Volume 5 of the Saga of the Ice Queen and her family in which the Ice Princess is married to a Prince of a neighboring kingdom, bringing everlasting winter to her new home.
Black Coffee
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts." ~ C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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The tale of a surprising success of a local coffee shop that focused solely on plain coffee rather than all the fancy additions used by the national chains.
Fahrenheit 451
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
A mis-written title of a story about a cooler day than expected in midsummer, which should have ended "...45 !"
Red Letter Days
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
A romance about a young lady carrying on a long-distance relationship in pre-internet times, anxiously awaiting each day that she receives another letter from her absent fiancé... name of Redmond, or Red for short.
Jude the Obscure
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)
The life story of a very ordinary man who suffered horribly from a stammer, which made him most difficult for unafflicted people to understand, especially as he grew older, & developed hearing problems as well.
The time machine
The complete history of the invention and development of the clock!
Wuthering Heights
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)
The story of an early hot air balloon developer and how he once got trapped in the air for 47 hours.
Swan Lake
(Disclaimer: I did not see Mel's post at the bottom of the last page )
"In the end, there is something to which we say: 'This I must do.'"
- Gordon T. Smith
avi by Flambeau
Set to the most rhythmically beautiful music, this is a wondrous tale of an aquatic & avian battle between heavier & meatier Northern Hemisphere white swans, & their wildly distant Western Australian black feathered cousins, who are both finally forced to share the same lake.
The Magic Pudding
A wizard's recipe book which specializes in desserts: the signature dessert of the writer is a pudding made from different types of magic.
Now We Are Six
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
A book about a family welcoming their fourth child and all the entailing adjustments.
Beyond the Desert Gate
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
A story where a herd of Arizona cattle jumps the fence only to discover the grass was greener inside the enclosure and the sand outside is less fun than it seemed.
The Egg and I
Movie Aristotle, AKA Risto
A surprisingly gripping tale of the rise to fame of a local restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
The story of a restaurant critic who has a really bad experience at a restaurant and concocts a plan to murder the chef responsible.
Friday's Child
We have hands that fashion and heads that know,
But our hearts we lost - how long ago! -- G. K. Chesterton
A children's picture book about a young girl born on a Friday, who sets out to make friends with children who were born on other days of the week.
We Were Tired of Living in a House
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.
A memoir of a couple who were dissatisfied with their home and current status quo and decided to sell it and travel across the country living in an RV, finding peace and satisfaction along the way.
Black Beauty
"The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly." -John Muir
"Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed." -Richard Adams, Watership Down