![]() ![]() We are interested in large purchases, such as collections and estate sales. ![]() Store credit can be used on new and used material. We have in stock new, each year, a large collection of current year Calendars with 100s of titles and styles to choose from, always discounted.We buy and trade books and games whenever the store is open, and we are looking for material for every section. We have a wide selection of puzzles from Pomegranate and others. We carry over 60,000 items in 3000 sq/ft of space.Additionally, we have a large tabletop game selection, including board games, dice and card games, and Role-Playing titles. ![]() In addition to books on almost any subject, Firefly carries a large range of products including cards, bookmarks, audio books, and family tree charts. Started in 2012 by two book aficionados, Firefly Bookstore strives to provide the best in diverse products and customer services. Located in downtown Kutztown, we are an independently-owned and operated New and Used bookstore. ![]()
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![]() Magic Lessons is a “heartbreaking and heart-healing” ( BookPage) celebration of life and love and a showcase of Alice Hoffman’s masterful storytelling. ![]() And it’s here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. ![]() Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Nameless Arts.” Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. ![]() Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. In this “ bewitching” ( The New York Times Book Review) novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While he was quiet in the ring, an Alaskan Malamute provided a yowling - cheering? - soundtrack for a semifinal round featuring the Samoyed and other breeds classified as working dogs. "His charisma shows when he's showing," and he vocally complains when he's not, she said. What makes the snow-white Samoyed shine in competition? "His heart," said King, of Milan, Illinois. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesĪfter topping the canine rankings last year, Striker has lately been hitting a few dog shows "to keep his head in the game," said handler Laura King. Samoyed wins on Working Group as Best in Show at the 146th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in Tarrytown of New York, United States on June 22, 2022. Winston, currently the top-ranked dog in the country, faced Striker, a Samoyed that also made the finals last year River, a big-winning German shepherd, and Trumpet, a bloodhound descended from the 2014 winner of another major show, the Thanksgiving-season National Dog Show. "He always walks around with as much of a smile on his face as a dog can have." ![]() Morgan Fox grew up with one and says that as he watched Winston mature, he knew the dog was a winner in both appearance and character. ![]() The dog came his way from his grandmother, Sandy Fox, who has bred and shown Frenchies for years. "He's basically a superstar," Fox said by phone Wednesday. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Penny family set out to stay at the palace and investigate. ![]() It is the Maharajah, or High King, of Jadudesh! He has a ghost haunting his palace, and he doesn’t want the publicity that the Two Stars Agency would be sure to create. But to the twins’ and their mother’s amazement, a new client knocks on their door after hearing about them. The brand new Two Stars Agency, owned by glamorous Bollywood stars Sweetie Suseela and Sonny Khan, is taking over all the city’s ghost hunting business with their modern, scientific methods and fawning media. Since their father’s death, the agency has fallen on hard times. ![]() Anusha and Maya are the 12 year old twin daughters of the widowed Mrs Penny, who runs the family business a ghost hunting detective agency. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning. ![]() Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, “starter witch kits” of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. White Magic is a bracingly original work that enthralled me in a hypnosis on the other side of which I was changed for the better, more likely to trust my own strange intelligence.” -Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood “Elissa Washuta is exactly the writer we need right now: as funny as she is formidable a thinker, as thoughtful as she is inventive-her scrutiny is a fearless tool, every subject whittled to its truest form. One of The Rumpus’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021 ![]() ![]() I loved the dog, Bob, and enjoyed the way the author used the main character Adam’s inability to see facial features. ![]() It was fascinating to watch the narrative progress from the year after the couple got married to the end of the novel, whereby they realise they’re still in love with one another. I’m also in love with how this book explores how people change, and how relationships break down over time. The setting was somewhat Gothic, and I loved how the author used the different wedding anniversaries to tell the story of Adam’s first wife. Her ability to write multiple POV without giving away the final twist for her books is absolutely flawless, and just as in Sometimes I lie and His and Hers, I didn’t see the ending to this novel coming. ![]() I love Alice Feeney, so I couldn’t wait to grab her new release and I was not disappointed. ![]() ![]() The characters are identical in appearance and ability (think big ears and an even bigger heart). The BFG makes an appearance in another work.īefore the giant was squibbling through his own story, he made a small cameo in an early Dahl work called Danny, the Champion of the World, as a character in one of the bedtime stories that Danny’s father tells him. Four years after its publication, in 1986, the grieving father wrote an open letter encouraging his fellow Britons to get their children vaccinated. He read to her every day until she passed away, and dedicated The BFG to her memory. Vaccines were not yet available and the young girl died at just seven years old. In 1962, Roald Dahl lost his first-born, Olivia, to the measles. He eventually turned the scrawled concept into a full book in 1982. Dahl scribbled down all his thoughts and inspirations in these notebooks to look at later. The BFG comes from Roald Dahl’s ‘Ideas Book.’Īs with many of Dahl’s books, The BFG was born from an Ideas Book. ![]() Learn more about Sophie and her adventure in propsposterous Giant Country. The BFG is a whoopsey-splunkers tale about a young orphan girl and her friend, the Big Friendly Giant. ![]() ![]() On the other side of the Atlantic, Eliza is doing her part to help the White Russian families find safety as they escape the revolution. In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortune-teller’s daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia: the church with the interior covered in jeweled mosaics, the Rembrandts at the tsar’s Winter Palace, the famous ballet.īut when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia’s imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. ![]() It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest.Įliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. ![]() ![]() I know we might not have a lot of time, but what we do have, I want to spend right here.” His fingertips came to rest against the back of my hand, sending a zip of current through my whole body. **ARC provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review** I wish Ember would get her finger out and realize Riley is awesome! I'm just here for the dragons people I don't care what anyone else is doing. And if not a dragon something else more awesome. The ending is not going to be real because that person is going to end up becoming a dragon in some way shape or form. There could be more after that, who knows. He's always been a bore to me but I have a feeling he's going to become all bad to the bone since there are two more books. ![]() I don't know what all Dante is doing and I don't care. ![]() Just because I don't want a certain someone with another certain someone doesn't mean I don't like them. ![]() I wish there was more dragon action in the book though. ![]() Ember has just gotten on my last nerve and I have a freaking headache.īut yes, since I still love everyone and they are cool dragons they get 3 stars. I mean I love all of the characters, but I'm over this love triangle crap! Why can't they just be brother/husbands and just forget about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wild Act D Yuniko is living with a crossdressing actor instead of her parents. Whois T A boy is turned into a girl by magic. White Dragon Wada Shinji / Kinutani Yuu T Pursued by the mob, a young child seeks the protection of White Dragon, an assassin with the ability to morph into male or female, and kills by using. Weiss Kreuz D Episode 6: Omi dresses as a female flight attendant towards the end of episode. Warning D Vol 3 Story "Warning Last Stage": Some boys and girls crossdressing in the school, boys in female uniform and girls in male uniform P T Episode 84: A male pursuing a woman that at night is hosting in a club end being transformed into another hostess Warau Salesman Fujiko Fujio (A) D Episode 60: A male get a divorce, goes to a vacation cruiser and find a woman to marry, in the end the woman is a male transvestite P ![]() |