![]() ![]() Her books are special gifts to readers of all ages. ![]() Her picture books touch my heart in a way that no other children’s picture books have ever done. Soon her living room is filled with trees - but that is only the first miracle of many during an incredible holiday season.īased on a long cherished childhood memory, this story celebrates the miracle of true friendship.Īfter recently reading quite a few books by her, Patricia Polacco is now one of my favorite authors. Although it is a sacrifice, Trisha realizes that Grampa's carved animals are the perfect answer. Then Grampa has an they will cut down trees, decorate them, and secretly deliver them to the neighbors, "But what can we decorate them with?" Babushka asks. ![]() It is difficult for them to enjoy their Hanukkah feast when they know that their neighbors won't be able to celebrate their holiday. Trisha's family is one of the few who has been spared from the epidemic. Instead they are all bedridden with scarlet fever. In the middle of her family's preparation for the festival of lights, Trisha visits her closest neighbors, expecting to find them decorating their house for Christmas. Trisha loves the eight days of Hanukkah, when her mother stays home from work, her Babushka makes delicious potato latkes, and her Grampa carves wonderful animals out of wood as gifts for Trisha and her brother. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It is solid but unremarkable as literature.Īnd perhaps because the personal stuff - the dialogue and the characters’ inner lives - is relatively weak compared to the background information which has obviously been so carefully grounded in research, I found myself always second-guessing her portrayal of Elisabeth’s opinions and motivations. The introduction explains that it is the result of twelve years of historical research, and I think that’s a strength and a weakness: the best thing about the book is the amount of interesting historical detail, but it does feel a bit like a novel written by a historian. She became one of the richest landowners in the colony and fought a legal battle for the right to marry a white man, successfully arguing that Dutch law superseded the colonial law against it. This is the novelised true story of Elisabeth Samson, a freeborn black woman in C18th Suriname, when it was a Dutch colony built on slave labour. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Is Destined To Fight Them, But Will His Superpowers Manifest Before It's Too Late? Lore (a Loric Elder In The Book, And A Pseudonym For Writer James Frey And A Coauthor) Provides A Fast-moving Plot And Some Genuinely Creepy Bad Guys, Though The Basic Premise Is Clichéd And The Science Won't Pass Muster With Diehard Sf Fans. And Now The Evil Mogadorians Have Traveled To Earth Looking For Survivors, With An Eye Toward Wiping Out This Planet As Well. ![]() But He's Really Something Much Cooler: An Alien From The Planet Lorien, And One Of The Last Survivors Of A Race That Was Nearly Wiped Out By Its Enemies. i Am Next.publishers Weeklyin This Action-packed But Formulaic Novel, First In The Lorien Legacies Series, John Smith Appears To Be A Normal American Teenager, Living In Ohio With His Father, Attending High School, And Falling For A Local Girl. We Have Lived Among You Without You Knowing. Spending Our Lives In Shadows, In Places Where No One Would Look, Blending In. But They Found Us And Started Hunting Us First. our Plan Was To Grow, And Train, And Become Strong, And Become One, And Fight Them. We Are The Superheroes You Worship In Movies And Comic Books— but We Are Real. We Are Stronger And Faster Than Anything You Have Ever Seen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some books may be Remainder Marked (this is a small texta mark on the base of the book). ![]() 'Powerful' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Truly authoritative' New York Times 'Wonderful' Sunday Times **Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize** Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman- as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world's population, and as a unique stateswoman. ![]() Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot and also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing's Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs - with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding. From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern age Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. ![]() ![]() The only thing that can rekindle his passion is Contessa Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo, a troubled young woman who shares his taste for fast cars and danger. On Her Majesty’s Secret ServiceIn the aftermath of Operation Thunderball, Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s trail has gone cold-and so has 007’s love for his job. Thunderball marks the beginnings of one of the most iconic villains in history, and the only match for the wits of James Bond. ![]() But as powerful as Number 1 is, he works for someone else: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a peculiar man with a deadly creative mind. ![]() On the island paradise, 007 finds a wealthy pleasure seeker’s treasure hunt and meets Domino Vitali, the gorgeous mistress of Emilio Largo, otherwise known as SPECTRE’s Number 1. When SPECTRE hijacks two A-bombs, a frantic global search for the weapons ensues, and M’s hunch that the plane containing the bombs will make a clean drop into the ocean sends Bond to the Bahamas to investigate. But amid the bland teas, tasteless yogurts, and the spine stretcher the guests lovingly call “The Rack,” Bond stumbles onto the trail of a lethal man with ties to a new secret organization called SPECTRE. ThunderballUpon M’s insistence, James Bond takes a two-week respite in a secluded natural health spa. