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The fountains of silence book5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Photography-and fate-introduce him to Ana, whose family's interweaving obstacles reveal the lingering grasp of the Spanish Civil War-as well as chilling definitions of fortune and fear. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, unforgettable portrait of love, silence, and secrets amidst a Spanish dictatorship. ![]()
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The infinite sea by rick yancey5/20/2023 ![]() While readers may not yet fully understand what the Others are up to, the title, an allusion to a speech made by Shakespeare's Juliet, is a clue to what's driving the survivors: love. I'm in a game," she says, "in which I don't know the rules or even the object." Despite the gore, inhumanity, and senseless losses, Yancey manages an ending that both shatters and uplifts. "Bluffs inside bluffs, feints within counterfeints. At one point, Ringer admits to dizziness, a sensation readers may share. With winter approaching, they squabble over how to attempt survival, with Ringer questioning whether Cassie's refusal to budge until they know what happened to Evan, who helped them escape but who may be an Other, means she's fallen in love with the enemy. The riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave, hailed by Justin Cronin as 'wildly entertaining. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heroine Cassie, renegade soldier Ringer, and fellow survivor Ben have led a band of military camp escapees to a decaying hotel somewhere in Ohio. From an explosive start that reveals the boundless malevolence of Yancey's conquering alien Others, this gut-wrenching sequel to The 5th Wave careens on a violent course of nonstop action. ![]()
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Night film pessl5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her new novel, Night Film, comes out August 20, 2013. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her debut novel, was a bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. The novel opens with the death of Cordovas daughter, Ashley, an apparent suicide at twenty-four. Marisha's Facebook: /MarishaPesslOfficial Marisha Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and now lives in New York City. Night Film is narrated by disgraced investigative journalist Scott McGrath, undone in his attempt to write a piece on legendary but ultra-secretive and reclusive filmmaker Stanislas Cordova years earlier. Marisha Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and now lives in New York City. ![]()
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Gooney bird greene by lois lowry5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() My name is Gooney Bird Greene - that’s Greene with a silent ‘e’ at the end - and I just moved here from China. Her name is unique, her clothes are unique, her stories are unique, and her approach to just about everything in life is… unique! On her first day at a new school (in the middle of October, so not a typical fresh start), Gooney Bird arrived wearing pajamas and cowboy boots and announced, “I’m your new student. Gooney Bird is all that you’d hope for someone named Gooney Bird to be. More recently, as a teacher, I found Gooney Bird Greene. I have incredibly fond memories of reading her Anastasia series, The Giver, and Number the Stars. Lois Lowry is another one of those long-time favorite authors of mine. Last week, I posted about how much I’ve loved Patricia McKissack since I was a child. Earlier this spring, we read the first two books in the Gooney Bird Greene series by Lois Lowry, and they were a HUGE hit! If you’re looking for a family read-aloud book that is bound to make your children laugh, inspire them to tell and write their own stories, teach them a bit about writing craft, AND is part of a 6-book series (so you’ve got lots of material once your kiddos are hooked, which they will be…), then look no further than Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry, illustrated by Middy Thomas! ![]()
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March book one by john lewis5/20/2023 ![]() It also invites English language arts teachers to engage in dialogue with their students about immigrant experiences as inroads to understanding the vastly complex issues surrounding immigration. and joining lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville in 1960. ![]() Representative, recalls his early yearsfrom raising (and preaching to) chickens on an Alabama farm to meeting Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() This article takes a look at how graphic novels representing immigrant experiences can assist English language arts teachers interested in studying immigration issues in their classrooms by offering inquiries into how three specific immigrant experiences are constructed through graphic novels. In this first of a projected trilogy, Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders and currently in his 13th term as a U.S. This article explores how immigrant experiences are represented in the narratives of three graphic novels published in the last decade: Tan's (2007) "The Arrival," Kiyama's (1931/1999) "The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924," and Yang's (2006) "American Born Chinese." Through a theoretical lens informed by work in critical literacy, the author examines how images and words in graphic novels privilege certain perspectives and merit critique in their representations of immigrant experiences. ![]()
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Into the wilderness by sara donati5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() “Each time you open a book you hope to discover a story that will make your spirit of adventure and romance sing. I can think of no better adventure than to explore the wilderness in the company of such engaging and independent lovers as Elizabeth and her Nathaniel.” -Diana Gabaldon Into the Wilderness is one of those rare stories that let you breathe the air of another time, and leave your footprints on the snow of a wild, strange place. “My favorite kind of book is the sort you live in, rather than read. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati’s compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portait of an emerging America. ![]() Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as with her own family. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native American: Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty. ![]() ![]() Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place. ![]()
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Fred minnick books5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His new book, “Bourbon Curious” (Zenith Press), is a beautiful, hardcover release that is packed with dazzling color photography, recipes, flavor profiles for more than 50 popular brands and a smattering of other curiosities, history and information. And yes, if you can name a legendary distiller or any major player in the whiskey industry, there’s a fair chance Minnick, likely donning his trademark ascot and blazer, has at some point sat down and chatted with that person over a highball glass. ![]() The Louisville-based author also is well placed as the go-to bourbon aficionado for the Kentucky Derby Museum, with his Legends Series an ongoing reminder of just how important bourbon is to the Bluegrass. His ground-breaking book “Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch and Irish Whiskey” (2013, Potomac Books) made him an icon in the industry, while his writing for Whiskey Advocate, Covey Rise and Whiskey magazine continue to position him as an authority. A Wall Street Journal best-selling author for his 2011 book “Camera Boy: An Army Journalist’s War in Iraq,” Minnick has since established himself as one of the top bourbon writers on the planet. By now, if you’re a bourbon enthusiast, you’ve probably become familiar with the name Fred Minnick. ![]()
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The shack by william paul young5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() What he finds there will change his life forever. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" Windblown Mediaīook Synopsis After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions - and finds unexpected answers - in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller. ![]() About the Book A grieving father receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him to meet in the Oregon wilderness where his daughter has been abducted and murdered. ![]()
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Ashes trilogy book 15/19/2023 ![]() Ruth continues to reject Isabel but shows that she’s canny, kindhearted, and tough, with a special affinity for animals. The friends make an arduous journey north, beset by illness, hunger, and exhaustion. Together, the children will try to start new lives as free people. ![]() She rejects Isabel immediately, but Serafina and Walter persuade Ruth to go on the run with Isabel and Curzon, and Aberdeen accompanies them. ![]() Ruth, who has epilepsy and some degree of intellectual disability, is under the care of an old couple named Serafina and Walter and a young man named Aberdeen, and she’s adopted them as her new family. When the two find Ruth, it’s not the loving reunion Isabel hopes for. Isabel longs to see her sister and has also developed a longing for Curzon that she can’t admit, even to herself. After serving at Valley Forge, they’re travelling through the Eastern states, looking for Isabel’s little sister Ruth, who was sold away from Isabel when the two were only children. ![]() Isabel Gardener and Curzon Smith, two black teenagers who escaped slavery during the American Revolution, have been on the run together for five years. ![]()
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A Chip in His Shoulder by L.A. Witt5/19/2023 ![]() Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients’ minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. Rivers’ job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. ![]() ![]() The Skyler Foxe Mysteries by Haley WalshĬraiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers.2½ stars 3½ Stars 4 stars 4½ Stars 18th Century 19th Century 1920's 1930's 1940's 1950's 1960's Advent Calendar Age of Sail Alex Beecroft America Charlie Cochrane ebook England Erastes Essential Reads Fiction five stars novella Regency Reviews short stories three stars Victorian Western World War II ![]() |