![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Packed with activities that allow children to create scenes, match pairs, and complete jigsaws, the activities throughout each book are simple enough for the child to do independently, but engaging enough to keep their interest and help develop dexterity, making these books products parents can trust, and ones that kids will want to keep picking up to learn more about their favorite subjects. Taking subjects that kids love, from dinosaurs to baby animals to transportation, DK's Ultimate Sticker Book series is being refreshed and updated and now features more than 250 fun, reusable stickers. Sharks and their kin have evolved many spectacular shapes through 400 million years of evolution. Featuring great whites, hammerheads, basking sharks, and more, fun facts are paired with bright, eye-catching stickers, encouraging children to return to this new sticker book again and again to learn even more. Packed with shark activities - from creating underwater scenes to a game of spot the shark - Ultimate Sticker Book: Shark contains more than 250 reusable stickers of kids' favorite predators of the ocean. ![]()
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![]() He experiences “a faint queasiness, a sort of spiritual indigestion” (p. His motivation gets challenged early on in his deception. Yet, all through the story, I felt a kinship with him. As the story starts, Brat agrees to pose as the heir to a fortune for personal financial gain. The main character, Brat Farrar, is a young man with many flaws and a “checkered” past. Instead, it is a masterpiece of deep themes, clearly defined characters, and building suspense. First published in 1949 and set in rural England, it is a mystery without the standard corpse on the hearthrug and polite police inspector. ![]() Years ago, Margaret Turner, in her eighties and legally blind, passed on to me a tattered anthology of mystery novels by Josephine Tey. A novel that has remained on my personal “Top Ten” list for over twenty years came from just that source. So many wonderful books would be hidden from our knowledge without the enthusiastic recommendation of a dear friend or relative. The criterion for a memorable book is the hope of rereading it some day and a passion to share the book with someone else.” Glady Hunt, Honey for a Woman’s Heart ![]() “If a book leaves you exactly where it found you, thinking and feeling nothing you hadn’t felt or thought before, you are no different for having read it. ![]() ![]() Because Nadia is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten.īut when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan, she discovers truths about herself and Gray, the handsome glassblower, that will change her world forever. In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn’t written the truth. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person’s memories – of parents, children, love, life, and self – are lost. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. Synopsis: What isn’t written, isn’t remembered. Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks | Book Depository ![]() What will happen when worlds and memories, beliefs - and truths - collide? When Beck is stranded without communication, he will find more in Canaan than he was ever trained for. Beck is traveling with his parents, researchers tasked with finding the abandoned settlement effort. a spaceship from Earth is heading toward the planet, like a figment of the city’s forgotten past. ![]() Someone else is on their way to Canaan too. ![]() Samara is determined to unearth the answers, even if she must escape to the old, cursed city of Canaan to find them. Yet she wonders if she really is free, with the memories that plague her and secrets that surround her. Safe underground in the city of New Canaan, she lives in a privileged world free from the Forgetting. ![]() ![]() The Governess Game (book two in the Girl Meets Duke series) runs true to form as described above. ![]() Anyone who knows me or reads my reviews regularly will know that I generally prefer historicals with a strong sense of period in which the characters operate (mostly) within the constraints of the time in which the novels are set but I recognise that there are readers and listeners for whom that isn’t important and who just want to enjoy an engaging, well-written story. What you won’t get is a great deal of originality when it comes to the plot, or historical accuracy when it comes to the situations or dialogue there’s no real sense of being in the early nineteenth century other than, as happens here, a few references to people who lived at the time (in this case, a group of female astronomers and mathematicians – brava!). Something mostly frothy and fluffy (with maybe just a little bit of darkness), plenty of humour and flirty banter, and well-written naughtiness. ![]() If you’re a fan of historical romances, then you’ll know pretty much what you’re going to get from a novel by Tessa Dare. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their plan goes well until Lev, who wants to be unwound, turns the group in, splitting them up. ![]() Unwind begins as our three heroes (well, two heroes and an antihero), Connor, Risa, and Lev-all of whom are due to be unwound for one reason or another-manage to escape and end up on the run. ![]() It's a sci-fi procedure that chops up a kid the way McDonald's dices chicken parts, and donates all these parts to science, pink slime and all. After the Second Civil War-which isn't between the North and the South, or even between Katy Perry fans and Taylor Swift fans-the Bill of Life is drafted, a bill that outlaws abortion, but makes it legal to "retroactively 'abort' a child" between the ages of 13 and 18. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() In ''Sea of Gray," Tom Chaffin, a visiting scholar at Emory University, gives a spirited account of the Shenandoah's odyssey - both an intriguing Civil War story and a bracing nautical yarn. In early 1864, at the height of the Civil War, so successful had Confederate commerce raiders been at destroying Union merchant ships that the Confederacy's agent in London was reporting to the South's navy secretary, ''There really seems nothing for our ships to do now upon the open sea."īut within months of making that report, James Bulloch was securing a Scottish-built auxiliary clipper for use as yet another raider, the CSS Shenandoah, which, during a yearlong around-the-world voyage, would seize 38 American merchant ships and whalers, destroying all but the few used to send off crews of the destroyed ships. ![]() Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah, By Tom Chaffin, Hill and Wang, 432 pp., illustrated, $25 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has set their clock “one second to midnight man, set there for twenty years.” Jim is a part-time English teacher at a junior college, making ends meet by doing some clerical work at a real estate office too. ![]() Dennis is an engineer working for Laguna Space Research, a defense contractor. The two major plotlines of the book follow Jim McPherson and his father Dennis McPherson. ![]() ![]() I’ll talk more about the effect of reading it together with the others later, but suffice it to say it makes an excellent stand-alone novel. For the most part, characters don’t carry over from one book to the next-you could pick this book up by itself no problem. I’m simplifying, but that’s the basic idea. The triptych portrays three visions of a future Orange County: the first, The Wild Shore, post-apocalyptic the second, The Gold Coast, dystopian and the third, Pacific Edge, utopian. The Gold Coast is the second book in the Three Californias Triptych, written by Kim Stanley Robinson. ![]() ![]() ![]() No stiff, slow, shambling, mumbling, B-Grade movie zombies. These are not your old-school, reanimated corpse type zombies. “This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” Hollowland starts with a bang and the action does not let up. Martin’s Press.Īmanda Hocking’s story has been told in the New York Times, the Wall Street journal, and on dozens if not hundreds of blogs, but one key question is seldom directly addressed: are her books any good? I just finished my first Hocking novel, and the short answer is, yes, it was lively, original, and I liked it a lot. ![]() She thought $43 for her first two weeks of sales was “pretty good.” By the start of this year, she was selling half a million eb00ks a month, and in March she signed a reported $2 million dollar contract with St. ![]() One year ago this month, after a string of rejections from agents and editors, Hocking uploaded two novels in Kindle format. If you are a writer, unless you’ve been living with wolves, chances are you have heard of Amanda Hocking, the twenty-something Minnesota author of young adult fantasies who spun the publishing industry in an unexpected direction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While considering Batman’s vigilantism, one author said that his punishment was illegitimate. However, there were several things that made me feel like some of the writers were intellectual lightweights, particularly many of them having naïve views of the state. Many of these are questions I hadn’t considered about Bruce Wayne, Batman, and other comic book heroes. My favorite essay in it was the first, which asked the question of why doesn’t Batman just kill the Joker? The simple answer is because Batman doesn’t kill anyone intentionally, but is this morally best considering all the death and destruction he could prevent by ending the Joker? Another question is if it is moral to take in orphan boys, put them in tights, and teach them how to be crime-fighters. What beats the combination of entertainment and education? As I checked out this book, the librarian told me that I would never see Batman the same. Batman and Philosophy is part of a series of books that bring philosophical considerations to pop culture (other books in the series include The Simpsons and Metallica), and is a much more interesting way to study philosophy than reading the original works of Heidegger, Kant, or most other philosophers (it seems that being able to write and philosophize are mutually exclusive). ![]() |