![]() ![]() One day after a violent storm, they discover something amazing: a mermaid has washed up from the ocean and landed in the club swimming pool. ![]() They spend the hot days of summer at a run-down beach club, mooning over Raymond who works at the club snack shop. This summer, however, is their last together, as Claire is about to move away with her grandparents. Hailey and Claire are twelve years old and have been friends their whole lives. The book is short and spare and merely a sketch of the film version, but it can be read in an hour, and the premise is mostly the same. Scholastic Press did a lovely edition of Aquamarine in 2001 (shown here), and although this version can only be found on Ebay these days, you can still buy it in paperback. Hoffman, in fact, has written several books for the middle grade crowd, and they are all worth reading. ![]() If you’ve seen Aquamarine, you may not know it’s based on a book by Alice Hoffman. Yes, it’s mostly for preteens and has lots of silly preteen moments, but at heart it’s a sweet story about friendship and selflessness. I’m going back a few years for this one, but Aquamarine was on TV last week, and I was reminded how much I love this movie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “You wanted to know who’d killed your wife.” “Tek,” he greeted the man on the other end with a familiarity he was relieved to not have to fake. She didn’t say goodbye, all he heard was a soft click indicating the call had transferred. Curiosity made him tell her, “Put him through.” “❻ueno?” He listened, head tilted back, eyes closed as she spoke only the impending caller’s name. The woman who’d answer would redirect to whatever burner Daniel had at the time, but only if she deemed the caller worthy. ![]() ![]() But there was a certain number one could call, should they want to reach him. The amount of people with the number didn’t even total five. The small burner phone he’d placed on his right thigh vibrated, making his skin tingle, breaking the monotony of silence for a few unwelcomed seconds. On a night so dark, only the sporadic spark of fireflies dotted the blackness where he sat outside on the porch while his memories died slowly inside the Greek-style house. One of those nights when Daniel Nieto didn’t sleep, when heat clung to the air, sending moisture dripping down his spine under the shirt he wore. ![]() ![]() ![]() despite what countless acolytes might claim, Hemingway was not the greatest American writer of the 20th century. The preposterous literary myth that Hemingway himself created and nurtured, meanwhile-that of the brawling, hard-drinking, thrill-seeking sportsman who is also an uncompromising, soulful artist-ensured that generations of writers would not merely revere him, but (often to their abiding detriment) would also try to emulate him.Īnd yet most readers, when pressed, might name a slew of other authors, living and dead (Faulkner, Bellow, Cormac McCarthy) who, across the years, crafted more varied and more consistently excellent work than Hemingway’s. After all, if he had written nothing besides, say, The Sun Also Rises, the early collection, In Our Time, and the superlative “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” he would still be an indispensable American writer. That Ernest Hemingway was, for years, the most celebrated writer in America is hardly surprising. ![]() ![]() 'Here I am!' cried Willie in the parlor door.Īnna looked like she was going to cry. ![]() In the living-room sat Anna and Steve, their clothes painfully neat. 'All right!' And he went down the stairs, grunting and smiling. There, as always, was his look of the angel and the innocent, which might never, in the years of his life, change. In his bureau mirror he saw a face made of June dandelions and July apples and warm summer-morning milk. And he would go on, perhaps to Iowa, perhaps to Kansas, perhaps even to California a small boy twelve years old with a birth certificate in his valise to show he had been born forty-three years ago. Then Fox Hill, Illinois, would be left far off in his past. ![]() His suitcase was packed, his shoes were shined, his hair was brushed, he had expressly washed behind his ears, and it remained only for him to go down the stairs, out the front door, and up the street to the small-town station where the train would make a stop for him alone. But of course he was going away, there was nothing else to do, the time was up, the clock had run out, and he was going very far away indeed. ![]() ![]() ![]() D’autres soldats haïtiens blessés ce jour-là sont Macédoine, Macius, Ledan, Occilius, Saintilus et le capitaine-adjudant Germain ix. The emergence of these two groups in the early eighteenth century had lasting implications for future rebellions in both colonies, and shape national and racial identity discourses in the post-emancipation era. L’occupation américaine a provoqué en premier lieu la résistance armée du soldat Pierre Sully, le jour même du débarquement des marines, qui en est mort. This paper analyzes early eighteenth-century colonial repression of marronnage by co-opting intermediary groups whose freedom for even themselves was precarious – the Jamaican maroons