5/29/2023 0 Comments Rabbit hill lawson![]() ![]() ![]() All signs point to new folks moving into the house soon! Will they be nice folks who will plant a big garden? Or will they be mean folks with guns and traps and poison? The centerpiece of the community is without a doubt little Georgie, the most precious of the rabbit children (which, if I were any of the many other rabbit children, I would take umbrage with, but I digress) and Georgie's got big news. "Folks" haven't lived in the "Big House" for years, and without humans, and the food they grow (and throw away), things have been meager. Times have been hard for the animals of Rabbit Hill. It's about an area in Connecticut called "Rabbit Hill" and the assortment of woodland creatures who reside there. Rabbit Hill is a novel written and illustrated by Robert Lawson. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments A sunlit weapon winspear![]() Maisie must work fast to uncover the link, to save the president's wife and a soldier caught in the crosshairs of those who would see them both dead. A Sunlit Weapon: A Novel Jacqueline Winspear HarperCollins, Fiction - 368 pages 14 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's. ![]() When another ferry pilot crashes and dies in the same part of Kent, Jo is convinced there's a connection between all three events and she wants desperately to help the soldier now in the custody of American military police.Jo takes her suspicions to Maisie Dobbs and as the psychologist-investigator delves into the case, she discovers that the targeting of ferry pilots and the plight of the soldier are bound up with the visit to Britain by the First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt. Returning to the area on foot to find out who was trying to take her down, she discovers an African American soldier bound and gagged in an old barn. ![]() ![]() Jo Hardy, an Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she has the terrifying experience of coming under fire from the ground. Attacks on British planes that cause a pilots death lead female pilot Jo. ![]() 'Winspear pulls it off brilliantly' DAILY MAILOctober 1942. A sunlit weapon audio book MP3 / Jacqueline Winspear. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Conversion by Katherine Howe![]() ![]() That curiosity paired with my love for The Crucible puts Conversion right at the top of my to-be-read list! If this book is anywhere as suspenseful and interesting as The Crucible I think it will be a great read. ‘Conversion melds the best bits of private school drama (think Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep) with the mystique of the supernatural. ![]() I am always curious to read retellings and adaptations because I’m always interested to see how the author spins the story in a new way and whether he or she can keep the essence of the source material. by Katherine Howe ISBN: 9781780747729 eISBN: 9781780747736 Published on. But then one girl, who is reading The Crucible for extra credit starts putting the pieces together… No one knows what is happening and some even suspect that the girls are faking it. ![]() The Crucible has a special place in my heart not only because I loved it so much when I read it a few years ago but because I saw the opera version of it on my first date with my boyfriend (my roommate at the time was performing in the opera too, which made it extra special!).Ĭonversion is set in a high school in Danvers, Massachusetts where some senior girls have suddenly fallen ill. When I found out that Katherine Howe’s new book Conversion alludes to or is a loose retelling of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, I was sold. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gina lives in southern California with her husband, where she is at work on a fairy tale novel and short story collection. In her spare time, she enjoys going to the beach, reading, and dreaming of Prince Edward Island. Graduating summa cum laude, Gina holds credentials in both elementary education and Spanish. Although unable to attend this event, a presentation of the poems was well-received at another scholarly event that same year. In 2009, she was asked to present her original Spanish poetry at an international literature conference in Costa Rica. Gina is also an avid poet in both the English and Spanish languages. As her own stories were “checked out” by family and friends, she dreamed of a day in which her work would be available in public libraries. Gina has been writing ever since she was a little girl and turned her bedroom into a “library,” complete with due date slips and a check-out stamp. The first book in the series, I Thirst, received the 2013 YATR Literary Award for Best Prologue from Young Adult Teen Readers. ![]() Gina Marinello-Sweeney is the author of The Veritas Chronicles, a contemporary YA trilogy that has been compared to the writing of L.M. