![]() ![]() He doesn’t enjoy it as much as he enjoys drawing, and he can’t control his body and the ball. With feet so large that he’s earned the nickname Suitcase, sixth-grader AlexanderXander to family and friendsappears unable to play basketball. With its vibrant paintings and reassuringly realistic text, this is a book that will appeal to several age groups: younger children will find Gina's antics most amusing, while those closer to Brandon's age who must put up with younger siblings will identify with his frustrations. by Mildred Pitts Walter RELEASE DATE: Oct. With Mama's help, he discovers his sister on her bedroom floor-sleeping like an angel. Finally, to Brandon's horror, Gina disappears altogether. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gina answers ``no'' to all his suggestions, gets into Mama's makeup, makes a mess of Brandon's room and pours milk into the jelly jar at lunch. In no time at all, he begins to wish he had decided to go out and play with his friends instead. Brandon agrees to take care of Gina while Mama cleans the house for company. : Suitcase (9780545102711) by Mildred Pitts Walter and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Walter and Cummings, winners of Coretta Scott King Awards for fiction and illustration, respectively, both bring considerable talent to this gentle story of a seven-year-old boy and his mischievous two-year-old sister. ![]()
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![]() Though the victim survived, Goldman's lover was sentenced to life imprisonment while she received a lesser sentence. In the years to follow, she and her lover planned to assassinate a well known financier and industrialist. She took on various jobs, including that of a factory worker before becoming a writer and lecturer committed to anarchist philosophy. She was deeply affected by what came to be known as the Haymarket Affair. In the widely publicized trial that followed, eight anarchists were condemned to death or life imprisonment, convicted of conspiracy, though none of them had actually thrown the bomb.Ī young Russian immigrant, Emma Goldman, had arrived just the previous year in the United States. ![]() The police intervene to maintain peace, but they soon use violence to quell the mob and a bomb is thrown, resulting in death and injuries to scores of people. ![]() In the Haymarket region of the city, a peaceful Labor Day demonstration suddenly turns into a riot. ![]() ![]() A former psychotherapist, she now writes fulltime. Marjorie Brody, an award-winning short story author and Pushcart Prize Nominee, crafts a riveting debut novel of psychological suspense with a shocking twist. Will the truth be worth the sacrifice? Or will Sarah stop at nothing to keep Judith quiet? ![]() Acting as Sarah's sole confidante, Judith gains the power to expose her secret. ![]() But as a mysterious connection pulls her toward Sarah, Judith's perfect world unravels. She has college plans, respect from family and friends, and a fiancé she adores. Including herself.īeautiful, confident, eighteen-year-old Judith Murielle lives the ideal life. Besides, her mother will say Sarah is totally to blame for what the boys did-which Sarah believes is true. The woman is too busy, too proud, and too jealous of Sarah to really care if her life disintegrates. Timid fourteen-year-old Sarah wants her controlling mother to stop prying into what happened the night of the freshman dance. If she acknowledges the truth, it will destroy everyone she loves. Sarah Hausman must hide a secret-even from herself. She hid the secret from everyone, including herself. Sharon Sala, New York Times Bestselling Author ![]() For ages 15 and up, a new psychological suspense… ![]() ![]() Instead, it reveals how embracing change, challenge, and uncertainty prepares anyone to face their “next Everest” in life. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude. But this story is not about “conquering” the world’s highest peak. The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountains Deadliest Day and Finding the. ![]() ![]() ![]() Davidson's background in geology and environmental science makes him uniquely qualified to explain how this natural disaster unfolded and why the seismic threats lurking beneath Nepal are even greater today. Suspenseful and engrossing, The Next Everest portrays the experience of living through the biggest disaster to ever hit the mountain. But in the face of risk and uncertainty, he returned in 2017 and finally achieved his dream of reaching the summit. The experience left him shaken, and despite his thirty-three years of climbing and serving as an expedition leader, he wasn’t sure that he would ever go back. ![]() That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with eighteen people losing their lives on the mountain.Īfter spending two unsettling days stranded on Everest, Davidson's team was rescued by helicopter. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed about 8,900 people. “On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. ![]() ![]() There he finds a calling amid a royal court rife with intrigue and danger, where he meets Niya, Princess Elyssa's handmaid, who is not who she appears to be and whose true identity will spell death if revealed. Enlisted from his earliest days to kill without mercy, he has never seen sun or sky, not until a quest for vengeance propels him aboveground. As the gap between rich and poor widens and famine threatens the land, rumors of a prophecy begin to spread: a great hope, a True Queen who will ascend and save the kingdom.