![]() Llywelyns account is one of the most readable and dramatic on the subject. With this book she departs from fiction to transmit decades of research into a page-turning exploration of a warrior kings life, loves, and battles, bringing the facts to life with a novelists eye for detail and drama. Morgan Llywelyn, author of the bestselling Lion of Ireland, ranks among the worlds most successful and respected historical novelists writing about Ireland and Celtic culture. ![]() ![]() This fascinating survey explores the personalities on both sides and provides a vivid, accessible account of the historic clash. A thousand years have passed since the Battle of Clontarf, a turning point in Irish history in which two centuries of strife between Irish kings and Vikings climaxed in a fateful conflict in the swamps of Dublin. Midwest Book Review In life, the eleventh-century Irish king Brian Boru held the Vikings at bay in death, he remains a towering presence in history and legend. Book Synopsis A deftly written history that reads as smoothly as a novel. ![]() Page-turning exploration of the life, loves, and battles of 11th-century Irish warrior king Brian Boru. About the Book A deftly written history that reads as smoothly as a novel. ![]()
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![]() Matthew MacFadyen is suitably brooding and gauche as Mr Darcy, but the cast list is enlivened with splendid British character actors, including Brenda Blethyn as Lizzie's irascible mother, Tom Hollander as a diminutive cleric seeking a wife, and Judi Dench as the formidable Lady Catherine, plus the Canadian Donald Sutherland (Lizzie's wise father). Knightley's rise in the thespian firmament has been meteoric and this is her best performance to date in a role for which she is perfectly cast. ![]() ![]() At the heart of this triumph is the delightful 20 year old Keira Knightley as the assured and sharp Elizabeth Bennett, the second of five daughters looking to be married off by an anxious mother. The versatile camera-work, luscious countryside, grand settings, period costumes, and atmospheric music are evidence of a work on which much love has been lavished. ![]() First time director Joe Wright has worked with television playwright Deborah Moggach's script and a wonderful collection of mainly British actors to delight us. This quintessentially English film is utterly charming - a very traditional interpretation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel that manages to entertain, amuse and even move. ![]() ![]() Once complete, have learners explain why they’re feeling a certain way. This is a lovely follow-on activity after having read The Color Monster to your class! Print out a page for each learner and prompt them to use a color from the book to color in their monster to represent how they’re feeling. Play Simon Says with the Color Monster’s help and visually act out a series of emotions! For example, using the little pink monster displayed below, the teacher will call out, “The Color Monster is in love”, and students will give themselves or a friend a big hug! Inspired by this read, we’ve compiled a list of 16 charming activities for you to choose from! From pre-made digital activities to hands-on crafts, all of our picks are perfect for sparking discussions that center around emotions! For inspiration on how to incorporate these lessons into your very own classroom or home-learning experience, read on. ![]() ![]() Best-selling author, Anna Llenas, is best known for her book about an adorable monster who, with the help of a friend, learns to name and navigate his feelings. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The hunting party a novel![]() ![]() Heather, recovering from loss, prefers her own company and the quiet of the remote setting. They seem to have it all and as we know that means trouble, particularly with their continued disregard for other people’s feelings. Julian and Miranda are fabulously wealthy and incredibly good looking. Mark is Julian’s best mate and Julian is married to Miranda, and these two are the alpha couple of the group. Most of them have been friends since university, although it is Emma, a more recent addition to the group, who arranges everything. The scenario is a group of nine friends who take the train for a weekend away in Scotland to see in the New Year at a remote hunting lodge. So beginning the earlier book, I asked myself, should I feel a little short-changed?īut in no time The Hunting Party swept me off into the story, because Foley is superb at creating tension and drama. ![]() The cast of characters – victims, witnesses and suspects – is cut off from the world by a weather event in both books. Both use the same before and now time shifts and leave the reader guessing not only who the murderer is – there are multiple candidates – but also the identity of the victim. This novel is very similar in structure to The Guest List, Foley’s later book (which I reviewed last year) so it’s hard not to make comparisons. