Stanton is the blocked writer who sits in Vasco's cafe, taking in the local scene. He becomes deeply involved with the truly messy Potts family: drunken father, spacey mother, promiscuous daughter and lonely young son. Interestingly, they make a stab at pulling themselves together; Stanton's answer is to find someplace else to sit, perhaps in a more northern clime.
Two of the best stories are those of young Teresa, a village native, who has a chance to leave for London and an au pair position. Will she be able to leave? Ali writes beautifully of all the things weighing on her decision. The other story is that of an engaged couple from England, taking a break from wedding planning, her mother, church, and all the folderol. He is adamantly against the whole charade; she doesn't want to talk about it. That isn't what their distance is about anyway, as we find out
The villagers are waiting for the arrival of Marco Alfonso Rodrigues, a man who left years ago and is reputed to possess great wealth. Everyone has a different idea of what will happen when he arrives and how his presence will impact the life of the village. When he finally arrives late in the story, nothing is quite as anticipated.
One of Ali's characters says, "We think we live like kings, but we are puppets on the throne. We send out proclamations and fancy we are making History and forget that it has made us." With great compassion and insight, Ali writes of her "kings," and we learn how their history has, indeed, formed them. She leaves us to wonder if they can change, or if they really want to. --Valerie Ryan
Book Description
Alentejo Blue is the story of a village community in Portugal, told through the lives of men and women whose families have lived there for generations and some who are passing through. For Teresa, a beautiful girl not yet twenty, Mamarrosa is a place from which to escape. For the dysfunctional Potts family, it is a way of running from trouble (though not eluding it). Vasco, a café owner who has never recovered from the death of his American wife, clings to a notion that his years away from the village, in the States, make him superior. One English tourist fantasizes about making a new life in Mamarrosa; for her compatriots, a young engaged couple, Mamarrosa is where their dreams fall apart.
At the opening of Alentejo Blue, an old man reflects on his long and troubled life in this seemingly tranquil place, and anticipates the homecoming of Marco Afonso Rodrigues, the prodigal son of the village and a symbol of the now fast-changing world. When Marco does finally return, villagers, tourists, and expatriates are brought together, and their jealousies and disappointments inevitably collide.
Customer Reviews:
I agree with Liz.......2007-10-01
I have to agree with you Liz. I have just finished this book, but only as a result of grit and determination. There are some snippets of beauty hidden in her descriptions of everyday people and their antics, but I also felt like I was somehow missing out on something, so much so that I checked to see if my copy was indeed a complete one and had all of its pages.
It is a collection of mini stories that don't really start anywhere, and then don't really go anywhere. You are left thinking "well, what about...?", but then a few seconds later you realize that you don't really care after all.
So disappointed!.......2007-01-13
I bought this book because I was born and raised in the Alentejo and I was so anxious to read about familiar places and perhaps to better understand my own culture.
I hate to say this but I read perhaps 20 pages, if that. Nothing made sense to me, and there was no flow. I actually returned the book to the store.
So sorry to say this but I would definitely not recommend it to anyone.
I can only give this one star and one star is TOO MANY!.......2006-10-04
Books and the appreciation of the written word is an intergral part of my profession. So,both for work, and for pleasure, I read avidly. The joke is that I, personally, keep amazon in business. When I heard of this book, set in the Alentenjo, I hurried to order it. It arrived yesterday, and here I am , done already and feeling it was a TOTAL waste of time and money.
Ali has no clue how to create a story- oh sure, the novel begins intriguingly enough with João finding the man he had craved for years hanging from a cork tree, a suicide at age 84, but then NOTHING is ever developed with this story line. João shows up again as a blithering old man with a pet pig, and then again drinking a toast to Rui, but it does NOTHING to help connect the myriad of other characters and their "stories"(term used loosely!)who pop up out of nowhere with no tie in to anything that has already happened, save for the fact that they all live in Mamarrosa!
I read the first 120 pgs (already struggling to do so) but had to fight to finish the book for the remainder.
I have never said this about a book, but will say it here and wish I could use a stronger adjective (read: "expletive"). Alentejo Blue is a piece of TRASH.
Please do not bother!!!
