![]() ![]() On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. “Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. What killed me is the strong potential it so clearly had, all of which seemed to have been left on the editing room floor.īefore I get into the criticism bits, here’s a brief rundown of the plot, courtesy of the publisher: ![]() Although he’s clearly talented when it comes to crafting tense (and HORRIFYING) slasher scenarios, the lack of depth in the story overall left me feeling. But there’s just something extra special about getting sucked into a deranged story about killer clowns during all the orange and black-tinged Halloween spookiness of October, y’know?īut alas, as excited as I was to dive into Adam Cesare’s Clown in a Cornfield, the YA horror-slasher (with one of the most unfortunate titles in existence) juuust missed the mark. I could read them - and do already read them - all year long. How many thrillers and horror novels can I pack into one month before my brain starts leaking out of my ears? Honestly, the limit does not exist. ![]()
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![]() Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateteful night in her cousin’s outhouse that change the trajectory of her life. * The Millionsįrom a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed.īear it or perish yourself. Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Good Morning America * Essence* Esquire * The Root * Bustle * Ebony * PopSugar * Ms. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. This is an impressive feat of storytelling. ![]() “Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright. ![]() ![]() ![]() ^ "The Ugly Duckling (book and cassette)".A spirited, artistic adaptation, and a welcome addition to the shelves. ![]() 2000 ALA Notable Children's Book - Older Readers.The Ugly Duckling has also been reviewed by Booklist, Library Talk, Kirkus Reviews, and AudioFile. Publishers Weekly gave a starred review describing Pinkneys illustrations as "supple, exquisitely detailed" and the book overall "A flawlessly nuanced performance by a consummate craftsman." ![]() will encourage children to take another look at this old and familiar story." School Library Journal called it "An artistic tour de force that is worthy of its graceful fine-feathered subject." and The Horn Book Magazine found it "a splendid production." It is about a cygnet born amongst ducklings that is bullied, runs away, and eventually grows into a beautiful swan.Ī film by Weston Woods was released in 2001, narrated by Lynn Whitfield.Ĭommon Sense Media, in a review of The Ugly Duckling, wrote "Illustrator Jerry Pinkney's descriptive passages resonate with the splendor of nature's beauty." and "The subtle details incorporated into the scenes. ![]() The Ugly Duckling is a 1999 adaption of the classic Hans Christian Andersen story by Jerry Pinkney. Children's literature, fairy tale, picture book ![]() ![]() ![]() Condition: Good Format: Small format hardback. ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert Winnie-the-Pooh (Version 2)Ī charming collection of 10 relaxing tales, come along into the Forest as Winnie-the-Pooh tries to get some honey, the search is on for Eeyore's tail, some new visitors arrive in the form of Kanga and Baby Roo and an 'Expotition' is held to discover the North Pole! A classic for over 95 years and one that everyone young and old will surely adore. Pooh Goes Visiting And Pooh And Piglet Nearly Catch A Woozle A. ![]() ![]() ![]() The artwork is also shared via other Little, Brown Books for Young Readers social media networks, including the dedicated Facebook page for the series, which has garnered more than 26,000 “likes.” ![]() ![]() Other digital and social media components of the promotion include Facebook and Tumblr book giveaways, and a Daughter of Smoke & Bone Tumblr site showcasing fan-art as well as an interactive walking tour map highlighting sites in Prague that appear in the novels. Scheduled for April 3, the author’s final Goodreads Q&A will focus on Night of Cake & Puppets (2013), an e-book novella revealing two of the trilogy’s supporting characters’ first date. On February 13 and March 13, Taylor answered fans’ questions about each month’s featured title, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (2011) and its follow-up, Days of Blood & Starlight (2012). Hosted on Goodreads, the program was launched last month in partnership with Hodder & Stoughton, the trilogy’s U.K. Hoping to build buzz for the concluding volume of Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, Little Brown Books for Young Readers has launched an online reading initiative called “The Great Daughter of Smoke & Bone Re-read.” The promotion encourages fans to re-read the series’s first installments in advance of the final book, Dreams of Gods & Monsters, due April 8 with a 250,000-copy first printing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next Singer investigates the psychological factors that work against giving to the distant poor: parochialism, a sense of futility, diffusion of responsibility. Subsequent chapters counter the arguments commonly made against giving aid, e.g., that philanthropy undermines real political change, and that giving food or money makes people dependent. He