![]() "An ingenious idea, gorgeously realized."- Shelf Awareness, starred review RAVE REVIEWS: This bestselling book has earned multiple honors and starred reviews. In addition to the Caldecott Honor-winning They All Saw a Cat, he's also the creator of Hello, Hello! and A Stone Sat Still, and he has illustrated a number of other picture books focused on animals and nature. INCREDIBLE TALENT: Brendan Wenzel is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. ![]() When you see a cat, what do you see?ĮNGAGING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING: Children will love following along with the simple, fun story, while parents will appreciate the book's clever and thoughtful lessons about how everyone has a unique perspective. In this glorious celebration of observation, curiosity, and imagination, author and illustrator Brendan Wenzel shows us the many lives of one cat, and how perspective shapes what we see. ![]() The cat walked through the world, with its whiskers, ears, and paws. Description New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Medal winner They All Saw a Cat is a visual delight and a charming read-aloud that invites kids and parents to explore the concept of perception. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s certainly true that The Couple Next Door opens brilliantly, its present-tense narrative adding to the urgency as Anne and Marco panic and the police arrive, discovering tyre tracks in the garage and the back door’s motion detector disabled. who have all turned to crime after originally writing either under other names and/or genres”. Like The Girl on a Train’s author, Paula Hawkins, Lapena’s publisher tells us, placing the novel firmly in the lucrative domestic suspense market at which it is aimed, Lapena “is one of an emerging trend of women writers. Trust me”, while Harlan Coben calls it “meticulously crafted and razor-sharp”. Mr Jack Reacher, Lee Child, tells us that “real men read women writers – because of books like this. ![]() Shari Lapena’s The Couple Next Door comes garlanded with quotes from fellow thriller writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() In January 2006, Kernigh transwikied the text from Wikibooks:Elements of Style to Wikisource.” (Summary by Wikipedia and Wikisource) This version is based on the public-domain text from 1918, which was originally uploaded to Wikibooks and wikified by Wikibooks:User:Lord Emsworth in 2003. ![]() This book, printed as a private edition in 1918 for the use of his students, became a classic on the local campus, known as "the little book", and its successive editions have since sold over ten million copies. The original 1918 edition of The Elements of Style detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, “a few matters of form”, and a list of commonly "misused" words and expressions. high school and university composition classes. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading in U.S. is an American English writing style guide. ![]() “The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Elements of Style ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There wasn’t enough on-page time with Ford and Angel connecting. What I didn’t like: While, yes, the book was intense and action-packed, there was almost too much action. ![]() Anders’ descriptions! She’s a very gifted writer and I am looking forward to exploring her backlist. It was the hottest day of the year so far while I was reading this book and I still felt cold reading about Antarctica in the winter and the lengths our characters had to go for survival’s sake. Anders did Research with a capital “R” and it paid off. I also was 100% here for the survival details. Their miscommunications and sexual tension were delicious. But there was no way he was ever leaving his nerdy research ice caverns without a catastrophe like the one that threw him in Angel’s path. Ford is the ultimate grouchy/socially awkward hero and I did love him. What I liked: I loved that there is no way that Angel and Ford would have gotten together IRL. It was so intense it took me months to get through chapter one! I knew I needed to be in the right frame of mind going in. I mean, it’s set on the SOUTH POLE!! This book throws you in the deep end right off the bat with a violent and compelling first chapter. The most intense stuck-together/survival romance I’ve read in a long time. Romantic suspense and forced proximity go together like peanut butter and chocolate Adriana Anders proves that during her series starter, WHITEOUT. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Fans of Kate’s popular Fallen series will find a similar blend of supernatural romance, mystery, and destiny. But she’ll have to give up everything-even love. In Waterfall, Eureka has the chance to save the world. Eurekas tears have flooded the earth, and now Atlantis is rising. If she’s strong enough, she can use it to defeat Atlas-unless her broken heart is just what he needs to fuel his rising kingdom. From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series comes Waterfall, a novel about love, betrayal, and epic consequences-a world-altering tale told by a girl whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis. Trying to make sense of the dark world her sorrow has created, Eureka discovers a soul-crushing secret. ![]() With her friend Brooks now lost to her forever, Eureka travels across the ocean with Cat, her family, and the gorgeous and mysterious Ander. Eureka is the only one who can stop Atlantis’s evil king, Atlas, but first she must learn how to fight. