![]() ![]() "From spruce trees standing like wizards and 'the language of ravens' to tongue-in-cheek ![]() Wisdom - 'one milkshake is never enough' - Arnott weaves an evocative dream of memory and place." Indigenous histories and places are woven intricately throughout, creating a sense of timelessness." -Cheryl Alexander, award winning author of Takaya: Lone Wolf "From spruce trees standing like wizards and 'the language of ravens' to tongue-in-cheek "Arnott weaves an eloquent and delightful tapestry of sights, sounds and scents arising from the Island earth. From great food to wonderful wine, stunning natural habitats and memorable encounters with wildlife, Bill paints a charming picture of life on Canada's West Coast.įeaturing original colour artwork throughout, A Season on Vancouver Island is a unique gift for anyone who has ever spent time on Vancouver Island. ![]() Hitting all of the high points and chatting with locals along the way, Bill discovers why Vancouver Island has become one of western North America's top tourist destinations. Join intrepid travel writer Bill Arnott as he escapes the confines of life in Vancouver for an epic and quirky road trip around Vancouver Island and to some of the surrounding smaller islands. A beautiful collection of images and short travel essays highlighting the fun, eclectic, and unique nature of Vancouver Island and the attraction it has for travellers and tourists from across Canada and around the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Although a huge success, it was the first Star Wars film not to be the highest-grossing of the year. May 16 – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones opens in theaters.The film went on to earn over $800 million worldwide, surpassing Batman to become the highest-grossing superhero film of all time and Men in Black to become Sony's most successful film. This surpassed the previous all-time opening weekend record held by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, as well as the previous May opening weekend record held by The Lost World: Jurassic Park. ![]()
![]() After witnessing the political corruption within Mulhoney, G.T. Stoop, is a kind-hearted man whose leukemia prevents him from working full-time at his diner. When "The Blue Box Diner" closes down because the owner stole all of the restaurant's money, Addie decides to move to Mulhoney, a small city in Wisconsin, where she and Hope can work at the small-town diner "Welcome Stairways". Hope doesn't know who her birth father is. ![]() ![]() Hope's birth mother, Deena, deemed herself unfit for parenting and gave Hope to Addie rather than raise her on her own. Hope Yancey is a teenage waitress living with her aunt Addie in Brooklyn, where Addie works as a chef at "The Blue Box Diner". In 2001 won the award Best Books for Young Adults from American Library Association (ALA). The audiobook read by Jenna Lamia won the AudioFile Earphones Award. It was declared a Newbery Honor Book in 2001. Hope Was Here is a 2000 novel by Joan Bauer. Print ( Hardback & Paperback), Compact Disc, Book on Tape ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In one scene, Talia escapes from a juvenile detention facility by hitching a ride on a motorcycle with a teen boy, Aguja:Īguja pulled into a gas station and as he fueled up, they listened to a pair of viejos at another pump arguing about the peace accord. Engel, whose parents were born in Colombia, flavors the text with occasional Spanish words and writing that is poetic in its tone and imagery. Settings and characters are vividly portrayed, pulling readers into the complex and suspenseful dynamics of a contemporary family torn apart by circumstances beyond their control. This emotional territory is likely to resonate with anyone who has been separated from loved ones. Fifteen-year-old Talia has grown up with her maternal grandmother Perla and her father Mauro in Bogotá, Colombia, while Talia's siblings and mother Elena live in New Jersey. Prizewinning author Patricia Engel explores themes of family separation and immigration in her new novel Infinite Country. Engel's powerful storytelling portrays characters with boundless ties of family and love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the book is based on the friends’ own experiences, Ann and Aminatou were very thorough with their research and include links and information to every book, article and video they mention. It’s a little weird for the first few pages, but once they explain why they decided to use this particular device, I was more comfortable with it and completely forgot about it as I kept reading. ![]() The only negative (and I can’t really call it that, to be honest) is the way Aminatou and Ann refer to themselves throughout the book. The book is an easy read, so it shouldn’t take long for readers to get into it. No sugar-coated nonsense, but honesty that sometimes put them both in a bad light. Many of us who listen to the podcast think of Aminatou and Ann as “friendship goals,” but they give us the real deal, which I appreciated. What I love about this book is how honest they were about their feelings and what they did to keep the friendship from falling apart completely. In Big Friendship, the two “long-distance besties” talk about how they met, how their