Also called The last resort, The Last Ditch is one of a series of books recording eleventh hour escapes, perilous rescues, adroit defences, and effective peace conferences that have averted disaster at all levels of society.
The hills of Varna
I think it's about a person who is sent on a misson to find some old buryed treasure.
Mabe a Fox
"Why, Sir,’ said Lucy. ‘I think – I don’t know – but I think I could be brave enough.‘”
The ongoing adventures of the fox from the first Narnia movie, together with his sister Mabe,
Swallows and Amazons
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."
The adventures of ancient Scythian warrior women, the famous Amazons, who encountered nomadic tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, following migratory Swallows to England's pleasant land, about 536 AD.
Tom's Midnight Garden.
Tom works full time and studies in the evenings. His only time for gardening is late at night, often past midnight.
(One of my all-time favourite books, still got a copy! Wonderful concept!)
The Painted Garden
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 whimsical story about a group of children who set out to create a garden in a vacant lot by painting flowers on old bricks and boards and other discarded items they install in the lot.
Song of Thunder
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.
The story of a young composer struggling to create a symphony solely out of thunderstorm sound effects.
Our Mutual Friend
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Co-founder of the newly restored Edmund Club!
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Two of the Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams, collaborate on a biography of C.S. Lewis.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
(@coracle Tom's Midnight Garden is one of my favourites as well!!)
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)
A designer fashion shop is the location for two people to meet and fall in love, but who is the mysterious man that just happened to walk into Styles' on that quiet afternoon ?
The Cat In The Hat Comes Back
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."
It is said that a cat has nine lives, so just when the annoying Cat in the Hat vanished out of sight & mind he came back again, accompanied this time by Puss in Boots, to have a caterwauling session right through the neighbourhood.
Gold fever
A junior pharmacist must find a cure for mysterious fever which affects only those who possess real gold.
The Rising Sun
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 the life cycles of stars, with a special focus on earth's sun.
Understood Betsy
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.
An immigrant child speaks almost no English, so she finds her new classmates hard to understand, except for one quiet girl called Betsy who befriends her silently.
White Boots
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."
The remarkable adventures of a cat with four white paws — hence her name, White Boots — and magic powers.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)
The story of a young girl, Nicky Webster, training to be a singer, who is chosen to be in the televised Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics where she has to sing, held up on trapeze-like wiring, high up in the air, in the middle of a huge floodlit stadium, in front of the whole world, & what became of her afterwards.
Travels on my Elephant