How is she supposed to protect her Clan when her own Clanmates can't agree on the right path? But in RiverClan, medicine cat apprentice Frostpaw looks eagerly towards the horizon, awaiting the day she will be called upon to help her Clan-a day that may dawn sooner than she ever dreamed. In ThunderClan, warrior apprentice Flamepaw-a descendent of the legendary leader Firestar-struggles under the weight of his famous kin's legacy, while young ShadowClan warrior Sunbeam has doubts of her own. As their leaders deliberate on unprecedented changes to the warrior code, three young warriors set their paws on the paths that will decide their futures. A dark age has given way to an era of peace in the five warrior Clans, and with it comes a promise of hope. Dedication Special thanks to Cherith Baldry Blurb They have always lived by the code-but only change can keep the peace.
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We also get Chip, the laconic, tattooed muscleman who works in the bakery, and an elderly babysitter who smells weird and yells with a Scottish accent.īut the real star of this show is "Aunt" Lily, who shows up about five minutes after Rose's parents leave. Rose is the only one in the family with dark hair, and she feels practically invisible-especially around her crush, Devin Stetson. Rose's siblings include 15-year-old athlete and heartbreaker Ty, who's so full of himself and so adored by others that he hardly ever has to do a lick of work 9-year-old Sage, who's a clown and 3-year-old Leigh, who mostly makes messes. Littlewood has fun with her cast of characters. She's the one entrusted with the whisk-shaped silver key to the magical vault when her parents are called out of town. Bliss makes a special recipe to save a small boy who is in a coma after having been struck by lightning.īliss is written in the third person, but it is told almost entirely from the point of view of Rose, the Blisses' responsible, too-ordinary, too-plain, and slightly anxious 12-year-old daughter. Not only are their baked goods extra yummy, but they can also act as magical solutions to problems. The Bliss family owns a magic bake shop in a small town. Grade 5-8–Left by her father, an arrogant and unpleasant knight, to be raised by her wet nurse after her mothers death, Bella is an imaginative and attractive child whose best friend is the wet nurses previous charge, Prince Julian of Moranmoor. Stanley has also written and illustrated numerous picture books, including three creatively reimagined fairy tales: The Giant and the Beanstalk, Goldie and the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter. Well known as the author and illustrator of award-winning picture-book biographies, she is the recipient of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for her body of work. Diane Stanley is the author and illustrator of beloved books for young readers, including The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Book Links Lasting Connections, and was an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice The Cup and the Crown Saving Sky, winner of the Arab American Museum's Arab American Book Award and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year Bella at Midnight, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy The Mysterious Matter of I. This collection of nine stories set in the era of the frontier army gives an entertaining and educational glimpse into a world not often explored in fiction. Here’s to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier ArmyĬarla Kelly wants to tell the truth, to discard myths about the U.S. A Christmas Promise (By:Jennifer Moore,Annette Lyon,Joanna Barker) (2020).Moore,Rebecca Connolly,Jen Geigle Johnson) (2020) A Week in Brighton (By:Annette Lyon,Donna Hatch) (2019). Eden,Elizabeth Johns,Sally Britton) (2019) Moore,Donna Hatch,Michele Paige Holmes) (2018)
"Absolutely wonderful, intensely therapeutic, intensely uplifting! Guy Masterson is something exceptional!" (BBC Radio Scotland) "It's a feat of multiple characterisation impeccable timing, vocal dexterity and precise physical control, performed with tremendous sensitivity and panache!" (The Guardian) "If you've never seen Under Milk Wood before, this is perhaps the ultimate rendition. Inspired by his famous uncle, Richard Burton - who led the first broadcast of Under Milk Wood on the BBC World Service in January 1954 - this award winning production has played well over 2000 times all around the world since 1993 from Edinburgh to the West End, New York to New Zealand, Hong Kong to Calcutta over its 30 years, enchanting audiences wherever it has played. The beauty of Thomas's wordplay and Masterson's virtuosity will leave you breathless! In an amazing feat of memory and physical virtuosity, Masterson recreates all 69 of Dylan Thomas’ wonderfully ebullient inhabitants entirely on his own!Ĭomplemented by a stunning original soundscape by Matt Clifford, this unique solo interpretation makes the words sing! It's bawdy and beautiful, sad and sensual and, through the music of language, leaves indelible, unforgettable images of humanity. Celebrating its 70th anniversary, Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson celebrates his own 30th anniversary with Dylan Thomas' enduring masterpiece - Under Milk Wood: a day in the life of 'Llareggub' - a fictional sea-town somewhere in Wales… Ian Hargreaves, a University of Cardiff professor of digital economy, wrote in a review posted by the London School of Economics and Political Science Review of Books that the author "sets out chiefly to report rather than to judge." In The Spectator, Michael Bywater wrote that the book is "necessary reading" as many users are unaware of certain communities and aspects of the internet. The Dark Net received generally positive critical reviews. Bartlett stated that he found "positive, helpful and constructive" subcultures on the internet as well as "destructive" ones. Included are his interactions with Amir Taaki, various internet trolls, a person who downloads pictures of child abuse, and neo-Nazi activists. Throughout the book, Bartlett discusses the history of online communities and trolling, as well as the development of cryptocurrencies and internet crime. It discusses the darknet and dark web in broad terms, describing a range of underground and emergent subcultures, including social media racists, cam girls, self harm communities, darknet drug markets, cryptoanarchists and transhumanists. Bartlett discusses online communities away from the mainstream, including those on Tor and the Deep Web. It is published in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, in the United States by Melville House Publishers, and in Australia by Random House. The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld is a 2014 nonfiction book by Jamie Bartlett. Then Gina Callaghan hires DS Investigations to find out who sabotaged her daughter Hayley’s rope at a jump rope competition. But it may help earn back his confidence. Karen is pretty sure Dave will assign this to her, since the investigation will involve no money or prestige. The firm’s insurance agent calls in a favor and asks them to investigate whether a valuable parrot was killed as a result of snowfall damage to a house. Her brother has not assigned her any real cases and she thinks it’s because he doesn’t trust her after she was fired from her last major assignment.īut she soon gets her chance. At work, she has an uneasy truce with Rodney, the “office maximizer” hired by her brother to do some of the administrative work she used to do. Life has settled into a more stable pattern for fledgling investigator Karen Maxwell of DS Investigations, but that stability is precarious. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child.īrilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. Soon her brother, Jack-the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years-comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend. Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. A video recording of this event is available on Facebook. If we fail, then we risk crossing tipping points that could push global climate chaos out of humanity’s control. Youth climate activist Rosa Lynas interviews her father, science author Mark Lynas, about his new book, Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency, and leads a discussion on how today’s response to climate change will impact the future for her generation. We must largely stop burning fossil fuels within a decade if we are to save the coral reefs and the Arctic. These escalating consequences can still be avoided, but time is running out. At five, the planet is warmer than for 55 million years, while at six degrees a mass extinction of unparalleled proportions sweeps the planet, even raising the threat of the end of all life on Earth. At four, large areas of the globe are too hot for human habitation, erasing entire nations and turning billions into climate refugees. At three, the world begins to run out of food, threatening millions with starvation. At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe.Īt one degree - the world we are already living in - vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, MacDonald inspired many authors, such as G.K. He was educated at Aberdeen University and after a short and stormy career as a minister at Arundel, where his unorthodox views led to his dismissal, he turned to fiction as a means of earning a living. George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. |