The Author Showcase is a place for authors and illustrators to gain visibility for their works. The mood quickly gives way as Henry sets on his mission… Playfully chasing and romping his way through parks, beaches and trails to find new friends! Along the way Henry meets brand new dog Pal friends and some interesting critters as well.Ī lovable turn of events even lay in wait as all the cuteness of this tail unfolds!Īdventure-Pom! is written by Sean Dryden and Jerry Seguin.Īdd this book to your collection: Adventure-Pom! Captain Henry Gingersnaps Drydens plays particularly the first and. Together they will search beaches, parks and trails for the Pals Henry. Women in the Factory: An Administrative Adventure, 1893 to 1921Adelaide Mary. The book starts with a very cute, if not dramatic, image of “foreboding” with cat eyes hovering over a sad faced Pom. Adventure-Pom brings kids on the fun filled adventures of Captain Henry Gingersnaps. The book’s layout uses color and design thoughtfully, keeping children engaged. Author Showcase Adventure-Pom! Captain Henry GingersnapsĪdventure-Pom! features the poof tail adventure of Captain Henry Gingersnaps! Using a creative combination of photography and comic styling speech bubbles, the book follows Henry on his search for Pals so he can face the ever ominous “Cranky Kitties”.
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She passed away on 13 August 1990 in Mexico City. She then wrote La intrusa, Bodas de odio and other novels that earned her important awards. Back in Mexico, she wrote Corazón salvaje, a novel that has been adapted to the screen twice and as a telenovela four times (including once as Juan del Diablo in Puerto Rico). Corazon Salvaje 1993 is based on the novel of the same name by Caridad Bravo Adams, which was first published in 1957. Upon the rise of Fidel Castro, she returned to Mexico, where she would remain the rest of her life. She became a chair member of the Ateneo Mexicano de Mujeres and later moved back to Cuba, where she wrote the radionovela Yo no creo en los hombres, which was adapted in Mexico for telenovelas in 19. She then moved back to Cuba with her parents, and later returned to Mexico, where she kept writing and obtained a role in her only film, Corazón bandolero (1934). It is the fourth of five screen adaptations of the novel of the same name by Caridad Bravo Adams, and the second telenovela. Sinopsis de CORAZÓN SALVAJE (CORAZÓN SALVAJE 1) La historia se desarrolló en el 1800 en la Martinica, en las colonias Antillas francesas. She published her first book at the age of 16, titled Pétalos sueltos. Caridad Bravo Adams was born on 14 January 1908 in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, to a couple of Cuban actors and she was part of an extended family of artists, being the sister of Venezuelan actor Leon Bravo, one of the pioneers of theater, radio and TV in Venezuela. Upon landing and seeing the results of InGen's bioengineering, Malcolm's predictions turn dire. Malcolm insists-even without knowing what is housed on the nature preserve-that due to chaos theory, the nature preserve will fail. The two reluctantly agree, and fly out to the island with Dennis Nedry, a computer technician, and Ian Malcolm, a chaos mathematician. Grant and Sattler are on the verge of discovering a complete juvenile Velociraptor skeleton-the first of its kind- when Hammond calls and essentially demands they come visit Isla Nublar where he has built a nature preserve. John Hammond, an eccentric millionaire, has funded their digs, for unknown reasons. Alan Grant and grad student Ellie Sattler are paleontologists at the forefront of their field. Now, I have to say that this review will be super biased because this is the book that started my love of science fiction and intensified my love of fantasy.ĭr. Let me just state that while Jurassic Park is a science fiction novel, it has elements that could be considered urban fantasy. Vo's prose, with its luxuriance and precise command of tone, has a meticulous quality to it, as if every word were a jewel laid out very carefully on a tray. Everything is new, and everything is familiar, all at once.īut Fitzgerald never managed writing as ravishingly beautiful as this. For those of you who read and loved the original Great Gatsby, it will be like returning to a love-worn poem that had melted away into half-remembered snatches and finding that it contained a new meaning. Nghi Vo reimagines The Great Gatsby with sensuality, queerness, and a glass-sharp beauty. Those things waited for us outside the gates, so whoever wanted to go home? Certainly ugliness didn't, and neither did morning or hangovers or hungers that could not be sated. “Death doesn't come to Gatsby's,” went the rumor, and it might even have been true. And a glimmer of something else too, something sharp and treacherous beneath the smooth surface: shards from a mirror that tipped off a shelf and shattered and rivulets of molten blood and faint scratches from a single nail painted slick black. Still today, when I think back on the experience of reading it, I see freshly pressed silk slipping over skin and fingers sliding through hair and delicate cords of bright pearls shimmering on bare throats like sunrise on water. Oh, this book built such beautiful, ruinous, indelible images in my mind. When she's not writing, she's busy being inspired, traveling, or planning her next book-with one hand on her laptop and the other balancing a latte.