![]() ![]() Grace lives with her husband and daughter in Western MA, where they get plenty of winter snow. Kirkus writes about the series, "These twins make learning to read double the fun."Ībout the Author Grace Lin is the award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator of Starry River of the Sky, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, The Year of the Dog, The Year of the Rat, Dumpling Days, and Ling & Ting, as well as pictures books such as The Ugly Vegetables and Caldecott Honor book A Big Mooncake for Little Star. This collection of six laugh-out-loud stories is sure to tickle the funny bone of fans and new readers alike. The beloved twins from the Geisel Honor early reader series are back to share their favorite funny stories with beginning readers, now in paperback. ![]() In Ling & Ting, Lin crafts a charming tale. ![]() ![]() Most of all they like to laugh together."-Back cover.īook Synopsis Ling and Ting like to be silly in the fourth book in this irresistible early reader series. Ling & Ting Share a Birthday by Grace Lin. Grace Lin is the New York Times best-selling author of the Newbery Honor book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than a memoir of friendship and first love, My Soul Looks Back is a carefully crafted, intimately understood homage to a bygone era and the people that made it so remarkable. The book is framed by Harris' relationship with Sam Floyd, a fellow professor at Queens College, who introduced her to Baldwin. Harris describes her role as theater critic for the New York Amsterdam News and editor at then burgeoning Essence magazine star-studded parties in the South of France drinks at Mikell's, a hip West Side club and the simple joy these extraordinary people took in each other's company. Harris paints evocative portraits of her illustrious friends: Baldwin as he read aloud an early draft of If Beale Street Could Talk, Angelou cooking in her California kitchen, and Morrison relaxing at Baldwin's house in Provence. Harris, preeminent culinary scholar of the African Diaspora, cookbook author, and journalist, pens a memoir about a time in her life shaped by. My Soul Looks Back is her paean to that fascinating social circle and the depth of their shared commitment to activism, intellectual engagement, and each other. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan's West Side to the restaurants of the Village, living out her buoyant youth alongside the great minds of the day - luminaries like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. In the Technicolor glow of the early 70s, Jessica B. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her words have not only earned her many literary honors, including the National Book Critics Award, the Orange prize, and a MacArthur fellowship, they also have resonated with many powerful figures, from Oprah to Beyoncé to Hillary Clinton. ![]() Yet in her latest work, Dear Ijeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), Adichie posits that sexism can be an even more destructive force than racism. from Nigeria, and some of her most powerful writing––in her 2013 novel Americanah, for instance––explores what it means to be African, and what it means to be African American, with extraordinary depth. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”Īdiche, the internationally celebrated novelist, moved to the U.S. “It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. “Some people ask: ‘Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?’ Because that would be dishonest,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote in We Should All Be Feminists (the book based on her 2012 TED Talk). ![]() ![]() ![]() This melancholy tale uses the classical tea ceremony as a background for the story of a young man's relationships to two women, his father's former mistress and her daughter - synopsis from Goodreads. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Snow Mountain is a nuanced love story involving a discouraged urbanite (Shimamura) and a rural geisha (Komako). This book presents English translations of two short novels by the1968 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. ![]() Book 130: Snow Country and Thousand Cranes.Īuthor: Yasunari Kawabata, 1948, 1952. ![]() ![]() ![]() After a year such as I had, there is nothing - nothing, do you hear? - that I would not do to be with you. The Unthinkable Triangle A Pride and Prejudice Variation By: Joana Starnes Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins 4. From the very first days of our acquaintance, I sat in judgement instead of courting you, and I paid a terrible price for it. ![]() ![]() Not merely lost, but promised to his cousin - firmly in his life, but never his! How in God's name was he to bear it and not become unhinged? How was he to have her at his table as Richard's affianced, and not betray himself? How was he to see her, time and again, and give no sign that he wanted her more than he had ever wanted any woman? How was he to keep up the pretence, day after excruciating day?" "This cannot be! Today's events have tampered with your judgement." "Elizabeth, pray let my judgement be my concern alone. ![]() Content unchanged) "Eyes tightly shut against the horrifying future, Darcy dug his fingers in his hair. All is fair in love and war - or is it? What if Mr Darcy's rival for Elizabeth Bennet's hand and heart is not some inconsequential stranger, but his dearest, closest friend? How is he to reconcile the claims of loyalty and kinship with the urge to pursue his heart's desire? (New Cover. In this romance anthology, fifteen Austenesque authors assemble to sketch Darcys character through a series of re-imaginings, set in the Regency