6/10/2023 0 Comments The No. 1 Car Spotter by Atinuke![]() ![]() Yawnee Valley is famous for one thing: cows. Miles was his school's greatest prankster.how will he survive a move to Yawnee Valley? 1 Car Spotter (2011).Ī delightful immersion in an unfamiliar world for early chapter-book readers. Cadwell’s grayscale cartoons add to the gentle humor of Nigerian-born Atinuke’s engaging, stand-alone sequel to The No. “That way we need one another.” The sharp corners, white plaster and corrugated iron roof of Mama Coca-Cola’s modern new house turn out to be wrong for the climate it may be unhealthy to live in, but it's perfect for a restaurant serving both traditional and modern eaters. 1 at more than one thing, Grandfather says. These villagers cooperate with each other, sharing their furnishings and their work. ![]() Underlying these simple stories are some significant cultural ideas. He's the one who dispatches the leopard with hot-chili-pepper soup, figures out a way to get stranded bus passengers across a flooded road and on their way, and finds a use for Mama Coca-Cola's too-hot new house. ![]() 1 at slingshot or at school, but he is excellent at identifying cars and is full of bright ideas. 1 fulfills his dream of seeing a Pontiac Firebird up close and meeting its professor owner. ![]() In four connected short stories set in a tiny African village, No. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Apache by Ed Macy![]() ![]() ![]() When a marine goes missing in action, Macy and his team know they are the Army's only hope of bringing him back alive. In 2007, Macy's Apache squadron was dispatched to Afghanistan's notorious Helmand Province with the mission to fight alongside and protect the men on the ground by any means necessary. A firsthand account of the exhilaration and ferocity of war, Apache chronicles a rescue mission involving a stranded soldier in Afghanistan in 2007.Įd Macy had always dreamed of a career in the army, so when the British Army Air Corps launched its attack helicopter program, Macy bent every rule in the book to make sure he was the first to sign up to fly the Apache-the deadliest, most technically advanced helicopter in the world and the toughest to fly. Macy puts the reader in the cockpit of our most lethal attack platform." -Dick Couch, New York Times–bestselling authorĪpache is the incredible true story of Ed Macy, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot, that takes you inside one of the world's most dangerous war machines. "A truly amazing portrayal of the technical, the emotional, and the courageous. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Piper perish book![]() "A character readers will remember."-Kirkus Reviews "Will embolden budding teen artists."-School Library Journal "A love-letter to the artistic life, filled with glamour, passion, hunger and heartbreak." - author, graphic novelist, and two-time Eisner Award Winner Hope Larson If a book could be my BFF, it would be this one." -Bonnie Burton, author of Crafting with Feminism and Girls Against Girls This book captured that excitement I felt when I was a young artist full of hope tackling a big city. "After reading Piper Perish I want to start my own handwritten, doodle-filled journal full of creativity, dreams, and adventures. You won't put it down."-Brandy Colbert, author of Pointe and Little and Lion Infused with a love and respect for art that shines through on every page, Kayla Cagan's debut is equal parts funny and heartbreaking. "Piper Perish is smart, fresh, and utterly engaging. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. It is a story that will linger with you after its final page is turned.ĪN-YA AND HER DIARY: READER AND PARENT GUIDE. An-Ya's story is one of incredible loss, filled with painful transitions and longed for hope. So, when asked to read for a review, I gladly said yes. It actually made me think of my boss at work and her two adopted daughters from China. Inside her diary she strives to connect the two severed worlds in which she has lived. HiZero:Review of An-Ya and Her Diary by Diane Rene Christian Reviewed by Kimberly Schaaf (YATR Review Panel) I was intrigued by the description of this book. Ultimately, after her adoption to America, she feels compelled to write her story down. For 11 years An-Ya has left the diary blank as she patiently waited in China for her biological family to return. The diary, into which she journals, was the only item left with An-Ya when she was found as an infant. Written in diary format, young An-Ya reveals her emotional journey as she is catapulted from a Chinese orphanage into a middle class home in America. What happens when all that is familiar disappears.when everything you see, taste, smell, feel, hear.is suddenly gone and lost to the other side of the world?Įnter the world of An-Ya and Her Diary.Īn-Ya and Her Diary chronicles the journey of an 11 year old adoptee from China. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Steering the craft![]() ![]() Based on Le Guin’s workshop lectures, Steering the Craft calls itself a 21st-Century guide to sailing the sea of story. With this small volume, she shares her thoughts on storytelling. A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer's craft, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. As Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell demonstrate, Le Guin influenced both contemporaries and writers that followed. Masterly and concise, Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writer's shelf. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also offers a comprehensive guide to working in writing groups, both actual and online. Ariele University Assignment 1: Steering the Craft Ariele Sieling One of the books on my fake 'Masters Degree' list is Steering the Craft by Ursula K Le Guin. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin's own witty commentary and an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Completely revised and rewritten to address modern challenges and opportunities, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le Guin, "a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller" (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the essentials of a writer's craft. