![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrator’s agent: Emily van Beek, Folio Jr./Folio Literary. ![]() Author’s agent: Erin Murphy, Erin Murphy Literary. Read with or without pandemic-era context in mind, it’s a warming story about the necessity of connection and community. Reidy records Sylvie’s qualms and enthusiasms with a breathless, enthusiastic voice (her idea is “audacious, dangerous, MAGNANIMOUS”), while Cummins’s digitally finished multimedia art combines reportorial immediacy with a kind of sketchbook impressionism that takes readers inside Sylvie’s head. From Zolotow Honor award-winning author Jean Reidy (Truman) and illustrated by Joey Chou, this lyrical picture book has pitch-perfect rhythm and rhyme and makes for a great read-aloud. Not only is Sylvie not imperiled, she’s celebrated and warmly welcomed into the fold. more.” Sylvie knows that “not everyone appreciates a spider who calls attention to herself,” but she nevertheless takes a risk a vertical spread depicts the arachnid spinning a silvery web to beckon each individual to the building’s rooftop, where they quickly bond and transform the space into a community gathering place. In this standalone spin-off to Truman, a gray spider named Sylvie keeps a close eye on four of an apartment building’s human residents, portrayed with varying skin tones, whom she thinks of as “her people.” Though everything seems “just so” for each denizen, she’s lately noticed from the fire escape that something’s amiss, and wonders whether “the four need something. ![]()
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Two other children have been abducted locally and DI David Lennon is convinced the abductions are by the same culprit but the case is harder to break than he thought leaving him full of self-doubt and guilt at possibly not finding Frankie in time.Ī far from stagnant police procedural, which had me guessing right until the end, and every time I thought I had worked it out the plot shifted and revealed a little more. ![]() Frankie Philips goes missing from her home when her parents go out for a meal leaving her with her 15 year old half-sister. ![]() ![]() Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelling the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. ![]() ![]() Fast Food Nation - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette!Īre we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During the day, Sheppard is visited by a patient, Miss Russell, who works as a housekeeper in Ackroyd’s house. While walking through the streets, Sheppard crosses paths with Roger, who says that he needs to speak with Sheppard right away, and invites him to dinner that evening. Paton drank herself to death, Roger was rumored to be involved in an affair with Mrs. Paton, who already had a child named Ralph Paton by another marriage. Sheppard is friendly with Roger Ackroyd, a successful middle-aged businessman who lives in the biggest house in the village. Ferrars killed herself out of remorse for having killed her husband, Mr. His sister, Caroline, with whom he lives, tells him that she’s sure Mrs. He determines that Ferrars has overdosed on a sleeping medication. He’s sent to care for her, but he’s too late. James Sheppard, a resident of the small village of King’s Abbot, wakes up on Friday morning to learn that Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Equally riveting are the stranger-than-fiction details of the underbelly of early-modern Paris. Juicy court gossip and the tangled love lives of royalty and hangers-on against the backdrop of an expanding Versailles is fascinating. Court life and the machinations of Louis XIV’s many mistresses are lavishly described. “City of Light” is more than a biography of La Reynie’s career. Mud taxes, animal regulations, fines for emptying chamber pots into the streets, and a special tax to place lanterns along the streets (creating the “city of light”) slowly improved the quality of life in Paris, even while causing grumbling among the citizenry. A flurry of ordinances cleaned the streets and lit the night. In 1667 Nicolas La Reynie was appointed lieutenant general of police with the objective of imposing law and order on the disordered city of Paris. ![]() Combining the research skills of an academic and a storyteller’s flair, Vanderbilt Professor Holly Tucker brings the crime-riddled Paris of the late 1600s to life in the excellent history “City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris.” At its center is the “Affair of the Poisons” which touched both the glittering heights and impoverished lows of French society. ![]() ![]() Having lived and worked in London for two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generationsĪdelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. ![]() ![]() OL5706357W Page_number_confidence 91.79 Pages 392 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201215083808 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 