Warner

Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over her long writing career, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and...

"Office 365 is Microsoft's #1 productivity suite, and this book helps you get work accomplished with it right away. The minibooks found inside explain how to use each application, how the applications work together, what commands and features are common to all the tools, ways you can streamline your work,, and how to collaborate online with other users." -- Back cover.

"Esmond and Ilia follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs. Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman. With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged...

"Being both a valkyrie and a princess isn't turning out quite the way Sigrid imagined. The other valkyries still treat her like a stable hand. Her relationship with Mariam is less "long-distance" and more "worlds apart." And lately, she's been wondering if Sleipnir, her new horse, isn't making her a little bit...well, evil. But Sigrid's first official valkyrie mission sends ripples through the Nine Worlds. She's attracted the wrath of not only the...

"The Aldens visit the shore in New Jersey and help out at an amusement pier that is rumored to be unsafe"--

The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.

"Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're spending a week at Camp Seagull on beautiful Claw Island. When they arrive at Camp Seagull, the Alden children look forward to a week of new friends, exciting activities, and most of all, the annual camp Olympics. But as soon as camp begins, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny realize that someone is not playing fair. Everything...

The Alden children stumble upon a mystery when they enter their dog, Watch, in a contest that could lead to fame and fortune, but where things keep going wrong.

The Aldens are excited to meet their favorite celebrityWalter the Cat, who makes the funniest videos on the Internet! And when this celebrity cat inherits a million dollars from his owner, he becomes even more famous! But someone seems to be angry about the will and is stealing things from Walters house. Is this cat too famous for his own good?

The Aldens become involved in a community theater production of "The Wizard of Oz," which is systematically and mysteriously being sabotaged.