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This gripping middle grade historical fiction novel, filled with illustrations by Clint Hansen, introduces kids to a brave girl whose midnight ride, like Paul Revere's, made her a hero of the American Revolution!
Hace 12 horas · In this sapphic coming-of-age novel, Shorty realizes that her well laid plans for her future are falling apart. She’s not attracted to her boyfriend, but instead the snarky new girl at school ...
Hace 3 días · He transforms a vulnerable child, newly orphaned and with no obvious relatives, into the hero of this novel, the character whose courage all the others have to ape. Lamont shows that parenthood is made in the parenting, not in any blood connection. And in this honest depiction, it consists of frustration, impatience, poor sleep and rapturous ...
Hace 2 días · In this novel, Basil has a "repressed homosexuality" while Dorian has his own ambivalence, meeting with male prostitutes, even proposing to Sybil Vane in an attempt to suppress his homosexual feelings.
So I was rewatching Downton Abbey and I can't help but notice for some time that there are just striking major similarities between the two and I begin to wonder if Julian Fellowes took some inspiration after the novel or movie. I mean there are 3 daughters: Mary, Edith and Sybil. And there is also the problem of not having any surviving sons.
Hace 2 días · Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus. 386 pages, Paperback, first published March 31, 2022. Elizabeth Zott is quite black and white when it comes to what is right and wrong but the only trouble is the rest of the world does not see things the same way as she does.
Hace 2 días · Wilde's novel was published in 1891— and is very much a product of its time. The stark contrast between the prosperity of the West End and the degradation and poverty of the East End became an obsession, both in clubland (The Athenaeum) and in the Late Victorian press, explaining— to some extent— the panic, furore and press frenzy surrounding the Whitechapel murders of 1888-1891 ...
