5/13/2023 0 Comments Only on the Weekends by Dean AttaBut when Mack's dad gets a job on a film in Scotland, Mack has to move, and soon he discovers how painful love can be. He has liked Karim for as long as he can remember, and is ecstatic when Karim becomes his boyfriend - it feels like love. Will he choose Karim or Finlay? And can true love last for ever? Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic - he blames the films he's grown up watching. Mack never thought he'd find love, but now two boys want to be with him. The event will be chaired by award winning poet, playwright, performer and director Hannah Lavery. This is the highly anticipated follow-up to his breakout YA debut The Black Flamingo which is a firm favourite amongst our booksellers. We couldn't be happier to be welcoming Dean Atta to the bookshop for an in-person event to celebrate his newest young adult novel, Only on the Weekends.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The unexpected mrs pollifax seriesShe decides to take him at his word and decides she wants more adventure and a chance to do something for her country. A regular checkup with her doctor informs her that she is very healthy, but he wisely advises her to find something to fill her life with purpose, a reason to get up and look forward to her day. The Low Down on the Pollifax StorylineĮmily Pollifax has lived a full life: raised a family, done a lot of volunteer work, had a fine husband who died a few years earlier. A few were familiar with the Pollifax series and it became a finalist for this year’s reading. So when the mystery book club did their book selections for this year, I threw “Ruth’s book” into the pot because I was curious how others would feel about it. In fact, the only mystery she ever read and liked was The Unexpected Mrs. While I am a mystery book fan and a lover of thrillers and police procedurals, my wife is not. Pollifax, the book by Dorothy Gilman that our mystery book club read for February and that we met to discuss today. So it was today as I reflected on The Unexpected Mrs. What do you see in the famous illustration on the right: The vase or the two faces? It depends, right? It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.Ĭurtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty North American tribes. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. Egan’s spirited biography might just bring the recognition that eluded him in life.” - The Washington PostĮdward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. “A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea. New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan reveals the life story of the man determined to preserve a people and culture in Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 5/13/2023 0 Comments Ruthless rival by lj shenPast and present collide as Arya falls hard for Christian. Christian Miller is charming, ambitious, and devilishly good looking, and Arya has no idea he is that same boy who kissed her all those years ago. Though the writing was kind of choppy and didn’t flow. The author writing is smooth, engaging, and riveting. It is the bestselling author of New York Times. Shen is the guy behind this tremendous novel. I enjoyed the setting of this book taking place in New York in different areas of the city. Shen is the romantic, literature, fiction and thriller novel that covers the whole story and attract the readers from one page to last. Though this book didn’t exactly live up to the hype for the author. The only problem is the attorney who is determined to destroy her father's good name. This was my first book from LJ Shen and I heard great things about her books. So when her father is sued by a former employee, Arya sets out to prove that her father is not the monster he is accused of being. Now, two decades later, Arya is an on-the-rise publicist with her beloved father as one of her biggest clients. Soon, friendship turned to young love, and when Arya dared him to kiss her, a chain reaction of disastrous events led to the boy being sent away and out of Arya's life. When she was young, Arya Roth became best friends with her housekeeper's son. Shen comes an enemies-to-lovers romance about the fine line between seeking revenge and finding love. From Wall Street Journal bestselling author L.J. The narrative is as lively, as informative and as richly detailed as a maharaja’s palace.” “Freedom at Midnight is a panoramic spectacular of a book that reads more like sensational fiction than like history, even though it is all true…. James Cameron, The New York Sunday Times It is a work of scholarship, of investigation, research and of significance.” Having been there most of the time in question and having assisted at most of the encounters, I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. “There is no single passage in this profoundly researched book that one could actually fault. The book was an international bestseller and achieved enormous acclaim in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen-but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war.įreedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Sister soldier life after deathThe jungle is spooky, and the men start hearing strange, eerie noises which become an opera, a glee club, chanting, and so on, but the voices they hear are not human. A patrol goes into the mountains for a weeklong operation to monitor enemy movement. O'Brien offers readers the advice that they should be skeptical, and offers a story told to him by Mitchell Sanders as an example. He comments that in true stories it is difficult to distinguish what actually happened from what seemed to happen, again blurring the line between truth and story. O'Brien remembers body parts strewn in the jungle trees and thinks about his own memories of the event. Lemon's death, an accident resulting from a game of catch with a grenade, is described in detail. O'Brien suggests that Lemon's sister's failure to return the letter offers a kind of sad and true moral to the story. The sister never writes back, and Rat is offended and angered, as the reader is left to infer as the sister never returns the letter. Rat believes the letter is poignant and personal however, from Lemon's sister's viewpoint, it is inappropriate and disturbing. Rat's letter talks about her brother and the crazy stunts he attempted. O'Brien offers a story about Rat Kiley that he assures his readers is true: Rat's friend, Curt Lemon, is killed, and Rat writes Lemon's sister a letter. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Sanctuary by caryn lixI couldn't quite picture the characters, and I really felt like I was missing something, like reading the second book in a series. I had a lot of questions while I was reading this book, and most of them were answered only with, it's a mystery how it happened. Kenzie is kidnapped by the prisoners, and used as a hostage to get what they want, until something more sinister shows up. All that changes one day, when a false alarm leads to a real emergency on the prison, when only her and her mother are on board. A corporation called Omnistellar not only runs the lives of the prison guards, but also the lives of rich people everywhere, giving them a special citizenship that comes with a quality of life that others just don't get to have. Her life will be and always has been about her citizenship and the prisoners. From simply flying in the wrong place to murder, there's a wide variety of people in there, and Kenzie, the main character and only viewpoint, is a junior prison guard living on the station with her parents. Not just any space prison, though, this one holds hundreds of teens with special powers, that have been incarcerated for various reasons. Caryn Lix's debut young adult novel "Sanctuary" is set in a space prison far above Earth. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Sky Above Us by Sarah SundinI found myself getting a bit lost in the stage of character development for that reason. it isn't as annoying as it sounds, I promise - this was a pretty small thing, and it was done well. It was still pretty tight, but there were several partial resolutions between the main characters which ended in another disturbance which ended in them having another partial resolution. It seemed like the plotline spiraled about a bit. (I'm putting this in spoilers even though it isn't spoilery just because I know a lot of people like to know *nothing* about the book until they read it! And I know there's a low chance more than a scattering of people have read this hence far.) I felt like the pacing was a little weird, and the characters didn't have the same oomph I'm used to. Still a favorite, but not as favorite-ish as the author's other novels. I did love this book! It probably gets 4.5/5 from me. At this point, I must not care about my health at all, for I stayed up until 3+ AM to finish this book. 5/13/2023 0 Comments She would be king by wayetu moore♦ Norman Aragon-the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. ♦ June Dey-raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. ♦ Gbessa-exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. Wayetu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history-a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formation In 2007, DC Comics released Smith’s first non-creator owned work, SHAZAM! Monster Society of Evil, a four-part mini-series recreating a classic serial from comic’s Golden Age. publisher Scholastic entered the graphic novel market by launching a new imprint, Graphix with a full color version of BONE: Out from Boneville, bringing the underground comic to a new audience and a new generation. In the Spring of 2005, Harry Potter’s U.S. In 1992, Jeff’s wife Vijaya Iyer joined the company as partner to handle publishing and distribution, licensing, and foreign language publications. Word of mouth, critical acclaim, and a string of major awards helped propel Cartoon Books and BONE to the forefront of the comic book industry. Against all odds, the small company flourished, building a reputation for quality stories and artwork. In 1991, he launched a company called Cartoon Books to publish his comic book BONE, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from Boneville. See other authors with similar names.īorn and raised in the American mid-west, Jeff Smith learned about cartooning from comic strips, comic books, and watching animation on TV. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. |