Central Skagit Library District

"An irresistible novel that hurls forward at breathtaking speed toward an unpredictable climax."
—Thrity Umrigar, bestselling author of The Space Between Us

"Beautifully written, atmospheric...contains entire worlds. I couldn't put it down."
—Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan

Miss Timmins' School for Girls is the truly dazzling debut of a major novelist, Nayana Currimbhoy.

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Books by Thomas Timmins Novels: Blood Medicine The Special Fruit Company Down at the River The Hour Between One and Two (Trilogy) Aphrodisiac for an Angel Short Fiction Puff of Time Visions of My Other Self Desert Dusk Music Graphic Verse Novel Zom Poetry I Was Just Laughing Likings for Shadows Buddhist Breathing in America

Sensitive hands He has the most beautiful hands. Long fingers, arced tips, black hair shiny as crow's feathers on his knuckles, palms webbed with fine lines. Grinning, he says the tangle of lines means he's ultra-sensitive. He's sensitive, but not the way you'd expect. I say "You're shallow." He shrugs. I tease him until he's turned on, then make a married woman's excuse and split. He smiles. Always eager to see me, never mentions I'm married. Sensitive...

Smoke My other self, cries out in her crow voice, more wind in it than snarl... from somewhere, there, off to my left... he sits there in the clearing, in a grassy bowl at the bottom of the hill... he's smoking, watching me... a tall hat of smoke rises around his head... where's your brother, he asks me... he gets up from his rock chair... where's your shining stone house I say... maybe my brother is there I say... maybe your brother is there he...

A LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR. The award-winning history of the British Welfare State -now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century. Giant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. Giant Idleness. These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction of Britain. The battle against them was fought by five gargantuan programmes that made up the core of the Welfare State: social security, health, education,...

Read along with Disney! This is the story of Ella. When she was a little girl, her mother and father taught her to be kind. They taught her to be good. But one sad day her mother passed away. When her father remarried, her new stepfamily was mean to her. They called her Cinderella since they made her sleep by the fire. But her kindness won the heart of a man named Kit. Ella hoped to see him at the royal ball. But Ella's stepfamily was jealous of Ella's...

Many years ago there lived an emperor who was so fond of clothes that he cared about nothing else. The emperor cared about clothes so much that he had a different costume for every hour of the day. One day the minister of weaving told the emperor that "two of the finest weavers in the whole world" had come to the city. These weavers claimed that they knew how to make the finest cloth imaginable; a material with the amazing property to be invisible

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Macabre, ironic, and witty epitaphs share how prehistoric creatures like the terror bird, the woolly mammoth, and the T-rex met their demise. The ever-entertaining J. Patrick Lewis and the inimitable Jane Yolen offer a collection organized by era, with posthumous poems paired with short secondary text providing additional, factual information about each creature.

Five of the world''s greatest fairy tales, retold in the popular and attractive graphic novel format. Fresh, bold illustrations give these timeless tales a modern edge. The stories include Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, and Hansel and Gretel.

"It's just another day at the office for book editor Samantha Clair ... [including] lunch scheduled with gossipy author Kit Lowell, whose new book will deliciously dish the dirt on the fashion industry. But little does she know how much trouble Kit's book is about to cause-- before it even goes to print. When police inspector Field turns up at the venerable offices of Timmins & Ross, asking questions about an undelivered package that was addressed...