![]() A nameplate under the badge read "Sabriel" and the Roman "VI" and gilt crown proclaimed her to be both a member of the Sixth Form and a prefect. ![]() That, coupled with her long skirt, stockings and sensible shoes, identified her as a schoolgirl. She wore no makeup or jewelry, save for an enameled school badge pinned to her regulation navy blazer. ![]() Her night-black hair, fashionably bobbed, was hanging slightly over her face. It still smelt faintly of lavender water.Ī tall, curiously pale young woman stood over the rabbit. Unnaturally clean fur, for it had just escaped from a bath. Its pink eyes were glazed and blood stained its clean white fur. The rabbit had been run over minutes before. ![]() Adventures to Read All Through the SummerĪ teenager who confronts evil to find her missing father in the first novel of this trilogy for young adults, recommended by librarian Nancy Pearl on Morning Edition. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She wrote her book The Continuum Concept to describe her new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being, and to show us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves. Over time she became fascinated with the Yequana, and made a decision to return to Venezuela to live with them. She is the aunt of writer Janet Hobhouse, and is represented by the character Constance in Hobhouse's book "The Furies."īorn in New York City in 1926, as a teenager she attended the Drew Seminary for Young Women and began studying at Cornell University, but began her expeditions before she could graduate.ĭuring a diamond-hunting expedition to Venezuela, she came into contact with an indigenous people named the Yequana. Jean Liedloff was an American author, born in New York, and best known for her 1975 book The Continuum Concept. ![]() ![]() When not painting or gardening, Darling visits libraries and schools with her dogs to promote literacy and animal therapy. Thirty plus years later, 24 "Carl" books have been published, and over 6 million of her books are in print. She is loved the world over for her sumptuously illustrated books, the first of which was "Good Dog Carl", published in 1985. Sandra Woodward Darling, the creator of the popular "Good Dog Carl" series, is better known by her nom de plume: Alexandra Day. When they leave for an ice cream cone and a walk around the neighborhood, a little elephant follows them… and gets into mischief! What is a good dog to do? About the Author On this new adventure, beloved children's icon Carl has his paws full with a curious baby elephant who likes backyard wading pools, playgrounds, and fruit stands!This series features appealing, nearly wordless narratives, with the lovable (and somewhat mischievous) Rottweiler and his little girl, Madeleine, taking on new adventures in each installment.Day’s painterly skills are superb and her loving portrayal of the gentle dog and his trusting child companion are as winning as ever.In this book, Carl and Madeleine visit a children’s zoo where they enjoy visiting various baby animals. ![]() This book, part of the classic “Good Dog, Carl” series, features beautiful full-page paintings, a new board book format, and wordless narratives. ![]() ![]() Beloved children's icon Carl has his paws full with a mischievous baby elephant. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only value it has is to remind that verbosity for the sake of verbosity (or terseness for the sake of terseness) is not valuable.Īs for Tolkien in LotR, he uses too much for a novel, but enough for his purpose, which is not really a novel but a exploration of his world on a set of narrative rails. This is why what Le Guin says is on the order of a truthism and not actual advice because it provides zero guidelines as to what's enough. Dickens used the verbosity he needed to for his story, and not more. ![]() What you're failing to grasp is that what's needed to tell a story varies by story and author, so there's no baseline level of verbosity that Le Guin is refering to except being enough. ![]() ![]() It's a breathtaking revelatory drama that for the first time places the events of a too-often mistold tale in a fresh, believable, and understandable context. Beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977, Careless Love chronicles the unravelling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis' relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. ![]() Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical art." This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis' life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick's status as one of the great biographers of our time. Careless Love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography. ![]() ![]() It’ll take more than a Christmas miracle for Lila and Beau to overcome their differences and find their fugitive brothers. Lila’s musician, anti-everything ex-boyfriend. But the only person who can help her is Tyler’s older brother, Beau - a.k.a. Lila has to get Cooper safely home before her parents get back on Christmas Eve. ![]() But when her Christmas-obsessed little brother, Cooper, discovers that global warming is melting the North Pole, he and his best friend, Tyler, take off on a runaway mission to save Santa. Seventeen-year-old Lila Beckwith’s parents just left for vacation, and Lila’s all set