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![]() The book, which has religious themes that some find heavy-handed, has been criticized for its portrayal of women and the way the children’s lives end (among other things). But he’s good.” In Aslan, Lewis created a Christ-like figure who pays the penalty for one of the children’s infractions and thus breaks the White Witch’s wintry grip on Narnia. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, a series that has become part of the canon of classic literature, drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over fifty years. ![]() “Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. While the fauns, witches and talking beavers who populate Narnia are utterly charming, it’s the mysterious lion Aslan that gives the book its real thrill. The Oxbridge English professor’s most famous book, part of the seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia, served as the literary spark that ignited dozens of contemporary fantasies, from The Magicians to Harry Potter, with a child who suddenly discovers that magic exists. ![]() Lewis’ 1950 children’s classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. ![]() Stuck in a lonely house at a bleak time, cut off from family and friends, a band of children stumble upon a door into a secret world behind that most prosaic of furniture items, a wardrobe. ![]()
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Fake rake reviews6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Enlisting Sebastian to play the part of her suitor, she hopes to catch the attention of Mason Fredericks, a dreamboat fellow scholar. However, things change when she’s suddenly faced with the task of finding a husband. With scholarly friends like Sebastian by her side, she doesn’t need the approval of the ton. Grace could care less what others think of her fascination with amphibians. One of their number is Sebastian Holloway, a bookish and handsome anthropologist who becomes a close friend of Lady Grace. Eva Leigh puts inspiring, forthright female characters at the forefront of her delectable romances, and Lady Grace Wyatt is no exception in My Fake Rake, the first of a new series.īut first, Leigh introduces us to a disparate group of boys who, while in a Regency version of detention, form a lifelong bond and will eventually call themselves the Union of the Rakes. ![]()
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Author the giving tree6/29/2023 ![]() They read it as a meditation on longing and the healing that comes with the passage of time. Several schools challenged “The Giving Tree” for “criminalizing the foresting agency.”įans of The Giving Tree, however, see the tale as a parable about the beauty of generosity and the power giving has in forging deep connections. They find it incredibly sad and not suitable for children at all. ![]() Some argue that the book encourages codependency, narcissism and selfishness that it irresponsibly glorifies maternal selflessness, even as the mother figure is decimated in the process. In fact, according to an article in The New Yorker, The Giving Tree ranks high on both favorite and least favorite lists of children’s books, and it is the subject of many online criticisms. It’s also been at the center of vehement discussions and divergent views about its meaning. In the more than half century that this slender, grass-and-leaf-green volume has been around, it’s become a library mainstay, a classroom cornerstone, a perfect baby gift and a birthday go-to. It’s hard to believe it’s been 53 years since author Shel Silverstein penned this now-famous work. While cleaning one of my bookshelves yesterday, I found a copy of the children’s classic The Giving Tree. ![]() For me, “The Giving Tree” is a lovely and well-written book about the human-nature connection and the realization that what we all really need is to be close to the Earth. ![]()
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The wastelands stephen king6/29/2023 ![]() From this location, they start their journey down the Beam toward the Dark Tower.ĭuring their journey, Jake, a young man who had met Roland at a prior time at a way station, joins Eddie, Susannah, and Roland. By following this bear's tracks, Roland and his companions are able to locate the Portal that the bear once guarded. These guardians were created to guard the Twelve Portals. Roland believes this bear was one of the Twelve Guardians. In the beginning of their adventure, Roland and his traveling companions Eddie and Susannah are attacked by and kill an insane mechanical bear. The novel ends with much left unfinished and the characters in a precarious situation. Throughout their journey, Roland and his companions encounter insane mechanical bears, sick pirates, and a monorail train on a suicide mission. Roland and his companions hope that by reaching this tower, they can set right the terrible changes that are occurring in Roland's world. ![]() ![]() Stephen King's novel "The Waste Lands" is the third book in a series that follows Roland's quest for the Dark Tower. ![]()
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Geek love novel6/29/2023 ![]() The book’s first run of 20,000, with an additional 3,500 printed, is a “significant” number for what is essentially a first novel, Friedman said. Everybody is noting its originality,” Friedman said. ![]() Katherine Dunn is a literary writer with commercial overtones. Knopf’s new editor-in-chief at the time the manuscript was submitted, Sonny Mehta, reportedly loved the book, as did everyone there from editors to designers, senior vice president Jane Friedman said. In this clan, defects are looked upon as “specialties.” The stranger you look, the more you’re loved. Papa Al’s failed experiments end up on display at the carnival, floating in jars. The resulting babies include Arty, the child with flippers in place of arms and legs, a pair of piano-playing Siamese twins, and Olympia, the albino hunchback dwarf who narrates the story. So Al’s wife Crystal Lil, a former geek (a carnival performer of grotesque acts such as biting the heads off live chickens), ingests cocaine, arsenic, insecticides and radioisotopes in the effort to radicalize her genes. ![]() His theory is that, along with boosting business, he will be bestowing upon his children “the inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves.” As for a reason, the 43-year-old Portland author describes her vision as “a peek over the edge.”Īs Dunn’s tale goes, Aloysius Binewski, proprietor of a traveling circus called Binewski’s Fabulon, gets the notion to breed mutant children who will perform as sideshow freaks. ![]()
