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D. E. Stevenson
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Dorothy Emily Stevenson was a best-selling Scottish author. She published more than 40 light romantic novels over a span of more than 40 years, Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1892. Her father was David Alan Stevenson, an engineer and first cousin to author Robert Louis Stevenson. A commemorative plaque marking the house where she was born was mounted in 2016 and she began writing at a young age but hid her efforts because her parents and governesses disapproved. Her father refused to send her to university, lest she become a bluestocking, in 1916 Stevenson married James Reid Peploe, a captain in the 6th Ghurkha Rifles. Her 1932 novel Mrs. Tim of the Regiment, which describes her life as a British army wife, was based on her personal diary and she wrote most of her books while living in the town of Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Her novels were best-sellers, with more than seven million copies printed and her last book was published in 1969. Stevenson published under the name DE Stevenson or D. E. Stevenson, Stevenson published three volumes of poetry, two of them before her novels. Miss Buncles Book,1934 Miss Buncle Married,1936 The Two Mrs, Miss Buncle spills into The Four Graces as well as Spring Magic, and her book is described in Anna and her Daughters. Celias House inspired Listening Valley, where Celia makes a re-appearance and we hear of her again during Anna and Her Daughters. Anna pops up briefly in the Katherine books which link with Charlotte Fairlie, later Sarah Morris ends up in Ryddelton in Sarahs Cottage to be befriended by Debbie and to hear about Tonia and Charlotte Fairlie. More links exist from the Katherine books, via Mr Sandford the lawyer, the Katherine books also tell us more about MacAslan who we first meet in Smouldering Fire. Stevensons last book, The House of the Deer revisits the MacAslan family in the second generation, Gerald and Elizabeth enter into the saga around Drumburly and re-introduce Freda from Five Windows. Jock from the Music in the Hills trilogy also knows of Freda, bel Lamington links into these books. Bels friend Margaret was a Musgrave, and there are links from The Musgraves to The Tall Stranger, the Musgraves give a tenuous link back to Ryddelton via The Mulberry Coach, a story written by one of Annas daughters and nearly performed by Delia Musgrave. Another recurring character is the author Janetta Walters, whose light romantic novels are either loved or loathed by Stevenson characters and we first hear of her books in Mrs. Tim Carries On and Spring Magic. She appears in person in The Two Mrs. Abbotts and The Four Graces, some of Stevensons most popular books are being reissued. Persephone Books reprinted Miss Buncles Book in 2008 and Miss Buncle Married in 2011, Mrs. Tim of the Regiment was reprinted by Bloomsbury in 2010
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The Hardy Boys
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The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in various mystery series for children and teens. The books are published under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon, the Hardy Boys have evolved in various ways since their first appearance in 1927. Beginning in 1959, the books were revised, partially to eliminate racial stereotypes. The books were written in a simpler style in an attempt to compete with television. Some critics argue that in the process, the Hardy Boys changed, becoming more respectful of the law and simultaneously more affluent, agents of the ruling class. Most, however, saw the updates as an attempt to make the style of the more modern. Similar complaints were made about the updates to the comparable girls series Nancy Drew, a new Hardy Boys series, the Hardy Boys Casefiles, was created in 1987, and featured murders, violence, and international espionage. The original Hardy Boys Mystery Stories series ended in 2005, a new series, Undercover Brothers, was launched the same year, featuring updated versions of the characters who narrate their adventures in the first person. The Undercover Brothers ended in 2012 and was replaced in 2013 by The Hardy Boys Adventures, through all these changes, the characters have remained popular. The books sell more than a million copies a year, several additional volumes are published annually, and the boys adventures have been translated into more than 25 languages. The Hardy Boys have been featured in games and five television shows and used to promote merchandise such as lunchboxes. The Hardy Boys are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives and they live in the city of Bayport on Barmet Bay with their father, detective Fenton Hardy, their mother, Laura Hardy, and their Aunt Gertrude. Frank, the brother, is eighteen, and his younger brother Joe is seventeen. The brothers nominally attend high school in Bayport, where they are in the same grade, in the older stories, the Hardy Boys cases are often linked to the confidential cases their detective father is working on. He sometimes asks them for help, while at times they stumble upon villains. In the Undercover Brothers series, begun in 2005, the Hardys are members of a known as American Teens Against Crime. The Hardy Boys are constantly involved in adventure and action, despite frequent danger, the boys never lose their nerve. They are hardy boys, luckier and more clever than anyone around them and they live in an atmosphere of mystery and intrigue, Never were so many assorted felonies committed in a simple American small town
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Children's literature
