![]() ![]() One of Publishers Weekly's Best Comic Books and Best Children's Books of 2013Ī New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013 Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature Gene Luen Yang is rightly called a master of the comics form, and this book will cement that reputation. It offers a penetrating insight into not only one of the most controversial episodes of modern Chinese history, but into the very core of our human nature. ![]() As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.īoxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published. ![]() A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.īut in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. ![]() In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. One of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing new work. ![]()
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The book ends in the traditional snappy way. But, as with most gingerbread boys, this one finds himself a coyote willing to take him across the river. Out jumps the Gingerbread Cowboy and off he runs, “as fast as his boots could carry him.” As he runs, he dashes past all sorts of wild west critters like a roadrunner, horned lizard, and long-horned cattle. But when the rancher peeks into the oven, you can guess what happens. Out in the Wild Wild West, a rancher’s wife makes him a cowboy from gingerbread. The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires, illustrated by Holly Berry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never before have Marcus’s insights been so directly and powerfully presented. ![]() In fresh and unencumbered English, Hays vividly conveys the spareness and compression of the original Greek text. ![]() In Gregory Hays’s new translation–the first in thirty-five years–Marcus’s thoughts speak with a new immediacy. For anyone who struggles to reconcile the demands of leadership with a concern for personal integrity and spiritual well-being, the Meditations remains as relevant now as it was two thousand years ago. ![]() Marcus’s insights and advice–on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others–have made the Meditations required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life.įew ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. ![]() ![]() Researching the home's past in the hopes of finding grant-worthy historical significance, Willa becomes fascinated by science teacher Thatcher Greenwood and his neighbor, naturalist Mary Treat, one of whom may have lived on the property in the 1870s. ![]() ![]() Destitute after decades of striving and stunned by the racist presidential candidate upending America's ideals, the couple feels bewildered by the future facing them. They hope the house they have inherited in Vineland will help rebuild their finances, but%E2%80%94riddled with structural problems too costly to repair%E2%80%94it slowly collapses around them. They find themselves responsible for Iano's ailing father and their single son's new baby. In the first storyline, set in the present, the magazine Willa Knox edited and the college at which her husband, Iano Tavoularis, taught both fold at the same time. Its two intertwined narratives are set in Vineland, a real New Jersey town built as a utopian community in the 1860s. ![]() Kingsolver's meticulously observed, elegantly structured novel unites social commentary with gripping storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holliday was the author of "The World Rushed In," a history of the California Gold Rush that was a best-seller when it was published in 1981 it went through 13 printings, and a new edition was reissued recently by the University of Oklahoma Press. He had been suffering from pulmonary fibrosis. ![]() Holliday, one of the most eminent historians of California and the West, died at his home in Carmel on Thursday at the age of 82. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even victim’s dowdy sister, Linda, who’s partial to rompers covered in cats (I absolutely love this detail!) doesn’t seem to particularly care that her sister was murdered. A young woman is abducted from a dark London street, her body later found trapped beneath the ice in an old boat house, her eyes wide, her frozen face forever capturing the horror of her untimely death. The Girl in the Ice - Robert Bryndza Her eyes are wide open. Throughout her investigation, she runs into a constant stream of complications from her bosses and the victim’s rich family, who wants nothing more than to see Foster gone and the investigation closed. on-line notice The Ice Pdf as without diculty as evaluation them wherever you are now. When the body of a a gorgeous socialite is brutally murdered and turns up frozen in a lake, she has a chance to turn her career around. From the moment a body turns up frozen in a lake to the very last page, I was hooked.Īfter losing her husband in shoot out in another infestation, along with several other members of her police squad, Detective Ericka Foster is on tentative ground with her squad. ![]() The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza is the definition of macabre. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only way for the reader to achieve a secure perspective on the novel is to repeat the experience and become a re-reader, returning. The idea of ‘plotting’ itself takes on a double meaning in this context, positioning the author herself as adroit a ‘double-crosser’ as any of the schemers in the narrative itself. This is a text obsessed with knowledge, and the recurring question of who knows everything and who knows nothing raises pressing concerns about identity and authenticity that come to preoccupy the characters and their audience. ![]() In Fingersmith, this demand surfaces via Water’s manipulation of the trope of doubling, presenting the reader with two narrators who both know less than they realize, and whose different versions of the same events resist symmetrical alignment. Chapter Summary: This essay argues that a recurring characteristic of Sarah Waters’ work as a whole is that it is written to be re-read. ![]() ![]() ![]() This photograph, the back of a woman wearing an unraveling corset, is representative of the elegance and fragility of beauty in the face of destruction. Shot the night he fled Europe at the invasion of the German army into France. ![]() In 1939, Horst made one of his most famous works, Mainboucher Corset. He made a large body of iconic fashion photography. Horst photographed such celebrities as Greta Garbo, Coco Chanel, Joan Crawford, and Katherine Hepburn. He incorporated the influence that modernism and surrealism had on the art world into his photographs. By 1931, Horst was shooting for French Vogue and then British Vogue in 1932, thanks to art director Mehemed Agha. Hoyningen-Huene further sharpened his vision and mentored him. This training carried over into his photographs resulting in Horst’s sessions sometimes lasting for days as he searched for the right blend of light and shadow. ![]() While in Paris, he turned from architecture to photography, which he learned from George Hoyningen-Huene, a fashion photographer working for Vogue. He apprenticed with Le Corbusier in Paris and learned how to construct a picture plane, using the tenets of architectural practice like precision and calculation. He produced outstanding, elegant work that made him one of the most influential fashion photographers of the mid-20th century.īorn Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann, in 1906 in Germany, Horst studied architecture early on. Horst was a pioneer of the genre now known as classic fashion photography. ![]() ![]() ![]() The National Book Award-winning THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP established John Irving's writing career. Garp's life - adapted into a 1984 Oscar-nominated film starring Robin Williams and Glenn Close. Inscribed first edition of this epic and intimate, humorous and tragic story of writer T. Not only is it that he woke after the publication of The World According To Garp to find himself famous, but the extremity of his opinions and the nervous violence of his language recall that intemperate noleman, and like Byron, he would certainly say that love is no sinecure" (Robertson Davies).Ĭondition: Fine in about-fine jacket. "There is something of Byron about John Irving. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life of T.S. The World According To Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A warm inscription linking Irving's second and fourth novel, theÂlatter proving to be hisÂbreakthrough work. InscribedÂby the author on the half-title page in a contemporary hand, "For John another world according to a water-method man, John Irving." Fine in a fine dust jacket. ![]() ![]() Written in response to recent policy and training guidelines, it provides the underpinning knowledge for candidates following the Post Qualifying curriculum. ![]() ![]() Soundly organized and engagingly written with useful summaries and reflective exercises for students, it is a very fine text that will be widely used' - Nick Pike, Principal Lecturer in Social Work, University of GloucestershireThis textbook provides an overview of the Post Qualifying Child Care Award in social work. `The first text to systematically address the learning needs of post-qualifying child care social workers. ![]() |