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![]() As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. ZJ can understand that-but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. A professional football player is experiencing the effects of too many head injuries and his son tells the story. ZJ and his family and friends will stay with you long after you turn the final page. Excellent middle grade novel, written in verse. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. Jacqueline Woodsons newest book Before the Ever After is a masterpiece. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. ![]() By Jacqueline Woodson Reading Level: Middle Schoolįor as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. ![]() ![]() ![]() In general, life and people themselves make the city more inviting and safe in terms of both experienced and perceived security. Visit the Island Press website to find many more great titles by the nation’s leading publisher of books on environmental issues.įeeling safe is crucial if we hope to have people embrace city space. Donate to Streetsblog and Streetfilms and you’ll qualify to win a copy of the book, courtesy of Island Press. The pieces are excerpts from his book, “Cities for People,” published by Island Press. Photos: Jan GehlĮditor’s note: Streetsblog is thrilled to launch a three-part series today by renowned Danish architect and livable streets luminary Jan Gehl. Subsequent studies have shown that there is less crime and greater security than in other similar developments. ![]() Sibelius Park, a housing complex in Copenhagen, has cooperated with the Danish Crime Prevention Council to carefully define private, semiprivate, semipublic and public territories in the complex. ![]() ![]() The first book in Cleary’s eight-book Ramona Quimby series hones in on Ramona and her older sister, Beezus. In this novel, she considers how Socks-a doted-on cat-handles the arrival of a new baby.īuy it: Socks at Amazon | Socks at Bookshop 5. Leave it to Cleary to consider all perspectives. Buy it: Henry and Ribsy at Amazon | Henry and Ribsy at Bookshop 4. Cleary’s specialty is bighearted comedy, and this is no exception. When Henry wants to go on a fishing trip, he’s told he can’t unless Ribsy can stay out of mischief. Henry and Ribsyįrom the start, Ribsy the dog has been Henry’s best friend, and a bit of a troublemaker. Buy it: Henry and Beezus at Amazon | Henry and Beezus at Bookshop 3. Readers who’ve already breezed through the Ramona Quimby novels will love picking this one up. Beezus appears as Henry’s best friend, helping him to get a bike when all his plans keep failing, and Ramona is-of course-the pesky little sister foiling their plans. Many of Cleary’s books take place in the same universe, and in this second Henry Huggins novel, characters Beezus and Ramona are introduced. Buy it: Henry Huggins at Amazon | Henry Huggins at Bookshop 2. The first of a six-book series, this one is perfect for readers moving up from shorter chapter books. ![]() ![]() ![]() The title character Henry Huggins befriends a dog, Ribsy, and the two become an inseparable pair, threatened only when Ribsy’s original owner resurfaces. While Cleary’s first novel may not feature smartphones or Roblox, it remains eminently readable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She wasn't ready for what it would cost her. As she comes into the spotlight, so too do the skeletons of a past she hadn't even realized was haunting her.Įira went into the trials ready for a fight. She's invited to the royal court with the "Prince of the Tower," discovers her rare talent for forbidden magic, and at midnight, Eira secretly meets with a handsome elfin ambassador.īut, Eira soon learns, no reward is without risk. Pitted against the best sorcerers in the Empire, Eira fights to be one of four champions. She's the most unwanted apprentice in the Tower of Sorcerers until the day she decides to step out and compete for a spot in the Tournament of Five Kingdoms. ![]() Perfect for fans of The Legend of Korra, Truthwitch, and A Sorcery of Thorns, this magical new fantasy will leave readers desperate for more.Įighteen-year-old Waterrunner Eira Landan lives her life in the shadows - the shadow of her older brother, of her magic's whispers, and of the person she accidentally killed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book explicitly recognizes the achievements of several existing nanotechnology researchers: Feynman, Drexler, and Ralph Merkle are seen among characters of the fresco in Merkle-Hall, where new nanotechnological items are designed and constructed. Molecular nanotechnology is omnipresent in the novel's world, generally in the form of Matter Compilers and the products that come out of them. The Diamond Age depicts a near-future world revolutionised by advances in nanotechnology, much as Eric Drexler envisioned it in his 1986 nonfiction book Engines of Creation. In 1996, it won both the Hugo and Locus Awards, and was shortlisted for the Nebula and other awards. The Diamond Age was first published in 1995 by Bantam Books, as a Bantam Spectra hardcover edition. The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence. It is to some extent a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The s ries, taken as a whole, reflects historic changes th ough most of the twentieth century in su h instituions as tribal government, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, he locally o ned butcher shop, the Catholic Church (and its schools), and the family. Its pop lation of India s, whites, and mixed-bloods i ermingle in efiance of standard social science cat gories. Her fictionalized reservation community and town lie athwart the bound ries of the woodlands and the plains. Disrupting he boundaries between history and fiction, her novels reflect variety of literary c nve tions, i scribing revisionist histories of the ultural borderlands ea the geographical center of North America. The publication ofLove Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), and Tracks (1988) by Louise Erdrich are mi terventions in the writing f tribal histories. ![]() ![]() Fans of Sanderson will not be disappointed." ( SLJ) Product Details "Sanderson delivers a cinematic adventure that explores the defining aspects of the individual versus the society. "With this action-packed trilogy opener, Sanderson offers up a resourceful, fearless heroine and a memorable cast." ( Publishers Weekly) ![]() " A] nonstop, highflying opener." ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.īut Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself - and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to. ![]() She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing.
![]() ![]() The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.Ĭromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, no private army. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. ![]() ![]() Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller ![]() ![]() ![]() The intense and star-crossed relationship between the two male leads develops over three books. There is triggering content that some readers may find distressing, including implied incest, abuse, violence, dubious consent, and on-page sex. Silk & Steel features a gay dragon shifter, a bisexual elf, and adult themes. It DOES feature a strong m/m LOVE STORY that develops over three books. ![]() It is not categorized on Amazon, and not sold as m/m romance. While Silk & Steel is a love story, it is not for everyone. This series is a DARK FANTASY intended for mature readers. ![]() Genre(s): Fantasy, LGBT Total Star Rating: 4 Stars ![]() |