332 Scandate 20201212174432 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781423102267 Tts_version 4. ![]() It’s been years since Ariel’s older sisters have visited home. After the death of Ariel’s mother, the queen of the sea, the seven daughters of King Triton have grown estranged at best. Elle inspired by Disney upcoming live action reimagining of The Little Mermaid. The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods, 4) OctoAuthor: Melissa de la Cruz Genre: Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Young Adult, Angels, Fantasy, Fiction PDF EPUB The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods, 4) Download by Melissa de la Cruz. ![]() Urn:lcp:vanalenlegacy0000dela_n8c2:epub:4416d42f-6103-45c2-9c19-d9cd66626602 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier vanalenlegacy0000dela_n8c2 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4cp6xm4n Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781423101260ĩ781423102274 Lccn 2009023816 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9591 Ocr_module_version 0.0.9 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0000288 Openlibrary_edition An original novel written by New York Times best-selling author J. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:15:03 Boxid IA40016904 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() It was initially rejectd but then José Corti, who had published some of the surrealists, agreed to publish it if Gracq bore some of the cost. However, after being refused entry into the Soviet Union, he decided to write a novel, Au château d’Argol. He published his first article (on geography) in 1934.Īfter graduation he became a teacher and also joined the Communist Party. He studied geography and history and graduated in both. He then went to the École normale supérieure, one of the top French universities, where he discovered surrealism. In Paris, he discovered modern art and literature, cinema and Wagner’s operas. He was sent to boarding school in Nantes, which he hated but, nevertheless, was a brilliant student. He read a lot as a child and was particularly influenced by Jules Verne. His family had lived there for centuries. Julien Gracq was born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil in 1910. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lawhead's riveting saga that began with the novel Hood, which relocated the legend of Robin Hood to the Welsh countryside and its dark forests. In desperation, the people turn to King Raven and his men for justice and survival in the face of the ever-growing onslaught.įrom deep in the forest they form a daring plan for deliverance, knowing that failure means death for them all. Wales is slowly falling under the control of the invading Normans, and King William the Red has given his ruthless barons control of the land. His sentence is death by hanging-unless he delivers King Raven and his band of cohorts. Now, however, Will is in prison for a crime he did not commit. After fulfilling his quest-and proving himself a skilled and loyal companion-Will joins the heroic archer and his men. After losing everything he owns, forester Will Scarlet embarks on a search for none other than King Raven, whose exploits have already become legendary. ![]() ![]() Through families lost and found, this own-voices story celebrates the resilience of the human heart and our need to know who we truly are. Author(s): Cath Moore Young Adult CBCA 2021 - Notables CBCA 2021 - Shortlist. Metal Fish, Falling Snow is a warm, funny and highly original portrait of a young girl's search for identity and her struggle to deal with grief. One that will be broken when he leaves her with the family she has never known. ![]() ![]() As they travel through remote towns further and further from the water that Dylan longs for, she and Pat form an unlikely bond. Paris, Dylan imagines, is a place where her black skin won't make her stand out, a place where she might feel she belongs.īut when she loses her mother in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very different journey- a road trip across outback Australia in the care of her mother's grieving boyfriend, Pat. But w Want to Read Rate it: Home Before Night by J.P. Paris, Dylan imagines, is a place where her black skin wont stand out, a place she might feel she belongs. Fourteen-year-old Dylan has always been troubled by. ![]() 378 Ratings Dylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing across the ocean to France. Author(s): Cath Moore Teen and Young Adult CBCA Notables 2021 CBCA Shortlist 2021 - Older Readers.A road trip with unlikely companions, a girl with a unique way of seeing the world, a great loss and a struggle of identity Metal Fish, Falling Snow is an Own Voices YA debut that packs a punch.ĭylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing across the ocean to France. Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore 3.79 avg. ![]() |