We have the Wicked Witch, Princess Dorthea of Emerald (Wizard of Oz vibes, anyone?) and we get to meet other familiar characters throughout the series. It makes fun of the typical fairytale cliches and tropes while keeping it adventurous with some darkness. If you love the retelling genre then you’d really enjoy this series. I don’t want to go into too much detail and spoil the other books for new readers. This book picks up where WANTED left off – so for those who haven’t read the rest of the series I would highly recommend picking up books one and two! Princess Dorthea of Emerald is a great lead for this retelling and her feisty sidekick Rexi. I’ve loved the Storymakers series since SPELLED. This is book three in the series, check out books one ( SPELLED) and two ( WANTED). Thanks to Sourcebooks FIRE for the copy I won in a giveaway through Instagram.
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Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives - how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues others have an admittedly freakish quality. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life - from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing - and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. Wade have on violent crime? Freakonomics will literally redefine the way we view the modern world. Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? 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Family relationships are put in the spotlight, as is the age-old debate between faith and reason, with the narrator of this tale often changing his own ideas and beliefs as he sifts through the past to find answers. Historian George Grantley agrees to find a property for his school-friend Kit. While The Scarlet Boy is an unsettling, creepy ghost story and a good haunted house tale, there's a lot more going on here than just a simple haunting. Arthur Calder-Marshalls unusual haunted house story The Scarlet Boy (1961) is a rediscovered supernatural classic whose slow-building dread mounts inexorably. 'A variation on the theme of The Turn of the Screw in the manner of Graham Greene with an olive from The Cocktail Party and a dash of Dashiell Hammett.' Cyril ConnollyFirst published in 1961, The Scarlet Boy saw the versatile Arthur Calder-Marshall venturing into gothic terrain with a study in the paranormal. 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