Posts Tagged ‘classics’

The Velveteen Rabbit HC

By the time the Velveteen Rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.

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The Velveteen Rabbit

When the Velveteen Rabbit is old and well-worn, the nursery magic fairy turns him into a real rabbit.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“This collection includes many of the most familiar cases Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ever solve, including “Silver Blaze,” “The Greek Interpreter,” and “The Musgrave Ritual.” As Holmes’s fame grows, it brings him a notoriety that piques the ire of London’s criminal underworld, who begin to scheme against him. It is in “The Final Problem”…

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The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his arch-nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, together with his faithful…

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The Hockey Sweater HC

With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.

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Moth Catcher (Vera #7)

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017″One of the best natural writers of detective fiction” Sunday ExpressLife seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist named Patrick, to look…

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The Secret Garden

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Where, you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.’ After the sudden death of her wealthy parents, spoilt Mary Lennox is sent from India to live with her uncle in the austere Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire Moors. Neglected and uncherished, she…

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