![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Antibiotics would have saved George Washington at that time. Image: Courtesy of Georgia Braggīragg says several times in the book that modern treatments could have prevented some of the terrible deaths that she chronicles. ![]() Georgia Bragg is the author of the middle-grade novel Matisse on the Loose. We might as well meet them where their interests are and it might get them more interested in history and other parts about these famous people's lives." When asked whether "little kids" have the appetites to read about disgusting deaths, Bragg says, "My target audience is around 10 to 12 to older. One's first reaction when reading it - as was the case with Weekend Edition host Linda Wertheimer - tends to be, "gross!" But as Wertheimer says, "Perhaps that's the point of this delightful and disgusting sliver of history." She spoke with Bragg about her macabre collection and why we can't look away when it comes to famous deaths.īragg opens the book with a warning: "If you don't have the guts for gore, do not read this book." Of course, it is not a book for the fainthearted. Author Georgia Bragg has gathered the gory stories behind the last days of 19 famous figures, all in one cleverly illustrated book. How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous is a new book we really needed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The last in the series seems to be about the apocalypse. If you can stick through the constant lectures of the nature of good, evil, and freewill. After the extensive theological debate the action does pick up with a deadly showdown between Ransom and Weston so there's suspense. The Worldbuilding is undermined because Lewis' version of Venus is basically a watery Eden. So it's like a retailing of a retailing with side notes. but the story is very similar and Lewis' constantly eludes to that often. I stuck with it because i am apparently a masochist and determined to finish the series like i was the Narnia series knowing some entries and parts will be overly Christian and repetitive to themes I'm very familiar with. that's the interesting hook.īut soon you will realize that it's just a retailing of the garden of Eden and want to spit the hook. ![]() Ransom (fake name) to Venus to battle evil on behalf of all that is good. After breaking the fourth wall in out of the silent planet. Perelandra the second in C.S Lewis' space trilogy is mostly Christian theology in sci-fi guise. ![]() ![]() ![]() Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard – or purged them altogether. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity’s past. Light-years from home, Petra must use her love of storytelling to fight for the future of humanity in The Last Cuentista, Donna Barba Higueras powerful. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet – and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Earth will soon be destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children – among them Petra and her family – have been chosen to journey to a new planet. There lived a girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. Kirkus called the book an exquisite tonic for storytellers far and wide. ![]() “Gripping in its twists and turns, and moving in its themes – truly a beautiful cuento.”- NEW YORK TIMES The Last Cuentista is a middle-grade dystopian novel by Donna Barba Higuera. The incredible Newbery Medal-winning novel from Donna Barba Higuera. There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. Red Lion Books Book Club Choice (October 2022), Age 14+Īn journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human. ![]() ![]() Will the Finkle children be able to solve all the magical mysteries before the village is destroyed? Come along to Finkleton. No, Mother Nature is not in charge in Finkleton! Ever since Uncle Harry's death, the weather has not been cooperating. One clue at a time, Jack, Lizzy and Robert learn the town's amazing secret. Soon after the Finkles inherit their Uncle Harry's shop and move to Finkleton, they discover magical secrets hidden in his shop. Every farm grows the best, biggest, healthiest crops in the entire world, and everyone is happy. In the perfect little village of Finkleton, the weather is always perfect. ![]() ![]() However this is not the case in the village of Finkleton. Most folks say, "Mother Nature controls the rain". ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm talking in riddles in an effort to avoid spoiling anything in this final volume – the ending is one of a type I absolutely loathe. Speaking of irritating – and possibly sounding like In particular, there's one character who I am completely lost on – there doesn't seem to be any explanation given at all for this one, and given how well Verday's storytelling was going throughout the first two books, that's rather irritating. ![]() Jessica Verday answers the above questions in the closing chapter of this trilogy, but leaves a fair few more wide open. But why is he growing so distant? Is there something the revenants who are protecting her aren't telling her? And can anyone keep her safe from the rogue revenant Vincent, who attacked her previously? ![]() The obvious spoiler warnings for the first two books in the series, The Hollow and The Haunted, apply.Ībbey loves Caspian more than ever, and with her death apparentlyapproaching, she knows they will be able to be together forever soon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even international peacekeeping and monitoring organizations like the United Nations (and its numerous spinoff groups) are known to discriminate, sometimes barefacedly, against Jews and Israel. Anti-Semites pervade social, religious, economic and political confines, even mainstream Christianity, and their dislike for people of Jewish ancestry often translate into mindless persecution and slaughter, such as the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War in the mid-twentieth century whereby over six million Jews met their deaths in the Holocaust.Anti-Semitism, instead of diminishing after the horrors of World War II, showed no sign of decline, and it seems as though the entire world, with a few exceptions like the Jewish nation of Israel itself and the United States of America, is at loggerheads with Jews. At the source of Jew-hatred in its myriad forms is anti-Semitism, a sinister and vile mindset that has existed since Old Testament times or for thousands of years. Jews are indisputably the most persecuted people in the annals of history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The wear and tear is kind of nice in an old chair."