![]() ![]() Agatha Christie's most ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.' A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out. ![]()
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![]() White Read Aloud Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Germany’s Jugendliteraturpreis, China’s Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award, The Netherlands’ Silver Griffel, and Italy’s Premio Orbil. Presentation: A Million Laughs or Your Money Back: A Free Presentation by Mac BarnettĪwards: Two Caldecott Honors, three New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Awards, three E.B. An editor, life-long advocate for libraries, she has serves on the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.īook: Twenty Questions/The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza The Yellow Star - Jane Addams Peace Prize (Honor Book)ġ4 Cows for America - New York Times BestsellerĬarmen Agra Deedy, is an award-winning author of fifteen books and the host of the four-time Emmy-winning children’s program, Love That Book! Deedy is also an accomplished lecturer, having been a guest speaker for the Library of Congress, Columbia University, TED and TEDx Conference. Sometimes being a good human, or a good wombat, requires opening your doors and your heart to others––even if you lose your best slippers in the process.Īwards: Martina, the Beautiful Cockroach - Pura Belpre Medal (honor book) ![]() What could a great-hearted marsupial, an Australian bushfire, and a Cuban refugee possibly have in common? In what promises to be a laughter-filled session, please join Carmen Agra Deedy as she shares the backstory to her newest children's book, Wombat Said Come In, and find out. ![]() ![]() Notorious for her spending, she also was infamous for a succession of ever younger lovers, bestowing riches and titles upon them as parting gifts. She commissioned the best European jewelers to create “rings, earrings, snuffboxes, and exquisite gem flower bouquets.” At the Winter Palace, she filled her diamond chamber with tiaras, aigrettes, hairpins, and a 189-carat diamond “the size of an egg,” she boasted to her friend Voltaire. ![]() By 1791, writes the author, her museum at the Hermitage boasted paintings by Europe’s major artists, 38,000 books, 10,000 engraved gems, 10,000 drawings, and an extensive natural history collection. Besides legitimizing her claim to rule, Catherine wanted to put Russia on the international stage as a sophisticated, cultivated nation. ![]() The self-aggrandizing Catherine II (1729-1796) was an obsessive, voracious collector.Īs art journalist Jaques ( A Love for the Beautiful: Discovering America’s Hidden Art, 2012) amply shows in this well-researched biography, Catherine amassed paintings, sculpture, books, jewels, furniture, furs, and palaces not because she was an aesthete, but “to legitimize her shaky claim to rule and reinvent herself as Russia’s enlightened ruler.” Married at 16 to the ineffectual Grand Duke Peter in 1762, with a lover’s help, she staged a coup and installed herself as empress. ![]() ![]() ![]() That's not to say that Kay can't handle those elements, but he is far more interested in his characters, in their motivations and what role they play in the political world around them. For someone toiling in the genre of vast armies and immense battles, the depiction of war and combat seems to mildly bore him. ![]() When it comes to epic fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay is one of the more interesting writers around. Political intrigue and expediency soon see both Rodrigo and Ammar exiled to Ragosa, the beautiful Asharite city by the lake, where their destinies become entwined with that of Jehane, a Kindath physician, and where the fate of Al-Rassan and Esperana will be decided. King Ramiro of Valledo appears to be the most likely to succeed, due to the skills of his infamous general Rodrigo Belmonte and his elite company of soldiers. In the north the Jaddite kingdom of Esperana similarly splintered into three smaller nations, each harbouring a desire to conquer the others and unify the entire peninsular in the worship of the sun-god. ![]() Al-Rassan was the stronghold of the western Asharite faith until Ammar ibn Khairan killed the last khalif, splintering the land into feuding city-states. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Until one day when their new landlords move in, which include two (very handsome) sons, and the lives of the Mortmain sisters change forever. So Cassandra instead strives to hone her writing skills in her journals. While her beautiful older sister, Rose, longs to live in a Jane Austen novel, Cassandra knows that meeting an eligible man to marry isn’t in either of their futures when their home is crumbling and they have to sell their furniture for food. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her family may live in a ramshackle old English castle, but that’s about as romantic as her life gets. from the new foreword by Jenny Han, the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.Ī beautiful, deluxe edition of Dodie Smith’s beloved novel, I Capture the Castle, featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Han, a stunning new cover, and designed endpapers that is perfect for devoted readers and those discovering this timeless story for the first time. Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult LiteratureĮvery time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle, I know we must be kindred spirits. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men’s and women’s behavior. Women, it seems, are just too intuitive for math, men too focused for housework.ĭrawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men’s and women’s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men’s brains aren’t wired for empathy, and women’s brains aren’t made to fix cars. ![]() The neuroscience we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and sometimes even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it, and everywhere we hear about vitally important “hardwired” differences between male and female brains. It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children-boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks-we failed. ![]() ![]() Tom and Sharon, and Father Dietrich, have a strange and intertwined destiny of tragedy and triumph in this brilliant SF novel by the winner of the Robert A. It is a time of wonders, in the shadow of the plague. Dietrich is an educated man, knows science and philosophy, and to his astonishment becomes the first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star when their interstellar ship crashes in the nearby forest. What's was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago?įather Dietrich is the village priest of Oberhochwald, the village that will soon gain the name of Teufelheim, in later years corrupted to Eifelheim, in the year 1348, when the Black Death is gathering strength across Europe but is still not nearby. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't and that violates everything Tom knows about history. ![]() Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. ![]() ![]() In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. ![]() ![]() ![]() But his principal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, faces strong ideological antagonism in the modern political and social discourse in Africa and beyond. Walter Rodney was one of the major Pan-Africanists and historians of the 20th century. Africa Update joins committed scholars like Hirji and Angela Davis (who wrote the race-class-gender based preface to the 2018 edition of the book by Verso Press) to appreciate the contributions of Walter Rodney. He argues that the main work of Walter Rodney, ‘a pre-eminent, paradigm-shifting text,’ remains as relevant for Africa today as it was when it was first published in 1972. Hirji, a retired Professor of Medical Statistics and Fellow of the Tanzania Academy of Sciences has published The Enduring Relevance of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. ![]() With a view to countering misperceptions and explaining Rodney’s ideas, Karim F. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ![]() Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies Guest Editor (Special Edition of Africa Update) ![]() Nigel Westmaas: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and the contemporary relevance of Walter Rodney Kimani Nehusi: Forty-seven Years After: Understanding and Updating Walter Rodney How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: A Tribute to Walter Rodneyīiko Agozino, Rethinking Education for Underdevelopment and Education for Development in Africa ![]() ![]() So the question isn't really how he got there, but what on earth he was doing there in the first place. Given that he was once a student of Dumbledore and that Dumbledore is alive and kicking, it's not that much of a stretch to think that he might still be alive and visiting Hogwarts in the timeline (in fact, it's worth noting that there is no death date available for him, so maybe he's still hanging around in 2016?). If it seems improbable, it's not quite - in fact, if we are adhering to the timeline, Newt would be 96 years old. They open up the map and we see figures in Hogwarts walking around, including Newt Scamander wandering the halls. ![]() ![]() It happens in the film when Fred and George Weasley originally take pity on Harry and give him the Marauder's Map as a consolation prize for not being able to go into Hogsmeade with the rest of his squad. For Newt, this fear inspires him to travel the world and to never settle for anything less than his wildest dreams. It can motivate us to do extraordinary things. 'What Mr Scamander fears most is having to work in an office.' But fear doesnt have to stop us in our tracks. (Uh, yeah, you read that right - five.) But what you might not have realized is that Newt Scamander was on the Marauder's Map in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, proving that this is actually not the first time we've seen Newt in a film. For Newt, his biggest fear is mediocrity. By now you've hopefully seen hero of my Hufflepuff heart Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the latest installment of the Harry Potter franchise that follows magizoologist Newt on his journey through the course of five films. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though we see many moments spanning across various times in Rasa’s life, it is never confusing. ![]() It is also a novel that moves through time well. It also portrays an emotional depth in the characters and relationships that is captivating and impactful. This novel is a worthwhile read because of its nuanced look into culture, sexuality and race. His return, and ultimate reckoning with his family and relationships eventually show us how he has developed and the ways all of these experiences come together to form his identity. When he moves to America, we watch his racial identity become a part of his experience with the world and see how 9/11 drastically shifts his experience of race in America. We watch him experience sexuality covertly and learn of the secret spaces carved out to create safety for people to be themselves. In this time, we see how cultural tradition and law embed shame and fear surrounding his sexuality. It follows Rasa’s childhood, his relationship with absentee parents, his time living in America pre and post 9/11. Saleem Haddad’s Guapa tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man living in the Middle East, coming to terms with his identity. ![]() |