![]() ![]() ![]() For January 1st, for example, Sara Coleridge reminds readers in “The Garden Year” that even the icy frosts of January will soon give way to the “tulips, lilies, roses” of June. Each section contains one poem for each day of that particular month, and each poem reflects the mood of that specific day. Sing a Song of Seasons is organized into twelve chapters, one for each month of the year. The poetry is pulled together into a collection which not only spans the wealth of poetic history but also celebrates the myriad changes and discoveries of a year in nature. Fiona Waters’ Sing a Song of Seasons collects together 365 of the best and most beloved nature poems of all time. ![]() Nature has been a source of inspiration for poets throughout history, from Shakespeare to Rudyard Kipling, to Wordsworth, Yeats, and Tennyson. The Children’s Book Review | MaSing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year ![]()
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![]() ![]() Readers won't anticipate the blend of historical and social inspection of the times that permeates Velma Gone Awry, but this strength is just one of the pleasing surprises of the vivid story. William Martin, New York Times Bestselling Author of Back Bay and December '41 What People are saying about Velma Gone Awry Before you're done, you'll find a mountain of entertainment, a book filled with action, suspense, plot twists, and a sense that you're actually living back there in the fantastic world that author Matt Cost brings so vividly to life. When he is hired to find the young flapper daughter of a German businessman, life suddenly becomes much more complicated. He enjoys his friends, a good book, jazz music, and a very simple life. Now, in his mid-thirties, 8 is a college educated man, a veteran of the Great War, jilted in love, and has his own private investigator business. She meant to change it to a real name at some point but never got around to it. ![]() ![]() Scott Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Bugsy Siegel, Babe Ruth, and many more as he tries to uncover why Velma went awry.Ĩ Ballo’s mother was certain he was going to be born a girl, but when he comes out a boy, she writes down simply the number 8, as he has seven older siblings. The search will lead him to cross paths with Dorothy Parker, Zelda and F. Award-winning author Matt Cost brings us back to Brooklyn in the Roaring ’20s and introduces us to Hungarian private eye, 8 Ballo, who is hired to find the daughter of a wealthy businessman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Featuring an all Black and Brown cast, a forbidden romance, and a compulsively dark plot full of twists, this thrilling YA fantasy is perfect for fans of A Song Below Water and To Kill a Kingdom. There's only one problem: Saoirse is that deadly killer. ![]() But when Hayes turns out to be kind, thoughtful, and charming, Saoirse finds herself increasingly drawn to him-especially when they're forced to work together to stop a deadly killer who's plaguing the city. After all, his father is the one who enforces the kingdom's brutal creature segregation laws. But when a mysterious blackmailer threatens her sister, Saoirse takes a dangerous job that will help her investigate: she becomes personal bodyguard to the crown prince. As the top trainee in her class, Saoirse would be headed for a bright future if it weren't for the need to keep her secrets out of the spotlight. And to her family, Saoirse tells the biggest lie of all: that she can control her siren powers and doesn't struggle constantly against an impulse to kill. At night, working as an assassin for a dangerous group of mercenaries, Saoirse lies about her true identity. Seventeen-year-old siren and solider Saoirse Sorkova tries to keep her identity hidden while guarding Prince. As a soldier-in-training at the most prestigious barracks in the kingdom, she lies about being a siren to avoid execution. Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton (Bloomsbury, June 27 19.99 ISBN 978-1-5476-1037-2). In this dark and seductive YA fantasy debut, a siren must choose between protecting her family and following her heart in a prejudiced kingdom where her existence is illegal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He examines the careers of pioneering police detectives Thomas Byrnes and Arthur Carey, whose efforts enabled the city’s police investigators to be regarded as being on the same level as Scotland Yard. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including state senate investigative hearings, Oller weaves an enthralling narrative that presents both the origins of the NYPD and of organized crime in the Big Apple. ![]() Oller ( White Shoe: How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century) takes an epic and engrossing look at the history of New York City crime and law enforcement from the early 1870s to about 1910. ![]() ![]() Once a mountain town that was lost in a landslide, Ghyste Mortua is now a veritable ghost town, and Parl Dro aims to destroy it. ![]() ![]() However, the Soban house is only one stop along the way to Parl Dro’s destination: Ghyste Mortua. When Parl Dro walks up the road to their house, Ciddey is determined to keep him from exorcising her sister-and vows vengeance against him if she fails. While some buy his services and praise his work, others-like Ciddey Soban-hate the man who would deprive them of their beloved dead. Left on their own, the deadalive feed off the living.īut not everyone wants to give up their ghosts. With strong enough motive, the dead can return as ghosts, bound to a physical link from their once-living bodies. ![]() A renowned and infamous exorcist, Parl Dro is known as the Ghost-Killer-the man who hunts down the deadalive and destroys them. For the first time in e-book format, a master dark fantasist spins tale of an exorcist who must face the restless undead. ![]() ![]() ![]() These dark tales explore women's fears with electrifying honesty and invention and speak to one another about female bodies, domestic claustrophobia, desire and violence. Couples wrestle with a lack of connection to their children a schoolgirl becomes obsessed with the female anatomical models in a museum and a cheery account of child's day out is undercut by chilling footnotes. Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an overgrown pool. The characters in this collection find their aspirations for happy homes, happy families and happy memories dissected and imbued with shimmering menace. ![]() We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them. ![]() But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. Some things can't be spoken about in the light of day. Description A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction, by a talented writer who has been compared to Angela Carter. ![]() ![]() But when he walks into a local flower shop and meets Rachel Ellis, love unexpectedly begins to bloom.… I’m thrilled to introduce these new Garretts to you-beginning with siblings Andrew, Daniel and Nathan.įirst up is sexy single dad Andrew, who is too busy raising his seven-year-old daughter to even think about romance. So I shifted my attention southeast of Pinehurst and discovered Charisma, North Carolina, and The Carolina Cousins. I wanted to write more stories about the Garretts-and thankfully my editors were willing to let me! Except that there were only three brothers, and they’d each found their happy ending.… ![]() ![]() ![]() When their stories were done, I didn’t want to say goodbye to these characters. Last year, I wrote a miniseries called Those Engaging Garretts! The heroes of these stories were brothers who lived in the fictional town of Pinehurst, New York, and through the writing, I fell in love with Matthew, Jackson and Lukas. ![]() ![]() A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller, and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback (Harper Torch, 2006) and trade paperback (Harper Paperbacks, 2006). The first of these children's books, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. To date there are a total of 36 books in the Discworld series, of which four (so far) are written for children. In 1987 he turned to writing full time, and has not looked back since. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was fifteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lawrence: What were your literary influences when writing the Traitor? ![]() Evocative names are a very economical way to produce the ‘air’ of another history, culture, etc. Michael Cisco: Wite was meant to imply both the blankness of whiteness and the old English word “wight,” which is, I believe, a generic word for “person.” Otherwise I named the characters in keeping with their sounds. Is there a story behind the names of the characters as well? Nophtha, Wite and Tzdze all sound ‘alien’. Lawrence: I find I am intrigued by the particular names you chose for your characters in The Traitor. While this was more an intuition than an idea when I wrote the book, I wanted him to betray himself in his own way of speaking. The narrator’s character had therefore to come out more in his manner of telling his story than in expository passages about himself. Michael Cisco: The Traitor is a first-person narrative, and is meant to be read more or less as a performance, like a long monologue. Lawrence: What were your aims when writing The Traitor? ![]() ![]() ![]() On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids call her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. One lie snowballs into a full-blown double life in this irresistible story about an aspiring stand-up comedian. ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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