![]() ![]() With her slipping grades, a shoplifting incident, and the crowd she hangs out with, she’s nothing like her saintly older brother Michael. ![]() Filled with exciting sports action, THE RING is the inspiring story of a girl learning to believe in herself. As she trains for her upcoming championship bouts, Mardie hopes to make her parents proud. Mardie begins to apply the lessons shes learned in the ring to her own battles, especially at home, where she finds shes not the only one struggling for acceptance. But Kitty, her wise and patient trainer, a former boxer whos coached her share of troubled girls, shows Mardie that boxing isn't just about fighting it's also about strategy and mental discipline the things that make a fighter into a winner. Angry and hurt, Mardie cant wait to start throwing punches. Having already lost her parents trust, and shunned by her boyfriend and friends, the ring is the only place left where no one judges Mardie. But when she discovers a girls boxing club at the gym, Mardies drawn in by the fighters fearlessness and strength. Unlike her perfect older brother Michael, who does everything right according to their father, Mardie cant measure up. Plagued by slipping grades and a budding criminal record, at 15, Mardies heading down a path of self-destruction she cant seem to avoid. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Max quickly learns that changing the past can sometimes lead to a devastating future. The pair investigate the mysterious disappearance of fellow student Rachel Amber, and uncover a dark side to the life in Arcadia Bay. The first game in the series, LIFE IS STRANGE(TM), follows the story of Max Caulfield, a senior majoring in photography who discovers that she can rewind time when trying to save her best friend Chloe Price. Achieving undeniable success, LIFE IS STRANGE(TM) has sold over 3 million units to date across all formats. The popular and celebrated video game, LIFE IS STRANGE(TM), is available on PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, XBOX and iOS. ![]() Titan Comics' LIFE IS STRANGE(TM) returns readers to the setting of Arcadia Bay, offering fans the opportunity to dive back into the story of its beloved characters. Titan Comics and SQUARE ENIX® are thrilled to announce an all-new graphic novel set in the world of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, highly successful video game series, LIFE IS STRANGE(TM). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She quickly gains the trust of her new mistress, Theodosia Prevost, and becomes indispensable in a complicated household filled with intrigue-especially when the now-widowed Theodosia marries Colonel Aaron Burr. Toughened by the experiences of her young life, Mary is intelligent, resourceful, and strong. Sold into slavery as a child in India, Mary Emmons was brought to an America torn by war. But long before that single shot destroyed Burr’s political career, there were other dark whispers about him: that he was untrustworthy, a libertine, a man unafraid of claiming whatever he believed should be his. Today Aaron Burr is remembered more for the fatal duel that killed rival Alexander Hamilton. ![]() He was a hero of the Revolution, a brilliant politician, lawyer, and very nearly president a skillful survivor in a raw new country filled with constantly shifting loyalties. Inspired by a woman and events forgotten by history, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott weaves together carefully researched fact and fiction to tell the story of Mary Emmons, and the place she held in the life-and the heart-of the notorious Aaron Burr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both Fowles and his wife, Elizabeth, looked weary. ![]() ![]() The noise of the traffic seven stories below washed against the tower of the hotel. Handling an artifact has the power to call up a past life in his imagination the haunting eyes of a portrait can recreate the sitter in his mind.īut here in his New York hotel suite there was no view and no sea sound. As curator of the local museum, he also spends much time amid the documents, dinosaur bones and photographs housed in its turreted turn-of-the-century building directly on the seafront. The windows open south onto his exotic garden, a sweeping harbor view of the town, and, further still, the gray-blue of the English Channel and the sky. He writes his fictions from a second-floor study in his eclectic 18th-Century house high on the hillside of the town of Lyme Regis. Time has always been Fowles’ preoccupying theme and his single question has been, “How shall one live within one’s own present moment?”Īt home on the green Dorset coast of England, history is Fowles’ natural element. “It’s a dream really, a kind of trip back in time,” John Fowles offered, talking about his newest novel, “A Maggot.”ĭreams that travel back in time have been the stock in trade of this celebrated 59-year-old English novelist through most of his 14 books of fiction and nonfiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Jan. echoed throughout King's works, including his other 9/11 allegory, Cell. He also resists the temptation to make the "phoners" (those affected by the Pulse) sound unusually strange or dangerous-until their real motives become obvious. As we see elsewhere in King's fiction, Under the Dome prefers police to politics. ![]() The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals. Scott makes the lead character-a comic book artist from Maine (where else?) named Clayton Riddell, who is in Boston with his phone off and in his pocket-a touching and surprisingly tough survivor, much like the nonpods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King. The Pulse, as it comes to be known, turns idle chatterers into weirdly rewired killing machines. Scott's voice but smooths off the rough edges) adds an important element-quiet believability-to King's bloody, occasionally over-the-top story of a short but lethal electronic signal that seriously damages everyone in the world using a cell phone at that moment. The excellent film actor (who catches the power of his late father George C. It's probably a good idea not to use your cell phone while you listen to Scott's beautifully understated reading of terrormeister King's latest take on technology run amok: you might just toss it down the nearest storm drain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why don’t the leaves and trees talk to Beegu? Where do you think Beegu lives? Where did she come from?