![]() ![]() ![]() Doe doesn’t”t see any value in dandelions yet all her friends view the flower positively. The fourth book in Renauld’s Woodland Friends series, Doe’s Dandelions teaches young children a powerful lesson on perspective. Bear believes dandelions are wishes, not weeds. Squirrel feels dandelions brighten, not bother her snowdrops. Porcupine consider dandelions nourishment, not a nuisance. Instead of agreeing with Doe, each animal shares a benefit of dandelions. ![]() After weeding every dandelion, she warns her forest friends. Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.ĭoe’s Dandelions by Laura Renauld Illustrated by Jennie Pohĭoe is excited to showcase her daffodils in the Spring Petal Parade, but she fears the dandelions threaten her precious flowers. Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading. ![]()
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![]() "A rare primary source snapshot of a particular place and time." - Ms Yingling Reads has instead matured into a timely representation of an urban African American childhood, presented in 'the black vernacular style of Harlem neighborhood,' made accessible once more to eager new audiences." - Terry Hong, Shelf Awareness What might have been permanently dismissed. ![]() "At 42, Little Man, Little Man has aged well. Through luminous prose and fine observation, readers come to care deeply about TJ and his friends, and they’ll wish their story didn’t end so soon." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "French artist Cazac’s scribbly-line spreads and vignettes, tinted with watercolor, seem charged with electricity. Looks like the world finally caught up with it at last." - Elizabeth Bird, School Library Journal I think that maybe this is the book that kids need today. ![]() The descriptions alone are worth the price of admission. "You’re getting everything through Baldwin’s keen insights and distinctive voice. "Pulled from the past, this is a brilliant exploration of black childhood with profound emotional depth, drawn from the grace and struggles of community and reinforcing the truth that no one knows Harlem like Baldwin." - Kirkus Reviews ![]() ![]() ![]() While serving 30 days in jail that he receives for the theft of a touring car, he meets bank robber Ben Harper, who has been sentenced to death for the murder of two men during the robbery. Powell seems to think he is actually doing Christian service, since he is spreading the gospels and believes God hates women, too. His modus operandi consists in marrying widows only to later kill them and steal their money. Powell was introduced as a misogynist, fanatically religious preacher who travels across the estates surrounding the Ohio river delivering his sermons. He was portrayed by the late Robert Mitchum, who also played Max Cady in Cape Fear. The story was based on the crimes of real-life serial killer Harry Powers. Reverend Harry Powell (also simply known as Harry Powell) is the main antagonist in Davis Grubb's novel The Night of the Hunter, and Charles Laughton's 1955 film adaptation. Not that You mind the killings, Your book is full of killings. ![]() ![]() ![]() It introduces a writer who gives Flannery O’Connor’s Gothic parables a Californian twist and who. Cult fiction is not within my usual realm of reading, but it feels like GODSHOT is less about the desperation or unusual circumstances that lead to cultism or the spectrum of faith, and more about motherhood and daughterhood, the complex ways we can choose to honor and forget our pasts, and what it means to be truly blessed. Possessed of an unstoppable plot and a brilliantly soulful voice, Godshot is a book of grit and humor and heart, a debut novel about female friendship and resilience, mother-loss and motherhood, and seeking salvation in unexpected places. GODSHOT is cult fiction, but more than that, it shows us how love comes in different forms: in found families, in incompleteness, in future generations. ![]() These women, ostracized by the church as “sinful” phone women, show her that there is life for her beyond Vern, beyond Peaches, beyond being a girl under the hand of men, and beyond what her mother has left for her. When she becomes “godshot” as a part of Vern’s perverted plans to save the town of Peaches from drought, she meets the women of the red house and sets on a quest beyond the borders of Peaches to find her mother. As she grieves her mother’s abandonment, she begins to also waver in her belief as Vern’s cult reveals more and more of its monstrosity while others look the other way, as she is violated by terrible men and terrible boys becoming even more terrible men. ![]() Fourteen-year-old Lacey May’s mother is gone, gone away from the drought-ravaged town of Peaches, California, away with an unknown man to become a star, leaving Lacey to come of age by herself in the hands of Pastor Vern and his promises to bring rain. ![]() ![]() As secrets emerge from the shadows and Carragh gets closer to answers-and to Aidan-could she be the Darkling Bride's next victim? ![]() The past catches up to the present, and odd clues in the house soon have Carragh wondering if there are unseen forces stalking the Gallagher family. These incidents only fueled fantastical theories about the Darkling Bride, a local legend of a sultry and dangerous woman from long ago whose wrath continues to haunt the castle. The couple's unusual deaths harken back a century, when twenty-three-year-old Lady Jenny Gallagher also died at Deeprath under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind an infant son and her husband, a renowned writer who never published again. The case, which was never closed, has recently been taken up by a new detective determined to find the truth. Two decades before, Aidan's parents died violently at Deeprath. ![]() But after meeting Aidan, the current Viscount Gallagher, and his enigmatic family, Carragh knows that her task will be more challenging than she'd thought. ![]() Nestled in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland, the estate