![]() Featuring Force-wielding snowball fights, gingerbread Death Stars, sledding with Han Solo, and much more, this charming family album of festivity in Jeffrey Brown's now-classic New York Times bestselling Vader series is the stocking stuffer of the season for fans across the galaxy far, far away.ĬLASSIC HOLIDAY CHEER WITH A STAR WARS TWIST: Whether it's trimming the tree with Yoda or using the Force for a snowball fight, baking a gingerbread Death Star or sledding with Han Solo, this book is full of the spirit of the season. ![]() This sweetly funny seasonal celebration sees Vader doing his best to raise his rebellious kids while running the galactic Empire and navigating holiday cheer (including the Imperial gift exchange). Sithmas time is here, and the Vader family-little Luke, Leia, and the Dark Lord of the Sith-are busy trimming the tree, hanging their stockings, building stormtrooper snowmen, and listening for Santa's tauntons on the roof. Celebrate Sithmas in style and good cheer with this sweetly funny holiday gift book from the New York Times bestselling author of Darth Vader and Son ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() So I can laugh and feel old all at the same time thanks to Liv Rancourt, and be reminded that everything old is new again. and Dobie Gilles (and Maynard G Krebs), if I'm thinking about America, which this book is set in. They were around in the 1950's and this book reminds me of hipsters and greasers. But you know what's funny? And I think this every now and then when someone posts something about 'those damn hipsters' like they're new, or the worst thing in the world, which they aren't. I think I'll stick with the term retro, that sounds way better. I'm a child of the 1950s and I don't want to think I fit into some historical period, but it's been sixty two years since the 1955 Sea Follies in Seattle, the backdrop of this particular story. ![]() ![]() The language used in Shakespeare’s day is slightly different to today’s modern English, which is reflected in the Macbeth text. This page contains links to the free original Macbeth script by Shakespeare. ![]() Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on the almost fifty cases of ‘fasting girls’ – of women who claimed to be surviving without food for months on end in Europe and North America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries – Donoghue’s novel anticipates the invention of anorexia as a clinical pathology in the late nineteenth century, and as a cultural pathology in the twentieth. Set in Ireland in 1858, seven years after the potato famine, The Wonder tells the story of an English nurse who is hired to spend two weeks observing an eleven-year old girl, who, her parents claim, has not eaten for months. ![]() ![]() I spoke to Donoghue about the second of these novels, her 2016 book, The Wonder. ![]() Since then, Donoghue has gone on to write a further three novels for adults as well as a YA fiction series. Room became an Oscar-winning film and gained an Academy Award nomination for its script. She went on to write the screenplay adaptation, also titled Room (2015), directed by Lenny Abraham. Emma Donoghue is an award-winning author, best known as the writer of the novel Room (2010), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker. ![]() ![]() Throughout this book Parker is dealing with this huge decision: staying being popular or be with the guy who makes her happy (even if he is a freshman). ![]() Her friends were straight of judgmental bitches. After seeing her friends true colors, she is a bit disgusted with it. When one of her friends sees her kissing a freshman boy (ew cooties!) shit kind of hits the fan for her. kissing boys? Yeah, I was a bit confused as well. So what does she do? Parker comes up with a magnificent plan to get on the team with her friends. her life would be in shambles if she doesn't make the girl's varsity soccer team. She's popular, stylish, and going to be junior in high school - what could possibly go wrong for her? Well, for Parker. ![]() If you are looking for a cute book to read, The ABC's of Kissing Boys is a pretty good place to start. ![]() ![]() ![]() In any case, Isa Shepley and her accomplice, Gala Novak, are part party-girl, part bit character in a Hemingway novel, making pronouncements with the profound ring of truth in short-lived but memorable appearances. Perhaps because Isa, our narrator and heroine, is a drifting citizen of the world (in that she doesn’t really belong anywhere) and has a distinctly old world manner, or because the precariously unmoored woman, surviving on the strength of her youth and wits, is such an ancient and familiar type, it’s hard to think of her as a millennial. ![]() This effervescent debut novel, even when I was several chapters in, had the most persistent quality of timelessness I can remember, to the point where it took a fair amount of close reading and deductive reasoning to ascertain that it is, in fact, set during more or less the present day. ![]() ![]() ![]() Okay, I’ve heard the ratio-of-worshippers-to-power idea before so that’s not so original. The plot: there is a building power struggle between the old Gods (Norse, Native American, pagan, etc.) and the new Gods (Technology, Television, Money, etc.). ![]() The basic idea: the more worshippers a God has, the more powerful they are. But Gods help me, the more I read, the more I hated American Gods.įirst off, while the premise sounds interesting the more I thought about it, the less I liked it. ![]() For those who love this book-and I know it is many-please forgive the sarcasm to follow as I blaspheme against the beloved Gaiman. How on Gods’ Earth could a book about Gods walking on the Earth among mortals be so pedestrian? Somehow Gaiman managed to turn a potentially cool premise into something boring. I find myself shocked at the awards this book has won and the praise heaped upon it. ![]() ![]() ![]() And one idiot trolling me on 5Core could be enough to chase the rest of them away.Īzure M got mad about a little trash talk and she banned me. I never thought anyone would actually play.īut they did. I uploaded a link on the county school’s 5Core forum because I needed a few players to test it. I only created the game as part of a school project. Two hours of gaming, down the drain.īut OtherLANDS doesn’t have the biggest fan base. It was right at the end of the mission, and me booting him meant he lost any XP he’d earned. Nightmare is pissed because I booted him from a team for harassing another player. My finger hovers over the Ban Player button. ![]() At least this guy didn’t include a dick pic. ![]() But also, and more importantly, who raised me to be kindĪnd that’s what I’m going to say when I find you and shove it in your mouth hole. ![]() ![]() ![]() So why, as adults, do we often give up on a goal when at first we don't succeed? In his study of how we learn (prompted by his pursuit of disciplines such as music and golf), Sterner has found that we have forgotten the principles of practice - the process of picking a goal and applying steady effort to reach it. If we had given up in the face of failure, repetition, and difficulty, we would never have learned to walk or tie our shoes. Early life is all about trial-and-error practice. In this enticing and practical book, Thomas Sterner demonstrates how to learn skills for any aspect of life, from golfing to business to parenting, by learning to love the process. ![]() ![]() In those times when we want to acquire a new skill or face a formidable challenge we hope to overcome, what we need most are patience, focus, and discipline, traits that seem elusive or difficult to maintain. ![]() ![]() ![]() What details does the author provide, right from the opening paragraphs of Shiloh, that make this clear to readers? What does Marty teach Judd about loving animals in Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh?Ģ. Together they form one of the most deeply felt sagas in modern children’s literature.ġ. ![]() Each book is richly rewarding on its own. ![]() The story of how Marty keeps Shiloh and at the same time tries to balance his responsibilities to his family, to the dog’s troubled original owner, and, perhaps trickiest of all, to himself, unfolds in an unforgettable trilogy. But when Marty finds an abused beagle out in the woods, he’s willing to go to almost any length to hold on to him. His family of five has barely enough food and room for themselves, never mind a pet. The Shiloh Trilogy by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor launched by the Newbery Award–winning novel Shiloh, takes readers straight into the heart and soul of an eleven-year-old West Virginia boy named Marty Preston. ![]() |