![]() ![]() They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. ![]() When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. ![]() She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well. ![]() Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Within minutes of the assault, Gulley and McCants were apprehended together. She could describe him only as “quite a dark colored boy” with “curly type hair.” Gulley, McCants, and Sullivan are all African American. Bruner never even saw her attacker clearly. Someone knocked on her door, and as she went to open it, another person who had entered through the back of her home grabbed her from behind. Bruner, an older white woman in her early seventies, was sexually assaulted in her home. The three boys entered the home of Lena Bruner in the morning, while no one was there. On the morning of May 4, 1989, Michael Gulley, fifteen, and Nathan McCants, seventeen, convinced thirteen-year-old Joe Sullivan to accompany them when they broke into an empty house in Pensacola, Florida. Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate “Bryan Stevenson is America’s young Nelson Mandela - a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice for all.” ![]() “Not since Atticus Finch has a fearless and committed lawyer made such a difference in the American South.” Stevenson will be speaking at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures on Monday, January 25th. Littsburgh is thrilled to be able to share with you this chapter from Bryan Stevenson’s best-selling, award-winning book Just Mercy, “a powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice-from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon Jonah becoming more upset his parents, his sister and him go to meet with an FBI agent who is said to be connected to Jonah’s adoption. They begin receiving strange letters at the same time. The book then flashes 13 years into the future in the lives of two thirteen year old boys Chip and Jonah who are both adopted. To her surprise all of the passengers on this plane are infants and there is not even a pilot or stewardess. To make things worse an unidentified plane lands at a gate no one is attending to and she therefore has to go and help them. ![]() She loses codes and is constantly having to ask her supervisor to give them to her. Natrona County Library Serving Natrona County, Wyoming, we promote literacy, support discovery and creation, and build community.įound (The Missing #1) by Margaret Peterson HaddixĪs this book begins a lady by the name of Angela is having many problems on her first day at work at a company by the name of Sky Trails. ![]() ![]() In this volume, "her acknowledged masterwork… she not only offered a uniquely clear-sighted, broad account of twentieth-century totalitarian politics and their antecedents, she also provided… a landmark contribution to the discourse of international human rights" (Benhabib, Politics in Dark Times, 83, 1). Hannah Arendt is "widely recognized as one of the most original and influential political thinkers of the 20th century." Origins of Totalitarianism, her first book in America, "established Arendt's reputation as a political thinker and has a good claim to be regarded as the key to her work" ( Cambridge Companion, 1, 25). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Arendt's first book in America, with sections on Antisemitism, Imperialism and Totalitarianism in a breakthrough analysis of modern political evil and human rights that "established Arendt's reputation as a political thinker and has a good claim to be regarded as the key to her work." "HER ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERWORK": FIRST EDITION OF HANNAH ARENDT'S ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISMĪRENDT, Hannah. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I blazed through it in an hour, came up for air, and then immediately blazed through it again-behavior that mystified me until I remembered how I am on Slack. ![]() It doesn’t feel much like literature, but it does feel like any number of Slack-adjacent activities: procrastinating, eavesdropping, solving a puzzle. Kasulke’s proposition, which taps into the subsuming nature of Work Today, seems to be: What if Slack ate a novel? A reader’s reply might be: Why would I read that novel? And yet “ Several People Are Typing” is fun, funny, addictive, and surreal. Slack lends the story its setting, dictates its form (a series of conversations among co-workers), and defines the book’s voice (characters communicate in a recognizable Slack-speak). Calvin Kasulke’s new book, “Several People Are Typing,” is the tale of a guy whose psyche gets trapped in Slack, the workplace-messaging app. ![]() ![]() ‘ sense of mystery and adventure that generations of childhood Enid Blyton readers will identify with.’ - The Courier Mail ![]() ‘A long, lush, perfectly escapist read.’ - New York Daily News a delicious book to get lost in.’ - Sunday Telegraph ‘ dark, suspenseful feast for history-lovers. This tale, like the maze in the garden of the title, is a fine place to lose yourself.’ - People (****) ‘Morton excels at creating absorbing mystery. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold – secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. On Nell’s death, her grand-daughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. ![]() Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family. On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell O’Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her – but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace. On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() The scenery is a bit interesting and the plot from the first hundred pages or so appeared just convoluted enough that I wanted to see what happened in the end, or I would have been done with this book by the end of half an hour. Where to start? It's bloated, racist and dull. ![]() Well, this was the worst book I've read in a long time. The Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon in the title role, have been commercially and critically successful ( The Bourne Ultimatum won three Academy Awards in 2008), although the story lines depart significantly from the source material. A non-Ludlum book supposedly inspired by his unused notes, Covert One: The Hades Factor, has also been made into a mini-series. Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including The Osterman Weekend, The Holcroft Covenant, The Apocalypse Watch, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. ![]() Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series- The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum-among others. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of the war people have to send their children to far cities, some to another country as Elizabeth White is sent to Ireland. When I was reading it I thanked God that I didn’t live during a war. The novel reflects wars terrible effects on city life, families, and family relationships and especially on children. The story begins from their childhood, goes on during childhood and some time during their adulthood. ![]() Light a Penny Candle is different and very attractive I’ve ever read about a war, actually women in war. Some of them are Black Rain by Ibuse Masuji, Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Without Seeing the Dawn by Stevan Javellana and The Widow and Her Hero by Thomas Keneally. Some are about the war itself, some are about children in the war, some are soldiers. They are all from different perspectives from different countries. "" There are lots of novels that were written during and about World War II in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nominated for Jerry Bentley Book Prize 2016 Nominated for Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies 2017 ![]() Nominated for PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017 ![]() Purdue, Times Higher Education "Judson's reflections on nations, states and institutions are of broader interest, not least in the current debate on the future of the European Union after Brexit." -Annabelle Chapman, Prospect Read more Judson rejects conventional depictions of the Habsburg empire as a hopelessly dysfunctional assemblage of squabbling nationalities and stresses its achievements in law, administration, science and the arts." -Tony Barber, Financial Times "Spectacularly revisionist Judson argues that the empire was a force for progress and modernity This is a bold and refreshing book Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state." -A. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history." -Tim Blanning, Wall Street Journal "This is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy, a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates across the nation-states that replaced it in central Europe. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presen. A EuropeNow Editor's Pick A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year "Pieter M. ![]() ![]() Michael is everything Andre wishes he could be, and Blake, still reeling from the death of his brother, Andre's donor, keeps him at arm's length despite their obvious attraction to each other. ![]() And they've tasked their youngest son, Blake, with teaching Andre how to use his unexpected new gift.Īndre splits his time bouncing between the past and future. He's ready for his life to finally begin, until one night, when he passes out and wakes up somewhere totally unexpected.in 1969, where he connects with a magnetic boy named Michael.Īnd then, just as suddenly as he arrived, he slips back to present-day Boston, where the family of his donor is waiting to explain that his new liver came with a side effect-the ability to time travel. Weeks ago, Andre Cobb received a much-needed liver transplant. A novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the moment before it passes you by. ![]() |