![]() "Preschoolers will delight at the twists and turns of this friendship story and its happily-ever-after finish. Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards. ![]() He is most well known for his series of middle grade graphic novels Zita the Spacegirl. "Perfect for kids who want a magical tale or spooky story with a twist." - School Library Journal A complete list of all Ben Hatke's books & series in order (15 books) (2 series). Ben Hatke (born June 4, 1977, in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American cartoonist and children's book illustrator. "Hatke’s got an impressive gift for capturing the forlorn with little to no words, as in his recent gem of a graphic novel, Little Robot, and he does so again here, as brief, simple descriptive sentences are paired with quiet but powerful visual representations of Goblin’s heartbreak and fear." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review ![]() "Young readers will find themselves cheering Goblin on-he may not be lovely, but his sense of friendship and his loyalty are convincing and appealing.Endearing and entertaining: what's not to like-or love?" - Kirus Reviews, starred review "Hatke ( Little Robot) renders the characters’ antic facial expressions, their fairy tale costumes, and the fantasy landscape with polished skill, and his story gallops along cheerfully with the clear prospect of a happy ending." - Publishers Weekly, starred review Included in Kirkus's "Best of 2016" list. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() On the crackling brown pages of saga manuscripts, trolls, dragons, and outlandish tribes jostle for position with explorers, traders, and kings. What emerges from these tales is a mixture of realism and fantasy, quasi-historical adventures, and exotic wonder-tales that rocket far beyond the horizon of reality. But the depiction of the Viking world in the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas goes far beyond historical facts. ![]() Beyond the Northlands explores this world through the stories that the Vikings told about themselves in their sagas. ![]() The Norsemen travelled to all corners of the medieval world and beyond north to the wastelands of arctic Scandinavia, south to the politically turbulent heartlands of medieval Christendom, west across the wild seas to Greenland and the fringes of the North American continent, and east down the Russian waterways trading silver, skins, and slaves. Throughout the Middle Ages, long-ships transported hairy northern voyagers far and wide, where they not only raided but also traded, explored and settled new lands, encountered unfamiliar races, and embarked on pilgrimagesand crusades. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. ![]() ![]() Hell is the same as any hood and certainly the Brooklyn hood she grew up in. ![]() Will she blow Winter’s head off? Can Winter dodge the bullets? Or will at least one bullet blast Winter into another world? Either way Winter is fearless. Simone, Winter’s young business partner and friend, is locked and loaded and Winter is her target. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As their season progresses and friends turn out to be enemies, Robbie finds solace in an online stranger known only as “Jimmy2416.” Between keeping Robbie’s secret and saving him from taking his life, Tristan is given the final call: sacrifice his dream for a brother he barely knows, or go on a journey that leaves them both changed. Robbie’s future in the NHL is plagued by anxiety and the mounting pressure from their dad, coach, and scouts, while Tristan desperately fights to create his own future, not as a hockey player but a musical theatre performer. Tristan starts seeing his twin not as a hockey star whose shadow Tristan can’t escape, but a struggling gay teen terrified about coming out in the professional sports world. Forced to share a room to prevent Robbie from hurting himself, the brothers begin to feel the weight of each other’s lives on the ice-and off. Swanky Seventeener Wendy McLeod MacKnight recently interviewed Mia Siegert, author of the contemporary YA novel JERKBAIT which was released by JollyFish Press on May 3, 2016.Įven though they’re identical, Tristan isn’t close to his twin Robbie at all-until Robbie tries to kill himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. Below are key takeaways, examples and our favorite quotes from Memoirs Of Hadrian. It wasn’t until twenty years later that she would finish the work and receive international acclaim. Remarkably, Marguerite Yourcenar began writing the masterpiece when she was twenty-one. ![]() The voice that’s used throughout the novel is reminiscent of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, as Hadrian reflects upon his life and reign as one of Rome’s most notable emperors. The novel is narrated by the legendary Roman Emperor Hadrian, and is formatted as a letter to Hadrian’s successor and adopted grandson, Marcus Aurelius. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar is a work of historical fiction. ![]() As we know, some of the most profound pieces of philosophy have come from ancient Greece and Rome, and while this book might read as though it were written by a brilliant mind whose name was lost to the passing of time, one might be surprised to learn that it was written in the 20th century. What is it that attracts the modern thinker to works of philosophy? Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and others: it’s almost surprising how relevant their insight remains in the modern-day. ![]() ![]() Like Brooks' beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. At the age of twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative, secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. ![]() As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. She yearns for an education that is closed to her by her sex. ![]() Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.īethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans, is restless and curious. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. ![]() Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And, finally, back to Mother - to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel's own (serially monogamous) adult love life. Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel 9.99 - 1 + Buy Now From the best-selling author of instant-classic Fun Home, a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be. ![]() It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Are You My Mother A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel MISCELLANEOUS Author: Alison Bechdel Boston. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. ![]() and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama is a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel and the winner of the 2013 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. From the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Ī New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of the YearĪlison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. ![]() ![]() Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist a surveyor a psychologist, the de facto leader and our narrator, a biologist. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape all the members of the second expedition committed suicide the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer. ![]() Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. ![]() A single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the three volumes of the Southern Reach Trilogy, which were originally published as paperback originals in February, May, and September 2014.Īnnihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third.Īrea X - a remote and lush terrain - has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But 'here' turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theatre where they are utterly isolated from the outside world - and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of 'real life' that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. They are told by the people who have all answered an ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter. This short story collection has been described as 'the most original work of fiction this year' Guardian ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She can see numbers associated with each and every person. ![]() Maddie Fynn is your average teenager with a special gift. Can she right things before it's too late? A suspect for the investigation, a target for the murderer, and attracting the attentions of a mysterious young admirer who may be connected to it all, Maddie's whole existence is about to be turned upside down. Soon, Maddie is entangled in a homicide investigation, and more young people disappear and are later found murdered. When the boy goes missing on that exact date, law enforcement turns to Maddie. Her earliest memories are marked by these numbers, but it takes her father’s premature death for Maddie and her family to realize that these mysterious digits are actually death dates, and just like birthdays, everyone has one.įorced by her alcoholic mother to use her ability to make extra money, Maddie identifies the quickly approaching death date of one client's young son, but because her ability only allows her to see the when and not the how, she’s unable to offer any more insight. Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. ![]() |