![]() ![]() With the help of a little magic and imagination, she takes a trip throughout the night sky. They may not be making award lists or getting medals, but they have that little something special that makes a great book.Ĭeleste is a young girl searching for a gift worthy of her mother. Here are ten of these “quietly” published books that I read last year that surprised me in the best way possible. Without high publicity or recognition, they fend for themselves. Just as some books are published with much fanfare and excitement, others quietly appear on library shelves. Award season is upon us, as librarians across the country comb through the many wonderful picture books published in 2016 to choose the one most worthy of the coveted Caldecott medal. ![]()
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![]() In this highly anticipated sequel to his international bestseller The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. ![]() Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" ( Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. A haunting voyage into the planet’s past and future. ![]() ![]() This is a revelatory history of these dramatic events and people, for the first time setting both crises in the context of the global Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the treacherous power politics of imperialism and oil. Eisenhower, the American president, torn between an old world order and a new one in the very same week that his own fate as president was to be decided by the American people. Blood and Sand delivers this story in an hour-by-hour account through a fascinating international cast of characters: Anthony Eden, the British prime minister, caught in a trap of his own making Gamal Abdel Nasser, the bold young populist leader of Egypt David Ben-Gurion, the aging Zionist hero of Israel Guy Mollet, the bellicose French prime minister and Dwight D. Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November of that year, the twin crises involving Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. The year 1956 was a turning point in history. ![]() ![]() Eisenhower-which shaped the Middle East and Europe we know today. ![]() A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956-a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under the heroic leadership of President Dwight D. ![]() ![]() Jack London's superb ability as a storyteller and his uncanny understanding of animal and human natures give these tales a striking vitality and power, and have earned him a reputation as a distinguished American writer.From the Paperback edition. Of all Jack Londons fictions none have been as popular as his dog stories. ![]() White Fang is the adventure of an animal - part dog, part wolf -turned vicious by cruel abuse, then transformed by the patience and affection of one man. The Call Of The Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man and beast. The Call of the Wild and White Fang (Union Square Kids Unabridged Classics) London, Jack, McKowen, Scott on. ![]() ![]() A boy who even twenty years on haunts his teacher's dreams. But while Straitley does his sardonic best to resist this march to the future, a shadow from his past is stirring. With insolvency and academic failure looming, a new broom has arrived at the venerable school, bringing Powerpoint, sharp suits and even sixth form girls to the dusty corridors. A boy capable of twisting everything around him. But every so often there's a boy who doesn't fit the mould. 'Crime novel or literary novel? Categories really don't matter readers will find themselves comprehensively gripped.' Independent 'A cracking psychological thriller' Good Housekeeping After thirty years at St Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go - the clowns, the rebels, the underdogs, and those he calls his Brodie boys. Perfect for fans of Claire Mackintosh, BA Paris, Paula Hawkins and Tracy Chevalier. ![]() Book excerpt: The gripping psychological thriller from Joanne Harris, to follow her bestselling Gentlemen & Players and Blueeyedboy. ![]() This book was released on with total page 512 pages. ![]() Book Synopsis Different Class by : Joanne Harrisĭownload or read book Different Class written by Joanne Harris and published by Random House. ![]() ![]() ![]() This she soon changed to political science and then law. She also reported being beaten by her mother and her older brother.Īt 17, Marguerite went to France, where she began studying mathematics. An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and a rich merchant, provided the basis for The Lover. The experience greatly influenced her writing. The family lived in relative poverty after her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property. ![]() After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. However, my favorite of her books is the autobiographical novel The Lover, published in 1984, which won the prestigious Goncourt Prize in French literature, given by the Académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year."ĭuras was born in French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to move in the colony. Marguerite Duras is most known for her screenplay of the successful 1959 French film Hiroshima Mon Amour, directed by Alain Resnais. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “This book is as shapely, crisp, sweet, and tangy as a summer-ripe pear. It lingers on, haunting your waking hours, making you ponder.” - The Boston Globe “Natalie Babbitt's great skill is spinning fantasy with the lilt and sense of timeless wisdom of the old fairy tales. “Probably the best work of our best children's novelist.” - Harper's Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt 3.89 262,684 ratings11,120 reviews Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. “With its serious intentions and light touch the story is, like the Tucks, timeless.” - Chicago Sun-Times “Exciting and excellently written.” - The New York Times Book Review Artist and writer Natalie Babbitt (19322016) is the award-winning author of the modern classic Tuck Everlasting and many other brilliantly original books for. “A fearsome and beautifully written book that can't be put down or forgotten.” - The New York Times ![]() ![]() Praise for Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt: Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older.īut then Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tucks’ secret-and whether or not to join them on their never-ending journey. Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. The classic novel about a young girl who stumbles upon a family's stunning secret ![]() ![]() Given that the first book was published in 1940, some of the ideas and phrasing are dated (regarding gender roles, different cultures) but not offensive. ![]() There's surprising depth to the early simplicity when Tacy's baby sister dies, the girls talk about where she must be, and in later years, they like to sit on the fence and talk about God. Similar to the Little House on the Prairie books, the girls' early lives are filled with paper dolls, games packed with imagination rather than toys, and in later books, horseless carriages, travel, love, loss, and an appreciation that the world is a big, complicated place. Parents need to know that Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy series about three white girlfriends is a gentle walk through the idealized simplicity of life in the Midwest in the 1940s. ![]() They try hard to be good people, even while navigating adolescence and love, and there's an understanding that friendship is deeply treasured. ![]() ![]() All the adults on Hill Street and their town, Deep Valley, are kind and patient, and play along with the games and charades the young trio creates. ![]() ![]() Joe Dispenza catapults us beyond thinking of the placebo effect as an anomaly. "In his paradigm-altering book, You Are the Placebo, Dr. Belief can be so strong that pharmaceutical companies use double- and triple-blind randomized studies to try to exclude the power of the mind over the body when evaluating new drugs. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curse-or after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson's disease by believing in a placebo. In You Are the Placebo,īest-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, & neuroscience, Dr. The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. ![]() ![]() Is it possible to heal by thought alone-without drugs or surgery? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He started his career working with Vietnam war veterans who experienced symptoms of PTSD. Part 1 is an account of how Bessel van der Kolk started researching traumas and it is almost an account of how the field of trauma studies and trauma research evolved to what it is today. Per part of the book, we will give an overview of the main aspects dealt with. He advocates multidisciplinary cooperation within communities, the same way he works with different professionals from around the world and at the NCTSN. He uses many real-life examples (fully anonymously of course to protect the identities of the families). He is also the founder of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), which is a network of organisations and professionals in many different sectors of society that specialise in treating traumatised children and their families all over the US.Īlthough the introduction of his book feels like a curriculum vitae, it is very relevant to understand Van der Kolk’s work and the way he chose to present his ideas and arguments. Since having been published in 2014, the book has become a best-seller and is one of the most prominent books about the effects of trauma on the biopsychosocial level, both for the person and for the society as a whole. In this blog, we will review a book by Bessel van der Kolk, a (Dutch-born) psychiatrist, researcher and author of the book, among others, ‘The Body Keeps the Score’. ![]() |