![]() ![]() Life might have continued in this manner for quite some time if it hadn't been for the Spanish flu - imported into the country on the Danish steamship Botnia. But there was another reason why Mani was a misfit: Mani was gay and frequently made a living as a sex worker. He dreamed about the films, changing them to suit his tastes, working his own life into the plots. There were shortages, such as coal, but there was the new fashion and it was for the movies that Mani lived, seeing every production he could, sometimes several times. The Great War was raging, or possibly grinding on, but life in the capital carried on much as usual. He lived in Reykjavik and in 1918 the night sky (and the day for that matter) was lit by the eruptions of the Katla volcano. Sixteen-year-old Mani Stein - Moonstone in translation - existed on the fringes of society. Summary: A stunning literary novella that will take your breath away. ![]()
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![]() Tad lives in Brooklyn with his wife, their two children, and a real dog named Rocket. His board books include the ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book What’s Up, Duck? Duck & Goose: It’s Time for Christmas and, most recently, Duck & Goose: Goose Needs a Hug. ![]() Tad Hills is author and illustrator of the highly acclaimed bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read, Rocket Writes a Story, Duck & Goose, and Duck, Duck, Goose. Rocket loves books and he wants to make his own, but he can’t think of a story. ![]() With predictable patterns, simple words, lots of repetition, and bright, colorful illustrations, this Step into Reading book is perfect for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. The 1 New York Times Bestseller This irresistible sequel to the New York Times bestselling How Rocket Learned to Read is a perfect choice to inspire new readers and writers, according to a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. He finds a leaf, a hat, and a star . . . but when he finds a red boot, he doesn’t want to let go. Rocket is ready to find new words for his word tree with his teacher, the little yellow bird. ![]() Rocket, the beloved dog from the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read and Rocket Writes a Story, is back in a Step 1 leveled reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Stephanie Harzewski’s study, Chicklit and Postfeminism, characteristic elements of this genre include a twenty- or thirtysomething, white, middle- or upper-middle-class, never-married, childless, urban, heterosexual career woman engaged in a seriocomic romantic quest or dating spree. ![]() What struck me the most about this book, however, was not the parallels to other paranormal books as much as the many similarities to the chick lit genre. (Note the name Alaric WULF presumably suggests that the character is meant to fill the usual werewolf role in these paranormal love triangles, while the name Meena Harper is of course a play on Mina Harker, the heroine of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula.) Cabot stocks her story full of meta references like this, including hat-tips to Charlaine Harris and Stephenie Meyer. Meg Cabot climbs aboard the vampire love train with her “Insatiable Series” starring cute pixie-ish Meena Harper (irresistible to both vampires and vampire-trackers) tall, dark and handsome vampire Lucien Antonescu (from Romania, of course) and tall, blonde and handsome vampire-tracker Alaric Wulf. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She began her writing career in the 1960’s by taking a writing course at NYU and wrote for several years with many rejections until 1969 when her first illustrated children’s book was published, The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo, and her first novel, Iggie’s House, in 1970 quickly followed. in education from New York University in 1961, and gave birth to two children, Randy and Lawrence Blume. Judy married an attorney, John Blume, in 1959, graduated with a B. Judy attended an all-girls high school and always loved reading and making up her own stories. Her father was a dentist and her mother was a homemaker who encouraged her daughter to explore her creative energies through piano playing, dance lessons, and reading. Author Judy Blume was born on Februin Elizabeth, New Jersey to Rudolph and Esther Sussman. ![]() ![]() So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing.Ī tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey, Alex's story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears. That you have to make the best possible choices. Someone who tells him that you only get one shot at life. What he doesn't know yet is that when he meets ill-tempered, reclusive widower Mr Peterson, he'll make an unlikely friend. He also knows that even the most improbable events can happen - he's got the scars to prove it. 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It made for an unlikely national obsession: an 18-carat gold, jewel-encrusted hare buried somewhere in Britain, and the fiendishly complicated clues to its secret location contained in a lavishly illustrated children’s story. Public interest in the hunt for Kit Williams’ golden hare led to the sale of 2 million books, but left the author a virtual recluse. Unearthed Again - the Golden Hare that obsessed a Nationģ0 years later, author Kit Williams was reunited with the 18-carat gold hare, the treasure from his book, Masquerade. In full in Bamber Gascoigne’s Quest for the Golden Hare which is out of print. Masquerade prize was auctioned at Sothebys, Him Pounds 1,000 to do all the television Of letters pour in from treasure-hunters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fifteen years later, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a sprawling, interconnected web of character-based movies and crossovers that has pulled in billions at the box office.īut which Marvel movies are the best, and worst, of the bunch? 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