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Snow by Orhan Pamuk5/13/2023 ![]() The editor wanted someone to go to Kars to report on the municipal elections and, more particularly, the recent spate of suicides by young women. ![]() He has briefly returned to Turkey where he met an old friend, a newspaper editor. ![]() The hero is Ka (the initials of his name), a poet who has lived in exile in Germany for political reasons. The story is told by Orhan Pamuk who is both narrator but also, at the end, a character, as he goes to Kars to gather information about the events in the novel, which he will then turn into the novel we are reading. Indeed, it even snows in the small part of the novel set in Germany. And, during most of the novel, it snows, cutting off the city of Kars from the rest of Turkey. The hero is called Ka, similar in sound to kar, the Turkish for snow. The story is set in Kars, whose name means snow. ![]() What could be better than a post-modernist sad love story which bravely confronts the issues of Islamic fundamentalism, Western influence and the role of women in modern Turkey? Once again Pamuk produces a masterpiece and one that probably led to his getting the Nobel Prize and, frankly, this is one of the occasions when the Nobel Prize Committee actually got it right.Īs the title implies, snow is key here and, no, not as a name for heroin. Home » Turkey » Orhan Pamuk » Kar (Snow) Orhan Pamuk: Kar (Snow) ![]()
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Click kayla miller5/13/2023 ![]() All of Olive’s friends and classmates get along and are respectful to adults. Another unexpected aspect of the story is the fact there aren’t any negative characters. She notices an ad for the upcoming contest and it immediately distracts her in school and at school when she should be practicing guitar, doing homework, and helping her friend with Berry Scouts. The film contest consumes Olive’s attention despite being one thing in her life she hasn’t planned on. ![]() There are a couple of curiosities about the story that may resonate with young readers. However, she lacks the foresight of the consequences of joining the Berry Scouts in addition to school, homework, and other commitments. She displays social awareness as she uses her position on the student council to challenge the school dress code. Never mind the fact she doesn’t have an idea for a film nor does she have a camera to record one. ![]() Olive is enthusiastic (impulsive?) as she’s already quit karate after three classes and now spontaneously plans to enter a short-film contest she notices on a bulletin board. It’s a time to explore interests but that sometimes gets out of control. ![]() Middle-grade readers may relate to her stress since that’s a time when many new clubs, sports, and hobbies become available to them. The whole story is about her and the many different activities she takes on. Compared to most graphic novels I’ve read, this book does pretty well in developing Olive’s character. ![]()
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Anne rice vampire chronicles collection5/13/2023 ![]() "With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida. ![]() She has a marvelously devious plan to "save" mankind-in this vivid novel of the erotic, electrifying world of the undead. To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time."Īkasha, the queen of the damned, has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. His is a mesmerizing story-passionate and thrilling. Once an aristocrat from pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the decadent 1980s, Lestat rushes through the centuries seeking to fathom the mystery of his existence. Anne Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth-the education of the vampire." "A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller. Interview with the Vampire, the opening book in the series, appeared in 1976, and drew not just readers but also critical acclaim. ![]() A novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force, it is a story of danger and flight, love and loss, suspense and resolution, and the extraordinary power of the senses. Among the most popular authors in recent American history, Anne Rice (1941-2021) was best known for The Vampire Chronicles, a gothic fiction series revolving around the vampire Lestat. Now, in one chilling volume, here are the first three classic novels of The Vampire Chronicles. It all began a quarter of a century ago with Interview with the Vampire. ![]() The hypnotic, deeply seductive novels of Anne Rice have captivated millions of fans around the world. ![]()
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Stuntboy in between time5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() He’s never fully with one parent or the other. What’s also giving him frets is his parents living on two separate floors in their apartment building. But don’t talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball thing, and also, it gives Portico the frets. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. ![]() He couldn’t save his parents from becoming Xs. He likes it that way-then no one can get in the way of him from keeping other other people safe. Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the sequel to the hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel Stuntboy, in the Meantime about the greatest young superhero you’ve never heard of, jam packed with illustrations by Raúl the Third! ![]()
