Charlie the Chimneysweep and Sooty
Title | Charlie the Chimneysweep and Sooty PDF eBook |
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Pages | 47 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Chimney sweeps |
ISBN | 9780907159414 |
Father Christmas pays a surprise visit to Charlie, an orphaned chimneysweep, and gives him presents which lead to a permanent home for Charlie and his cat, Sooty.
Sweep
Title | Sweep PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Auxier |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2018-09-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1683354060 |
For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on “climbing boys”—orphans owned by chimney sweeps—to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless, and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived—and a girl. With her wits and will, she’s managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. But when Nan gets stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears her time has come. Instead, she wakes to find herself in an abandoned attic. And she is not alone. Huddled in the corner is a mysterious creature—a golem—made from ash and coal. This is the creature that saved her from the fire. Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster. Together, these two outcasts carve out a life—saving one another in the process. By one of today’s most powerful storytellers, Sweep is a heartrending adventure about the everlasting gifts of friendship and hope.
The Emperor of All Maladies
Title | The Emperor of All Maladies PDF eBook |
Author | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 2011-08-09 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1439170916 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Teddy's Night Lost in the Bush
Title | Teddy's Night Lost in the Bush PDF eBook |
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Pages | 46 |
Release | 1988* |
Genre | Animals |
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Ulysses
Title | Ulysses PDF eBook |
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Report on the Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi
Title | Report on the Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi PDF eBook |
Author | Mississippi. State Geologist |
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Pages | 432 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | History |
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The Routledge History of Literature in English
Title | The Routledge History of Literature in English PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Carter |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 598 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780415243179 |
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.