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It Ends with Us is a romance novel by Colleen Hoover, published by Atria Books on August 2, 2016. Based on the relationship between her mother and father, Hoover described it as "the hardest book I've ever written." It explores themes of domestic violence and emotional abuse.
Washington Square is a novel written in 1880 by Henry James about a father's attempts to thwart a romance between his naïve daughter and the man he believes wishes to marry her for her money. The novel was adapted into a play, The Heiress , which in turn became an Academy Award-winning film starring Olivia de Havilland in the title role.
The Cricket in Times Square is a 1960 children's book by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams. It won the Newbery Honor in 1961. [1] Selden gave this explanation of what was the initial idea for the book: One night I was coming home on the subway, and I did hear a cricket chirp in Times Square. The story formed in my mind within minutes.
Square Books is a general independent bookstore in three separate historic buildings (about 100 feet apart) on the town square of Oxford, Mississippi, widely known among readers as the hub of William Faulkner's "postage stamp of native soil," Yoknapatawpha. The main store, Square Books, is in a two-story building with a cafe and balcony on the ...
NBC. Release. January 4, 1969. ( 1969-01-04) –. December 30, 1977. ( 1977-12-30) Storybook Squares was the name given to a special series of episodes of the NBC game show Hollywood Squares. [1] [2] [3] The series featured celebrities dressed up as famous people and characters from history and various forms of media.
Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables: April 11, 2003 August 26, 2001 – April 14, 2002 (plus week of July 23–28, 2001) ISBN 0-7407-3299-4: Who's Up for Some Bonding? August 1, 2003 April 15, 2002 – December 1, 2002 ISBN 0-7407-3806-2: Am I a Mutant, or What! April 1, 2004 December 2, 2002 – July 27, 2003 ISBN 0-7407-4132-2
The size and proportions of a book depend on the size of the original full sheet. If a sheet 480 by 640 mm (19 by 25 in) is used to print a quarto, the resulting untrimmed pages, will be approximately half as large in each dimension: width 240 mm ( 9⁄ in) and height 320 mm ( 12⁄ in). An octavo page, oriented a quarter turn from the full ...
George Selden Thompson (May 14, 1929 – December 5, 1989) was an American author. Known professionally as George Selden, he also wrote under the pseudonym Terry Andrews. He is best known for his 1961 book The Cricket in Times Square, which received a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963 [1] and a Newbery Honor. [2]