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never did I think I would actually like, love, the character I hate so much from the main book, Nero. My MBTI says I’m a feeler so I guess I always can’t help it but trying to perceive something through feels? Nah I don’t know. I mean it as hard to swallow because it’s difficult to associate. It’s not that it’s bad as bad as it creates plot hole, hell no. Since he is a chimera in the weird family of a Dekker, I find his character development is rather hard to swallow. Sanguine spends lots of time alone and hated, he grows some serious self-hatred. But it seems I found the trigger on me, which is self-hatred. This series is fucked up enough I don’t want pedophile to make it worse. I was worried because of the notice put on the book, that this book contains extreme depictions of child abuse. ![]() But now I have finished the book, I do like him, but not that much as how I thought I would. ![]() I had looked forward to know more about him. I like Sanguine just by the mention of the brief description on him in Breaking Jade. But as I ended the book it’s not the same excitement I feel. I started on reading Severing Sanguine with excitement. ![]() You should cut your arm a little bit, cut your arm and I promise you – you’ll feel better.” “Pain makes the inside pain not hurt, Sami. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Kingdom of the Blind, the new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. “A constantly surprising series that deepens and darkens as it evolves.” –Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review “A captivating, wintry whodunit.” - PEOPLE One of PopSugar’s Best Fall Books to Curl Up With Washington Post‘s 10 Books to Read This November One of Kirkus Reviews‘ Best of 2018 Picks ![]() ![]() Lovers is pure Krantz, an intoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and found among women and men who lure. Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended. "Judith Krantz writes with obvious authority. Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history. "Scruples" is the leader of her #1 best-selling novels. ![]() she takes her readers behind the scenes of wealthy and fame to show them the real people and the real emotions that exist at the core of even the most high-powered lives. It has more inside information about the worlds of high fashion and Hollywood than you'd find in a dozen manuals." With "Scruples," Judith Krantz earned her reputation as a blazingly talented and original storyteller. "The New York Post" said that" "Scruples" was born to be a smash bestseller. "Scruples" was translated into twenty languages and made Rodeo Drive famous around the world. ![]() "Scruples" is the novel that created publishing history, the first-and widely acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly Hills boutique and the people who work in it. "Under Krantz's fingers, real life has a way of becoming mysterious, glamorous, legendary, sequined."- "Vogue." ![]() ![]() Accompanied by illustrations from Sean Buckingham, this story is best suited to readers aged nine and up and will appeal to fans of Steven Herrick’s verse novels, especially Zoe, Max and the Bicycle Bus, which also marries poetry and narrative to convey strong emotions and themes. The narrative unfolds through the unique perspective of Scruffity, and the use of verse connects the reader to the way he sees and processes the world while also driving the story forward with its rhythmic quality. Fraillon’s novel explores both the kindness and cruelties that exist in a complicated world, telling a story of tragedy and loss, but also of hope. When they are tragically separated along the way, Scruffity is left to go on alone, forging his own unique path as he follows his instincts and ‘the way of dog’ to survive. ![]() Together they escape horrors and embark on a treacherous journey. ![]() When he meets a young boy dealing with his own loss, Scruffity claims him as his ‘manpup’ and the two forge a strong bond, giving each other the identity and family they long for. Separated from mother and siblings, he survives through his desire to belong and the belief that there is more to the world than fear and concrete floors. Scruffity is born into the harsh realities of a puppy farm. A beautifully written verse novel told through an animal voice, this is an ambitious and absorbing work. Way of Dog is the latest work from internationally acclaimed author Zana Fraillon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She considers transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions, and lotteries as well as consumers themselves. Evelyn Welch draws on wide-ranging sources to expose the fears, anxieties, and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace and to show the impact of these attitudes on developing urban spaces. The book investigates how men and women of different social classes went to the streets, squares, and shops to buy goods they needed and wanted on a daily-or a once-in-a-lifetime-basis, during the Renaissance period. This fascinating and original book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs, and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. ![]() |