![]() ![]() ![]() Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known now as simply The Wizard of Oz. According to Wikipedia: "Lyman Frank Baum (1856 – 1919) was an American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W. The introduction to the book states that its inspiration was a letter a little girl had written to Baum: "I suppose if Ozma ever got hurt or losted, everybody would be sorry." The series includes: 1 The Wizard of Oz,2 The Land of Oz,3 Ozma of Oz,4 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz,5 The Road to Oz,6 The Emerald City of Oz,7 The Patchwork Girl of Oz,8 Tik-Tok of Oz,9 The Scarecrow of Oz, 10 Rinkitink in Oz, 11 The Lost Princess of Oz, 12 The Tin Woodman of Oz, 13 The Magic of Oz, and 14 Glinda of Oz. Published on June 5, 1917, it begins with the disappearance of Princess Ozma, the ruler of Oz and covers Dorothy and the Wizard's efforts to find her. 89 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white.According to Wikipedia:"The Lost Princess of Oz is the eleventh canonical Oz book written by L. ![]()
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![]() ![]() At the age of 16, Shusterman and his family moved to Mexico City. While he has stated that he does not identify as a person of color, he is between 40-50% North African and likely has Moroccan ancestors, but did not know this until he had genetic testing done. From a young age, Shusterman was an avid reader. ![]() Shusterman was born on November 12, 1962, and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book Challenger Deep and his novel, Scythe, was a 2017 Michael L. Neal Shusterman (born November 12, 1962) is an American writer of young-adult fiction. National Book Award for Young People's Literature Shusterman at the 2013 Texas Book Festival ![]() ![]() Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone's son. His offer to fix a stranger's teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.Īs the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. ![]() To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.īut then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. ![]() ![]() David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," ( Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.īack when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've put off writing this review for weeks because every time I think about this book I get mad all over again. Visit Patricia Briggs' website for more information (This is a spin off to the Mercy Thompson series)Īlpha and Omega (novella found in the On the Prowl anthology) Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson Now Charles and Anna must use their skills–his as enforcer, hers as peacemaker–to track down the attackers, reopening a painful chapter in the past that springs from the darkest magic of the witchborn… Heading into the mountainous wilderness, they interrupt the abduction of the wolf–but can’t stop blood from being shed. With their Alpha out of the country, Charles and Anna are on call when an SOS comes in from the fae mate of one such wildling. ![]() Close enough to the Marrok’s pack to have its support far enough away to not cause any harm. For their own good, they have been exiled to the outskirts of Aspen Creek, Montana. The werewolves too damaged to live safely among their own kind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. A medical school dropout, she’s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she’s lost her way. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Book Riot ![]() You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”- Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick)Ī lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. “This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() In this way he not only distorts his observations, but subverts his own powers, for it is not the riddles of philosophy that bring his talent to life, but the ways of cruelty and humiliation. ![]() Albee sees in human nature very much what Maupassant did, only he wants to talk about it like Plato. But this new play isn’t about the problems of faith-and-doubt or appearance-and-reality, any more than Virginia Woolf was about “the Decline of the West” mostly, when the characters in Tiny Alice suffer over epistomology, they are really suffering the consequences of human deceit, subterfuge, and hypocrisy. In Tiny Alice, the metaphysics, such as they are, appear to be Albee’s deepest concern-and no doubt about it, he wants his concerns to seem deep. ![]() ![]() In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee attempted to move beyond the narrowness of his personal interests by having his characters speculate from time to time upon the metaphysical and historical implications of their predicament. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL8996439W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 3.44 Pages 524 Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0816136955 A spectacular popular and critical success, The Name of the Rose is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the. O元501018M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work ![]() Urn:lcp:nameofrose00ecou:epub:717547c6-5fcc-4a6b-924e-0b8150386725 Extramarc Notre Dame Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier nameofrose00ecou Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4bp0fp45 Isbn 0151446474Ģ006042619 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:30:19 Boxid IA1637819 Boxid_2 CH107401 Camera Canon 5D City San Diego Donor Full Title: The Name of the Rose When Written: 1970s Where Written: Italy When Published: 1980 Literary Period: Postmodernism Genre: Historical murder mystery Setting: Italy, 1320s - 1390s Climax: A medieval monastic library burns to the ground in a struggle over the lost second book of Aristotle’s Poetics. ![]() ![]() ![]() –––––––– IN THE COMPANY OF KILLERS #2 - J.A. One final test that will not only make her question her decision to want this dangerous life, but will make her question everything she has come to trust about Victor Faust. But Sarai, taking on the new and improved role of Izabel Seyfried, still has a set of deadly skills of her own that will prove to be all she needs to secure her place beside Victor.īut there is one test that Izabel must face that has the potential to destroy everything she is working so hard to achieve. Knowing that Sarai cannot become what she wants to be overnight, Victor begins to train her and inevitably their complicated relationship heats up.Īs Arthur Hamburg's right-hand man, Willem Stephens, closes in on his crusade to destroy Sarai, she is left with the crushing realization that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. Sarai's reckless choices send her on a path she knows she can never turn back from and so she presents Victor with an ultimatum: help her become more like him and give her a fighting chance, or she'll do it alone no matter the consequences. ![]() ![]() Unskilled and untrained in the art of killing, the events that unfold leave her hanging precariously on the edge of death when nothing goes as planned. Determined to live a dark life in the company of the assassin who freed her from bondage, Sarai sets out on her own to settle a score with an evil sadist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every narrator is, in his own distinct way, struggling to claim and articulate a masculine identity while being caught between two worlds-his native culture and that of Anglo-centric America. ![]() Every narrator in this collection of short stories is male, and they range from children to adults. They also find moments of joy, intimacy, beauty, and connection, rounding out their plotlines and characterizations into full depictions of their humanity.Ī pronounced area of concern is the dissection of masculine identity. Through these stories, often told in vignettes or fragmented timelines, Díaz depicts the everyday lives and struggles of Dominican-American immigrants, as they grapple with familial dysfunction, substance abuse, struggles with gender and sexuality, poverty, romantic love, classism, and the unspoken but deeply-felt white supremacist strains of the American Dream. ![]() |