is now slated to become a public trust, and book lover and scholar Carragh Ryan is hired to take inventory of its historic library. The Gallagher family has called Deeprath Castle home for seven hundred years. ![]() ![]() ![]() What she studies is everything we cannot see: the darkness. Heymans, who is the first woman appointed astronomer royal for Scotland, was planning to explain to the island’s 60 or so residents that those stars, and the rest of the perceptible universe, represent a mere fraction of the stuff that makes up our cosmos. On a clear winter’s night, it is easy to be awed by the thousands upon thousands of stars visible to the naked eye, which spill their unpolluted light upon the Earth. The island, North Ronaldsay, is among the darkest inhabited places on earth. L ast September, Catherine Heymans, one of the world’s leading cosmologists, was supposed to board a ferry for the northernmost island in the Orkney archipelago. ![]() ![]() ![]() With an adult man’s body and needs, Peggy began flirting with him, and Hal never realized that he was going too far by responding to her. Since he left for hunting and came back with an exciting hint where there is blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. ![]() Hal is a good-looking man but has an intellectual incapacity to understand the world and things better. The people in the town gossip that Hal did something to her. Days pass, and she doesn’t come home, and she is nowhere to be found in the area. On that fateful night, she doesn’t return home as usual. Peggy’s brother could get confirmed at the Lutheran church one night before. It was the first weekend of the deer season in Gunthrum in 1985, and Hall Bullard had gone hunting accompanied by other locals. She’s too young to be in control, but she sees it as a practice for the time she’ll join college. The increased drinking culture of the area was the leading cause of most problems, and Peggy feeling too smart, developed a habit of sneaking during the weekends to party at the Castle farm. ![]() The novel focuses on the disappearance of a teenager named Peggy Ahern. She is an English professor at Wright State University in Ohio.įlanagan’s short fiction story, the Usual Mistakes, appeared in Baltimore Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, and North Dakota Quarterly, among other places. Her work includes Deer Season, the Usual Mistakes, and It’s Not Going to Kill You collections. Erin Flanagan is an American author of fiction mystery and suspense novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a metaphysical thesis, the absurd is a confrontation between the human mind and an indifferent universe: what exists is a “mind that desires and the world that disappoints” (50). We just do not, and according to Camus, we cannot understand what we want to understand.Ĭamus’s doctrine of the absurd then has both metaphysical and epistemological aspects. ![]() We also want to understand why bad things happen to good people, why good things happen to bad people, why we’re here, where we’re going, and what it all means.Ĭoncerning how things actually are, however, evil goes unpunished, good deeds often are not rewarded, good things happen to bad people, bad things happen to good people, and we don’t understand any of it. This though is not what Camus means by “absurd.” For Camus, the absurd originates from a combination of two things: the way we want the world to be and the way the world actually is.Ībout how we want the world to be, it just seems to be a part of human nature that we have a sense of justice and fairness, and so we want the world to be just and fair: we want evil punished and virtue rewarded. There are many things we might naturally call absurd: a rude joke, an outrageous statement, or the price of a pair of designer jeans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was engaged for awhile to FKA twigsbefore they broke up in 2017, and in January 2020 engagement rumors caught up with him and his current girlfriend, Suki Waterhouse. Then, of course, came The Batman, in which he played billionaire Bruce Wayne (albeit a moody, Kurt Cobain-influenced one) and the Caped Crusader himself.įollowing his notoriously public split from Stewart, Pattinson has predominantly kept quiet about his dating life. Perhaps even more so than Stewart, Pattinson has worked to distance himself from his star-making turn as the brooding vampire Edward Cullen-though he told E! News he would "always appreciate" what the Twilight franchise did for his career. He was the romantic lead in 2010's Remember Me and 2011's Water for Elephants, but after that he primarily stuck to the down-and-dirty depths of the human soul in the likes of Maps to The Stars, The Rover, Good Time and 2019's The Lighthouse, in which it's just Pattinson, Willem Dafoe and some really sordid nightmares. ![]() ![]() ![]() Currently, Yasmin Mujahid is an international speaker and an author who focuses most of her Work on spiritual and personal development. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Yasmin Mogahed is known for her gift of captivating an entire audience with her thoughts and insightful reflections. In this book, we get to know that happiness is not something impossible, regardless of what we have been through in our lives, regardless of how far we have gotten away from the truest path. Once we change our lens with which we see our lives, our internal and external response drastically changes. The fundamental truth is this: Everything in this life is a test. How can we find a way out of despair and live a life of happiness and well-being again? In this situation, husnuzon billah would be like, "I am having this challenge because Allah is strengthening me because Allah is protecting me from maybe something else." Preface ![]() There is despair thinking and there is a husnuzon billah thinking, that is having a positive opinion of Allah. ![]() How can we find happiness after despair? Then now, how to build happiness? We know that true happiness is the happiness of the heart. ![]() |