![]() This is especially true when they realize that breaking the rules comes at a price. The twins must come to terms with growing up on and off the court. But once JD falls in love with the new girl at school, Josh can’t help but feel left out, and their bond starts to unravel. The Crossover tells the story of Josh and Jordan (aka JD) Bell – twin 13-year-olds who love playing basketball and excel at it too. I can easily see why it’s fun, honest, and heartbreaking. Additionally, Disney+ will produce a series based on the novel. It won the Newbery Medal in 2015, and it’s the only one of the batch that’s written in verse. For 2022, The Crossover by Kwame Alexander was one of the titles that we picked for a multitude of reasons. As a Children’s Librarian, one of the tasks that I have to do every year is host Battle of the Books for 5th graders. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you're a fan of Marvel Comics or the MCU films, you're bound to have some affection for the alien, plantlike creature who speaks in only three syllables: I am Groot. Groot #1 (Photo: Lee Garbett, Marvel Comics) It's safe to assume that supernatural hijinks will ensue. Written by Casey Gilly (who wrote Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer, one of Boom's better efforts with the property) and drawn by Golden Rage's Lauren Knight, the story follows the Scooby Gang on a road trip mission to retrieve Spike's diary full of embarrassing poetry, which is about to go up for auction at a convention for antiquers in New Orleans. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Lost Summer #1, Boom finally returns to that original timeline for a lost adventure featuring the characters fans of the TV show knew and loved. Since taking over the Buffy the Vampire Slayer license, Boom Studios has focused on telling stories in various alternate realities featuring fresh new versions of familiar characters from the popular television series. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Lost Summer #1 (Photo: Mirka Andolfo, Boom Studios) ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Women's Prize judges have some serious form in picking out good books, so I'm delighted they've chosen to include mine on this year's longlist. It was my first novel with Penguin and the first to be published under their new Sandycove Press imprint based in Dublin, so I'm thrilled that their faith in me has been rewarded. MacMahon said: "This means the world, to me and the book. It’s a story of grief and living life to the full.” ![]() Malik called Dolan’s debut “a taut, gripping book full of unsympathetic characters that for some reason you remain extremely invested in.” Mee said of MacMahon’s novel: “Widower David examines his relationship with his dead wife and their 20-year marriage. The chair of this year’s judges is 2019 Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, whose fellow judges are Elizabeth Day Vick Hope Nesrine Malik and Sarah-Jane Mee. Perhaps the best-known name on the list, however, is actor and author Dawn French. ![]() The list includes Ali Smith, a previous winner who has also been shortlisted twice before, and Amanda Craig, who has previously been longlisted. Naoise Dolan has been nominated for Exciting Times, one of six debuts on the list, and Kathleen MacMahon for her acclaimed third novel, Nothing But Blue Sky. Two Irish authors have been longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, along with six British and five American authors, one Canadian, one Barbadian and one Ghanaian / American. ![]() ![]() Sitting alone, reading about his life, I felt I understood Charles and I fell into this book very easily as the rain pattered away on top of the bay window. Charles has started a writing project, a diary – later it becomes a novel but it also becomes a diary again (he never quite makes up his mind) – and the opening pages introduce us to a life of contemplation, of connection to the sea and the coast, and reflection of past times removed from the turmoil and emotions of everyday life. So, I then began to read of Charles Arrowby who retires from the theatre after a long career and buys a house by the sea where he plans to spend the rest of his days in relative obscurity, peace and quiet. ![]() Unusually, I’ve been somewhat on my own and two weeks ago as I sat down at night to read, the temperature dropped from the sweltering highs we have here in Australia and a light rain started. However, two weeks ago I was presented with the perfect opportunity to start this book properly. ![]() ![]() From time to time, when looking for my next book I’ve pulled it from the shelf, taken a short read and then replaced it. It’s my first Iris Murdoch, bought as part of this site’s Man Booker Prize winners project. ![]() There hasn’t been a lot of time for books in the last few weeks, but when I’ve had time this book has been a fast read. ![]() ![]() Izumi soon finds herself caught between worlds, and between versions of herself-back home, she was never “American” enough, and in Japan, she must prove she’s “Japanese” enough. ![]() There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling but handsome bodyguard who just might be her soulmate, and thousands of years of tradition and customs to learn practically overnight. But being a princess isn’t all ball gowns and tiaras. In a whirlwind, Izumi travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew and discover the country she always dreamed of. Which means outspoken, irreverent Izzy is literally a princess. