![]() ![]() Her Connecticut studio is in a converted barn that has perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. Boynton has four perfect children and an equally perfect granddaughter. ![]() In 2008, Boynton received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cartoonists Society. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children's books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children's author, songwriter, producer, and director. Jackson, which won the 2018 Grand Prize for Best Children’s Animation Short from the Rhode Island International Film Festival. But YES the hippopotamus About the Author. A hesitant hippo makes a big impact in this whimsical story about taking a chance from board book creator Sandra Boynton.Follow along as this shy hippo. Boynton has also written and directed eleven short musical films and two animated shorts, including “Tyrannosaurus Funk,” sung by Samuel L. Boynton has also written and produced six albums of unconventional children’s music three of her albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold), and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has gone Platinum (over one million copies sold). ![]() More than 70 million of her books have been sold-“mostly to friends and family,” she says. Boynton has written and illustrated sixty children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. ![]() Sandra Boynton is a beloved American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, and highly sporadic short film director. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever. As readers follow her into the trenches of WWII. There, she finds an unexpected ally in First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and an unexpected promise of a different future.īut when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a terrifying new foe, she finds herself in the deadliest duel of her life. Kate Quinn writes with a diamond eye for detail.' Taylor Adams, author of No Exit and Hairpin Bridge In The Diamond Eye, Kate Quinn introduces us to her fiercest heroine yet, Mila Pavlichenko, a celebrated female sniper for the Red Army who displays death-defying courage, skill, and wisdom. Mila is torn from the battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America while the war still rages. Handed a rifle, Mila discovers a gift – and months of blood, sweat and tears turn the young woman into a deadly sniper: the most lethal hunter of Nazis. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their country from the Fuhrer’s destruction. ![]() In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko’s life revolves around her young son – until Hitler’s invasion of Russia changes everything. ![]() The brand-new historical novel based on a true story from the bestselling author of The Rose Code and The Alice Network ![]() ![]() Boys at school now see Ari as an easy target, someone who won't say no. ![]() Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right to be mad at Luis, the rumor mill begins churning-thanks, she's sure, to Luis's ex-girlfriend, Shawni. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party-while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. ![]() So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers-despite her bold fashion choices. An ideal next read for fans of Laurie Halse Anderson. ![]() From the bestselling author of the National Book Award Finalist The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School comes a revenge story told with nuance, heart, and the possibility of healing. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think a lot of it is about expectations: I got myself into the mindset that this would be dark and heavy (the length also suggested some weight to it), and that helped me to mentally prepare for what was to come. I had seen a lot of polarizing opinions about Kingdom of Souls, some enjoying it, others not so much. ![]() And if he rises, his hunger for souls will bring the world to its knees… unless Arrah pays the price for the magic to stop him. The long-imprisoned Demon King is stirring. ![]() Until the Kingdom’s children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find the culprit. There’s only one thing Arrah hasn’t tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval. Magic has a price-if you’re willing to pay.īorn into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quick Hamlet Facts When was Hamlet written? Presenting an overview of Shakespeare’s Hamlet play, including quick facts, a plot summary, a character review, setting summary, answers to commonly asked questions about Hamlet and links to more indepth reviews. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. ![]() ![]() ![]() Certain mannerism’s he displays make perfect sense to me, yet others do not seem to fit. Rezkin, to me, is seemingly just too “skilled” or “good” to be bested. ![]() While I enjoyed the story and overall theme, I did have qualms with a couple of key elements. ![]() My take: “Free the Darkness” is the first novel I have read by Kel Kade . Will his intentions remain hidden from the enamored Frisha? Or will Tam’s developing friendship evaporate with discovering Rezkin’s true motives and ultimate plan? However, Rezkin carries a shrouded, dark secret. Journeying through lands teeming with bandits, dishonest merchants and a ply for control of a chaotic underground network of thieves, would test Rezkin’s well crafted and numerous abilities, beyond mettle. Befriending a similar-aged girl, Frisha Souvain, along with Tamarin “Tam” Blackwater, her guard and escort, the trio embarks on adventure en route to Frisha’s uncle’s estate in the city of Kaibain as Rezkin follows Striker Farson’s ever-growing cold trail. Plot Summary:Rezkin, a warrior of little renown, seeks answers from the sole remaining “Striker” present as his tenure at a mysterious fort in the Northern reaches, ends in betrayal. Title: Free the Darkness (King’s Dark Tidings Book 1) Great leaders find those who are worthy of wielding power and set them to the task of making things right” -Coroleus, J.E. Great men seek to make things right and gather the power to do so. ![]() “Good men want only the power to make things right. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is Thomas and Liis’ story, and how after his heart crushed and torn apart from the only woman he couldn’t have, he finally found his forever. In the second installment of the Maddox Brothers books, experience firsthand the mysterious world of the elusive Thomas Maddox, and how good love can be when you’re not the first, but the last. Posing as a couple, they must travel to Travis & Abby’s beach vow renewal and give him the news, but when the pretending ends, she finds herself wondering if they were pretending at all. Liis is stubborn, defiant, and yet somehow softens Thomas’s rough edges, making her the perfect agent to accompany him to the ceremony. In a deal that will spare his brother, Thomas has agreed to recruit Travis into the FBI. Travis’s only savior is his unusual tie to the mob. Younger brother Travis is faced with prison time for his involvement in a basement fire that killed dozens of college students, and the media want a conviction. ![]() Though, as many lives as he’s saved, there is one that is beyond his reach. He is tasked with putting away some of the world’s toughest criminals, and he is one of the best the Bureau has to offer. Special Agent in Charge Thomas Maddox is arrogant, unforgiving, and ruthless. She dreams of promotions and shaking hands with the director after cracking an impossible case. Deciding she is married only to her job, she breaks off her engagement and transfers from Chicago to the field office in San Diego. No-nonsense Liis Lindy is an agent of the FBI. If A Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever. ![]() ![]() Over the span of those 18 years, feminism had “grown and flourished.” And during those 18 years, Le Guin had a sense that there was something missing from her writing that was “paralyz storytelling ability.” She realized at some point that it was the absence of women at the center of her stories. It took Le Guin 18 years to come back to the fourth book and finish it. She had no idea where the story was going or why the main character was doing what she was doing. She wrote the first three over the span of six years, and “confidently” started writing the fourth…and couldn’t do it. In the Introduction, she explains why it took her so long to write all six books of the Earthsea series. ![]() ![]() I read AWoE as part of The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, which includes an Introduction by Le Guin that put a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. ![]() ![]() Shifting from the narrator’s comedic meditation on the impossibility of cleaning her apartment to Weeks’s unanswered letters to Vivien Leigh and Sylvia Plath, Zipper Mouth‘s fragmentary structure reflects Weeks’s interest in the personal and the private, narrative and context. ![]() Burroughs and Kathy Acker, who imagined New York through frenetic literary collage in the decades before her. With Zipper Mouth, Weeks intrepidly challenges writers like William S. Through e-mails, letters, and monologues, Weeks’s anonymous narrator (who seems to bear some resemblance to Weeks herself) articulates the growing romantic and sexual frustration of her unrequited love for Jane, a straight performance artist. ![]() ![]() Laurie Weeks’s debut novel, Zipper Mouth (Feminist Press), chronicles drug- and alcohol-fueled navigations of staid temp agencies, filthy downtown apartments, and the everyday banks, bars and streets of 1990s New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() That passed very quickly, but before then, I filled our time together with reading. It didn’t, at first, feel natural to me to have a one-sided conversation with my daughter. We spent twenty-four hours a day together, and she was mostly just laying around, swaddled up in some container - a basket, a bassinet, her crib. In the early days of Zelda-life, I hadn’t realized that yet, and I felt frantic to read anything. Given an hour alone these days, it turns out, I’d much rather lay on my bed or stare at a wall, just being, than pick up a book. It’s how I recharge my batteries and refresh myself.Īnd then I had a baby. ![]() When work or life interferes to the point that I don’t get hours of reading squeezed in every week, I get antsy, and feel depressed and confused. Reading has always been an integral part of who I am, how I define myself, and how I structure my days. I don’t remember the time before I could read. ![]() |