![]() ![]() Highly Recommended., Can be enjoyed by young readers as well as reluctant older readers. The plot moves along quickly, and the writing is appropriate to this age group, making it a great choice for children, especially boys, in this age group. A great addition for upper elementary., An entertaining book.The strong moral message in the book will delight the readers' parents, but Hyde manages to make her point without being preachy, and Wes is a fairly normal 11-year old boy to whom who children will relate. With its slim length, fast pace, and humor, this title will appeal to a wide range of readers., Lessons about persistence, consequences, and following in your father's footsteps are intertwined throughout this story. Quirky but believable characters populate the small Canadian town, giving a yesteryear feel to a modern story. ![]() ![]() There is sufficient suspense and juvenile pranks to grip young readers' imaginations.A text that is as rewarding to give to a child as it will be for the child to read., The plot moves quickly from one humorous situation to another. Natalie Hyde has created characters with humourous traits, realistic flaws, and yet a sense of integrity and community that restore one's faith in people. A fun-filled 'house-that-jack-built' story of connections, both logistical and emotional.It is seldom that a text written simply, for younger readers, makes me both giggle and tear up. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re not wandering around the house saying “ze clues” at unexpected moments, you don’t have the volume turned up sufficiently! I just added Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway to my wish list – with Carol Monda again the narrator, I don’t expect to be disappointed. Her smoky, gravelly voice is wonderfully compelling, and I’ve since picked up to the recording a couple more times just for the sheer pleasure of hearing her talk. But the narrator, Carol Monda, grabbed me from minute one she IS Claire Dewitt and what makes this a five-star book. The back story involving Jaques Silette is masterful and adds an unforgettable dimension to an already colorful character. I’m not sure she’s quite credible either, but you’ll certainly enjoy all her earthy little quirks. What IS outstanding is the character that Sara Gran has created in the form of Claire DeWitt. The underlying detective story is credible and kept me interested until the end, but not what I'd consider outstanding. ![]() Like many people, I suspect, I’m post-Katrina book weary and wary of yet another book trying to understand the storm and its aftermath, but who can resist a title like “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead”? Please! The book did not disappoint. Carol Monda makes this an unforgettable listen ![]() ![]() ![]() His verse soon attracted the attention of a Boston publisher and his first volume of poetry was extremely successful. John soon grew tired of legal work and pursued a writing career, getting poems such as The Rhyme of the Rail published in The Knickerbocker. He studied law at Middlebury and, having been accepted at the Vermont bar in 1843, he went into business with his older brother Charles who was described as “dutiful and pious”. ![]() It was a strictly Methodist upbringing and his first schooling was at a Wesleyan establishment. His ancestor took the name John Saxe, an Americanisation of his German name Johannes Sachse. He was born in the Vermont town of Highgate on the 2 nd June 1816 and grew up in the settlement called Saxe’s Mills which dated back to his German immigrant grandfather’s arrival. It was sometimes described as “rollicking” while at other times he displayed a gentler, more introspective style. His poetry gained him a lot of favour though. After his second defeat he felt it advisable to move to Albany, New York. Most people in Vermont were very much Republican in their views while Saxe was a Democrat. ![]() It was thought that his stance on slavery – he advocated a controversial policy of non-interference – almost certainly led to his downfall on both occasions. He tried twice to be elected to the position of Governor of his home state of Vermont, but failed twice. ![]() John Godfrey Saxe was a mostly satirical 19 th century American poet and would-be politician. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Sammy the goldfish in my parents’ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novels, STALKER and STREET DREAMS, introduced Kellerman's newest protagonist, Police Officer Cindy Decker. The Decker/Lazarus thrillers include SACRED AND PROFANE MILK AND HONEY DAY OF ATONEMENT FALSE PROPHET GRIEVOUS SIN SANCTUARY as well as her New York Times Bestsellers, JUSTICE, PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD - listed by the LA Times as one of the best crime novel of 2001 SERPENT'S TOOTH JUPITER'S BONES, THE FORGOTTEN, STONE KISS, STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS, THE BURNT HOUSE, THE MERCEDES COFFIN and BLINDMAN'S BLUFF. ![]() There are well over twenty million copies of Faye Kellerman's novels in print internationally. The winner of the Macavity Award for the Best First Novel from the Mystery Readers of American, THE RITUAL BATH introduced readers to Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, termed by People Magazine "Hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around." The New York Times enthused, "This couple's domestic affairs have the haimish warmth of reality, unlike the formulaic lives of so many other genre detectives." Kellerman's groundbreaking first novel, THE RITUAL BATH, was published in 1986 to wide critical and commercial acclaim. ![]() She earned a BA in mathematics and a doctorate in dentistry at UCLA., and conducted research in oral biology. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. ![]() ![]() She holds a BA in sociology/cultural anthropology and an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University.