Gail doobinin biography
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The Book Designers of Our Childhood: Who the Hell is Gail Doobinin???
It's strange to deconstruct and consider our lives through the lens of media. In how certain visuals have imprinted on our memories. There are surely some dark tales in that direction. But, for better or worse, there have been so many key visual medias in our lives that for extended periods became as familiar and consistent to us as any close relationship.
For me, one of the largest visual medias in my life growing up was naturally books.
I was constantly surrounded by them: From my own collection, to those held in my school and local libraries, to those my friends and family read.
But it's not the pages and pages of printed words that inom remember. Or for you either, probably.
Outside of the the visual and emotional hallucinations experienced, the most prominent thing I remember is the cover. How I carried it for a part of my life, in hand, in bag; saw it in my room, in family liv
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Cryptid Hunters
2005 novel by Roland Smith
Cryptid Hunters is a 2005 young adult science fiction novel by Roland Smith; it follows the adventures of thirteen-year-old siblings Grace and Marty O'Hara, who are sent to live with their Uncle Wolfe after their parents are lost in an accident. He is an anthropologist on a remote island, searching for cryptids, which are animals thought to be extinct or not to exist. His rival Noah Blackwood, a popular animal collector, tries to acquire an alleged dinosaur egg from Wolfe, and the twins get involved in the conflict which reveals a convoluted family history.[1] The novel was nominated for several library awards and book lists, which include Hawaii's 2008 Nene Recommended Book List,[2] the Texas Library Association's 2007-2008 Lone Star Reading List,[3] and Third Place for the Missouri Association of School Librarians' Mark Twain Readers Award.[4] Smith has written three sequels called Tentacle
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Twilight (Meyer novel)
First novel in the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
"Twilight 1" redirects here. For the film adaptation of the novel, see Twilight (2008 film).
For other uses, see Twilight (disambiguation).
Cover of Twilight | |
| Author | Stephenie Meyer |
|---|---|
| Original title | Forks |
| Cover artist | Gail Doobinin (design) Roger Hagadone (photograph) |
| Language | English |
| Series | Twilight series |
| Genre | Young adult, fantasy, romance, vampire |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | |
| Publication place | United States |
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| ISBN | 978-0-316-16017-9 |
| Followed by | New Moon |
Twilight (stylized as twilight) is a 2005 young adultvampire-romance novel[7][8] by author Stephenie Meyer. It is the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington. She is endangered after fal