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The Ravel by David Burnett James
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
The Secret Lives of Dragons by Professor Zoya Agnis
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The Secret Lives
Discover a whole new world of dragons in this beautifully illustrated book on the scaliest of magical creatures. From every detail of their wings to the history of their treasure, you'll learn about famous dragons from around the world. The latest research into dragon culture will be revealed, and you'l ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Dragons (PB) by Zoya Agnis
Category: Picture Books | Series: The\Secret Lives Ser.
Discover a whole new world of dragons in this beautifully illustrated book on the scaliest of magical creatures. From every detail of their wings to the history of their treasure, you'll learn about famous dragons from around the world. The latest research into dragon culture will be revealed, and you'l ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Mermaids: Expert Guides to Mythical Creatures by Dr Anuk Tola
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The Secret Lives of.....
If you thought merpeople were strictly imaginary, think again. Anatomy, evolution, life cycle, magical properties - discover just how much you didn't know about merpeople in this encyclopedic volume. Dive into the life's work of famed merologist Professor Tola in this beautiful, fully-illustrated book ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Unicorns (PB) by Dr Temisa Seraphini
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The Secret Lives
If you thought unicorns were strictly imaginary, think again! Anatomy, evolution, life cycle, magical properties – discover just how much you didn't know about unicorns. Dive into the life's work of famed unicornologist Professor Temisa Seraphini with this beautiful, fully-illustrated encyclopedic volum ...Show more
The Strauss Family by Peter Kemp
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
The War Letters of General Monash by MACDOUGALL TONY
Category: Fiction | Series: Brief Lives Ser.
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Category: Fiction | Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches Ser.
On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins...Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches - a family give4n to poetry an ...Show more
Theodor Herzl - the Charismatic Leader by Derek Jonathan Penslar
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl by an eminent historian of Zionism The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he ...Show more
Theodor Seuss Geisel by Donald E. Pease
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Lives and Legacies Series
Dr. Seuss' infectious rhymes, his blue-tufted, strong-willed creatures, and his knack for pithy, roundabout plots have been entertaining children and adults for decades. And as Donald Pease shows in this marvelous biography, the seemingly haphazard trajectory of Theodor Geisel's life bears a close resem ...Show more
Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing - Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry by Jonathan Wyatt
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives Ser.
Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing is a sharp, lively exploration of the connections between therapy, stand-up comedy, and writing as a method of inquiry; and of how these connections can be theorized through the author's new concept: creative-relational inquiry. Engaging, often poignant, sto ...Show more
Thomas Edison by Karen Wallace
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
At school, Thomas Edison's teachers think he is stupid. How wrong they are! Instead he becomes one of the greatest inventors of his day, creating the electric light bulb and an early record player, to name but two. Ages 5+.