![]() ![]() She tells autobiographical, seemingly magical tales about her life. She’s confident and always the center of attention. She starts the book by transferring into a new second-grade class. Gooney Bird Greene is the first in a series of children’s novels following a second-grade girl, Gooney Bird Greene. After Jonas is selected to be the new “Receiver of Memory,” he learns more about his community’s darker sides. There, the elderly and infirm are “released” or killed, and no one experiences any real emotion, negative or positive. ![]() It follows the character of Jonas, a young boy whose part of an unnamed dystopian community that’s locked itself off from the rest of the world. The Giver is Lowry’s best-known novel and one of her most creative. Her books often touch on difficult subjects like the Holocaust, racism, and illness.Lois Lowry’s son, Grey, was killed in a fighter plane crash in 1995.She published her first book when she was forty years old.Lowry’s parents originally wanted to name her “Cena” to honor her Norwegian grandmother and heritage. ![]()
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![]() The odds are stacked against our central couple due to their fundamental differences - not only their cultural ones but their personalities. Those asides might have been a distraction, but they actually enhance and enrich the story and add layers to characterization. ![]() Yoon alternates points of view between the two leads and occasionally inserts other perspectives from supporting characters who intersect with Daniel and Natasha during their time together. They communicate like two people who have known each other for years, even though they're at the start of something undeniably special. It's no wonder, then, that the whip-smart, geeky banter that Daniel and Natasha share is adorable one moment and intensely soulful the next. The Sun Is Also a Star is wholly fictional, but the dynamic between logical science and math geek Natasha and sweetly sincere and poetic Daniel is inspired by Jamaican American author Nicola Yoon's own romantic history with her Korean American husband, David. This touching love story about two teens who fall for each other during 12 intense hours together in New York City is a beautifully written, unforgettable romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() –Laura S., Grundy Library, Bucks County Library District Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket This book was a love story to New York as well as featuring a main character who really is learning to grow up and be comfortable in her own skin. –Allison W., Bensalem and Yardley Branches, Bucks County Free Library Love is a Revolution by Renee Watson ![]() –Laura S., Grundy Library, Bucks County Library District Like Other Girls by Britta LundinĪ great book that tackles what it means to be a girl of any kind and finding true friends. –Laura S., Grundy Library, Bucks County Library District The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn BarnesĪ fulfilling follow-up to The Inheritance Games. This book was a really intense fantasy novel that kept me reading until the very end. –Olivia W., Levittown Branch, Bucks County Free Library The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna These books treat their characters with a gentle compassion that I’ve very rarely seen from other authors. This long-awaited sequel was worth every second of the 9-year wait. Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz Want more recommendations? Check out all of our Staff Picks for 2021 or browse the Staff Picks shelves on cloudLibrary. ![]() Whether you’re looking for a gift for a teen or wondering what to add to your own To Be Read pile, here’s what we recommend! For the sixth year, Bucks County library staff chose their favorite books published in the last calendar year. ![]() ![]() ![]() a compelling and compassionate story" (Los Angeles Times). The title comes originally from a quote from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers", about soldiers of the British Empire who had "lost way" and were "damned from here to eternity." “Extraordinary and utterly irresistible. Around him, others are fighing their own small battles-and losing. Lee Prewitt a nonconformist hero who refuses to box at Schofield Barracks and is slowly destroyed by his own rebelliousness. ![]() Jacket photograph by Pat Maestro.įrom Here to Eternity is a commanding novel of the soldiers who were poised on the brink of real manhood when World War II flung them unceremoniously into that abyss. Presentation edition, signed by James Jones on the half-title page. First edition of the author’s first book, one of the great novels of World War II. ![]() ![]() Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies, Bartsch-Zimmer-who publishes as Shadi Bartsch-spent four years working on her translation of the epic. ![]() “Heʼs not out for personal glory” like an Odysseus or Achilles, said Bartsch-Zimmer, and the Aeneidʼs newest translator. Linked with the not-so-exciting virtue of piety, the hero is set up as an excellent ancestor for the emperor Augustus, who wanted to be seen as having similar virtues. Many readers have seen Aeneas as a positive figure and one who would please Romeʼs leaders. Finally, the Trojans land in Italy and found a city where Rome will later stand. Along the way, the gods-especially Juno and Aeneasʼs mother, Venus-throw both obstacles and aids in his path. In the poem, Aeneas leads his followers west from Troy, which the Greeks have sacked, in search of somewhere to start a new city. Itʼs also a national origin story, said Prof. