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In Our Own Back Yard by Anne Kayes5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Solid gold, cannot go wrong, instant classic, funny as hell, buy it immediately, etc.ħ Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1, The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and David Vandermeulen, and illustrator Daniel Casanave (Jonathon Cape, $48, 11+) Sold 87,000 truckloads already and on its way to selling 87,000 more, this is a seriously great book and will work beautifully in classrooms as well as at home.ģ Megamonster by David Walliams (Harper Collins, $23, 5-8)Ĥ Maui and Other Legends: 8 Classic Tales of Aotearoa by Peter Gossage (Puffin, $40, 4+)ĥ Kuwi & Friends Māori Picture Dictionary by Kat Merewether & Pania Papa (Illustrated Publishing, $35, 4+)īig, bright, durable every household needs at least one copy.Ħ The Rock From the Sky by Jon Klassen (Walker Books, $30, 3+) ![]() It’s a new YA novel that threads the 1981 Springbok Tour together with modern anti-racism protests and Covid-19 lockdowns, and it also nabbed number one in the adults’ charts last week.Ģ How Do I Feel? A Dictionary of Emotions for Children by Rebekah Lipp & Craig Phillips (Wildling Books, $40, 3+) AUCKLANDġ In Our Own Backyard by Anne Kayes (Bateman, $22, 13+)Īfter the launch (featuring speeches by John Minto and Chlöe Swarbrick) Jo McColl of Unity Books called us with a heads-up that this book was going to be huge. What’s the best way to get adults reading? Get them reading when they’re children – and there’s no better place to start than the Unity Children’s Bestseller Chart. ![]()
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Masterworks spiderman 15/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jonah Jameson, Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, the Vulture and Electro and guest-star nods from the Fantastic Four and Human Torch! Relive the foundation of every amazing arachnid adventure that followed!Ĭollects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1-10, material from Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15. The stories that built the Marvel Universe, from the brilliant minds of legendary creators - now available in a new lineof Mighty Marvel Masterworks! The stories that built the Marvel Universe, from the brilliant minds of legendary creators - now available in an accessible new format the whole family can enjoy! When young Peter Parker gains remarkable abilities from a radioactive spider, he must step up and try to become a hero - while also dealing with the fantastic pressures of an everyday teenager! For with great power, there must also come great responsibility! Enjoy these stories of spectacular web-slinging adventure from Spidey’s very beginning - including the tragic origin that started it all the first appearances of the Daily Bugle, J. ![]() Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1-10, material from Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15. ![]()
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Up front by bill mauldin 19455/24/2023 ![]() ![]() But it was because of Willie and Joe that he was remembered so fondly.Īlmost every Veterans Day, the late Charles Schulz would honor Mauldin by having Snoopy, as the World War I flying ace, toast the cartoonist with a mug of root beer. It showed a grieving Abraham Lincoln, his hands covering his face, at the Lincoln Memorial. Many Americans remember Mauldin's cartoon in the Chicago Sun-Times, published after President Kennedy's assassination. What endeared Mauldin to the soldiers is that he was one of them, spending most of his time with the 45th Division. ![]() From 1940 to 1945, the unshaven, slump-shouldered soldiers mucked their way through Europe, surviving the enemy and the elements while mocking everything from their orders to their equipment. Published in Stars and Stripes and other military newspapers, they kept his fellow soldiers entertained and turned Mauldin into an icon. ![]() Mauldin made Willie and Joe the voice of the World War II infantryman. While Mauldin's entire body of work is impressive, it's his earliest work - the drawings of GIs Willie and Joe - that earned him the highest praise. Another significant part of the World War II generation is gone now that Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin is dead at the age of 81. ![]()
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Dare to be vulnerable brene brown5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."-Theodore Roosevelt Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. ![]() The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly. "It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. More than 2 million copies sold! Look for Brené Brown's new podcast, Dare to Lead, as well as her ongoing podcast Unlocking Us! From thought leader Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability. ![]()
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Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() He returns as a ghost and launches a campaign of vengeance that leaves bodies and the police in ![]() When Eddie Ryder is burned alive by fellow members of the Hell Riders motorcycle gang for ratting on them, he vows revenge with his dying breath. Tales From The Crust: An Anthology of Pizza Horror Human and humane tales of beauty, strangeness, and transformation told in prose as precise and sparing as a surgeon’s knife. ![]() ![]() 20thīritish Fantasy Award-winning author, and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro, a leading voice in contemporary dark fiction, delivers a remarkable debut collection of startling short fiction. This is often the season where people dabble in the horror genre so I'm going to start rounding up each month's horror releases in an attempt to help people make some good, horror choices.īook One: Fire & Rain is already out and you can read that now! Buy it!īook Two: Water & Wind is ready for preorder with a release date of Aug. Just speaking from almost 4 years of experience on #bookstagram (dedicated bookish accounts and posts on the social app, Instagram) readers are starting to collect books for their Fall/Winter TBR. ![]()