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Childrens literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children. Modern childrens literature is classified in two different ways, genre or the age of the reader. Childrens literature can be traced to stories and songs, part of an oral tradition. The development of childrens literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many childrens tales were originally created for adults. Since the 15th century, a quantity of literature, often with a moral or religious message, has been aimed specifically at children. The late nineteenth and early centuries became known as the Golden Age of Childrens Literature as this period included the publication of many books acknowledged today as classics. There is no single or widely used definition of childrens literature and it can be broadly defined as anything that children read or more specifically defined as fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or drama intended for and used by children and young people. The International Companion Encyclopedia of Childrens Literature notes that the boundaries of genre. are not fixed but blurred, sometimes, no agreement can be reached about whether a given work is best categorized as literature for adults or children. Rowlings Harry Potter series was written and marketed for young adults, the series extreme popularity led The New York Times to create a separate best-seller list for childrens books. Despite the widespread association of childrens literature with picture books, spoken narratives existed before printing, seth Lerer, in the opening of Childrens Literature, A Readers History from Aesop to Harry Potter, says, This book presents a history of what children have heard and read. The history I write of is a history of reception, early childrens literature consisted of spoken stories, songs, and poems that were used to educate, instruct, and entertain children. It was only in the 18th century, with the development of the concept of childhood, that a genre of childrens literature began to emerge, with its own divisions, expectations. French historian Philippe Ariès argues in his 1962 book Centuries of Childhood that the concept of childhood only emerged in recent times. He explains that children were in the past not considered as different from adults and were not given significantly different treatment. Pre-modern childrens literature, therefore, tended to be of a didactic and moralistic nature, with the purpose of conveying conduct-related, educational, during the 17th century, the concept of childhood began to emerge in Europe. Adults saw children as separate beings, innocent and in need of protection, the English philosopher John Locke developed his theory of the tabula rasa in his 1690 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. A corollary of this doctrine was that the mind of the child was born blank, and he also suggested that picture books be created for children
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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OCLC
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The Online Computer Library Center is a US-based nonprofit cooperative organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the worlds information and reducing information costs. It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries have to pay for its services, the group first met on July 5,1967 on the campus of the Ohio State University to sign the articles of incorporation for the nonprofit organization. The group hired Frederick G. Kilgour, a former Yale University medical school librarian, Kilgour wished to merge the latest information storage and retrieval system of the time, the computer, with the oldest, the library. The goal of network and database was to bring libraries together to cooperatively keep track of the worlds information in order to best serve researchers and scholars. The first library to do online cataloging through OCLC was the Alden Library at Ohio University on August 26,1971 and this was the first occurrence of online cataloging by any library worldwide. Membership in OCLC is based on use of services and contribution of data, between 1967 and 1977, OCLC membership was limited to institutions in Ohio, but in 1978, a new governance structure was established that allowed institutions from other states to join. In 2002, the structure was again modified to accommodate participation from outside the United States. As OCLC expanded services in the United States outside of Ohio, it relied on establishing strategic partnerships with networks, organizations that provided training, support, by 2008, there were 15 independent United States regional service providers. OCLC networks played a key role in OCLC governance, with networks electing delegates to serve on OCLC Members Council, in early 2009, OCLC negotiated new contracts with the former networks and opened a centralized support center. OCLC provides bibliographic, abstract and full-text information to anyone, OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat—the OCLC Online Union Catalog, the largest online public access catalog in the world. WorldCat has holding records from public and private libraries worldwide. org, in October 2005, the OCLC technical staff began a wiki project, WikiD, allowing readers to add commentary and structured-field information associated with any WorldCat record. The Online Computer Library Center acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the Dewey Decimal Classification System when it bought Forest Press in 1988, a browser for books with their Dewey Decimal Classifications was available until July 2013, it was replaced by the Classify Service. S. The reference management service QuestionPoint provides libraries with tools to communicate with users and this around-the-clock reference service is provided by a cooperative of participating global libraries. OCLC has produced cards for members since 1971 with its shared online catalog. OCLC commercially sells software, e. g. CONTENTdm for managing digital collections, OCLC has been conducting research for the library community for more than 30 years. In accordance with its mission, OCLC makes its research outcomes known through various publications and these publications, including journal articles, reports, newsletters, and presentations, are available through the organizations website. The most recent publications are displayed first, and all archived resources, membership Reports – A number of significant reports on topics ranging from virtual reference in libraries to perceptions about library funding
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The Tower Treasure