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Nightfall by Isaac Asimov![]() ![]() ![]() Far across the cosmos from our world lies a planet bathed in perpetual daylight. He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of nonfiction. With David Birney, Sarah Douglas, Alexis Kanner, Andra Millian. ![]() OL46166W Page_number_confidence 83.02 Pages 454 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200822181043 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 436 Scandate 20200815175719 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 4. He penned numerous short stories, among them 'Nightfall', which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, a title many still honor. Urn:lcp:nightfall0000asim:lcpdf:6b704d06-68af-4c8f-b08a-c21b958c013a Foldoutcount 0 Identifier nightfall0000asim Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6w圆h88r Invoice 1652 Isbn 0586212558 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9891 Ocr_module_version 0.0.21 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18237 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:05:04 Associated-names Silverberg, Robert Boxid IA1910416 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Isaac Asimov began his Foundation series at the age of twenty-one, not realizing that it would one day be considered a cornerstone of science fiction. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Boccaccio the decameron![]() ![]() This is the structure of Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” a book that has been celebrated now for nearly 700 years.īoccaccio, himself from Florence, most likely began writing “The Decameron” in 1349, the same year his father died, probably of the plague. Most of the stories are silly, some are sad and none are focused on the plague. In another, a heartbroken woman grows basil in a pot that contains her lover’s severed head. In one story, a nun mistakenly wears her own lover’s trousers on her head, as a wimple. What do these young people do, after fleeing unspeakable suffering and horror? They eat, sing songs and take turns telling one another stories. Wild pigs sniff and tear at the rags of corpses, then convulse and die themselves. Some appear healthy at breakfast but by dinner are sharing a meal, it is said, with their ancestors in another world. The afflicted develop lumps in their groins or armpits, then dark spots on their limbs. It’s 1348, in the time of the bubonic plague. ![]() Ten young people decide to quarantine outside Florence. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Jenna and barbara bush book![]() With the light, self-deprecating charm of theīestselling Sisters First-cowritten with her twin sister,īarbara-Jenna reveals how they navigated this difficult period with Single year in which she and her family lost Barbara and George H. The joyous and bittersweet nature of life itself. Unforgettable stories, Everything Beautiful in Its Time captures Now the mother of three youngĬhildren, Jenna pays homage to her grandparents in this collection of In the sky, the way a dove uses her voice-teaching her to appreciate Throughout Jenna’sĬhildhood and adolescence, the Welches taught her the name of every star Was no less indelible to their granddaughter. Lived a quieter life outside the national spotlight. Harold and Jenna Welch-Pa and Grammee-a home builder and homemaker, In Midland, Texas, Jenna’s maternal grandparents, ![]() Living a life of passion and meaning-timeless lessons that continue to Gampy and Ganny, who taught her about respect, humility, kindness, and ![]() To Jenna Bush Hager, they were her beloved The world, George and Barbara Bush were America’s powerful presidentĪnd influential first lady. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The long dark tea time of soul![]() ![]() There is nothing about any airport that is pretty. ![]() This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only known exception to this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.” ![]() Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘As pretty as an airport.’Īirports are ugly. Nonetheless, because it is contains some Douglas Adamsisms that have stuck with me through the years, it still had moments of brilliance. However, unlike American Gods, which resembles it more than a bit, it is entirely more palatable and has 100% less offensive scenes, so there is that (I may have some trouble with statistics here). ![]() There is no way easy way to say this, but despite ingredients that should be interesting, it just fails to work for me. Read 2020 Recommended for fans of Douglas Adams ★ ★Īlmost entirely, but not quite, unlike tea–I mean, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Twilight the book![]() ![]() In 2015, after her gender-swapped redux of Twilight, Meyer stated she was comfortable enough to begin working on it again - but then became jaded again when she saw that the trending story on her Yahoo page was about Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian, based on 50 Shades of Grey, itself based on Twilight fanfic. The novel leaked in 2008 and Meyer, jaded by the internet world, halted all work on it and published the 12 completed chapters on her website. If this alternate POV Twilight sounds like a serious case of deja vu to you, it’s because Meyer’s been working on Midnight Sun since the 2000s, sharing the novel with Twilight film director Catherine Hardwicke and Robert Pattinson, who would go onto play Edward Cullen in all five Twilight films. ![]() “I’m so excited to finally be able to share it with you.” Hopefully this book can be a distraction from the real world,” Meyer said to Good Morning America. It didn’t seem fair to make you wait anymore. ![]() It’s a crazy time right now and I wasn’t sure if this was the right time to put this book out, but some of you have been waiting for just so, so long. “I am very excited to finally, finally announce the release of Midnight Sun on August 4. ![]() The author announced to Good Morning America, and immediately her website went down. Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun, a novel that accounts the events of her hit 2005 novel Twilight through vampire Edward Cullen’s point of view, will hit shelves on Aug. ![]() |