![]() ![]() Sal drops three berries in her bucket, then eats them. Little Sal's mother takes her to Blueberry Hill to pick berries. She gets into mischief and causes her mom no end of trouble.” This is not to be the overly diligent or angelic girl of so many other books, Sal is a real child figure. One sees in this opening picture Sal entertaining herself by placing the canning rings on her wrist and a spoon, a simple childlike act which helps to set the stage for Sal's obvious child actions throughout the books. "The book opens and closes with a picture of little Sal and her mother in the kitchen, the mother is canning blueberries. It was ranked number 31 in a reiteration three years later. Blueberries for Sal was ranked number 13 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a 2009 survey published by School Library Journal. The book was awarded the Caldecott Honor in 1949. The story is set in Maine, following the adventures of a young girl named Sal and a bear cub named Little Bear as they both go blueberry picking with their respective mothers before winter. Blueberries for Sal is a classic children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey in 1948. ![]()
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![]() Like many people, Bug and his family live paycheck to paycheck, and a storm of financial problems threaten his solid life. Off-the-grid drag races on back roads now give him the driving excitement he craves. ![]() He’s worked hard to create a normal life with his wife, Kia, their two sons and sends regular support checks for his teenage daughter from a previous relationship while trying to distance himself from his past.īug’s skills as an expert driver made him highly sought by petty criminals and allowed him to skirt the law - few people can catch Bug when he’s behind the wheel. Set in 2012, “Blacktop Wasteland” revolves around Beauregard “Bug” Montage, a young Black father and husband who owns an auto shop in Shepherd’s Corner, Va. Cosby invests “Blacktop Wasteland” with an emotional approach while delivering a solid thriller. ![]() The noir story quickly accelerates and doesn’t lose speed until it careens to its finale as it looks at race, responsibility, parenthood and identity via pin-perfect characters with realistic motives. Cosby, a new talent who delivers one of the year’s strongest novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Children chosen to be unwound are called "unwinds." Not all unwinds are problem children, though. Parents can choose to unwind their problem children at any time between the ages of 13 and 18. The Heartland War culminated in The Bill of Life, which outlaws abortion but leaves parents with the option of "unwinding" their children once they reach the age of reason-13 years old. Unwind is set in futuristic America, an unspecified year, after the Heartland War, which was a second civil war between the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life factions. ![]() That's not to say that this is a sad book, it's just extremely powerful. Sure, I may tear up during moving scenes or feel my throat tighten, but it's rare that a book moves me to outright crying. It put me into the 'ugly cry,' something very few books are able to do. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.Īdam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * M arie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. “A satirical spin on the end times- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” - Estelle Tang, Elle "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." - Michael Schaub, NPR.org Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. ![]() ![]() Once again, the high action, touches of humor, and fun puzzles keep the story moving at a good pace (the large font and loads of pictures help too). I picked this one up thinking I'd just start it last night and before I knew it, I was done. ![]() Or are they? If the African jungle doesn't manage to do them in, the pirates and conniving treasure hunters on their trail might, or horror of horrors, Uncle Timothy could send them back to boarding school! Can the Kidd kids manage to find the right item to satisfy Mom's captors in time? ![]() Soon they are on their way to Africa in search of King Solomon's Mines. All is not hopeless though because Dad evidently prepared the Kidds for just such a situation and they find the treasure-hunting trail anything but cold. The Kidd siblings are ready to follow their Dad's next big treasure hunt that will help them free their Mom.but "Uncle" Timothy rocks the boat and sends them to boarding school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for New York Times bestselling Sorcery of Thorns: Faced with a house filled with unexpected secrets, the couple will have to lean on their connection like never before to set things right before it’s too late. With no access to the outside world, Elisabeth and Nathaniel have to work together to discover the source of the magic before they’re due to host the city’s Midwinter Ball. ![]() Surely it must be a coincidence that this happened just as Nathaniel and Elisabeth started getting closer to one another. But something strange is afoot at Thorn Manor: the estate’s wards, which are meant to keep their home safe, are acting up and forcibly trapping the Manor’s occupants inside. Now that their demon companion Silas has returned, so has scrutiny from nosy reporters hungry for gossip about the city’s most powerful sorcerer and the librarian who stole his heart. Maas’s A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES series, and Holly Black!Įlisabeth Scrivener is finally settling into her new life with sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn. ![]() This is the perfect read for fans of Cassandra Clare, Sarah J. From the internationally bestselling author of Vespertine comes a heart-stopping new sequel novella to the breathtaking fantasy Sorcery of Thorns. ![]() ![]() I don’t know how, but I’m living today over and over again. Hot bullies, busted cars, and the party of the year. And this paid off and I was able to enjoy parts of the story and the trope. ![]() Unpopular opinion: I am not a huge fan of reverse harem or any sort of harem situation/trope, but I tried my hardest to give this book a fair shot. I'm also on Goodreads, Spotify, Google +, Instagram, and Pinterest. Oh, and Caitlin loves to chat (incessantly), so feel free to e-mail her, send her a Facebook message, or put up smoke signals. Please, come and join her inside her crazy. She's the author of over thirty novels - romance, new adult, fantasy, and young adult included. can be found with her nose buried in a book or her eyes glued to a computer screen. When she's not vacuuming fur off of her couch, C.M. She hates tapioca pudding, loves to binge on cheesy horror movies, and is a slave to many cats. ![]() If being crazy means hanging out with them everyday, C.M. Oh, and half the host of characters in her head are searing hot bad boys with dirty mouths and skillful hands (among other things). Some folks might call this crazy, but Caitlin Morgan doesn't mind - especially considering she has to write biographies in the third person. Stunich is a self-admitted bibliophile with a love for exotic teas and a whole host of characters who live full time inside the strange, swirling vortex of her thoughts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first Japanese Americans arrived at Manzanar in March of 1942, just one month after President Franklin D. The Manzanar National Historic Site, which preserves and interprets the legacy of Japanese American incarceration in the United States, was identified by the United States National Park Service as the best-preserved of the ten former camp sites. Manzanar means "apple orchard" in Spanish. It is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California's Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, approximately 230 miles (370 km) north of Los Angeles. The smallest was Amanche, located southeastern Colorado, with over 7,000 inmates. The largest was the Tule Lake internment camp, located in northern California with a population of over 18,000 inmates. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps. Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dashing young Edmond Dant’s has everything. 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The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. ![]() |