Traveling Shoes
10 best books like Traveling Shoes (Noel Streatfeild): The Bookshop on the Shore, The Violets of March, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise, Part 1, Das doppelte Lottchen, Das fliegende Klassenzimmer, The Road to Camlann. The Death of King Arthur, Eight Stories from The Rest of the Robots, Messages from My Father: A Memoir, The Cat in the Box
The Bookshop on the Shore
| Author | Jenny Colgan |
| ISBN | 0062850180 |
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.
Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life...
| Author | Sarah Jio |
| ISBN | 0452297036 |
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2011
A heartbroken woman stumbled upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.
In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever...
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 1473680336 |
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise, Part 1
| Author | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1595828117 |
If you're a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender, I recommend checking out this graphic novel!
Why You Should Read The Promise:• The comic is set just after the end of ATLA, so this is the perfect book to read if the ending of the series left you wanting more!
• The artwork is stunning, it feels...
| Author | Erich Kästner |
| ISBN | 3791530119 |
Luise, neun Jahre alt und ziemlich frech, muss den Sommer fern von Wien in einem Ferienheim verbringen. Dort staunt sie nicht schlecht, als sie die brave Lotte aus München trifft: Denn die sieht genauso aus wie sie! Die Mädchen beschließen, dem Geheimnis ihrer Ähnlichkeit auf den Grund zu gehen,...
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
| Author | Erich Kästner |
| ISBN | 3791530151 |
Seit Jahren sind die Schüler des Internats Kirchberg und der benachbarten Realschule verfeindet. Beide Gruppen denken sich die verrücktesten Streiche aus, um die anderen zu ärgern. Als die Realschüler die Diktathefte der Gymnasiasten klauen und dabei auch noch einen Schüler gefangen nehmen,...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0525440186 |
This book is lovely, too. I didn't quite cry, really, but there was a certain tight ache in my throat at certain points. The bittersweetness is much closer to the bitter than the sweet in this book, but thankfully I didn't feel like I had to hate any character for the way they treated the others -- they were...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0425061191 |
This is an anthology of eight of Asimov's short stories about robots:
Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
Victory Unintentional
First Law
Let's Get Together
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Risk
Lenny
Galley Slave
From the book's back cover:
ROBOTS
Mechanical...
| Author | Calvin Trillin |
| ISBN | 0374525080 |
"Messages From My Father" "The man was stubborn, " says Calvin Trillin -- the second most stubborn member of the Trillin family -- to begin his fond, wry and affecting memoir of his father. Abe Trillin had the western Missouri accent of someone who had grown up in St. Joseph and the dreams of America of someone...
| Author | Chris Ferrie |
| ISBN | 1492671231 |
Finally, a simplified explanation of Schr�dinger's cat paradox for quantum mechanics enthusiasts!
Have you been lying awake at night pondering quantum superposition? Have you fretted about how to explain its flawed interpretation? Are you a fan of Schr�dinger's cat? Or do you know...
