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The Pirate's Coin: A Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventure
Random House Children's Books 2013; US$ 16.99Sixth graders Jack and Ruthie return in their third adventure in the Art Institute of Chicago's magical Thorne Rooms! During a school presentation, Ruthie and Jack discover that their classmate Kendra is descended from Phoebe Monroe, the young slave they befriended when they traveled to 19th-century South Carolina. Kendra tells them that long ago... more...
You Better Watch Out
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 18.00?It is, I contend, no small achievement to survive the perfect family.? So Greg Malone says at the beginning of a graceful, generous and sometimes hilarious memoir of his childhood in the St. John?s of the 1950s and 60s. A memoir from one of Canada?s comic geniuses that is as moving as it is funny, about a young boy who survives, among other things,... more...
Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders
Knopf Canada 2012; US$ 29.95The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation and became Canada's tenth province in 1949. A rich cast of characters--hailing from Britain, America, Canada and Newfoundland--battle it out for the prize of the resource-rich, financially solvent, militarily strategic... more...
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
Random House Children's Books 2010; US$ 6.99Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children?s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect,... more...
Stealing Magic: A Sixty-Eight Rooms Adventure
Random House Children's Books 2012; US$ 6.99Ruthie and Jack thought that their adventures in the Thorne Rooms were over . . . until miniatures from the rooms start to disappear. Is it the work of the art thief who's on the loose in Chicago? Or has someone else discovered the secret of the Thorne Rooms' magic? Ruthie and Jack's quest to stop the thief takes them from modern day Chicago to 1937... more...
Through a Catholic Lens
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2007; US$ 27.99Movie texts are often examined for subtexts and for the way that they dramatize social and psychological issues as well as current movements. Through a Catholic Lens looks at the Catholic subtext through a collection of studies of 19 film directors from around the world whose Catholic backgrounds can be found in their writing and directing. more...
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