5/11/2023 0 Comments Four feet two sandalsLina comments, “Four feet, two sandals.” Lina and Feroza soon become close friends. The two girls meet the next day at the stream and after some initial tension over the sandals, Lina suggests they share them, each wearing them on alternate days. Feroza sees Lina, turns, and leaves with her one sandal. She finds the matching sandal on the foot of another young girl, Feroza. She slips it on her foot, the first shoes she’s worn in two years, while she looks for the other one. When workers bring clothing to the camp, Lina manages to grab a new yellow sandal with a blue flower. Ten-year-old Lina and her mother live in a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border while they wait for the opportunity to immigrate to America. Written by Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed
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5/11/2023 0 Comments The royal governess bookPrivate life of a member of the Royal Family in 1950.īut in the first of three Channel 4 programmes marking the 100thīirthday of the Queen Mother, it is claimed she told her story on The Royal Family when she published the first inside account of the Working-class Scot 'Crawfie', who was responsible forīringing up the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, was outlawed by Life as a royal governess on official instructions from the Queen OSTRACISED kiss-and-tell nanny Marion Crawford revealed all about
5/11/2023 0 Comments Scions a starcrossed novelUnfinished events in this book guarantee another installment in this series that's loosely based on the Helen of Troy myth. Enough of the events from Starcrossed are recounted that it's not essential to have read it first. The violence that the Gods and demigods inflict upon one another is compelling, but also brutal. She finds herself in horrific situations and the only way she can end each night so she can wake up to try again is to die - by quicksand, falling, etc.-and this is taking a terrible physical toll on her. Helen can fly and throw lightning bolts but makes mistakes and, like all the Gods, is guilty of hubris. Then Orion shows up to rival Lucas for Helen's affections. Now, they're finding it hard to resist their mutual attration, despite knowing its wrong. Despite the fact that Helen and Lucas were from enemy Houses and wanted to kill each other in Starcrossed, they fell in love and then discovered that they were first cousins. In this world, Helen and her demigod cousins are descended from one of Four Houses, and the Furies make them all enemies of one another. Gr 9 Up-This paranormal sequel to Starcrossed (HarperCollins, 2011) continues demigod Helen's quest to descend into the Underworld to try to defeat the Furies and end thousands of years of endless killing among her kin. 5/10/2023 0 Comments How Far I'll Go by Arden O'KeefeBut when the night comes to an end, he is asked to make a decision. Then, finding out that he is half elf and half human gives a meaning to his life finally understanding the reason behind his weirdness.īuddying up with a cute elf named Shea for the night to see what it means to possess the magic of an elf, Heath goes on a journey to spread the gift of happiness amongst those who have been good this year. When he finds the cheerful bunch of elves gathered around the magical bonfire celebrating like kids high on sugar, Heath could not be more excited. The night before Christmas, with the silliest plan in mind and his coward dog tagging along, he sets out to find the true source of the mysterious light he sees from his window. If it had not been for his grandma - who did love him despite all his oddness, he would never have had anyone to call his own. Heath had always been a misfit – a weirdo who went all over town in a tank top and shorts even on a coldest day who claimed his dog could talk to him who saw this blinding light every Christmas Eve coming from the woods behind his house that no one else saw.Įven his mother made all sorts of excuses to stay far away from him. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Egyptology by Emily Sandsa facsimile of the gilded mummy mask of King Tut a souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs a playable game of Senet - ancient Egyptian checkers - including board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules an extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems Here are just a few of EGYPTOLOGY's special features: But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, foldout maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt - and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through a fascinating journal from a lost expedition - a treasure trove of fact and fantasy featuring a novelty element on every spread. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Charles portis books in orderIn her memoir from 2010, I Remember Nothing, Nora Ephron reveals that in the 1960s she dated Charles Portis, then a fellow early-career journalist in New York. “They are themselves a kind of Library of Americans, and Portis is excellent not only on their day jobs but also on their daydreams and stray thoughts and endogenous knowledge of the world.”