Don't bother.......2006-07-25
This book is terrible. It takes place in Portugal which lead me to buy it. I love Portugal and the people. This book really didn't have much to do with Portugal other than a few words inserted here and there. I doubt the author has ever been there. The story line has no flow to it and it is way to choppy to follow. I hated it!
Disjointed stories, disappointing read.......2006-07-25
I wanted to like this book, but I, like several other reviewers, had to struggle to finish it, and it is a short book. Although the jacket blurb promises that all the characters will be "...brought together, and their jealousies and disappointments inevitably collide." as though Mamarrosa were a unifying point for all the characters and their stories. This does not prove to be the case. Nothing cataclysmic happens at the end. The much-heralded return of Mamarrosa's prodigal son does not add to the plotline. In fact, who is Marco Alfonso Rodrigues? There is little or no background on his life before he left the village to explain why everyone has such expectations of him. He says little, most of it obscure. His leavetaking is anticlimactic. Perhaps as Vasco says, "You know, the moment I saw him, I said to myself 'hippie'. And that is what he is." And perhaps Marco Alfonso is a hippie, albeit one with more serenity about him than the other old hippie expat, China Potts, who is addled by alcohol and marijuana.
Nothing in particular is revealed/resolved in the end, no plotlines tied up, except perhaps the relative reunification/redemption of the expatriate Potts family, the only expat characters who seem to interact much with the villagers. Several of the stories just peter out: does Teresa, the village girl ultimately leave the village for the au pair job in France? Do Huw and Sophie postpone their wedding, or break off their engagement in the end? Teresa has slept with her sweetheart, Francisco for the first time (She wants to leave the village as a woman.), but then afterward with Vincente who is engaged to her friend Clara. What is that about? Francisco is supposed to be her sweetheart, but after they spend the night together, he seems less interested in her. (My mother cautioned me that many men are like that.) Teresa's original plan is to break off with Francisco when she leaves anyway. Although she never does tell him this, he almost seems to have anticipated her. It seems that sleeping with him, her first experience, merely now makes her available to sleep with anyone. Was that her intent in leaving the village as a woman? None of the characters seems to have any particular purpose in life, except for Teresa who wants to leave for the au pair job, but even she seems to be unclear as to what she ultimately wants. Antonio is content to be an auto mechanic; Vicente and Clara who are engaged, do not seem to be really bonded, at least Vincente isn't.
Huw and Sophie don't seem to be all that sure that they should marry at all.
Ali introduces a different story every chapter, but one needs to get fairly far into the chapter to discover who is being introduced; how each new character or pair of characters fits into the story is unclear. What are they supposed to find in Mamarrosa? If this were a book of short stories, it would not matter, but these stories are all supposed to intersect in the village.
This book has been touted as one of the literary sensations of this summer. I cannot see what all the shouting was about.
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Alentejo Blue
Monica Ali
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ASIN: 0786171340 |
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Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time.
Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a café owner who is losing business to the new internet café down the road. The unseemly, dysfunctional, but strangely riveting Potts are a family of ex-patriots, trying to cobble a life together, at odds with one another until they run into trouble on the outside. We also meet several English tourists: a young couple engaged to be married and confronting each others weaknesses and idiosyncrasies for the first time, and an older woman imagining a new life, fantasizing about never returning home.
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Alentejo Blue
Monica Ali
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ASIN: 9724149714 |
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Uma visão apaixonante da vida alentejana por uma das mais importantes autoras inglesas da actualidade.
Alentejo Blue conta-nos a história de uma pitoresca vila alentejana chamada Mamarrosa, através daqueles que lá vivem, viveram ou que por lá passaram.
Para uns, Mamarrosa é um lugar de onde se quer fugir, para outros, um local de refúgio. No café do Vasco confluem habitantes e forasteiros, com as suas histórias de vida recheadas dos mais banais e ao mesmo tempo marcantes aspectos humanos.
Um romance que mantém uma universalidade sustentada na profundidade narrativa das suas personagens. Uma história extraordinariamente humana que nos mostra o estilo bem característico da escrita de Monica Ali.
N.º de Páginas: 272
Encadernação: Capa mole
Dimensões: 16 x 24 x 2 cm
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- More than fantasy
- One Wild Ride
- Amazing
- I can't believe someone thought this stuff up!
- Wordy? You bet! And every one of them worth reading. . .
