![]() At first, teachers and school librarians were slow to recommend these books, but once teens began to pick them up, read, and then talk about them, teachers and librarians could not ignore her popularity with young adult audiences. ![]() ![]() While Hopkins started out as a nonfiction writer of high-interest books for juvenile readers, her fiction work is what drew the acclaim of critics and her readers. As a result, she receives hundreds of thousands of letters and emails from her readers, most of which she will answer, making an effort to impart whatever advice her readers are asking for. The honesty, while an affront to many people, is the core of her seven (soon to be nine) books that deal with teen prostitution, drugs, abuse, homosexuality, religious fundamentalism, suicide, cutting, and many other issues. ![]() This truth telling is what has endeared her to her readers. ![]() Hopkins tries hard to write the entire picture-no matter how ugly, deceiving, or raw it is-so her readers will know that she is being as honest as she can be.Įllen Hopkins once told me that she tries to always write the truth in her books because “my readers will call me on it if I don’t.” Because of this, she tries hard to write the entire picture-no matter how ugly, deceiving, or raw it is-so her readers will know that she is being as honest as she can be. ![]()
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![]() ![]() SIGNED BY ELAINE POGANY on the half-title and inscribed. Written by Elaine Pogany illustrated by Willy Pogany. The color printing is astonishingly bright and vibrant. ![]() "But there was more to Peterkin's prank than he planned for, and in the end the joke was on him." Pogany's illustrations look like Disney studio characters. A story about a faun who plays a prank on the birds of the forest. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. Very Good hardcover with rubbing to the extremities and a touch of tanning to the pages otherwise clean, in a Very Good dust jacket with a small chip to the heel, light rubbing to the other extremities and to the fore edges, and a strip of darkening to the front fore edge. First edition, believed to be a first printing with a $1.00 price reference. ![]() ![]() ![]() How college is shocking for sheltered girls. This book isn't quite satire, it isn't quite commentary, isn't remotely insightful, but it is awfully long. as the secretary from Ferris Bueller put it, a cast of "sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, and d!ckheads." Along with rednecks, the new england rich, and a smattering of other cellophane-thin stereotypes. And a whole host of minor supporting characters. The nerdy reporter for the school paper The big dumb jock who's smarter than he realizes The main protagonist, the archetypical smart girl who's better looking than she realizes. ![]() And I'm pretty sure I've seen all of these before, in EVERY movie and book about "college" ever produced. ![]() You should probably avoid making all your characters painfully simple cardboard cutouts of actual people. And people will still buy my over-long, thinly-developed, poorly-constructed tirade against 'kids these days.' " and therefore I can write whatever I want. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They lost their money and had to sell their home, with his father falling into alcoholism, which resulted in his parents' divorce. His family was harmed by the Great Depression. John Bogle was born on May 8, 1929, in Montclair, New Jersey, to William Yates Bogle, Jr. His 1999 book Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor became a bestseller and is considered a classic within the investment community. The ideal investment vehicle for Bogle was a low-cost index fund representing the entire US market, held over a lifetime with dividends reinvested, and with a minimum 20% bond allocation. An avid investor and money manager himself, he preached investment over speculation, long-term patience over short-term action, and reducing broker fees as much as possible. He was the founder and chief executive of The Vanguard Group, and is credited with popularizing the index fund. John Clifton " Jack" Bogle (– January 16, 2019) was an American investor, business magnate, and philanthropist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. JESIKAH SUNDIN, author of the Biodome chroniclesĪll rights reserved. “Sink your teeth into this blood-pumping story of love, loss, and redemption. ![]() Winters took my breath away!!! This is going to steal away your heart and mind as well!! These characters are delicious and will tug upon your heartstrings!” Everything about this book is brilliant.” “Conflict, twists and turns and a story that makes you root for the characters yet relate to their flaws at the same time.” “This book is amazing… I was seriously BLOWN AWAY.” “I am completely, utterly, and absolutely obsessed!” NATALIA JASTER, author of the Selfish Myths series “A dark retelling with a provocative twist that lures you into its pages.” ![]() ![]() ![]() In a mini-story available with purchase of the 3rd book from Barnes & Noble titled "The Bond", it is revealed how Gidean had saved Braeden from his