The Land Uncharted by Keely Brooke Keith5/10/2023 ![]() Connor Bradshaw's parachute carries him from the world war to Lydia's hidden land, his mission could expose her simple society. Ī hidden land settled by peaceful people The first outsider in 160 years Lydia Colburn is a young physician dedicated to serving her village in the Land, an undetectable island in the South Atlantic Ocean. As Connor searches for a way to return to his squadron, his fascination with life in the Land makes him protective of Lydia and her peaceful homeland, and Lydia's attraction to Connor. ![]() ![]() A hidden land settled by peaceful people The first outsider in 160 years Lydia Colburn is a young physician dedicated to serving her village in the Land, an undetectable island in the South Atlantic Ocean. ![]()
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A kiss before dying novel5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A Kiss Before Dying was turned into a movie twice, first in 1956, and again in 1991. Levin's first novel, A Kiss Before Dying, was well received, earning him the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. No Time for Sergeants is generally considered the precursor to Gomer Pyle, USMC. The play was turned into a movie in 1958, and co-starred Don Knotts, Griffith's long-time co-star and friend. Levin's first produced play was No Time for Sergeants (adapted from Mac Hyman's novel), a comedy about a hillbilly drafted into the United States Air Force that launched the career of Andy Griffith. Levin graduated from the Horace Mann School and New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English.Īfter college, he wrote training films and scripts for television. ![]() Fish Out of Water by Eric Metaxas5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() But here he reveals a personal story few have heard, taking us from his mostly happy childhood-and riotous triumphs at Yale-to the nightmare of drifting toward a dark abyss of meaninglessness from which he barely escapes. Renowned for his biographies of William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther, Metaxas is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, the witty host of the acclaimed Socrates in the City conversation series, and a nationally syndicated radio personality. ![]() What Happens When One of America's Most Admired Biographers Writes His Own Biography? For Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life -a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit. ![]() New York, New York! by Ann M. Martin5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() They inspired her to become a writer herself. ![]() Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. ![]() Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.Īnn has always enjoyed writing. ![]() But many of her characters are based on real people. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. She's now a full-time writer.Īnn gets the ideas for her books from many different places. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. ![]() I Like Being Alone by Betty Ren Wright5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Not until Jeff faces terrible danger and stands up to the ghost of Ernie P. (Ernie’s code for Top Secret Plan) and some newspaper clippings keep mysteriously appearing, Jeff is convinced that Ernie’s ghost wants him to carry out the T.S.P. and I’m going to cut you in on my T.S.P.” But when Ernie dies as a result of a freak accident, Jeff’s troubles are only beginning. Title: The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright Scored a: B+ Status: Finished This was a book that was around in my childhood (I even chose to represent. “You’re my buddy, old buddy,” Ernie would always say, “. ![]() And Ernie had chosen Jeff to be his best friend, whether he liked it or not. Barber came to Treverton from Los Angeles, he’d been like a missile aimed at trouble. What do you do when you’re being bullied-by a ghost? Find out in this story that “nicely blends the comic and the sinister” (Booklist). ![]() The magic misfits the minor third5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, producer, director, magician, comedian and singer. Whether you're a long-time expert at illusion or simply a new fan of stage magic, hold on to your top hat! Join the Magic Misfits as they discover adventure, friendship, and more than a few hidden secrets in this unique and surprising series. Vernon, suddenly called away and tension simmering among the friends, can they come together to stop another member of the villainous Emerald Ring? It's time for Theo to make a choice about where-and with whom-he belongs. Then a famous ventriloquist arrives in town, and the Misfits are sure he (and his creepy dummy) are up to no good. She seems to understand the pull he feels between music and magic, between family and friends. But when a girl named Emily begins to spend time with the group, Theo is surprisingly drawn to her. ![]() Armed with his trusty violin bow, he completes the team with his levitation skills, unflappable calm, and proper manners. Theo Stein-Meyer loves being part of the Magic Misfits. The third magical book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Misfits series from acclaimed and wildly popular celebrity Neil Patrick Harris! ![]() ![]() ![]() Walker also discusses embracing her sexuality and identity as a bisexual Black Jewish woman. Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rilegatura scuola e libreria Edizione Inglese di Rebecca Walker (Autore) Visita la pagina di Rebecca Walker su Amazon Scopri tutti i libri, leggi le informazioni sullautore e molto altro. She discusses encountering racism and the difficulties of being mixed-race in a society with rigid cultural barriers. Bestselling author of Black White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self and many other works, she brings two decades of experience, insight. Walker also touches on living with two parents with very active careers, which she believes led to their separation. In the book, Walker explores her early years living in Mississippi as the child of parents who were active in the later years of the Civil Rights Movement. Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, by Rebecca Walker. ![]() Her Jewish father is white and her Black mother was raised Christian. Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self is a 2002 autobiography by the American feminist writer Rebecca Walker.īorn in Jackson, Mississippi in 1969, Rebecca Walker is the daughter of the African-American womanist writer Alice Walker and the Jewish-American civil rights lawyer Melvyn R. ![]() Book french braid5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She is and always will be my favourite author LIANE MORIARTYĪnne Tyler really is the best. I read it in two sittings, totally immersed' VICTORIA HISLOP Read more 'A faultless novel, effortlessly profound. Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless' GRAHAM NORTON 'Exquisitely crafted, tender, hilarious, devastatingly precise, I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life' RACHEL JOYCE 'She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE MORIARTY 'Gorgeous, charming, profound, and written with such lightness of touch' MARIAN KEYES It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations For Mercy it all begins in 1959, with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. Not even their cat, Desmond.īut it turns out family life is impossible to escape - particularly when it's in your past. ![]() When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.Īll she wants is space and silence. The glorious Sunday Times bestseller follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today French Braid follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today. The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers. ![]() Moo baa falalala5/9/2023 ![]() After “deck the halls with cows and holly,” singing, trimming the tree, and making merry (“All the happy pigs go HA HA HA!”), it’s time to settle down and go to bed. "The familiar farmyard gang celebrates Christmas Eve in Boynton’s latest holiday-themed board book. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. ![]() King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. ![]() More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. ![]() Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. ![]() Louis armand the combinations5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() This is followed later in the poem with mention of 'hunched shadows/ of the end-of-the-world coming towards us' and concluding with: ![]() Parrot to tell the story of contrition its How effete your singing voice is – the mannequinĬandour you say is the best policy a trained With the blood of old movies we hoped to outlive. To begin with injustice is inseparable from life – smeared The book opens with the title piece, and the first stanza seems pointedly to indicate the sort of hell the reader is going to be led through by this book's 'story of contrition': And, although the titles of these poems are packed with references to other elements of culture, particularly obscure ones – there are several, such as 'washington crossing the delaware', that derive their title from a painting – the connection between title and piece is connotative rather than denotative. It is also an understatement of the viciousness of some of this poetry. ![]() The title of this book is an early manifestation of its endless intertextual referencing, as well as one example of the author's restrained penchant for relatively silly puns. ![]() |