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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() pulsate with kinetic synergy… A starscape filled with visual drama and brilliance."- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Ballet dancer Misty Copeland makes her children's book debut with this inspiring love letter to young people, containing breathtaking illustrations of airborne dancers by Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers… Brava!"- Shelf Awareness, starred review "An inspirational picture book for children daunted by the gap between their dream and their reality."- Booklist "A poetic dialogue between an aspiring young dancer and the American Ballet Theater's soloist comprises the text of this stunning picture book… which feature full spreads bursting with color and excitement… A very successful collaboration." - School Library Journal " soaring debut picture book by American Ballet Theater star Misty Copeland… Myers' extraordinary artwork captures the mystique of the Firebird ballet and Copeland's indomitable spirit. Praise for FIREBIRD: Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2014 "The language soars into dizzying heights of lyrical fancy… Myers' artwork. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inventiveness of Dostoevsky's prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, its social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture. Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons-the impulsive and sensual Dmitri the coldly rational Ivan and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. This new, revised edition of the award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel celebrates the author's two hundredth birthday ![]() ![]() ![]() Separated from Gwydion, Taran and Eilonwy decide to continue the search for Hen Wen, knowing that dangers certainly await them. Their hunt for Hen Wen goes awry when they are captured by the evil Queen Achren and imprisoned in her Spiral Castle. Taran manages to escape with the help of a seemingly scatter-brained girl named Eilonwy, but the collapse of the castle during his escape seems to have buried Gwydion alive, and Taran laments his death. Sensing that this is the adventure he is looking for, Taran convinces Gwydion that he can help in the search. ![]() Gwydion must consult Hen Wen, but first they must find her. Only Hen Wen can tell Gwydion what the evil Arawn, Death-Lord, is planning. Gwydion believes that Arawn is gathering an army under the Horned King to wage war against the Sons of Don and conquer Prydain. Saved from death by Lord Gwydion, a noble warrior of the Sons of Don, Taran learns that Gwydion, himself, is looking for Hen Wen. What seems like a simple search for a lost pig turns into a perilous mission when Taran is overrun and almost killed by the Horned King and his murderous war band. When Hen Wen, the fortune telling pig, escapes from her pen to hide in the nearby forest, Taran must go looking for her. But strange things are happening in his world. He fears that his duties as assistant pig keeper will doom him to live an adventureless life and to remain an orphaned nobody in the world. Taran is making horseshoes at the forge of Caer Dallben, a farm nestled in the faraway kingdom of Prydain. But what he really wants to make are swords. ![]() ![]() ![]() Masuji had been part of a painting school that revered ‘The Floating World’. ![]() From the first chapter itself, the readers can recognize all the underlying ideas of the story that is to follow- memory, self-perception, self-deception, intergenerational conflict, familial reputation, and loss. The protagonist, Masuji Ono, a respected propagandistic artist in the 1930s and during the war, but now retired, regularly digresses to his struggling days while narrating the present-day life. Set in post-World War II Japan during the American Occupation, An Artist of the Floating World, as the title suggests, gives a fresh perspective on the relevance and reverberations of ‘art’ in a world that is transient and superfluous at the same time. Similar to his most renowned book, The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro’s genius is shone through this masterpiece drawing on the same ‘nothingness’ that surrounds the narrative and has the ability to firmly grip the readers’ attention. ![]() The Guardian ranks Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World in the 94th position in their 100 Best Novels written in English list. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trigiani paints the glorious historical landscape of 1930s Los Angeles where European and American artisans flocked to pursue the ultimate dream: to tell stories on the silver screen. Over the course of decades, Alda and Loretta encounter scandal and adventure, choose love and passion, and forge an enduring bond of love and loyalty that will be put to the test when they face the greatest obstacle of their lives. ![]() Becoming Miss Young’s secretary, the innocent and pious young Alda must navigate the wild terrain of Hollywood with fierce determination and a moral code that derives from her Italian roots. ![]() Though he’s already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress.įar from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to Loretta. The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel illustrates a story of a domestic violence survivor trying to find the strength to make the correct choices in complicated situations. It is a book that deals with serious topics and shows readers what is healthy in a relationship and what is not. Many have agreed that It Ends with Us is much more than a fluffy romance novel. “I thought it was really good” Saya Hamazaki, a freshman at Hills stated, “ like the ending brought it all together and it was really touching too.” Along with being recommended by multiple accounts on the Tiktok page, ‘Booktok,’ the novel is gaining more popularity now than ever. ![]() The book has since been an extreme success, holding the title of Goodread’s Choice Awards Best Romance Novel and being called a “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” by New York Times bestselling author, Anna Todd. The book follows the ups and downs of her relationships with the two men and the challenges they face along the way. However, things get complicated when the first boy she fell for, Atlas, shows up. ![]() Soon after, she meets a boy, Ryle, and instantly falls for him. The book follows the story of a girl named Lily who has just graduated from college and is ready to start a new chapter in her life. On August 2, 2016, American author Colleen Hoover published her novel It Ends with Us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Secret Scripture is articulated by two different, interspersed narrative plots presentedin the form of unofficial documents that deal with the story of ninety-nine-year-old Roseanne McNulty and her internment in the Roscommon Mental Hospital. Written in scavenged paperand hidden under a floorboard of a room, the first of these versions of the story is “Roseanne’s Testimony of Herself,” her own attempt at reconstructing the fractured story of her life and the different societal oppressive forces that contributed to her isolation during the upheavals following the Irish Independence. ![]() In this sense, The Secret Scripture is a text that not only can be read independently but as a part of a literary corpus that deals with the history of this particular location. ![]() The Secret Scripture, by the award-winning writer Sebastian Barry, is a contemporary Anglo-Irish novel written in 2008, where personal stories are used as a means of destabilizing official historiography. The novel belongs to a collection of books called “The Sligo Novels,” written by the author, where Sligo County is portrayed as a microcosm united by the personal experiences of characters that appear or are mentioned in all of his texts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. ![]() ![]() In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing-if occasionally entertaining-poor white trash. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials “ White Trash will change the way we think about our past and present.” “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” - O, The Oprah Magazine It deals in the truths that matter.”-Dwight Garner, The New York Times “This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences. Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. ![]() |