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The Tower Treasure is the first volume in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap. The book ranks 55th on Publishers Weeklys All-Time Bestselling Childrens Book List for the United States and this book is one of the Original 10, generally considered by historians and critics of childrens literature to be the best examples of all the Hardy Boys, and Stratemeyer Syndicate, writing. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1927, between 1959 and 1973 the first 38 volumes were systematically revised as part of a project directed by Harriet Adams, Edward Stratemeyers daughter. While some volumes only had minor changes, the version of this book had the plot significantly rewritten in 1959 by Harriet S. Adams. The story begins with Frank and Joe Hardy barely avoiding being hit by a driver who they notice has bright red hair. Later, this same red-haired driver attempts a ferryboat ticket office robbery and successfully steals a yellow jalopy called Queen from the Hardys friend, due to one witness reporting that the villain had dark hair, the Hardys assume he is using a red wig. It is learned that the returned to Chets home to steal a tire, helping Frank. Hurd Applegate is convinced that the Towers caretaker, Henry Robinson, is the guilty party, the only proof of Henry Robinsons guilt is that he was suddenly able to pay off a debt, and refused to reveal where he got the money to pay off the debt. The Hardys suspect that the man may be involved with the Tower robbery and search the place where The Queen was found. The Hardys dad, detective Fenton Hardy, learns that the wig was manufactured in New York City, the three Hardys go to New York and learn of a criminal named John Red Jackley who is fond of using disguises. Soon, Jackley is injured in a railroad handcar accident causing him to be hospitalized, about to die, Jackley confesses that he committed the Tower Mansion robbery and put the loot in the old tower… Jackley dies before he is able to explain further. After searches inside and outside of the Tower Mansion the stolen loot is still not found, Frank and Joe decide to go to the railroad where Jackley used to work to find out more information. While investigating, they see two water towers nearby, the Hardys realize that Jackley was referring to the old water tower and not the Tower Mansion. Inside the water tower they find the items but are locked in the tower by a man calling himself Hobo Johnny. Johnny feels that anything in the tower belongs to him, Frank and Joe break out of the water tower and return the securities and jewelry. Then they are rewarded a thousand dollars for returning the missing jewels, in the original version of the book Henry admits that a man who owed him money repaid a debt to him, but he was not allowed to tell anyone in case the mans other debtors found out. This was revised in the 1959 version such that Adelia reveals that she loaned Henry Robinson the money to pay off his debt. Following the revelations and with the stolen loot returned, Hurd re-hires Henry with an increase in salary, Adelia Applegate Hurd Applegate Chief Collig Fenton Hardy Frank Hard Joe Hardy Laura Hardy John ‘‘Red’’ Jackley Hobo Johnny Chet Morton Iola Morton Mr. Morton Mrs. Morton Henry Robinson Mrs
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The Secret of the Old Mill
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The Secret of the Old Mill is Volume 3 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap. The book ranks 86th on Publishers Weeklys All-Time Bestselling Childrens Book List for the United States and this book is one of the Original 10, some of the best examples of the Hardy Boys, and Stratemeyer Syndicate, writing. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1927, between 1959 and 1973 the first 38 volumes of this series were systematically revised as part of a project directed by Harriet Adams, Edward Stratemeyers daughter. The original version of book was rewritten in 1962 by Alistair Hunter resulting in two different stories with the same title. The Hardy boys learn a case of money is somehow intertwined with a national security case their dad is working on. Frank and Joe help prevent 14-year-old cyclist Ken Blake from getting killed in an accident, as they help the boy up they see he is delivering an envelope to Victor Peters, a name that means something to the Hardys later on in the book. Later, Joe is awakened by a sound and sees a mysterious figure bicycling away from the Hardys home. While investigating the disturbance a note is found that reads, Drop case or else danger for you and your family. The Hardy boys are not sure if this refers to the counterfeiting case that Frank and Joe are investigating or another case their detective dad. The Hardys go with Chet, who wants to apply for a job at Elekton Controls, a missile-development company, but are told by Mr. Markel, one of Elektons security guards, that there are no openings. Before leaving, they notice a bike that looks similar to the one ridden by Ken Blake, the Hardys, their girlfriends, Iola Morton and Callie Shaw and Chet go nearby to have a picnic but an arrow is shot at them with an attached note reading, Danger. The Hardy brothers receive a gift of a motorboat they call The Sleuth, Tony says the construction supply yard he is working at for the summer has become the latest to receive counterfeit money used to pay for lumber by a boy matching the description of Ken Blake. The Hardys take The Sleuth to the mill to investigate and find the mill wheel starting and stopping, soon, they are attacked and left without gas in their new boat. They recover and get back to investigating by finding Ken who says he thinks someone has used his bike the night that Joe saw someone bicycling from the Hardys home. Markel and Docker pull Ken away and then a suspicious vehicle leaves Elekton, later, the same suspicious vehicle gets away before an explosion at Elekton. Frank and Joe are terrified that their dad is inside the burning building, eager to learn more from Ken, the Hardys soon find that Ken has been released from Elekton. The Hardys find him at a house and he explains that the bricks. Frank and Joe return to the old mill and realize that the mill is set up to act as a signaling device for the people living inside
