![]() ![]() Anything that he writes is something that I'm willing to check out. Honestly, at this point I'm not sure that there isn't a book that Jason Reynolds can't write. Plus, like all superheroes, Portico has an arch-nemesis who is determined to prove that there is nothing super about Portico at all. Only, all these secrets give Portico the worry wiggles, the frets, which his mom calls anxiety. They’re trying to hide it by repeatedly telling Portico to go check on a neighbor “in the meantime.” But Portico knows “meantime” means his parents are heading into the Mean Time which means they’re about to get into it, and well, Portico’s superhero responsibility is to save them, too-as soon as he figures out how. ![]() In fact, he’s the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.Īll this is swell except for Portico’s other secret, his not-so-super secret. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. His mom calls where they live an apartment building. ![]() He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy!īut his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. Portico Reeves’s superpower is making sure all the other superheroes-like his parents and two best friends-stay super. A middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you’ve never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third! ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Born in 1600, she was thirteen when Galileo placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. ![]() In contrast, his daughter Virginia, became a cloistered nun. For this belief he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and threatened with torture. His telescopes allowed him to reveal a new reality in the heavens and to publicly propound the astounding argument that the Earth actually moves around the Sun. ![]() Though he never left italy, his birthplace, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveInspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book of great originality and power, a biography unlike any ever written on the man Albert Einstein called “the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science altogether.”Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t judge.)I got home later that night and realized that the foreign student we were expecting to rent a room in my parents’ house was allergic to our cat.So, the spare room went to someone else:Caleb-the British guy from the men’s room.And so it began…my love-hate story with Caleb Yates. “From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel.The beginning of my sophomore year in college was off to a rough start.On the first day of orientation, I had an altercation with an infuriating British dude in a campus bathroom.(The ladies’ room was out of order. ![]() ![]() ![]() In City on Fire, Antony Dapiran provides the first detailed analysis of the protests, and reveals the protesters’ unique tactics. Driven primarily by youth protesters with their ‘Be water!’ philosophy, borrowed from hometown hero Bruce Lee, this leaderless, technology-driven protest movement defied a global superpower and changed Hong Kong, perhaps forever. ![]() Protesters fought street battles with police, and the unrest brought the People’s Liberation Army to the doorstep of Hong Kong. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And once Ethan finds the courage to become who he was meant to be, the outcome could be absolutely extraordinary. Because some facts are irrefutable and some bonds unbreakable, even when they can't be seen. Family and friends are turning against each other, school is a battleground, and Ethan will have to take a stand. Despite Ethan's initial reluctance, he gets pulled into a heated and sometimes violent conflict about whether to introduce Intelligent Design into science classrooms. Most pressing of all, there's his attraction to Max Modine, a boy he wants to know much better than he does. ![]() Then there are the shifting uncertainties-including his feelings toward his father and his desire to both blend in and stand out in his rural Maine hometown. Things he knows beyond doubt: his parents are divorcing, his older brother Kyle is exhibiting alarming behavior, and his best friend is turning into a spiritual fanatic. In the space of a few months, sixteen-year-old Ethan Poe's life has become a complicated mix of facts, theories, and hypotheses. Praise for the novels of Robin Reardon'Real and honest.' -VOYA on The Revelations of Jude Connor'Mesmerizing.A rare book that will appeal to young adults and adult readers alike. In the space of a few months, sixteen-year-old Ethan Poe's life has become a complicated mix of facts, theories, and hypotheses. ![]() ![]() Apart from his factual book celebrating Scotch whisky, he dabbled in short stories and wrote a SF novella. Like most other serious writers, Iain Banks did not confine his efforts only to one literary genre. A writer of his standing in both Scottish literary and science fiction circles deserves appropriate respect and attention. We must hope that this does not happen in the case of Iain Banks, and that somewhere already the materials are being gathered for a proper literary biography and critical study of his writings and their influence. A writer’s reputation tends to suffer a decline within a short period after death, usually to recover with a new generation