![]() ![]() And Marco's singular kind of optimism is also evident in McElligot's Pool. Now over seventy-five years old, this story is as timeless as ever. Seuss fans of all ages, who will cheer when our hero proves that a little imagination can go a very long way - Who wouldn't cheer when an elephant-pulled sleigh raced by? ![]() The signature rhythmic text, combined with his unmistakable illustrations, will appeal to Dr. From a mere horse and wagon, young Marco concocts a colorful cast of characters, making Mulberry Street the most interesting location in town. Seuss's very first book for children!Ī plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street grows into a story that no one can beat! In this tale, Young Marco allows his imagination to run riot as he travels home from school one day. ![]()
0 Comments
7/6/2023 0 Comments Cain saramago review![]() ![]() Saramago's new work of fiction, ''Cain,'' takes a critical and sometimes lighthearted look at the life of Adam and Eve's son. Speaking at the launch of his new book "Cain", Jose Saramago, who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, said society would probably be better off without the Bible. So it was with great curiosity that I recently placed an order for his latest book, Caín, bolstered by comments reported in an online UK publication:Ī Catholic Church official in Portugal says that comments by Nobel literature laureate Jose Saramago about the Bible are ''offensive.''Ī row broke out in Portugal on Monday after a Nobel Prize-winning author denounced the Bible as a "handbook of bad morals". ![]() In 1992, he left his native Portugal for the Spanish province of the Canary Islands as a symbolic protest of the Portuguese government blocking the nomination of his The Gospel According to Jesus Christ for a major European literary award, due mostly to the rather unflattering comments Saramago made about the founder of the Christian faith. Portuguese author José Saramago is no stranger to controversy. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Chanelcleeton![]() ![]() In the catalog of Beatriz Williams, you may also like:Ī Hundred Summers, a female friendship story set during a 1938 Summer hurricane in Rhode Island, for fans of Firefly Lane. ![]() Originally from Florida, she grew up on stories of her family's exodus from Cuba following the events of the Cuban Revolution. ![]() My top pick is Summer Wives, which is set on an exclusive New England island in 19, and is filled with everything from romance to class struggles and even a murder mystery. Chanel Cleeton is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of When We Left Cuba and the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Next Year in Havana. If you liked Kristin Hannah books like The Nightingale, The Great Alone, The Four Winds, and Firefly Lane, read the books of the following authors, who write immersive and emotional modern and historical fiction with strong female leads:Īuthor of historical fiction with strong female leadsīeatriz Williams is the author of books that I like to categorize as “soap opera historical fiction.” While her books all take place in different time periods and places, one thing they are always filled with is drama. Originally from Florida, Chanel grew up on stories of her family's exodus from Cuba following the events of the Cuban Revolution. What should I read if I like Kristin Hannah? Chanel Cleeton is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Next Year in Havana, When We Left Cuba, The Last Train to Key West, and The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The dog stars novel![]() The beauty of Dog Stars resonates in a number of ways, but none more profoundly than the extreme care in which it was written and in the fantastic journey it offers readers. Outdoorsmen will find a great deal to appreciate in this book, as Heller’s background as a journalist for Outside magazine and National Geographic weaves in a true sense of adventure. The prose of the book is terse, but fluid, and mimics the world Hig finds himself in: one that is starkly populated but beautifully wild. It speaks to the human condition on a number of levels, examining survival, hope, love, and friendship with a deftness that is expertly applied. The Dog Stars - Book One: Chapters V and VI Summary & Analysis Peter Heller This Study Guide consists of approximately 49 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Dog Stars. ![]() It’s restrained, beautiful, heartfelt, and simply fantastic. ![]() When Hig receives a strange transmission over the plane’s radio, it triggers the possibility of hope, ultimately sending Hig on a flight past the point of no return. ![]() Hig and Jasper fly the perimeter of camp in a 1956 Cessna, providing Heller with the perfect vessel for describing a world that is both lonely and scenic. The novel follows Hig and his dog Jasper, who have taken refuge in a small airport hanger in the mountains, and Bangley, an army-type survivalist who has set up camp with enough weapons and ammunition to stave off bands of wanderers. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller begins after a super-flu has wiped out nearly all of the world’s population. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis![]() The supposedly sweet air of the Quirinal is masking the stench of loose morality, casual betrayal and even gangland conflict and, when a friend of her own is murdered, Albia determines to expose as much of this local sickness as she can - beginning with the truth about Clodia's death. Only one person could have supplied such a thing: a local witch who goes by the name of Pandora, whose trade in herbal beauty products is hiding something far more sinister. On the Quirinal Hill, a young girl named Clodia has died, apparently poisoned with a love potion. Davis's squalid, vibrant Rome is as pleasurable as ever' - Guardian 'Lindsey Davis has seen off all her competitors to become the unassailable market leader in the 'crime in Ancient Rome' genre. Private investigator Flavia Albia is always drawn to an intriguing puzzle - even if it is put to her by her new husband's hostile ex-wife. ![]() 'For fans of crime fiction set in the ancient world, this one is not to be missed' - Booklist ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the closer they grow, the higher the stakes become. Forced on the run, Kylie and Devon dodge bullets and bad guys, but they cannot fight the attraction burning between them. Devon may have secrets, but he’s nearby, and he’s got the skills to keep his buddy’s sister safe…even if one look at brash, beautiful, Kylie makes him want to break all the rules. The Line Collection includes all four Line novellas, including Love On The Line (Violet and Noah’s story), Drawing The Line (Serenity and Jason’s story), Outside The Lines (Jules and Blake. Security specialist Devon Randolph might be rough and gruff, but he’ll never turn down a friend in need, especially when that friend is the fellow Ranger who once saved his life. The Line Collection (The Line Series) by Kimberly Kincaid. The only problem? He’s two thousand miles away, and trouble is right outside her door. ![]() Desperate to stay safe, Kylie calls the only person she trusts-her ex-Army Ranger brother. Now she’s on the run from a killer with connections, and one wrong step could be her last. ![]() Bartender Kylie Walker went into the basement of The Corner Tavern for a box of cocktail napkins, but what she got was an eyeful of murder. From Liliana Hart’s New York Times bestselling MacKenzie family comes a new story by USA Today best-selling author Kimberly Kincaid. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The Abduction by Mark Gimenez![]() ![]() Write a real intriguing and suspenseful novel. We know you don't like Republicans and we know you don't like conservative Christians and we know you like to dwell on white supremacist and KKK etc etc. Yawn and boring! Come on writers knock it off. So tired of liberal tripe in every novel!Īfter making it 2/3 through part 2 I said this is enough! Many fiction writers have followed the way of Hollywood and there is a white supremacist under every rock and behind every corner. ![]() As the story unfolds with riveting twists and turns, the listener discovers that behind the kidnapping is an extraordinary government plot that could change the course of American history. Somehow, Ben and John Brice must find Gracie before it is too late. With the FBI camped out in the Brice mansion, the family offers a reward of $25 million. And so begins a furious race against time to save Gracie from unknown kidnappers. But Gracie has no uncle - she was kidnapped.įrom international best-selling author Mark Gimenez comes a terrifying child-in-jeopardy thriller in which dark family secrets make the finding of 10-year-old Gracie Brice more uncertain with every passing minute. When her mother, Elizabeth, arrives, the coach reports that her uncle has already collected Gracie. Miles away in Texas, his estranged son, John, an Internet geek turned billionaire, half watches his daughter Gracie’s soccer game while conducting business on his cell phone. ![]() Ben Brice lives alone in the New Mexico wilderness, where he battles memories of Vietnam with oceans of Jim Beam. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The joy luck club novelist![]() ![]() ![]() and, finally, the universality of Tan’s themes’’ (Koenig 82). Even less ebullient reviews acknowledged the fact that Tan’s novel ‘‘strikes deep roots’’ (Pollard 44) and that readers ‘‘cannot help being charmed, however, by the sharpness of observation. With the delicacy of a butterfly she touches on matter that is ineradicable and profound’’ (19). is marvelously alert to the rich ambivalence in her material. From the Times Educational Supplement came the following: ‘‘Amy Tan. Publishers Weekly called the novel ‘‘intensely poetic, startlingly imaginative and moving,’’ describing it as ‘‘on the order of Maxine Hong Kingston’s work, but more accessible, its Oriental orientation an irresistible magnet. The majority of reviews of The Joy Luck Club were strongly positive. Before the end of its first year, it had been named a selection for both the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Quality Paperback Club foreign rights had been sold for Italy, France, Japan, Sweden, and Israel serial rights went to the Atlantic magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and San Francisco Focus and audio rights had been purchased by Dove. ![]() The book was a tremendous critical and commercial success from the beginning. With the publication of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, in 1988, Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) became a household name. Critical Analysis of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments In the woods show tana french![]() A distracting political subplot involves a pending motorway in Knocknaree, but Ryan and Maddox are empathetic and flawed heroes, whose partnership and friendship elevate the narrative beyond a gory tale of murdered children and repressed childhood trauma. ![]() The plot climaxes with a taut interrogation by Maddox of a potential suspect, and the reader is floored by the eventual identity and motives of the killer. Only Maddox knows Ryan was involved in the 1984 case. There are chilling similarities between the Devlin murder and the disappearance 20 years before of two children from the same neighborhood who were Ryan's best friends. Fri 07.45 EDT 4 It's high summer in the countryside just outside Dublin, 'a summer stolen whole from some coming-of-age film set in small-town 1950s'. Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, must probe deep into the victim's troubled family history. by Tana French Comment on this title Synopses & Reviews ISBN13: 9780143113492 ISBN10: 0143113496 Condition: Standard All Product Details Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense. ![]() ![]() When Katy Devlin, a 12-year-old girl from Knocknaree, a Dublin suburb, is found murdered at a local archeological dig, Det. Irish author French expertly walks the line between police procedural and psychological thriller in her debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() I told him I was making a visit to the Blessed Sacrament. When I told him I wasn’t, he asked what I was doing in their church. ![]() One day as I was leaving Our Lady of Mercy a young priest stopped me and asked if I was a parishioner. My maternal grandmother was a Catholic and I started visiting her church after school to pray before the Blessed Sacrament. “And you will just have to get used to it!” A cold moment for me, if there ever was one! Without turning a hair he told me that some priests believed in the Real Presence of Jesus in Holy Communion and others did not. In shock I reported these remarks to my rector and his reply proved even more disconcerting. I drew the priest’s attention to this and got this answer: “Well, throw the bread out to the birds and pour the wine back into the bottle.” As I was putting out the candles I noticed that a fair amount of the Communion bread and consecrated wine remained on the altar. ![]() But as I grew into my teen years I discovered that my experience of “prayer book” religion was remarkably different from that of many of my fellow parishioners and even of my rector’s.Īs an altar boy of seventeen I was serving a visiting Anglican priest one Sunday when I made a shattering discovery. I came to love the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England in Canada and entered wholeheartedly into its liturgy, and especially its Holy Eucharist. My father was indifferent to religion, but my mother raised me as a member of the Anglican Church. ![]() |