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Waking Beauty
Paul Witcover
Manufacturer: EOS
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ASIN: 0061053384 |
Book Description
This visionary debut spans the uncommon range of Anne Rice's voluptuous darkness, Salman Rushdie's literary provocation and Quentin Tarantino's violent hipness
What is Beauty?
To the men of the Hierarchate, it is death...and worse than death: A scent that rises each evening from the depths of the forest called Herwood, luring them to eternal damnation. To the women of the Hierarchate, Beauty is a rival, an enemy to be fought tooth and nail. Each night, the women bind their men, plugging their nostrils to protect them from the evil scent and keep close watch over their sleep.
In this astonishing first novel, part parable, part fantasy and all erotic adventure, Paul Witcover transports readers to an awesome world where the visionary and the voluptuous are at war. It is a world deeply strange and strangely familiar, a new literary landscape lying somewhere between the fabulous realms of Anne Rice and Salman Rushdie.
Customer Reviews:
More than fantasy.......2005-08-06
The question is: what does one read fantasy or science fiction FOR? If it is merely a matter of a few hours escapism (erotic and social content properly constrained by politically correct catechism, of course) before returning to the tedious and meaningless journey into extinction, this is probably not the book for you.
If, on the other hand: You can remember when you were young and occasionally found a book that you got way into - because you KNEW, even if it were cooked up in imagination, the author was keyed into some deeper level of reality. Don't you wish you could find more books that take you those kinds of places as an educated adult?
A publishing industry and genre system oriented toward lightweight dreck too often actively seeks to stifle literature sought by the high end of intellect. Now and again, however, something intelligent manages to slip through the cracks and get published.
Like Neil Gaiman, Witcover reweaves the roots of folklore and religious archetypes, but carries it to the Nth degree. There are those of us who take our fantasy seriously, as seriously as David Deutsch takes physics or Daniel Dennett takes philosophy. For a read that plumbs deeper dimensions of reality, check out Paul Witcover's Walking Beauty.
One Wild Ride.......2005-03-10
It's been a few years since I read this book, but I will never forget how much I love it. The characters are strange but compelling. The culture and world he creates are incredible! The themes are deep--religion vs. politics, legend vs. truth, and other themes I haven't thought through yet. It's a really great story with a profound ending that will affect you much more than some happily-ever-after moment. I greatly recommend it.
Amazing.......2004-06-23
Ignore the fact that the cover of this book implies some creepy bondage thing. Ignore the synopsis written on the back, obviously penned by a person who's never read it. Instead listen to me. This book is excellent. It's the story of a world that turns upon the strict ordering of its society, adhering to a religion founded centuries ago; a religion that elevates men and supresses women, that reveres fireflies and fears Beauty. A strict caste system exists allowing the few to rise but only at the expense of another. Underneath the cities of this world the heretics hide, plotting a revolt and awaiting the second coming of their saviour, said to already walk their earth. We watch this drama unfold by following the travails of a country boy, his country wife who is thrust into the big city, and the girl he was once promised to marry who was exiled to a Cat house long ago.
Witcover provides an excellent tale with a complete mythology and history which is leant an air of authenticity by loosely borrowing on tales that are familiar from our own experience. This level of world-building is on par with and may surpass that of the Baker's Boy trilogy and is equal to the world and religion created in the Kushiel's Dart trilogy.
It was a fast read although a large book, and it was self-contained so I do not have to wait for or hunt down other books in a series. Definitely recommended.
I can't believe someone thought this stuff up!.......2004-03-26
Wow. I am generally considered pretty darned weird, so when I am blown away by the fabulous weirdness of something, that something is a unique work. And this work astounds me. Someone (the brilliant Witcover) not only found a way to put his bizarre inner world on paper in a way that made it coherent and palpable to the reader open to entering it, he managed to impose coherent plot and narrative upon it. No small feat, juggling all that. World-building at its peak.
So, of course, this all means that few people read it, it is well nigh impossible to convince people to read it, and it is incredibly difficult to obtain. I am a nauseatingly law-abiding person but I am tempted to steal my public library's copy before it deteriorates and is weeded.
