![]() Maureen Stewart's Creation Stories (Illustrator, 1988).Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky (Illustrator, 1987).Maureen Stewart's Creation Myths (Illustrator, 1987).Jan Anderson's The Days of the Dinosaurs (Illustrator, 1985). ![]() My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch (1983).Susan Burke's The Island Bike Business (Co-illustrator with Betty Greenhatch, 1982).īase resides in Melbourne with his wife Robyn and has three children. His first book, My Grandma lived in Gooligulch, was accepted by the first publisher he sent it to. He worked in advertising for two years and then began illustrating children's books, gradually moving to authoring them as well. ![]() He attended Box Hill High School and Melbourne High School in Melbourne, and then studied a Diploma of Art (Graphic Design) for three years at Swinburne University of Technology at Prahran. ![]() He was born in Amersham, England, but moved to Australia with his family at the age of eight and has lived there ever since. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989. Graeme Rowland Base (born 6 April 1958) is a British-Australian author and artist of picture books. ![]()
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![]() Welll I like the Narrator, she really brought the characters to life. ![]() What does Honey Jones bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? Well maybe Murderville, Layla reminds me a lot of Dahlia, both were vindictive. What other book might you compare The Prada Plan 3: Green -Eyed Monster to and why? Seriously, let it go.That's all I'm going to say. Miasha was a stand up chick for real, she put her family first and did what she had to do to make sure her mother and child were straight. ![]() I hate the way Ya Ya lied on Chase, that pissed me off, but I love the way, Ashley brought the two back together. ![]() Oh by the way, I love, love, love Indie's character, who wouldn't won't a man like Indie and a friend like Chase. So now I'm getting ready to listen to 4, so excited. I read 1 and 2 together, and I waited for 3 and 4 to be released and I downloaded them at the same time. ![]() The only problem that I have with series is that, they take so long to be released. She creates these characters that are so memorable, you don't won't the story to end. What made the experience of listening to The Prada Plan 3: Green -Eyed Monster the most enjoyable?Īshley Antoniette is so talented. ![]() ![]() ![]() An Instagram post earlier this year shows the 26-year-old author holding up an early copy of the book, showing its eye-catching lemon yellow cover it is captioned “in 2023 we get mad spill the beans and don’t care”. In the novel, which tells the story of a white writer who claims a dead Chinese friend’s manuscript as her own, the industry’s dark side is satirised with delicious cynicism: how authors are questionably packaged and marketed how bestsellers are often selected in advance and boosted with money long before they hit the shelves and how marginalised authors and staff are ignored, belittled and underpaid. Her new thriller, Yellowface, could only have been written by an author familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the publishing industry: its petty politics, its bad faith, its best intentions gone hilariously awry. Then again, she wouldn’t have been able to. “I f I were a debut writer, I wouldn’t have dared to write this book,” Rebecca F Kuang says from her home in Boston. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But that doesn’t mean that the sexed up couple won’t face some rough patches, especially given the fact that Violet is a fiercely independent woman who isn’t afraid to tell it like it is. Violet and Alex have come a long one from their “poorly thought-out one-night stand ” in fact, they’ve come so far that they can’t imagine their lives without her beaver and his Super MC getting down and dirty on the daily. No truer words have ever been said and proven by a woman who has a propensity to be caught in the act of just about anything inappropriate and profess embarrassing truths that are better left unsaid, at least in front of a crowd of people. “Life isn’t all roses and unicorn farts made up of glitter and Chanel No. Or when Violet stops getting hives every time someone brings up the wedding, and their mothers stop colluding on stadium sized venues. So it makes complete sense that Violet Hall can’t wait to nail him down to the matrimonial mattress and become Mrs. ![]() In addition to being an amazing hockey player, he’s an incurable romantic with an XL heart, and an XXL hockey stick in his pants. Being engaged to Alex Waters, team captain and the highest paid NHL player in the league, is awesome. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I would have devoured them and developed a big appetite for even more of this sort of truth-telling. I wish I could have read History Smashers when I was in elementary school. "Informative and fun, eye-opening and entertaining. Absolutely smashing!" -Candace Fleming, award-wining author "Kate Messner serves up fun, fast history for kids who want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. "A history book for middle-graders that should be on everyone's (child and adult) to-read list." - Shelf Awareness Praise for the History Smashers series: 'Critical, respectful, engaging: exemplary history for children.'-Kirkus Reviews, starred review'The books format may be a good match for those with shorter attention spans, and permits it to be gratifyingly capacious in what it covers. ![]() “Messner and Meconis provide a timely perspective on an important part of American history.” - School Library Journal The global megachurch Hillsong was known for its hipster trappings, celebrity congregants and wildly popular worship music in the 2010s, but in recent years it has been. "Well-researched, entertaining, and packed with facts." - Booklist ![]() "The book’s format may be a good match for those with shorter attention spans, and permits it to be gratifyingly capacious in what it covers." - New York Times Book Review "Critical, respectful, engaging: exemplary history for children." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review ![]() ![]() ![]() "Okorafor's imagination is stunning." - The New York Times Book Review "Jam-packed with mythological wonders." -Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Nnedi Okorafor's work is wonderful!" -Diana Wynne Jones, award-winning author of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci "Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of color, life, and death. "I always loved science fiction, but I didn’t feel I was part of it-until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi Okorafor." -Whoopi Goldberg “The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” -Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea ![]() "There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics." -Ursula K. “Okorafor’s novels tend to reflect both her West-African heritage and American experiences, but in this series she creates a stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable tropes of Western fantasy novels.” "The book puts a unique, inclusive spin on the timeless tale of the misfit chosen to save the world." ![]() One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy and Young Adult Books of All Time! ![]() ![]() In the summer he arrives in Wuhan, the heart of China on the Yangtze River. This "shocking," "disturbing," and "Kafkaesque" real-life thriller pulls no punches in painting a complex portrait of contemporary China. The riveting true story of the transformation of a Chinese city and an American who finds himself stranded there.Ī detailed chronicle of everyday life in modern China, a window into the lives of Chinese peasants and the foreigners with whom they fall in and out of romance, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Chaos and Grime: A Year in the Life of a Chinese City takes you where no memoir has dared to go before now. ![]() "An evocative portrait of a troubled soul in a bewildering land." ![]() ![]() ![]() Kate" doesn't know the first thing about love?Ĭould it be that "Dr. But can they pull it off? And why would Lucas marry her in the first place?Ĭould it be that "Dr. Kate's desperate enough to agree-although she's sure this Mr. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. She might not have a career, either, when her nationwide audience finds out their marriage guru has been left at the altar.Įnter Lucas Wright, who offers to stand in for the missing husband-to-be and marry her. The Convenient Groom: A Nantucket Love Story is written by Denise Hunter and published by Thomas Nelson (HCC). But does she really understand what love's about?įive hours before her Nantucket beach wedding-and on the eve of her big book launch-celebrity marriage counselor Kate Lawrence has everything in place.Įverything, that is, but the groom. She wrote the book-literally-on finding the right mate. If you like Karen Kingsbury or Nicholas Sparks, this is an author you'll love." -Colleen Coble, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Lavender Tides and Hope Beach series ![]() "No one can write a story that grips the heart like Denise Hunter. Now a Hallmark Channel Original Movie! The second book in the Nantucket Love Story series from bestselling author Denise Hunter! ![]() ![]() The background against which the story unfolds in “Red Nails,” the mad, claustrophobic lost city of Xuchotl, is almost a major character in itself. Yet another is a furious resolution at the end, involving the gory deaths of some of the main players. Another is a pattern of shifting alliances and double- or triple-crosses. One is the usual rip-roaring, headlong action, inventiveness, and raw violence which Howard’s name on a story guaranteed. “Red Nails” happens to be one of this writer’s favourite Conan stories, of that particular length, along with “People of the Black Circle” and “The Black Stranger” (which REH also wrote as a Black Vulmea pirate yarn, “Swords of the Red Brotherhood”).Īside from their general length, they have other elements in common. Keith Taylor talks about “Red Nails.” It was the last Conan story written by Howard, who was moving on from fantasy. ![]() Howard expert examines one of the original Conan stories each week, highlighting what’s best. ![]() Welcome back to the latest installment of Hither Came Conan, where a leading Robert E. Oliver Cuthbertson for an Oxford University Press edition ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Friday?s love story was one worth reading again. I loved the way the stories were once again intermingled in new and intriguing ways. ?The Seven Swans? and ?The Goose Girl? were but two of them. Ellisonĭearest was a sweet romance and a fantastic mix of some of my favorite fairytales. Wonderful addition to the Woodcutter Sisters series! Dearest is sure to capture the reader and keep them wanting more.ħ Minutes with. Don?t be scared off by the mutual affection Kontis and I have for Grimm, b/c while, YES, the details stay true to their European roots, the Woodcutter sisters always live happily ever after. Even if you are among the majority who only know Disney?s version of events, you will love this series. If you love fairy tales, you will love this series. It didn't matter which order, just as long as they all got seen. It was rare that we watched one without immediately watching the other two. I love Friday?I think she?s my favorite of the sisters so far mainly because she?s so sweet and kind?and Tristan is also very likeable but it?s the seven brothers as a group who make this tale so much fun.īut when it came to fantasy films, we had what we lovingly referred to as "The Holy L Trinity": Legend, Labyrinth, and Ladyhawke. ![]() |