![]() ![]() ![]() Though they started as best friends, their relationship has grown into something more intense. Gorgeous and stubborn to a fault, apprentice pilot Cassidy Cochran is the one thing keeping Daniel on board. Teeming with ghosts that plague the crew with horrific nightmares, this ship is more trouble than it's worth to Daniel. With a checkered past like Daniel Sheridan's, landing an apprenticeship aboard the Sadie Queen was just the fresh start he was looking for. ![]() He has stolen Eleanor Fitt's heart, but who was Daniel Sheridan before he became a Spirit-Hunter? In this suspenseful 100-page digital-original romance novella from Something Strange and Deadly author Susan Dennard, Daniel's past-and his first love-will be exposed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With the family farm in foreclosure, all that's left for the brothers to do is follow in the footsteps of generations before them: Go West. The boys' father is dead, and a neighbor has been caring for Billy. Emmett, 18, has just returned home to Nebraska after serving a sentence at a juvenile work farm (he accidentally killed another boy in a fight). The story follows the fortunes of two brothers of a familiar type: strong, silent Emmett and innocent, optimistic Billy. Still, "The Lincoln Highway" is a romantic novel, not in a passion-and-courtship sense but in its idealization of the era. The philosophizing does not always spring from the most trustworthy of sources. ![]() Like the highway, the novel is long, and it winds through adventures in the style of an old-fashioned serial, with an abundance of last-second rescues and romantic philosophizing (about the moral caliber of men who can take a punch, codes of honor and the need to "balance the accounts" in life). ![]() Set in 1950s America, "The Lincoln Highway" is a road novel that celebrates the mythos of an era via a cross-country highway, and it delivers an overwhelming blast of nostalgia that many readers will welcome even if it doesn't add anything new to the genre. Amor Towles' follow-up to his bestselling book "A Gentleman in Moscow" arrives on a wave of anticipation, at a time when we long for simpler days. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of the National Book Award for fiction, this novel tackles the difficult subjects of rape and white-on-Native crime with lyrical language that is simultaneously enchanting and direct. Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe), The Round House (2012). Indigenous peoples were here before the founding of the United States, and we have a responsibility to include their voices and stories in our classrooms.įor teachers who have the willingness and ability to either change the primary indigenous text or add a second one, might I suggest including one of the following seven books for readers in the upper grades. ![]() It also shows students that Native peoples still exist, and it infuses much-needed cultural diversity into often Euro-American-centric book lists. Teaching indigenous texts is one tiny step toward correcting the historical inaccuracies about Native peoples that are built into the standard American K-12 curriculum. ![]() But it was written in 1986, and other authors have written equally powerful stories in the last 29 years. ![]() Of course, Silko’s lyrical prose and spiritual narrative deserve to be taught Ceremony became canonical over time for good reason. If high school students are introduced to Native writers at all, it is usually through Leslie Marmon Silko’s (Laguna Pueblo) Ceremony (1986), a now-classic story about a troubled Native American man who returns from serving in a war to rediscover his identity and to heal his body and spirit. ![]() ![]() ![]() And his escape skills come in handy when he's trapped first by a marauding garbage-woman and then by his mother, as she tries to keep him from doing anything stupid. ![]() Since Yorick's mother is a congresswoman, he's protected by secret spies. Furthermore, the entire social fabric has gone to hell, with gun-wielding wives of Republican representatives insisting on getting their husbands' seats and tribes of latter-day Amazons claiming males were meant to die. It's hard enough to drive down the block, since the streets are jammed with the cars of men who were behind the wheel when the instantaneous plague hit. Yorick would prefer to find his girlfriend, but it's hard to get a flight halfway around the world when almost all the pilots and mechanics are gone. ![]() At least that's what the (now all-female) government thinks. Yorick is the last man on earth, and in the resulting chaos, he must find a way to help save the human race. ![]() Yorick Brown is an escape artist has a fabulous girlfriend who's traveling in Australia and possesses a genetic make-up that's allowed him to survive a plague that killed every male being on the planet except for him and his pet monkey. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Maze Runner is the first book in the series and was released on October 6, 2009.Ī group of teenagers, who call themselves "Gladers", are left in a strange place which they call the "Glade". The series, revealing details in non-chronological order, tells how the world was devastated by a series of massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The sixth novel, titled The Maze Cutter, set 73 years following the events of The Death Cure, was released on October 4th, 2022. The series consists of The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trials (2010) and The Death Cure (2011), as well as two prequel novels, The Kill Order (2012) and The Fever Code (2016), a novella titled Crank Palace (2020), and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files (2013). ![]() The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() ![]() ![]() Dimensions: 8.3 inches (H) x 5.5 inches (W) x 0.6 inches (L)įor post-purchase inquiries, please contact customer support.The Addams Family: the Junior Novel Deluxe Hardcover The all-star cast