Yes, it is disturbing and even distressing to some readers. Much as I would like to increase its readership, I would not recommend it to just anyone. But if you are looking for something new, dive in with an open mind. Perhaps the highest praise I can give a work is this: if you do go into it with no preconceptions about it, without a thought to what genre it ought to be shoehorned into, you will either love it or hate it, find it astonishing or disgusting and disturbing, but you will not, I guarantee, shrug your shoulders and say, "Meh."
P.S. Mr. Witcover, can I have your email address?
Wordy? You bet! And every one of them worth reading. . ........2003-05-04
I've had this book recommended to me so many times that I could hardly not track down a copy, and boy am I glad I did. I must admit I was a little concerned going into it - some of the other reviews here are pretty harsh - but those concerns were unfounded. I guess my main advice to anyone seeking to enjoy this book is simply this: don't base your expectations on the cover blurb. It really has very little to do with this book. I must say that this doesn't surprise me, because this would be a very difficult book to sum up in a blurb.
In that blurb, too, Witcover is compared to Anne Rice and Clive Barker. I beg to differ. His voice is entirely his own, and an enchanting voice it is. This book, as the cover notes, is "A dream . . . a fantasy . . . an illusion . . . an illumination." Yes, it's wordy, but every word is worth it. It's a beautiful, haunting novel; a story you won't soon forget, not least because, in all its surrealism, in all its fanastical elements, this book's lessons and morals hits very close to home. Also, it's surprising. More and more often I find that I know what's going to happen in a book long before it happens. Not so here. I didn't know where it was going, but the characters and story - and the twistedly delightful versions of common stories - were all compelling enough to make the ride a pleasure instead of a chore. Despite the book's moderate length - more than 400 pages in hardcover - I found it hard to put down.
This book is a masterpiece - and it is only Witcover's first novel. I eagerly await whatever offering he sends TUMBLING AFTER.
Highly recommended
Book Description
What would you do if you went to bed ugly, fat, and depressed and woke up the next morning in the body of a goddess?
This is exactly the miracle that befalls Allison Penny, who has spent most of her twenty-two years on this earth in a serious slump (to say the least).
Having long since given up on her life, Allison is stuck in an apartment with an evil sexpot roommate, trapped in a dysfunctional relationship with her alcoholic mother, and miserably working as a cleaning lady to pay the bills. Now, of course, Allison wastes no time in test-driving her new looks, and she experiences all of the power and fun that come with being gorgeous. Men and modeling agencies are falling all over her, and she finally has the con?dence to live her life without trying to disappear into the background. But even for the beautiful people, things can get complicated, and soon Allison finds herself with a whole new set of problems.
Darkly hilarious, engaging, and full of surprises,
Waking Beauty is a modern-day fairy tale with an all-too-real moral: No matter how much we hate to admit it, it’s what’s on the outside that counts.
Customer Reviews:
Fascinating Premise..........2005-12-07
"Waking Beauty" is an enjoyable, and somewhat thought-provoking, fairytale. The main fault I found with the book was the over-abundance of purely evil characters. I can't imagine one person being ridiculed and abused by so many people, including her mother, father, roomate, employees at the building she works in, and, it seems, random people on the street.
However, this is still a refreshing tale that doesn't turn into a preachy parable. Overall, I liked this book a lot, and would reccommend it!
A must read........2005-08-03
I disagree with the reviews saying this is a bad book.
If you like books like Jane Green's Jemima J and Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed, you'll like this book too.
This book is for anyone who thinks they are less than perfect. Whether you are too fat or too skinny or even just right... you will enjoy reading about Allison's journey from being fat and frumpy one day and a goddess the next. Many people (me included) wish that 'If only I could wake up tomorrow in the perfect body, my life would be perfect'. This is how the story starts. It's a wonderful book with a fairy tale twist and a beautiful ending. Don't make a mistake and pass this book up.
"I used to be such an ugly duckling growing up....".......2005-04-06
UGH! I hate when models say that! With that said, I found Waking Beauty very interesting.
Allison has limp hair, golf ball skin, hunched shoulders, a flat butt, snaggled teeth, thin lips, short legs, 3 hairs located in a mole on her upper lip and a huge birthmark on her leg. She sounds like she may be a good candidate for Extreme Makeover. Even if Allison wasn't overweight, she believes that she would be an "ugly limp person". The only good quality she feels she has is..she can sing.
