![]() ![]() “Save the whale” she writes on the blackboard. Beached and in danger, the tiny snail goes for help raising the alarm at the local school. The snail seeing it all.īut all is not well as the whale gets upset by the ear splitting roar of pleasure crafts in a small bay and swims too close to shore. Deep down caves where toothy sharks grins and colourful corals where stripy fish swim. Dolphins, turtles, brown bear and eagles. Julia Donaldson weaves a lovely rhyming tale as the snail rides the whales tail around the world. ![]() The tide goes in and out and day turns to night, with lighthouse beacon and twinkling stars setting the scene for the Humpback whales arrival. He perfectly captures the atmosphere of a little English port and the changing views of a busy harbour. Axel Scheffler is a master of children’s illustration. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While the central events of this significant year were ones of devastation and defeat, 1666 also offers a glimpse of the incredible scientific and artistic progress being made at that time, from Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity to the establishment of The London Gazette. Based in original archival research drawing on little-known sources, 1666 opens with the fiery destruction of London before taking readers on a thrilling journey through a crucial turning point in English history as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of historical characters. Shedding light on these dramatic events and their context, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph. ![]() An outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War, and the devastating Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. ![]() ![]() I wish I had encountered books like this in my college English curriculum-I think it would have totally floored me to read about the world as it actually is, as opposed to how it was, for privileged white men, hundreds of years ago. I still don’t know if I did or not, even after reading it through twice. In fact, when I finished the first story, “Books and Roses,” I flipped right back to the beginning and started again, convinced I’d missed something. ![]() I’m not a big re-reader, but this collection seems ripe for revisiting. Oyeyemi will never let you get comfortable, but if you strap on your weight belt and bring the intensity, her brand of magical realism will slowly coalesce into something you can hold, loosely, if not fully grasp. ![]() In much the same way as a good, hard workout eventually leads to an endorphin-fueled breakthrough, Oyeyemi’s short stories eventually clarified for me, and what began as a veins-bulging effort relaxed into a steady rhythm that I could keep pace with. And then she'll blow her whistle in your face and cheerfully scream at you to get a move on. At some point, you’re going to find yourself splayed out on the mat, panting like an animal and protesting that it’s too hard, you can’t do one more set. ![]() Reading Helen Oyeyemi is like working out with a friendly but very aggressive personal trainer. ![]() ![]() ![]() It shows how human nature can be fickle when it comes to trusting each other in collaborative scenarios. ![]() Che volume! C'è anche la questione di Mary e la vicepresidentessa che viene lentamente portata avanti ma sembra molto interessante e mostra come la sfida per le elezioni è ancora aperta.Īlthough the Greater Good game takes a while to get going, I do understand why Kawamoto included it as one of the gambles. Che bella sfida e mi ha fatto piacere rivedere Manyuda e rivederlo in forma! Insomma una sfida avvincente e mi è piaciuta la riflessione sociale che c'è dietro al gioco. Ma la misteriosa e pericolosa Totobami trama nell'ombra e a rimetterci sono anche gli stessi membri del Clan Bami. ![]() La sfida è il Gioco dei Beni Pubblici, interessante e attuale, ma quando sembra esserci un traditore che vuole vincere a scapito degli altri ecco che Yumeko convince il senpai Manyuda a sfruttare la sua intelligenza per trovarlo e vincere il gioco e i voti. Ad ogni nuovo volume nuove appassionanti sfide! Yumeko affronta nuovi membri del Clan dei Cento Bami, Ibara e Miroslava, ma insieme a lei a mettere in palio i suoi numerosi voti ci sono Sumeragi e, a sorpresa, anche Manyuda, il senpai sconfitto dalla stessa Yumeko e senza più speranze e forza di vivere. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read the full Q&A with Library Journal here. All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. It's the perfect read for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng-with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham’s The Firm. She will have to reveal the company's secrets in the present and repress her own secrets from the past. Suffice to say: everyone is in love with this pulse-pounding thriller about a black corporate attorney who gets caught in a dangerous conspiracy after the sudden death of her boss. Wanda was recently featured on the COVER OF LIBRARY JOURNAL! Woah! See the image below. It has been named a Lead Read title for the sales team at HarperCollins. Author of 21 books including Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love Follow author Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Hourglass, Still Writing, Devotion, and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Morris, takes place in the summer of 1964 after a white man was killed in Jim Crow Mississippi, and centers on two Black sisters on. ![]() ![]() Morris' upcoming novel All Her Little Secrets. Anywhere You Run, written by acclaimed author, Wanda M. The Library Love Fest team loves debut novelist Wanda M. ![]() I sat in the same carrel and wrote for an hour and a half each day." "I started writing All Her Little Secrets on my lunch breaks from work at the library around the corner from my job (thank you Vinings Branch!). