5/28/2023 0 Comments Miss rumphius book![]() A childhood admonition from her grandfather, which Miss Rumphius remembers throughout her life, holds wisdom that a gardener may readily affirm: “You must do something to make the world more beautiful.”Ĭasting lupine seeds here and there throughout her seaside town is Miss Rumphius’ gift of beauty. ![]() ![]() There is a vicarious pleasure in lingering over Cooney’s illustrations of an eccentric, middle-aged heroine, Miss Rumphius, hiking with her cat along fields brimming with spires of the pink, purple and blue lupine flowers whose seeds she has sown. ![]() Stephanie Sipp, illustrator The Literary Gardenerīarbara Cooney’s Miss Rumphius (1982) is a picture book sure to charm gardeners and artists who enjoy reading to children or grandchildren. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Certain dark things audiobook![]() ![]() But now one vampire has returned, and she’s being followed…Ītl is a vampire on the run when she meets Domingo, a young man who lives in a subway tunnel under the city. Only Mexico City has succeeded in remaining vampire-free, thanks to strict rules and vigilant organized crime. Moreno-Garcia writes about the many ways that different countries tried to regulate or drive out their vampires, with limited success. It’s set in Mexico City in an alternate reality where vampires have been living among humans for years. And surprisingly, each of the three books I read were completely different (other than those similarities I just pointed out).Ĭertain Dark Things is a blend of urban fantasy and crime noir. She also takes common genres and tropes but then infuses them with Mexican culture, history, and mythology. Her writing is so visual, and her stories are atmospheric and full of action. I’ve read three of her books by now and thought the same thing each time. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s books should be made into movies. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Clay by David Almond![]() ![]() If one were looking, Stephen Rose could be found in the garden staring at the moon. "He just needs a few mates." "From the very start, he had a good heart." Noticing this and trying to stretch their souls to a little goodness, O'Mahoney challenges them to befriend the weirdest kid in their English countryside town. Like all good altar boys, they crave adventure and live in fear of the town bully. Thirteen-year-old Davie and Geordie serve as altar boys under the tutelage of Father O'Mahoney, receiving tips for grieving at funerals and help out wherever needed at the masses. ![]() The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Winning of the Printz Award for his young adult novel KIT'S WILDERNESS and nominated for the Printz with his first novel SKELLIG, David Almond has delivered CLAY, another quality story that has made the ALA's 2007 Best Books for Young Adults list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But his strange practice of bringing back each victim's severed hand with the rifle it fired convinced them he was an evil sorcerer. ![]() At first, Alfa's fellow "Chocolats," as they were known, were impressed by his boldness and cunning. Mademba begged Alfa to end his suffering by slitting his throat, but Alfa couldn't bring himself to do that to his "more-than-brother." Tormented by the failure, Alfa took it out on the enemy by sneaking across "pools of blood" every night to gut German soldiers with his machete. The book opens on a note of anguish, with Alfa recalling his shameful inability to help his childhood friend Mademba Diop, who was eviscerated on the battlefield. Alfa Ndiaye, a young Senegalese man recruited into the French army as a rifleman, confronts the madness of World War I and his role in that madness. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Breaking glass by lisa amowitz![]() ![]() Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined. Then one of the other contestants turns up dead… quickly followed by another. ![]() Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her… but it’s the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she’ll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.Ĭelaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the kings council. Bobby has rules about that kind of thing. Then he meets the beautiful new girl in town, who just happens to be his boss's daughter. High school student Bobby Pendell already has his hands full-he works almost every night to support his disabled-vet father and gifted little brother. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. VISION AND FRACTURED The light is darker than you think. After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Court by tracy wolff![]() ![]() A one-time English professor with more than fifty novels to her name, she now devotes most of her time to writing and dreaming up heroes. By ten, she’d read everything in the young adult and classics sections of her local bookstore. ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Tracy Wolff wrote her first short story-something with a rainbow and a prince-in second grade. I’ll have to embrace every part of me.even the parts I fear the most.ĭon’t miss a single book in the series that spawned a phenomenon! The Crave series is best enjoyed in order: There’s no guarantee that anyone will be left standing when the dust settles, but if we want to save this world, I have no choice. Answers that might just reveal who the real monster is among us.Īnd that’s saying something in a world filled with bloodthirsty vampires, immortal gargoyles, and an ancient battle between two gods. But first, there are questions about my ancestors that need answers. We’re going to need an army to have any hope of winning. Flint is angry at the world, Jaxon is turning into something I don’t recognize, and Hudson has put up a wall I’m not sure I’ll ever break through. No one survived the last battle unscathed. The instant #1 New York Times Bestselling Series ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments John piper romans![]() ![]() ![]() I listed 10 reasons below, but there are many more.įrom the greeting (1:1) to the doxology (16:25) the gospel is saturates this book. These many years later, I can say with both conviction and fondness you must preach through Romans. I had no idea what this book would for our the congregation. While I believe I would do a better job these many years later, I don’t regret preaching through Romans so early on. I didn’t have that much wisdom, so I dove in. John Piper waited until the end of his pastoral ministry before he preached through Romans. ![]() The congregation seemed hungry for it, and I planned to stay here for many years, so I thought Romans would provide a good theological foundation for a long-term ministry. Early on in my ministry as a senior pastor, I thought it would be good if I preached through Romans. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Between the two kingdoms![]() ![]() ![]() She decided she would write in her journal every single day, even when she couldn’t sit up. She knew she might not make it but she would find little things to keep her going. It’s not about the event as much as it’s about her reaction to it.Īs cancer ravaged her body, Jaouad’s spirit got stronger. Instead, she tells you what was going on in her mind while dealing with such a traumatic event, and that too when her friends were kick-starting their careers, traveling the world or settling down. What makes this book different from other cancer memoirs I have read is that Jaouad doesn’t just share her experiences. Over the next four years, she went through rigorous chemotherapy, became a part of a clinical trial, and finally underwent a bone-marrow transplant that left her weak and heavily dependent on her caregivers-her parents and then-boyfriend she refers to as Will. Jaouad was 22 when she was diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia and given a 35 percent chance of survival. ![]() You want to keep reading, though your eyes are glazed with tears and your heart shatters every now and then. But you can’t do that with Suleika Jaouad’s ‘Between Two Kingdoms’ because hers is a story that’s heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. You have to sometimes put them down and actually walk away because you need time to recover. There are books that make you cry ugly tears. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing increasingly obsessed with Alec, Isabel assumes the role of his wartime lover and finds out the truth about her seemingly dour landlady, Mrs Atkinson.Īs ever, Dunmore writes with passion and precision her recreation of an early Fifties world of ‘shortages, rules and ration books’ where houses exude the ‘damp smell of polish, Jeyes fluid and old food’ and a middle-class woman who wishes to work is accused of making ‘yourself common’ is immaculate. In her new novella, Helen Dunmore continues this association of ghosts and coats, when her protagonist, Isabel Carey, a young doctor’s wife recently moved to a bleak East Riding town, puts on an old RAF greatcoat she finds in her landlady’s cupboard and is confronted by the spectre of its former owner, Alec, a fighter pilot.ĭespite her deep love for her husband, she is attracted to Alec, sleeping with him when, in Dunmore’s fine phrase, ‘time had cracked and given them to each other’. Nikoai Gogal ends his classic story, The Overcoat, with the dead clerk, Akaky, haunting St Petersburg stealing overcoats. ![]() ![]() In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. Klappentext An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David-Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city. Her account has the power to awe even today." Informationen zum Autor An indomitable traveler, singer, journalist, and religious adept, Alexandra David-Neel (18681969) was awarded a Gold Medal by the Geographical Society of Paris and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zusatztext "David-Neel was indisputably a fearless traveler! a rogue's rogue. ![]() |