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Forgotten Empire by John E. Curtis6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He used his position to redirect the world's focus on faith in an era of secularization. The first German pope in a thousand years, Benedict – born Joseph Ratzinger – was a theologian and writer devoted to history and tradition, who was elected to succeed Pope John Paul II. The then-85-year-old thus became the first pope in 600 years to resign. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (April 16, 1927-December 31, 2022) stunned the world in 2013 when he announced, after eight years in office, that he lacked the strength to continue as head of the Catholic Church. ![]() The Associated Press contributed to this gallery. | Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis via Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. Pope Benedict XVI is greeted by the faithful in Les Combes in 2005. ![]()
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David blight books6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and in 2001 he delivered the W.E.B. In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. ![]() Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. ![]() Staples is the author of a memoir, Parallel Time, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and is currently at work on The Secret History of Race: The Story of Black Americans who Lived Their Lives as White. Oxford University Press, USA, History - 253 pages. ![]() He also writes frequently for the Times Magazine and the Book Review. His books include Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, which received seven book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize a book of essays, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War and Frederick Douglass's Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee.īrent Staples is a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, contributing editorials on politics and culture. Yale historian and former Cullman Fellow David Blight discusses his forthcoming book, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, with Brent Staples, editorial board member of The New York Times.ĭavid Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. ![]()
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When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() vii-viii 1-344, original red cloth, front panel stamped in light blue and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in light blue, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. The source book for 1953 film of the same name. Thus we argue and thus we rest, perhaps forever without certainty. Also it seems most illogical for a contemporary later issue binding to be larger than its companions. While the priority of these bindings may remain unknown, it certainly was a long time custom for first state bindings to have gold-gilt lettering and later state bindings to be without. Of three binding states, this is by far the scarcest and while we cannot prove it to be the first of the three such bindings, the logical evidence certainly seems to support this case as this binding has gold lettering on the spine only and measures an 1/8 inch higher than its other two counterparts both shorter and identical in size, one with powder blue lettering on both the burgundy cloth spine and front cover and the other with black lettering on both the brick red cloth spine and front cover. WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, Stokes, 1933, 1st edition, a bright near fine copy of this classic world catastrophe novel in an equally bright vg+ first printing full color pictorial dust-wrapperwith a small chip missing from the upper left corner of the bit faded dust-wrapperspine panel. ![]()
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Five survive review6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is so eerie and creepy and the plot is just out of this world. How do I even begin? Honestly, my expectations weren’t all that high but the moment I started this book, I was completely hooked. I am just speechless, Holly Jackson is just insane for this and I’m all for it! This book totally had me at the very edge of my seat and it is so mind blowing with all the twists and turns. With edge-of-your-seat tension and a gripping mystery, Holly Jackson has written another instant classic!įive Survive by Holly Jackson is a very thrilling story of six teenagers out on a road trip who find themselves trapped in the middle of the woods with no way to contact the outdoor world and a man out for them standing by with a rifle. But is there a liar among them? Buried secrets will be forced to light and tensions inside the RV will reach deadly levels. With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure out which of them is the target. ![]() They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend – the older brother – his perfect girlfriend – a secret crush – a classmate – and a killer. From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly. ![]()
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Tortilla flat first edition6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: just a hint of wear along the outside edge of the backstrip, where it meets the front panel mild rubbing to the panels of the wrapper covers a couple of faint creases top to bottom of the backstrip and a couple of very small, very faint stress creases to the panels the binding is square and secure the text is clean. First Edition Thus (1965), not directly stated, but implied by lack of subsequent printings cited, as would have been Bantam's customary practice at the time of publication. ![]() |