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Just jaime5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() She also knows how wonderful it is when friendships do work out. But as a mom (and former middle school student in the dark ages), she knows these things happen. Plus don't miss Terri Libenson's You-niquely You: An Emmie & Friends Interactive JournalĪs a Type A perfectionist, Terri Libenson hates to admit that she has any ex-friends. Told in alternating past and present chapters, Becoming Brianna unfolds over the eight months leading up to one eventful day-as well as over the course of the big day itself. ![]() Just Jaime introduces us to two friends, Maya and Jaime, on their last day of seventh grade and just maybe the last day of their friendship if they can’t figure out who is a real friend and who is a frenemy. On the day of the school talent show, the girls’ lives converge in ways more dramatic than either of them could have imagined. ![]() In Positively Izzy, we meet Bri, the brain, and Izzy, the dreamer. Invisible Emmie is the story of quiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katie, and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day, when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands. Four full-color graphic-novel hybrid books in the bestselling Emmie & Friends series from award-winning and bestselling author and cartoonist Terri Libenson! A great gift for the middle school graphic novel fan in your life.Ĭrushes. ![]()
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My Fair Princess by Vanessa Kelly5/13/2023 ![]() But does that matter, when the beautiful and free-spirited Kathleen deems him a stodgy bore? Luckily, he gets the chance to prove her wrong when their carriage is ambushed by thieves. ![]() To make matters worse, her escort is a handsome Highlander who just happens to be the most boring man in all of Scotland…Īfter a youth of dangerous and wild escapades, Grant Kendrick surprised his family-and himself-by becoming a successful businessman and the most respectable Kendrick brother. But when a scandal threatens her reputation, her parents order her to a remote Scottish estate, hoping she will finally learn to behave like a proper lady. All she desires is to return to her family’s estate to raise horses and manage her father’s magnificent gardens. Miss Kathleen Calvert may be the daughter of an Irish aristocrat, but she has no intention of acting like one. ![]() ![]() The latest in bestselling author Vanessa Kelly’s intoxicating Clan Kendrick series shines a light on the most respectable member of the Kendrick clan-and the independent woman who stole his heart… ![]()
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![]() ![]() En ella vive Tahmuz, un joven huérfano cuyo misterioso protector, Doenal, se niega a revelarle los detalles de su origen y de su pasado. Su viento gélido derriba los árboles y la nieve mata hasta a los animales más fuertes. ![]() Una novela épica llena de batallas, misterio y aventuras.Įn la Ciudad Alta el invierno es implacable. ![]()
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Unconditional parenting by alfie kohn5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Kohn lives (actually) in the Boston area with his wife and two children, and (virtually) at. Kohn's criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades test scores." ![]() Children are not pets to be trained, nor are they computers, programmed to respond predictably to an input. ![]() In a nutshell, it's the child who engages in a behavior, not just the behavior itself, that matters. The author of fourteen books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations. Unconditional parenting assumes that behaviors are just the outward expression of feelings and thoughts, needs and intentions. Kohn's criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades test scores." Kohn lives (actually) in the Boston area with his wife and two children, and (virtually) at Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations. Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. ![]()
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Hellhound on his trail book5/13/2023 ![]() With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel when the drifter catches up with his prey. ![]() Humiliated, King fatefully vowed to return to Memphis in April. Hoping to resuscitate his faltering crusade, King joined the sanitation workers’ cause, but their march down Beale Street, the historic avenue of the blues, turned violent. On February 1, 1968, two Memphis garbage men were crushed to death in their hydraulic truck, provoking the exclusively African American workforce to go on strike. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man-whose real name was James Earl Ray-drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallace’s racist presidential campaign. ![]() ![]() On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. ![]()
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In erin morgenstern the night circus5/13/2023 ![]() Nonsense, Ukrainians and Americans respond.So, what really happened?Was it the Ukrainians, worried that their spring counteroffensive might falter, or simply eager to take out the leader laying siege to their country?Or was it the Kremlin itself? Was it a so-called false flag operation – in which Russian air defenses destroyed the threat – aimed at stirring Russians to greater anger and enthusiasm for the war, or to generate support for a bid to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy?That was the question we were asking ourselves at the Monitor this morning. Ukraine intended to kill President Vladimir Putin with American help, Russian authorities say. Through the grainy eye of a surveillance camera, a drone descends toward the heart of the Kremlin and explodes. The video is spectacular, and the event was surely intended to be so. ![]() |