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The story is set in a small house on the edge of a small English country town. The children are on a loose rein, as their mother is soon called away to nurse some relations of theirs through a bout of measles, leaving them with their preoccupied father, a schoolmaster who is busy writing a book (p. 10). [2]
Grover Gardner (b 1956) [1] is an American narrator of audiobooks. As of May 2018, he has narrated over 1,200 books. [ 2 ] He was the Publishers Weekly "Audiobook Narrator of the Year" (2005) and is among AudioFile magazine's "Best Voices of the Century".
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The Snowball was Amazon.com's best business and investing book of the year 2008. [4] Time Magazine, People Magazine, and critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times named it one of ten best books of the year. [5] The Washington Post, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, and Publishers Weekly also each named The Snowball the best book of 2008. [5]
The name is derived from 'Isengrin', a wolf in the stories of Reynard the Fox. In "World of Wonders", the final book of the Deptford trilogy, Magnus Eisengrim, now a world famous stage magician, relates his life story to several friends and colleagues as they work to complete a film about the life of the renowned 19th century theatrical ...
The Inside Story books are longer than the Super Editions. For more information about the Inside Story books, see the List of Saddle Club books. The Pony Tails books are a spinoff series aimed at young readers ages 7–10. They focus on May Grover, Corey Takamura, and Jasmine James, who are also riders at Pine Hollow and form their own club ...
A Snowball in Hell (2008) completes Christopher Brookmyre's suspense trilogy featuring DI Angelique de Xavia. She and her antagonist, Simon Darcourt, were introduced in A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away (2001), while she was the central character in The Sacred Art of Stealing (2002), where she met the third main character of Snowball, the magician Zal Innez.
Snowball is a character in George Orwell's 1945 novella Animal Farm.He is largely based on Leon Trotsky, who led the opposition against Joseph Stalin ().Snowball is depicted as an intellectual white pig whose leadership, dedication, and feats for Animal Farm is unparallel to any others on the farm, however he is rivaled by Napoleon who has hatred for Snowball.