![]() Set against the backdrop of the segregation history of the American South, take a trip with this New York Times bestseller and an eleven-year-old boy who is about to discover that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem-his G'ma included. Parents need to know that Clean Getaway, by Nic Stone ( Jackpot, Dear Martin, Odd One Out) and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwilean, tells the story of 11-year-old Black boy William ('Scoob') and his elderly White grandmother ('G'ma'), who run away from home in an RV. ![]() ![]() Nic lives in Atlanta with her adorable little family. Even when G'ma starts acting stranger than usual. Clean Getaway, Nic's first middle-grade novel, deals with coming to grips with the pain of the past and facing the humanity of our heroes. ![]() It holds history, memories, and most important, the way home.Ī Cell Phone: Avoid contact with Dad at all costs. Use the Green Book: G'ma's most treasured possession. Grab a Suitcase: Prepacked from the big spring break trip that got CANCELLED.įasten Your Seatbelt: G'ma's never conventional, so this trip won't be either. How to Go on an Unplanned Road Trip with Your Grandma: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a timely middle-grade road-trip story through landmarks of the Civil Rights movement and the map they lay for contemporary race relations. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hillerman's mystery is set on and near a large Navajo reservation near the four corners area. Find out more about Terry at and the Facebook page https//(610K fans). He passed away in 2015 from Alzheimer's Disease. Edwards Award for Lasting Contributions to Young Adult Literature from the American Library Association. The recipient of several honorary doctorates, Sir Terry was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 for his services to literature. He was awarded Britain's highest honor for a children's novel, the Carnegie Medal, for THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS (HarperCollins, 2001). Printz Honor Book, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, and LA Times Book Prize for YA Literature winner-and DODGER (HarperCollins, 2012), for which he won his second Michael L. These include the books of the BROMELIAD TRILOGY (HarperCollins, 2003), as well as THE WEE FREE MEN (HarperCollins, 2003), A HAT FULL OF SKY (HarperCollins, 2004), WINTERSMITH (HarperCollins, 2006), I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT (HarperCollins, 2010), NATION (HarperCollins, 2008)-a Michael L. In addition to his phenomenal-and phenomenally popular-Discworld series for adults, Terry is the multi-award-winning author several children's books. His books have sold more than 85 million copies worldwide. ![]() He wrote his first published story when he was 13 and his first novel, THE CARPET PEOPLE, when he was 17. Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of more than three dozen novels, is one of the world's best-selling and best-loved novelists writing in the English language. ![]() ![]() I was so pumped when I finally heard about this one (and also that cover? CAN WE DISCUSS MY NEED FOR THAT DRESS?). But do you know how few retellings of The Princess and the Frog there are? SO FEW, GUYS. The writing is beautiful, the characters are interesting, and the plot has unexpected twists. To Sum It All Up: Check out Enchanted if you can. I will be checking out more books from Alethea Kontis. The header, and the font size almost discouraged me from reading the book. ![]() But, the way the book is bound, and published, is almost laughable. I hadn't expected to enjoy Enchanted as much as I did, mostly because of the book and not the novel itself. The main character, Sunday, is the seventh child, and her older sisters are named after the previous days of the week, respectively. As expected after the first couple of pages, the rhyme, Monday's Child, is incorporated into the story. I personally, love fairy tales, especially the ones with a different spin on them.Įnchanted starts off mostly as a different spin on The Princess And The Frog, but more tales show up the longer you read. ![]() ![]() Enchanted is a magical experience that incorporates many fairy tales. I was intrigued by a pretty cover, and a new name with endless possibilities. In the beginning, I hadn't really known what to expect from Enchanted. Enchanted is, like its namesake, enchanted. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a pitch perfect, engaging, and accessible credo written by one of today's most influential feminists. ![]() Anger is not what gets in our way, it is our way.Īll we need to do is own it. Because contrary to the endless barrage of self-help rhetoric about anger management and letting go, the reality is that our rage is the most important resource we have as women, a force for creation rather than destruction, our sharpest tool against both personal and political oppression. We are mad as hell, and that's completely okay. And when we somehow manage to put one high heel-battered foot in front of the other despite all of this, we're asked if it would kill us to smile. We are told to stand down when we have an opinion and to calm down when we are fired up. The assertive among us are labelled bitches, while the expressive among us are considered shrill. ![]() We are underpaid, overworked, thwarted and diminished. ![]() After all, women have a lot to be angry about.' GLORIA STEINEM Women are angry, and it isn't hard to figure out why. A conversation-shifting book urging 21st-century women to understand their anger, embrace its power, and use it as a tool for positive change 'How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her will be good for women. ![]() ![]() ![]() Billy and Claire find themselves thrown together and at the mercy of the Winston siblings’ shenanigans.īut will their forced proximity bring them together? Or push them even further apart? Well-meaning interference means the star-crossed lovers can’t stop tripping over each other in the hills of Tuscany, the catacombs of Rome, and the waterways of Venice. And now they’re going to do something about it. Secrecy and bitterness kept them separated.