![]() ![]() ![]() Mo began his career as a writer and animator for television, garnering 6 Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, creating Nickelodeon's The Off-Beats, Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and head-writing Codename: Kids Next Door. ![]() Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned animated shorts and theatrical musical productions, and his illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation. The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's." In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91. ![]() #1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale. ![]()
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![]() ![]() About the Authorĭiana Abu-Jaber is the award-winning author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including Crescent and The Language of Baklava. ![]() Uncle Hafez will make their time in Jordan complicated-and dangerous-after Amani discovers a missing relative and is launched into a journey of loss, history, and, eventually, a fight for her own life.Fencing with the King masterfully draws on King Lear and Arthurian fable to explore the power of inheritance, the trauma of displacement, and whether we can release the past to build a future. ![]() Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. ![]() Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the king’s sixtieth birthday-and to fence with the king, as in their youth. Title: Fencing with the king : a novel Author: Diana Abu-Jaber Publisher: New York, NY : W. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Fencing with the King A Novel by Diana Abu-Jaber (Author) One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the Month A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent.Īmani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father’s books. ![]() ![]() Molly Oldfield is a writer and researcher for the landmark BBC 1 program QI (Quite Interesting), presented by Stephen Fry. He used to read A Christmas Carol to his children, but only at Christmas. He won the Audie Award for Book of the Year for his reading of The Graveyard Book. Neil Gaiman has written many books and won many awards for them. Gaiman will read the classic tale as the great author intended, following edits and prompts Dickens wrote in his own hand for his unique readings 150 years ago. She will be joined by acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, who will present a memorable reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. ![]() An afternoon of Victorian entertainment! Molly Oldfield, consummate researcher and author of The Secret Museum, shares her love of unique items and interesting objects found at museums and libraries world wide, most notably The New York Public Library's collection of Dickens material in the Berg Collection of English and American Literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. The Giving Tree is a meaningful gift for milestone events such as graduations, birthdays, and baby showers. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.Įvery day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk.and the tree was happy. So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. "Once there was a tree.and she loved a little boy." This edition features a beautiful metallic green jacket, a commemorative gold sticker, and a CD recording of Silverstein reading The Giving Tree. This classic is perfect for both young readers and lifelong fans. From Shel Silverstein, New York Times bestselling author of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic, comes a poignant picture book about love and acceptance, cherished for over fifty years. ![]() ![]() Excerptį OR THE REST of the world, the season was still fall, marked by cool nights and the gold-green remnants of summer. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city. ![]() Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. The power grid of the city has been destroyed New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. ![]() As The Tin Roof Blowdown begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. ![]() ![]() This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. In the waning days of summer 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. Dave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I thought that was the point of writing stories: to make up a chain of events that would somehow account for a certain mood – for how it came about and for what it led to.” - "The Idiot", Elif Batuman IPL 2023: Virat Kohli equals Chris Gayle’s tally of most centuries in IPL – ‘Spectacular innings’.‘Your English in Marathi accent is so sexy’: The popular video trend continues with a new version.‘Absolutely fantastic’: Writing platform Pratilipi CEO a year after publishing books with Westland.Hockey, India v Australia Tests, Match 3 as it happened: Savita Punia and Co finish series with draw.Carrots and sticks: How food was used to oppress Indian sailors on colonial ships. ![]()
![]() ![]() On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service (A Royal Spyness Mystery #11) (Mass Market):įour Funerals and Maybe a Wedding (A Royal Spyness Mystery #12) (Paperback): Malice at the Palace (A Royal Spyness Mystery #9) (Mass Market):Ĭrowned and Dangerous (A Royal Spyness Mystery #10) (Mass Market): Queen of Hearts (A Royal Spyness Mystery #8) (Mass Market): Heirs and Graces (A Royal Spyness Mystery #7) (Mass Market): The Twelve Clues of Christmas: A Royal Spyness Mystery (Mass Market): ![]() Naughty in Nice (A Royal Spyness Mystery #5) (Mass Market): ![]() Royal Blood (A Royal Spyness Mystery #4) (Mass Market): Royal Flush (A Royal Spyness Mystery #3) (Mass Market): Her Royal Spyness (A Royal Spyness Mystery #1) (Mass Market):Ī Royal Pain (A Royal Spyness Mystery #2) (Mass Market): This is book number 17 in the A Royal Spyness Mystery series. ![]() ![]() In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. ![]() until now.īut the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing–and too earth-shattering in its implications–to be forgotten. ![]() The #1 bestselling author of World War Z takes on the Bigfoot legend with a tale that blurs the lines between human and beast–and asks what we are capable of in the face of the unimaginable.Īs the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined. ![]() ![]() A real treasure. You can dive into the audio trove right here. It also includes an archive of photos and newspaper items, as well as an audio recording of a press conference the English department gave when Faulkner died on July 6, 1962. In total, the archive presents 1690 minutes (over 28 hours) of Faulkner recordings. ![]() The talks were originally recorded on reel-to-reel tapes, and now UVA has digitized the audio collection and made it available through a new web site: Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive. During this stint, he presented several public speeches, gave many readings from his literary works, spoke at countless public events, and answered questions from hundreds of students. In 19, the great American writer William Faulkner spent two years as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. ![]() Image by Carl Van Vechten, via Wikimedia Commons ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story centers on Horza, a rogue agent tasked by the Idirans with the impossible mission of recovering a missing Culture ‘Mind,’ an artificial intelligence many thousands of times smarter than any human-something that could hold the key to wiping out the Culture altogether. ![]() The 10-book series by Scottish writer Banks is set in a fictional interstellar utopian society, the Culture, which features humanoids, aliens, and advanced artificial intelligences living in Socialist habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy.Ī kinetic, action-packed adventure on a huge canvas, Consider Phlebas draws upon the extraordinary world and mythology Banks created in the Culture, in which a highly advanced and progressive society ends up at war with the Idirans, a deeply religious, warlike race intent on dominating the entire galaxy. ![]() |