![]() ![]() Max' s cake will be chock-full of earthworms and Red-Hot Marshmallow Squirters - if only Max can make the grocer understand his shopping list. Ruby' s cake will be a magnificent angel raspberry-fluff creation - if Max will stop knocking the ingredients off the table. ![]() We are going to make Grandma an angel surprise cake, with raspberry-fluff icing.' Will Max let his bossy older sister keep him out of the kitchen? Or will they both become bunnies who bake? Will Grandma get to have her cake and eat it too? It' s Grandma' s birthday, and both Max and his bossy sister Ruby are making her a cake. It' s Grandma' s birthday, and Max wants to make her an icky, worm-infested cake. ![]()
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![]() Nominated for the 2015 Grand Canyon Reader Award ![]() ![]() Nominated for YALSA's 2013 Teens' Top Ten listĬhicago Public Library's Best of the Best 2012 Her obsession grows as the bodies pile up, and a troubling question begins to swirl through her mind: if she succeeds in tracking down the murderer, will she stop the carnage-or will she ditch Croak and join in? So when people start to die-that is, people who aren’t supposed to be dying, people who have committed grievous crimes against the innocent-Lex’s curiosity is piqued. Yet her innate ability morphs into an unchecked desire for justice-or is it vengeance?-whenever she’s forced to Kill a murder victim, craving to stop the attackers before they can strike again. Along with her infuriating yet intriguing partner Driggs and a rockstar crew of fellow Grim apprentices, Lex is soon zapping her targets like a natural born Killer. Lex quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated entirely by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next. And he’s going to teach her the family business. But Uncle Mort’s true occupation is much dirtier than that of shoveling manure. Fed up with her punkish, wild behavior, her parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby has sucker-punched her last classmate. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she pursues a precarious balance between the rebels and a shadowy cabal within the Empire, she orchestrates a do-or-die gambit with freedom as the prize.īut the cost of winning the long game of saving her people may be far greater than Baru imagines. Drawn by the intriguing duchess Tain Hu into a circle of seditious dukes, Baru may be able to use her position to help. Sent as an Imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn, another conquered country, Baru discovers it's on the brink of rebellion. ![]() Kameron Hurley a poet’s Dune, a brutal tale of empire, rebellion, fealty, and high finance that moves like a rocket and burns twice as hot. Get ready to have your heart ripped out through your throat. Dickinson is a sly, masterful writer who pulls no punches. When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, overwrites her culture, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her fathers, Baru vows to swallow her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her way high enough to set her people free. You’ll be captivated from the very first page. In Seth Dickinson's highly-anticipated debut The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a young woman from a conquered people tries to transform an empire in this richly imagined geopolitical fantasy.īaru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people-even her soul. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I have come to understand that my book, while intended to be inclusive and truthful and hopeful, is racially insensitive. “As the author of A Fine Dessert, I have read this discussion and the others with care and attention,” Jenkins writes in her comment. One portion of the book depicted a smiling slave mother and her daughter in 1810. Jenkins’s apology-in a comment on the blog “ Reading While White”-followed criticism of the story about four families set across 400 years making the same dessert, blackberry fool. Describing her book as “racially insensitive,” author Emily Jenkins took to the web Sunday morning to apologize for her picture book A Fine Dessert (Schwartz & Wade, 2015), announcing her intent to donate her writing fee to We Need Diverse Books, which has been confirmed by the organization. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also the winner of the Oregon Book Award. Her debut adult fiction novel, A HISTORY OF WILD PLACES, was an Indie Next Pick and a Book of the Month selection. You can connect with her here: Shea Ernshaw is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestselling author of the YA books: THE WICKED DEEP, WINTERWOOD, A WILDERNESS OF STARS, and LONG LIVE THE PUMPKIN QUEEN. She often writes late, late, late into the night, enjoys dark woods, scary stories and moonlight on lakes. Shea Ernshaw is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestselling author of the YA books: THE WICKED DEEP, WINTERWOOD, A WILDERNESS OF STARS, and LONG LIVE THE PUMPKIN QUEEN. