![]() ![]() Whether that means becoming a Nightmare that’s monstrous only in appearance, to transforming into a twisted, unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the city, no one is safe. Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear. Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where crooked politicians and sinister cults reign and dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare.Įver since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified-terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. ![]()
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![]() It looks like the end for Cuy, but when the fox comes along, Cuy thinks fast once again. ![]() ![]() He ties him to a tree, planning to eat him for dinner the next day. Cuy works hard all day but then eats all night until the farmer catches him. He puts on a hat and poncho and volunteers to help a farmer with his alfalfa fields. When the sky doesn’t fall, the fox is determined to get little Cuy, but this unusual critter stays one step ahead of his opponent.Ĭuy, being a clever guinea pig, has big plans. But this quick-thinking South American trickster convinces the fox that the sky is falling. And apparently, high in the Andes Mountains, there is a guinea pig that can outwit a fox.įrom the first page, Cuy the Guinea Pig is faced with danger. There are Irish stories about mischievous leprechauns. The Native Americans have the wily coyote. A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains ![]() ![]() Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it. When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. On its way the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, whom they consider to be less than human. For generations the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire.Īster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. ![]() ![]() She's used to the names she only wishes there was more truth to them. ![]() Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. ![]() ![]() ![]() Curls was intended for young readers, "celebrating identity and self-love for children of color and for all children to enjoy." I highly recommend this book for everyone! Due to the limited number of children's books for people of color, the author committed herself to write one. The author was shocked when her pk3 daughter came home from school saying she didn't like her curly hair and wished that she had straight hair and light skin. She went out to meet her friends, four girls with four different hairstyles. She went to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror, still smiling. The friendship between the girls looked happy and carefree.Ĭurls followed "four friends who celebrate the joy of their hairstyles from bouncing curls to swinging braids." The story started with a girl on her bed, waking up in the morning with a smile on her face. ![]() I loved the colors and I liked to point them out to my daughter so she can learn colors too. This board book was cute and a quick read. I liked how happy the characters looked on every page. ![]() I loved the illustrations! The hairstyles were excellent. ![]() ![]() Soon Mia begins to weigh the effect of her choice to stay or to leave. Mia regains consciousness and soon discovers she is in a situation where she only acts as an observer to events happening around her. However, life takes a drastic turn for Mia as all the happiness she felt came tumbling when her entire family is involved in a ghastly accident. ‘If I Stay’ follows the story of 17-year-old Mia, who has an ordinary school life, a handsome boyfriend, caring parents, and a wonderful baby brother. The idea to create the young adult fiction novel ‘ If I Stay‘ was inspired by a tragedy that left an entire family of Gayle’s friends and their children dead. Climax: The climax occurs when Adam plays Mia a song she was familiar with, and she starts having flashbacks and finally feels herself in her body. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() While most of us are slipping into bad habits doing the easiest work first, making gut filled decisions, watching TV instead of studying a new idea, or even getting enough sleep achievers are sticking to a plan and getting more out of their careers and life. But here’s another way to frame it: they’ve developed great habits. Many of these people seem to have superhuman ambitions and work ethics. every day, read a book a week, or have a tried and true system for client outreach or interviewing. It’s something we’ve seen time and time again in the stories of great leaders. Clear is the author of the book Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results.ĪLISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. So if you’ve made a resolution for the new year or have an idea for how to propel your career forward at any time, these strategies will help. Just like saving money, habits accrue compound interest: when you do 1% more or different each day or week, it eventually leads to meaningful improvement. Many people, he says, focus on big goals without thinking about the small steps they need to take along the way. James Clear, entrepreneur and author, says that the way we go about trying to form new habits and break bad ones - at work or home - is all wrong. ![]() ![]() It would swiftly become one of the most important novels of the 20th century, drawing its inspiration from Homer's "The Odyssey." "Ulysses," which I have read three times, accompanied by a book of annotations by Don Gifford to catch the literary and historical references, is timeless. The book, which was banned in the United States and Great Britain because of its "obscenity" until the 1930s, takes place during a single day in Dublin, June 16, 1904. ![]() "Ulysses" had been rejected by numerous publishers in English speaking countries. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, placed in the bookstore's front window a 732-page novel she had published, "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Lawrence, Thornton Wilder, Ezra Pound, F. ![]() ![]() One hundred years ago this week, Sylvia Beach, who ran the bookstore Shakespeare and Company at 12 rue de l'Odéon in Paris and nurtured a community of expatriate writers that included Richard Wright, T.S. This article originally appeared at ScheerPost. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As tension builds between the boys, Neil and David try to address what they’ve kept hidden for years: the truth about David that can never be forgotten-or forgiven. ![]() Neil knows it’s not David’s fault that they’re lost, yet he still lashes out at his brother with every wrong turn, and Randy and David’s constant bickering isn’t helping to calm his nerves. What starts out as an exciting expedition soon turns dangerous when the four boys get lost in the cave’s labyrinth of winding passages. But when Neil’s little brother, David, finds out, Neil is forced to bring David and his timid friend Terry along for the ride. Neil and his best friend, Randy, can’t wait to explore a nearby cave for the afternoon. When four boys decide to spend the day exploring a cave, they have no idea that their fun afternoon is about to become a fight for survival ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the research surrounding this debate has concentrated on elite trade and consumption because ordinary people spent most of their resources on subsistence and goods produced at home. Her thesis responds to and advances the larger debate among Renaissance scholars over whether consumerism during this period was the root of modern consumer culture. ![]() Welch's thesis is that the Renaissance “challenges rather than reinforces a sense of linear transfer from past to present” and “threatens some basic assumptions concerning the connections between architecture and consumer behavior” (pp. Produced by Yale University Press, the book is richly embellished with reproductions of art and architecture that provide a stunning visual experience of the period as well as a documentary basis for the study. Evelyn Welch's book offers a fascinating cultural history of consumerism in Italy between 14. ![]() ![]() The account flashes back and forth between a conversation with two young visitors in Lewis’ congressional office just prior to Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and events five or more decades ago. and joining lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville in 1960. Representative, recalls his early years-from raising (and preaching to) chickens on an Alabama farm to meeting Martin Luther King Jr. In this first of a projected trilogy, Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders and currently in his 13th term as a U.S. Eisner winner Powell’s dramatic black-and-white graphic art ratchets up the intensity in this autobiographical opener by a major figure in the civil rights movement. ![]() |