īelow, volume editor Jay Jennings reflects on his time exploring an archive of Portis’s papers unearthed at the writer’s family home. “Even the most outlandish of Portis plots are populated by the kind of Everymen found in almost every Zip Code in this country: barmaids, shopkeeps, shade-tree mechanics, high-and-dry hippies, would-be writers, secretaries, veterans, junkyard scrappers,” writes Casey Cep in her New Yorker review of the volume. This April, Library of America published the long-awaited Charles Portis: Collected Works, gathering five novels and collected nonfiction from the beloved comic genius perhaps most famous for True Grit, the genre-defying Western told in the inimitable voice of Mattie Ross. Notes on Charles Portis’s notes: Jay Jennings pores over a cache of papers by America’s “least-known great writer” Snapshot of Charles Portis standing in front of his truck. The first title on this joint imprint, Azadi: A Graphic Biography of Bhagat Singh (in reference to Shaheed Bhagat Singh, the famous revolutionary martyr of India) will be published in April 2020. In 2015 the Press signed up for a joint academic imprint with Sage Publishing India, and more recently, Yoda Press has established another joint imprint with Simon & Schuster India for trade books with the Press's characteristic political edge. Five Yoda Press titles were cited by the Supreme Court of India during its judgement in 2018 that decriminalised homosexuality in the country. Yoda Press was founded by Arpita Das in 2004 as a house that would build lists which reflected the non-mainstream, alternative and yet equally vital contemporary reality of the Indian subcontinent. Yoda Press was awarded the Publisher of the Year Prize in 2016 at the Publishing Next Conference, held annually in Goa, India. Yoda Press is a publishing house in India, with its headquarters located at Shahpur Jat, Siri Fort, New Delhi. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Beautiful country wangThe narrative is full of sharply rendered scenes, such as one in which Wang’s mother suffers in a cold sushi factory before coming home to warm herself in front of a pot of boiling water. By fourth grade, Wang wrote so well that her teachers suspected plagiarism, and now Wang has written a memoir precise enough to chill her readers. Wang’s parents regarded her as their best hope for a future, optimistic that she would be suited to this Mei Guo, “beautiful country.” They were right to believe in her. But in Brooklyn, her mother lamented, “All these Cantonese assume that if you speak Mandarin you’re a farmer from Fuzhou.” Wang’s mother got a job sewing in a sweatshop, where “there was no day or night there was only work.” In Beijing, Wang’s mother was a published professor who spoke Mandarin, the language of intellectuals. She describes childhood trenchantly in Beautiful Country, allowing readers to feel her anger, longing, loneliness and fear-and to observe her parents’ desperation. One classmate referred to Wang’s family not as “low-income” but “no-income.” Her world was simultaneously frightening and normal as she sat listening to scuttling cockroaches with her parents nearby. Her hunger was regularly so intense that she broke into cold sweats-which, according to her Ma Ma, meant Wang was growing and getting stronger. From ages 7 to 12, Qian Julie Wang lived as an undocumented immigrant in Brooklyn, New York. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Oranges are not the onlyIt can be categorised as a coming-of-age novel, the story of a girl who seems ‘different’ to many of her peers – both in terms of her religious upbringing and to some extent her sexuality. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit is an autobiographical story with a number of themes. Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson She still loves God, but at fifteen she feels attracted to another woman resulting in a heavily disturbed heart of what is right and wrong. Due to pressure from the local welfare committee Jeanette is forced to join school, and she begins reading books, thus opening her eyes to a world beyond her mother’s teachings. She is fed on Bible scriptures and informed that schools are ‘Breeding grounds’ and neighbours and friends are ‘devils’. Oranges are not the only Fruit is the story of a girl named Jeanette, growing up in Northern England as part of a small evangelical Christian church in which her mother is one of the most important local figures. Her mother thinks she is the Chosen one from God Jeanette is beginning to fancy girls and she tries to define her relationship with her mother, God and self. Jeanette, the protagonist of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and the author’s namesake, pens down her life as an adopted child raised in Northern England and brought up on Bible Scriptures. Our fake IDs had not been as impressive as Jane’s connection had promised, and this would be the third club we’d be turned away from, if we ever managed to make it to the door. “Maybe we should just call it a night,” I suggested. “This is truly infuriating,” Jane said, flicking her cigarette to the dampened sidewalk and smashing it with her stilettoed boot. She’d claim it was only because of her frustration over the line and insist that chain smoking cigarettes kept her warm. The goose bumps stood all over Jane’s shoulder and she stomped her foot, at least partially because of the cold. Jack's family holds a secret, one that threatens Alice with mortal danger. Even though he can't stand the sight of her, she's drawn to him.īut falling for two very different guys isn't even the worst of her problems. His emerald eyes pierce through her, and she can barely breathe when he's around. He does things that aren't even be humanly possible, but she still feels safe with him. With his fondness for pink Chuck Taylors and New Wave hits aside, Jack's unlike anyone she's ever met. Seventeen-year-old Alice Bonham's life feels out of control after she meets Jack. |