ĭiscussion topics for during/after reading: ![]() Have you ever been lost before? How did you feel? What did you do? What is Beegu? (human, animal, something else?) Beegu, with her floppy ears and three little eyes, is an appealing character who conveys a message about the importance of accepting those who are different and of remaining hopeful. The quirky, economical illustrations aptly reflect the lonely mood of this touching story. Finally, her parents arrive to rescue her and she tells them of her experiences, speaking fondly of the small Earth creatures who were so friendly and full of hope. Forced to continue her sad journey, Beegu comes upon a playground filled with happy children and joins them in play until another adult rejects her, sending her out once more to wander in the strange world. Then a man from the stray dog shelter finds her in the box and turns her out. While looking for some friends, the lost alien thinks she hears her mother calling and is led into a big city where, instead, she finds a box of puppies that welcome her she curls up with them to sleep. ![]() Kindergarten-Grade 2-Children will sympathize with Beegu, a cuddly, yellow extraterrestrial, when her spaceship crashes and strands her far from home. Grade Level: Kindergarten (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) Volunteers needed in June! Click here to sign up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Struck dumb with grief at her mother's death, it is down to her father, the heartbroken minister Tyler Caskey. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job. Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive, Again: New novel by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Saro, meanwhile, begins to read Talis's book of spells. Atrix Wolfe is drawn to the scene when the dreaded Hunter reappears. Then the Queen of the Wood abducts Talis though she shows him every courtesy, he is forced to wander in the human world as a ghost. When she's ordered to carry meals to Talis, he notices herand she starts to recover her awareness. Meanwhile, a sad, disregarded mute girl, Saro, labors in the castle's scullery as a pot-washer. Soon after, Burne recalls Talis, who takes up residence in the castle's ghost-ridden keep, where the spells from his book go disastrously wrong. Twenty years later, Prince Talis of Pelucir is studying magic in Chaumenard at the behest of his brother, King Burne, when he discovers a strange book of magic spells. So the mage wrought a mighty spell to create a murderous, irresistible Hunter that slew Pelucir's king and drove the forces of Kardeth from the field. When the warrior Prince Riven of Kardeth decided to attack Pelucir, the ancient mage Atrix Wolfe pleaded in vain with the prince to desist. ![]() ![]() ![]() I sculpted letters and laid them out to spell each chapter name, I photographed them to cast a large shadow and applied the same technique of printing and photographing as I did for the cover art. My second tactile application was the chapter headers. I wanted this book to be vintage and gothic so the cover fabric is velvet and I added gold foil detailing- all by hand. The holes represent peep holes because doors are used as symbolism in the book. ![]() I made the hard cover from 2 pieces of chipboard layered together, one with a hole cut out and the other with a photo of the eye in the same place. I photographed them, printed them out, transferred the image onto wood and then photographed them again. I crafted 2 eyes our of clay 1 was a normal seeming eye and the other was an evil version of the eye. I wanted it to be somewhat ambiguous, avoiding any spoilers. My first tactile application was the cover art. The subject of this book makes it almost mandatory to use such a juxtaposition in design, but I wanted mine version to stand out. Jekyll with either a shadow or a split face of Mr. The cover had an illustration of a normal man, Dr. After looking at different versions of this book I noticed they were all pretty similar. Hyde because it was a book I had read before and it was relatively short- there was a rough word count to stick to. I chose to redesign the Strange Case of Dr. Redesign a classic novel and include 3 applications of tactile design. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blade's interactions with his father, a Ghanaian young woman named Joy, and a child named Sia are especially poignant, so much so that these secondary characters can draw focus. Lyrics from Blade's songs (and interspersed references to songs from Lenny Kravitz, Metallica, and others) emphasize the importance of music in his life, both as a link to his family and as a way to express himself. They don't belong here./ And neither do I"). planted by Spanish missionaries/ in the 18th century. Writing in free verse, Alexander and Hess, who recently collaborated on Animal Ark, strongly communicate Blade's frustration and disappointment ("I have taken for granted/ the palm trees of Cali. Seeking answers and closure, Blade travels to the Ghanaian village of Konko, where he gains new perspective on family and belonging. Betrayed by those closest to him and stunned by a family secret, 17-year-old Blade Morrison flees his comfortable but chaotic life as the son of a drug-addicted rock star. ![]() |