Through My Eyes - The Autobiography of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton)

Through My Eyes - The Autobiography of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

Blurb: 'This is the story of a little girl who lived, and breathed, and loved, and was loved. She was part of me. She grew within my body and when she died, part of me died, and nothing will ever alter that fact. This is her story, and mind.' - Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

'Page after page demolishes the myth and fables that have been spun around a nation's obsession with the baby's disappearance.' - The Sydney Morning Herald

'What first struck me on meeting Lindy was her sense of humour and surprising lack of bitterness. Here is a woman who has been under such macabre and intense public scrutiny and yet through all the tabloid hysteria they haven't managed to capture the real Lindy at all. There are so many myths about Lindy and the Chamberlain case that have still not been dispelled and to read this book is to get closer to the truth behind the story that has continued to fascinate Australia for the past 24 years.' - Miranda Otto, Actress

ISBN: 0975114530 (Paperback)

Year: 1990/2004

Publisher: East Street Publications

Pages: 804 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Author's official site

2. Wikipedia page for the author

3. Publisher's page for the book

4. Goodreads page

5. Buy from Dymocks

The Wind Through the Keyhole - The Dark Tower #4.5 (Stephen King)

The Wind Through the Keyhole - The Dark Tower #4.5

Stephen King

Blurb: For readers new to Stephen King's epic seven-volume fantasy masterpiece The Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole is both a stand-alone novel and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is an enchanting Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, which features both the younger and older Roland Deschain - Mid-World's last gunslinger - on his quest to find the Dark Tower. 

For the legions of fans it is a gift of deeper insight and a chance to discover what happened to Roland and his ka-tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.

We join Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. As they shelter from the screaming wind and the snapping trees, Roland tells them not just one strange tale, but two - and in doing so sheds fascinating light on his own troubled past. 

In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death, Roland is sent by his father to a ranch to investigate a recent slaughter. Here Roland discovers a bloody churn of bootprints, clawed animal tracks, terrible carnage - evidence that the 'skin-man', a shape shifter, is at work. There is only one surviving witness; a brave but terrified boy called Bill Streeter. 

Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind Through the Keyhole'. 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' 

And stories like these, they live for us. 

ISBN: 9781444731712 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton 

Pages: 335 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Author's official site

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Review of the book

5. Another review

Disney's Alice Through the Alphabet (Timothy Webb; Illustrated by Iboix Estudi)

Disney's Alice Through the Alphabet

Timothy Webb; Illustrated by Iboix Estudi

Blurb: Once upon a time and in a land far, far away,

A young girl stared into the sky, to dream away her day,

But then a rabbit charged straight past, a watch clasped in her hand.

And raced into a burrow that led straight to Wonderland.

Alice quickly followed, filled with curious delight.

But failed to see that her own world was vanishing from sight.

She raced into a land that brimmed with much magic and strife -

A Wonderland in which the alphabet was brought to life!

ISBN: 9781741921793 (Hardback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Parragon

Pages: 64 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from QBD

2. Google books page

3. Disney

4. Wikipedia for the film the book is based on

5. Youtube clip from the film

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

Blurb: Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom she finds herself in a bizarre world full of strange creatures, and attends a very odd tea party and croquet match. This immensely witty and unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, to provide an astute depiction of the experience of childhood.

ISBN: 9780099512073 (Paperback)

Year: 1992 (1865 & 1871 originally)

Publisher: Vintage Books

Pages: 327 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Good reads page

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Google books page

5. E-notes on the book

Quidditch Through Through The Ages (Kennilworthy Whisp/J.K. Rowling)

Quidditch Through The Ages

Kennilworthy Whisp (J.K. Rowling)

Blurb: If you have ever asked yourself where the Golden Snitch came from, how the Bludgers came into existence or why the Wigtown Wanderers have pictures of meat cleavers on their robes, you need Quidditch Through the Ages. This limited edition is a copy of the volume in Hogwarts School Library where it is consulted by young Quidditch fans on an almost daily basis.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Comic Relief, who will use your money to continue improving and saving lives - work that is even more important and astonishing than the three and a half second capture of the Golden Snitch by Roderick Plumpton in 1921.

ISBN: 0747554714 (Paperback)

Year: 2001

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Pages: 56 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Google books page

4. Good reads page

5. Blog on the book