![]() Follow Agatha, and her new friends, Jonah (falsely called the Grim Reaper) and Dathid, a fairy prince/warrior as they prepare Agatha to become the person she was meant to be. And that marble? It’s an Orb that will guide her. When Agatha awoke in the middle of the night with the Grim Reaper in her room, her world was about to take a sharp turn, actually her world was going to be left behind for the world of Ashra where elves, fairies, minotaurs and more have been waiting for her, because she is the last of the Knights, the only ones with the ability to find and destroy the key that would re-open the portals between Ashra and Earth. Let’s not forget that stupid birthday tradition her “Aunt” has of making look at a marble and tell her what she sees. ![]() ![]() Sher escape was her tiny bedroom and her painting that would take her away from the life she knew as a misfit, even at school. ![]() ![]() She lives with two distant, cold and emotionally abusive guardians. What were you like at thirteen? Agatha was a loner, she never knew the warmth of her parents’ arms. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (With Byron Katie) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 2007.Īlso contributor to sound recording Job, Peter Maxwell Davies, Collins Classics (London, England), 1997. (With Byron Katie) Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 2002. The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1999. Meetings with the Archangel: A Comedy of the Spirit (fiction), HarperFlamingo (New York, NY), 1998. The Gospel according to Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1991. Parables and Portraits, Harper & Row (New York, NY), 1990. 53rd St., New York, NY 10022.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, 2004, for The Wishing Bone and Other Poems. Education: Attended the Sorbonne, Paris, France Amherst College and Yale University.ĪDDRESSES: Agent-c/o Author Mail, HarperCollins, 10 E. ![]() PERSONAL: Born 1943, in New York, NY married. ![]() ![]() The novel is set in the very near-ish future, though it’s depicted as the present day for all but the fact of mission to the Moon, but that’s language straight from the science fiction of yore. He could still look out the round windows of the spaceship and see the Earth. Inside his body, he felt the cold of space. Inside the light, he floated in a spaceship. But never mind, the story still sounded like it might appeal.ĭeep in darkness, there was a tiny light. Nor did I recognise any of the names who have blurbed the book. The cover is,um, very pink, and it doesn’t look anything like a novel featuring an astronaut. Happily, it was on half-price promotion in Waterstone’s, so I bought a copy. Since the fourth book of my Apollo Quartet, All That Outer Space Allows, will be about the wife of an Apollo astronaut, I was both intrigued by Shine Shine Shine as well as having a “professional interest” in it. ![]() Wherever it was, the précis of the plot was enough to pique my interest, as the blurb says: “This is the story of an astronaut lost in space, and the wife he left behind”. ![]() It certainly wasn’t recommended to me by Amazon – I forget the last time I bought a book by an author unknown to me because it was recommended by Amazon. ![]() I’m pretty sure it wasn’t on one of the many blogs I read, nor by one of the people I follow on Twitter. I forget where I saw mention of Lydia Netzer’s Shine Shine Shine. ![]() ![]() My Soul Looks Back is her tribute to that fascinating social circle and their shared commitment to activism, intellectual engagement, and each other. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan’s West Side to the restaurants of Greenwich Village, living out her buoyant youth alongside the great minds of the day-luminaries like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth “surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties…James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone” ( New York magazine)-in a vibrant, lost era of New York City. ![]() ![]() In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the midst of this fear and uncertainty, Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe, published A Journal of the Plague Year: the fictional “diary” of a survivor of London’s last major epidemic, the Great Plague of 1665-1666. Bubonic plague had struck the French port of Marseilles and threatened to spread to other major trade hubs. ![]() If you’re looking for reading material to escape from the anxiety of living in a pandemic, that’s a great idea - we have plenty of suggestions for you, but you should probably skip this one! For those who have been re-reading The Hot Zone or watching Contagion, this post is for you, and we want you to know that there’s nothing wrong with you: we get it! At a time like this, when disease is on everyone’s mind, fiction and nonfiction about epidemics can offer guidance, or reassurance, or even just a safe space in which to process current events.