![]() The Raineses brought all this on themselves, after plotting to rob an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, motivated by their intention to stop the Vietnam War. Once Bonnie was beside him in the passenger seat, he drove, glancing anxiously in the rearview mirror. ![]() Raines flung open his door, popped the trunk, and helped transfer four heavy suitcases from this arriving car to his own - all part of their meticulous getaway plan. The night of March 8, 1971, had passed so slowly. ![]() Would they wake to find empty spaces where their parents used to be? Raines passed a couple of hours like this, his mind a crazy haze of worry, till finally a car drew near and he realized that it was Bonnie. Even now, back in Germantown, those three children slept soundly. In years past, he and Bonnie had sat together on this same front seat, three kids lining the back bench, and driven to his parents’ vacation house near Lake Michigan. John Raines sat in the family station wagon, parked in a dark lot on the Swarthmore campus, waiting to see if his wife would return to him, or if police lights would appear, flashing doom. ![]() John and Bonnie Raines, photographed by Wesley Mann ![]()
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![]() ![]() The active, engaging stories have appealing plots and lovable characters, encouraging children to continue their reading journey. Books at this level feature basic language, word repetition, and whimsical illustrations, ideal for sharing with emergent readers. With simple, rhythmic text and joyful, bright art, this My First series and Guided Reading Level I is perfect for shared reading with a child. Splish, splash! When his neighbor’s beach ball flies into his backyard, Ty learns that a beach day is even better with a friend. He wiggles his toes in the sand, finds seashells, builds a castle, and splashes in the ocean. Ty turns an ordinary day in the sandbox into a fun beach day. Friendship and imagination and play are highlighted in this fun story, perfect for sharing with children 3 to 6. A Geisel Honor-winning series Author Kelly Starling Lyons selected as the 2021 Piedmont Laureate Join Ty on his imaginative adventures in Ty’s Travels: Beach Day, a My First I Can Read book by acclaimed author and illustrator team Kelly Starling Lyons and Nina Mata. Join Ty on his imaginative adventures in Ty's Travels: Beach Day!, a My First I Can Read book by acclaimed author and illustrator team Kelly Starling Lyons and Niña Mata. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Geisel Honor-winning series * Author Kelly Starling Lyons selected as the 2021 Piedmont Laureate * A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year 2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will she choose loyalty to the princess, or reform for the people?Īs Miri struggles to resolve this dilemma in her own mind, her heart is suffering: an old love comforts her a new crush consumes her she yearns for her homeland. When Miri discovers a secret plot against the royal court - which is motivated by good - she feels torn. But helping Britta prepare for her future is not an easy task. Her best friend, Britta, has been chosen by the Prince of Asland to be his bride, and the royal wedding is fast approaching. With a chance to study at the university and live at the Queen's Castle, Miri leaves village life and is thrust into the bustling chaos of the city. A rich and compelling fantasy about one girl's journey to discover where her home and heart truly belong in a divided world is reminiscent of the best writing by authors like Eva Ibbotson and Cornelia Funke. ![]() This long-awaited follow-up to Newbery Honor winner Princess Academy hit the New York Times bestseller list in the first week of US publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Narratorappears in All Stories In the collection as a whole, and in the individual stories, there is very little information about who is speaking. Their addictions drive them to extreme actions and reactions - physical violence, emotional violence, stealing, lying, sexual promiscuity - all of which could, in fact, be seen as extreme. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson. In other words, they have become addicted to their avoidance of reality, lost in darkness and fear that is, in fact, even darker and more destructive than they life they are so desperate to escape. The actions, reactions and apparent feelings of the narrator and the people he encounters on his journey towards compassion and health (a journey concluded in "Beverly Hotel" - see "Desperation and Compassion" below) all seem connected, albeit to varying degrees, to their drive to escape reality through intoxicating substances. There is the strong sense that almost all the characters in the stories in this collection, if not all, are caught in the self-destructive trap of addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal, and Wheres My Cow, his Discworld book for readers of all ages, was a New York Times bestseller. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But a wizards rubbish is laced with magic, and for the rats that forage this. The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. But in Bad Blintz, someone is playing a different tune and now Maurice and his rats must learn a new concept- evil. Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents P/B. Everyone has heard the stories about rats and pipes, and con-cat Maurice finds a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and has his very own plague of rats - strangely educated rats. So, what does every town need? A good piper to lure them away.That's where Maurice comes in! A streetwise tomcat with the perfect money-making scam. ![]() IT'S A RAT-EAT-RAT WORLD.Rats! They're everywhere- in the breadbins, dancing across tabletops, stealing pies from under the cooks' noses. The film is based on the 2001 novel, 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents,' by late British author Terry Pratchett, the 28th installment in Pratchetts satirical fantasy series. The film tie-in edition of the Carnegie-winning book - with the major motion picture coming in autumn 2022!*New Special film edition of the 28th novel in the bestselling Discworld series - soon to be a Sky Original movie! *Join the world of The Amazing Maurice, the Carnegie Medal winning novel by Terry Pratchett. Print The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents ![]() ![]() ![]() Using the fossil clues that have been gathered using state of the art technology, Brusatte follows these magnificent creatures from their beginnings in the Early Triassic period, through the Jurassic period to their final days in the Cretaceous and the legacy that they left behind.Īlong the way, Brusatte introduces us to modern day dinosaur hunters and gives an insight into what it’s like to be a paleontologist. But what if we got it wrong? In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top dinosaur expert Brusatte, tells the real story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for decades – from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, and the monsters of Jurassic Park. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. ![]() 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'This is that rare, precious and fabulous thing - a proper story, with characters you care about desperately and root for right to the end. I loved every page' Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife Set in a time of illicit thrills and daring glamour, a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies thrive behind closed doors, The Chaperone tells Cora's story as she finally discovers who she is and - more importantly - who she wants to be. It will also, although she doesn't realize it yet, offer her the chance for a very different future. The Chaperone, which is our first book to be discussed in April 2018, is being adapted into a feature film by PBS Masterpiece. ![]() For Cora, whose formative years were spent at The New York Home for Friendless Girls, the trip offers the opportunity to discover the truth about her past. ![]() Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who. The girl is Louise Brooks and, for her, New York offers a chance of stardom beneath the bright lights of Broadway. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. On a summer's day in 1922, Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, charged with the care of a stunningly beautiful young girl with a jet-black bob and wisdom way beyond her fifteen years. ![]() Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away-with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. ![]() Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. ![]() Nora Stephens’ life is books-she’s read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. The sister dynamic is quite strong in the novel as well. 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The writing is so good and consistent, it is hard to believe this is fanfic. So, my lovely Sista Jan saw how miserable I was, after the disaster that was the Conflicted, and gifted me this gem, and thus we embarked on a journey of my first buddy read. The story is 800 pages, I believe it is not easy to spoil. ![]() I now fully understand, why there is a Highway to Hell and only a Stairway to Heaven.īuuuuuuut… DARK SHIT is Good Shit and once I started I couldn’t stop. ![]() ![]() Furo Scene: The Child Rock chapter features doting uncles Yuuen and Emba bathing at the lake with baby Nava.Fundoshi Shot: The loin cloths don't cover that much to begin with, but there's still many moments where the reader gets a peek at what's under them.In the end Yuuen's and Emba's feelings for each other lead to the clans setting aside their rivalry and uniting, and Yuuen's and Emba's siblings get married. Thanks to Emba's prowess the forest clan is not getting much meat at all, hence Yuuen gets sent on a Honey Trap mission to convince Emba to give him some of his catch. ![]()
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