![]() has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured” - Los Angeles Times His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. ![]() On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. ![]() ![]() It will earn generations of admirers.” -The Washington Times is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. ![]() Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His work has also appeared in Essence, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. James McBride is a former staff writer for The Washington Post, People Magazine, and The Boston Globe. He holds several honorary doctorates and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He studied composition at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and received his Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York at age 22. His April, 2007 National Geographic story entitled “Hip Hop Planet” is considered a respected treatise on African American music and cultu James McBride is a native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools. ![]() James McBride is a native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools. ![]() ![]() ![]() after all, she is the daughter of the Siren Queen. Despite the danger, Alosa knows they will recover the treasure first. When Vordan exposes a secret her father has kept for years, Alosa and her crew find themselves in a deadly race with the feared Pirate King. And she takes great comfort in knowing that the villainous Vordan will soon be facing her father's justice. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. The capable, confident, and occasionally ruthless heroine of Daughter of the Pirate King is back in this action-packed YA sequel that promises rousing high seas adventures and the perfect dash of magic.Īlosa's mission is finally complete. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() McGREGOR was on his hands and knees planting out young cabbages, but he jumped up and ran after Peter, waving a rake and calling out, "Stop thief!" ![]() McGregor's garden and squeezed under the gate! Peter Rabbit Eating CarrotsįIRST he ate some lettuces and some French beans and then he ate some radishes ĪND then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.īUT round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns.įLOPSY, Mopsy, and Cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries īUT Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. Rabbit took a basket and her umbrella, to the baker's. "NOW run along, and don't get into mischief. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there he was put in a pie by Mrs. Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. They lived with their Mother in a sand-bank, underneath the root of a very big fir tree. ONCE upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were- Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has three siblings and has no idea what to do with them and vice versa.3. She’s living at her father’s sprawling estate, complete with bodyguards and the best security that money can buy.2. It’s a no-brainer.Īfter this, three things become clear for Bailey:1. He’s an associate of her father’s, and he gives Bailey two choices-go with him and meet her father or survive on her own because those kidnappers are going to try again. ![]() ![]() She learns all this when she meets dark, mysterious, and electrifying Kashton Colello. She finds out her father is actually billionaire tech genius Peter Francis, the same guy she’s idolized all her life. Then, things happen-a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage. The Insiders is the first in a brand new romance trilogy from New York Times bestseller, Tijan!īailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. ![]() ![]() How would you feel if your sibling was taken from you like Ben was taken from Saul? I think it means that because she was so depressed about the absence of Ben that she stopped eating, and he's saying that because she hasn't eaten, that she's weightless and that if you don't have weight, you shouldn't leave a footprint. What does the quote "I'm surprised she even leaves a footprint" mean? I think the scene represented Saul's ancestors always staying on their territory because it talks about how this is the Indian Horse's family land. What did the scene about the people on God's lake disappearing mean/represent? ![]() What is the creator/what does he do/have done?.How would you feel if your sibling was taken from you like Ben was taken from Saul?.What does the quote "I'm surprised she even leaves a footprint" mean?.What did the scene about the people on God's lake disappearing mean/represent?. ![]() ![]() By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness - in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience. ![]() The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. Now in my late 60s, I adore this story as much as (or more than) I did at age 13. In my personal opinion, ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' has no set reader level. High School Library, and that weekend, cried, smiled, LAUGHED. ![]() At age 13, I borrowed ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,'' from my Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kay’s mother had tampered with her daughter’s urine samples to make her appear to be ill when she wasn’t. Kay and Charles, it turned out, did have something in common. He would arrive at the emergency room with weirdly high sodium levels in his blood, but his renal and endocrine systems showed no evidence of disease as Meadow notes in his article, “between attacks, Charles was healthy and developing normally.” Charles, a fourteen-month-old, had suffered for more than a year with bouts of drowsiness and vomiting, which came on suddenly and without evident cause, and for which he, too, had been hospitalized on several occasions. In the course of consultations with sixteen doctors, she had been admitted to the hospital twelve times, catheterized, X-rayed, and treated unsuccessfully with eight different antibiotics. Kay, a six-year-old, had what appeared to be a recurrent urinary-tract infection. Initially, there seemed to be no similarity between the cases. In 1977, Roy Meadow, a British pediatrician, published an account of two children whose symptoms had, for a time, baffled him. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve written before about what I personally love about the subversive trash that is Flowers in the Attic, but there has to be a broader pattern, right? So I’ve come up with a few theories about why V.C. It’s amazing that these 40-year-old books can still hold young readers in their thrall. These short descriptions barely scratch the surface of the grotesque gothic drama within, honestly. She has an unreliable memory but wishes to be as loved as the first Audrina, her murdered older sister. ![]() My Sweet Audrina, for example, chronicles the life of an isolated girl named Audrina. Other books by Andrews take on similarly twisted topics. I loved this piece in The Toast chronicling some readers’ first encounters with the scandalous text. That novel follows siblings Cathy and Chris Dollanganger, trapped in an attic by their flighty mother and cruel grandmother and left to fend for themselves, with dire consequences. ![]() Andrews, frequently Flowers in the Attic. ![]() |