![]() ![]() GABRIELLE ZEVIN is a New York Times best-selling novelist whose books have been translated into forty languages. This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward? And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want with a grandmother she has only just met. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. ![]() Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. ![]() Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice.Įlsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Cephalos knows that Jack is the Werewolf and confesses to piloting the helicopter that attempted to capture him the previous month.Ĭephalos kidnaps Jack and takes him back to his hidden lair. Time passes and one evening Jack receives a visit by a man named Mark Cephalos. Jóquez takes particular interest in the entries. Unable to satisfactorily complete the task, they consult with a former University teacher named Father Ramón Jóquez. Jack’s girlfriend Terri is present and together they attempt to translate the passages from his father's journal. Jack returns to Buck's cottage, but refuses to tell him any information regarding the previous evening. The following morning, two surfers find Jack's unconscious body washed up on the beach. The Werewolf easily dispatches the shark and resurfaces. He tears through the net, but finds himself prey for a hungry shark. ![]() The helicopter generates a net and ensnares the Werewolf's body, and Jack dives off the pier into the water. He evades the police, but catches the attention of a mysterious red helicopter. A police squad car takes note of him and begins pursuing him. Synopsis for ""The Hunter - and the Hunted!"" Mark Cephalos (First and only known appearance dies). ![]() ![]() ![]() Chez Helene’s bread puddingĬream 2 cups sugar with 2 sticks butter. Take 6 cups defrosted lima beans, 6 pears, peeled and cut into slices, ½ cup molasses, ½ cup chicken stock, ½ onion chopped, put into a heavy casserole, cover and bake 12 hours at 200 degrees. Drain lightly and salt and eat with a nice stiff drink. Add whole blanched almonds and saute until they’re golden brown with a few little burned parts. Here are the recipes of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn. I scoured the Internet, but couldn’t find all of them recorded in any one place together. They seem simple but comforting, like something you’d find on a notecard handed down through your family. This book is headed back to the library, but I wanted to keep the recipes for future use. Food underscores so many of the book’s emotional moments–punctuating emotions one second and obscuring them the next–just like it does in real life. In keeping with that theme, a dozen or so recipes are interwoven into the book’s plot. The main character is a cookbook writer known for interspersing personal stories with her recipes. This book is a funny, moving story of heartbreak from one of the most distinctive voices of the last 40 years–but did you know that it’s also a cookbook? You can read my short review of it on Goodreads. ![]() ![]() I just finished reading Nora Ephron’s Heartburn. ![]() ![]() All three are, however, deeply dissatisfied with their lives. To be more personal and concrete: At the moment I have three acquaintances, each of whom has had a reasonably successful corporate career - one as an investment manager in the City, the second as a senior executive of an international sporting organisation, and the third as a partner of a global accounting firm. And, like the SS guards at a Nazi death camp, we are unaware of the moral peril of our situation, and unwilling to remove ourselves from that situation even when its harmful effects are obvious. We are all inevitably involved in this larger problem. But it is, I think, also relevant more generally to the way in which human beings get ensnared incrementally into the evils of their society. The Reader is a profound exposition of the 'second generation' issues concerning moral guilt for the Holocaust. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jackie Morris grew up in the Vale of Evesham and studied at Hereford College of Arts and at Bath Academy. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently completing Underland, about underworlds real and imagined. Most recently, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the EM Forster Award for Literature 2017. His work has been translated into many languages and widely adapted for film, television and radio, and his essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and the Guardian. ![]() Robert Macfarlane is the author of a number of bestselling and prize-winning books including The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Holloway and Landmarks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guided by Artemis's twin-the handsome and entirely-too-self-assured god Apollo-Daphne's journey will take her from the labyrinth of the Minotaur to the riddle-spinning Sphinx of Thebes, team her up with mythological legends such as Theseus and Hippolyta of the Amazons, and pit her against the gods themselves.