![]() But it was enough to both contain and highlight the story and the characters. ![]() It’s actually pretty small when you really stop and think of it. It’s isn’t a sweeping plot or full of action and adventure. I had so much fun and laughed often, all while appreciating the intricacies of the story being told. I absolutely loved the characters here their personality and who Kingfisher opted to let them be-older than you’d expect, without perfect bodies, and not adhering to standard expectations of beauty, gender, or behavior. I imagine I’ll be steamrolling my way through the whole rest of their back-list in short order. Kingfisher book in a row that I’ve read and loved. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws… and the sword itself may prove to be the greatest threat of all. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. ![]() Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle’s estate… and, unfortunately, his relatives. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They may also enjoy the interactive missions offered on the Time Rider website. Most readers, especially sci-fi enthusiasts, will look forward to the other books in this series: Time Riders: Day of the Predators, Time Riders: The Doomsday Code, and Time Riders: The Eternal War. Subheadings that give the time and place help the reader track the story threads, and intense moments sprinkled with philosophy and a bit of humor make this a very enjoyable and readable book. ![]() In spite of all the high-tech talk about why things work and why they should be monitored, the story seems grounded in reality, and a complicated idea comes across clearly. ![]() This book takes that one step further by creating an agency of time riders to make sure that does not happen. ![]() Many sci-fi time-traveling books deal with the idea that messing with time is a bad idea that usually makes things worse than they are. On the other hand, some characters, like Kramer and his neo-Nazis, seem like comic book heroes, and there is more violence than necessary. This book's idea is creative, the writing engaging, the adventures fast-paced, and the main characters seem like people you might like to know. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From book summary: "A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict." Lower left - The Wall by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Ronald Himler published in 1990. From book summary: "Duck's birthday gifts from his animal friends are wonderful but cannot be used away from the water, a problem eventually solved by the arrival of his last gift." Upper right - Happy Birthday, Dear Duck by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Jan Brett published in 1988. From book summary: "Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving." Upper left - How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Beth Peck published in 1988. ![]() ![]() ![]() This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches. ![]() They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses grew out of the authors’ involvement in the women’s health movement. ![]() In this new and updated edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English delve into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. The pamphlet shows why it is so important for women to discover and analyze their own history, both to help debunk myths and to gain new insights into their struggles today. Genre/Form: History: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Ehrenreich, Barbara. First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment, rooted in witch hunters and the rise of capitalism. ![]() ![]() This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalized ads to the users. ![]() ![]() This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This cookie assigns a unique ID to each visiting user that allows third-party advertisers target that users with relevant ads. The purpose of the cookie is to identify a visitor to serve relevant advertisement. Provided by for tracking user actions on other websites to provide targeted content to the users. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. ![]() Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. ![]() ![]() A night out with the girlfriends and Hef – a man some fifty-four years her senior who offered her “thigh opening” Quaaludes – and one very strange, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it bedroom routine later, and Holly was told “You can stay for a while and we’ll see how it works out.” She took advantage of her foot in the door at the playboy mansion and asked Hef if she could move in. What you may not realise is that these were the roles dictated to the girls by the producers of the show, and Hef himself.Ī university student of twenty-two, struggling to make ends meet, Holly was about to find herself without a place to live. If you ever caught an episode of the show Girls Next Door, you’d be well aware of the fact that Kendra was the one who wanted to have fun, Bridget was the one who wanted a career, and Holly was the one who cared about Hef… BOOK REVIEW: Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison ![]() ![]() ![]() Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students, faculty, and staff must walk a thousand miles to the safety of China's western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. ![]() "Myths are the darkest and brightest incarnations of who we are."Ĭhina, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Janie Chang pens pure enchantment!" - Kate Quinn, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Huntressįrom the author of Three Souls and Dragon Springs Road comes a captivating historical novel-the third in a loosely-connected trilogy-in which a young woman travels across China with a convoy of student refugees, fleeing the hostilities of a brutal war with Japan. ![]() "The Library of Legends is a gorgeous, poetic journey threaded with mist and magic about a group from a Chinese university who take to the road to escape the Japanese invasion of 1937 – only to discover that danger stalks them from within. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a collection of many of his best and most amusing short stories, fables, and cartoons that were originally published between 1931 - 1945. Thurber loosely based the character, a daydreamer, on himself. ![]() ![]() It is also a book from which I have read many stories to others. Walter Jackson Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber s first short story 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and in book form in My Worldand Welcome to It in 1942. In its original book form, "The Thurber Carnival" has always been my favorite book to read numerous stories from (over and over again over the past 50 years). I am now the age (65) that Thurber was when he (and director Burgess Meredith) won a Special Tony Award in April 1960 for the Broadway production of "A Thurber Carnival". A Study Guide for James Thurbers Secret Life of Walter Mitty, excerpted from Gales acclaimed Short Stories for Students. ![]() I didn't quite get it until I found myself doing so as well several years later as a teenager. I first became aware of James Thurber back in the 1960s when I'd see my father reading his work and laughing to himself. It also includes several interview clips of Thurber himself. It contains personal recollections and insights from many who knew Thurber personally, as well as wonderful examples of his writing and cartoons. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this film and highly recommend it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Off he went, dragged from chess club to cafe, humiliating proud adult amateurs, studying with a minor master in Vienna, bringing glory to his Yugoslavian village. ![]() “He did nothing unless specifically told to, never asked a question, did not play with other boys, and undertook no activity that had not been explicitly assigned to him…”īetween chores he sat around “with the vacant look of a sheep at pasture.”īut then he happened upon a game of chess - and found the one narrow sliver of human endeavor in which he was not only capable but brilliant. A Yugoslavian orphan, he was still, at fourteen, counting on his fingers, reading with difficulty. “He’s crisscrossed America from coast to coast playing tournaments and is now off to Argentina for fresh triumphs.”Įven for a chess champion, Czentovic is bizarre. It’s about - or seems at first to be about - the world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, traveling by boat from America to Argentina. ![]() The best showroom for this architectural trick is Chess Story, a novella published after Zweig’s death in 1942. A seemingly insignificant character begins to tell what you expect will be a story of at most a paragraph or two thirty pages later you find yourself immersed in a different book altogether. You tool along in his books, admiring the lively prose, enjoying the tinge of melodrama - and then you come upon a hidden door. Stefan Zweig, an Austrian writer from the period just before the second World War, is the master of this dream’s literary equivalent. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first book in a new series from Caldecott Honor winner Lauren Castillo, Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us has the feel of a timeless classic, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters who will star in many more adventures to come. With bravery and teamwork, there's nothing that can stop these seven from finding Mutty, but along the way they discover something even more important: each other. Following the trail of clues Mutty left behind, brave Hedgehog meets a wiggly Mole, a wordy Owl, a curmudgeonly Beaver, a scatterbrained Hen and Chicks, and a girl who's new to the neighborhood, Annika May. When a great storm carries Mutty away, she embarks on a quest to find her friend. ![]() Hedgehog lives on a teeny-tiny island with only her stuffed dog, Mutty, for company. It's got classic written all over it." -Victoria Jamieson, Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller GirlĪnd it feels like you have known that friend your entire life. " Our Friend Hedgehog feels like a modern-day Winnie the Pooh. From a Caldecott Honor-winning artist comes a cozy classic-in-the-making about finding your friends and sticking together through thick and thin. ![]() |