Adults will enjoy the subtle humor and inside jokes, and children will love intrepid Zita and her adventures. With echoes of The Wizard of Oz, this charming, well-told story has a timeless "read to me" quality that makes it perfect for one-on-one sharing. In order to save her friend, Zita must ultimately risk her own chance to return to Earth. Aptly named, he is part Pied Piper and part inventor but always a smooth talker who alternately assists and sabotages the mission. Along the way, she meets Piper, a fellow earthling traveling through space who becomes an important player in the story. Together they head off to the Scriptorians' castle to rescue Joseph. In her quest to save her friend, Zita assembles a cadre of unusual cohorts: a giant mouse that she rides an oversize bloblike creature named Strong Strong a Heavily Armored Mobile Battle Orb known as One and Robot Randy. The fearless heroine follows him to a planet inhabited by Scriptorians, who intend to use him as a ritual sacrifice to prevent the destruction of their planet. Zita's curiosity compels her to press it, only to discover that it summons an alien creature that instantly abducts Joseph. Gr 2-5-While exploring a meteoroid crater, young explorers Zita and Joseph discover an unusual device featuring a conspicuous red button. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th
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Dracula's account begins with him, having tired of life in a crumbling castle hidden in the wilds of Transylvania surrounded both by irritatingly backwards and superstitious peasants and a trio of insufferable vampire brides, deciding to break his centuries of self-imposed exile and reintroduce himself into human society. The Dracula Tape involves Dracula, several decades after this conflict, deciding to finally address this imbalance - specifically, by hijacking the car of the descendants of the Harkers, his old enemies, and by recording his memoirs of the event in question into their tape recorder. Specifically, it hinges on a fact about the earlier work that is both glaringly obvious and yet easily missed that while the earlier novel uses the diary entries, writings and witness testimony of almost all of the participants and witnesses to the battle between Van Helsing and his allies and the evil Count Dracula in order to provide a full account of what happened, one particular perspective has been notably omitted - that of Count Dracula himself. A 1975 novel by Fred Saberhagen, which offers an alternative perspective on the horror novel Dracula. Ward introduces us to Ted, a bizarre, childlike loner who lives with his daughter Lauren and cat Olivia – and then pulls the rug, repeatedly, from under the reader’s feet. There are horrors hidden in a rundown house on the edge of a forest a spate of disappearing children a vulnerable woman searching for answers. Whereas Ward’s previous novels were historical chillers set in remote corners of Britain, featuring young women traumatised by cursed families and social oppression, the new book looks at first like a contemporary American thriller. Buzz has been building for months around a dark, audacious highwire act of a novel that can be only tentatively described for risk of giving too much away. And there’s nothing else quite like it, that fear in the dark.”įear in the dark is what powered her 2015 gothic horror debut, Rawblood, the follow-up Little Eve, and now her breakout third book, The Last House on Needless Street, published on 18 March. “But it doesn’t matter whether it’s real or not the fear is real. I could feel that there was someone in the room.” Had Google been around in the early 1990s, she might have found out sooner about hypnagogic hallucinations, intensely real sensations on the border between wakefulness and sleep. W hen Catriona Ward was about 13, she’d wake up each night with a hand in the small of her back, pushing her out of bed. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. Odell sees our attention as the most precious-and overdrawn-resource we have. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."-Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time - The New Yorker - NPR - GQ - Elle - Vulture - Fortune - Boing Boing - The Irish Times - The New York Public Library - The Brooklyn Public Library Description ** A New York Times Bestseller ** And when she propositions him for a one night stand, he knows he should turn it down. Just the two of them, alone, in muddy, wet clothing that needs to come off…īut Beth Ann isn’t the spoiled princess he thought. He’ll just have to teach the sexy blonde a lesson–a weekend of roughing it out in the wild. He’s even more annoyed when Beth Ann isn’t grateful for the rescue. She can’t even find her way out of the woods without the help of a handsome, but scowling, Marine.