5/20/2023 0 Comments Echo mountain lauren wolk![]() ![]() Ellie was just a young child when the stock ![]() ![]() Set in a Depression-era Maine, it’s about the stories other people tell us about ourselves, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and why sometimes kids are the ones that have all the answers. But her latest Echo Mountain trades in that sense of anxiety, exchanging it for mere high tension. You have no idea what to expect when you pick one up. In the past I’ve approached her books the same way you’d approach a sleeping panther. Nobody conjures up the feeling of pine needles under your bare feet or that wind that seeps into your bones quite like she does. More, when I read a book by Wolk, what I yearn for isn’t history. It’s not that her books aren’t beautiful and it’s not that they don’t bring a specific historical moment in the past to life. They may have different reasons for doing so, but in the end there’s a kind of yearning worked into the fabric of the novel for a time that is not the present. ![]() Sometimes such books romanticize history or historical moments. Seems it only really comes up in conversation when you’re talking about works of fiction set in the past. I’ve been thinking a lot about that word lately. How it plays a role in the books we review and the way we interpret those titles. Sometimes we reviewers talk about “nostalgia”. Dutton (an imprint of Penguin Random House) ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments The dark crowns![]() Why, she asks, would the British Empire want her of all the eligible women on the continent for the king? ![]() Queen Charlotte has clearly never been one to mince words. Later in the clip, Charlotte explains why: Her high-fashion corset could kill her at any moment, and her husband-to-be is a complete stranger. As we see in the sneak peek, Charlotte, a German princess from a small province, initially has a rather explosive reaction to her impending betrothal to the King of England. Launching May 4, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story unveils the love story of its eponymous protagonist and her husband, King George, played by Corey Mylchreest as a young man and James Fleet in the Regency era. Or at least that’s what the budding royal tells her brother, Adolphus (Tunji Kasim), in the enchanting first nine minutes of the Queen Charlotte series premiere, which Tudum is debuting above. And she’s willing to flirt with disaster before she finds out. ![]() ![]() The promise of marrying the most powerful man in Europe is a tantalizing one, right? Well, at the start of the prequel Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, young Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio) isn’t quite so sure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Saints and Sinners in The Medieval Church In the Mists of Myth: From Rome to the Middle Ages.Trans in Faith: Early Cross – Dressing Saints and Martyrs.SS Symeon of Emessa and John: Hermits, Saints and Lovers.SS Benedicta and Galla Roman nuns – and lovers?.Sergius & Bacchus: Patron Saints of Gay Marriage?.SS Polyeuct and Nearchos, Roman Soldiers, Lovers and Martyrs.“Eternal Bliss” – SS Felicity and Perpetua.St Eugenia / Eugenios of Alexandria Dec 24th, and Protas & Hyacinthus, her eunuch slaves.The Early Christians: Saints and Martyrs for the Church The household of Martha, Mary and Lazarus.Dec 27th: John, the (Queer) Evangelist.Was Jesus Gay? Mark, and the “Naked Young Man”.Paul Oestreicher: “Was Jesus gay? Probably”.Three Young Men in the Burning Fiery Furnace.David The Prophet & Jonathan, His Lover. ![]() Joseph and His Fabulous Queer Technicolour Dreamcoat.The Queer Lesson of Nehemiah: “Rebuild God’s Church!”.Queering Genesis: Male and Female (And Others) He Created Them.Queer Gods, Demigods and Their Priests: The Middle East. ![]() ![]() I finished this book a few days ago and this is what I’m still thinking about: ![]() Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC of this book. Torn between two worlds and two versions of herself, Paige must decide where, and with whom, she truly feels at home. Or, she could go back to Texas and prove for once and for all that she’s more than her mistakes and more than a disease. When her own health fails her, she has the choice of staying at home and receiving care. Just as Paige begins to feel settled in Texas, her dad’s worsening Crohn’s disease brings her home to Seattle. He even makes her forget about the debilitating stomach cramps she struggles to hide. He’s so different from her, but Paige realizes that may not be a bad thing, especially since being around Joey curbs her urge to vandalize and ignore the rules. Meanwhile, Paige reluctantly befriends her sister’s straight-laced teenage neighbor, Joey, who is a frequent guest. Paige’s parents sign her up for a rebuilding project in Texas where her sister lives. To make things worse, her parents threaten her with boarding school in the fall if she can’t prove she’s changed her bad habits. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paige just wants to have fun, spray paint a few walls, and block out everything stressful, including her growing concern that she might be sick as well. Not when her dad gets sick, not when her relationship implodes, not even when her parents send her to another-freaking-state for the summer to live with her sister. Sixteen-year-old Paige Williams can’t stop self-sabotaging. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Answers can be recorded in a science notebook or journal. Would you sell the land to get more money today or save the land to support your family in the future? Remind students to use details from their personal experiences to support their choice. Before reading the story: Ask students to imagine they need money to support their family, but the only valuable thing they own is a beautiful piece of land that has been a part of their family for generations.Teachers can use this book to support Common Core Anchor Standards for Reading, specifically Grade 6, Craft and Structure: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Even though the Logans need money, something tells Cassie that the living trees are worth something too…Ī part of what makes this story so vivid and powerful is that readers clearly experience the events though the innocent eyes of Cassie herself. Anderson wants to cut down all the Logan family trees, and he pays good money for them, too. This 80-page short novel tracks the tough choices of the Logan family, as they make decisions about the things they own and care about, in the face of the Great Depression.ĭad is away working on the railroad, sending money home when he can. Song of the Trees is the first book in a series that detail the Logan Family saga. Your name is Cassie Logan, and you are 8 years old. You have three brothers– one older and two younger– and you remember a time when trees could sing. The people are black and white, but the issues that surround them are not. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Evening class binchy![]() ![]() And Signora, whose passionate past remained a secret as she changed all their lives forever. glowering Lou, who joined the class as a cover for crime. Connie, the gorgeous rich lady with a scandal ready to explode. ![]() Kathy, a hardworking innocent propelled into adulthood in a shocking moment of truth. bank clerk Bill and his dizzy fiance Lizzie: a couple headed for trouble. But Aidan's dream was headed for disaster until the mysterious Signora appeared, transforming a shared passion for Italy into a life-altering adventure for them all. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunne's last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. ![]() They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in Italian. That's where the real passion was lurking. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Countrymen by bo lidegaard![]() ![]() The Danish government, including the king, had advance notice of the Nazi plan. proceeds on two tracks: the Nazi plans for roundup and the Danish plans to defeat it. As points out, this mass rescue was extraordinary, since the population and governments of other occupied nations rarely protected their fellow Jewish countrymen. ![]() "One of the few feel-good stories to emerge from the Holocaust was the protection and eventual rescue of the approximately 7,000 Danish Jews by their fellow Gentile Danish citizens, escaping a scheduled roundup by Nazi occupiers. A former diplomat, now the editor in chief of Denmark's leading newspaper, Bo Lidegaard reconstructs the events of this remarkable exodus day by day, quoting from official records and the diaries and documents of families forced to flee, and those who came to their aid. The warning went out to the Jewish community, and over 14 harrowing days, while the government used its limited powers to impede matters in Berlin, ordinary Danish citizens spontaneously protected and hid their Jewish fellows, helping them make a mass escape to neutral Sweden. Denmark, under German occupation in World War II (though with its king and government intact), did something that no other European country attempted learning that the Nazis were about to round up the country's 7,000 Jews for deportation, the king, his ministers, and parliament all agreed that these Jews were Danish citizens first. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Bones & all a novel reviews![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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If you think we missed a sale that you want to be entered into CovrPrice just contact us at with information about the sale and our humans will investigate and add it for you. While we don’t capture 100% of every sale in the market we’re getting closer and closer to that goal. We only integrate sales for comics that our robots are confident are correct. (Trust us, we’ve tried) To ensure the quality of our data we error on the side of caution, valuing accuracy over quantity. It’s simply impossible for a human to determine the authenticity of every sale coming our way. “I sold a comic last week, why isn’t it showing up on your site?”Īt CovrPrice, we capture tens of thousands of sales DAILY. To see the most recent sales data for each condition be sure to look at the individual sales data listed in the tables below. Here we take the average for each condition and display it as a data point. Our goal for this graph is to show overall sales trends for officially graded comics. With this in mind, CovrPrice only displays actual sales data (taken across multiple online marketplaces… not just eBay) to help you better determine the best value for your comics. Slabbed Sales Data COVRPRICE’S TAKE ON COMIC VALUESĪ comic is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Sunburn by laura lippman![]() ![]() Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. ![]() Yet she stays and he stays-drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals-and cold-blooded murder. New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. Read it." -Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now, and Sunburn is her dark, gleaming noir gem. "Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. ![]() |