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series comes Waterfall, a novel about love, betrayal, and epic consequences-a world-altering tale told by a girl whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis.Įureka’s tears have flooded the earth, and now Atlantis is rising. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heller's attempt to hide this was part of a tradition established by Jewish authors in the post-war years who sought to distance themselves from their ethnicity in order to speak to “universal” themes of rebellion. As I will argue, while outwardly the novel aims to represent the war and the protagonist, Yossarian, as American rather than Jewish, the work is, in fact, packed with signs that it is about a Jewish airman confronting the Holocaust. Instead it was about the Assyrian/Armenian protagonist, Yossarian, a USAAF bombardier in the European theatre. Ostensibly the novel had nothing whatsoever Jewish about it beyond the ethnicity of its author. Catch-22 was groundbreaking because it was the first broadly successful American novel that offered a post-modern, satirical take on the Second World War. It was a massive bestseller that sold over 10 million copies, and it introduced a new phrase into the English language for an unsolvable conundrum or paradox. Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961) is considered one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() It grew out of her desire to honor her father as he approached the end of his life (he died in 1997) by telling his story. ''Caramelo'' (the title refers to a color and to a type of rebozo, or shawl) developed slowly and, she says, ''organically'' over nearly a decade. Cisneros, 47, was not hurried along by success. Cisneros one of the best-selling Hispanic authors in the United States.īut Ms. The story of a Mexican-American girl coming of age in Chicago, that novel has sold about two million copies in 11 languages, making Ms. This is only her second novel her first was the hugely successful ''House on Mango Street,'' published in 1984 by Arte Público Press and reissued by Random House in 1991. Cisneros this constitutes a major literary event. That book, a novel called ''Caramelo,'' has just been published, and for Ms. ![]() For nine years Sandra Cisneros kept busy writing poetry, short stories and essays, but all along she was nurturing a longer project, one about a family, spanning 100 years and three generations and taking place on both sides of the Mexican border. ![]() ![]() In The Atheist Muslim, we follow Rizvi as he finds himself caught between two narrative voices he cannot relate to: extreme Islam and anti-Muslim bigotry in a post-9/11 world. Discovering that he is not alone, he moves to North America and promises to use his new freedom of speech to represent the voices that are usually quashed before reaching the mainstream media-the Atheist Muslim. Struggling to reconcile the Muslim society he was living in as a scientist and physician and the religion he was being raised in, Ali A. ![]() ![]() The inextricable embedment of religion in Muslim culture has forced a new generation of non-believing Muslims to face the heavy costs of abandoning their parents' religion: disowned by their families, marginalized from their communities, imprisoned, or even sentenced to death by their governments. ![]() In much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, in 2012, 17 years after she stepped back into civilization, she published a memoir about her time in the wilderness: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.īy that point, Strayed really was midway through her life, and it suddenly went a little berserk. She wrote, anonymously, “ Dear Sugar,” the cult-favorite advice column of the online literary magazine The Rumpus. Strayed wrote Torch, a semi-autobiographical novel that was quietly but kindly received. Nine days after she finished, she met a man in a Tex-Mex joint in Portland. Or a quarter-way, really: At the age of 26, motherless, divorced, dabbling in heroin, adrift from her stepfather and siblings and her own former self, Strayed made her way to California, hoisted a backpack, and set off to hike 1,100 miles in the wilderness, from the Mojave Desert to a place on the Oregon-Washington border called Bridge of the Gods. Midway on her life’s journey, Cheryl Strayed found herself in dark woods. Photo: Anne Marie Fox/Courtesy of Fox Searchlight ![]() ![]() ![]() But dammit, Mav belongs in my arms, in my bed, and in my life. ![]() Falling into bed with Maverick is easy and the nights we spend together are as hot and steamy as a South Carolina thunderstorm. ![]() I’d never expected to see him again, but when he shows up at Mimi’s funeral looking lost and lonely I can’t resist doing anything I can to comfort him. So why am I letting myself fall for someone who lives thousands of miles away? And how the hell am I going to break it off when it's time to go?īeau: It took one short summer to fall in love with Maverick Mitchell and fifteen long years to forget him when he left. Sell everything, close the door on my past, and walk away forever. The man is hot as hell and pushes all my buttons in the very best way. But the moment I step foot on the island and fall into Beau’s arms, I realize it might not be so easy to say goodbye after all.īeau Talmadge was always the boy next door, but now he’s no longer a kid. I'm only returning now to attend her funeral and sell an estate I never wanted. Joshs Story:After moving from Denali, Alaska, to San Francisco in order to branch out, Josh hosts a big poker night for the Marians and his co-workers at. Maverick: I haven't been back to Rabbit Island, South Carolina, since my parents died and my grandmother, Mimi, rejected me. ![]() |