6/12/2023 0 Comments A Dandelion Wish by Kiki ThorpeThe reading level would be 4.0 and the interest level would be k-4th grade What will happen to the hole in the fence and what consequences will come from her not watching Gabby well enough? When she realizes that her dad is fixing the hole in the fence that leads to Pixie Hollow Mia's world has the chance of being ruined. Mia doesn't take the responsibilty seriously and sneaks off on her own making a couple of bad decisions. Mia, her two friends Kate and Lainey, and her little sister Gabby have just discovered a secret passage through a hold in her backyard's fence to a magical land called Pixie Hollow where real fairies live! Mia is so excited to go back to Pixie Hollow the next day but to her disappointment she is left babysitting her little sister while her mom runs errands and her dad does yard work.
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Gargoyles by Greg WeismanIntroducing five of the toughest villains in the Gargoyles universe: Hunter - member of a Scottish family of gargoyle-slayers Dingo - Australian mercenary and charter member of the deadly Pack Matrix - a nanotech hive-mind artificial intelligence that came. But their bonds will be tested, when nefarious factions from all across the world attempt to steal that rarest, most precious of possessions. 4.22 Rating details 87 ratings 7 reviews. Series creator GREG WEISMAN and illustrator GEORGE KAMBADAIS reintroduce the Manhattan Clan, a family of Gargoyles at full strength, though modern New York City is full of attractions and distractions, and each member of the clan has begun to go their own way. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and they live again! They are Defenders of the Night! THEY ARE GARGOYLES! Stone by day, Warriors by night, they were betrayed by the humans they had sworn to ozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. THE STARS OF THE SENSATIONAL ANIMATED TV SERIES RETURN WITH NEW ADVENTURES!Īll-new ongoing series, in continuity with the epic GARGOYLES television classic! Gargoyles series creator Greg Weisman returns with all-new stories in continuity with the epic Gargoyles television classic One thousand years ago. Stone by day, warriors by night, disney’s gargoyles returns!ĪLL-NEW STORIES FROM SERIES CREATOR GREG WEISMAN! 6/11/2023 0 Comments Restless Ambition by Cathy CurtisBut she credited her husband, Willem de Kooning, as her greatest influence rather than being overshadowed by his fame, she worked "in his light." Nearly two decades after their separation, after finally embracing sobriety herself, she returned to his side to rescue him from severe alcoholism.īased on painstaking research and dozens of interviews, A Generous Vision brings to life a leading figure of twentieth-century art who lived a full and fascinating life on her own terms. In her romantic life, she went her own way, always keen for male attention. Kennedy, basketball players, and bullfights. This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and subject matter. As a painter, she melded Abstract Expressionism with a lifelong interest in bodily movement to capture subjects as diverse as President John F. Her zest for adventure and freewheeling spending were as legendary as her ever-present cigarette.įlamboyant and witty in person, she was an incisive art writer who expressed maverick opinions in a deceptively casual style. The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Perchance to dream lisa mantchevNow that you know who's who, it's time to reveal the cupcake of. Considering how easily she handled Captain Jack last year, I think the Spork should be worried. Lisa decided to be interviewed by the Spork of Doom. But hope glimmers in a Distant Castle, and if Bertie can put on the performance of her life, maybe she can win the magical boon that may save them all. Bertie is caught between her duties and her dreams, just as her heart is torn between Ariel and Nate. Her mother's sanity is fraying under the strain, her father has vanished and an angry goddess is out for revenge. Something's happened to the Théâtre Illuminata, putting the only home she's ever known in limbo. Things are never easy for Beatrice Shakespeare Smith. (I won't tell you which team I finally decided to support! You'll have to read and decide for yourself!) Here's a sneak peek at SO SILVER BRIGHT: So now, as the final book in the trilogy is released, I thought I'd have Lisa on the blog to introduce these fabulous books to my readers. PTD made me wonder if maybe I was really Team Ariel. I'd thought I was staunchly Team Nate, but. Smart, original, vivid, compelling, and addictive! Then, PERCHANCE TO DREAM came out, and I was thrown for a loop. I was fortunate enough to get an advanced copy of ELS, and I was WOWED. I've been a loyal