Ī die-hard survivalist, Colt Waggoner’s none too pleased when he’s sent to find the town’s pampered princess. Of course, even the best laid plans go awry when she’s stranded in the woods in the middle of a downpour. That means opening her own salon and not taking the help that her ex-fiancé seems determined to offer. Now Beth Ann is determined to show the small town of Bluebonnet, Texas, that she can take care of herself. The problem? No one in town seems to believe her when she says it’s really over. Tracy’s review of The Care and Feeding of an Alpha Male (Bluebonnet #2) by Jessica Clareīeth Ann Williamson has finally had it with her on-and-off fiancé of nine years. Last year, two people made a YouTube video to tell gay teens who were being bullied. It Gets Better is a collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people, because while many LGBTQ teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. Dan Savage, right, and his husband Terry Miller speak to gay youth in the. Speaking openly about the bullying they suffered, and how they both went on to lead rewarding adult lives, their video launched the It Gets Better Project YouTube channel and initiated a worldwide phenomenon. In response to a number of tragic suicides by LGBTQ students, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage uploaded a video to YouTube with his partner, Terry Miller. Many young people face daily tormenting and bullying, and this is especially true for LGBTQ kids and teens. In 2010, Dan Savage and his partner, Terry Miller, uttered three words that would give rise to a global movement focused on empowerment of LGBTQ+ youth - it gets better One might expect a book that dispatches moral lessons to be dull reading. And when Atticus agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who is falsely accused of raping a white woman, they too become the target of hatred. When the book begins they are preoccupied with catching sight of the mysterious and much feared Boo Radley, who in his youth stabbed his father with a pair of scissors and who has never come out of the family house since. Throughout the novel, the children grow more aware of the community’s attitudes. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” It is Miss Maudie, for example, who explains to Scout why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. In this he is aided by the family’s hardworking and sensible black housekeeper Calpurnia, and their kind and generous neighbour, Miss Maudie. A widower, he teaches Scout, her older brother Jem, and their imaginative friend Dill, how to live and behave honourably. Shawn Thew/AAPĪt the centre of the family and the novel stands the highly principled lawyer Atticus Finch. Among Lee’s accolades were her 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom. With its smoking eel just slightly grilled and settled over rice, every bowl of unadon I’ve eaten at Kuromon Market in Osaka, tanked in the mornings after cartwheeling with the gays through the city’s Doyama district, has been the closest I’ve found myself to divinity. There’s a sort of holiness in donburi’s simplicity, which is endless, permeable and variable. Recipe: Oyakodon (Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl) But in practically every iteration, a bowl of rice is topped with a thick layer of deliciousness and served in proportions that vary from the very humble to the deeply extravagant. And while there are many possibilities, some all-stars make repeat appearances: simmered beef in gyudon, tempura in tentamadon and raw salmon in hokkaidon. As straightforward as these Japanese rice bowls may seem - (perfect) rice! Covered with (perfectly) poached ingredients! Served in a (perfect) bowl! - their understatedness belie their exquisiteness.ĭonburi can vary pretty wildly: The versions you’ll find in the Kansai region can look very different from those in Kyushu, which, in turn, can differ from their cousins in Hokkaido or Kanto. But to top those grains with ingredients simmered in dashi and soy sauce, before they’re set into a bowl and sprinkled with scallions and shichimi, culminating in delicious donburi, is another plane of pleasure entirely. In virtually every circumstance that comes to mind, a steaming pile of rice is stellar on its own. Not when candles blow themselves out, stairs creak when there's nobody on them, and a strange haunted voice calls out for help. Maddy's friends envy her for living in such a mysterious old house. In the heat of the attack, who's the real enemy. But nobody's ready for the ghosts of a long-ago battle who drag the kids into a life or death war to the finish. Jumping a fence into off-limits territory makes it seem even more daring. The guys are all geared up for an overnight camp out. Everyone is too friendly, too polite, even the kids! And what's this mysterious stuff being piped through the vents - even in his own house? Maybe it's just his imagination, Ricky thinks, until he discovers the hideous secret the whole town is hiding. Ricky is excited when his family suddenly moves to Florida. THREE COMPLETE STORIES OF HAUNTING AND HORROR! 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His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. 'Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. |