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Marple: Twelve New Stories (2022) — Publisher — 483 exemplares
Collins Pocket French Dictionary (1978) 346 exemplares
Collins German Concise Dictionary (1992) 273 exemplares
Collins Gem English Dictionary (1977) 270 exemplares
Collins Gem Spanish Dictionary (1993) 213 exemplares
Good Night, Baby Donald (1987) 182 exemplares
Collins Italian Concise Dictionary (2005) 169 exemplares
Collins French Dictionary (1982) 106 exemplares
Collins Gem French Verb Tables (1980) 105 exemplares
Atlas of the Human Body (1994) 72 exemplares
Collins Gem Welsh Dictionary (1992) 63 exemplares
The Gay Pillow Book (1995) 42 exemplares
Collins Dictionary of Science (2005) 34 exemplares
Element Encyclopedia of Fairies (2014) 34 exemplares
Collins Pocket Scots Dictionary (1996) 29 exemplares
Collins Pocket World Atlas (1993) 28 exemplares
Collins Pocket Chinese Dictionary (2005) 24 exemplares
My First Book of Animals (2011) 24 exemplares
Collins Junior Atlas (2014) 24 exemplares
J.R.R Tolkien (1998) 23 exemplares
Collins Discovery World Atlas (2004) 20 exemplares
Halliwell's Film Guide 2008 (2007) 20 exemplares
Tolkien's Hobbit Postcard Book (1997) 20 exemplares
HarperCollins New World Atlas (2003) 18 exemplares
My First Book of Science (2013) 17 exemplares
Collins Pocket Russian Dictionary (2008) 16 exemplares
The World Giant Discovery Atlas (1992) 16 exemplares
My First Book of World Flags (2011) 14 exemplares
My First Book of the Solar System (2013) 14 exemplares
Longman World History Atlas (1996) 13 exemplares
World Flags (2011) 13 exemplares
Collins Express German Dictionary (2006) 13 exemplares
Solar System (2011) 12 exemplares
Collins German Dictionary (2007) 11 exemplares
Collins German dictionary (2019) 10 exemplares
Baa Baa Tom Sheep (2004) 10 exemplares
My First Book of Transport (2013) 9 exemplares
My First Dictionary (1997) 9 exemplares
Card Tricks (Collins GEM) (2002) 9 exemplares
Collins Complete World Atlas (2005) 9 exemplares
The Tolkien Diary 1999 (1998) 8 exemplares
First Names (1996) 7 exemplares
Collins Pocket Thesaurus (2002) 7 exemplares
Collins English Mini Dictionary (1992) 7 exemplares
GUIA DE CONVERSACION FRANCES (2001) 7 exemplares
Palmistry (Collins Gem) (2000) 7 exemplares
Famous Scots (Collins Gems) (1995) 7 exemplares
Collins Gem Flags (1986) 6 exemplares
Collins Ringbinder Dictionary (1995) 6 exemplares
Geography (Collins Gems) (2002) 6 exemplares
Zodiac Types (Collins Gem) (2004) 6 exemplares
HarperCollins Business French (1992) 6 exemplares
Maths Dictionary (2002) 5 exemplares
Big Slide (Bing) (2015) 5 exemplares
World of Animals (1980) 5 exemplares
Collins My First Book Solar System (2011) — Autor — 5 exemplares
Color and Create Snowflakes, Frost, and Crystals (2015) — Autor — 5 exemplares
Color Your Own Monet and the Impressionists (2016) — Autor — 5 exemplares
Bing Hide and Seek (Bing) (2015) 4 exemplares
Sweet Sixteen #5: Marisa (2000) 4 exemplares
DIC CO GEM FRANCES/ESPAÑO (2006) 4 exemplares
Spirits (1999) 4 exemplares
Mathematics (Collins Gem) (2002) 4 exemplares
Dogs (Collins Gem) 3 exemplares
Earth and Space (It's a Fact) (1997) 3 exemplares
Diy Tips (Collins Gem) (2004) 3 exemplares
Happy Birthday (Me to You) (2009) 3 exemplares
Superscale London Map (1999) 3 exemplares
The Times Cryptic Crossword 17 (2013) 3 exemplares
Italy - Everyman Guide (1998) 3 exemplares
Spain (Off the Beaten Track) (1989) 3 exemplares
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia (2005) 3 exemplares
Godzilla Movie Postcard Book (1998) 2 exemplares
Collins Gem English-Hindi (2011) 2 exemplares
Ireland Visitors Map (1999) 2 exemplares
Jersey (Collins Holiday Map) (1998) 2 exemplares
Collins Mini English Dictionary (2000) 2 exemplares
Sunday Times Cryptic Crossword (2005) 2 exemplares
Our Baby: A Journal (1994) 2 exemplares
Dublin Streetfinder Atlas (1999) 2 exemplares
English with BO and CO PB 1 (2014) 2 exemplares
Thank You (Me to You) (2009) 2 exemplares
My Awesome Year Being 8 (2020) 2 exemplares
India in Space (2020) 2 exemplares
Gem World Records (Collins Gem) (1998) 2 exemplares
Atlas of the World Atlas (2009) 2 exemplares
2000 Map of Britain (1999) 2 exemplares
Colorful London (1984) 2 exemplares
A Reader's Guide to the God of Small Things (1998) — Publisher — 1 exemplar
Formula One (2000) 1 exemplar
Sidney Sheldon 1 exemplar
Our Wedding: A Journal (1994) 1 exemplar
Wine 1 exemplar
Bnight Sky 1 exemplar
Collins Gem: Film Stars Pb (1999) 1 exemplar
trees 1 exemplar
My Awesome Year Being 7 (2020) 1 exemplar
Collins Gem - Feng Shui (2008) 1 exemplar
My Awesome Year Being 10 (2020) 1 exemplar
Hello, Bing! (Tabbed Board) (2023) 1 exemplar
Paddington Bear (2008) 1 exemplar
Darkness at Dawn (1994) 1 exemplar
The Solar System 1 exemplar
Collins School Thesaurus (2005) 1 exemplar
SHIFU 1 exemplar
Holy Bible (2011) 1 exemplar
SCRAM THE SKUNK 1 exemplar
How Things Work 2 1 exemplar
New Collins Quiz Book (2000) 1 exemplar
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Times Killer Su Doku Book 5 (2009) 1 exemplar
Canada (2001) 1 exemplar
Superscale London Map (1998) 1 exemplar
Kenya and Tanzania 1 exemplar
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Collection of Marple short stories. Great intro to some other authors
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littlel | 25 outras críticas | Jan 6, 2024 |
I started reading this book because I was in the middle of a career change when the current shitshow hit, and felt the need to brush up and organise my English grammar. Most of the times, I was thinking 'Yeah, I know that'. Some other times I felt 'All right, I was using that the correct way unconsciously and now here comes a rule explaining it and I am starting to feel utterly confused'. I'm not so sure right now that it was a good idea. Anyway.

