![]() Tweens, especially those with a fairy tale fetish, will devour Ainsley's story." - Children's Literature ![]() "An action-packed week with a bit of real-life fairy tale and a taste of happily ever after thrown in for good measure. Maybe her first experiment started this mess, but her second plan is sure to fix it! Will her two wrongs make a right? Sure, LB has never seen a superhero movie or drawn a comic, and LB has definitely never done roller derby before - but if Kat likes those things, why not try? As she steps out of her comfort zone and into Kat’s, LB discovers a world of new adventures. She needs a new hypothesis, and fast, to revamp her relationship with Kat before Courtenay can ruin everything again. like Courtenay? Just when she thought things were getting back to normal, LB’s friendships are more confusing than ever! Then the bully from their old school, Courtenay, shows up - pretending to be nice! Worst of all, Kat seems to. Even though her best friend, Kat, says she’s forgiven her for that whole using-science-to-make-herself-popular thing, things are still pretty weird between them. From middle-grade darling Anna Staniszewski comes the story of a girl who might just have friendship down to a science. ![]()
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![]() Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman her precocious and observant daughter, Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife and their master’s daughter, Varina. ![]() I was transported." (Amy Bloom, New York Times best-selling author of White Houses and Away )Ĭonjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times.Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize ![]() ![]() A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing - and for the conjuring of curses - are at the heart of this dazzling first novel ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Ransom on his way to Mars, “Lewis” is terrified about the prospect of meeting some creature not of this world. Lewis begins the second book of the trilogy with himself as a character, trekking out to a remote cottage to meet his friend Ransom.“Lewis” had been told all about Ransom’s adventures on Mars and suspected that his otherworldly friend was currently entertaining strange visitors here on earth. ![]() Unsuspecting reader that I was, I picked up Perelandra in hopes of a good adventure story, not expecting light fiction to have much to say about my faith. ![]() In the first book, Out of the Silent Planet (which I read second), Lewis told the story of Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge professor who is abducted and carried off to Mars, where he learns the true story of what is actually going on in our corner of the cosmos. Perelandra is the second book of the “Space trilogy” (more accurately called the Ransom trilogy). Instead of finding something to wile away a few idle hours, I had stumbled across a book that turned my world upside down (or, more accurately, turned it back right side up). What I wasn’t expecting was a novel that would challenge me to re-imagine my faith, that would tackle head-on some of the very questions that I had been grappling with since my early teens. When I first picked up Perelandra, I knew the story had to do with interplanetary travel, so I was expecting a bit of “high brow” science fiction along the lines of H. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. The Bookįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.Īs Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. It served no purpose other than to make me laugh. Generally, when I read nonfiction, I prefer to learn something or improve myself. I recognized Jenny as the author, but didn’t think much more. When Broken by Jenny Lawson showed up at my door, it was pretty much the same thing. She asked for it and I did not investigate or anything. Here’s to another Page One book! I purchased Furiously Happy for my sister last Christmas. ![]() ![]() ![]() White at his New Yorker office with his dachshund Minnie, circa 1950. The items in this exhibit case are drawn from Cornell’s comprehensive collection of White’s papers.Į.B. Collectively, these idealized depictions serve as a paean to a simpler lifestyle and a closer connection between animals and humans. Still more can be attributed to his strikingly vivid descriptions of the natural settings they inhabit: Stuart’s road trip through rural New England, the Zuckerman’s farm, and Louis’s Canadian wilderness. ![]() Much of this appeal can be traced to the care White took to ensure that his creations were grounded in authentic animal behavior. ![]() Stuart Little the mouse-boy, Wilbur the pig, Charlotte the spider, and Louis the swan are so fully-realized, with their stories so masterfully blending realism and fantasy, that they have become touchstones of children’s literature, endearing themselves to generations of young readers. White’s love of the natural world, particularly its animals, more apparent than in the characters that populate his three books for children. ![]() ![]() Maggie Nelsonīut as I read and reread The Argonauts, what generosity feels like isn’t only a capaciousness of thought. At turns humorous and devastating, and laced with citations from a litany of writers that seamlessly enter the text, The Argonauts is as fantastic as you’ve heard