ĭisease was on everyone’s mind in London in the spring of 1722, just as it is around the world today. ![]() ![]() The Pinarius family endures, from the reign of Marcus Aurelius the Stoic philosopher-king, to Constantine, the first Christian emperor. The saga begun in Roma continues, as the Pinarii witness the madness of Caligula and Nero, the eruption of Vesuvius, the opening games at the Colosseum, and much more.USA Today: “Thrilling.with one of the greatest authors of historical fiction as our guide, it’s a glorious ride.” S panning a thousand years, and following the shifting fortunes of two families though the ages, this is the epic saga of Rome, the city and its people.This is the web site of author Steven Saylor.Īn epic family saga that begins at the dawn of history and spans the course of the Roman Empire-from Romulus the first king to Constantine the first Christian emperor.ĭaily Express: “Saylor expertly weaves the true history of Rome with the lives and loves of its fictional citizens.” ![]() ![]() ![]() The readers soon realize that Amitav Ghosh’s economy of words when it comes to giving Fokir dialogue serves to make the numbered things he says all the more important. The significance is not lost on us because ‘Lusibari’ is the place where all the primary characters of the novel meet and steer the plot of the novel into Part Two. ‘Lusibari’ is also the last word that the readers hear him speak in Part One. The first word we hear Fokir speak is ‘Lusibari’, assuring Pia that Lusibari is, indeed, the island he is taking her to. Most of his dialogues consist of one word, but in almost every case, one word is enough for both Pia and the readers to understand his intent and the message he is trying to convey. Part One of the novel, entitled ‘The Ebb: Bhata’, gives us only nine instances where we hear Fokir’s voice. The strength and morality of his character are immediately established as we see him risk his own life to pull her out of the tumultuous depths. We first hear Fokir’s voice after he rescues Pia from drowning in a river near Canning. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas doesn’t do much campaigning while Grace goes all out. Nice kid, but when he calculates the electoral votes and sees that the boys hold more votes than the girls, he assumes the race is his. Woohoo for working important information into an entertaining story, and for helping us teach the Craft and Structure Common Core State Standard!ģ. ![]() The author’s note at the end gives more information about the Electoral College and how it works. We still learn about electoral votes, representatives, constituents, polls, and rallies, all in ways that make sense to kids. The language is not watered down, even though this book is aimed at early elementary students. Hooray for encouraging participation in the democratic process!Ģ. Her teacher encourages her by holding a school election. When Grace’s teacher shows a poster of all the past American presidents, Grace asks the question so many of us have wondered over the years, “Where are the girls?” Grace decides to “be the change” and run for president. This book gets my vote for so many reasons:ġ. “Red” voters, “blue” voters, undecided voters, here’s one thing we can all agree upon: Grace for President written by Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated by LeUyen Pham wins for Most Fun Picture Book for Early Elementary Students to Explain How the Voting Process Works. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had not read any of John Green’s other books until now (haven’t even seen “The Fault in Our Stars” movie) but I did want to see how he depicted the thoughts of a girl with OCD and anxiety. Who is she, really? Where does her self begin and end? She sees a doctor and has medication - that she mostly, kinda, takes regularly - but these thoughts are almost another personality inside her head. She gets caught in spirals she can’t free herself from. And Aza and Davis get reacquainted.Īza’s romance with Davis, as everything in her life does, gets complicated by her struggle with anxiety and obsessive thoughts. ![]() ![]() Their conversation leads to one little idea, taking the two on a little canoe ride down the river from Aza’s small house to Davis’s huge one. That information might have stayed simply a tidbit of interest except for the fact that there’s a $100,000 reward for tips leading to Pickett’s capture. A few years earlier, Aza and Davis went to a camp together for kids who had lost a parent. Aza’s best friend, Daisy, notes the news and mentions to Aza, “Didn’t you know his son?” She did. Billionaire developer Russell Pickett is on the lam, just as he was about to be arrested for bribing public officials. ![]() ![]() ![]() About midway through “Behind Her Eyes,” the show you thought you were watching becomes something else entirely-and if you’re willing to follow those twists, a deliciously bonkers finale awaits you. Fans of the book will be satisfied by the mostly faithful adaptation from showrunner Steve Lightfoot, who wrote four of the series’ six episodes (Angela LaManna, who worked with Lightfoot on the TV series “ Hannibal” and “ The Punisher,” wrote the other two), while newbies will be drawn in by the uniformly strong cast, efficient pacing, and twist on your typical thriller. Rarely have I been as pleasantly, thoroughly shocked by anything as I was by the compellingly acted, boldly outlandish “Behind Her Eyes,” the limited series adaptation of the best-selling 2017 novel by Sarah Pinborough. ![]() |