5/11/2023 0 Comments Author bedelia![]() ![]() ![]() The inspiration for the protagonist was likely a housekeeper at her grandparents home where Peggy Parish played as a child. 2013 marked the book's 50th anniversary and commemorated its popularity with the publication of a new line of Amelia Bedelia books. Over 35 million copies of books in the series have been sold. Amelia Bedelia has been referenced for its use of language and portrayal of gender norms. The idea for the book came from a former housekeeper as well as Peggy's third-grade students at the Dalton School in Manhattan who tended to confuse vocabulary, often with comic results. It was written by Peggy Parish, illustrated by Fritz Siebel, and published by Harper and Row in 1963. Amelia Bedelia is the first book in the popular Amelia Bedelia children's picture book series about a housekeeper who takes her instructions literally. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Save the arctic by bethany stahl![]() ![]() You won't want to miss inspiring your precious little one with this brilliant arctic tale!"Save the Arctic" is the second book in Stahl's best-selling "Save the Earth" series! Count beluga whales and fish-Learn exciting animal facts about polar bears and beluga whales Brainstorm ideas on how you can help the Arctic from your home Name the colors of the buildings in the Arctic village! This time, Bethany Stahl's interactive book immerses children in a fun and unique journey where they can: The ice is melting, and the animals are disappearing! During his search, he makes an unlikely friend with Toklo, a silly beluga whale! The friends work together with a native girl, Ahnah, as they figure out how everyone can work together to help "Save the Arctic"! Nanu, a lonely polar bear, searches for dinner. From the Amazon bestselling author, comes a new children’s book that is engaging, fun, and teaches about the environment! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. But will the world around them change too? Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever. ![]() It starts with a dare - kids fooling around - but soon becomes something dangerous. Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Aprašymas The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin and Sadie books, set in Belfast during the Troubles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Internet Archive has digitized over 4 million books and microforms. ![]() The Internet Archive also encourages libraries, content holders and the reading community at large, to have their printed materials non-destructively digitized and put online for the benefit of all. Please visit the FAQ for more information about DAISY files and how to un-encrypt them. In addition to the collections here, print disabled people may access a large collection of modern books provided as encrypted DAISY files on. There is also a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free account.īooks on Internet Archive are offered in many formats, including DAISY files intended for print disabled people. The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. ![]() ![]() ![]() This unexplained event introduces blindness as a necessary choice, complicating the dichotomy between blindness and sight by making sight a fatal disability. Creatures roam the earth, the mere sight of which causes immediate insanity, violence, and suicide. ![]() ![]() Josh Malerman’s 2014 apocalyptic horror novel, Bird Box, reverses Gothic depictions of disability as monstrous or metaphor for ignorance or weakness by presenting disability as protection. This article also explores the trials and tribulations of the visually challenged people in their day-today lives and it encourages the so called non-disabled to lend helping hands to the disabled when they are in the need of them. This paper aims to throw light on the paradigm of subaltern literature, with a special attention to the disabled community. The significant purpose of literature is to portray how man is able to face the societal challenges and pitfalls and how he strives to find possible solutions to the prevalingproblems. The study of literature is not only the study and evaluation of poems, novels, short stories, and plays, but also the study of ideas, issues and difficulties which arise in the creation and interpretation of them. As literature is a combination of fact and fiction, it covers the imaginative and supernatural or fictional worlds and characters as well. It is indeed true that literature cannot be distinguished from the human beings as it is a mirror of nature. Literature is a vital field which touches every part of the society and is concerned with human values. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Liars by Lucy Lennox![]() ![]() ![]() And if you met adorably anxious Parrish and sweet Diesel and Marigold in this absolutely endearing, hysterical, lovely story and believed you wouldn’t fall in love with them or this book, … well, that was your biggest lie of all. If you thought our audiobook narrator, Michael Dean, couldn’t possibly make this book any better than it is on paper (or screen), you were lying to yourself again. If you convinced yourself this book couldn’t rival Lucy Lennox’s Made Marian or May Archer’s Love in O’Leary, that was also a lie. If you told yourself you’d be able to put this book down after you started reading, that was a lie. There’s nothing hotter than a tall, gruff, bewildered, tattooed mountain of a man cuddling a sweet, orphaned baby, so you can tell yourself that you’ll resist him…Īnd when that man asks you to do him a