![]() As the dog chases the rodent underneath some bushes, he receives a nasty bee sting on his front paw. Poor Fenway is now on the case of a pesky chipmunk that is running loose in the yard. The third book in the series, this novel takes a look at what our pets might be thinking and feeling when they get hurt and have to receive medical help. ![]() Because these books offer students and teachers a wonderful way to explore different points of view in literature and practice important inferencing skills, the first book in the series has been chosen as the 2017 Global Read Aloud selection for Early Readers. ![]() We get to see the adventures, big and small, of this family through the eyes, ears, and nose of Fenway. The Fenway and Hattie series shares such a lovable set of characters that includes Fenway (an energetic Jack Russell Terrier), Hattie (Fenway’s small human), Food Lady, and Fetch Man (Hattie's parents). ![]() I am so grateful that an advanced copy of this book was provided to me to share with my Twitter #BookRelays group. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There’s a couple pages dedicated to some salt and pepper shakers and I didn't really get it. Now, Tory is a ceramicist and is also friends with Gay, and introduces the two and they’re immediately smitten and over the top with each other. So, when Charlie gasps, “Oh, Gay!” for the third time, I had to be like, alright… we get it, Gay is amazing. ![]() ![]() Okay, this one took me a little too long to get in to… Charlie and his friend “Gay” (is that really her name? Who’s named Gay?) are really, really, so extra. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perks is a story which has stayed with me since I first read it, four years ago, and I can think of no greater recommendation than that. It is about people, both ordinary and special, who we come to know and care about. It is not a novel about teens, or about issues, or anything so simple as that. Perks of Being a Wallflower is a book which earns its sadness, its beauty and its joy. The characters who populate Perks never let us off the hook they move with the uneasy and fraught energy of real teenagers and their parents, resisting our attempts to pin them to the simple types we might expect. The Perks of Being a Wallflower: 20th Anniversary Edition Hardcover Septemby Stephen Chbosky (Author) 37,224 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 21.49 Other new, used and collectible from 11. In this book, he experiences loneliness, tragedy, change and love- and the story into which they are woven is a thing of beauty.Ĭhbosky is a hugely perceptive and honest writer, alive to the complicated interior life of real people. It‘s the story of Charlie, a young man leaving his childhood behind while still unsure about what the rest of life might bring. Stephen Chbosky’s Perks of Being a Wallflower is a book as startling as it is affecting. ![]() ![]() There’s the constant unpaid overtime, the cancelled holidays (leave is impossible to organise), the nonexistent social lives (working a 97-hour week pretty much knocks that on the head), the failed relationships and the kind of pressure that’d make the average corporate HR policy spontaneously combust. ![]() The patient stories impact and linger in the mind, but so too does the question of how junior doctors have managed to put up with working as they do for so long. Kay explains why: an unwieldy structure, anachronistic managerial and working practices, resources completely out of kilter with the demands placed upon them. And yet I know the experience of using it can be frustrating and difficult. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Nora says: “It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. ![]() It’s the sort of book that makes us ponder our own life and regrets. In doing so, can she discover a life more fulfilling than the one she wants to leave? What would have happened if she stayed with her ex? If she’d followed a different career as a climate change expert? Or an Olympic swimmer? A member of a famous band? She even tries a few lives on she’s never even considered. She gets the chance to try any or all of these lives on. Here, the books are all potential un-lived lives as well her own Book of Regrets. ![]() In Matt Haig's wonderful new book The Midnight Library we follow the predicament of Nora Seed who, coming to the end of her rope, feels the only way forward is to attempt to end her life, but finds herself in the library of the title, a place between life and death. Perhaps it takes a clever author with their own mental health issues to write such a heartfelt yet entertaining novel about depression. ![]() ![]() With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. But with the color of Violet's skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. ![]() Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. ![]() Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she's ever been in her life. but can they escape the secrets they left behind? It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. As Seen on The TODAY Show! Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReads From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() For that work she received the annual Children's Literature award from PEN Center USA and she was also a runner-up for the National Book Award ( National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist) and the American Library Association Newbery Medal (Newbery Honor Book). It features a cat and dog who live mainly beneath an old house in the Louisiana–Texas bayou. Her first novel was The Underneath, illustrated by David Small and published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. Her books have been translated into several languages: Spanish, Chinese, French, and Swedish. She writes novels, picture books, poetry, and nonfiction for children and young adults. ![]() Īppelt is the author of more than 30 books. She graduated from Texas A&M University and lives in College Station, Texas. Kathi Appelt was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and grew up in Houston, Texas. She won the annual PEN USA award for Children's Literature recognizing The Underneath (2008). Kathi Appelt (born July 6, 1954) is an American author of more than forty books for children and young adults. Children's literature, picture books, non-fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() This short book was awarded the first Noma Prize for Publishing in Africa in 1980.īâ died a year later after a protracted illness, before her second novel, Scarlet Song, which describes the hardships a woman faces when her husband abandons her for a younger woman he knew at youth, was published. Abiola Irele called it "the most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction". In it she depicts the sorrow and resignation of a woman who must share the mourning for her late husband with his second, younger wife. Her frustration with the fate of African women-as well as her ultimate acceptance of it-is expressed in her first novel, So Long a Letter. Bâ later married a Senegalese member of Parliament, Obèye Diop, but divorced him and was left to care for their nine children. Raised by her traditional grandparents, she had to struggle even to gain an education, because they did not believe that girls should be taught. ![]() Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age came to criticise what she perceived as inequalities between the sexes resulting from traditions. ![]() Mariama Bâ (1929 – 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French. ![]() ![]() These are assumptions, double standards, so deeply engrained in the culture, so ubiquitous, so automatically adhered to by the mainstream media, political leaders, and other opinion shapers as to generally not even need to be spelled out. What you’ll find, he contends, is that the United States is absolutely not immune to the tendency of nations to construct biased worldviews that attribute to themselves-or at least to their elites-the purest of motives while assuming other nations act from amoral self-interest at best and more likely malevolent motives. ![]() I always like Chomsky’s approach of asking us to consider the matters at hand as if we were people looking down from another planet, or future historians looking back long after the present societies have disappeared or evolved, in other words like people without a dog in the fight who can be objective and dispassionate about the evidence. The essays overlap, and there is not only considerable redundancy of topic but at times the same points are made with the same wording. Think of it instead as a collection of essays about what’s on Chomsky’s mind. Who Rules the World? is not a well-organized book making one coherent argument. ![]() He hits all his usual interpretive themes in addressing the current world situation. Who Rules the World? is pretty much what you’d expect if you’re familiar with Chomsky’s writings on politics. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Gracq published the novel in 1951, it was given the name Le rivage des Syrtes I don’t know whether the change of the English title was Richard Howard’s or not, but it’s an odd one. This book has so far been left out it’s a shame, because it’s one of his most accessible works. The Pushkin Press has been reissuing out-of-print editions of Gracq (most recently A Dark Stranger Turtle Point Press has been very slowly publishing untranslated works by Gracq. ![]() This particular novel hasn’t attracted much attention in English Columbia released it in 1986, Harvill seems to have put out a British edition in the late 1990s, and since then nothing. Julien Gracq was one of the writers the Surrealists wanted but they couldn’t get (like Roussel and De Chirico) his work shares something with their aesthetic, but it’s very much his own. This novel is one I that I return to this is my third time through. ![]() |