It is very clearly structured, with (tapable) cross-references, a comprehensive and easy to follow guide to English grammar. However, I found 10 mistakes (missing words, typos, wrong examples - I mean examples for the next rule, not the one discussed, etc). In a reference book like this, it is quite a problem. I reported most of them (didn't remember to do so for the first couple of instances, sorry) through the app (it's a kindle edition). Hopefully, these will be corrected when an update is released.

As it ended with a chapter on punctuation, it helped me to decide which of the two books I was keeping at my bedside to read next. Eats, Shoots & Leaves it is, then.
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blueisthenewpink | Jan 3, 2024 |
A set of 12 authors each provided a short Miss Marple story in this anthology. As with any anthology, it is a mixed bag. Some tried a bit to hard to be different, moving Miss Marple to New York, Italy or a boat to Hing King, each of which felt a bit too far fetched to work. Other stuck more closely to home and they fared better. In one instance the voice of the teller was the first person, in this case the vicar finding yet another body in his house. There were a few quite successful ones with MIss Marple in a village location with an old friend each time. The most successful was by Natalie Haynes, and was the one that I was sure I'd read before, it had Miss Marple at Gossington Hall with Dolly & Arthur Bantry, Henry Clithering, Raymond & Joan. The missing jewels were carefully hidden, and I was sure I'd read that hiding place before - and I was right, as it was inspired by a book that the jewel thieves' nephew was reading and I have also read. It was very cleverly done, used a known setting and known characters and a borrowed plot. Simple but effective.
It was interesting that while some of the stories made reference to Miss Marple's youth, none tried to set a story in her younger days, she remains a little old lady in each of these stories. Maybe we can't imagine her any other way.
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Helenliz | 25 outras críticas | Dec 2, 2023 |
Miss Marple Returns!
Review of the William Morrow paperback & Kindle editions (September 5, 2023) of the William Morrow hardcover original (September 13, 2022).