favor and pretend to be his very temporary, very fake fiance to help him get custody of that adorable baby, you can pretend you know better than to say yes…Īnd when you actually get to know your kind, strong, pullet-loving prince of a fiance, and all his crazy, lovable, meddling neighbors, you can tell yourself you’re not really falling for Diesel Church and the town of Licking Thicket…īut that might be the biggest lie of all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not sure I can actually name this a review because is just gonna be me saying how much I love this series, how much I love Cardan and how glad I am that in such a sh*tty year I was able to get some joy! This new instalment in the Folk of the Air series is a return to the heart-racing romance, danger, humour and drama that enchanted readers everywhere. This tale includes delicious details of life before The Cruel Prince, an adventure beyond The Queen of Nothing, and familiar but pivotal moments from The Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan’s perspective. In this sumptuously illustrated tale, Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame’s enigmatic high king. Once upon a time there was a boy with a wicked tongue…īefore Cardan was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. ![]() ![]() Brimming with Black’s customary faerie magic, this atmospheric prequel to the events of The Folk of the Air trilogy digs deep into Cardan’s past to unearth some incredible revelations.Įxclusive edition – includes a black cover and sixteen extra pages of Rovina Cai’s art, from original sketches through the draft stages to final artwork that isn’t in the book, with discussion by Holly Black. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The bloodsworn trilogy book 2![]() ![]() Spring sunlight dappled the ground through soft-swaying branches, reflecting brightly from patches of rimed snow, winter’s last hoar-frost kiss on this high mountain woodland. Hard words are needed for this hard world. Muscles bunched in Orka’s jaw, hard words already in her throat. He stood to her left, solid and huge as a boulder. “Wait,” Thorkel breathed through his braided beard, a cold-misting of breath. She opened her mouth to scold him, but a hand touched her arm, a huge hand where Breca’s was small, rough-skinned where Breca’s was smooth. He is too gentle for this world of pain, Orka thought. “Death is a part of life,” Orka whispered into her son’s ear.Įven though Breca’s arm was drawn back, the ash-spear gripped tight in his small, white-knuckled fist and the spearhead aimed at the reindeer in front of them, she could see the hesitation in his eyes, in the set of his jaw. ![]() The year 297 of Friðaröld, The Age of Peace ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Berserk vol 1 40![]() Very soon, what seems like a straightforward march for conquest becomes a harrowing struggle for humanity and life itself. However, as Griffith leads his soldiers from victory to victory, the bloody wars and underhanded politics reveal a side to him that nobody quite expected. When Guts loses to Griffith in a duel, he is forced to join the Band of the Hawk, and, despite himself, finds a sense of camaraderie and belonging amongst them. 1 As with other Dark Horse manga releases, the Japanese reading format (from right to left) is preserved in the English release. ![]() ![]() Life is simple enough for Guts until he meets Griffith, the inspirational, ambitious, and beautiful leader of the mercenaries, the Band of the Hawk. In America, Berserk is translated and published by Dark Horse Comics, which has released 40 volumes so far, the first of which was published on October 22, 2003. After enduring a terrible childhood, he spends his adulthood in brutal combat, pitting his strength against others in order to build his own. ![]() Born beneath the gallows tree from which his dead mother hung, Guts has always existed on the boundary between life and death. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Kate atkinson started early![]() ![]() With a series of failed relationships behind him, Jackson is almost as lonely as Tracy, and when he witnesses a dog being kicked by its owner, he steps in and rescues it. While Tracy is trying to help an abused child, in a parallel storyline the novel’s other main protagonist, private investigator Jackson Brodie, is carrying out a good deed of his own. She makes the decision to intervene and suddenly life becomes much more eventful! Then, one day, as she patrols the Merrion Centre, she sees a little girl being mistreated by Kelly Cross, a prostitute and drug addict whom Tracy recognises from her police days. Tracy is lonely and bored – she has no family, no friends and no social life she gets up in the morning, goes to work, then comes home to spend every evening alone eating chocolate in front of the television. ![]() A good place to start is probably with Tracy Waterhouse, a retired police superintendent now working as head of security at the Merrion Shopping Centre in Leeds. The plot of Started Early, Took My Dog is actually quite difficult to describe, but I’ll do my best. Fortunately, the Jackson Brodie novels all stand alone very well so I found that it didn’t matter at all that I had left such a long gap between books three and four. For some reason, after reading the first three in quick succession in 2015, I never moved on to this one and it was only with the publication of the fifth book, Big Sky, earlier this year that I remembered I still needed to read it. This is the fourth book in Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. ![]() |