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Carol Colburn Grigor & Scottish film maker Murray Grigor. Carol Colburn Grigor, previously Carol Hogel, is an American philanthropist and former concert pianist who has donated more than $40 million by one estimate [1] and £100 million by another [2] to the arts in Britain and Ireland. Carol Grigor was raised in Chicago where she was taught ...
William Alexander Murray Grigor OBE (born 1939) is a Scottish film-maker, writer, artist, exhibition curator and amateur architect who has served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He has made over 50 films with a focus on arts and architecture.
The Price of Salt (later republished under the title Carol) is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan."Highsmith—known as a suspense writer based on her psychological thriller Strangers on a Train—used an alias as she did not want to be tagged as "a lesbian-book writer", [a] and she also used her own life references for characters and ...
an excerpt of the book Your Best Year Yet! by Jinny S. Ditzler This document is a 35-page excerpt, including the Welcome chapter of the book and Part 1: The Principles of Best Year Yet – three hours to change your life First published by HarperCollins in 1994 and by Warner Books in 1998
Wildwood is a 2011 children's fantasy novel by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis.The 541-page novel, inspired by classic fantasy novels and folk tales, is the story of two seventh-graders who are drawn into a hidden, magical forest, while trying to rescue a baby kidnapped by crows.
The Gammage Cup is a children's book by Carol Kendall.It was first published in 1959 in the United Kingdom as The Minnipins and in the United States as The Gammage Cup.It was later republished by Scholastic in November 1991 and by Harcourt in 2000.
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods is an epic fantasy children's novel by Suzanne Collins. It is the third book in The Underland Chronicles, and was first published by Scholastic in 2005. The novel takes place a few months after the events of the preceding book, in the same subterranean world known as the Underland.
John Peters, for The Booklist called the book "competent, if unexceptional", remarking all characters fall nicely on good and bad stereotypes, which might be attractive for young readers. [ 2 ] In her review, Sharron McElmeel gives high praise for how Stumptown Kid authors tackled the subject of racism in a small community, as well as for ...