Edward Carey
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English
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"The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud" --
In 1761 a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son....
2) Heap house
Author
Series
Iremonger volume 1
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Young Clod, living in his family's mansion amongst a mass of shifting forgotten items, becomes aware of the items whispering to him and senses a growing storm ahead, needing the help of an orphan servant to unravel the mystery.
"Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in at Heap House, his family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ever-shifting masses have been known to swallow people alive. The Iremongers...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse--and the mysterious figure who threatens the theater's very survival. The year is 1901. England's beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In the small Tuscan town of Collodi, a lonely woodcarver longs for the companionship of a son. One day, "as if the wood commanded me," Giuseppe--better known as Geppetto--carves for himself a pinewood boy, a marionette he hopes to take on tour worldwide. But when his handsome new creation comes magically to life, the woodcarver screams at him . . . and the boy, Pinocchio, leaps from his arms and escapes into the night. Though he returns the next...
5) Lungdon
Author
Series
Iremonger volume 3
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the Iremonger family begins a search for a new home in London, residents of the city begin to notice strange incidents, including missing persons, strange objects appearing, a creeping darkness, and lots of rats.
6) Foulsham
Author
Series
Iremonger volume 2
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"At the Iremonger mansion, set in the trash heaps of an alternate Victorian London, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way to make objects assume the shapes of people, and how to turn people into objects. Will outcast grandson Clod--transformed into a gold coin--and servant girl Lucy (now a discarded button) be found and returned to human form?"--
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Series
Blackie books volume BA13
Publisher
Blackie Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"En 1761, y una niña diminuta y de aspecto bastante extraño nace en un pueblo de Suiza. la llaman Anne Marie, aunque no tardarán en referirse a ella como Little. Pronto la tragedia se cierne sobre su vida: sus padres mueren, y su única salida es convertirse en aprendiz y sirvienta de un excéntrico modelador de cera, el señor Curtius. Espléndidas cabezas de cera la obseran desde todos los ángulos del taller: Curtius las rellena con trapos y...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This feel-good book will tug on the heartstrings of dog-lovers everywhere, with 150 photos of joyous rescue dogs and tales of their happy-ever-afters, from Australian Working Dog Rescue. Featured in these pages are Australia's classic working breeds - kelpies, cattle dogs, border collies, koolies - that have been simply thrown on the scrapheap; dumped or surrendered to pounds across Australia. The lucky ones end up in the care of Carey and Di Edwards...