presents life-and-death situations that pose moral dilemmas, then leads the reader through arguments stemming logically from these dilemmas to arrive at the conclusion that it is morally wrong not to give aid to those suffering from lack of food, shelter and medical care. The author’s goal is to reduce, if not eliminate, extreme poverty in the world. Bush, 2004, etc.) lays out the haves’ moral obligation to the have-nots. The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Controversial philosopher Singer (Bioethics/Princeton Univ. ![]() ![]() In 1861, Alcott volunteered to be a nurse at a Union hospital in Washington, D.C. ![]() She witnessed the horrors of the Civil War firsthand. Hannah, the March's servant in Little Women, is a three-dimensional figure and part of the family. She quit the job soon after.Īlcott gained a lifelong empathy for women in the domestic sphere. “I was to serve his needs, soothe his sufferings, and sympathize with his sorrows-be a galley slave, in fact,” Alcott wrote. ![]() Not only was the work itself extremely difficult-she was sexually harassed by her employer. ![]() "Teaching a private school was the proper thing for an indigent gentlewoman," Alcott wrote. Next, she decided to become a household servant as an "experiment," according to a story she wrote about the experience later on.īy working as a servant, Alcott was breaking with expectations. When the Alcotts moved to nearby Orchard house in 1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, bought their house and renamed it "Wayside."īy the time she was 18, Alcott had already held a variety of jobs: She was a kindergarten teacher, a seamstress, and a short story writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is alsounbearbly honest and people just don’t know how to handle that. People think he is slow or even stupid when in reality, Brutha is just quite and not particularly eloquent. He is perfectly happy doing the jobs nobody else wants to do because he is secure in his faith and knows that somebody’s got to sweep the floor and pull out the weeds in the garden. We follow young Brutha, a novice at the Citadel, who has no aspirations to become anything higher than that because he has no aspirations at all. What I’m saying is I am so grateful for Terry Pratchett and his books and this one is giving me a major book hangover and I want to just continue reading Discworld for the forseeable future.Īs the title suggests, this book deals with religion on the Disc, specifically with Omnianism (at least at the beginning). Then again, Discworld is not only re-readable but practically begging to be re-read because there are always references and jokes and little asides that you don’t get on your first read. ![]() ![]() I have read just over half of the Discworld novels and with every one I finish, I get a bit sadder that there are fewer left I haven’t discovered yet. Terry Pratchett’s writing always gives me warm and fuzzy feelings and somehow manages to regrow my hope in humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robson includes details to flesh out the future ecology of Western Canada, and though there are certainly elements of dysfunction and ecological degradation, landscape is technologically managed. Hints of dystopia exist in the mention of Bangladesh Hell and Sudbury Hell: ecologically degraded environments which likewise degrade their inhabitants’ bodies and minds. Robson’s futuristic Canada is divided into “habs” - habitations which include the hybrid habs of Jasper which the healthy and prosperous young people (the “fat babies”) built when they left Calgary, the gleaming Tuktoyaktuk hab on the MacKenzie Delta, and the Edmontonian ghost town. ![]() ![]() The first thing a reader notices is the richness of that world. Robson’s novella, Gods Monsters and the Lucky Peach, does fit into the mandate of the press in that its technological focus is also ecological and its narrative acknowledges the ways that these two elements interact in Robson’s world. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach was published in 2018 by Tor ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leonard reveals his feelings and plans in first person narrative interspersed with the aforementioned letters and also a series of footnotes he adds, in a reflection of both his sense of humor and his love of learning and truth, in spite of his cruddy life. Yes, if you are thinking this is a depressing book, you would be correct! ![]() He tells us that once he went to the park and watched the pigeons and “I felt so so lonely that I hoped someone would come along and stick a knife into my ribs just so they could have my empty wallet.” ![]() “I know that you really just want everything to end – that you can’t see anything good in your future, that the world looks dark and terrible, and maybe you’re right – the world can definitely be a dreadful place.” In letters he writes to himself from the future (at the urging of his only caring teacher), we learn how he is feeling: In fact, his mother doesn’t even live with him most of the time, since he is attending high school in South Jersey and she is off in New York City working on her fashion design career. This book begins on the morning of Leonard Peacock’s 18th birthday, which even his own mother doesn’t remember. ![]() |