friendship grew and what happened when things started going wrong. Not just theirs, everyone’s friendships and what it means to keep, nurture and sometimes let go of them. Two of my podcast faves, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, have written a book on friendship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Exclusive Excerpt: The Innocent Assassins by Pema. ![]() ARC Review: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.Review: A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray.Avery walks the knife's edge between choice and destiny in Kendall Kulper's sweeping debut: the story of one girl's fight to survive the rising storm of first love and family secrets. But as time runs out to unlock her magic and save herself, Avery discovers that becoming a witch requires unimaginable sacrifice. Desperate to change her future, Avery finds a surprising ally in Tane-a tattooed harpoon boy with magic of his own, who moves her in ways she never expected. Avery Roe wants only to claim her birthright as the witch of Prince Island and to make the charms that have kept the island's sailors safe at sea for generations, but instead she is held prisoner by her mother in a magic-free life of proper manners and respectability.Īvery thinks escape is just a matter of time, but when she has a harrowing nightmare, she can see what it means: She will be killed. You don't know what you must give up to become a witch. ![]() Thanks to Salt & Storm and Drift & Dagger, she knows more about nineteenth-century whaling than she ever imagined. She graduated from Harvard University, where she studied history and literature. Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Kendall Kulper grew up in New Jersey and currently lives in Boston with her husband, daughter, and dog. Title: Salt & Storm Author: Kendall Kulper ![]() ![]() ![]() There are a couple of villains: Freddy, a British gossip-columnist expat, described for the first couple of pages as "Rat-Tooth," and Sammy, a Disney executive. Squaring the circle are Landon Kettlewell, a "New Work" pioneer, whose Kodacell Corporation takes their products to market, and Suzanne Church, a Silicon Valley journalist, who quits her job to chronicle the duo's adventure in the new media. Makers deals with the business adventures of Perry Gibbons and Lester Banks, inventor-entrepreneurs, committed to making cool new things. What Doctorow has to say is important and interesting, but the fiction gets in the way. It's the least interesting aspect of the book. ![]() ![]() The book is in the tradition of works such as Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net (1988) or David Brin's Earth (1991). There's even a rousing humping scene (pp. There are themes, scenes, acts, conflicts, dénouements, and an epilogue. In a sense, Makers is a novel the way Magritte's pipe is a pipe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students. ![]() When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant.Įrin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android. Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head. ![]() Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story. ![]() ![]() There was not one reference to the gender of the driver. Then, slowly, I began to reread each world, aloud. ![]() ![]() That night, I fed my son dinner and put him to bed, and I sat down at my computer. One of them is the rule against women drivers, which Manal learns from a male colleague is actually merely a custom and not law: The opening chapter describing the author’s arrest for the heinous crime of ‘driving while female’ immediately pushes the reader into conservative Saudi Arabian society with its many unwritten codes. When my brother asked them who they were, there was silence. They had no uniforms, nothing to identify them. In the shadowy darkness, all we could see were men, crowding around my front stoop, pressing forward. Like when secret service men turn up at her doorstep in the middle of the night and insist she accompany them to the Dhahran police station: Saudi activist Manal Al Sharif photographed in Dubai on October 22, 2013.(AFP) There are moments in Manal al-Sharif’s Daring to Drive that are truly frightening. ![]() ![]() If you want to know how to choose who you are and start living a life you love, this episode is for you! Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: She also lets us in on the premise of her upcoming book, Glow in the F*cking Dark. Tara shares the foundational principles she has learned from her own reparenting journey. ![]() She explains the meaning of the book's title and how it encompasses the path toward self-healing. In today's episode of Radically Loved, Tessa speaks with Tara Schuster about her book, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies. But when you really put in the work, it's possible to transform yourself and create a life that you truly love. The process of healing from these narratives is never an easy one. What this often results in is a trauma that manifests in how we see ourselves and the world. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, for some of us, there are parts of the journey that have hurt us too much and that we'd rather not revisit, given a choice. Our unique story makes up who we are today. ![]() |