![]() ![]() ![]() It is, perhaps most of all, a book that only Alberto Manguel could have written. The result is both intimately personal and incredibly wide-ranging: it is a fascinating study of the mysteries of libraries, a thorough analysis of their history throughout the world and an esoteric, enchanting celebration of reading. In the tradition of A History of Reading, this book is an account of Manguel’s astonishment at the variety, beauty and persistence of our efforts to shape the world and our lives, most notably through something almost as old as reading itself: libraries. ![]() ![]() Rather, it is the story of the search for one. It’s hard to think of a more profound or serious subject to start with – but The Library at Night,Alberto Manguel says, is by no means a systematic answer. "The starting point is a question," Alberto Manguel writes in the introduction to The Library at Night: since few can doubt that the universe is ultimately meaningless and purposeless, why do we try to give it order? After all, our efforts are surely doomed to failure. ![]()
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Young - YouTube In English, dim sum means little hearts, or touches the heart, but to this young girl. But it slowly kept going, one reader at a time & now. Her books for older readers include the Newbery Honor winner Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, When the Sea Turned to Silver, Starry River of the Sky, The Year of the Dog, The Year of the Rat, and Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!. Dim Sum For Everyone by Grace Lin - A read aloud story for children, read by Miss. Dim Sum For Everyone was my 2nd book, published long ago with little fanfare. ![]() And she was awarded a Caldecott Honor for A Big Mooncake for Little Star. She has written and illustrated several picture books about life in a Chinese American family (based on her own!): Dim Sum for Everyone!, Kite Flying, Fortune Cookie Fortunes, and Thanking the Moon. Dim Sum for Everyone by Grace Lin Grace Lin ebook 2 of 2 copies available Borrow Read a sample Add to wish list Add to history Description Creators Details Reviews In English, dim sum means little hearts, or touches the heart, but to this young girl, dim sum means delicious. Grace Lin is an award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator. ![]() ![]() I just finished the book Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher. Even though I had read the book before, I still didn't know how it was going to end! Any book that keeps me up late, racing through its pages, is a keeper. Lemry present issues for discussion in her class, Crutcher is able to use debate to further his plot and increase the tension. When Sarah's family issues and Eric's classmates' problems all come to a head, he wishes that all he'd need to do to make things better would be to eat too much.Ĭhris Crutcher discusses challenging topics clearly and in a clever way. ![]() In order to prove his friendship, he continues to eat and stay big. ![]() The outcasts band together until Eric joins the swim team and begins to gain weight. Eric has been overweight his entire life and gained strength from his friendship with Sarah Byrnes, a tough girl who has burns all over her face and hands. Staying Fat is a story about friendship through the most difficult times. Lemry, the controversial teacher, in addition to Eric Calhoune, the intended protagonist. In my rereading, I see that my interest gravitates to Ms. Now I am a teacher and know that some of my students have the same problems. ![]() At the time, I was in early high school and thankfully not dealing with the issues of the book's characters. While reading Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, I realized that I had read this novel before, when I was in the target demographic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and there's more to Semele's desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Bossard. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele can't shake the feeling that she's being followed. ![]() The more she reads, the more the manuscript begins to affect Semele's life. ![]() Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts-and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. NOW A USA TODAY AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of The Memory Painter comes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune. ![]() ![]() ![]() And when there are dangerous secrets everywhere, not just outside, but under your own roof. When you're amazing at drawing but terrible at fitting in. But being a detective is difficult when you're Kieran Woods. It's a good job Kieran's a master of observation, and knows all the detective tricks of the trade. And to his grandma, who just stopped coming round one day. 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Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Federation of Children's Book Groups Prize and longlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal, Kim Slater's outstanding debut, Smart, is moving and compelling novel with a loveable character at its heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() He finds a beautiful woman during his chase, who accompanies him as he solves clues spread over a wide area, usually in exotic foreign locations, to find the reason or the perpetrator who is doing this. Robert Langdon is being chased in a man-hunt. Like his previous works, ‘ Angels and Demons’, ‘ The Da Vinci Code’, and ‘The Lost Symbol’, ‘Inferno’ has a simplistic plot structure. Dan Brown has slowly been associated with a genre of fiction with elements of whodunit, extensive historical trivia, and a life-threatening chase that has Robert Langdon running helter-skelter looking for clues of a puzzle only he can solve. ![]() Inferno is a 2013 mystery-thriller novel by Dan Brown and the fourth in the Robert Langdon series. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() He spent a lot of time aboard the USS Lexington, working as a radio communications officer.ĭuring this time he was briefly married to Elinor Curry, and after his divorce, in 1932 he married Leslyn MacDonald. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from where he graduated in 1929 with a degree in naval engineering, following which he continued working as an officer in the navy. He went to the Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri, from where he graduated at the age of 17. 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Bone Gap Laura Ruby Finn OSullivan is a seventeen year old boy left to live with the guilt of witnessing the kidnapping of one of his best friends, Roza. Ruby raises incisive questions about feminine beauty, identity, and power (Finn's new girlfriend, Petey, is marginalized for not being pretty, while Roza is harassed and abused by men who desire her) in a story full of subtle magic that is not compelled to provide concrete explanations. ![]() Through a complex interweaving of chapters, mostly told from Finn and Roza's points of view, Ruby (Bad Apple) slowly reveals that what actually happened to the beautiful Polish immigrant is more complicated than Finn even knew, and that his own disability, which only becomes clear to readers late in the novel, will make it difficult for him to find her. However, his vague description of the man who took her leaves just about everyone in the small town of Bone Gap%E2%80%94including his older brother, Sean, who is in love with Roza%E2%80%94without much faith in his story. ![]() In a story that blends realism with dreamlike imagery and echoes of myth, Finn is the only witness to the kidnapping of 19-year-old Roza. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winners of the Overall Victorian Prize for Literature have a blue ribbon ( ). Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction She wrote on a wide range of topics, from environment to cultural events, reviewing all important books being published in Australia, America, Europe and elsewhere. Books consisting principally of photographs or illustrations are ineligible unless the accompanying text is of substantial length." Palmer wrote regularly for numerous newspapers all round Australia. According to the State Library of Victoria which managed the prize from 1997 to 2010, "This prize is offered for a published work of non-fiction. The Nettie Palmer Prize was valued at A$30,000 in 2010. The prize was formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction from inception until 2010 when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional A$100,000. As of 2011 it has a remuneration of A$25,000. The Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. ![]() |
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