Ī reinterpretation of the classic Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo, Daughter of Sparta by debut author Claire Andrews turns the traditionally male-dominated mythology we know into a heart-pounding and empowering female-led adventure. A reinterpretation of the classic Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo, Daughter of Sparta by debut author Claire Andrews turns the traditionally male-dominated mythology we know into a heart-pounding and empowering female-led adventure. Nine mysterious items have been stolen from Mount Olympus and if Daphne cannot find them, the gods' waning powers will fade away, the mortal world will descend into chaos, and her brother's life will be forfeit. But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis-who holds Daphne's brother's fate in her hands-upends the life she's worked so hard to build. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. Andrews (Author) 487 ratings Book 1 of 3: Daughter of Sparta See all formats and editions Kindle 17.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover from 14.49 1 Used from 14.49 14 New from 31.65 Paperback 14.39 12 New from 14. In this thrilling reimagining of ancient Greek mythology, a headstrong girl does whatever it takes to rise up and become the most powerful fighter her people have ever seen. Claire Andrews Daughter of Sparta: 1 Hardcover 26 October 2021 by Claire M. ![]() ![]() ![]() Starving, and in danger of the dreaded workhouse, they escape. The three children are left to fend for themselves. Blight has struck the family potato plot, and the children’s baby sister Bridget dies, and is buried under the hawthorn tree in the garden. ![]() ![]() ‘Under The Hawthorn Tree’ tells the story of Eily, Michael and Peggy O’Driscoll, who live in a small cottage in rural Ireland in Famine times of 1845. Since its publication on May 23rd, 1990, the historical children’s novel has been translated, and published, all over the world and is the first in the trilogy of the best-selling ‘Children of The Famine’ series. ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ by Marita-Conlon McKenna was, and still is, a firm favourite in classrooms all over the country. This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of one of Ireland’s most loved children’s books. Kay Doyle meets author Marita Conlon-McKenna ![]() ![]() ![]() These scenes are intercut with flashbacks to their courtship, revealing Florence and Edward’s different family backgrounds and the tenderness, though never passion, between them when there isn’t the heavy significance of consummation before them. ![]() Ed fumbles with the zip of her aquamarine dress. Florence takes off her shoes and stockings in uncomfortable movements. They’re both nervous and it shows in their body language. After sitting through an awkward dinner, watched over by the hotel’s clumsy clerks who diluted the wine with water after a spill, Florence and Edward know what’s expected of them. The year is 1962 and Florence Ponting (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle) are at a seaside hotel on their wedding night. What that first night is not “supposed” to be is two virginal newlyweds, hand-in-hand, walking toward the imposing bed draped in crimson linen with the kind of apprehension with which condemned prisoners approach the execution chamber. Or more likely, you’re so exhausted the two of you collapse into a heap on the bed, snoring within minutes. THAT first night as a married couple is meant to be special. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has also written books for children, including “Scribbleboy” (shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal), “Kasper in the Glitter” (nominated for the Whitbread Prize), “Mighty Fizz Chilla” (shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award), “ZinderZunder,” “Vinegar Street,” “Zip’s Apollo” and the bestseller “Krindlekrax” (winner of both the Smarties Prize and WH Smith’s Mind-Boggling Books Award), the stage play of which – adapted by Philip himself – was premiered at the Birmingham Rep Theatre in 2002. ![]() As well as three books for adults - and the highly acclaimed screenplay for the “The Krays” feature film (winner of The Evening Standard Best Film of the Year Award) - he has written nine adult stage plays: THE PITCHFORK DISNEY, the multi-award-winning THE FASTEST CLOCK IN THE UNIVERSE, GHOST FROM A PERFECT PLACE, VINCENT RIVER, MERCURY FUR, LEAVES OF GLASS, PIRANHA HEIGHTS, TENDER NAPALM (nominated for the London Fringe Best Play Award) and SHIVERED (nominated Off-West End Best New Play Award), plus several plays for young people: KARAMAZOO, FAIRYTALEHEART, MOONFLEECE, SPARKLESHARK and BROKENVILLE (collectively known as THE STORYTELLER SEQUENCE). Martin’s School of Art and his work has been exhibited widely throughout Europe and Japan. ![]() ![]() Philip was born in the East End of London where he still lives and works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Young readers want choices - just like we do - and one of them is fantasy. And with summer just ahead, we have plenty of books to keep them busy. They were a delightful group! I hope they'll remember us as a fun, welcoming, friendly place - one they'll be eager to visit again. During their stop in the library, they learned how to locate books via our online catalog, found the kids' section and bombarded me with questions. I had a wonderful chance to meet a group of young readers not long ago, when about 200 fifth graders visited our campus from Washington Middle School. ![]() Yes, we do have a children's collection! Although we're an academic library and our focus is on the college curriculum, we have a good selection of classic and new books for toddlers, beginning readers, middle grade and young-adult readers. There are few things more rewarding in the library world than helping people find the right book, and it's really great when I get to help kids. ![]() |