![]() ![]() He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer. Perfect for readers who prefer the graphic novel format, or for existing fans of the I Survived chapter book series, these graphic novels combine historical facts with high-action storytelling that's sure to keep any reader turning the pages. A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis’s bestselling I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Haus StudioChet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle’s little New Jersey town. ![]() Lauren Tarshis's New York Times bestselling I Survived series takes on vivid new life in full-color graphic novel editions. ![]() until he comes face-to-face with a bloodthirsty shark! So when Chet sees something in the creek, he's sure it's his imagination. A great white shark has been attacking swimmers along the Jersey shore, not far from Elm Hills. He has a job with his uncle Jerry at the local diner, three great friends, and the perfect summertime destination: cool, refreshing Matawan Creek.īut Chet's summer is interrupted by shocking news. (W) Lauren Tarshis, Georgia Ball (A) Haus StudioĪ thrilling graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916!Ĭhet Roscow is finally feeling at home in Elm Hills, New Jersey. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch herself, they may be the only ones who can stop the witches' latest plot to stamp out every last child in the country! This full-colour graphic novel edition of Roald Dahl's The Witches, adapted and illustrated by Eisner Award-winner Penelope Bagieu, is the first-ever Dahl story to appear in this format.Graphic novel readers and Roald Dahl fans alike will relish this dynamic new take on a uniquely funny tale. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world – and there's nothing they despise more than children. ![]() When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch herself, they may be the only ones who can stop the witches' latest plot! As featured in Stylist’s Christmas Gift Guide 2020 Roald Dahl's darkly funny masterpiece, The Witches, now available as a graphic novel from Eisner Award-winning artist Penelope Bagieu! Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. Witches that looked like normal ladies that wanted to exterminate all the kids in the world. Both scared me to bits when I was little. ![]() Not just the original novel but also the old movie. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs in ordinary towns and there's nothing they despise more than children. The Witches are back, this time in a gorgeous and dark Graphic Novel I loved it I LOVE LOVE The Witches by Roald Dahl. Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The internal enemy by alan taylor![]() Each was at one time or another an enemy, a customer, a trading partner and at war and at peace with the British, French, Spanish, Russians, Dutch and Colonists. It was also interesting to hear how the politics of the time influenced the various tribes. ![]() It is somewhat of an awakening, even for a long time reader of histories, to understand how diverse were the natives from area to area. Love the way Taylor includes the impact that the native Americans had on the settlement of America. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss.Ī real history of the pre-revolution American colonies and more. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. ![]() ![]() Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments In the weeds bk borison![]() ![]() As with the first book, once again we have a good looking, intelligent couple being all dumb and idiotic when it comes to their romance that they are ignoring is a romance. There must be something in the water at Lovelight Farms and the surrounding little town. ![]() Borison, narrated by Pippa Jayne, Dane Anderson In The Weeds is a standalone romance and is part of the Lovelight series.īy B.K. ![]() ![]() It features a grumpy farmer, a no-nonsense social media influencer, a small town of busybodies, and four very cute kittens. In The Weeds is a sweet and steamy second-chance romance about finding your happiness. It has absolutely nothing to do with the hot farmer she spent two incredible nights with. She returns to the last place she was happy, Lovelight Farms and the tiny town of Inglewild. When she disappears again, Beckett resolves to finally forget her and move on.įeeling disconnected from her work and increasingly unhappy, she’s trying to find her way back to something real. He had no idea that the sweet and sexy woman he met at a bar is actually a global phenomenon: social media influencer Evelyn St. So when she suddenly appears on his farm as part of a social media contest, he is … confused. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. One incredible weekend in Maine, and he’s officially a man distracted. James isn’t the kind of woman you forget.īeckett Porter certainly hasn’t. ![]() ![]() With an ISBN of 1601429649, this hardcover book is an inspirational read that covers topics such as Christian living, Christian living personal growth, Christian living women, inspirational Christian, inspirational Christian living, inspirational religion, inspirational self help, and motivational self help. Published by Waterbrook Press and released on January 28, 2020, this book is a New York Times Bestseller and Christian Book Award Finalist. Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts by Jennie Allen is the perfect guide for anyone looking to break free from the negative thought patterns that can keep them from living their best life. ![]() Awards: NYT Bestseller, Christian Book Award Finalist.Textbooks - Computers / Network Security / Tech ![]() Hot Bestseller Books - Spiritual / Religious Hot Bestseller Books - Finance / Investing Hot Bestseller Books - Family and Relationships Hot Bestseller Books - Business and Economics Hot Bestseller Books - Biography / Autobiography New Arrivals Textbooks - Spiritual / Religious New Arrivals Textbooks - Finance / Investing New Arrivals Textbooks - Family and Relationships New Arrivals Textbooks - Computers / Network Security / Tech New Arrivals Textbooks - Business and Economics ![]() ![]() New Arrivals Books - Spiritual / Religious New Arrivals Books - Family and Relationships New Arrivals Books - Business and Economics New Arrivals Books - Biography / Autobiography ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mosel had been an assistant in the children's department at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, before becoming an associate professor of library science at Case Western Reserve University. Mosel on December 26, 1942, with whom she had three children Nancy Mosel Farrar, Joanne and James. She attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942, and later attended Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) where she graduated with a Master of Science in Library Science degree in 1959. Tichy, an engraver and Marie Fingulin Tichy. She was born as Arlene Tichy on August 27, 1921, in Cleveland, Ohio to Edward J. Arlene Tichy Mosel was a American author of children's literature who was best-known for her illustrated books Tikki Tikki Tembo, a retelling of a Chinese folk tale, and the award-winning The Funny Little Woman, which was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1973. ![]() ![]() ![]() I expected a light, fluffy read with perhaps some slight shades of dysfunction, similar to a Sarah Dessen novel. Which perfect family will save her? Or is it time she saved herself?A transporting debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another.įeeling like one of the only bloggers who had yet to read and love Huntley Fitzpatrick’s debut novel, I eagerly started it while on my vacation this summer. ![]() She's suddenly faced with an impossible decision. Then something unthinkable happens, and the bottom drops out of Samantha's world. until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs up next to her and changes everything.As the two fall fiercely for each other, stumbling through the awkwardness and awesomeness of first love, Jase's family embraces Samantha - even as she keeps him a secret from her own. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them. All the time."The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. "One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. ![]() My Life Next Door (My Life Next Door, #1) by Huntley FitzpatrickĪlso by this author: The Boy Most Likely To ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Head on over to see it and, if you like, enter to win an advanced readers copy (ARC). The book's pace is sprightly, and Holly's adventures are exciting without being too scary. Today the book blog IceyBooks reveals the cover of THE KEY & THE FLAME (finally). Magic creatures, realistic human emotions, and the children's very different personalities are well knit into a rich drama that lasts the full summer., Caterer is especially good at creating believable children in all of their human imperfections. The booke(tm)s pace is sprightly, and Hollye(tm)s adventures are exciting without being too scary., In her debut novel, Caterer quickly builds a fantasy that involves time travel and switching identities as Holly, Ben, and their new friend Everett enter a tree, using Holly's key, and find themselves identified as enemy agents by a fantasy analog of thirteenth-century England. Magic creatures, realistic human emotions, and the childrene(tm)s very different personalities are well knit into a rich drama that lasts the full summer., Caterer is especially good at creating believable children in all of their human imperfections. ![]() ![]() In her debut novel, Caterer quickly builds a fantasy that involves time travel and switching identities as Holly, Ben, and their new friend Everett enter a tree, using Hollye(tm)s key, and find themselves identified as enemy agents by a fantasy analog of thirteenth-century England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is to be noted that irony informs this account, for at around the time that Herodotus was writing and researching his book, Athens was an imperialist Greek empire in its own right (see the prelude in the article Peloponnesian War). Herodotus portrays the conflict as one between the forces of slavery (the Persians) on the one hand, and freedom (the Athenians and the confederacy of Greek city-states which united against the invaders) on the other. ![]() Perhaps most importantly, it stands as one of the first, and surviving, accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire, the events of, and causes for, the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Moreover, it established without precedent the genre and study of history in the Western world, although historical records and chronicles existed beforehand. It is not an impartial record but it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs. Written from the 450s to the 420s BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in the Mediterranean and Asia at that time. The Histories of Herodotus is considered one of the seminal works of history in Western literature. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Don't Get Caught by Kurt Dinan![]() ![]() Childhood aspiration: Stuntman, FBI agent, or truck driver. ![]() Favorite book growing up: A three-way tie–TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING, THE BOXCAR CHILDREN, and SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL.Pitched as The Breakfast Club meets Ocean’s 11, the story is about Max Lewis, a high school nobody who also happens to be a heist film expert who’s memorized their strategies, tactics, and cons. So when he’s framed by the mysterious Chaos Club for vandalizing the town water tower, Max does what any budding mastermind with nothing to lose would do–he recruits a crew of misfits and plots payback. Kurt’s debut, DON’T GET CAUGHT (Sourcebooks Fire, April 2016) is a Young Adult contemporary novel. He lives in suburban Cincinnati with his wife and four children. He’s published many short stories, one of which, “Plink”, appears in 2015’s The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 7. Kurt Dinan has taught high school English for the past twenty years, and while he’s never pulled any of the pranks detailed in DON’T GET CAUGHT, he was once almost arrested in college for blizzarding the campus with fliers promoting a fake concert. ![]() |