īut rumors will not help Lazarus, a boy on the verge of manhood, trapped in the clandestine underworld known as the Creche. The Tearling, founded as a utopia, has collapsed and reverted to feudalism. ![]() ![]() "A suspenseful, multilayered tale of how the sparks of revolution are kindled, and of those who strive to ignite them."-Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling authorĪs a kingdom descends into darkness and new alliances are forged under fire, a battle begins over a prophecy that will change the course of history in this much-anticipated stand-alone prequel to the bestselling Queen of the Tearling trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's fast-paced, plausible, packed with technology including unmanned surveillance apparatus and a remarkable beetle. It looks like our main characters may die at the end, but the author manages to inject humor at the most suspenseful time. This story has its moments of humor and suspense. He is known as the Chameleon, because of his talent for changing disguises quickly. Sor is a cross between Robin Hood and a terrorist, if terrorists were armed with only a slingshot. That turns out not to be so cut-and-dry, but they two of them do end up in the company of this outlaw, Tubuuku Sor. The first suspect in the kidnapping is a young terrorist outlaw, well known to the government. ![]() Jake and his sister waste no time being kidnapped. The author actually lives in this part of the world, with his family, as a missionary. So, this is pretty topical, including terrorist extremist groups and government corruption. So, Jake gets kicked out of boarding school and joins his family in Burkina Faso, West Africa, where his father is an ambassador. I have added it to my top-20-of-all-time bookshelf, which still doesn't have 20 books on it. I don't think it or its author is well-known - YET. This novel kept me up very late because I couldn't put it down. ![]() ![]() ![]() The One and Only Ruby features first-person narrative author's use of literary devices (personification, imagery) and story elements (plot, character development, perspective). ![]() Artist Patricia Castelao returns to the world of Ivan and his friends with gorgeous black-and-white interior illustrations to complete the story. In the timeless way that only Katherine Applegate could craft, this highly anticipated novel in verse is the perfect mix of heartfelt and humorous, poignant and sweet. ![]() Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby’s caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Ruby’s story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. From beloved powerhouse author Katherine Applegate comes The One and Only Ruby, starring the adorable baby elephant from the Newbery Medal-winning modern classic The One and Only Ivan and its bestselling sequel, The One and Only Bob. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. ![]() Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.“Nothing you know is real. Your name isn’t Shawn Jaffe, you’re not an investment broker, and you’re not from Ohio.” But the stranger is murdered before he can explain. Someone is watching him, controlling him, using him. To survive, he’ll need to find out who and why. But the stakes are much higher than one man. Our humanity is on the line, and on the eighth day, it could be the beginning of the end.įor fans of Jason Bourne and Total Recall comes an action-packed scifi thriller that takes off on the first page and keeps rolling until the last page turns. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Void of the title is a micro-verse where hi-tech devices break and stop working after a short time, and where the people, to a greater or lesser extent, have mental powers and can shape the universe around them. So I recommend getting hold of the whole of the trilogy. You could try reading it as a standalone novel but, you would probably end up lost after a few dozen pages. ![]() When you open the book to page one you don’t get any introduction you are just dumped straight into the action. The Void trilogy to me is essentially one book that has had to be split into 3 because of its sheer size. The Void trilogy is set around 1500 years after the end of the Commonwealth Saga, with some recurring characters. The first 3 books were Misspent Youth set in the near future around 2044, followed by the two books making up the Commonwealth Saga, Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained. The trilogy are also the 4thto 6th books set in the “Commonwealth Universe”. The Evolutionary Void by Peter F Hamilton is the final book in the Void trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Glass Onion - which serves both as a metaphor in the movie, and a wink-nudge reference to The Beatles song (which, unexpectedly, plays out in the end credits) - we have a conventional Agatha Christie setting: someone in a gathering of people will get murdered, and mostly everyone will have a motive. His last movie, Knives Out (which, by the way was not a Netflix original release), immersed itself in the whodunit genre that lent itself more on to the calm thrill of seeing what was an essentially a good novella playout on the screen - ie it didn’t entertain the fake dramatics found in murder-thriller movies. Johnson, whose bad trip as a director mostly limits itself to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, is a natural in the murder mystery genre. ![]() ![]() With Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, writer-director Rian Johnson seems to have a good idea about that mood perhaps, he is even feeling the very thing, to a certain degree. So, here is the cliché when it comes to writing reviews about murder mystery movies: you can’t write much about them, unless, that is, when you’re in a spoiler-spitting mood. ![]() |