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• Paris by Maarten vande Wiele
  ...ian starlets, it is certainly worth a decent perusal. Hope was a juvenile beauty queen, and could now work in fashion were it not for scars due to a car cra ...ly captured by the model on the front cover, a be-bereted doll in a Little Black Dress, with the Eiffel Tower on the front, which has its skeletal arched le
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• Fantasy - CD-Rom and Book by Christy Shaffer
  Some of the designs are in colour and some in black and white. So perhaps another idea for using some of these designs is maybe Obviously, as this is a book of images it is hard for me to describe the beauty and the enchantment that emanates from so many of the pictures. I can only
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• Dragons and Wizards - CD-Rom and Book by Marty Noble
  Some of the designs are in colour and some in black and white. So perhaps another idea for using some of these designs is maybe Obviously, as this is a book of images it is hard for me to describe the beauty and the enchantment that emanates from so many of the pictures. I can only
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• Bloodheir by Brian Ruckley
  ...the battle isn't even nearly over. Encouraged by previous successes, the Black Road are pushing for further gains and they are being assisted by the rogue This isn't entirely welcomed, even amongst the Black Road, as many of them see Aeglyss as a half-breed and not a true follower o
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• Rags and Bones by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)
  ...man|Neil Gaiman]] gives us something truly special here, as his ''Sleeping Beauty''-inspired fantasy ''The Sleeper and The Spindle'' took my breath away. It' ...vampire tale than her recent novel [[The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black|The Coldest Girl in Coldtown]], while a trio of authors I've somehow never
  5 KB (834 words) - 13:29, 12 August 2020
• Counting Lions by Katie Cotton and Stephen Walton
  |summary=A beautiful book of black and white drawings of wild animals as a counting book will stun adults and ...ost seem unnecessary as we can see all that we need of the unique form and beauty of each creature. But there are words too.
  4 KB (644 words) - 10:02, 23 September 2020
• Cut on the Bias by Stephanie Tillotson
  ...ntity, yes, from a battered wife's nondescript black leggings in ''Back to Black,'' to a film star's cast-off finery landing in a traditional community in B ...itates a young man's discovery of his sexuality. Lindsay Ashford's little beauty is packed with insights.
  4 KB (714 words) - 07:19, 7 October 2020
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline
  The story put me in mind of ''Black Beauty'' and Michael Morpurgo's [[Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo|recent reworking ...his skill at portraiture but in ''Edward Tulane'' the illustrations are in black and white but they're no less stunning. There's a picture of a dog attacki
  4 KB (633 words) - 09:18, 7 September 2020
• Dust to Dust (Steven Dunbar) by Ken McClure
  ...st. He's a promising and well-though of academic and his pet subject is - Black Death. Intrigue is high on the agenda right from the beginning. Motram is ...the oldest college in Oxford.'' Apparently the foundation stone pre-dates Black Death. Deft touch. A lot of the action takes place at Dryburgh Abbey in t
  4 KB (640 words) - 19:44, 29 August 2020
• The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less by India Knight
  ...start with this book is to say what it isn't. Frugality might be the new black but there's no suggestion in this book that you should be living less than ...ous about cooking good food from scratch. You might also find [[Hollywood Beauty: Vintage Secrets by Laura Slater]] interesting.
  5 KB (787 words) - 10:37, 7 September 2020
• Psy-Q: You know your IQ - now test your psychological intelligence by Ben Ambridge
  ...ed me. For example, there is a page where the reader is invited to scan 50 black and white images before turning the page and trying to recall some of the i The beauty of the book is that its content just has to be shared. You will find yourse
  4 KB (701 words) - 13:17, 15 April 2018
• Walking Home by Simon Armitage
  ...r his country, the Way, and the people he meets. (Along with some stunning black and white photographs of various points on his journey!) ...e landscape he walks through are wonderful, and he definitely captures the beauty of the route in both words and pictures.
  3 KB (457 words) - 13:40, 29 September 2020
• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
  ...known as the author of three novels: White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty. She now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University in New York. This ...want to read. Smith's piece is a very personal response about reading as a black woman; she describes her reluctance to read the book when her mum gave her
  4 KB (624 words) - 13:14, 6 March 2018
• Tommy Sullivan is a Freak by Meg Cabot
  ...she takes part in a beauty pageant in the book – and I love stories about beauty pageants, even if they do have dubious names like ''Quahog Princess''.
  5 KB (843 words) - 10:26, 17 April 2018
• The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll
  |publisher= Black and White Publishing ...s beloved wife Agathe that she questioned her own existence, let alone her beauty. How was she to know that the good Mayor pined for her on the other side
  5 KB (786 words) - 12:25, 24 March 2018
• The Queen's Secret by Victoria Lamb
  ...Knollys, wife of the Earl of Essex, was beside the point. Lucy Morgan, a black entertainer of Moorish descent, was drawn into the midst of this intrigue a ...than one) is the Queen herself and we get a real feel for the queen whose beauty was rapidly fading and who had all the insecurities of a woman who sees her
  3 KB (456 words) - 10:46, 22 March 2018
• The Phone Box at the End of the World by Laura Imai Messina
  ...e a man installed a telephone box in his garden. ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.'' It is a real ...cean. That isn't explained in the book, to me, it is a refusal to let the beauty of nature be lost to its cruelty.
  6 KB (1,194 words) - 13:33, 12 August 2020
• A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty Bomb by Joseph Clyde
  ...d an American gentleman. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male of black Caribbean descent. It seems to be a regular United Nations in the salon. As
  5 KB (801 words) - 13:40, 25 August 2020
• The Trees by Ali Shaw
  ...journey will take them to the heart of the forest, to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselve ...e beauty in the violence, and lightening it with compelling characters and black humour. All the while, he raises serious questions about our world – not
  5 KB (765 words) - 13:45, 26 September 2020
• The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington
  ...nsported against their will across the continent. One, an African Moorish beauty is being delivered to the King of Spain as ransom payment, but she and two ...e main protagonists are settled as people and not as devices for inspiring black humour, that I satisfactorily felt positive about things.
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