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eliot Prize in 2009. His latest poetry collection is The Rose of Toulouse. His latest novel, Children of Paradise (HarperCollins, US Granta, UK), is inspired by the events at Jonestown. Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the UK’s T.S. His radio play, Days and Nights in Bedlam, was broadcast by the BBC, along with several recent short stories. His essays and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Guardian, Wasafiri, Callaloo, Best American Essays and other publications. His play, A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death, was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London. ![]() His first novel, The Longest Memory, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was made into a film by Channel 4 (UK). He teaches in the MFA and African Studies programs at Virginia Tech. This event will take place on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at 5:30pm in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room at UNC-Chapel Hill.įred D’Aguiar is a poet, novelist, playwright, born in London of Guyanese parents and raised in Guyana. The Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop joins the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History to host a night of prose with the fiction leaders of the USA CCWW, Jacinda Townsend and Fred D’Aguiar. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re confronted with the complexity of society now, and the experience of actually dealing with it is painful. Science has brought us thousands of things we can do–and each is very complicated, and most of it resides in the heads of many different people. are thinking, how well can this guy operate?Īre you describing inherent problems in medicine? I do cancer surgery primarily, so by the time get to me, they’re scared, they have other things on their minds. How many of your patients know you have this other identity as a writer? I wanted to see what it is like to respond to an outbreak of polio in India. That also meant travelling to more unusual places. ![]() I wanted to show how situations of risk really work, how people in different situations grapple with that. In Better, I’m trying to examine all the gaps involved in what we do. The skeleton of Complications was my own training as a surgeon. You did a bit more legwork on this book than for your first Collection, Complications. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) is considered one of the German language’s greatest 20th century poets. Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ![]() ![]() One must be able to forget them and have vast patience until they come again … and when they become blood within us, and glances and gestures … then first it can happen that in a rare hour the first word of a verse may arise and come forth… One must be able to think back the way to unknown places … and to partings long foreseen, to days of childhood … and to parents … to days on the sea … to nights of travel… and one must have memories of many nights of love, no two alike … and the screams of women in childbed … one must have sat by the dying, one must have sat by the dead in a room with open windows…. To write one line, a man ought to see many cities, people, and things he must learn to know animals and the way of birds in the air, and how little flowers Open in the morning. ![]() For poetry isn’t, as people imagine, merely feelings (these come soon enough) it is experiences. One should wait and gather sweetness and light all his life, a long one if possible, and then maybe at the end he might write ten good lines. Poetry Dispatch No.142 | December 27, 2006Īlas, those verses one writes in youth aren’t much. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, he’s the competition, but he’s also cute and kind, with more confidence than Paris could ever hope to have. ![]() So when his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations, the nation’s favourite baking show, Paris is sure he’ll be the first one sent home.īut not only does he win week one’s challenge-he meets fellow contestant Tariq Hassan. Despite his passion for baking, his cat, and his classics degree, constant self-doubt and second-guessing have left him a curdled, directionless mess. Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. From the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material comes a sweet and scrumptious romantic comedy about facing your insecurities, finding love, and baking it off, no matter what people say. ![]() ![]() ![]() The short story starts on the night Louise’s daughter is conceived, with Louise presumably telling her daughter “the story of your life.” The chronology is unclear at first, with the narrative jumping around to various moments in the daughter’s life while continuously returning to Louise’s attempt to decipher and learn the heptapod language. The movie adds several supporting characters who do not appear in the short story - General Shang, Agent Halpern, and Captain Marks - and gives a name to Louise’s daughter, who appears but is unnamed in the short story.Īdditionally, while much about the two main alien heptapods is the same, their nomenclature is varied - Flapper and Raspberry in the short story, Abbott and Costello in the movie. The former’s name remains the same in Villeneuve’s film (played by Forest Whitaker), while the latter’s is changed to Ian Donnelly (played by Jeremy Renner). In the short story, she is joined by Colonel Weber and a physicist named Gary. Louise Banks (played by Amy Adams in the movie), a brilliant linguist who is tasked with finding a way to communicate with the alien life forms that have arrived on Earth. The basic premise of the story remained unchanged in the adaptation from short story to feature film - while telling the story of her daughter’s life, a linguist recounts her experience deciphering and learning an alien language. ![]() More info coming soon | Remind Me What's It About? ![]() |