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In both the play and the novel, Peter often visits the "real world" of London to listen in on bedtime stories told by Mary Darling to her children. One night, Peter is spotted, and while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. On returning to claim his shadow, he wakes Mary's daughter, Wendy Darling. When Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, Peter takes a fancy to her and invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang of Lost Boys, the children who are lost in Kensington Gardens. Wendy agrees, and her brothers John and Michael go along. The dangerous and magical flight to ...

A teenage mystery book While holidaying on Lake Huron Florence and a gypsy dancer friend meet up with a lady detective searching for a lost ruby and meet up (and survive) many dangers.

Book 2 of the Adventures for Girls series. Three young, female college students manage to get free housing aboard a friend's luxury yacht, the O Moo, that's in a Chicago dry dock. Fortunately for them, they have much experience in dealing with fearful situations and mystery, because these things seem to follow them around. A threatening note, a terrifying blue face, even being set adrift in a harrowing winter storm all work together to test their courage and resourcefulness, and eventually lead to peace. (Summary by Keith Salis)

Lucile has a job in a department store book department for the holiday season before she returns to college for the next term. What could happen? Well, Lucile and her friends have just about as much excitement as they can handle! Several mysteries centered around this store, its employees, and even a newspaper's Christmas publicity stunt combine to test her nerves and her skills as a kind-hearted, brave, and giving young lady. This is the fifth book in Snell's series of mysteries for girls. - Summary by Keith Salis

Before he becomes "Cupid of Campion" Clarence Esmond goes through a series of adventures quite equal in novelty to those in his favorite story-book "Treasure Island." In fact so many things happen—and such wonderful things—that the reader has difficulty in keeping up with the march of events. But as the Blessed Mother is the patroness of little Dora and of Clarence as well, it is not at all surprising that the tale ends beautifully for everybody except Pete, the gypsy—and even he does not meet as harsh a punishment as he deserved. "Cupid of Campion" will take his place beside "Tom ...

This delightful book about the Darling children and a boy named Peter, is what started it all. The writing of J.M. Barrie is whimsical and funny throughout but his understanding of children and their imaginations is what sets it apart. (Summary by phil chenevert)

Chronicles & Conversations is about the internal experience of building a meaningful life the psychology, the philosophy, the cost, the contradictions.No life advice. No motivation speeches. Just honest, rigorous thinking about what it actually feels like to be in the middle of becoming something before the hindsight, before the story gets cleaned up.Two formats: solo Chronicles that push a single argument as far as it can go, and Conversations that put two minds on one idea and find where it breaks.For the person who's disciplined and still feels stuck.

"All children, except one, grow up,” begins J. M. Barrie's most famous novel. Barrie then proceeds to tell the story of that one extraordinary exception, Peter Pan, who lives in the Neverland with pirates and fairies and is always having adventures. One night he appears in the nursery of the Darling children and the most marvelous adventure of all begins. Light-hearted though it seems in premise, Peter Pan is a sweet but melancholy tribute to the fleeting innocence of childhood that has endured as a beloved favorite of children and adults alike ever since its first publication. (Summary by ...

Book 4 of the Adventures for Girls series. Imagine two young women, one fresh from Kentucky, handling a herd of reindeer with a few Eskimo helpers in a cold, dark Alaskan Winter near Nome. If the elements weren't enough, they have to contend with a massive herder who's encroaching on their limited grazing lands, and a curious and suspicious group of shadowers who somehow keep emitting a purple flame from their dwellings. In a heroic effort, Marion ventures out to get help, while her Southerner cousin tries to maintain the herd and learn the secret to this purple flame. (Summary by Keith Salis)

Mystery author (and former host of F*bois of Literature) Emily J. Edwards dissects mystery movies and television shows with other mystery authors! From Zodiac to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and a whole host of classic, noir, sleuth, private detective, cozy, and police procedural mysteries get dissected by experts in the genre.Emily J. Edwards is the former host of the podcast F*bois of Literature, a comedic podcast about the sht*t people in lit. She is the author of the Girl Friday Mysteries, and a committed aficionado of mystery fiction. For more information, find her on her website at ...

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Book 1 of the Adventures for Girls series. Travelling the snowy wilderness of Western Alaska and Eastern Russia would be challenging for any seasoned adventurer. Go on a journey with our two young ladies, Lucile and Marian, as they attempt to travel across the Bering Strait and back in the most difficult conditions...all with an angry and mysterious miner coming after them! - Summary by Keith Salis

After humanity's deep space probe Squanto goes missing in the Gauntlet, Staff Sergeant Martin Kelvin and Sergeant Frank Cage are pulled from leave to search for the vessel. Three teams have already vanished in the quantum corridor where time fractures and physics breaks down. But Squanto didn't just find a path through; they found something waiting in the darkness.

Ne vous méprenez pas ! Passés composés n’est pas le titre d’une grammaire ni d’un outil de conjugaison, mais celui d’un recueil de nouvelles. Treize personnages ayant marqué, chacun à sa manière, la grande ou la petite histoire du Québec y sont présentés, à la fois par l’entremise de la fiction, puis dans de courtes biographies.

In the first of an extraordinary series from bestseller S.J.A. Turney, the fate of Empire hangs in the balance… Istanbul, 1481: The once great city of Constantine, a strange mix of Christians, Turks and Jews, now forms the heart of the Ottoman empire. The conquest, still a recent memory, means...

The great warrior Bran has been called home from the battlefield to his mother's deathbed, where he vows to solve the strange mystery surrounding what fatally attacked her in the night. He travels to the Crossroads, seeking the wise counsel of Talhaiarn, high priest and advisor to his clan, where he learns similar attacks have been reported by clans to the north and east—horrors that Talhaiarn determines are the dark handiwork of the powerful Cerridwen, a rogue priestess of the sisterhood that dwells on an island surrounded by the misty waters of Lake Tegid.

The epic conclusion of the classic medical drama set in the Welsh valleys in the days before the NHS Listen now to a moment in history, brought to life in this full-cast dramatisation of the classic novel. This wonderful and immersive production continues the story of Dr Andrew Manson, an...

Dalton Thorne never asked to be the chosen one. He was just a cargo hauler trying to make a living. Now he's stuck saving humanity whether he likes it or not. Little Earth is finally free from the Consortium's iron grip, but the celebration is short-lived. A mysterious and powerful faction called the Chi Hunters has swept in to fill the void, and they've got grand designs for the galaxy—with Dalton as their unwilling pawn. When a long-hidden fragment of Earth is discovered, Dalton and the crew of the Iron Horse are dispatched on a mission to unite it with Little Earth.

The Unity Marine Corps is fighting the most brutal war in human history—and they're losing. Facing an implacable enemy that will stop at nothing short of total conquest, an ugly truth comes to light in battle after battle. Without more Marines, humanity will lose the war. Cullen's plan to recruit civilians from his athletic academies, train them, equip them, and strike back at the enemy is greenlit by Unity Command.

El detective de la policía de Chicago Sam Porter investiga el caso de un hombre atropellado, pues los indicios en la escena del crimen apuntan a que se trata de El Cuarto Mono, un asesino en serie que ha estado aterrorizando la ciudad. Se inicia así una frenética carrera contrarreloj para averiguar dónde se encuentra encerrada la próxima víctima. Cuando empiezan a aparecer cuerpos en distintos puntos de la geografía con el mismo patrón la policía lo tiene claro: el Cuarto Mono sigue actuando, y esta vez es imposible que lo haga solo.