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A Genuine and Moste Authentic Guide: Princess: A Glittering Guide for Young Ladies (Genuine & Moste Authentic Gdes)
Young readers to the tiara born will delight in this novelty-rich resource no princess would be caught without
Madame Sparklington is finally retiring from her exclusive finishing school for young ladies. But fret not! She is committing all her wisdom to this lighthearted yet practical guide to bringing out the princess in every girl. Within these prettily packed pages are tips on how to dress; on deportment and etiquette; on health, hair and beauty; on Prince Charmings and preparing for your first ball. Gorgeously girly and filled with such novelties as booklets, flaps, and cards; a mix-and-match wardrobe; and glitter galore; here is a treasure trove of secrets for princesses to pore over and to put charming to good use..
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Bleak Seasons: Book One of the Glittering Stone (Chronicles of The Black Company)
"Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive ...I am Murgen, Standard bearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead., One-Eye won't, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..." So writes Murgen, seasoned veteran of the Black Company. The Company has taken the fortress of Stormgard from the evil Shadowlanders, lords of darkness from the far reaches of the earth. Now the waiting begins. Exhausted from the siege, beset by sorcery, and vastly outnumbered, the Company have risked their souls as well as their lives to hold their prize. But this is the end of an age, and great forces are at work. The ancient race known as the Nyueng Bao swear that ancient gods are stirring. the Company's commander has gone mad and flirts with the forces of darkness. Only Murgen, touched by a spell that has set his soul adrift in time, begins at last to comprehend the dark design that has made pawns of men and god alike. .
Price: $39.89
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Glittering Images
It is the 1930s, and Charles Ashworth is dispatched by the Archbishop of Canterbury to learn the truth about the flamboyant Bishop of Starbridge, Adam Alexander Jardine, and his mousy wife. Do Jardine's outspoken denouncements of the Anglican Church's strict divorce laws have a personal motive? When he meets the cool and beautiful Lyle Christie, Mrs. Jardine's companion, Ashworth believes they do. But as he struggles to understand the strange relationships in the household, Ashworth ceases to be an innocent, objective observer. Slowly, he too is drawn into the secret drama that is being played out in the shadow of the cathedral, a drama that he could never have foreseen. The first in Susan Howatch's acclaimed novels centering on the glorious Cathedral of Starbridge, Glittering Images is a masterful depiction of spiritual hubris, the seductions of power, and the moral dilemmas of England between the wars..
Price: $10.99
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A Glittering Gallop (Magic Kitten)
This title offers a wonderful mix of cute kittens, magic and friendship - perfect for young girls of age 6 and above. Zoe is not impressed that her mum has sent her away to spend the summer at her gran's house - she wanted to spend it horse riding at home. But when magic calico coloured kitten, Flame appears in the orchard behind the house, Zoe's summer begins to gallop by!.
Price: $5.53
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The Glittering Prizes
Frederic Raphael's brilliant and absorbing portrait of a group of young men and women pursuing the 'Glittering Prizes' of life--whatever they imagine them to be - has long been considered a classic. Spanning the period from the 1950s to the 1970s, a time when English society was changing with disconcerting speed, the characters are first seen as students at Cambridge, before the story moves on to follow their progress and varying fortunes in the larger world of the media and academe.
For Adam Morris, of the quicksilver tongue, the concentration camps of which he has only heard of and the social life of England, which he has experienced, combine to give him a scorching skepticism. Unable to accept without suspicion what life offers, he develops a sharp ambivalence that allows him both to enjoy the fruits of a successful screenwriting career and also to retain the self-critical detachment of a novelist.
For the other colourful and powerfully realised characters, success, money and satisfaction come in varying degrees. Over all of them the golden Cambridge era, with its smart badinage, its exploratory sex and its uncertain friendships, throws a light - or a shadow - from which none, perhaps, can ever quite escape.
The subject of a highly-acclaimed 1976 television series starring Tom
Conti, The Glittering Prizes is a witty, incisive and moving saga of an era and a generation. This new edition will be widely welcomed.
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Price: $7.52
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