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer-“and that makes it a different kind of poem.” ![]() ![]() Unlike the Odyssey and the Iliad, Vergilʼs response to the Homeric epics is not just that of an individual hero. It was 29 B.C., two years into the reign of the emperor Augustus, when the Roman poet Vergil began writing his great epic, the Aeneid. ![]() ![]() In 2006 she was made Dame Commander of the British Empire by the Queen. These included elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, zebra, eland, kudu, impala, warthogs and many other smaller animals. ![]() For over 25 years, she and her husband, David, the famous founder of the the giant Tsavo National Park, raised and rehabilitated back into the wild orphans of misfortune from many different wild species. ![]() Kirkus Review Love, Life, and Elephants is both an incredible memoir of a life and two romances. The second is the love story of how Daphne and David, who devoted their lives to saving elephant orphans, at first losing every infant under the age of two until Daphne at last managed to devise the first-ever milk formula which would keep them alive.ĭaphne Sheldrick has spent her entire life in Kenya. Filled with eyewitness accounts of African conservation, astute wildlife observations, and a touching love story, Sheldrick’s book will delight nature-loving readers.Rick Roche, Booklist Heartfelt.fascinating. It tells two stories - one is the extraordinary love story which blossomed when Daphne fell head over heels with Tsavo Game Park and its famous warden, David Sheldrick. Daphne Sheldrick's best-selling love story of romance, life and elephants, An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants is an incredible story from Africa's greatest living conservationist.Ī typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching for the ivory trade.Īn African Love Story is the incredible memoir of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Supermarketwala, is intended to be the go-to book for all consumer business enthusiasts and readers alike, who wish to understand how and why we as consumers behave in a certain manner at different places. ![]() ![]() Damodar, in Supermarketwala, provides the very basics for the growth of modern retail and consumerism in India, through interesting and carefully studied consumer behaviour, an art that few in his domain possess. What is Ching’s Sercret that is not Knorr’s, Maggi’s, or Yippie’s? Supermarketwala, Damodar Mall’s intriguing and revelatory debut book, answers these questions and much more.Where do big corporates and MNC retailers fumble, and what helps simple DMart get its model right?.Sonu’s breakfast table on a Sunday represents global cuisines.Rita, the young bahu, avoids buying personal products from the family grocer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mickey now must deal with a side of human nature he scarcely comprehends. Book 1 Sample The Legend of Mickey Tussler A Novel Written by: Frank Nappi Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins Release date: Language: English Not rated yet Price: 26.40 Try for 0. ![]() Struggling to understand such ugliness and hatred, and fearful of reprisal should he tell anyone about what he has seen, the boy’s performance on the field suffers. When a young African American player joins the team, the entire team is subjected to racial threats and episodes of violence, one of which Mickey witnesses firsthand. Mickey reluctantly returns to the field and must once again cope with the violence and hatred around him. Despite Mickey’s proclamation that he will never play baseball again after last season’s violent conclusion, his manager-and now surrogate father-Arthur Murphy cajoles the emotionally fragile, socially awkward boy with autism into giving it another shot. It’s 1949 and eighteen-year-old pitching phenom Mickey Tussler is back with the rejuvenated minor league Brewers in the sequel to The Legend of Mickey Tussler (the basis for the television movie A Mile in His Shoes). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One female character exposes her bra to several others, although this is done in a funny way rather than a sexual way.There is one scene involving sex, which shows a young couple in bed together.Many teenage characters kiss at a party, as well as in the lunch room at school.Nudity and sexual activityīefore I Fall has some partial nudity and sexual activity. The same party features several times throughout the movie. One character gets drunk and throws up as a result of having drunk a lot. For example, teenagers drink at a party while their parents are out of town. Characters talk about losing your virginity.īefore I Fall shows some use of substances.Characters say things like ‘No glove, no love’ about using condoms. There are references to wearing protection while having sex.Before I Fall has some mild sexual references. ![]() ![]() Published in 1976 (the year Stone and Schneir first met), “When God Was a Woman” played a key role in the rise of “feminist theology” in the '70s and '80s. That book, Stone wrote in its preface, is “the story of the suppression of women's rites” - the story of how “in prehistoric and early historic periods of human development, religions existed in which people revered their supreme creator as female,” before such practices were “aggressively” suppressed by patriarchal worship. She was a sculptor and professor of art and art history who had just published a book that she believed, as she told interviewer Michael Toms, “maybe 10 people in the world would bother to wade through.”Īnd, Merlin Stone told Lenny Schneir, she had felt guided by “a female energy in the universe” as she trekked across Europe and the Middle East researching what would become “When God Was a Woman.” ![]() When Lenny met Merlin, he was a poker player by profession and a self-confessed “male chauvinist.” ![]() |