to throw the holiday party of the season. Ex-mas by Kate Brian isn’t the most astonishing, well written book that I have ever read, but it was still a fun, cute read* *Before Christmas quickly came and went, I found the absolutely perfect holiday read. ![]() ![]() ![]() and odd Negroes” (from present-day Angola), who had been looted from a Portuguese slave ship, were quickly sold as slaves. According to Horn, “they were the first of approximately four hundred thousand enslaved men, women, and children forcibly transported to British mainland America and then the United States across two and a half centuries.” (p116)Īlthough the members of the Virginia Company were in the process of establishing the colony’s first General Assembly based on limited self-government, the “20. ![]() James Horn’s 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy begins with the story of the battered English privateer, the White Lion, which brought to Jamestown, Virginia, the first enslaved African people documented to have arrived on the mainland of British North America in 1619. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is not easy considering her sister is engaged to the guy she likes! But with no sign of Beatrice’s wedding being called off, she’s surprised to find someone else catching her eye. This gives Beatrice only one option, she must take up her role as the first Queen of America, and all that entails – including her upcoming royal wedding to a man she barely knows.īea’s sister, Princess Samantha now has to let go of her partying ways to support her sister in her new role. ![]() Beatrice Washington was fully ready to break off her engagement and commit her love to her Revere Guard, Connor, however her father’s sudden death and lack of her father’s blessing leaves the whole kingdom in chaos. The second book picks up right where we left off in book one. She then introduced me to a whole new thing that I can only describe as the new love of my life. Everything I thought and knew that I loved about the characters and plot in the first book McGee made me throw out the window and burn it. Starting this book, I didn’t think I could possibly love this series anymore then I did before but Katharine McGee really outdid herself with American Royals II: Majesty. ![]() However if you did miss me gushing over this book you can check out my review for the first book here. If you follow me on Twitter it is not a secret how much I loved the first book in the American Royals series. I would like to thank the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes notes were pinned to their clothes: "I am an enemy of the people. ![]() It begins on an operating table, where Hailu is trying to patch up a young protester shot by the emperor's police later, after the emperor has fallen, a teenager will be brought to him, so badly tortured that he risks his life to help her a major strand of plot involves Dawit collecting the dead bodies abandoned each night on the roadsides, for the hyenas to eat. Partly this is because she has made the wise decision not to step back too much, explaining factions, ideologies, geopolitics, but instead steps in: this is a book anchored to the body, vivid with smells and fears and violations. Mengiste tells her story through one family – a doctor, Hailu, his two sons Dawit and Yonas, their partners and friends and domestic staff – and, confidently, economically, makes the reader care for them. ![]() ![]() (The name also echoes that of Queen Gudit, whose monastery-burning rampages of around AD960 ushered in Ethiopia's dark ages.) Guddu means "the extraordinary things he wrought" – and in this context it isn't a compliment. The emperor keeps his name, but Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam becomes Major Guddu – an interesting choice for anyone who speaks Amharic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Red and Journey were just so lovely together. ![]() Such a strong foundation is one of the many things that makes this match such an amazing one. There's already love and a close bond before the romantic aspect even begins. There is something to be said about a romance that stems from so many years of friendship. I really loved this best friends to lovers story about Red and Journey. "Being idiots together is always a lot better than being an idiot all alone." Stick Shift is a bi-awakening, best friends to lovers story with farm animal shenanigans, nosy mechanics, and all the steam and sweetness you can handle. ![]() Is he looking at me differently? Is he touching me more? Straight guys don’t normally kiss other men, right? I don’t know what’s happening between us, but I’ll put things in gear and floor it all the way. Learning how to shear an alpaca or keep a rogue mini cow out of the kitchen looks easy compared to navigating the sudden change in Journey. Neither of us has a clue how to run the small farm his uncle left him, but I’m willing to be the idiot standing next to him, figuring it out. Back in the country, in my space, sharing my bed, and something is changing between us. It helps that he’s never in the country long and our relationship consists of sporadic texts and video chats at odd hours. ![]() I made peace with my hopeless crush on my straight best friend, Journey, years ago. Is it possible my straight best friend had a sudden stick shift? ![]() |