Added by: naokokt | Karma: 186.54 | Fiction literature | 11 January 2011
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The Wild Things
In Eggers’ novel, adapted from Spike Jonze’s film of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, Max is a robust, self-reliant boy who acts out in response to his parents’ divorce. After some particularly epic mischief, he runs away, finds a boat, and sails it to a land where large, destructive beasts are willing to recognize him as their king—but Max, as it turns out, is not a particularly good king.
Added by: Au_claire | Karma: 26.92 | Fiction literature | 9 January 2011
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Gossip Girl #2 You Know You Love Me
The second book in the Gossip Girl series. Eleanor Waldorf's upcoming nuptials threatens to overshadow Blair's birthday. College interviews bring out the best and worst in the seniors, as Blair hangs out with her new stepbrother-to-be Aaron Rose, and Dan finds out how just not into him Serena is. Nate starts hanging out with Jenny. Serena and Blair reunite as best friends again.
Texas ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles digs into murders past and present, as a dead man's bones are uncovered-and a community gathering is interrupted by murder... China Bayles already has her hands full balancing her job, her family, and her friends' romantic entanglements. Then her teenage son finds some skeletal remains during a local cave dig-remains from a not-so-distant, not-so-accidental death.
C. Funke – Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost!
Nine-year-old Tom Tomsky can’t catch a break. He’s a klutz, his sister Lola pretty much hates his guts, and (this is a big “and”) he just found a ghost camping out in his cellar. Lucky for Tom, his grandma’s best friend just happens to be the world’s foremost ghosthunter. Under her expert tutelage, Tom learns the tools of the trade, which just happen to include buckets of graveyard dirt, and soon finds he has to face down not just the ASG (Averagely Spooky Ghost) in the basement, but the IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) in town…all while keeping the nettlesome Lola off his trail.
Added by: camhuy | Karma: 1388.27 | Black Hole | 29 December 2010
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C. Funke – Ghosthunters and series
Nine-year-old Tom Tomsky can’t catch a break. He’s a klutz, his sister Lola pretty much hates his guts, and (this is a big “and”) he just found a ghost camping out in his cellar. Lucky for Tom, his grandma’s best friend just happens to be the world’s foremost ghosthunter. Under her expert tutelage, Tom learns the tools of the trade, which just happen to include buckets of graveyard dirt, and soon finds he has to face down not just the ASG (Averagely Spooky Ghost) in the basement, but the IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) in town…all while keeping the nettlesome Lola off his trail.