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Abdi nazemian like a love story![]() ![]() ![]() He comes from a rich family, whose goal for him is to go to Yale, but he doesn’t care about that. She’s more interested in crafting unique designs that no one else is wearing and spending time with her uncle Stephen, her idol, who has AIDS. She and her family are not rich instead, her parents work hard to send her to this school so she can have a better future. Reza is Persian – and secretly gay – so he automatically stands out at the private school, which seems to consist mostly of the entitled children of rich white parents. Like a Love Story’s main trio of characters are essentially a band of misfits at their prestigious school. Those “people” in Nazemian’s novel are Reza, Judy, Art, and the vibrant though largely sick members of ACT UP. Luckily, as seen in Abdi Nazemian’s Like a Love Story, there is also a lot of love, assuming you find your people. For a city so seemingly welcoming, there’s a lot of hate. ![]() New York City might be considered progressive due to its diverse population, but in 1989 – and probably still in 2019 – it was still a city that reeked of homophobia and racism. CW/TW: homophobia, racism, illness + death, fat-shaming ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The stolen heir barnes and noble![]() ![]() Barnes and Noble is already on the case of the summary and reviews, as always and states, “Set nine years after the events of The Queen of Nothing, The Stolen Heir is the first book in a thrilling new duology that brings readers back to the world of Elfhame. This book is set nine years after The Queen of Nothing, taking place back in Elfhame and following the story of Prince Oak, the main character from The Cruel Prince trilogy Jude Duarte’s younger brother. The book is said, by the author, to be a part of the duology. 3, 2023, Black published The Stolen Heir, the spin-off to the trilogy. Although it was upsetting, nothing can last forever…or can it? ThenJan. ![]() Black had a few novella books along with this trilogy, and therefore became a big hit within the fantasy young adult section.įollowing along with this, readers thought Black was done with the series. Louis High School last year, along with the second and third books, The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing. Years ago in 2018, American author and editor Holly Black released the famous book, The Cruel Prince. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Our hidden lives simon garfield![]() ![]() In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book - unashamedly populist in the spirit of Forgotten Voices or indeed Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman. In Our Hidden Lives, Simon Garfield has skilfully woven a tapestry of diary entries in the rarely discussed but pivotal period of 1945 to 1948. Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where remarkably most remain unread. ![]() An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. ![]() The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments One handed catch by mary jane auch![]() ![]() "Auch handles emotions and those of his family and friends believably and never patronizes her characters or her readers by becoming maudlin. ![]() This story offers both inspiration and useful information, deftly wrapped in an engaging narrative."-"Booklist" Rent One-Handed Catch 1st edition (978-0312535759) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Mary Jane Auch. "A strong sense of purpose, leavened by generous doses of humor and post-World War II period detail, drives this story of a resilient middle-grader who demonstrates that having one hand is an opportunity rather than a handicap. ![]() An enjoyable read on the popular theme of overcoming adversity."-"School Library Journal" Norm's inner voice is generally calm, and his jocular exchanges with his friend Leon provide comic relief. "Kids will be fascinated with just how Norm learns to cope, and Norm won't mind a bit if they watch."-"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books" "Quality writing and a protagonist who will inspire readers and convince them that handicaps are limitations only if you let them be."-"Voice of Youth Advocates" ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments All my rage reviews![]() ![]() Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him-and Juniper-forever. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends they are family. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Fathoms the world in the whale![]() And she sketches a history of the economic exploitation of whales and the movement to protect them. She deconstructs the various uses of whale imagery in mass and social media. Giggs comments on magazine reports about the latest whale research. In the main, Fathoms (Scribe) is an attempt to interpret our contemporary moment – and in particular our relationship with the non-human world – through the glistening figure of the whale in all its myriad aspects. And what a vivid evocation, with the dead mass of the whale and the fluttering ribbons. ![]() This gruesome therapy, pioneered by a hotel in Eden on the New South Wales coast, involved bathing inside the still-warm carcass of a freshly killed whale.ĭescribing archival photographs of the treatment in the National Library, Giggs marvels at the violent absurdity of the remedy:īecause the prints are black and white, the bloodied cynosure of the whale is not apparent – yet how its flesh must have sung redly against the green and grey bushland! The women are up to their shoulders in the whale, and still wearing ribboned hats. ![]() The Australian writer’s lyrical consideration of our relationship with whales is a new and ambitious kind of nature writingĪmong the many memorable whale-related majorae and minutiae collected in this astonishing, desolating, exasperating, utterly original debut by Australian nature writer Rebecca Giggs is her description of the late-19th-century health treatment known as the whale cure. ![]() |