![]() ![]() ![]() Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail - the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase - that opens whole worlds of emotion. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 1918, as the Great War rages in Europe, the Spanish influenza tears a brutal path across the United States, leaving devastation in its wake. The heartfelt and moving story of a young girl living through the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918, now with a brand new introduction from Lois Lowry. ![]() Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century Juvenile Fiction | Health & Daily Living - Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Like the Willow Tree (Dear America) Revised Edition ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to some new writing exercises. The appendix includes three new modules, one focused on different storytelling perspectives, one on structure, and one on the environment and storytelling. The new edition includes 11 new images in the main body of the book and two new diagrams. Creatives in fields other than writing also have used the book. We’ve heard from high school students and teachers, colleges, and master’s programs. The outpouring of love for the book has been amazing. We’re celebrating the release of the expanded, revised edition! It’s been five years since Wonderbook came out and we’ve heard from so many writers and teachers who’ve found it of use. Welcome to, a site that supports Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was sent from China to America to work as a young servant, but she dreams of studying to be a doctor. Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, helps two new friends survive the Great San Francisco Earthquake! Ranger travels to San Francisco and meets Lily Chen. Ranger in Time: Escape from the Great Earthquake by Kate Messner Tory comes close to losing everything in her quest for her own and her brother’s freedom. If he is there, Tory must find him in a treacherous search. Then Jacob vanishes, kidnapped, perhaps hidden among the hundreds of ships – called Rotten Row – that have been abandoned in the bay. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence – until her father leaves for the gold fields and the care of Jacob falls to her. When Tory’s father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory finds freedom and friendship there. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn’t even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, have the true villains been much closer all along? When the truth is finally revealed, it just might end up costing Emilia her heart. Order a Kingdom of the Feared: The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling steamy finale to the Kingdom of the Wicked series (Kingdom of the Wicked). Together Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception as they work to stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared.Įmilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked nothing was as it seemed. Despite her betrayal, Emilia will do anything to solve this new mystery and find out who her sister really is. Damning evidence points to Vittoria as the murderer and she’s quickly declared an enemy of the Seven Circles. Emilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked, nothing was as it seemed. ![]() When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, Emilia and Wrath are drawn to the rival demon court. series comes the steamy conclusion to Kingdom of the Feared trilogy. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. Emilia doesn’t simply desire his body, she wants his heart and soul-but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her. Nominee for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2022) Emilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. ![]() All hail the king and queen of Hell.Įmilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. ![]() ![]() ![]() The “wolf” that tracked all of these young men-and the author, too, when she experienced the isolation of being black at predominantly white schools-was the sense of how little their lives mattered. ![]() ![]() Joshua died senselessly after being struck by a drunk driver on a dark coastal road one night. The first to die (though his story is told last in the book) was her brother, Joshua, a handsome man who didn’t do as well in school as Ward and was stuck back home, doing odd jobs while his sister attended Stanford and later moved to N.Y.C. The five young black men featured here are the author’s dear friends and her younger brother, whose deaths between 20 were “seemingly unrelated,” but all linked to drug and alcohol abuse, depression, and a general “lack of trust” in the ability of society-and, ultimately, family and friends-to nurture them. In this riveting memoir of the ghosts that haunt her hometown in Mississippi, two-time novelist and National Book Award–winner Ward (Salvage the Bones) writes intimately about the pall of blighted opportunity, lack of education, and circular poverty that hangs over the young, vulnerable African-American inhabitants of DeLisle, Miss., who are reminiscent of the characters in Ward’s fictionalized Bois Sauvage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 4 from Mühlhausen.įrom the first, Cantata No. 31 was brought to Leipzig from Weimar, and No. 66, 134, and 145) were derived from secular cantatas written in Cöthen. 6) was conceived and composed in Leipzig. Surprisingly, only one of these six cantatas (No. Only two cantatas (plus the Easter Oratorio ) for each of these important festivals are extant. This new installment, Volume 22, from Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage is devoted to the music of Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. SOLI DEO GLORIA 128 (2 CDs: 120:39 Text and Translation).John Eliot Gardiner, cond Gillian Keith (sop) 1 Angharad Gruffydd Jones (sop) 2 Daniel Taylor (ct) 3 James Gilchrist (ten) 4 Stephen Varcoe (bs) 5 Monteverdi Ch English Baroque Soloists (period instruments). ![]() ![]() ![]() I know this wouldn't be for everyone, but something about it really resonated with me and the hope and vision of his toy journey making it all the way to the sea. I really did enjoy this and there are maps to see where and how he went. He eventually makes it to France after 3 years and makes the International papers and the boy, now a teen sees that his little friend made the journey. He travels all through the 5 great lakes and people help him out along the way and he sees all manner of things. When the snow thaws, he sends it on it's journey to the sea with a message asking to help get the paddle man there. ![]() A young boy up in Canada makes a canoe with an Indian in it that will float. It was a fun journey exploring the lakes and waterways of the great lakes out to the sea. I found it charming and interesting and a story that drew me in. ![]() It would make a great first reader book for someone who wants to read a story if they enjoy more history things. It is a full page of text with a full picture. I don't think this would make a great bedtime story as it would take about 30-45 minutes to read it aloud at least. ![]() ![]() After a manic spree around Manhattan, Zack, who is bipolar, was arrested on a subway platform and admitted to Bellevue Hospital. Every passerby was an actor every car would magically stop for him everything he saw was a cue from "The Producer" to help inspire the performance of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot. can move from barely controlled hilarity to the brink of rage to aching tenderness in a single breath." - Marya Hornbacher, New York Times Book Review "Glorious.one of the best memoirs I've read in years.a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maria Teresa Hart’s book, DOLL, is a pop-culture feminist critique of doll history and culture, from Raggedy Ann to Barbie to android sex dolls. We talk about how that happened, what it was like and how an experience like this can become an doorway into larger opportunities in publishing. Her book, Doll, is part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. Maria Teresa Hart is a writer and editor who works most often in food and travel, with a series of impressive bylines that range from the New York Times and The Atlantic to VICE and Business Insider, but she came on the pod to talk about the experience of writing a book for a publishing house within an existing series. (The fiction version would be work-for-hire chapter books or books within a fandom-and we’d love to talk about that if you have guest ideas.) ![]() ![]() Many writers get started this way, with gift books, guides and other non-fiction books that follow existing formats or fit into existing series. The book itself was shorter and much differently formatted than standard non-fiction. We pitched the book before I had many bylines at all-but adding the words “is the author of the forthcoming book…” to my pitches opened a lot of doors. Susan was the expert and I was a rising writer with a lesser expertise riding on her coattails. For me-KJ-it was Reading with Babies, Toddlers and Twos, a book I wrote in 2006 with Susan Straub. ![]() |