īook Description Taschenbuch. Raised in the Midwest, she moved to North Carolina in 1995. THERESE ANNE FOWLER is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules―and how to break them. With a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, in A Well-Behaved Woman Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman. ![]() But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. ![]() ![]() The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, written by Therese Anne Fowler, a New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.Īlva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America’s great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Early scientists used metaphor to define the phenomenon they studied. They both drew on empirical experience, of course, but weighed much more heavily on the imaginative possibilities afforded by literary knowledge. Early science’s observed particular and modest witness together formed the backbone of evidence and authority in this new episteme. More radically, I argue, the main technologies that made natural philosophy intellectually possible were so because they could be articulated in literary terms. ![]() ![]() What does this mean? Natural philosophy in the late seventeenth century-the term for science at this time-relied on literariness to present experimental findings the textual representation of such discoveries necessitated an extensive use of figurative language. I begin with the argument that early science formulated itself through literary knowledge. It tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds. ![]() This is a book about the experimental imagination in the British Enlightenment. The memory, senses, and understanding are, therefore, all of them founded on the imagination, or the vivacity of our ideas.ĭavid Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We were both seniors in college at the time. ![]() You took this walk to recover from the loss of your mother, who had lung cancer and passed away within three months.ĬHERYL STRAYED: Seven weeks to the day after her diagnosis with cancer. JENNIFER SKY: Wild, your first memoir, is about your 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. We sat down with Strayed in Chicago, almost one year after our first meeting, to talk about the soundtrack in the mind, finding your most savage self, and scars that we eventually shed. Her new memoir, Wild, is a tale of facing those things that may just break us, written by a woman who’s had her own kind of breakout recently-she was revealed last month to be the author of Dear Sugar, literary website The Rumpus’s much-beloved advice column. The thing was, she had never backpacked before and was set on going out alone-a beautiful blonde woman determined to hike ice, rock, and snow for over a thousand miles. After years of grasping to come to terms with her mother’s death, she found a book on hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. ![]() In weeks, she watched her mother pale, wither, and pass away. Cheryl Strayed was 22 when she first brought her mother through the doors of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. ![]() ![]() ![]() Treasure hunter Fi may have woken the sleeping prince, Briar Rose, but she’s not out of danger yet. Set in a world of twisted fairytales, The Severed Thread combines lost ruins, ride-or-die friendships, and heart-pounding romance. But there’s a darkness creeping inside him-a sinister bond to the Spindle Witch he can’t escape.Īll hopes of restoring Andar rest on deciphering a mysterious book code, finding the hidden city of the last Witches, and uncovering a secret lost for centuries-one that just might hold the key to the Spindle Witch’s defeat. But she’s in for the fight of her life against Red, the right hand of the Spindle Witch who she’s also, foolishly, hellbent on saving.īriar Rose would do anything to restore his kingdom. The Spindle Witch, the Witch Hunters, and Fi’s own Butterfly Curse all stand between them and happily ever after. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which threads of fate will hold-and which will break?Ĭlever, bookish Fi and her brash, ax-wielding partner Shane are back in this action packed sequel to the bestselling The Bone Spindle, the gender-flipped Sleeping Beauty retelling, perfect for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and The Cruel Prince.įi has awakened the sleeping prince, but the battle for Andar is far from over. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He turned suddenly, sensing the possible danger, his eyes searching for an animal that was so obviously in pain. The young boy who was hunting rabbits in the forest was not sure whether it was the woman’s last cry or the child’s first that alerted his youthful ears. ![]() She only stopped screaming when she died. Too many coincidences moved the plot, too many misunderstandings and pettiness factored into their enmity and the resolution was too cliched. My problems with the books began when their lives began to intersect. Meanwhile Abel comes into his inheritance, learning he's his father's son even as he loses everything to the Russians in the wake of World War I and emigrating to the United States with only a few dollars coming off the boat. We watch self-contained William shrewdly build on his fortune, making his own money buying and selling matchbox cars to his classmates, building a stockmarket portfolio while still a schoolboy, and struggling against his feckless stepfather. Both prove themselves at first both extraordinary and sympathetic. We follow their parallel but contrasting from boyhood. William Kane Lowell, a Boston Brahmin and Abel Rosnovski, the illegitimate son of a Polish baron. The story follows two men born on the same day in 1906. One of those sagas where you enjoy a panorama of history and watching two powerful characters clashing. ![]() It was clear from the start that this wasn't great literature by any means-but for the first part of around 200 pages I found it gripping. ![]() |