Paranormal Intruder by Caroline Mitchell5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() They have their fair share of hoaxes and time wasters, until occasionally they face a menace more evil than they could ever imagine. ![]() Primarily, the police fight to keep order in our world, but what do you do when the suspects are committing crimes using skills they honed from beyond it? The team from Haven constabulary combines trained officers, whose duty it is to uphold the law by targeting these paranormal parasites. To the tempo of Caroline Mitchell’s words, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary, resulting in yet another phenomenal read.įollowing her run-in with The Grim Reaper in Don’t Turn Around (Book 1) the determined DC Jennifer Knight is settling in to her new role in Operation Moonlight a squad of hand-picked detectives forming a team to solve the most inconceivable crimes. Publisher: Bookouture | Publication date: 24th September 2015 | Edition: Kindle (Netgalley review copy) ![]()
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The mistress of spices book5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() from the University of California, Berkeley. She continued her education in the field of English by receiving a Master’s degree from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. She was born in India and lived there until 1976, at which point she left Calcutta and came to the United States. ![]() Her newest novel is Before We Visit the Goddess (about 3 generations of women- grandmother, mother and daughter- who each examine the question "what does it mean to be a successful woman.") Simon & Schuster. Divakaruni also writes for children and young adults.Her novels One Amazing Thing, Oleander Girl, Sister of My Heart and Palace of Illusions are currently in the process of being made into movies. Her works have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi and Japanese. ![]() ![]() Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies. Her themes include the Indian experience, contemporary America, women, immigration, history, myth, and the joys and challenges of living in a multicultural world. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. ![]() Blessing the boats clifton5/26/2023 ![]() It would make sense that in this case the speaker is using “boats” as a metaphor for a body but also for something more than the mere physical form of a person. Clifton’s writing style is very minimalist - style-wise and with her language. Each section of poetry tends to have similarities, including theme and the recurrence of foxes. The book is split into different sections from different time periods of her life. In their most rudimentary form, a boat is a vessel that crosses water and often carries life or lives aboard. Blessing the Boats is a book of poetry from Lucille Clifton. Presumably the boats may be a metaphor for the body or for a life. ![]() Next, “boats,” as plural suggests that she is going beyond her own “boat” to encompass multiple boats. This makes the “blessing” available to everyone who reads it and not to anyone in particular. ![]() The poem moves on to use the pronoun “our” (Line 3) and “you” (Line 4) rather than “I.” Clifton is drawing a circle that encompasses multiple people, including herself, the reader, and perhaps others who are not specifically named. The poem is about blessing, but it is not totally clear what the boats are. Beginning with the title “blessing the boats”, the speaker sets up an immediate intention. It relies on metaphors, and each metaphor may have several nuanced interpretations. Lucille Clifton (1936 - 2010) was an award winning poet, fiction writer, and author of childrens books. ![]() ![]() Like many of Clifton’s poems, “blessing the boats” is short but dense. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was it just about educating children or were there other motivations?. McLain shines a light on Anant Pai and his staff at ACK to really examine the motivations behind creating the comics. fun to read and a rewarding work of scholarship on the origins, history and influence of Amar Chitra Katha.August 2009 - Pradeep Sebastian * The Sampradaya Sun * Which is one, among many reasons, why these comics will always be beloved not just to Indians but be special to comic book lovers everywhere.J- Pradeep Sebastian * Businessworld * ![]() Almost every reader of Amar Chitra Katha interviewed here has spoken of the spiritual force the comics radiate-this, Karline McLane notes, is unique in the history of comic books. This book provides great insight into Indian culture.5/09 - Andrey Bilko * Rebecca's Reads * It is fascinating how much tangible information is included in these graphic stories. ![]() And this is the ultimate goal of the book - to show how much can be learned from comics, if the reader actually takes the time and digs a little deeper once in a while. ![]() It is clear that by following along with the comic book series, one can easily learn about many aspects of Indian culture and history, in a more fun and visual way, than a regular textbook. ![]() ![]() "Big print and simple vocabulary make this suitable for early reading as well as reading aloud, the concept will spur kids to create their own letters, and substitute teachers will embrace a book that finally celebrates their usually unsung labors."- BCCB "Kids will probably want to go back through the pages to follow recurring motifs such as the sun, the turtle, and the flowers as well as the progression of feelings from despair to exuberance."- Horn Book (starred review) "Substitute teachers are a rite of passage for students this narrator's change of heart provides a good example of handling it with aplomb."- Kirkus Reviews offering depth and heart in addition to the silly misunderstandings."-, starred review ![]() * "The co-authors' narrative is satisfying beyond the funny gimmick. ![]() his is read-aloud gold."-, starred review * " perfect cheer-up for a kid tucked up with a cold."-, starred review "Each shift in the narrator’s emotions-from suspicion to anger to intrigue-rings true in this perceptive, probing series of observations from a child’s viewpoint."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Scanlon and Vernick's text is sweet without treacle, and. "Jack's colorful, humorous art makes for active illustrations and engaging characters, aptly complementing Vernick's gently speculative text." ![]() A Great Texas Mosquito List Book 2020-2021Īn Arkansas Diamond Primary Award Nominee 2020-2021 ![]() Killer Looks by Zara Stone5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Technology, business, innovation, and the intersection of culture. She has been awarded a Dow Jones News fellowship in New York, and an SRR Con fellow in Portland. ![]() She has a master's in journalism from Columbia University Graduate school of Journalism, where she focused on the intersectional economy of beauty and plastic surgery. Stone’s reporting has appeared in OneZero, Marker, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, VICE, The Atlantic, The BBC, SKY News, KGO Radio, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Wired Magazine, OZY, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, and other places. She’s the author of Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons (Prometheus Books, 2021) as well as the children's book, The Future Of Science Is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century, (Mango Publishing, 2020). Her areas of specialty include women in STEM, cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery, appearance bias, and the prison industrial complex. (preferred pronouns: she/her), who reports on the intersection of technology, culture, and social justice. ![]() The new tsar book5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1954, Nikita Khrushchev decreed that Crimea, conquered by Catherine the Great in the eighteenth century and heroically defended against the Nazis, would be governed by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from Kiev, not from Moscow. The New Tsar traces the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin New York Times correspondent Steven Lee Myers coherently, comprehensively, and evenhandedly tells the story of how Putin came to. The New Tsar is a staggering achievement, a deeply researched and essential biography of one of the most important and destabilizing world leaders in recent history, a man whose merciless rule has become inextricably bound to Russias forseeable future. Ukraine’s modern shape took form, but it seemed ephemeral, subject to the larger forces of geopolitics, as most borderlands have been throughout history. ![]() It was the historical root of Russia itself: Kievan Rus, the medieval fief whose leader, Vladimir the Great, adopted Christianity in 988, and the frontier of the tsarist empires that followed-its name translated literally as the Ukraine, or “the border.” Its borders had shifted over time: Parts of its western territory had belonged to Poland or the Austro-Hungarian Empire Stalin seized some of it with his secret pact with Hitler in 1939 and the rest after the end of the Great Patriotic War. “Ukraine, in contrast, had deep ethnic, cultural, and economic ties to Russia-and to Putin. The New Tsar is a staggering achievement, a deeply researched and essential biography of one of the most important and destabilizing world leaders in recent history, a man whose merciless rule has become inextricably bound to Russia's forseeable future. ![]() |