īut you know who’s tired of their separation and stubbornness? Everyone. Cruelty and circumstance tore them apart almost twenty years ago. ![]() No one deserves a happily-ever-after quite as much as the second oldest Winston brother and his lady love, Claire McClure (aka Scarlet St. Billy Winston’s family is going to see him happy and in love if it’s the last thing they do. ![]() ![]() Winner of the 2014 Eisner Awards for Best Comics-Related Book and Best Publication Design. See why Genius, Illustrated - along with its companion volume, 2011's Genius, Isolated - are being praised as the definitive examination of the life and art of The Master, Alex Toth. Fans of comics, cartoons, and all-around great artwork revere Alex Toth. Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell continue their comprehensive review of the life and art of Alex Toth in Genius, Illustrated. Two of Toth's best stories are reproduced complete from the original artwork: "Burma Skies" and "White Devil-Yellow Devil." A full-length text biography will chart the path from Toth's increasingly-reclusive lifestyle to his touching re-connection to the world in his final years. Covering the years from the 1960s to Toth's poignant death in 2006, this oversized 9.5" v 13" book features artwork and complete stories from Toth's latter-day work at Warren, DC Comics, Red Circle, Marvel, and his own creator-owned properties, plus samples of his animation work for Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, and others, as well as sketchbook pages, doodles, advertising art, and other rarities provided through the cooperation of Toth's family and his legion of fans. ![]() ![]() Written by Dean Mullaney illustrated by Alex Toth.ĭean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell continue their comprehensive review of the life and art of Alex Toth in Genius, Illustrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Venice's compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. ![]() ![]() The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. "Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides." - Vanity Fair First published to great acclaim in 1987, this arresting, elegant novel from Jeanette Winterson uses Napolean's Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of fantasy.Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. ![]() ![]() Adaptations can be difficult to execute with style and grace Larson manages to do both and still add her own flair. ![]() Minor grievances aside, this is a stunning reimagining of L'Engle’s Newbery-winning tale, and it should entrance old and new readers alike. Whatsit morphs into the centaurlike creature on Uriel. It's difficult to see The Man with Red Eyes with baby blue eyes, or to miss out on her rainbow wings when Mrs. While it is an amazingly envisioned and sophisticatedly stylized offering, some purists may be slightly put off by the three-color black, white and blue palette. ![]() Larson's illustrations are clear and concise, neatly ordered across each page with a tidy sensibility. With a keen eye, Eisner Award winner Larson ( Mercury, 2010) doesn't stray a moment from L'Engle’s original text, following the Murry children, Charles Wallace and Meg, and their friend, Calvin O’Keefe, as they tesser through outer space looking for Meg and Charles Wallace's lost father. ![]() A faithfully adapted graphic novel of the beloved 1962 classic, just in time to celebrate its 50th anniversary. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pressure, the resentment, the media coverage-it’s all too much-and before he knows exactly what he’s doing, he’s making a run for it, leaving a shocked congregation and flashing cameras in his wake. Runaway Groomsman Kindle Edition by Meghan Quinn (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 14,634 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 3 million more titles 4.99 to buy Audiobook 0. That’s how he finds himself standing at the altar…as his ex-girlfriend ties the knot with his very famous best friend. But when it comes to real life romance, he’s a mess. Hollywood screenwriter Sawyer Walsh knows a good love story when he sees it. Novel:įrom USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a heartfelt romantic comedy about new beginnings and finding the romanticized happily ever after in the most unlikely of places. Runaway Groomsman by Meghan Quinn 4.6 (9) Paperback 12.95 Paperback 12.95 Audio MP3 on CD 14.99 Audio CD 22. Book Runaway Groomsman by Meghan Quinn is available to download free in pdf epub format. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It turns out the 1919 White Sox were among the highest paid teams in baseball,” said Pomrenke. Pomrenke said they have uncovered payroll records that show the “All of these new pieces to the puzzle have helped provide definitive answers to some old mysteries and helped debunk some of the old myths,” he said.Īmong them, a myth about how poorly paid the White Sox were in comparison to the other teams of the other era. The panel has put together an online project called "Eight Myths Out." He’s chaired a committee that has spent years studying what is known as the Black Sox scandal. “We’ve learned a lot of new information in the ensuing half century,” said Jacob Pomrenke with the Society for American Baseball Research. ![]() The story has become well known through a book, and later a movie titled “Eight Men Out”, named for the number of players later banned from baseball for their roles in the gambling scheme.īut does that story match reality? New research sheds light on what took place - and what didn’t.Įight Men out by Eliot Asinof was published in 1963. Some members of the Chicago White Sox, including the great Shoeless Joe Jackson, threw the World Series. ![]() ![]() This baseball season marks 100 years since what may be the darkest moment in the history of our national pastime. ![]() |