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First published in 1902, "Spinning-Wheel Stories" is a collection of short stories by American author Louisa May Alcott. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the novel "Little Women", as well as its sequels "Little Men" and "Jo's Boys". She grew up in New England and became associated with numerous notable intellectuals of her time, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo...
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Best friends Zak and Ray have only one goal in life: Upgrade their bodies until they're more metal than flesh.But to do that, they need to find more gears. And who better to help them find lost treasure than a seer who can predict the future and decipher the past?Funny how she didn't predict her own kidnapping.Nema isn't impressed with her supposed rescue by the Siyborghs. Part male. Part metal. She doesn't approve of the parasitic cogs in their bodies....
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First published in 1936 and adapted for the screen as The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938, Ethel Lina White's suspenseful mystery remains her best-known novel, worthy of acknowledgement as a classic of the genre in its own right.
Then the rhythm of the train changed, and she seemed to be sliding backwards down a long slope. Click-click-click-click. The wheels rattled over the rails, with a sound of castanets.
Iris Carr's holiday in the...
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When a lady gambler's luck runs out, Detective Littlejohn follows a trail of deception and danger across Europe in this classic mystery.
When professional gambler Sylvia Garnier arrives at the casino on the Isle of Man, everyone is intrigued to see what drama unfolds. Knowing all the tricks and betting on all the right numbers, she seems to be enjoying a solid winning streak. That is until she's found dead on the beach.
As theories about her...
12) Dvořák: My Home, The Water Goblin, The Golden Spinning Wheel, The Noon Witch, The Wild Dove & The
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Hamilton Cleek is a renaissance man for the ages: an intellectual giant with the brawn of ten men, he serves as a consulting detective, often helping Scotland Yard with particularly challenging cases. With the power to distort and transform his visage and mimic any mannerism he desires, Cleek, with the assistance of his cockney assistant “Dollops", makes a super natural detective! In “The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel", a young woman concerned...
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Expert Beth Smith teaches you everything you need to know to spin your own yarn, from choosing a spinning wheel to every stage of preparing your fiber, plying, winding off, and finishing. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make it simple and easy! A Storey BASICS title for complete beginners, starting with how to choose a spinning wheel and guiding readers all the way to making yarn.
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Take the Spinning Plunge
Chapter One: Spinning...
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A mirror of the mind and work as Mahatma Gandhi considers the spinning-wheel, it represents the philosophy of fulness. Such fulness is encapsulated in education, society, non-violence, religion, humanism and all the finer essence of advancement for man. Gandhi highlights the spinning-wheel as his mouth-piece that speaks in silence, acts in adoration and sincerity, inspires in devotion and escalates in humanism. He explores the two-fold philosophy...
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Criterion collection volume 3
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[1995]
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A young woman on a train, enroute back to England from Switzerland, meets a charming older lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman into a complex web of mystery and high adventure.
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Bulging Brides volume 5
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Michelle’s gone from fit to fat and only has six weeks to turn things around if she wants to get her wedding dressed zipped up.
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Funniest Pets and People volume 3
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Dog chasing a toy car; dog attacks sprinklers; ramp collapses on skaters.
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