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the constant danger, the boys risk reading the literature ito find an escape from their reality. When the boys find a friend in the daughter of a local tailor, they’re thrilled to discover that the girl’s family has a hidden stash of Western classic literature. The international bestseller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress tells the tale of two city boys who are exiled to an isolated village for the purpose of “re-education” during the Cultural Revolution. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie It follows a young woman who is driven to seek revenge and regain her independence after a series of events throws her into a life that is not of her choosing. Jepson’s novel takes place in a China on the edge of revolution. All the Flowers in Shanghai: A Novel Duncan JepsonĪll the Flowers in Shanghai is a sweeping historical fiction novel reminiscent of favorites like Memoirs of a Geisha and Empress. We searched bookshelves, lists of bestsellers, and countless reviews to find the 30 best novels about China. ![]() Whether you’re traveling to China or just dreaming of it, a good book provides an insight into the country that few other experiences can. ![]() ![]() Though this is a story of survival, it is also a poignant and dramatic tale of living in the wilderness and coping with inevitable loss. ![]() ![]() But friends cannot always save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphise animals, but as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself – and he became her friend. He became a regular visitor, eventually sitting near her as she read to him from The Little Prince or Dr Seuss. One day, she realised that a wild fox that had been appearing at her house was coming by every day precisely at 4.15. Except when teaching, she spoke to no one. ![]() She managed to put herself through college and then graduate school, eventually earning a PhD in biology and building a house on her remote plot. Drawn to the natural world, she worked as a ranger in national parks, at times living in her run-down car on abandoned construction sites, or camping on a piece of land in Montana she bought from a colleague. A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox.Ĭatherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong. ![]() So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system. ![]() Clarke 4.16 299,888 ratings7,840 reviews On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. The original format of the files uploaded was. Space Odyssey 1 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. epub format (capable of being read by any common Windows or Linux e-book reader, including the free Calibre E-book viewer). At the time of writing, the subsequent novels have yet to be filmed.Īlso included here is Arthur C Clarke's book " The Lost Worlds of 2001", which is (in part) an account of the origins of the 1968 motion picture: dealing with the original 1948 short story, 'The Sentinel', and of how that 1948 text evolved into, ultimately, the 1968 screenplay (including an early draft of that screenplay which had only the most superficial resemblance to what finally appeared on the screen). The 1984 motion picture " 2010: Odyssey Two" was based on the completed novel, so in its case the novel is in fairly close agreement with the screenplay. ![]() The novel " 2001: A Space Odyssey" is based on the final version of the script for the 1968 motion picture, but, even so, in some regards they differ due to late changes made by director Stanley Kubrick to that picture after the novel had largely been completed. Novels: This collection comprises the Science Fiction novels " 2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C Clarke and its three sequels - " 2010: Odyssey Two", " 2061: Odyssey Three" and " 3001: The Final Odyssey". ![]() ![]() ![]() Because there’s just too much money involved in the franchises they fuel. ![]() And none of the people making those movies have the room to take any kind of risks. How could there be? They’re superheroes. ![]() He can’t connect, he says, with any of those superhero movies, because there’s nothing at stake. That’s what Scorsese was complaining about in those series of interviews that he gave towards the end of the year just gone, and which culminated with that op ed piece in the New York Times, here. Because there are only two kinds of films that you’ll find in the cinema today franchise products, and really low budget, genuinely independent fare. It’s impossible to imagine any of those being made today with the aim of screening them primarily at the cinema. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What if Sasquatch is real? What if there actually is a large, hair-covered hominid that lives in the undeveloped areas of the Pacific Northwest and is occasionally sighted by unsuspecting humans? What if a natural disaster displaced these creatures and their prey, forcing them to move closer to human settlements? And what if a small group of humans, desiring to get back to nature created a community that allowed them to live a distance from more urban environments while maintaining and relying on the creature comforts afforded by contemporary technologies? What if the natural disaster that displaced the natural inhabitants of the area cut those humans off from their connections with the outside world? In his new thriller, Max Brooks answers all of these questions and more! ![]() |