6/26/2023 0 Comments Giovanni's room barnes and noble![]() The entire story is narrated by David during "the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life," when Giovanni will be executed. Plot ĭavid, a young American man whose girlfriend has gone off to Spain to contemplate marriage, is left alone in Paris and begins an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni. Giovanni's Room is noteworthy for bringing complex representations of homosexuality and bisexuality to a reading public with empathy and artistry, thereby fostering a broader public discourse of issues regarding same-sex desire. The book focuses on the events in the life of an American man living in Paris and his feelings and frustrations with his relationships with other men in his life, particularly an Italian bartender named Giovanni whom he meets at a Parisian gay bar. ![]() Giovanni's Room is a 1956 novel by James Baldwin. ![]()
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6/25/2023 0 Comments David morrell rambo books![]() ![]() Embarrassed to have my name associated with it." "I hated the film," Morrell posted to Twitter, agreeing with the overwhelmingly negative critical consensus surrounding Rambo: Last Blood. A version of the plot point made it into Rambo: Last Blood, which shows Rambo journeying to Mexico to rescue a friend's granddaughter, Gabrielle (Yvette Montreal), from cartel sex traffickers. Stallone finished the script with Matthew Cirulnick ( Absentia). Morrell's hope for Last Blood was to portray a "soulful" Rambo, which included portraying Rambo tracking down a missing child, defending a family he never had.īut communication between the author and Stallone soon ended. Morrell had some involvement with the newest movie, the fifth in the series, conversing with Stallone by telephone during the writing process. When the police attempt to cut his hair, he breaks free of the police station, setting in motion a bloodbath, as the police and National Guard hunt him down. ![]() ![]() In First Blood, Rambo (he has no first name in the novel), a Vietnam War veteran, is harassed by Kentucky police and suffers flashbacks to his time as a prisoner of war while imprisoned. The creator of Rambo isn't happy with Sylvester Stallone's latest entry in the movie series named for the character, Rambo: Last Blood.ĭavid Morrell is a bestselling thriller author, whose debut novel, 1972's First Blood, was adapted into a 1982 movie of the same name. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Swamplandia author![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio - known to many of his bookseller, author, and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired, including Gorey, Sendak, Heaney, Byatt, Morrison, Updike and many more. this book is signed by the author Karen Russell on the title-page. this book is hard-bound in light green paper covered boards, with a dark green paper covered spine with gilt stamping to the spine, in a nice dust jacket with some light handling wear. As Ava sets out on a mission through the magical swamps to save them all, we are drawn into a lush and bravely imagined debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.(Publisher). But when illness fells Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. Green paper over boards with spine backed in blue and lettered in silver. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Paulsen recalls personal experiences that he incorporated into Hatchet (1987) and its three sequels, from savage attacks by moose and mosquitoes to watching helplessly as a heart-attack victim dies. Miah’s melodramatic death overshadows a tale as rich in social and personal insight as any of Woodson’s previous books. The parting thought that, willy-nilly, time moves on will be a colder comfort for stunned readers than it evidently is for Ellie. Suddenly Miah, forgetting his father’s warning never to be seen running in a white neighborhood, exuberantly dashes into a park and is shot down by police. In quiet conversations and encounters, Woodson perceptively explores varieties of love, trust, and friendship, as she develops well-articulated histories for both families. Not only sharply sensitive to the reactions of those around them, Ellie and Miah also discover depths and complexities in their own intense feelings that connect clearly to their experiences, their social environment, and their own characters. Jeremiah and Elisha bond from the moment they collide in the hall of their Manhattan prep school: He’s the only child of celebrity parents she’s the youngest by ten years in a large family. In a meditative interracial love story with a wrenching climactic twist, Woodson ( The House You Pass on the Way, 1997, etc.) offers an appealing pair of teenagers and plenty of intellectual grist, before ending her story with a senseless act of violence. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Tricks by Ellen Hopkins![]() ![]() What they don’t expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words “I love you” are said for all the wrong reasons.įive moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story-a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching…for freedom, safety, community, family, love. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.įive teenagers from different parts of the country. Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Hit Squad by James Heneghan![]() Some students draw stick figures, and other students draw way better than I dream of! The item I emphasize is getting the major events correct and listing them in chronological order. I receive a range of quality in the drawings. I like to have students present their work to the class, or I will post student work in the classroom and have a gallery walk-through. I like this activity because students get to choose events they feel are most important in the literary work and standout to them. This allows students to use more space when drawing/coloring pictures. There are no text boxes for the pictures. I also provided a copy of one template that indicates where the pictures should be written. This simply forces students to be selective with their words when they write their short description. The lined space for the fifth event is limited. The spacing ranges from single space, space and a half, and double space. Each copy has different line spacing to accommodate the different level of writers (or penmanship). This worksheet is one page however, there are three different copies. ![]() There is enough space for students to list five major events. ![]() I enjoy having students draw and color their art. Students will also draw a picture of each event. ![]() Beginning at the bottom left of the page, students will number each major event in the literary work and write a short description of the event. This worksheet has a staircase pattern that moves from the bottom left to the upper right of the paper. This plot graph is presented in landscape view. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments The hidden hand by eden southworth![]() ![]() Serialized three times by popular demand before appearing in book form, The Hidden Hand exudes irresistible high spirits and cheer, and still retains the capacity to surprise and delight that enchanted its first readers. ![]() Besides, the neighbourhood is infested with evil-doers - Black Donald, the notorious bandit, and Gabriel Le Noir, the owner of the plantation adjoining - combine to make her life full of excitement and peril. In another instant her resolution was taken and her course determined.' Rescued from life on the streets in New York by a southern plantation owner, with his own reasons for befriending her, Capitola is too active and adventurous to settle for the life of a southern belle. ![]() As by a flash of lighting she saw that every feature of her imminent danger - the loneliness of the woods, the lateness of the hour, the recklessness of her fearful companion, and her own weakness. `At the touch of that ruthless hand, at the sound of that giving voice, all her faculties instantly collected and concentrated themselves upon the emergency. The Hidden Hand (1888) is an exuberant action comedy, featuring fearless Capitola Black, a self-styled female Don Quixote, and the prototype of innumerable adventure heroines. ![]() ![]() The last thing Lizzie needs right now is a call from an inmate at Rikers asking for help-even if Zach Grayson is an old friend. It wasn’t sudden, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie’s marriage had started to show. ![]() That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Sam-she had everything she’d ever wanted. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. ![]() Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. ![]() A riveting novel from the bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make-and the secrets they keep-in order to stay together. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Ag howard book series![]() ![]() When she was three, her parents tragically died on October 31st. ![]() Phoenix “Nix” Loring knows her family is under a Halloween curse. ![]() ![]() “Wonderfully dark, weird, and twisted, this richly drawn refashioning of Carroll’s classic fantasy…is equal parts thrilling fantasy adventure, poignant family drama, and journey of self-discovery, offering a distinctive and original story that remains faithful to the spirit of its source.”–Starred Review from The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Join Alyssa’s own thrilling adventures as she drains an ocean of Alice’s tears, wakes the slumbering tea party, and subdues a vicious bandersnatch in hopes to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family, her friends, and all of Wonderland. When Alyssa learns that what everyone thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality, she steps into the rabbit hole to a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. This family curse stretches back to their ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Welcome to the real Wonderland… Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers-precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Faux leather options are also available – please indicate if you want this option in the order notes when checking out) A perfect piece for any collection or enthusiast! Also available in German (Die Unendliche Geschichte), French (L’histoire Sans Fin), Spanish (La Historia Interminable), or Italian (La Storia Infinita). The chapters are illustrated and written in a beautiful red and green, and the book measures about 6 x 9″ and has 389 pages. Originally published in German and translated in 1983, this is a hand-made hardback leatherbound copy of The Neverending Story, bound in high quality leather and sealed with an Auryn. This is the classic story of luck dragons, of Childlike Empresses, of tortoises as old as time, of terrifying enemies and steadfast friends, of rockbiters and realms where wishes come true. Telling the tale of Bastion Balthazar Bux, a young boy who encounters a magical book that unlocks the world of Fantasia, and the adventures of the warrior Atreyu in his quest to understand and defeat the Nothing, they both meet many characters along the way that aid (or hinder) in their quests. The ultimate collector’s piece, this is a handmade leather bound copy of The Neverending Story, made as custom commission books. ![]() |