of readers and of biographers and literary critics. An impressive lifetime achievement for any writer, especially for one whose life was cruelly cut short before the age of sixty. Banks, mainly centred on his major imaginative concept of ‘The Culture’. ![]() The final total was twenty-eight works of fiction: fifteen published as by Iain Banks, mainly with a Scottish dimension, but including a handful with some fantasy elements and thirteen science fiction works as by Iain M. Following on his startling debut with The Wasp Factory in 1984, Banks published a new book almost annually until the posthumous appearance of The Quarry. ![]() ![]() The untimely death of Iain Banks in 2013 deprived Scottish, and international, writing of a prolific, highly imaginative and immensely successful novelist in both the Scottish ‘mainstream’ and science fiction genres. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many states have passed laws that ban drag performances outright in public spaces, and opponents of these bills fear that this legislation will be used to unfairly criminalize trans people. Their complaint comes amid a floodtide of anti-trans rhetoric that this is flowing across the United States. The complaint that these parents have is that the 19 characters that are featured in this play will be played by seven actors, and some of those actors will need to play a gender opposite their own for the production to work. Besides featuring a triumph of interior decoration, there is nothing gay about this play. ![]() The Roald Dahl book (which was adapted into a film in 1996 and later into a stage musical) is essentially a story about a young boy named James who crawls inside a giant peach and befriends some polite anthropomorphized insects that have made a cozy home inside the fruit. If you don’t know the plot of James and the Giant Peach, I mourn your squandered childhood. According to the Houston Chronicle, the district deemed the play to not be “age appropriate”, despite being a production for children. ![]() A Texas school district recently canceled a scheduled class field trip after parents found out that the play featured cross-gendered casting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A game taught to her by her father, it has one simple rule- to find the silver lining in every cloud, and find a reason to be glad in every situation whilst withstanding any obstacle life viciously throws. Pollyanna’s adjustment to her new surroundings is determined by her optimistic philosophical approach to life, which she refers to as “The Glad Game”. The young heroine refuses to give in to her seemingly gloomy situation and instead chooses to look at the bright side of things. ![]() The best-selling novel begins with the introduction of Pollyanna who goes to live in Vermont with her strict Aunt Polly after the death of her parents which have left her an orphan. It follows the actions of its protagonist, eleven-year old Pollyanna who goes to live with her stern Aunty Polly, where she faces many challenges with a smile on her face. This is a timeless classic expressing the universal message that every aspect of life should be looked at in a positive way. ![]() ![]() But I loved this little book.What that cow story has to do with existentialism may not be immediately apparent, but the authors will make it clear. There's a lot of supposed comedy that I just don't care for at all. People's senses of humor are pretty idiosyncratic, after all. ![]() ![]() If you're giggling too, then you and I have something in common.If you think it's just dumb, well, never mind. But this silly two-liner on page 120 just struck me as hilarious. "I'm a helicopter."There's humor in much of what I read, but it's usually of the cerebral variety, mild irony or absurdity, witty turns of phrase, that sort of thing even Harry Dresden's wisecracks aren't usually laugh-out-loud funny. One says to the other, "What do you think about this mad cow disease?""What do I care?" says the other. Extended review:Do you think this is funny? Two cows are standing in a field. Six-word review: Wisdom is a fool in motley. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each card is read in relationship to the lot it falls in. Placed them in a circle, face down, laying them out counter clockwise. 12 Card Whistle Bone Spread EntangledTeen’s Bone Cloth Allow the question or situation to move in and out of you with your breath. ![]() ![]() Shuffled the cards until you feel settled and relaxed, eyes closed, or in a soft, unfocused state. Now days, the bones have been made into cards and are placed on a cloth or hide, each in one of the twelve lots. The black-robes still carry replicas of each bone, carried in a sack at their waist or over their shoulder. Thousands of years later, in a time of war and treachery, the crown was taken apart and disseminated throughout the realms for safekeeping. ![]() Each bone was inked with images of the twelve steps along the path to an’awntia (the highest state of mind-body-spirit unity an Amassian can reach) and made into a magnificent crown. The original twelve whistle bones were carved from the skeleton of King Er after he lost the battle with the Sea King before the last Great Dying. The whistle bones, thrown by a black-robe savant, can help us make choices along the path. Throw the Bones™ Shaman Art from Art Abyss ![]() |