![]() ![]() The story, narrated by the young teen, is both bracingly funny and often achingly sad, as it describes her efforts to overcome a lifetime of poverty, verbal abuse and neglect. The Young Adult novel, published by Candlewick Press of Somerville, is a bittersweet tale of a 13-year-old girl named Carmel Fishkill, after an exit sign along New York’s Taconic Parkway the name has come by way of the girl’s dissolute young mother, who gave birth to her daughter in a car while passing the road sign. Lehrer, of Worthington, liked the idea so much she decided to use it as the basis for a story - and some three years later, her debut novel, “Being Fishkill,” is earning good reviews, including a glowing note in a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly. “We talked about how funny it might be if someone named their kid after the town,” she said. ![]() It was not unfamiliar ground - Lehrer had grown up partly in New Paltz, New York, about 30 miles north of Fishkill - but the name was still a source of amusement. ![]() ![]() During a series of drives with her partner, Amy, through Duchess County in New York a few years back, Ruth Lehrer had to laugh when the couple kept passing a sign for the town of Fishkill, a few miles east of the Hudson River. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What a flawless book about friendship, love, and finding oneself in the midst of a revolution. ![]() Ferrying us between a grim jail cell and the president's lush gardens, the tale reaches beyond all borders and invites us to reimagine what it means to lead, to dare, and to dream.īeth and I buddy read Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis about a month ago, and we loved it. Now, as he talks to the journalist, he wonders if he should reveal the strange secret of his imprisonment: while held in brutal solitary confinement, he survived, in part, by discussing revolution, the quest for dignity, and what it means to love a country, with the only creature who ever spoke back-a loud-mouth frog.Īs engrossing as it is innovative, vivid, moving, and full of wit and humor, The President and the Frog explores the resilience of the human spirit and what is possible when danger looms. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness for his nation. From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes an incandescent novel-political, mystical, timely, and heartening-about the power of memory, and the pursuit of justice.Īt his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because after his former flame disappears following their loud and public argument, Ellery seems to be Police Chief Carson’s first–and only–suspect. ![]() What is Brandon really up to?Įllery will have to unscramble that particular puzzle post haste. 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Unlike everyone else in Pirate’s Cove, Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reigning Scrabble champion, and occasionally clueless owner of the village’s only mystery bookstore, is anything but thrilled when famed horror author Brandon Abbott announces he’s purchased legendary Skull House and plans to live there permanently.Įllery and Brandon have history. Ellery Page is back–and in hot water again! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, in this book Gilda is indeed working at a spy camp in the nation's capital where her all-too-real dreams of Abraham Lincoln's ghost and alternately, a mysterious Russian woman, lead her into a real-life espionage game involving national security. ![]() She should have at least checked out where Gilda was staying and the safety of this job instead of allowing Gilda to go on a bus from the north mid-west to Washington DC. Knowing her penchant for getting into trouble and her brashness, I'm not sure why her mother would allow this almost 15 year-old girl to go off to spy camp in Washington DC alone but there would be no story if she had acted like a normal mother and said "no". Gilda is a psychic investigator and a completely nosy 15 year-old. I thoroughly enjoy this series and this one, #4, was probably the best one yet. 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Sam's mother, Annie, had Sam when she was only sixteen – nearly the same age Sam is at the start of the novel. ![]() Nick Hornby's first foray into the young adult genre, Slam (2007) is about an adolescent Londoner named Sam, and his coming of age as a young father. ![]() ![]() Grounded in traditions of meditation and mindfulness, the new exercises in this transformational journal will show you how to live more fully in the present moment, and achieve lasting joy and self-realization. You'll also discover practices to help you gain distance from your noisy mind, tap into the deeper awareness that is your true essence, and work through the negative emotions that limit your potential. Singer's teachings to your personal experiences, allowing you to dive into the teachings and make them a part of your daily life. ![]() These prompts encourage you to fully relate Michael A. In this beautiful guided journal, you'll find brand-new exercises and prompts paired with original passages from The Untethered Soul. ![]() Based on the #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul, this guided journal offers powerful new practices for inspiration, freedom, and joy. ![]() ![]() Úprimne, na jej príbeh som sa veľmi tešila. Silný, emotívny príbeh Imogen, členky Klubu tých, čo prežili. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. She has won numerous awards, including Bestselling Historical of the Year from the Borders Group, and her novel Simply Magic was a finalist in the Quill Awards. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling 'Slightly' sextet and 'Simply' quartet. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. ![]() She also enjoys watching tennis and curling. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this intelligent, invigorating book, Shapland links her discovery of McCullers’s work, and her romantic relationships with women, with realisations about her own identity. “If Carson was a lesbian, and if her relationships bore that out, wouldn’t someone have said so before?” She is shocked, thrilled, moved – and full of doubt. It begins when Shapland, a closeted young queer person working in an archive in McCullers’s hometown of Columbus, Georgia, finds a series of love letters written to the mid-century American novelist by a woman. I am not a fiction writer, and this is not a biography.” Instead, this book weaves together criticism, biography and memoir in a blended approach to non-fiction popularised by writers such as Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson. ![]() “I have read enough biographies to know, in no uncertain terms, that they are built of artifice and lies. ![]() “I am hardly qualified to write a biography of Carson McCullers,” writes Jenn Shapland. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland ![]() ![]() ![]() He also worked as a national language-arts consultant, sharing his own "Writing Well" curriculum which he had created for his own classroom. During his years of teaching, he won awards from the Colorado Education Association and was a finalist for the Colorado Teacher of the Year. His last four years in teaching were spent creating, coordinating, and teaching in APEX, an extensive gifted/talented program serving 19 elementary schools and some 15,000 potential students. ![]() He then worked in elementary education for 18 years-2 years in Missouri, 2 years in Buffalo, New York-one year as a specially trained BOCES "resource teacher" and another as a sixth-grade teacher-and 14 years in Colorado. in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art.ĭan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Dan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. ![]() |