stirring homecoming to troubled America, where family, the future, and what matters most rise to the forefront of consideration. Through all of it, Courtright displays a deft hand, at once pained, at once bright, to discover that although the wider world seems farther away than before, the lessons it offers are more needed than ever.

Shiver

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Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407129406
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Shiver by : Maggie Stiefvater

Download or read book Shiver written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace is fascinated by the wolves in the woods behind her house; one yellow-eyed wolf in particular. Every winter, she watches him, but every summer, he disappears. Sam leads two lives. In winter, he stays in the frozen woods, with the protection of the pack. In summer, he has a few precious months to be human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again. When Grace and Sam finally meet, they realize they can't bear to be apart. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human - or risk losing himself, and Grace, for ever.

Carnivalia

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Publisher : Gold Wake Press Collective
ISBN 13 : 9781945603563
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Carnivalia by : Glenn Shaheen

Download or read book Carnivalia written by Glenn Shaheen and published by Gold Wake Press Collective. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glenn Shaheen's Carnivalia reads like a firework display: the stories explode, dazzle, and you never know what's coming next. Fast stories that will stick with you a long time." -Mat Johnson, author of Pym and Loving Day.

Our Own Beautiful Brutality

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ISBN 13 : 9781646625437
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (254 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Own Beautiful Brutality by : Karen Poppy

Download or read book Our Own Beautiful Brutality written by Karen Poppy and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In poems both brutal and beautiful, Karen Poppy traces the interconnectedness-symbiotic, antagonistic, and metaphorical-of the endangered antelope and human worlds. All the grace and violence of both worlds is here in poems that are moving, necessary, and ultimately life-affirming. I could not put down this powerful book. -Steve Bellin-Oka, author of Instructions for Seeing a Ghost Poppy is a poet of the 21st Century. Her pen is compelling, pointing out the crucial need for human, animal, and environmental rights and respect. Her poems inspire transformation. -Lynne Cox, American long-distance open-water swimmer, New York Times best-selling author, and speaker This glowing collection of Karen Poppy's verses reads at once as spare and abundant, elegant and generous. Her lines stretch and shrink, experimenting with a wide range of forms, and her best rhymes read like plot twists. our own beautiful brutality asks what all readers and writers ask each other across the resonance of words: "how in sudden shift did I become you?" -Betsy Cornwell, New York Times best-selling author and founder of The Old Knitting Factory: making space for single moms to make art in a 1906 knitting school in Connemara

The Manchurian Candidate

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Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795335067
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis The Manchurian Candidate by : Richard Condon

Download or read book The Manchurian Candidate written by Richard Condon and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . . This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle). “Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune “Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time

Every Living Species

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Publisher : Gold Wake Press Collective
ISBN 13 : 9781945603556
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Every Living Species by : Erin Stalcup

Download or read book Every Living Species written by Erin Stalcup and published by Gold Wake Press Collective. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bird as beast. Bird as beauty. Bird as spectacle. In Every Living Species, Stalcup looks zoological impoverishment in the eye and refuses to blink. Instead, she turns loss into an exhibition of World's Fair proportions, concentrating her mad microcosm with biotechnology, infrastructure, art, and humanity. In this world, multiculturalism is as much a revolution as it is a climate change adaptation. In this confluence, I recognize Hitchcock and Hurston, Crichton and KUbler-Ross--and in Stalcup, an aviphile of the highest order." --Lawrence Lenhart, author of The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage

Vantage

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ISBN 13 : 9780983300885
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Vantage by : Taneum Bambrick

Download or read book Vantage written by Taneum Bambrick and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vantage was chosen by Sharon Olds from nearly 1000 manuscripts as the winner of the 2019 APR/Honickman First Book Prize.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594745137
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Book Synopsis Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by : Ransom Riggs

Download or read book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children written by Ransom Riggs and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times best-selling series. eBook Bonus Features: • A Q&A with author Ransom Riggs • 8 pages of color stills from the Tim Burton film • A sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. “A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars “With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+”—Entertainment Weekly “‘Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”—People “You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—Seventeen

The Moorchild

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416948198
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Book Synopsis The Moorchild by : Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Download or read book The Moorchild written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling that she is neither fully human nor "Folk," a changeling learns her true identity and attempts to find the human child whose place she has been given.