![]() Oh, and there are aliens and spaceships too. Shizuka resolves to help Katrina blossom into the musician and woman she is meant to be-even if it means condemning her to Hell. ![]() Finally, Shizuka finds Katrina Nguyen: a trans runaway who loves gaming music but struggles with self-acceptance. ![]() Shizuka has but one soul left in the bargain, but she has dragged her heels finding her new student, and she is now entering her final year of her deal. Nicknamed the Queen of Hell, Shizuka does, in fact, have a deal with a demon: deliver seven talented souls to Hell to free herself from its hold over her. Shizuka Satomi is a renowned violin teacher, though no recordings of her own performances are in evidence. I don’t know how Ryka Aoki does it, but somehow, this book satisfied me more than any book in recent memory. ![]() Light from Uncommon Stars starts strange before turning decidedly peculiar, yet somewhere along the way, it transubstantiates into something … pure. Sometimes a book sneaks up on you, so viciously quiet you don’t realize how much it has affected you until you reach the final pages. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What else can I say, that hasn't already been said about this book? The illustrations are wonderfully detailed, dancing across each page, a riot of colors and textures. "A parachute of fine, silky hairs can take a dandelion seed 100 miles from its parent plant."ġ00 miles! Who knew? I won't forget that one any time soon. ![]() ![]() After it was unearthed from a long-ago king's mountaintop palace in Israel, a scientist planted it. "The oldest known seed to sprout came from an extinct date palm tree. In addition to scientific information about how seeds distribute and nourish themselves, and grow into plants, the book includes interesting, less-known facts. In the authors' now trademark style, colorful ink and watercolor illustrations are paired with concise, easy to digest facts. Within the text, we learn that seeds start out sleepy, and are sometimes secretive, fruitful, and/or adventurous, and sometimes even naked(!). From the mundane (rice and sunflower seeds) to the exotic (black palm and orchid) to the ridiculous (hamburger bean and earpod), Aston and Long bring them to life.Īs with the previous book, a frontispiece shows numerous examples of seeds, with the plants they came from rendered at the end of the book. Written by Dianna Hutts Aston, and illustrated by Sylvia Long, this lovingly-illustrated non-fiction picture book is all about seeds. Author: Dianna Hutts Aston (Author), Sylvia Long (Illustrator)Ī Seed is Sleepy is the sequel to the acclaimed, Cybils-award-winning An Egg is Quiet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He revealed himself to be an industrious and capable leader, thereby shattering racial stereotypes of the time. Equiano was extremely religious, and ultimately converted to Methodism. Once he settled in England, he married and became involved in the abolitionist movement. After manumission, he traveled the world as a sailor and a steward, and even worked as an overseer on a Jamaica plantation for a time. Equiano was ultimately able to secure enough money to purchase his freedom. Equiano accompanied Pascal on his adventures during the Seven Years' War until he was sold to a Quaker merchant, Robert King. Regardless, Equiano was sold to European slave traders, shipped to America and the West Indies, and purchased by a lieutenant, Michael Henry Pascal, in the Royal Navy. Equiano claimed he was born in Africa, but recent scholarship suggests he was born in South Carolina. The narrator of the autobiography, Equiano is an educated, intelligent, and ambitious former slave who intends to showcase the horrors of the slave trade in order to spur on the abolitionist cause. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fifteen-year-old Sparrow Delaney is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter and therefore highly gifted in the psychic arts. Harper's ( Boitano's Edge) polished debut novel couches an unexpectedly poignant meditation on loss in a quick-moving plot about ghosts and the spiritual mediums who communicate with them. A wistful subplot about Sparrow's missing father stays hauntingly unresolved. The intriguing premise is developed into a well-plotted story featuring a range of intriguing characters, only some of whom are flesh and blood. It won't take readers too long to realize that the sullen (but handsome!) boy she's paired on a project with is Luke's brother, who vehemently denies ghosts and fervently believes his brother is alive. But he life plan to eschew the psychic limelight begins to unravel when Luke, a teenage ghost, appears to insist she help him resolve issues that are keeping him from reaching the other side. Nor has she mentioned to her family that she has been talking to spirit guides and seeing ghosts since she was five. ![]() As the seventh daughter of a psychic, great tings are expected of Sparrow, but she wants none of it, going so far as to begin her freshman year at a new high school, a bus ride away from Lily Dale, a real-life New York town centered on spiritualism. ![]() ![]() IV.Īll the guests agree not to drink too much.Įveryone agreed not to spend the present meeting to get drunk and to drink only to his pleasure But Socrates returns the compliment, saying that it would be nice if wisdom could be transmitted this way, in which case he himself would be the beneficiary because he would get Agathon’s wisdom back. Indeed, Socrates appears in the middle of the dinner.Īgathon offers him to sit next to him, telling him that by touching him his wise thoughts will reach him. ![]() But when he arrives, he stays behind.įollow me, he says, and let’s say, modifying the proverb, that good people go to dinner at good people’s houses without being asked.