Lisa Mantchev fan since I met her on Twitter two years ago, a few months before her first book, EYES LIKE STARS, came out. Invariably, with the support of her mother and a doctor who cared, Pamela Jean becomes a powerful, formidable businesswoman. Pam embraces her uniqueness, she goes to college with a plan to become successful. After a stint in the Youth Authority, PJ is declared a winner. Notwithstanding, as Pamela adheres to the doctor’s counseling, she is stronger. The doctor convinces Pamela that if she does not change, the inability to confront the abuse without violence – could ruin her life. Notwithstanding, Pamela’s incredible survival comes from the state psychiatrist Nancy Parker, who becomes PJ’s life-long mentor. When two would be murderous girls sought to burn Pamela in a tunnel, see her sudden change, the abuse throughout her high school comes to a meteoric halt. After reading what was to her a funny book called “PIMP,” by Iceberg Slim, Pamela, decides to use the book’s controlling metaphors and its author Iceberg Slim, as her mentor, to launch an end to her many years of childhood abuses. At age eight, when her own mother failed to stop the bullying, young Pamela took control. She is a kid that was abused her whole life because of the color of her pale, light, skin. In Carol Denise Mitchell’s ground-breaking book, Ruthless Pamela Jean, we’re introduced to young Pamela Jean Metcalf. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Eleanor i park119).īook contains a lot of casual racism, fetishization of Asians, and harmful stereotypes usually involving the Koreans and Korean-Americans. She tells her parents she is spending time with a girl named Tina instead (p. 218-219.īecause she does not want to cause trouble at home, Eleanor lies to her parents about her relationship with Park. Park decides to wear eyeliner to school and although his mother accepts his decision, his father is angry and does not speak to him for weeks. When he is falling in love with Eleanor, Park remembers how kissing other girls in the past had left him uninspired. Additionally, Eleanor’s first two friends (other than Park) are two African-American students. 27.Īlthough Eleanor and Park references racial tension between the students, Park is half-Korean and, although he feels like a misfit, it appears as though the other students accept him. 231, 248-255, 269-275.Īdditionally, the book refers to Eleanor’s parents having sex, noting that Eleanor and her siblings knew to hide when they heard the bedsprings. On one occasion when they were going to Park’s room to listen to music, his father told him, “Just don’t get anybody pregnant.” See, for example, pp. Eleanor and Park hold hands, kiss, and (although not explicitly depicted) almost have sex.
It’s as though he’s combined an ancient world with a futuristic one the man’s imagination was certainly a wild one, with more than a touch of madness thrown in for good measure. Sitting somewhere on the fantasy spectrum (although unusually so, as these novels feature no magic, no fantastical creatures, just strange and wild humans), Mervyn Peake has created a world unlike any other inhabited by humans. When my copy arrived from The Book Depository, and it turned out I’d ordered a trilogy, I realised I was going to either have triple the fun, or triple the misery. When a fellow reviewer offered commiserations over the fact that I was going to attempt it, I was a bit wary, but nonetheless, I decided to give it a go. I had never heard of ‘Gormenghast’ before it featured on the BBC Big Read Top 200 list, and even then, I had no idea what the novel was about. Today you are getting a bonus – two books from the list, plus a spare, for the price of one. Book #537 & #561 REVIEWER: TALL, SHORT & TINY 6/10/2023 0 Comments Riley hart the endgameMy divorce, which was amicable, followed. Strangely, at West’s wedding, I find myself confiding in Darren, the straight, confirmed bachelor and star quarterback of the Atlanta Lightning. Darren is a full-steam-ahead kind of guy, and one talk leads to hanging out, swapping phone numbers, and pranking West and Anson while they’re on their honeymoon. When I head back to California, I expect our chats to end, but I couldn’t be more wrong. I still can’t say how it happened, how a random decision to strike up a conversation with Jeremy turned into…whatever this is. Whether it’s on our calls or when he flies to Atlanta, we talk about everything, lying awake together half the night.Īll I know is, months later, my days aren’t complete until we tell each other good night. If it was just my newly discovered bisexuality, that’d be one thing. I’m not one to stress about being into a man for the first time. It’s the other stuff, the way he makes my pulse race and my heart swell, that’s throwing me for a loop. |