Poor Allison is disrespected by everyone in her life. Her adoptive parents divorced when she was 2 years old and her Mother began drinking ~ heavily. She has always gone out of her way to be nice to the kids in school for acceptance, but they only used her. I had a laugh out loud moment when reading whenever her Mother see's her eating, she has a "face like she found Allison with her pants down taking a dump in her crock pot". Every Friday of every month, she has to pick up her Mother to run her errands because she got her drivers license suspended after getting a DUI/running over a dog.
Anywho, Allison goes to bed one night and wakes up the next morning totally transformed into a thin, beautiful goddess. She buys new clothes, beauty products and creates a lie that "Allison #1" had to suddenly fly to LA to visit her Father. The "new" Allison gets lots of attention and is approached by a scout for a modeling career. Allison #2 can find out what her family/room-mate/co-workers/friends honestly think about her since her appearance has been altered.
Waking Beauty makes you stop and think that we do (as a society) treat people differently because of appearance. I'm not saying that I agree with that, that's just the way that it is. I try to treat every person that I come into contact with the way that I would like to be treated regardless of race, appearance, etc.
I look forward to reading more from Elyse Friedman.
Didn't Win Me Over.......2005-01-12
Allison Penny considers herself misfortunate because she's overweight and her features don't fall into the realm of what society deems attractive. She works as a cleaning lady with an ethnic family. Lucky for her, her only duty is emptying the garbage cans. Not a dream job but it pays the bills. "Destitute, depressed, and almost universally derided," is how she describes herself. The only positive thing Allison can say is she has a beautiful voice. Her only real wishes are to meet her biological parents and to find a way to get rid of her sex starved, vindictive roommate, Virginie.
The one person in her life who is compassionate towards her is Nathan. They work in the same building and meet during breaks to discuss movies, plants and other people who work in the building. They aren't companions or even friends but she has attached her affection to him. He's nothing special, balding and a bit scrawny but he's nice to her. He's her Brad Pitt.
One morning she wakes up and her body has been transformed by we don't know what and we never find out. She's now taller, slimmer, blonder...well more like Gwyneth Paltrow with bigger breasts. She seems only mildly shocked by this transformation and after a brief stint of enjoying the feel of her new body she decides she has to show it off immediately in case it disappears at midnight. Her first manner of business was to seduce a construction worker in broad daylight even after he confessed he'd only been married six months and had a baby on the way. I found this hard to swallow as her first desire in her new body.
While enjoying the new life (because of new body) she decides to get back at or ruin all the people in her life who've been mean to her. The "ugly acts" range from minor to serious. Her character definitely isn't likeable in her new form at least not from a reader's perspective. She's suddenly the center of attention wherever she goes. Something she never experienced as the old Allison. She becomes drunk on the affection and attention. Allison isn't so beautiful on the inside anymore.
Through Friedman's writing it's easy to hate this character yet root for her when she gets back at everyone (at least until she goes way over board) who was nasty to her for being plump and homely. Most of the other characters are easy to hate too. They're nasty people.
This is not my first contact with this author. I also read her poetry book Know Your Monkey which I loved. Regretfully, in the end, Waking Beauty didn't win me over. There is a lack of balance amongst characters. It would have been nice to get to know some nicer people. It may have made this read less dark. In the end, the reader is still left asking why did this happen to this particular girl and how? Its message doesn't bode well for the happiness of women in a society who's media determines the beauty of a woman and comes across as a 'what if' story about an unattractive girl written by an attractive one.
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A story of revenge and self-realization.......2004-08-13
Imagine that you are an overweight, unattractive woman whose life revolves around your job as a cleaning lady, your patronizing roommate, and your unrequited crush on the average man of your dreams. Allison Penny's life is like this...she turns to food for solace, has an adoptive father who has cut her out of his life, and an alcoholic mother who just can't be nice.
Now imagine that you wake up one morning transformed into a beautiful goddess-like creature. What would you do? You'd probably do what Allison does...buy some sexy new clothes, used your newfound power to seduce men, and exact some revenge on the people who tormented you when you were, well, not so attractive.
The problem is that Allison is still an insecure, plain person on the inside and has to balance that out with her gorgeous appearance which is easier said than done.