through. ![]() ![]() ![]() Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined. ![]() A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Ī 2021 Locus Award Finalist! A Lambda Literary Award Finalist A Book Riot Must-Read Fantasy of 2020 Amazon's Best of 2020 So Far "Fantastic, defiant, utterly brilliant." -Ken Liu Zen Cho returns with The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the. ![]() Tor.com, 19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-5-6 With this whimsical fantasy novella, Hugo Awardwinner Cho ( The. A 2021 Locus Award Finalist! A Lambda Literary Award Finalist A Book Riot Must-Read Fantasy of 2020 Amazon's Best of 2020 So Far "Fantastic, defiant, utterly brilliant." -Ken Liu Zen Cho returns with The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history. BUY THIS BOOK The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water Zen Cho. ![]() ![]() ![]() Le Guin’s social science focus is why her work feels realistic and accessible, especially those not accustomed to the strange worlds of sci-fi and fantasy. I draw on the social sciences a great deal.” They’re not that interested in what human beings do, really. Biology, sociology, anthropology-that’s not science to them, that’s soft stuff. In a 2013 interview in the Paris Review, Le Guin explained how her writing diverged from her contemporaries: “The “hard” science fiction writers dismiss everything except, well, physics, astronomy, and maybe chemistry. ![]() Le Guin didn’t want to follow the rules of any genre, and those rebellions against tradition are what made her books stand out from more the mainstream. It was science fiction that prioritized humanity over technological innovations.ĭespite publishing nonfiction and poetry, she was defined by her science fiction and fantasy writing-and the label irked her. ![]() ![]() ![]() She and Mark don't always see eye-to-eye-and at times he seems far removed-yet deep down, Jo Marie finds great comfort in his company. ![]() In memory of her late husband, Paul, she has designed a beautiful rose garden for the property and enlisted handyman Mark Taylor to help realize it. ![]() Now it's springtime, and Jo Marie is eager to finish the most recent addition to her inn. Since moving to Cedar Cove, Jo Marie Rose has truly started to feel at home, and her neighbors have become her closest friends. Now Macomber returns to the charming Rose Harbor Inn, where each guest finds a second chance and every room comes with an inspiring new view. #1 "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Hailed as "the reigning queen of women's fiction" ("The Sacramento Bee"), Debbie Macomber is renowned for her novels of love, friendship, and the promise of fresh starts. ![]() ![]() From start to finish, the plot kept me on the edge of my seat. Gaughen completed delivered with the world building in Imprison the Sky. However, I quickly fell in love with Aspasia and her story. Since I loved Shalia and Reign the Earth so much, I was nervous going into this book. ![]() ![]() Gaughen’s Reign the Earth is one of my favorite fantasy books (go feminist fantasy!), I couldn’t wait to dive into the next book in the Elementae series, Imprison the Sky. And if Aspasia can’t find her younger siblings before Cyrus does, she will never be able to break free.Īrmed with her loyal crew full of Elementae and a new recruit who controls an intriguing power, Aspasia finds herself in the center of a brewing war that spans every inch of the ocean, and her power alone may not be enough to save her friends, family, and freedom. (From the publisher) Stolen from her family as a child, Aspasia has clawed her way up the ranks of Cyrus’s black market empire to captain her own trading vessel–and she risks it all every time she uses her powerful magic to free as many women, children, and Elementae from slavery as she can.īut Cyrus is close to uncovering her secrets–not only that Aspasia is an air Elementa with the ability to sail her ship through the sky, but that she is also searching for her lost family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That series ultimately found its footing as well as its own identity, largely by sacrificing any notion of strict fidelity to the staggering narrative density of the books. Rowling was as fiercely protective of her material as P.L. The tedious first two films in the Harry Potter franchise, as directed by Chris Columbus, treated their source texts as gospel watching them, you’d have thought J.K. (We’ll know more when “The Desolation of Smaug” hits theaters next month.) ![]() ![]() Peter Jackson struck just the right balance in his magnificent “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, although lately he seems to have committed to his material with a fidelity that Tolkien himself might have found excessive, if the epic bloat of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is any indication. The answer, of course, is (c) to make a killing at the box office, an outcome generally arrived at by finding some happy middle ground between options (a) and (b), between undue reverence and wholesale reinvention. More than once over the past several years, during the steady diet of teenage wizards and emo vampires that we have come to call moviegoing, I’ve felt compelled to ask: What is the purpose of adapting popular fantasy fiction for the screen? Is it (a) to faithfully reproduce the author’s sacred text in every last particular for the benefit of hardcore fanboys and fangirls? Or is it (b) to refashion the material as an entirely new experience, trimmed down and in some cases completely overhauled? (SPOILER ALERT: This piece reveals key plot details from “ The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”) ![]() |