and the freemen of color-dominated maréchaussée of Saint Domingue. Conversely, despite its singularity as the only rebellion that resulted in the abolition of slavery and independence from colonialism, the Haitian Revolution lacks preceding large-scale revolts or maroon wars that were more common in Jamaica. ![]() ![]() It might be argued that the 1739 treaty between the Jamaican Maroons and the British prevented the colony from being overtaken by the maroons and their enslaved collaborators, thereby precluding it from becoming the first free black nation in the Americas – a distinction that Haiti (Saint Domingue) famously holds. ![]() ![]() ![]() GOOD BEHAVIOUR WILL ONLY GET A WOMAN SO FAR. With a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted with desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women’s suffrage movement. ![]() Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. ![]() A Well-Behaved Woman: a novel of the Vanderbilts… About the Book:Īlva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America’s great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Laura Lee Guhrkes story, unlucky Lady Elinor Daventry has her sixpence stolen from her and must convince the rake who pilfered the coin to return it in time for her own wedding. Four Weddings and a Sixpence: An Anthology Written by: Stefanie Sloane, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, Julia Quinn Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells Unabridged Audiobook Play Free with a 30 day free trial Add to Cart - 27. Now shell need to borrow one to convince them shes found her true love. But love finds her in the most unexpected of ways.Įlizabeth Boyle tells the tale of Cordelia Padley, who has invented a betrothed to keep her family from pestering her to wed. ![]() In Stefanie Sloanes unforgettable story, an ever-vigilant guardian decrees that Anne Brabourne must marry by her twenty-first birthday. Beloved authors Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane deliver the stories of four friends from Madame Rochambeauxs Gentle School for Girls who find an old sixpence in their bedchamber and decide that it will be the lucky coin for each of their weddings 'Something Old' Julia Quinn’s prologue introduces her. Julia Quinns prologue introduces her heroine, Beatrice Heywood, and the premise for Four Weddings and a Sixpence. ![]() ![]() Rochambeauxs Gentle School for Girls who find an old sixpence in their bedchamber and decide that it will be the lucky coin for each of their weddings. Beloved authors Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane deliver the stories of four friends from Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Iron Council follows three major narrative threads that join to form the novel's climax. ![]() Clarke and Locus Awards in 2005, and was also nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards the same year. Iron Council is one of China Miéville's most overtly political novels, being strongly inspired by the anti-globalization movement, and tackling issues such as imperialism, corporatism, terrorism, racial hatred, homosexuality, culture shock, labour rights and war. In addition to the steampunk influences shared by its predecessors, Iron Council draws several elements from the western genre. ![]() Iron Council (2004) is a weird fantasy novel by the British writer China Miéville, his third set in the Bas-Lag universe, following Perdido Street Station (2000) and The Scar (2002). ![]() ![]() Mom left first leaving Booth’s five-hundred dollar “inheritance” in a nylon stocking and charging him to take care of his older brother Lincoln. Lincoln and Booth’s Mom and Dad split when they were sixteen and thirteen respectively. It is Suzan Lori-Parks’s persistent scraping away at the barnacles on the underbelly of the brothers’ pasts that drives the plot in this chilling revival of “Topdog/Underdog.” It isn’t this present tension that matters. ![]() From the first scene of the play currently running at the John Golden Theatre, it is evident that there is tension between older brother Lincoln (a complex, unstable, yet broken Corey Hawkins) and his younger brother Booth (a deeply damaged, introspective, and abandoned Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). ![]() In the current 20 th anniversary production of “Topdog/Underdog,” Suzan Lori-Parks reminds the audience that when one does not receive unconditional and nonjudgmental love and chooses to disconnect from one’s cultural and family histories, things can and will go terribly wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city’s beat, and without them, Nola will fail. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry realizes trouble is afoot. ![]() In a world of everyday miracles, Perry might not have a talent for magic, but he does know Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. ![]() To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. Music is magic in this vibrant and imaginative debut novel set in a fantastical version of New Orleans where a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song. The Ballad of Perilous Graves is the debut of a cosmic storm of talent.”―Victor LaValle ![]() |