Dymonde's can-do attitude and lively spirit will endear her to readers. In this fantastic follow-up to Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel, Nikki Grimes tackles big issues like homelessness in a sensitive, kid-friendly way. And when they get to know Damaris, they realize the one who could use the prize money the most also happens to be the best poet in class. The prize is one hundred dollars'just think what they could buy with that much money! But when they find out that Damaris, one of their classmates, has been living in a homeless shelter, their ideas about what it means to be rich or poor start to change. Annotation: Dyamonde Daniel is excited about the local library's poetry contest, and so is her friend Free.
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What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Good thing he's also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he'd probably be homeless. Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry. Paperback - CURIOUS MINDS KNIGHT AND MOON #1 These monosyllables govern one another by means of an order both consolatory and somewhat foreign to modern female experience: eating first, loving last, and praying – an activity unpoliticised by the female psyche and one she might vaguely associate with being cared for, separating the two like a referee a pair of boxers in the ring. Without quite knowing why, 21st-century woman finds this a powerful trinity to behold on the cover of a book. Not to mention the reader – for the words eat, pray and love might in themselves be an invocation of the lost or prohibited pleasures of femininity: hedonism, devotion, sensuality. The book's actual title, Eat, Pray, Love, is sincere, almost reverential: the function of the joke is to fumigate that sincerity regularly to allay any suspicion that the author is taking herself too seriously in her use of it. Richard's rule about travelling in India is a sound one: 'Don't touch anything but yourself.' (And yes, that was also a tentative title for this book.)" "A few times a week," runs one example, "Richard and I wander into town and share one small bottle of Thums Up – a radical experience after the purity of vegetarian ashram food – always being careful not to actually touch the bottle with our lips. T here's a running gag in Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir of breakdown and recovery, concerning alternative titles she claims to have considered for her book. This irked me…until I found out why he treats her the way he does. He’s not as nice to Nessy as he could be. He came back as a doctor and is God’s gift to the town. They are all wrapped up in her sister’s wedding plans.Ĭruz is a hot shot who went off to med school. They dote on her sister who also equally sucks. The way she sees it is if that’s how they think of her, she should act that way. It doesn’t help that she dresses and does her hair/makeup like a nut job. Even though she works and takes care of her kid like a champ, they still see her as the screw up. Because of her young pregnancy, the town is downright terrible to Nessy. Rob turns his back on her and takes off to follow NFL career. Nessy briefly dated Cruz’s best friend Rob and found herself a teen mom. Nessy and Cruz have known each other since school. It was such a cute, funny, witty, heartwarming story with many laughs and some sexy scenes. Observations: I was impressed by the science part of the book. The book is divided into chapters that cover everything from how coral reefs are formed, to which animals live there, to how coral reefs and oceans are an integral part of the planet. Maris Wicks, who created the graphic novel Primates ( reviewed here) for older audiences, is the artist and author of Coral Reefs, and her depiction of the fantastic forms of life under the sea and in coral beds is inviting, charming, colorful, and funny. It's part of a new-ish series of Science Comics on a range of topics by different comics artists. (At least, until I was a bit older and discovered Larry Gonick.) If I'd had Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean I would have been thrilled. I had a pretty good collection of Charlie Brown's Super Book of Questions and Answers and a cartoon-illustrated book about science that I got at the Exploratorium, but that was about it for my collection of science comics. There wasn't nearly the selection of graphic novels or educational comics in the 1980s, though. Synopsis: First Second Books' new series Science Comics is no doubt something that I would have loved as a kid. Enjoy some light reading over the holidays. If you enjoyed reading the Hunger Games, you should appreciate this series as well. Here is one selection with a new twist on an old theme. In a previous CFM Blog post we were encouraged to read more science fiction. Kat is a not-so-closeted sci-fi fan who offered to contribute to Futurist Friday from her reading list of favorites. This week’s guest post is by Kat Burkhart, executive director and curator of the Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County. “The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.”-Frank Herbert
Anthony Lawton holds us rapt…with his masterful performance. Satirical and comic, The Great Divorce is a wondrous ride filled with dazzling insight and language. The play was true to the book and complete. Journeying between Hell and Heaven, Clive crosses a surprising, wildly inventive landscape drawn by Lewis’ philosophical imagination. It was wonderful to see this work by CS Lewis brought to life by very skilled actors, writeres, and technicians. Lewis’ own favorite among his works, The Great Divorce is the story of Clive, a hapless professor, and the motley band of malcontents who join him on a very curious bus ride. Limited engagement – back by popular demand! For those of you in the Philadelphia area, this news is just in from Tony Lawton, who many of you have seen perform The Great Divorce at Oxbridge 2008 and Williams 2006: Octavo, original cloth with original un-clipped dust jacket still showing the $3.95 price. First Edition, Second Printing as stated on the dust-jacket. Signed by the author with a personal inscription. Shirley Jackson "The Haunting of Hill House". The dust-jacket is now protected in a brand new archival acid-free sleeve by Brodart. Dust-jacket: NF with some light chipping and edge-wear to extremities. A wonderful bright clean copy without any marks, writing, or stamps. No attached bookplates or indication of any removed. Personally inscribed by Shirley Jackson directly into the book! How rare her signature is, on this all time very original, classic that continues to inspire writers such as King. Please enter search terms below to find similar copies. We're sorry this book is no longer available. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ĭould an entire city really burn to the ground? One brave boy finds out in this graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Cassie Anderson. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Where Did We Get This Book: Serena owns it, Kate got it at the library!īook Description: At his wit’s end, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave, eminently proficient magician, and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers-one of the most respected organizations throughout all of Britain-ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover why England’s magical stocks are drying up.īut when his adventure brings him in contact with a most unusual comrade, a woman with immense power and an unfathomable gift, he sets on a path which will alter the nature of sorcery in all of Britain-and the world at large… Serena’s Thoughts So feel free to read along with us or use our book selections and questions in your own book club! We’ll also post the next book coming up in book club. Our current theme is “Around the World”, in which we each picked a continent and had to match a book that takes place there and/or is written by an author from that continent or of that continent’s descent.įor this blog, we will post a joint review of each book we read for book club. Each “season” (we’re nerds) we pick a theme and each of us chooses a book within that theme for us all to read. We are part of a group of librarian friends who have had an ongoing bookclub running for the last several years. |