īone Island: Book of Danvers (coming fall of 2021) In this case, she will lose track of time and will have to be dragged away. She's a rule breaker who cannot be confined in a box, except when she's in the writing cave. Her writing style and stories are known to evoke imagery and emotion, varying across all sub-genres, settings, and time periods due to her ambition to live a thousand lives. She has four published titles, all translated into multiple languages. Nicole Fiorina is the #1 Best Selling Author in Poetry for her debut trilogy, Stay with Me, and Amazon’s #1 Best Selling Author in Gothic Romance for Hollow Heathens. Meissner's prose maintains a balanced tone of sorrow throughout this novel. Amidst the tragedy and challenges, they learn what they cannot live without-and what they are willing to do about it.Īs Bright as Heaven is the compelling story of a mother and her daughters who find themselves in a harsh world not of their making, which will either crush their resolve to survive or purify it. But even as they lose loved ones, they take in a baby orphaned by the disease who becomes their single source of hope. As the pandemic claims more than twelve thousand victims in their adopted city, they find their lives left with a world that looks nothing like the one they knew. Into this bustling town, came Pauline Bright and her husband, filled with hope that they could now give their three daughters - Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa - a chance at a better life.īut just months after they arrive, the Spanish Flu reaches the shores of America. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone streets. In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. Meanwhile, the tale in the secret novel is unveiled it deals with the lost music that underlies all magic. Wealthy and powerful John Madden, head of the sinister Order of the Grey Dove, employs a killer to acquire a talisman, somehow related to Dunthorn, that Madden is convinced will augment his magical powers. Strangers seek to buy or steal Dunthorn's papers and peculiar accidents befall Janie's friends. After folk singer Janie Little finds the only copy of a novel titled The Little Country by celebrated writer William Dunthorn, an old friend of her grandfather's, extraordinary events begin to occur. A book that could provide its possessor with ultimate power a Cornish family that has kept the volume hidden for decades a secret society out to obtain it at any cost a psychopathic killer two or possibly three alternate worlds and a love story are the plot strands of this pleasant but not very engrossing fantasy by the author of Angel of Darkness. Lepore' s life of Jane Franklin, with its strikingly original vantage on her remarkable brother, is at once a wholly different account of the founding of the United States and one of the great untold stories of American history and letters: a life unknown. Making use of an amazing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one woman but an entire world- a world usually lost to history. Benjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man his sister spent her life caring for her children. Lepore suggests that his presence in the annals of history overshadows that of Jane Franklin, but. Book of Ages begins with a reflection on the ubiquity of Benjamin Franklin. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Book of Ages, for its comprehensive analysis of women in the Revolutionary era, has been celebrated as one of the best contemporary works on early American history. Log in Create account × Summaryįrom one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin' s youngest sister and a history of history itself. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. I guess I should say one of the two couples who we have been dying for. If you've read the other books in this series, you already know that this is the couple we've been dying for. I have a feeling Miller's book is going to be something else entirely! This is such a fun hockey series and I'm glad it's not over yet. Watching Smith and Emilia together, getting their flashbacks of that night, along with the other characters appearances I've met and loved along the way. Now Emilia is tasked with doing a player profile on Smith and they truly can't stay away from one another. In his late thirties, he's been on the team his entire career and Emilia not only is doing PR, but is one of the coach's nieces.īeing together wouldn't bode well for either of them, specifically Emilia so they've been keeping their distance. They had a memorable weekend together, then found out that they would be working together. Smith and Emilia met around 2 years prior the here and now. I love a good forbidden/work place romance and this one hit the spot! I've been loving the 'Carolina Comet's' series, and I was so excited to get Smith and Emilia's book. Over the course of one summer, these four orphans journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, he and his brother, Albert, their best friend, Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, Odie O’Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendent’s wrath. The unforgettable story of four orphans who travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression. This story is as big-hearted as they come.” - Parade “If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you’ll love This Tender Land. |