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The Books of Elsewhere is a series of fantasy novels for kids and young teens by Jacqueline West that centers on the McMartins' house on Linden Street, which has many magical paintings. There are five Books of Elsewhere: [1] The Shadows (2010) Spellbound (2011) The Second Spy (2012) The Strangers (2013) Still Life (2014)
Teenreads.com called it "witty and wise" and praised the book for its humour. [3] Booklist magazine gave the book a 'Starred Review' and called it "a work of powerful beauty". [4] In the USA, the book was nominated for a 2006 Quill award, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Book Club. [5]
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The nine stories in the collection are set in the worlds of Roshar, Scadrial, Sel, Threnody, First of the Sun, and Taldain, which are all a part of Sanderson's Cosmere universe. [3] [4] The collection also includes essays and illustrations for the various planetary systems in which the stories are set. All have been released individually or as ...
The Book of Elsewhere is a 2024 action and speculative fiction novel written by Keanu Reeves and British author China Miéville that takes place in an alternate universe to the main BRZRKR universe. Reeves had initial ideas for a novel set in the BRZRKR universe after the release of the first volume of his BRZRKR comic book run (2021) was ...
Penguin Classics published a 100-page extract of "The Shadow of the Sun," in English in February 2007, as part of their "Great Journeys," series of short books highlighting 20 diverse historic examples of travel writing from antiquity to 2007. "The Shadow of the Sun" extract was published under the title "The Cobra's Heart," (ISBN 9780141025551).
The Sun Is Also A Star is a #1 New York Times best seller. [2] Both the book [4] and audiobook [5] are Junior Library Guild selections.. The book received starred reviews from Booklist, [6] The Horn Book, [4] Kirkus, [2] Publishers Weekly, [7] School Library Journal, [8] and Shelf Awareness, [9] as well as a positive review from The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.
The reviewer for the Chicago Daily Tribune wrote of the novel, "The Sun Also Rises is the kind of book that makes this reviewer at least almost plain angry." [ 105 ] Some reviewers disliked the characters, among them the reviewer for The Dial , who thought the characters were shallow and vapid; and The Nation and Atheneum deemed the characters ...