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Which Book Would You Read?

We’d like to know which book would you read?

Alice's AdventuresAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

ISBN:9780140620863

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, “Who are you?”

What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter’s tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Heart…

Price: 15,9 GEL

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Through the Looking GlassThrough the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Author: Lewis Carroll, Jennifer Bassett

ISBN: 9780194227490

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is a novel written by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It is based on his meeting with another Alice, Alice Raikes.

Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it.

Price: 4 GEL

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The Murders in the RueThe Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9780141198972

Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in these tales, including – among others – the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the creeping insanity of The Tell-Tale Heart, and the Gothic nightmare of The Masque of the Red Death.

Price: 14,9GEL

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Book of the Week: Christmas in Prague by Joyce Hannam

Dec 25 - Xmas in prague

In a house in Oxford, three people are having breakfast – Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas.

Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago – a Christmas that changed his life for ever…

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.
Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students’ reading confidence.
Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.
Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.
Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

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Theme of the Week: Celebrating Authors of November

This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of November. Check them out below.

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Row 1: (L-R) Adeline Yen Mah, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Leander Kahney, Albert Camus Row 2: (L-R) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, David Nicholls Row 3: (L-R) Roger Lancelyn Green, Jonathan Swift, L. M. Montgomery, Luke Rhinehart Row 4: (L-R) George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Richelle Mead

Albert Camus

(November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960)

Camus was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.”

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Mark Twain

(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881) and Tom Sawyer’s sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

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Bram Stoker 

(November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912)

Stoker was an Irish author known today for his 1897 Gothic novel, Dracula.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881)

Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. The Double was made into a film in 2013.

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Luke Rhinehart

(November 15, 1932 – )

George Cockcroft, known by his pen name Luke Rhinehart, is an American writer, most notable as the author of The Dice Man series.

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Richelle Mead

(November 12, 1976 – )

Mead is a bestselling American fantasy author. She is known for the Georgina Kincaid series, Vampire Academy. It was made into a film in 2014.

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Leander Kahney

(November 25, 1965 – )

Kahney is a technology writer and author. He is a former managing editor, and previously a senior reporter, at ‘Wired News’, the online sister publication of ‘Wired’.

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Winston Churchill

(November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965)

Churchill was a British politician and Nobel laureate who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer and an artist. Churchill is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its creation in 1901, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

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Roger Lancelyn Green

(November 2, 1918 – October 8, 1987)

Green was a British biographer who became known primarily for his writings for children, particularly his retellings of the stories of King Arthur, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, and Robin Hood, The Adventures of Robin Hood.

 

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Adeline Yen Mah

(November 30, 1937 – )

Mah is a Chinese-American author and physician. Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter describes her experiences growing up in China during the Second World War.

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Jonathan Swift

(November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745)

Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and cleric who is remembered for such work as Gulliver’s Travels.

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George Eliot

(November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880)

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of several novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861)  and Middlemarch (1871–72), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

(November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894)

Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

  

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David Nicholls

(November 30, 1966 – )

Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter. His book, One Day, was turned into a film in 2011.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

(November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924)

Burnett was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-86) and The Secret Garden (1911). Both were made into films.

 

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L. M. Montgomery

(November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942)

Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Which Book Would You Read?

To celebrate Francis Hodgson Burnett, we’d like to ask, which book would you read?

secretgardThe Secret Garden

Author: Francis Hodgson Burnett

ISBN: 9780194791298

Though Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote more than forty books, none remains so popular as this miraculous and magical masterpiece. Has any story ever dared to begin by calling its heroine, “the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen” and, just a few sentences later, “as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived?” Mary Lennox is the “little pig,” sent to Misselthwaite Manor, on the Yorkshire moors, to live with her uncle after her parents die of cholera. There she discovers her sickly cousin Colin, who is equally obnoxious and imperious. Both love no one because they have never been loved. They are the book’s spiritual secret gardens, needing only the right kind of care to bloom into lovely children.

Mary also discovers a literal secret garden, hidden behind a locked gate on her uncle’s estate, neglected for the ten years since Colin’s birth and his mother’s death. Together with a local child named Dickon, Mary and Colin transform the garden into a paradise bursting with life and color. Through their newfound mutual love of nature, they nurture each other, until they are brought back to health and happiness.

Price: 8,5 GEL

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little lordLittle Lord Fauntleroy

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN: 9780194789295

At the age of sixteen Frances Hodgson Burnett moved to Tennessee with her bankrupt family and began writing for American magazines as means to support herself. Over two decades later Burnett published Little Lord Fauntleroy, modeling the character after her son, Vivian. Burnett’s text and Reginald Birch’s original illustrations helped popularize a very romantic style of dress for boys — a velvet suit with a broad lace collar — in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

At a very early age an American boy named Cedric is told that he is the sole heir to a British earldom. So, he leaves New York to take up residence in his ancestral castle, where, after some initial resistance, he is joined by his middle-class mother, ”Dearest”, the widow of the late heir. His grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, intends to teach the boy to become an aristocrat, but Cedric inadvertently teaches his grandfather compassion and social justice, while the artless simplicity and motherly love of Dearest warms his heart.

Price: 7,5 GEL

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Theme of the Week: Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The theme for this week is about Frances Hodgson Burnett, who was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden.

Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden have had many film adaptations, plays and musicals made from them since publication.

Enjoy the trailer of The Secret Garden film:

And enjoy a clip from the 1936 film version of Little Lord Fauntleroy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZ_YDGw7Rg

Book of the Week: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering “the cause of generation and life” and “bestowing animation upon lifeless matter,” Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature’s hideousness. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the once-innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein.

Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story, but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? How far can we go in tampering with nature? In our age, filled with news of organ donation, genetic engineering and bio-terrorism, these questions are more relevant than ever.

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Theme of the Week: Celebrating Authors of October

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(Top, L-R: Anne Tyler, Desmond Bagley, Ed McBain, Evelyn Waugh and Friedrich Nietzsche. Bottom, L-R: Oscar Wilde, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Morpurgo and Italo Calvino)

This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of October. Check them out below.

Oscar Wilde

(October 16, 1854- November 30, 1900)

Novelist/playwright/poet Oscar Wilde dazzled 19th century society with his legendary wit and unflappable personality. He penned: The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Happy Prince and Other Stories, among other works.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(October 21, 1772- July 25, 1834)

English Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, penned many famous works, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

(October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900)

Philosopher/poet/composer Nietzche penned many classics such as Why I Am So Wise.

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 Italo Calvino

(October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985)

Calvino, an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels, wrote hits like The Queen’s Necklace.

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Evelyn Waugh

(October 28, 1903 – April 10, 1966)

An English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; and also was a prolific journalist and reviewer, Waugh wrote many popular novels such as A Handful of Dust.

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Anne Tyler

(October 25, 1941 – )

American author, Tyler, has written several novels, four of which have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She wrote The Accidental Tourist and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1985 and the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1986. The novel was adapted into a 1988 award-winning film.

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Michael Morpurgo

(October 5, 1943- )

Morpurgo is an English author, poet, playwright and librettist who is known best for children’s novels. His novel, War Horse, has been adapted as a radio broadcast and as a stage play. It was also adapted as a 2011 British film.

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Desmond Bagley

(October 29, 1923 – April 12, 1983)

Bagley was a British journalist and novelist known for a series of best-selling thrillers. One such thriller is The Enemy which was turned into a film in 2001.

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Ed McBain

(October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005)

McBain was an American author and screenwriter but was best known for his crime fiction such as King’s Ransom.

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