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![]() ![]() Kingsolver occasionally reminds us that our narrator is an adult, but most of the time you feel like you’re right there with Demon as he grows and develops. Even though the narrator is clearly describing his life from the perspective of an adult, young Demon feels young, and teenage Demon sounds like a teenager. I always appreciate when an author can write from the viewpoint of a child and have it feel like you’re experiencing that child growing in maturity. Demon’s troubled childhood leads him down many dangerous paths he experiences great tragedy, but also kindness and inspiration. He’s fortunate to have kind neighbors who look after him, particularly after his mother begins seeing an abusive man. In Kingsolver’s story, Demon (born Damon Fields) is born to a single mother who struggles with addiction. ![]() Sadly, David Copperfield resonates today for a reason – children continue to be traumatized by poverty, abuse, and addiction, and the child welfare system typically lacks the resources needed to protect them. But Copperfield also resonates because it’s a story of struggle and courage and resilience, and Kingsolver transports this story perfectly into rural Virginia in the 1990s. ![]() ![]() His selections celebrate the goodness of human beings, the strength of people's hearts, and the power of people's wills. Browne's essays and correspondence are rounded out by a precept for each day of the year-drawn from popular songs to children's books to inscriptions on Egyptian tombstones to fortune cookies. Browne and Auggie, Julian, Summer, Jack Will, and others, giving readers a special peek at their lives after Wonder ends. ![]() This companion book features conversations between Mr. Palacio's highly anticipated new novel, Pony, available now! In Wonder, readers were introduced to memorable English teacher Mr. motion picture, readers will fall in love all over again with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Over 15 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder- now, the wonder returns with a companion book of life lessons and inspiration from Auggie's favorite teacher-perfect for back to school! Based on the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement and a major. ![]() ![]() ![]() And unfortunately, while the story above was what most influenced my wasn't the only thing that brought the book down to 1-star for me. ![]() So, if you can't tell already, this book was a miss for me. You cannot tell me that he'd be pleased or flattered or touched by her painfully disrespectful depiction and description of him & his disabilities during sex.). (also note: this man was the kindest, sweetest person in this book. ![]() (note: if it matters, she insists that mentally he's all there but broke up with him because she didn't want her friends to make fun of her for being with the disabled man.and cause his voice made him sound like he's not mentally all there.) ![]() Who the heck on the publishing team listened to that entire chapter as Tiffany slurred his words, ridicules his body and ultimately crushes this man's heart so thoroughly that he literally left his job, his home and is god-knows-where today? Is it cause Tiffany oh-so-respectively tells her audience that she had the disabled man hit it from behind cause apparently he has great dick, just that looking at his face/disabled arm was such a huge turn-off for her? How is that different from when Trump did the arm thing to the reporter? What kind of person actually creates a mock-accent to mimic a disabled man's voice as she narrates her audiobook? Now, I'm all for comedy pushing the lines and totally agree that everyone has different barriers.but honestly, I'm still reeling from this mess. This is a book written by a comedian.and purely because of that I feel like there's some obvious assumptions going into it. ![]() ![]() Persecution and plague, insurrection and inferno, friends and foes, even executions of those they hold dear, bring Anne's heartrending story to life. Often at odds, always in love, the couple sells Will's first plays and, as he climbs to theatrical power in Elizabeth's England, they fend off fierce competition from rival London dramatists, ones as treacherous as they are talented. From rural Stratford-upon-Avon to teeming London, the passionate pair struggles to stay solvent and remain safe from Elizabeth I's campaign to hunt down secret Catholics, of whom Shakespeare is rumored to be a part. ![]() ![]() The clandestine Whateley/Shakespeare match is a meeting of hearts and heads that no one - not even Queen Elizabeth or her spymasters - can destroy. In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous, daring life and her great love, William Shakespeare.