The answer? Ellen Raskin illustrated the original cover for Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time then later would go on to win a Newbery for The Westing Game. Couldn’t for the life of me figure it out. “What is the only Newbery winning jacket illustrated by someone who would later go on to win their own Newbery?” I was stumped. I correctly answered his question about Evaline Ness, but then he asked a question that just baffled me. I was once at a Books of Wonder Christmas party when Peter Glassman started popping some children’s literature trivia at me. Oh, Ellen, why did you die so young? – Susan Van Metre I do wish that David Lynch would make this into a movie. Raskin also managed to do the “what-happened-in-the-future” part of it right (unlike some awful epilogues of late). Turtle, while incredibly unlikeable, is loveable just the same, and the quirky characters have just the right amount of strange. It stands the test of time, and I give it to kids every year. It seems smarter and funnier, and altogether more perfect every time I reread it. #9 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978)
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“I never found the ambassador, but I found the love of my life,” he reminisced at a reception on Tuesday evening that had a subdued note due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II last Thursday. The now Mrs Kenyon moved to Britain and studied Law at Oxford and is the first Romanian-speaking Barrister in the UK. While on assignment for the BBC in Bucharest in 1994 (and trying to interview the British ambassador) for a story about baby trafficking in the wake of the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime, he met his future wife, Flavia, at a reception. His love affair with Romania has a deeply personal link too. It presents the British-born ‘fairytale’ Queen Marie, who Kenyon considers was perhaps Romania’s best-ever leader, and features Cold War spies and Stalinist dictators-and it’s all true. The impeccably researched book captivates readers with its engaging writing, telling the stories of Dracula and fascist death cults of the 1930s. 7/5/2023 0 Comments The diamond eye paperbackWhen news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Sorrow and blissIn any given week, we might passionately debate whether to run a particular story, which headline to run with said story, whether 1.32am is really an acceptable time to file said story, and whether white jeans can ever be truly stylish. This isn’t an entirely foreign state of affairs at PRIMER we don’t agree on everything. An array of authors and A-listers – from Pandora Sykes to Gillian Anderson – have praised it, and everyone from Grazia to Goop has declared it to be one of the books of the year.Īnd yet Meg Mason’s novel, Sorrow and Bliss, has divided PRIMER. It’s been described as the sleeper hit of the year, “an incredibly funny and devastating debut” ( Guardian) and “unforgettable” ( The Sunday Times). Ready to leave the past behind him, Leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love. Leo Grady knew mirages were a thing in the desert, but they’d barely left civilization when the silhouette of his greatest regret comes into focus in the flickering light of the campfire. Frankly, Lily would like to take him out into the wilderness-and leave him there. It pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke’s coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession…or much money in the bank. NOTE: This book is unlike any other Christina Lauren book Trope: Second Chance Romance, Treasure Hunt. About Something Wilder by Christina Lauren 7/5/2023 0 Comments Gallant waifFaith is frightened and alone but pride makes her want to leave as soon as possible. He’s not about to allow anyone to be raped in his presence and he fights the men and saves Faith. Nick, an ex-soldier, has both a gun and a dog. But she is lucky because just as her pursuers are about to catch her, she comes upon Nicholas Blacklock, a seemingly lone Englishman camping in the woods. People assume the worst…her shabby but expensive clothing must mean she’s a prostitute.Īs the story opens Faith runs through the wilderness, fleeing three men bent on raping her. She flees Paris intending to return home, with little money, no resources, and with only the clothes on her back. Months later, though, when they are married and living in Paris, she discovers her husband is a bigamist. Faith Merridew left the safety of London society to elope with the love of her life. 7/4/2023 0 Comments The agricola and the germania“The Germania” is an ethnographic study of the peoples believed by Tacitus to be part of the ancient Germanic tribes, including their laws, lands and customs. Tacitus draws an unfavorable comparison between the liberty enjoyed by the Britons to the corruption and cruelty of Rome and offers a biting and insightful commentary on the Roman greed that justified the oppression and exploitation of the British people. It is also a geographic and ethnographic history of Ancient Britain. “The Agricola” is a biography of the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who was Tacitus’s father-in-law. Tacitus lived in what historians call the Silver Age of Latin literature and his contributions to the histories of these tumultuous times are considered significant and illuminating. “The Agricola” and “The Germania” are two important historical works by Cornelius Tacitus, an ancient Roman Senator and historian who lived from 56 AD to 120 AD. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Star Wars by W. Haden BlackmanYou can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. 7/4/2023 0 Comments The Queer South by Douglas RayWhitley, Scott Wiggerman, Cristan Williams, and L. Peterson, Kenneth Pobo, Brad Richard, Hannah Riddle, Laurence Ross, Liana Roux, Kevin Sessums, Del Shores, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Will Stockton, Dan Stone, Christine Stroud, Billie Tadros, TC Tolbert, Dan Vera, Annie Virginia, Valerie Wetlaufer, C.T. Mills, Cameron Mitchell, Foster Noone, Joseph Osmundson, Eddie Outlaw, Seth Pennington, Evan J. Mack, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Randall Mann, Mary Meriam, Stephen S. Gilson, Ellen Goldstein, Mirian Bird Greenberg, Elizabeth Gross, Johnathan Harper, Scott Hightower, Matthew Hittinger, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rex Leonowicz, Sassafras Lowrey, Tyler Lynn, Bo McGuire, Rangi McNeil, Kelly McQuain, M. Daniels, Nick Dephtereos, David Eye, Jason K. Amazon.in - Buy The Queer South: Lgbtq Writers on the American South book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. In The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry. Contributors are Dorothy Allison, Shane Allison, John Andrews, Derrick Austin, Jeffery Berg, Richard Blanco, Perry Brass, Dustin Brookshire, Jericho Brown, Joey Connelly, William Cordeiro, C. From hilarious to heartbreaking, anxious to angry, religious to reluctant, contemplative to celebratory, this anthology expands our ideas of what it means to be queer and what it means to represent the land south of the Mason-Dixon. In THE QUEER SOUTH, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Quantum Leap by Carol DavisAlso fun was the several subplots that wrapped together - many of which were absolutely of late 80's and early 90's caliber. It was likely important to a lot of fans, who I understand are called "Leapers" - which is all kinds of wonderful. The last of the official series (published well after the end of the televised series). I like finding myself in a series trying to puzzle some things out about the established canon.Įndearingly - this was a special story. I met a lot of supporting characters that I didn't remember at all, too. I enjoyed getting to know characters I had vague memories of, and exploring the format of the series. It's been 20+ years since I've thought about Quantum Leap. That seemed like beach/vacation magic to me - so I bought it and started reading it on vacation. The book was located with several others in a sandy bucket marked 25¢. A little background: I discovered that this book, and Quantum Leap original fiction in general, existed when I was at a little local fair on vacation in Cape May. |