![]() ![]() I think it was well-acted, directed, all the rest. And I thought, that I can just drop, because even though it’s rampant in some communities, I mean, she doesn’t have to experience everything. But it’s not like they’re standing at the door, passing them out.” That wasn’t part of their growing up, and it wasn’t part of mine, and it wasn’t part of any kid that I knew. I asked them and they said, “There are people you can go to if you want them, Mom. I asked them once - somebody had said that the school they went to, was easy to get drugs. There were so many people I knew, and my sons, who - that just wasn’t in their landscape. ![]() ![]() I just tried to think, what would Alice meet? Now, I didn’t have her on drugs. We all met somebody that we assumed was gay. I just tried to think, what would she generally encounter in high school? And I think we all knew somebody who was pregnant. I just thought, in the life of a high school girl, what would she most likely face? I think that few of us get through high school without hearing about the death of a friend, in an accident or something. ![]()
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![]() Her mother's pregnancy has been tricky, putting everyone on edge, but Ema's heart is singing-finally, there will be someone else who will understand what it's like to belong and not belong at the same time.īut Ema's good spirits are muffled by her grandmother who is cold, tightfisted, and quick to reprimand her for the slightest infraction. She's spent summers in California for as long as she can remember, but this year she and her mother are staying with her grandparents in Japan as they await the arrival of Ema's baby sibling. In this beautiful and haunting debut novel in verse, called "a tender piece on connectedness" in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, a Japanese-American girl struggles with the loneliness of being caught between two worlds when the tragedy of 9/11 strikes an ocean away.Įleven-year-old Ema has always been of two worlds-her father's Japanese heritage and her mother's life in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() This manuscript for Silverstein's first "children's" book comprises 76 pages of original drawings and text including a title page identifying the author/illustrator as well as the imprint of the forthcoming volume: "Simon and Schuster * New York * 1961." Folio (12 x 9 inches) leaves with designs chiefly on one side only (leaves often glued back-to-back, though many now separated, glue residue "bleeding" through the outer margins of most leaves), plus pink paper (pasted down on black paper) “covers” with manuscript lettering on the front cover ("Uncle Shelby's ABZ book by Shel the Sheller") and "by Uncle Shelby" handwritten in the lower left corner of the rear cover (the covers may have been at some point attached to each other as their is some chipping along edges and light spotting). Original holograph manuscript for the book published by Simon & Schuster in 1961. ![]() Haven creek rochelle alers5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Fans of Jill Shalvis and Debbie Macomber will love this sweet small-town romance where a man returning to his hometown on the coastal island of South Carolina just may find love with his childhood friend. But when secrets from the past come to light, their budding relationship is threatened. 4.7 19 Ratings 7.99 7.99 Publisher Description. ![]() ![]() Together Nate and Morgan find a happiness neither could have predicted. Needing the healing comforts of home, he returns to Haven Creek to join the family business. Nathaniel Shaw once took a big chance on commitment - and lost. The wallflower he knew in high school has grown into a beautiful woman, and she's suddenly stirring feelings Nate isn't sure he's ready for. In Rochelle Alers’ thoughtful, heartwarming series set on a picturesque North Carolina island, one woman’s seemingly perfect life unravels - and a new chapter begins. Nothing in the small town has changed?except for Morgan Dane. by Rochelle Alers (Author) 251 ratings Book 1 of 5: A Cavanaugh Island Novel Kindle 1.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 38.88 7 Used from 38.88 Paperback 5.00 17 Used from 2.49 9 New from 5.00 Mass Market Paperback from 15.93 1 Used from 18.21 1 New from 15. ![]() Carpenter Nathaniel Shaw once took a big chance on commitment?and lost. But when she's offered her dream job?the restoration of historic Angels Landing Plantation on beautiful Cavanaugh Island?Morgan's life takes an unexpected turn. Architect Morgan Dane has always lived according to a plan, crossing off her achievements one by one. Language eng Summary Home is where the heart is. Label Haven Creek Title Haven Creek Statement of responsibility Rochelle Alers Creator ![]() The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() He responded with wonder and amazement but also with exasperation, irritation, and disbelief. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings and sculptures of the Old Masters. He was making his first responses to the Old World-to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. ![]() His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land. “Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?” ![]() His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler also served as an antidote to the insufferably romantic travel books of the period. In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City. ![]() Smashed book junji ito5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I normally delight in how weird his horror can get, but these I just found a little perplexing. The first two stories of the collection especially missed the mark for me. I will continue to sing the praises of his longer works, but I’m increasingly finding his shorts to be hit-or-miss. My eagerness to read this collection notwithstanding, I’m starting to think that the novelty of Ito’s art and story ideas is starting to wear off a bit for me. I saw there was a new collection coming out, and that’s pretty much all that was needed to get me to commit to picking it up. I didn’t know much about the stories collected in this book going in. Most of them are one-shot stories, with the exception of trio that focus around a strange haunted house attraction that pops up in abandoned buildings near the outskirts of towns, charging outrageous prices but promising to scare you out of your wits. Smashed is the newest English translation collection of short horror stories by manga artist Junji Ito, bringing together 13 chilling tales. ![]() Eileen myles dog book5/28/2023 ![]() ISBN: 9781611855142 SKU: 1274026 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. This 2018 Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated Paperback is in Near Mint condition. ![]() Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myles's childhood puppet, to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull from shimmering poetic transcriptions of video footage taken during their walks, to Rosie's final enlightened narration from the afterlife, this totally singular text combines elements of science fiction, screenplay, monologue, and lucid memory to get to the heart of how and why we dedicate our existence to our dogs. At the same time, it reimagines Myles's experiences with alcoholism and recovery, intimacy and mourning, celebrity and politics, spirituality and family history, while joyously transcending the parameters of memoir. And starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow launches a playful and incisive investigation into the mostly mutually beneficial, sometimes reprehensible power dynamics between pet and pet-owner. We see the empty path now with the wiggly hurricane fence coming up on the. Over the course of sixteen years together, Myles was devoted to the pit bull and their linked quality of life. A dog shakes her way on a leash up a path and now she is gone. About the book: Afterglow (a dog memoir), Myles first foray into memoir, paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called Rosie. In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer's way of being. ![]() Lily by Stevie Turner5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, in 1973, Lily has suffered a stroke and is now living in assisted living, unable to speak from the stroke, in a wheelchair, but her memory is sharp as a tack. Lily shares her history in thought and her memories of growing up and marrying her beloved Artie and the children they raised together. Her depression lifts when another new resident manages to shed some light on the 76 year old mystery……Ī heartfelt family saga focusing on Lily – now a 93 year old resident in a nursing home, recanting her earlier life starting back in the late 1800s, growing up with her 2 sisters -one who was mysteriously taken away from home as a young teen with a ‘dreaded sickness’ – never to return. To make what is left of her life happier she thinks about years gone by, and once again wonders about the strange disappearance of her 14 year old sister Violet in 1897. Her family told her she was going on a little holiday, and although she finds herself still on her beloved Isle of Wight, to her horror she is now living permanently in a residential home at the mercy of Bridie, the ‘horrible’ one. ![]() Zenith morrison5/28/2023 ![]() We – myself and my small coterie of fellow comics readers, with whom I’m now hardly in touch and one of whom is dead – judged Watchmen to be realistic: grimy, gritty, containing sexual acts and acts of senseless violence.īut while Dave Gibbons’s art is detailed in content, drawing every label on every sweet wrapper, it’s somewhat cartoony in form and doesn’t have the fine hatching that was thought crucial for anyone aspiring to realism, something we ignored at the time. No artist who dashed of page after page of exaggerated, hypermuscled figures could make a claim for realism, but those were the artists we called realistic. Almost everything we read had just such men. No book which featured a man who could fly would be thought realistic. It was the building block of everything that followed.īut what was realism? Certainly it wasn’t the same quality you’d see in prose fiction or in art. ![]() It was the vital quality that we looked for realism meant a comic that was worth bothering with, that was of the present rather than the past, that recognised our maturity as readers. ![]() Trying to recall exactly what we meant, back in our teenage comic-reading days, when we talked about “realism” isn’t easy. We are sharing it here to mark the release of the new hardback edition of Zenith: Phase II from 2000 AD. This article was originally published by Tom Whiteley on his excellent Suggested for Mature Readers blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() While her work won her two Nobel prizes and transformed our world, it did not liberate her from the prejudices of either the male-dominated scientific community or society. ![]() Madame Curie's shrewd but controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic property that could be used to discover new elements. The myth of Marie Curie-the penniless Polish immigrant who through genius and obsessive persistence endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills, including cancer-has obscured the remarkable truth behind her discoveries. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie ![]() |