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father’s identity…and he’s none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. ![]() Raised by a single mother, it’s always been Izumi-or Izzy, because “It’s easier this way”-and her mom against the world. ![]() Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in-it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Emiko Jean’s New York Times bestseller and Reese Book Club Pick Tokyo Ever After is the “refreshing, spot-on” ( Booklist, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan! ![]() ![]() ![]() Bloom also examines the changing publishing industry, the coming of book clubs and reading groups and the cult of the author. Looking beyond dubious publishers' statistics, Bloom has found that while Christie, du Maurier, Innes et al can be numbered with today's till-ringers such as Binchy, Collins and Welsh, so can such forgotten names as Dolf Wyllarde, Steve Francis and Sydney Horter. In July, Clive Bloom takes a longer view in Bestsellers: What the British have been Reading over the Last 100 Years and Why (Palgrave). The accompanying BBC book comes from John Sutherland. For the past few weeks, Reading the Decades has been providing welcome quality time on BBC2, throwing up surprising snatches of archive film (the rush to the shops after the Chatterley ban was lifted) and some equally surprising validations of writers long out of fashion - Carmen Callil and Germaine Greer both extolling the virtues of Georgette Heyer. ![]() ![]() ![]() How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford ![]() Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Whilst it is imperative that White staff are doing the work to be better allies, to use their privilege for power and to be actively anti-racist, I do think it is important for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff to create opportunities for each other where possible, to empower people to value their own identities and celebrate their uniqueness, and to realise our own self-worth.”īarracoon: The Story of The Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurstonįreedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis Image credit: strongly believe that people of colour should never feel that they have to solve the problems of racism as it was not created by them. For Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff in particular, it will provide guidance on resilience, support and navigating higher education as a person of colour. ![]() These resources are focused on providing inspiration on empowerment, resilience and support. They are always doing the work by trying to dismantle racist structures or trying to stay resilient through painful racist occurrences. For people who experience racism it is even more harrowing there is little opportunity to ‘take a break’ when one is living and experiencing racism and systemic racial inequity in their daily lives. It is uncomfortable, and emotionally and physically exhausting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Signed examples of this work are uncommon, presentation copies even more so, particularly with such noted provenance. Karen Peirce.” Near fine in a near fine first-issue dust jacket with light rubbing, newspaper clipping to the half-title page. He signed a book for everyone in the family, and I got The Old Man and the Sea. 6, 2007, “When I was 10 years old, Ernest Hemingway came to our house in Tucson, Arizona, to visit my father, Waldo Peirce. ![]() Peirce was once called “the Ernest Hemingway of American painters.” To that he replied, “They’ll never call Ernest Hemingway the Waldo Peirce of American writers.” Laid in is a letter of provenance signed by and in Karen Pierce’s hand dated Sept. In 1937, Peirce painted a portrait of Hemingway which appeared on the cover of the October 18th issue of Time Magazine. After WWI had come to an end, Peirce befriended Hemingway in Europe and the two traveled together to various continental locations, in particular Spain. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Karen from her friend Ernest Hemingway.” The recipient was the daughter of Waldo Peirce, one of Hemingway’s oldest friends. ![]() New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1952.įirst edition, early printing of Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now in her 70s, time and its inexorable ravages have become more central to her work, pushing aside her earlier preoccupations with living the wrong life, or with the rub between the benefits of intimacy and the desire for freedom. And family life is always a long haul in Tyler's novels. Once again, her focus is on the relationships between various members of a Baltimore family - spouses, parents and children, siblings and in-laws - as they evolve over the long haul. You read, instead, for the cozy mildness, the comfort of sinking into each new warmhearted, gently wry book.Ī Spool of Blue Thread, Tyler's 20th novel, wears its domesticity proudly on its sleeve (or make that jacket). You don't read Anne Tyler to have your worldview expanded, or to be kept awake at night anxiously turning pages. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Spool of Blue Thread Author Anne Tyler ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Feliciana tells Zoe the story of her struggle to become an accepted healer in her community, and Zoe begins to understand the hidden history of her own experience as a woman, finding her way in a hostile environment shaped by and for men. There, the two women’s lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. ![]() Sent to report on Paloma’s murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers ![]() |