![]() ![]() With only a few clicks it’s now easier than ever to request a free quotation. The Jungle Book is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. Looking to sell? – At PM Antiques & Collectables we guide you through the entire selling process. But don’t worry, you can subscribe to our Item Alert feature for future product notifications, or use our Find For You service and we’ll search for products on your behalf. Loss to spine ends and heavy fading to spine. The Second Jungle Book reprint of 1895, December second impression – published a month after the first impression. Some loss to spine ends and fading to spine gilt. Lacking front and rear endpapers and rear blank, occasional spotting, minor soiling, two gatherings loosening. Generally good, internally neat with occasional spotting. ![]() Most of the characters are animals such as Shere. Numerous illustrations, original blue cloth with gilt upper cover and spine. The Jungle Book first published in 1894 is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book first edition published by Macmillan & Co. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. ![]()
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![]() When Sable finally brings everyone together, he tells them the only way they will all get out alive and make it into the Still Blue is if they make Cinder use his powers to pull the Aether's power into himself, ultimately leading to his death. Perry is separated from the group and is drugged alongside Cinder. ![]() His selfishness causes him, Perry, Aria and Soren to get caught by Sable and Hess. While at first their plan to get inside the headquarters works, it unfolds due to Roar's need for revenge on Sable after killing Liv. In order to break into Sable and Hess's headquarters, Perry puts together an unlikely team of Aria, Soren, Roar, Brooke and Jupiter, consisting of both dwellers and outsiders. On top of that, they must also break into their opponents, Hess and Sable, headquarters in order to get Cinder back. With Aria and Perry as the leaders, they have to find a way to bring the two groups together. ![]() They do not understand each other and are keeping their distance. Due to dwellers and outsiders being split for hundreds of years, tensions are high between the two groups. ![]() Perry and Aria, along with their close friends, fellow dwellers, and outsiders are living in a cave in order to be safe from the Aether storms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The views of Club speakers are their own and their participation does not constitute or imply endorsement or recommendation by The Commonwealth Club. Each year, we bring nearly 500 events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy to our members and the public, both in-person and via extensive online and on-air listenership and viewership. ![]() The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. The leading national forum open to all for the impartial discussion of public issues important to the membership, community and nation. ![]() ![]() (I haven't read the 2005 Nunnaly translation, which is said to be more concise.) I suppose Norwegian is a language similar enough to English that at least some phrases must have translated easily, but that doesn't fully explain the miraculously felicitous languge. Scott, which preserves enough of the formal language of medieval times to give it flavor, without obscuring the meaning or tone of the narrative. ![]() I'm reading the translation by Charles Archer and J. That's the first marvel of this trilogy, written in the 1920's and set in Catholic medieval Norway: the incredibly fluid and evocative language. I devoured this book, stopping only to check the title page several times, unable to believe that it hadn't been written in English. 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Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River with only a small group of men. Set in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child (a Sunday Times best seller, Richard and Judy pick and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Eowyn Ivey's To the Bright Edge of the World is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the 19th century, sure to appeal to fans of A Place Called Winter. ![]() ![]() ![]() forced a vast revision of settled scholarly understanding of the development of the Greek world. ![]() ![]() Mycenaean Greek - Michael Ventris and John Chadwick: Documents in Mycenaean Greek. The discovery that an early form of Greek had been spoken and written on Crete and elsewhere from about 1400 to 1150 B.C. Bellerophon tablets from the Mycenaean world A tale of seven bronze. 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They can pretend a little longer-until after the wedding.īut questions begin to haunt them as the date draws nearer. In fact, they're waiting for the right time to tell the kids they're going to divorce.īut at the family meeting where they plan to tell their children, Nicole shares a surprise of her own: she's getting married. But John and Abby Reynolds know they're just pretending to be happy. They're the perfect couple-envied by their friends, cherished by their children, admired by their peers. This Christian Fiction novel by Karen Kingsbury taught me that we must keep God close to our hearts so as not to stray and be tempted. John and Abby are ready to call it quits. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Want, Lynn Steger Strong explores the subtle violences enacted on a certain type of woman when she dares to want things―and all the various violences in which she implicates herself as she tries to survive. Sasha is facing a crisis, too, and perhaps after years apart, their shared moments of crux can bring them back into each other’s lives. When she reaches out to Sasha, her long-lost childhood friend, it feels almost harmless―one of those innocuous ruptures that exist online, in texts. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart, she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river, struggling to quiet her thoughts. With her third novel, Flight, Lynn Steger Strong makes her own quiet contribution, in which she questions that cornerstone of secular yuletide celebrations: collectivity. Her new novel is Want, a brisk first-person saga with a. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD―and now they’re filing for bankruptcy. 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Dessen is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous contemporary young adult books. ![]() One of Dessen’s most popular young adult novels, it was nominated for the 2015 Goodreads Choice Award. Saint Anything (2015), a young adult contemporary romance novel by Sarah Dessen, follows a young girl who, feeling overshadowed by her brother, must find her own way in the world when he’s incarcerated. ![]() |