it is: “ Generative and generous ,” “ Generous and intimate ,” “ What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! ” Ecstatically, I fall in line. ![]() ![]() Following the story of Nelson’s relationship with the artist Harry Dodge as he and Nelson form a family - while Dodge takes testosterone injections and undergoes a double mastectomy, and while Nelson becomes pregnant with her their son Iggy - The Argonauts asks us to loosen and undo the binary thinking that limits our experiences of one another. The book’s cultural and personal backdrops show a society beginning to rethink the terms of gender and sexuality, but also a society still reinforcing a violent status quo on desire, love and the terms of the body. Generous is a word that circulates and frames so many descriptions of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, a genre-fluid memoir that was recently awarded the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their august history begins not in antebellum mansions, but with supernatural sorcery in the ancient rites and rituals of dark African jungles. Their family history is rooted not in magnolia and honeysuckle, but in darkness and demonism, in frightening forces beyond their knowledge and control. For this distinguished family is like no other on earth. What will begin, however, with the solemnity of his marriage vows will end in the echoing screams of the damned – an ungodly spectacle of spilled blood and sobbing, throat-aching terror. First in his class at Blue Ridge Military Academy, graduate with all honors, he is now entering into holy matrimony and then into wartime service of his country. Of all his prized sons, his youngest, ‘Clipper’ Bradwin, is the most promising. ![]() The family head, General ‘Boss’ Bradwin, is a famous army officer. The groom’s parents are the Bradwins, one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Romance and mystery readers will enjoy the smooth predictability of the many plot twists, made fresh by a promising backstory and atmospheric setting. ![]() The Louisiana setting lends appropriately oppressive humidity to a story dominated by water in all its changing forms. In this series opener, Kate sows the seed for several more titles filled with magic, action, and romance. Upon inheriting a pendant, a handwritten book in unidentifiable language, and a mysterious stone from her mother, Eureka and friends discover her true legacy-as a descendant of Atlantis whose tears have the power to raise the lost city. Eureka is also torn between new, intense feelings for two young men: childhood best friend Brooks and Ander, an attractive stranger who seems to understand her better than anyone. ![]() Once captain of the cross-country team, she has abandoned the sport she loves and now lives with her unsympathetic stepmother, her caring but ineffectual father, and her beloved four-year-old twin stepsiblings. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Eureka Boudreaux survived the car accident that killed her archaeologist mother, but she is left physically and emotionally battered. ![]() ![]() ![]() 六花の勇者 has received a rating of 6/10 with a vote count of 31. Now on the run, Adlet must utilize his unique skill set and wit in a fight for his life to identify which member of the group is the true impostor before it's too late!. However, when they finally unite, seven heroes are present, and soon the others begin to suspect Adlet to be a fraud. Type: Light Novel Volumes: 6 Chapters: 46 Status: On Hiatus Published: to Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery Serialization: None Authors: Yamagata, Ishio (Story), Terui (Art) Statistics Score: 8. This story follows the two as they embark upon their destined journey to fight the Demon God, intending to meet up with their fellow heroes. Although it doesn't go as smoothly as he had planned, Adlet is ultimately chosen as one of the six heroes shortly after being greeted by Nashetania Loei Piena Augustra, crown princess and fellow Brave. Adlet Mayer, self-proclaimed "Strongest Man in the World," has arrived at the continent of Piena in hopes of becoming a Brave. Legend says, when the Evil God awakens from the deepest of darkness, the god of fate will summon Six Braves and grant them with the power to save the world. The series (Ended) has run for 1 season and consists of 12 episodes, with each lasting 23 minutes. 六花の勇者 is a Scripted Animation TV show written by Ishio Yamagata. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because what we have is a love that never fades away. ![]() I don't just want a damn picture-I want her. Not only do I need an explanation, I need her in my bed once again. ![]() Something from her past is haunting her, and no matter what I do to help her break free, I lose her. We soon find that we're perfect together. With her fiery red hair and crystal-clear blue eyes, the camera loves her. But as good as I am, accidents happen-and thank god for that, because it's what leads me to her. All that matters is the shot: braving danger and devastation in search of a single image with the power to tell someone's story. Maybe some think I'm a loner, but I don't care. After losing my parents, I decided to follow in their footsteps, and now I'm the most daring freelance photographer in the world. My name is Adam Kincaid, and I'm the best at what I do. ![]() |