Ĭhairs are old - really old. "This is also whoever owned it before me. It reclines, it tilts, and it's well-worn. When Rybczynski sits down to write, it's in an old, wooden swivel chair he bought at a flea market 40-some years ago. Take a close look at what you're sitting on, he says, and you'll learn about trends in architecture, design, culture and society. ![]() In the new book Now I Sit Me Down architect Witold Rybczynski traces the history of chairs. And when the Dowager Countess of Downton Abbey sat on a swivel chair for the first time, she was in for a surprise. Pee Wee Herman named his ' Chairy.' Archie Bunker's beloved wingback is now at The National Museum of American History. Please, have a seat it's time to talk about chairs. ![]() ![]() ![]() He can touch me, is what Ill never tell him. The Unexpected Everything by Morgan MatsonĪ Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. START NOW Books PDF Shatter Me (Shatter Me, 1) Details Author : Tahereh Mafi Pages : pages Publisher : Harper Audio Language : eng ISBN-10 : B0067VJ4IA ISBN-13 : About Books 'You cant touch me,' I whisper. The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen The Upside of Unrequited by Becky AlbertalliĪ Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. MaasĬhildren of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiĪ Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. ![]() 26 letters in an alphabet I haven’t spoken in 264 days of isolation. ![]() Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) by Sarah J. I have nothing but a small notebook and a broken pen and the numbers in my head to keep me company. The Wicked King (Folk of the Air #2) by Holly Black King of Scars (Nikolai Duology #1) by Leigh Bardugo The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQusiton You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah JohnsonĪurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman Need help remembering the events in a book? The folks at Recaptains and Book Series Recaps can help!Īny post with a spoiler in the title will be removed.Īny comment with a spoiler that doesn't use the spoiler code will be removed.Īny user with an extensive history of spoiling books will be banned. Book suggestions, discussions, and questions are definitely encouraged! January Book Club Discussion: A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4) by Sabaa Tahir Young Adult literature isn't exclusive to only young adults, so here's a place for both the young and the young at heart to discuss books, news, movies based on books, and everything else related to YA. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bailey II, opened at the Trans-Lux theater in. The author, Knebel, got the idea for the book after interviewing then-Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay. Today in 1964, Seven Days in May, adapted from the best-selling 1962 novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Association Member: IOBA Seller Rating: Contact seller Book First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good US 75.00 Convert currency US 3.99 Shipping Within U.S.A. Walker after he resigned from the military. Seven Days In May (First Edition) Fletcher Knebel Charles W Bailey II Published by Harper & Row, 1962 Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, U.S.A. The story is said to have been influenced by the right-wing anti-Communist political activities of General Edwin A. It was made into a motion picture in 1964, with a screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Seven Days in May is a political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. By the time he was finally able to convince himself of the appalling truth, he had only seven days left to stop a brilliant, seemingly irresistible military plot to seize control of the government of the United States. Jordan Lyman was President of the United States. At first he refused to believe it then he risked his life and career to inform the President. Colonel "Jiggs" Casey was the Marine who accidentally stumbled onto the plot. Unlike anyone else, he had the power to do something about it, something unprecedented and terrifying. Like a lot of people, he believed the President was ruining the country. "Gentleman Jim" Scott was a brilliant magnetic general. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bishop’s world building skills continue to astound and enchant. Teeming with intrigue, suspense, and hints of romance, Ms. A deceptively complex urban fantasy that takes the sensitive issues of racism and abuse and wraps them in a vibrantly magical world with a realistic core. Meg soon ensconces herself into the other’s lives and hearts, but when Meg’s secrets come to light and Simon learns exactly what she is and the lengths some will go to control her again, he will need to decide if she is worth the war between themselves and the humans that she has brought to his door.Īnne Bishop has once again shown herself to be the Queen of fantasy with Written In Red. He is not comfortable with having an unknown human in his territory, but Meg’s smell and secrets invoke his protective nature, so against his better judgment, he hires her as a human liaison for his people. Simon Wolfgard is one of the “others.” A shapeshifter who rules his territory with sharp claws and teeth. ![]() Held hostage and used for profit, Meg plots her escape from her cruel owner and finds herself in the clutches of an even bigger threat, Simon Wolfgard. A blood prophet who is able to see prophecies through the cutting of her skin. Written In Red (The Others #1) by Anne Bishopįavorite Quote: “Nose or cookies. ![]() |