burning home, which consumed Braeden's brothers, parents, and sister. Soon after, though, he and his dog were bonded again. In Serafina and the Splintered Heart, Braeden grew cold toward his Doberman friend due to the trauma of Serafina's loss. They had been together for years before the first book took place. Gidean: Gidean is Braeden's loyal Doberman dog. None of this progression was shown, seeing as Serafina was dead during the time this happened. In the third book, however, after Serafina's death, they had supposedly formed a bond with each other. Waysa: Throughout the first and second book, Braeden and Waysa had little to do with each other. At the end of book four, they finally said their “I love you’s” to each other. Serafina’s hunt leads her into the very forest that she has been taught. ![]() Braeden and Serafina must uncover the Man in the Black Cloak’s true identitybefore all of the children vanish one by one. ![]() They soon forged into a deep friendship, maybe something more, and defeated all antagonists, together. Following her own harrowing escape, Serafina risks everything by joining forces with Braeden Vanderbilt, the young nephew of Biltmore’s owners. Serafina: Braeden first met Serafina when she was sneaking around the Vanderbilt Estate. He also helps Serafina defeat the man in the Black Cloak and helps her to destroy the Twisted Staff. Braeden Vanderbilt comes from a wealthy family, so he is dressed in nice clothing most of the time. ![]() ![]() Filled with incredible details about medieval life, Ellis’s tale strikingly juxtaposes the contemporary world he passes through on his long hike with the history that peeks out from behind an ancient stone wall or a church. Walking to Canterbury is Jerry Ellis’s moving and fascinating account of his own modern pilgrimage along that famous path. Power, politics, friendship, betrayal, martyrdom, miracles, and stories all had a place on the sixty mile path from London to Canterbury, known as the Pilgrim’s Way. ![]() Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, one of the greatest, most enduring works of English literature, is a bigger-than-life drama based on the experience of the medieval pilgrim. They came seeking healing, penance, or a sign from God. The number of pilgrims visiting his shrine in the Middle Ages was so massive that the stone floor wore thin where they knelt to pray. Before the Archbishop’s blood dried on the Cathedral floor, the miracles began. More than six hundred years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered by King Henry II’s knights. ![]() ![]() ![]() You know the line, I suppose? But it can also be read as A loan to buy mice, elf, but no bell nor egrets.” A plethora of other real and fictitious characters, mostly writers, inhabit the text in various ways, including Darío Lancini, a Venezuelan poet who wrote a 750-word palindrome, and Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, whose early 20th-century investigations into anagrams are intriguingly juxtaposed with contemporary murder investigations in Caracas. There’s Matías Rye, a struggling writer who runs writing workshops at a local high school and is working on a novel titled The Night Miguel Ardiles, a psychiatrist who loves to blur boundaries with his clients and dreams of being a writer and Pedro Álamo, a writer obsessed with palindromes, anagrams, acrostics, and double-texts, cleverly translated by Hahn and Hernández González: “ Alone, too, by myself, but noble, no regrets. Three characters alternate the narration. ![]() Venezuelan writer Blanco Calderón weaves a labyrinthine study of language, writers, and obsession against a backdrop of rampant femicides and the energy and political crises in contemporary Caracas. ![]() ![]() ![]() He feels this is more of a curse than a gift. The inn was a gift left to a family of three - a divorced mother, daughter and son - one of those being Dean Banks, a fifteen year old boy who comes to find out he has inherited a supernatural gift of power from a long ago Apache ancestor and is destined to be the Guardian of the mine. You may find some of the guests who come to the inn are as strange as the inn itself. And this just may be the reason for all of the paranormal activity. ![]() Some say the inn sits at the top of an energy vortex that has ties to the mine. This charming inn is nestled in the Sonoran Desert on the Apache Trail close to the foreboding Superstition Mountains which are said to be the home of the legendary Lost Dutchman Mine. Want to check in at the Red Coyote Inn? You may want to check out it's shady past which includes: ghosts, sightings of supernatural creatures, and guests encountering bizarre accidents. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:eachkindness0000wood:lcpdf:906ac981-43d4-4d3c-afd3-0cef2251af08 Each Kindness, by the Newbery Honor-winning author Jacqueline Woodson (After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, Show Way), has beautiful watercolors and prose, strong characters and a plot. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:00:40 Associated-names Lewis, Earl B., illustrator Boxid IA1771903 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() |