[45/60 Average = 3.75/5 rounded up to a GR 4]
These 12 new stories by various contemporary authors feature Agatha Christie's amateur senior sleuth Miss Marple back to solve what are otherwise inexplicable mysteries. I was already familiar with more than half of the writers, who are not all otherwise known for mysteries or detective stories. On the whole everyone did a fair to excellent job.

In the kind, warm glow of the fire the marks of old age were flatteringly blurred. Jane Marple was so little changed, in the important details, from her girlhood self. The quick, birdlike manner, the bright, inquisitive eyes, the sense of a quiet, perhaps even formidable intelligence.


My favourites ***** were the ones that had Miss Marple back on her home ground in the village of St. Mary Mead (#2, #5 & #12). #8 was my other favourite, for a very clever plot which included a Caribbean-based amateur sleuth as Miss Marple's partner in crime-solving. Many of the others had Miss Marple travelling to various exotic locations, always funded by her generous nephew Raymond West, which admittedly is still in keeping with the canon (i.e. A Caribbean Mystery).

#10 was a bit of an odd-ball story in that it had Miss Marple visiting with her nephew Raymond West's grand-daughter. I think most would picture Miss Marple in the original stories (1927 to 1976) as a permanent or slowly aging 60 to 80 years old. Jumping an entire 2 generations would seem to add 40 years or so to her age i.e. making her 100 to 120 years old. Or, perhaps like the best of fictional characters, she is simply immortal😊.

1. Evil in Small Places by Lucy Foley. **** Miss Marple visits an old school colleague when the local choir leader is found murdered.

2. The Second Murder at the Vicarage by Val McDermid. ***** A sequel to the 1st Miss Marple novel The Murder at the Vicarage with many of the same characters. McDermid captures the atmosphere of the original very well.

3. Miss Marple Takes Manhattan by Alyssa Cole. *** Miss Marple joins her nephew Raymond West and his wife Joan in a trip to NYC to attend the opening of a theatrical adaptation of his first novel. An apparent death occurs at the theatre dress rehearsal.

4. The Unravelling by Natalie Haynes. **** A man appears on a family doorstep and is later murdered for no apparent reason. I had expected that this one would somehow tie-into Greco-Roman classical myths based on my other readings of Natalie Haynes, but it didn’t. It did however tie-in to a rather famous historical court case from the middle ages 🤐 .

5. Miss Marple’s Christmas by Ruth Ware. ***** Miss Marple spends Christmas with her nephew Raymond and his wife Joan visiting her. They attend Christmas dinner at the Bantrys, along with several others, when a jewelry theft occurs.

6. The Open Mind by Naomi Alderman. *** Miss Marple attends a Founders’ Dinner at St. Bede College when an apparent murder occurs.

7. The Jade Empress by Jean Kwok. *** Miss Marple is on a cruise to Hong Kong on the Jade Empress cruise line when a murder occurs on board the ship.

8. A Deadly Wedding Day by Dreda Say Mitchell. ***** Miss Marple attends a wedding where one of the guests is apparently poisoned. The groom’s parents want to cover up that a death has occurred.

9. Murder at the Villa Rosa by Elly Griffiths. ** Probably the oddest story in the collection. A writer who is apparently planning a murder goes on a vacation to the Villa Rosa where he meets a strange collection of people including Miss Marple. Once the reveal comes it is a bit of a letdown.

10. The Murdering Sort by Karen M. McManus. *** Miss Marple is again on vacation in Cape Cod with her nephew Raymond’s grand-daughter(? This seems like a completely unrealistic jump in generations) Nicola. A friend of Nicola asks Miss Marple to investigate why her family’s patriarch is suspicious of his family trying to murder him.

11. The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse. *** Miss Marple meets a curate on a train and is asked to help find his missing girlfriend.

12. The Disappearance by Leigh Bardugo. ***** Miss Marple is called back from a London trip by her old friend Mrs. Bantry who is living in the Lodge at her old residence Gossington Hall. The scion of the new owners has gone missing with the family jewels. Also, the body of a local girl has been found, a suicide or murder?

I could not properly utilize the Berengaria Ease of Solving Scale® for these mysteries. In short stories the reveal comes along so soon that you really have no time to analyze or ponder the clues. I would thus rate all of these at the high end of the scale as 8s to 10s (i.e. almost impossible to solve by the reader), even if the bad 'un may be somewhat obvious due to Ebert's Law of the Economy of Characters.
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alanteder | 25 outras críticas | Nov 29, 2023 |

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Membros
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Popularidade
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Avaliação
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