includes Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace The Addams Family hits the big screen on October 11, 2019.They lived in this Addams Familytype house. (c) 2019 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. So the Birmingham Jaycees Junior Chamber of Commerce had a campaign to bring it to town, and it was this. Based on the famous New Yorker creations of Charles Addams, this animated action-comedy will follow the Addams family, whose lives begin to unravel when they face off against a crafty reality TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration, Addams-style.THE ADDAMS FAMILY (c) 2019 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. Together, Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Mad Uncle Fester, and Grandma are an eccentric clan who delight in the macabre and are unaware that people find them a bit different than the rest of the neighborhood. This deluxe paper-over-board hardcover contains an eight-page full-color insert of eye-catching art.The Addams family isn't your typical American family. The all-star cast includes Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Bette Midler, Allison Janney, and Elsie Fisher.Based on the animated film, The Addams Family: The Deluxe Junior Novel retells the entire mysterious and spooky story of The Addams Family. ![]() Product Details The Addams Family: the Junior Novel Deluxe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When working as a bricklayer, Frank would find the “one best way” to do each task required for his work, which led to him becoming the chief superintendent after 10 years and gave him a thorough understanding of the laborer’s lifestyle and experience. ![]() The couple believed there is one best way to get any job done and that process should be replicated through the manufacturing process, eliminating extraneous steps and producing the most efficient results.įrank stated the method’s “fundamental aim is the elimination of waste, the attainment of worthwhile desired results with the least necessary amount of time and effort.” The management theory of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth 1. Rather than encouraging a company of many working parts, they valued efficiency above all else. Husband and wife Frank and Lillian Gilbreth believed in regulation and consistency in the workplace. ![]() ![]() Both traditions turn siginificantly on the trope of “home,” of finding a home where one belongs. ![]() Although Audre Lorde calls the narrative of her life Zami: A New Spelling of My Name a “biomythography,” suggesting that the life of an African American lesbian cannot be told in any previously available generic forms of life-writing or self-expression, Zami actually derives from two extant American literary traditions – the African American slave narrative and the lesbian coming out story – rendering it, after all, not a marginal text, but rather a text that falls obviously and firmly in a tradition of American literature. ![]() ![]() Cartilage is the specialized, gristly connective tissue. ![]() The smooth tissue at the ends of bones, which is covered with another type of tissue called cartilage. But there’s also humour here – Maren’s realisation of her true nature comes at a disastrous slumber party – and crucially, there’s a real emotional weight. There are 3 types of bone tissue, including the following: Compact tissue. There’s a palpable threat, too, in the fellow “eaters” they encounter: Mark Rylance’s lip-smackingly grotesque performance as creepy loner Sully is particularly notable. And the act of feeding – tearing with teeth, face deep in the flesh of another human – is feral, animalistic and shameful. Guadagnino doesn’t shy away from the visceral shock of their unspeakable impulses: both Maren and Lee spend much of the time smeared in the congealing blood of their victims. Their survival depends on regular cannibalistic binges. What sets this film apart, however, is the fact Maren (a magnetic Taylor Russell) and Lee (Timothée Chalamet) are “eaters”. ![]() ![]() The backdrop for Bones and All is the 1980s, but it echoes the poor-eat-poor urgency of those other pictures, the poetic desperation of beautiful, rootless drifters taking what they need to survive. S trip the flesh from the bones of the latest film by Luca Guadagnino and the skeletal story framework is a familiar one: it’s an outlaw lovers road movie, sharing DNA with dustbowl odysseys such as Badlands and Bonnie and Clyde. ![]() ![]() ![]() One represents the future, one the past but in their present is a game of chess so complex the reader needs to run to keep up. “It’s quite a long story,” she says.Īnd so begins the power struggle between them. The teacher presents a worn but still recognisable prefect’s badge for King Henry Grammar School that he found there to The Headmaster and realises she has been expecting this. The day before the new term, Straightly’s Brodie Boys inform him that they have discovered what looks like the remains of a body on the building site, which is to become the Gunderson Building in the school grounds. When I read A Narrow Door I didn’t realise that it was the third book in the Malbry series featuring St Oswalds, following on from Gentleman and Players and A Different Class which explained a couple of queries I had but in fact it reads well as a stand-alone. The girls represented new money and a chance to recover the school’s reputation after an unfortunate incident the year before. This psychological thriller has two narrators: Ms Rebecca Buckfast and Mr Roy Straightly – respectively the new Headteacher (always referred to as Headmaster by Straightly) and Classics teacher at St Oswald’s, previously an independent grammar school for boys now an academy which includes girls. ![]() ![]() It is beautifully written with a plot which enthrals, is creepy and sinister with a tension that has you holding your breath as layer upon layer of secrets, lies and intrigues are unravelled. A Narrow Door is, quite simply, practically perfect. ![]() |