Īgathon wants to send for Socrates, but Aristodemus tells him to leave him alone, because he is regularly coming. Socrates, who has taken care of his appearance to go to Agathon’s for dinner, invites Aristodemus to accompany him for the meal. ![]() ![]() We understand at first that it is Apollodorus who is going to tell the testimony of Aristodemus.Īpollodorus : Well then, here they are, more or less but it is better to try to take things back to the beginning, in the order in which Aristodemus told them to me ![]() ![]() ![]() I had just finished writing a middle-grade literary novel, and when I woke up that one morning, I knew my next story was going to be about a teenage girl who died in an orphanage. The basic story idea for Shattered came to me in a dream. ![]() Do ghosts really exist or are they merely a figment of our overactive imagination? Do they have special powers? Are they able to hear and see things through solid walls or over great distances? And most interesting of all, what stories do they have to tell us? What led to their death? What secrets have they taken to the grave? There’s just something intriguing about ghost stories. The Ghosts by Antonia Barber / Image via Amazon I only rememb er two parts of it, and sadly I must have donated the book when my husband and I made our cross-country tri p to Alaska, but those parts have stayed with me for over 24 years! And the book was, and still is, a classic. ![]() One of the first ghost stories I read growing up was The Ghosts by Antonia Barber. Image by Enrique Meseguer / via Pixabay Tribute to The Ghosts by Antonia Barber – Classic Ghost Stories ![]() ![]() ![]() The design on the dust jacket differs from the design on the cover of the book. ![]() Preserved in a cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase First edition. A fine bright copy with none of the usual flaking to the white pigment on the binding. The rare dust jacket is complete with only minor wear and tear and a few archival tape reinforcements on the inside of the spine portion of the jacket. Edward Newton copy, with his bookplate, along with the armorial bookplate of George Jefferson Mersereau. Preserved in a cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase. ![]() Tall 8vo, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket. ![]() ![]() ![]() |3 Contributor biographical information |u ![]() |a Jungle animals |0 |v Juvenile fiction. Challenged by the other jungle animals for its seemingly lazy ways, a sloth living in a tree explains the many advantages of his slow and peaceful existence. And, after a long, long, long time, the sloth finally tells them! Set in the lush world of the tropical rain forest, this original picture book is an exquisite showcase of Eric Carle's colorful collage art-with a meaningful message: Slow down! Take time to enjoy your world. "Why are you so slow? Why are you so quiet? Why are you so lazy?" the others ask the sloth. He hangs upside-down from the branch of a tree, night and day, in the sun and in the rain, while the other animals of the rain forest rush past him. |a 1 volume (unpaged) : |b color illustrations |c 31 cm |a New York, NY : |b Philomel Books, |c 2002. |a "Slowly, slowly, slowly," said the sloth / |c Eric Carle. |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d IUK |d BAKER |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d IG# |d XXH |d BDX |d MCW |d MX3 |d BPLCP |d TXAMP |d OCLCO |d EDK |d OCLCF |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d COM ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the other reasons why this book is so well known is because the TV adaptation’s version of Greg Banks was played by a young Ryan Gosling… in the original episode. ![]() Stine had to go back and include a sequence in this book based on the cover after it was finished. I used to own a t-shirt with that image when I was a kid. “Say Cheese And Die!” is one of the original ten, and it’s one of the most well remembered due to Tim Jacobus’ striking cover artwork. It’s time again for another of my childhood faves, and it’s one of the first Goosebumps books I ever bought with my own money. Is Shari about to be taken out of the picture permanently? Only Shari’s not in the photograph when it develops. Shari even makes Greg bring the camera to her birthday party and take her picture. And then Greg’s father is in a nasty wreck.īut Greg’s friends don’t believe him. Like the snapshot Greg took of his father’s new car that shows it totaled. Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he and his friends found. Tagline: One picture is worth a thousand screams. Title: Goosebumps #4 – Say Cheese And Die!, a.k.a. Say Cheese And Die Cover Artwork by Tim Jacobus ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, Hadassah, the slave, and Marcus, the Roman master and heir to a fortune, realize that they are falling in love. Hadassah attempts to serve these people as Christ would have her serve them and to witness to the truth of the gospel in her life while keeping her Christian identity a secret. ![]() Only because of the old double standard, Marcus can indulge himself in living selfishly as a libertine with few consequences while Julia is expected to behave herself, do as she is told, and avoid scandal. Julia has an older brother Marcus who is as spoiled and pleasure-loving as his baby sister. Hadassah’s mistress is Julia, a spoiled, willful brat who becomes worse in character as the story progresses. She is taken to Rome as a slave where she becomes the personal servant of the daughter of the house of the patrician family Valerian. A Voice in the Wind is the story of Hadassah, a young Jewish Christian who survives the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Liz Curtis Higgs says (on the back of the book), “This series is without peer in Christian fiction!” Janet Parshall liked it, too. ![]() A Voice in the Wind is the first book in The Mark of the Lion series by Christian author Francine Rivers. ![]() |