![]() This title will also be released in Spanish. At TOON Books, get a glimpse of the stunning illustrations. Things go haywire when Pablo gets separated from the rest. ![]() It tells the story of a group of kids on a New York City field trip. ![]() Lettycia: Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure, a TOON Graphic release written by Nadja Spiegelman and illustrated by Sergio Garcia Sanchez. Is there a brand-new release you can’t wait to get your hands on? Take this list to your local library or bookstore and stock up!ġ. ![]() We love the variety and originality of their answers and bet you will too. Summer’s upon us, and we’re here to help you choose the right kid-lit for your young readers. Putting together a fun and useful list was a matter of posing six questions to our contributing book specialists, Lettycia Terrones, Cecilia Cackley, Marianne Snow and Sujei Lugo. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, the inside cover of Garfield's book is illustrated by the transport writer Mark Ovenden's riff on Harry Beck's iconic London tube map. But then maps, as Garfield notes throughout the book, are as much about imagination as power, inspirations as much as guides. The escarpment between today's Hampstead and Highgate figures in that novel as the Isle of Ham, while Garfield's house and surrounding streets have been washed away forever. On the inside cover of The Book of Dave by Garfield's schoolfriend Will Self, there is a map depicting a flooded, post-apocalyptic London. Pearsall's A to Z makes me think of another map. Striking, isn't it, that it took a woman to unravel London's labyrinth, to wrest its topographical mysteries from mostly male London cabbies whose obscure rites culminate in something called "the knowledge"? Pearsall's is one of the stories in Garfield's lovely ramble through space-time from cartography's birthplace, the great library of Alexandria, to the Californian HQ of Google Maps. ![]() ![]() ![]() But beyond that, it can erode our relationships with other people, with time, and with the environment around us. Yes, at the most basic level, social media and the news cycle take away our ability to reflect and think deeply about what’s actually happening underneath the status updates and headlines. The bulk of this book is about the things that we are unable to do when our attention is tied up in social media or the news cycle. ![]() ![]() There is really no how-to in this book, and I don’t think Odell’s work here can be even halfway summarized with buzzwords like “mindfulness” or “digital detox” or whatever. Instead it’s a really well-researched book on some abstract and sometimes seemingly esoteric concepts: the self, attention, bioregionalism, what it means to refuse/resist in place, and the effects of late stage capitalism on all of the above. The title is misleading as this is not at all a how-to on unplugging or leaving social media (for that, maybe read Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism or Catherine Price’s How to Break Up With Your Phone). First, I understand the negative reviews of this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He reveals how the Zoroastrian religion, which acts as a matrix for the symbols and formulas of the original form of magic, has existed for almost four thousand years with roots going back even deeper into the Indo-European past. The author explains how the religious branch of the Mazdan magical system, founded by the Prophet Zarathustra, is known in the West under the name Zoroastrianism. Stephen Flowers explores the history, theory, practice, rituals, and initiations of the Mazdan magical system practiced by the Magi of ancient Persia, who were so skilled and famed for their effectiveness that their name came to mean what we today call “magic.” The prestige and reputation of the Magian priests of Mazda is perhaps most iconically recorded in the Christian story of the Three Wise Men who visited newborn Jesus.
![]() ![]() She is described as a beautiful and vivacious teenager who has an air of mystery surrounding her. She wants revenge on Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of John Proctor, of whom she is incredibly jealous. She tells the entire town a series of lies that lead to the deaths of nineteen people. She used to work as a servant in the Proctor household and acts as the villain of the play. She has an intimate relationship with John Proctor, which is the event around which the entire play pivots. ![]() He eventually admits, in a way, that he had an affair with Abigail, but things have already gone too far, and the time for honesty has passed.Ībigail Williams is the niece of Reverence Parris. Proctor can’t admit that he had an affair with Abigail due to his own misguided pride. This incites Williams’ jealousy over Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, and initiates the conflict at the heart of the play. His major character flaw becomes clear when he has an affair with Abigail Williams, a local woman. ![]() He can be quite stern but is generally a good man who cares about people. ![]() John Proctor is one of the most important characters in ‘ The Crucible.’ He’s a local farmer and husband to Elizabeth Proctor. Sadly, most of the characters are unable to see through the shame that is the witchcraft trials, and many others, nineteen total, lose their lives because of false accusations. ‘ The Crucible‘ is filled with complicated and sometimes frustrating characters, many of whom are only concerned with bettering their own position in the town of Salem. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the past 24 hours, there was nothing worth the investment of my time more than reading this book. My experience of reading Real Life was like a crush, an obsession, a compulsion. Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power, a story that asks if it’s ever really possible to overcome our private wounds, and at what cost. ![]() But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends-some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.Īlmost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Saint-Exupéry spent 28 months in America, during which he wrote three of his most important works, then joined the Free French Air Force in North Africa, even though he was far past the maximum age for such pilots and in declining health. After being demobilised by the French Air Force, he travelled to the United States to help persuade its government to enter the war against Nazi Germany. ![]() He joined the French Air Force at the start of the war, flying reconnaissance missions until France's armistice with Germany in 1940. ![]() Saint-Exupéry was a successful commercial pilot before World War II, working airmail routes in Europe, Africa, and South America. They were translated into many languages. He received several prestigious literary awards for his novella The Little Prince ( Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight. Croix de Guerre avec palme (1944, posthumous)Īntoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( UK: / ˌ s æ̃ t ɪ ɡ ˈ z uː p ɛr i/, US: /- ɡ z uː p eɪ ˈ r iː/, French: 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, journalist and pioneering aviator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first novel, Ostap Bender searches for a stash of diamonds hidden in one of the twelve eponymous chairs. The Twelve Chairs was released in January 1928. ![]() His statues may be found in several cities, and a commemorative plaque was set in Odesa, the city of his birth. In post-Soviet times Bender's character was elevated from the status of a con man to that of an entrepreneur. His exploits have been enjoyed by readers throughout the Soviet times and in modern Russia. ![]() īender is an attractive, resourceful crook, full of energy while operating within the law ("Bender knew 400 relatively legal ways to make the population part with their money.") his description as " The Great Combinator" became a catchphrase in the Russian language. The novels are examples of a picaresque novel genre, which was previously rare in Russian literature. Ostap Bender ( Russian: Остап Бендер in The Twelve Chairs he called himself Ostap-Suleyman-Berta-Maria-Bender- Bey, in The Little Golden Calf he called himself Bender-Zadunaysky, in later novels he was also called Ostap Ibragimovich Bender) is a fictional con man and the central antiheroic protagonist in the novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931) written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Ostap Bender as portrayed by Andrei Mironov, 1976 ![]() ![]() This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Donation Program, which was created to help nonprofit and charitable organizations (schools, libraries, convalescent homes, soldier donation programs, etc.) by providing them with free books and to help authors garner more exposure for their work. ![]() To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page. ![]() What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. ![]() This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() |