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Villa incognito by tom robbins5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But no matter how hard you try, you’ll never imagine what you’ll find inside the Villa Incognito: a tilt-a-whirl of identity, masquerade, and disguise that dares to pull off “the false mustache of the world” and reveal the even greater mystery underneath.įor neither the mists of Laos nor the Bangkok smog, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the pure linguistic phosphor that illuminates every page of one of America’s most consistently surprising and inventive writers. Imagine them part of a novel that only Tom Robbins could create-a magically crafted work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins, 2005, Random House Publishing Group edition, eBook in English. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Bantam, 27. ![]()
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Cleopatra by stacy schiff5/24/2023 ![]() She was a senior editor at Simon & Schuster until 1990. Schiff graduated from Phillips Academy (Andover) preparatory school, and subsequently earned her B.A. Schiff was born in Adams, Massachusetts, to Morton Schiff, the president of Schiff Clothing, a store founded by Schiff's great-grandfather in 1897, and Ellen, a professor of French literature at North Adams State college (now called Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts). Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, colonial American-era polymath and prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's fellow Founding Father Samuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–93 in colonial Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her biography of Vera Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies. ![]()
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Dollanganger book series5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Malcolm, taken by her forthright manner and impressed with her intelligence, proposes after only two days' acquaintance. She thinks she has found "the one" since he is the first man to ever show interest in her. Tall, plain Olivia Winfield is rescued from spinsterhood by the smart and handsome Malcolm Foxworth. ![]() ( February 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ![]() This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. It is the fifth novel of the Flowers in the Attic series but considered the prequel, as the story told takes place prior to the events of the first book. The novel explains the origin of Olivia Winfield (the grandmother in Flowers in the Attic), the events that cause her to become the cold, domineering mistress of Foxworth Hall, and Corinne's childhood and eventual betrayal. This is the fifth novel of the Dollanganger series. There is some dispute over whether this particular novel was written in part by Andrews before she died, or whether it was written entirely by Neiderman. Andrews died in 1986, and her estate commissioned ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman to continue writing novels under her name developed from plot outlines originally written by Andrews. ![]()
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Fallen in love lauren kate series5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() While the concept of ordinary human falling for a supernatural being isn’t anything new, I did enjoy the foundation for the world itself. At the time, angel based books were all the rage in YA and so I bought Fallenand Hush, Hush around the same time and dove in. I was fresh off the TwilightTrain and looking for the next fix. Find out why… Why I Picked it Up / My Expectations:īack in the days before I discovered Goodreads and bought all the books I wanted to read, I stumbled upon Fallenby Lauren Kate. ![]() Note #2: I actually stopped reading Book 3, Passionat 4% and marked the series as DNF. Publication Dates: December 2009 – November 2015 Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Angels, Supernatural There are short stories: View Full Reading Order here.īook Order: Chronological (#1-#4) & Connected (#5) ![]() # of Books: 5 ( View Full Reading Order here) only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart. ![]() What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?ġ7-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross. DNF December Review Blitz - Day 3: I’m sharing my thoughts on some book series that I have marked as incomplete as I have never finished the first novel in the series. ![]()
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The paper crane by molly bang5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Mix the mayonnaise, ketchup, anchovy essence (if using), Worcestershire sauce and a third of the fish stock (reserving the remainder for the aspic garnish). When the gelatine is entirely dissolved, remove the stock from the heat. Squeeze dry the soaked gelatine leaves and stir into the stock. ![]() Warm the fish stock to just below boiling point. Dice one of the eggs and add to the shellfish, along with the tomatoes. Soak the gelatine leaves in ice-cold water to soften.Įxtract the lobster meat and chop this and the prawns into 0.5cm pieces. Micro herb leaves, for decoration (optional).10g (¼oz) parsley, blanched and chopped.A splash of anchovy essence or sauce (optional).3 plum tomatoes, peeled, deseeded and diced.3 free-range hard-boiled eggs (or use quail’s eggs).75g (2¾oz) cooked and peeled prawns, plus extra to garnish.2 x 500g (1lb 2oz) cooked Scottish lobsters. ![]() |