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy![]() ![]() ![]() The masses, naturally, are presented as despicable, hostile to the diverse, incapable of accepting what does not replicate their mediocrity. Jude, the protagonist, faces a freedom-limiting environment, oppressive against any manifestation of the individual. Brilliant and inducer of the revolt: Jude the Obscure exposes the entrails of this repugnant organization called society. And it is not possible today, far from the petty conveniences of Victorian society, not to classify the work as brilliant. As for the criticism, Swift has well defined: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him”. The fact is that Hardy abandoned the genre exactly after the publication of a masterpiece. Received in hostility by the critics, some say that the epithets from “dirty” to “immoral” justified Hardy living little more than thirty years without publishing a new novel. J ude the Obscure is Thomas Hardy’s latest novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even when there isn't a bite to catch, he reminds young Michael that it takes patience to get what's coming to you. Life on the farm with Granddaddy is full of hard work, but despite all the chores, Granddaddy always makes time for play, especially fishing trips. But can Michael be patient when justice just can't come soon enough?"-īook Synopsis Based on the true story of one family's struggle for voting rights in the civil rights-era South, this moving tale shines an emotional spotlight on a dark facet of U.S. For the very first time, Granddaddy is allowed to vote, and he couldn't be more proud. One morning, when Granddaddy heads into town in his fancy suit, Michael knows that something very special must be happening-and sure enough, everyone is lined up at town hall. ![]() About the Book "Life on the farm with Granddaddy is full of hard work, but despite all the chores, Granddaddy always makes time for play, especially fishing trips. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Dinner by César Aira![]() ![]() ![]() The Eye of the Leopard follows Hans Olofson, a Swedish man who takes up farming in Zambia. It offers a timely look at questions of immigration, faith and family that Sweden (and the rest of Europe) are currently facing. The Shadow Girls shares the story of three young refugees trying to find their way in Sweden. ![]() Not afraid to criticize political stances he did not agree with-especially those of right-wing, anti-immigration groups-and to speak openly about social issues in his books, Mankell was clearly influenced by both his Swedish heritage and the many years he spent in Mozambique. His many books have connected with a legion of loyal readers over the years, and his writing will be sorely missed. Although Henning Mankell (1948-2015) was open about his tough fight with cancer, we were still saddened to hear of his death earlier this month. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments 13 storeys jonathan sims![]() Sims starts things off with a growing sense of unease. Unfortunately, when your home is Banyan Court, peace is often in short supply. She finds comfort in the empty streets and the lonely walk home. ![]() She loves the peace and quiet of the slumbering city. Night Work – Violet Ng works the night shift. Let’s meet the residents and staff in the run up to the most exclusive event the building has ever hosted. Welcome to Banyan Court, a place where nothing is ever quite what it seems. His death has remained one of the biggest unsolved mysteries – until now.ġ3 Storeys by Jonathan Sims is a portmanteau novel featuring a baker’s dozen of tales woven together by a strange building and its equally strange owner. Whether privileged or deprived, they share only one thing in common – they’ve all experienced a shocking disturbance within the building’s walls.īy the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests will say what happened. None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation. ![]() All the guests are strangers – even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Nausea jean paul![]() ![]() ![]() Thoughts are born at the back of me, like sudden giddiness, I feel them being born behind my head. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire: the hatred, the disgust of existing, there are as many ways to make myself exist, to thrust myself into existence. At this very moment, it's frightful, if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. Because that's still a thought." Will there never be an end to it? I mustn't think that I don't want to think. If I could keep myself from thinking! I try, and succeed: my head seems to fill with smoke. How serpentine is this feeling of existing, I unwind it, slowly. But though I am the one who continues it, unrolls it. ![]() ![]() The body lives by itself once it has begun. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns: "I have to fi. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. “I jump up: it would be much better if I could only stop thinking. ![]() ![]() ![]() It asks how men and women of different social classes went out into the streets, squares and shops to buy the goods they needed and wanted on a daily or on a once-in-a-lifetime basis during the Renaissance period. This fascinating, timely and original book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace in its various aspects, ranging from middle-class to courtly consumption and from the provision of foodstuffs to the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. ![]() |
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