After she embarks on a plan to steal her mean roommate's boyfriend, confront her father, and ruin her mother, she discovers some revelations about her prior life that shatter her. Can she figure out who she really is and will she find love with the rich, handsome power-player or her Average Joe, Nathan?
This is a dark and sometimes depressing look at how your life would remain very much the same even if it changed for the better overnight...but a story well-told!
Customer Reviews:
groundbreaking work.......2006-07-10
This text is a wonderful read for anyone invested in the intellectual pursuit of scholarship and feminism. Obviously, this type of important work is upsetting to readers who do not like their patriarchal notions of "feminism" and the constructed body of the young and adult woman in today's culture questioned or problematized.
THIS is feminism???.......2004-03-13
Look, I'm a man, so I might have a skewed view of what "feminism" is and is not. But Ms. Trites's view of what constitutes "true feminist literature" with its emhasis on communication, sharing and self-improvement over effective female heroes sounds, to this White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Male at least, a LOT like the "finer qualities of women" extolled by Victorian lady novelists. It has little, if any, bearing on the passionately activist and physically and morally courageous teenage girls and twentysomething women of my experience - or of the older women (one of whom I'm married to) who fought long and hard so someone like Ms. Trites could call herself a "feminist".
Ms. Trites slams work featuring teenage girls taking effective action as "boys in drag", implying that a girl or a woman who actually defends herself, or fight for what she believes in, is somehow a gender traitor, while praising to the skies the kind of ovary-brooding tripe that encourages teenage girls to turn inward - and effectively, leave the driving to us men. I'm sure that her version of "feminism" goes over very well with the Religious Right and the Taliban - "Yes, you concentrate on making yourself a better person and communicating while we take away your civil liberties - oh, and put on this *chadoor* while you're at it!" I can't believe that I'm the only person who finds Ms. Trites's view of "feminist literature" smug, morally repugnant - and actively dangerous to young women.
This book is SO not recommended - and if this is what Feminist Studies Departments are teaching these days, no wonder there's been a backlash against feminism.
A Must Read.......2000-06-14
Trites' book is a must read for college students, teachers, parents, everyone... Her language is very accessible. I used this book as the main source for my senior thesis, and found it to be extremely helpful as well as enlightening.
Trites writes eloquently for her intended audience.......1999-09-27
The previous reviewer criticizes the book for not being accessible to youthful audiences. It's quite clear that Trites is writing for a professional, adult audience. In doing so, she provides a thoughtful, intelligent, convincing analysis of feminist children's literature. Potential readers should not be mislead by the previous comments as the reviewer has misunderstood the intended audience for the book. The book is essential reading for any adult interested in feminist children's literature.
Trites does not consider cognitive abilities of adolescents.......1999-07-30
Teaching children to read beyond the words is an important pedagogy, but one must consider the level of cognition of the audience. Trites uses young adult and childrens' literature to highlight her points. But her analagies and metaphors are leaps and bounds beyond the realm of understanding of youth. In fact, many of her examples are difficult for graduate students to comprehend. Only a few analogies are comprehensible to a youthful audience. She is a genius at literary analysis, but she needs to consider an age appropriate curriculum. I will not refer to this text in the future, nor will I recommend it to others.
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Waking Beauty
Leah Wilcox
Manufacturer: Putnam Juvenile
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0399246150
Release Date: 2008-01-10 |
Book Description
Everyone knows Sleeping Beauty has to be woken with a kiss, except Prince Charming. Every time the fairies watching over her try to tell him, he interrupts with his ideas of how to wake her. Eventually he gets the message, and his reaction is priceless: “One hundred years of morning breath Wow! That could be the kiss of death!”
With just as much interactive fun as Falling for Rapunzel (an IRA Notable Book and the winner of Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan Picture Book Award), this fractured fairy tale will elicit laughter that no one will be able to sleep through.
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Alabama: A waking beauty
Allen Rankin
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest
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ASIN: B0006X0CHC |
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- Blood of Paradise: A Novel (Mortalis.)
- Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
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We had the opportunity to meet the lovely and talented Monica Ali when she stopped by our Seattle offices while on tour for her new book. We were so thrilled by meeting her that the three of us wrote about it in our Books Blog. Here is an excerpt:
