![]() ![]() Alternating narration provides peeks into each girl's different processing style, with Meg leaping from thought to thought while Kat worries obsessively about her ailing grandfather and getting their project done. When she and Kat are paired for a science project, Meg is thrilled, Kat less so, until they discover a mutual fandom for a guy whose videos of him playing LotS have made him a YouTube star. Meg has difficulty with friendships, since her ADHD gives her energy that makes it hard for people to put up with her for long. ![]() ![]() Plagued by anxiety and panic attacks, Kat is cranky about having to move to Alberta and repeat freshman year at least she'll still have her second life in Legends of the Stone, her beloved multiplayer video game. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Bamarre and the journeys of its two princesses will burn themselves into the minds of listeners, and all will relish this moving saga about two sisters groping their way toward heroism. Now she has created another shimmering and tapestried landscape of fantasy and fairies. ![]() ![]() Gail Carson Levine left her mark on fantasy with her well-loved 1998 Newbery Honor Book Ella Enchanted. Addie must battle them, but time is running out, and the sisters' lives - and Barmarre's fate - hang in the balance. In her path are monsters of Bamarre: ogres, specters, gryphons, and dragons. Then disaster strikes, and Addie - terrified and unprepared - sets out on a perilous quest. They are sisters, and they mean the world to each other. Her deepest wish is to save the kingdom of Bamarre. The two princesses of Bamarre couldn't be more different. ![]() ![]() She later settled in Tuktoyaktuk where her family had Margaret Pokiak-Fenton was born on Holman Island in the Arctic Ocean, en route with her nomadic family to their winter hunting grounds on Banks Island. There was nothing she wanted more than to learn how to read. Unlike most children, she begged to go to the school, despite the horrific reputation of residential schools. At the age of eight, she traveled to Aklavik, a fur trading settlement founded by her great-grandfather, to attend the Catholic residential school there. ![]() Being Inuvialuit, her young childhood was filled with hunting trips by dogsled, and dangerous treks across the Arctic Ocean for supplies, in a schooner known as the North Star. She spent her early years on Banks Island. Margaret Pokiak-Fenton was born on Holman Island in the Arctic Ocean, en route with her nomadic family to their winter hunting grounds on Banks Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when a series of cyberattacks hits key locations in London while the spies are testing security for the British Museum, it’s clear that Kat’s skill for finding reason in what seems like randomness makes her the perfect candidate to lead the job.Īnd while the team follows the deciphered messages to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead to discover who is behind the attacks and why, Kat soon realizes that there’s another layer to the mystery. Smith’s Spy School for Girls.Ĭodename Kathmandu, better known as Kat, loves logic and order, has a favorite eight-digit number, and can spot a pattern from a mile away. ![]() In this fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies go codebreaking in Cairo in another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. Please call your local branch to reserve this title for your club. ![]() ![]() Myers was also named the 2012 National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature. Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature. In addition, Myers has received the Margaret A. He is also a two-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for Now Is Your Time! and Fallen Angels. ![]() Among his many honors are two Newbery Honor Books, Scorpions and Somewhere in the Darkness. Review Quotes ?Its a neighborhood block party!?New York Times It s a neighborhood block party! New York Times aItas a neighborhood block party!a aNew York Times Its a neighborhood block party! New York Times About the Author Walter Dean Myers (1937-2014) was one of the premier authors of childrens books. But when their friend Chris was arrested for stealing stereos and Deans dog started biting fire hydrants and Gloria started kissing, being a landlord turned out to be a lot more work than being a kid. Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got the Arms for one dollar, they thought they had it made. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, whod died for the third time in a month-and not a rent payer in the bunch. ![]() There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Author of over seventy childrens and young adult books, Walter Dean Myers was born. Book Synopsis If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldnt beat The Stratford Arms. But then the group realizes that there is an outrageous bunch of tenants living in the building. ![]() About the Book The derelict Stratford Arms is turned over to the Action Group to be cleaned up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Galileo famously stated that our Universe is a “grand book” written in the language of mathematics. ![]() The Higgs Boson was predicted with the same tool as the planet Neptune and the radio wave: with mathematics. I find it very appropriate that Douglas Adams joked about 42, because mathematics has played a striking role in our growing understanding of our Universe. What's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? In Douglas Adams' science-fiction spoof “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, the answer was found to be 42 the hardest part turned out to be finding the real question. Excerpted with permission from Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, by Max Tegmark. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s married to Jessie, a successful businesswoman with imposter syndrome, and he betrays Jessie’s trust by surreptitiously meeting with an old lover with whom he and Jessie used to be close. Johnny is handsome and charming but insecure. Nell’s mutually drawn to her dynamic nephew, Ferdia, Johnny’s 22-year-old stepson. Socially conscious, artistic sister-in-law Nell realizes she and Liam-Johnny’s immature and shady youngest brother-didn’t really know each other before getting hitched. ![]() After Cara hits her head at her brother-in-law Johnny’s 49th birthday party, she blurts out various secrets that have been plaguing her family, causing a chain reaction to ripple through the guests. Keyes’s comical and engaging outing (after The Break) dissects the breaking point of the Caseys, a close-knit extended family in present-day Ireland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Al Watt only existed in a book, so I went online to look for someone. ![]() And, amazingly to me, it ends with a mostly completed rough draft in just three months. I found myself reading it again, and again, and again. The 90 Day Rewrite: The Process Of Revision Alan Watt, Follow The Leader: The One Thing Great Leaders Have That Great Followers WantEmmanuel Gobillot, Theatre In Your LifeAnnie McGregor, Assumptions About Human Nature: Implications For Researchers And PractitionersLawrence S. Like individuals, nations need to confront their own ghosts, but finding the balance between acknowledging past wrongdoing and learning to get along in the present can be a difficult feat. Al Watts 90-Day Memoir is a masterful guided tour to that interior world, structured perfectly. And Russia and its neighbors are engaged in heated debates about revealing the crimes of the Stalinist era. Currently, an attempt to normalize relations between Turkey and Armenia is proving a tough sell due to arguments about a mass slaughter that occurred more than 90 years ago. And, frequently, a neighboring country that has been harmed by another's actions complains that the guilty nation is whitewashing the worst incidents. Nations also argue with each other about the past, with one side's glorious victory still rankling as the other's ignominious defeat. The 90-Day Screenplay was workshopped at L.A. Every nation argues about its own history, seeking to find glory and a sense of identity by celebrating its heroes while downplaying the dark side of the past. Read The 90-Day Screenplay From concept to polish by Alan Watt available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() ![]() ![]() * Features two bonus biographies - discover Degas’ artistic and personal life * Includes Degas’ drawings and sculptures - spend hours exploring the artist’s diverse works ![]() * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings and pastels ![]() * Hundreds of images in stunning colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Degas’ celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * The complete paintings and pastels of Edgar Degas - over 600 paintings, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order This volume presents Degas’ complete works in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. 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