![]() He received the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in Andrea Wang's Watercress, a Newbery Honor book and APALA award winner. Jason Chin is a celebrated author and illustrator of children's books. Impeccably researched, wholly engrossing, and with extensive backmatter for additional learning, The Universe in You is another knockout from the award-winning creator of Redwoods, Grand Canyon, and other distinguished works of nonfiction for young readers. Like its companion, The Universe in You is a mind-boggling adventure that makes complex science accessible and enjoyable to readers of any age. Now, Chin reverses course, zooming in past our skin to our cells, molecules, and atoms, all the way down to particles so small we can’t yet even measure them. ![]() In Your Place in the Universe, Jason Chin zoomed outward, from our planet, solar system, and galaxy to the outer reaches of the observable universe. Jason Chin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, dives into the microscopic building blocks of life in this companion to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe. ![]()
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![]() She also takes you through basic techniques and stitch patterns including the chain stitch, picot, flowers, filet crochet, changing yarns, and finishing. And, as Debbie Stoller demonstrates with her easy-to-follow instructions, it all starts with the simple act of wrapping a hook around a strand of yarn.įull of color photographs and instructional illustrations, Stitch ’n Bitch Crochet is the perfect primer on knitting’s sister craft-from tools and uses for the different gauges to all the cool yarns available. Stitch ’n Bitch Crochet is chock-full of instruction, inspiration, and to-die-for designs, from lacy, sexy summer tops to chic, cozy sweaters, chunky, funky hats, and colorfully crafty afghans. The New York Times–bestselling author of Stitch ’n Bitch conquers crochet with forty original patterns in her sassy, sexy, signature style-fully illustrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() Published in 1949 – in the shadow of George Orwell’s masterwork “Nineteen Eighty-Four” – “Earth Abides” asked the unsettling question, “what if … ” in the devastating wake of a global killer virus. But let’s not forget the granddaddy of the contemporary genre: the novel “Earth Abides.” The now familiar roll call includes films like “Outbreak” (1995), starring Dustin Hoffman and an escaped monkey, and Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion” (2011) and books by Dean Koontz, Stephen King and Michael Crichton (who had a day job as a doctor). ![]() ![]() A literary “viral sensation” - ‘Earth Abides’Īs the world grapples with the reality of the coronavirus pandemic there’s been considerable attention paid to fictional storylines. ![]() ![]() The book is constructed around a pair of interlocking narratives - Nao’s diary, which is really more of an extended suicide note, and the story of Ruth, a novelist who lives on Vancouver Island and one day finds washed up on the beach a package containing the diary and other artifacts. But even more, Ozeki’s move telegraphs that the book is going to play with our preconceptions, that it will shift on us, turn on us, that it will be as difficult to pin down as a wisp of smoke.Īll of that is true of “A Tale for the Time Being,” which is why (let’s not be coy) it’s such an exquisite novel: funny, tragic, hard-edged and ethereal at once. ![]() ![]() The point, of course, is that we are all more than one person, one perspective, that identity is in a constant state of flux. I bet you’re wondering what kind of stupid girl would write words like that.” There is a section break, and when Nao returns, she is tougher, far more pointed. Yet just as we start to wonder what we’re getting into, Ozeki flips the whole thing around. The language is excitable, breathless even: “f you decide to read on,” Nao exclaims, “then guess what? You’re my kind of time being and together we’ll make magic!” ![]() Forgoing context or explanation, she plunges us into the diary of a 16-year-old Japanese girl named Nao. Ruth Ozeki opens her third novel, “A Tale for the Time Being,” with a small deception - or, more accurately, a sleight of hand. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the greatest religious effort of his life was to break down "untouchability." To the end of his life he remained a devout Hindu, but declared if ever "untouchability" were made part of Hinduism he would cease to be a Hindu. He became an ascetic of the most rigorous type, setting great store by fasting and every form of self-denial. He read Tolstoy and corresponded with him: the result was an experiment in the simple communal life conducted by a small band of enthusiasts whom he had gathered together. Meanwhile a religious conflict was taking place in within him. Seeing the social and political disabilities of his fellow-countrymen in South Africa, he decided to stay and help them and soon he had become their political leader and adviser. That visit changed the whole course of his life. In 1896 he went to the Transvaal to help a client in a legal suit. When 19, he came to London, qualified as a barrister (being "called" at the Inner Temple), and, returning to Bombay in 1892, set up a practice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sprinkle with dill and garlic mashed with salt. After nearly two years in prison for the crime of stealing his own grain, Ukrainian immigrant Teodor Mykolayenko is a free man. Mix buttermilk and sour cream, add to soup. Evocative and compelling, rich in imagination and atmosphere, Under This Unbroken Sky is a beautifully wrought debut from a gifted new novelist.Spring 1938. Add cabbage, parsley, dill, salt, and remaining stock. ![]() UNDER THIS UNBROKEN SKY is her first novel. Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c2009Edition. Stir in flour to make a paste, add a little broth, bring to a boil, then add to soup. Mitchell spent her childhood on a military base on the prairies and now makes her home in Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada, with her husband, Alan, and their dog, Annie. Under this unbroken sky : a novel / Shandi Mitchell. Wipe mushrooms with a damp towel, slice thin and cook in lard. Place beets, carrot, and celery in large pot with 4 cups broth. ![]() Wash beets and tops well, then shred beets and chop greens. Under this unbroken sky Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. âBilyi Borshch (White Borshch) 3â4 beets with tops 2 medium onions, chopped 1 carrot, thinly sliced 1 celery stalk, chopped 2 cups shredded cabbage 4 fresh mushrooms 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons lard or chicken fat 7 cups chicken broth, vegetable stock, or water 1 cup buttermilk 2 tablespoons fresh chopped dill 1 tablespoon fresh parsley 2 cloves garlic (crushed) 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup sour cream 2 small new potatoes per person Peel and shred vegetables. ![]() ![]() After that, she wrote two more full-length novels and one novella with the same setup, location, and characters. In her debut series, she has described the story of a girl who fights to save the boy she has started to love, her world, and her family.Īuthor Norris began her writing career in 2012 with the novel called Unraveling. The other things that Norris is addicted to besides writing include red velvet cupcakes, Argo tea, guacamole, and sushi. Norris believes that the snowpocalypse winter suits her writing and helps to bring out the best out of her. ![]() ![]() She had an interest in writing romance novels from an early age and when the time seemed right, she decided to leave the beaches of southern California and move to the cold regions of Manhattan. Before taking up writing as a career, Norris taught history and English at a high school in southern California for some time. ![]() She is particularly famous for writing the Unraveling book series. Elizabeth Norris is a reputed American writer of romance and young adult novels. ![]() ![]() 60 kids books about grief to explain death to children and help them grieve.LGBTQI+ Children's Books celebrating Pride in London and Pride Month this June.Sophie Cameron - our Author of the Month.Best kids books for getting children walking for National Walking Month and Walk to School Week.Shortlist announced for the 2023 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration.Refugees - 40 children's books to raise awareness for Refugee Week 19-25 June.Celebrate Elmer Day on 27 May with David McKee's colourful and inclusive picture books.Great Children's Books to read with Dad this Father's Day!.10 Books for Children to Celebrate the Windrush Generation.30 Children's Books to Celebrate World Oceans Day. ![]() ![]() Children's Books that celebrate brilliant teachers for National Thank a Teacher Day!. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Dead Man's Walk, Gus and Call are not yet twenty, young men coming of age in the days when Texas was still an independent republic. Danger, sacrifice, comradeship, and love give them the strength and courage to survive against the almost insurmountable odds of the frontier. ![]() We also meet Clara Forsythe, the unforgettable young woman whose effect on Gus McCrae is immediate and unshakable. Now, in Dead Man's Walk, he takes us back to the days when Gus and Call were young Texas Rangers, first experiencing the wild frontier that will form their characters. ![]() In Streets of Laredo, McMurtry brought the story ahead, giving us Call in his old age. ![]() ![]() Similar to her predecessors such as Frank O’Connor and James Joyce, O’Brien’s works were been banned for a time by the highly conservative Irish government.Īfter graduating from primary school in Twamgraney, she went to Galway where she attended convent school. Her novels are known for their sexual candor, evocative descriptions, and portrayal of women’s issues. O’Brien has asserted that her writing is not therapeutic but rather a product of a deeply disturbed psyche. ![]() ![]() As such, she had a very unhappy childhood and this gave her the impetus and need to write. Her parents never encouraged her to pursue a career in writing as her father followed in the footsteps of profligate Irishmen, while her mother yearned for her younger days when she was a maid in Brooklyn. In O’Brien’s small village, literature was taboo and most of the books that she got to read as a child were loaned by the page. While she loved reading and was writing by the time she was eight years old, she never got an opportunity to write until the family moved to London. She describes her hometown as a small bigoted, fervid and enclosed small village that she hated. She was born in County Clare Ireland in 1930 and spent most of her childhood in the small town of Twamgraney. Edna O’Brien is an Irish novelist, screenwriter, and short story author from Ireland. ![]() |