Īs historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton is betrothed to Will just days before he is forced to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Go Claire - you have the BEST job EVER! " - Rachel, Claire solves mysteries by getting wasted, wandering around talking to people and finding clues. I was not really happy with the drug use, FWIW. I finished it in 2 days which I guess says something. " I am not really sure how I fell about this book. " Sort of bizarre - but a think piece after the fact. " Entertaining characters, but a somewhat predictable story. " So, I didn't notice that the parrot on the cover was green until I was almost finished with the book.if you've read the book, you get it and if you haven't read the book, you should. " A strange and original mystery with an oddly likable narrator, written by a fellow Tufts alum. If you're looking for a summer mystery with heart, this will do. " This is a good little mystery by an accomplished author. I am interested to see how the writer continues with Claire DeWitt. " The references to Silette are kind of lame but I lkied the rest of the book " - Liz, ![]() " I didn't read the whole thing, to many references to a book I've never heard of. ![]() That time I liked it much better and ultimately I would probably read a sequel. So I went back and re-read from nearly the beginning to get the background on that one interview. I won't use a spoiler, but one conversation made a crack in Claire's case, and I suddenly cared. " I didn't really care about any of the characters for the first half, which made it hard to keep them straight. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Clotel returns in the midst of Nat Turner's insurrection (1831). She escapes from a slave dealer and returns to Virginia disguised as a white man to free her daughter, Mary, still a house slave. ![]() When she and her husband die, their daughters are sold into slavery by their father's creditors.Ĭlotel's owner in Virginia falls in love with her, fathers a child by her, and, despite vague promises of marriage, sells her. Currer and Althesa both die in the course of the narrative, Althesa in particularly tragic circumstances: she has married her owner and raised two daughters as free white women. ![]() It first appeared in the United States as Miralda, or The Beautiful Quadroon: A Romance of American Slavery Founded on Fact (serialized in the Weekly Anglo-African during the winter of 1860–1861), then in book form, substantially revised, as Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States (1864) and Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine: A Tale of the Southern States (1867).īased on persistent rumors about Thomas Jefferson's relations with a slave mistress, Clotel begins with the auction of Jefferson's mistress (Currer) and her two daughters by Jefferson (Clotel and Althesa). The first known full-length African American novel, Clotel, by William Wells Brown, was originally published in London as Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (1853). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to realistic fiction, and foreshadowed the modernist work of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() James insisted that writers in Great Britain and America should be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world, as French authors were. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. Henry James, OM (1843-1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. ![]() ![]() The book is a good one to have a discussion with afterwards. This book fits into many religions as well as the child can learn they are a child of God and are completing hard tasks to prove of their worth and share the God spirit they have. Lions, snakes, bees and lightening are things most children are afraid of, so they would understand the danger or the tasks. The tale has great meaning and is a very exciting one for children. It peers deeply into another culture and tells a wonderful tale. ![]() Impressions: This book is beautifully illustrated. The Lord of the Sun then sends his son back to the Earth where he can influence the Earth with the sun spirit he possesses.ĪPA Reference of Book: McDermott, G. When he passes the tests, it is proven that he is the son of the Lord. He has to go through lions, serpents, bees and lightening. ![]() The Arrow Maker assists the boy by using him as an arrow and sends him up to the Sun. He goes through the village and asks if anyone knows who his father is. The boy grows up curious of who his father is. The Lord of the Sun sands a spark of the Sun to a maiden on earth and she has a son. Book Summary: Arrow to the Sun is a Pueblo Indian tale about the Lord of the Sun’s son. ![]() ![]() Come for the drama, stay for the laughs! Catch up with your favorite Off-Campus characters as they navigate the changes that come with growing up and discover that big decisions can have big consequences.and big rewards. As it turns out, for these four couples, love is the easy part. Sure, they have each other, but they also have real-life problems that four years at Briar U didn't exactly prepare them for. ![]() Life after college for Garrett and Hannah, Logan and Grace, Dean and Allie, and Tucker and Sabrina, isn't quite what they imagined it would be. Three years of real life after graduation. ![]() The international bestselling Off-Campus series returns with a collection of four novellas by. ![]() The international bestselling Off-Campus series returns with a collection of four novellas by New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy! This brand-new installment provides the much-anticipated answer to the question: Where are they now? Four stories. Buy The Legacy by Elle Kennedy for 43.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. The international bestselling Off-Campus series returns with a collection of four novellas by New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy! This brand-new installment provides the much-anticipated answer to the question: Where are they now? Four st. ![]() |