![]() ![]() ![]() It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough. ![]()
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![]() Also from the powerhouse author-illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect, is Rosie Revere, Engineer, a charming, witty picture book about believing in yourself and pursuing your passion. ![]() ![]() He loves building too much to give it up! With Andrea Beaty’s irresistible rhyming text and David Roberts’s puckish illustrations, this book will charm creative kids everywhere, and amuse their sometimes bewildered parents. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they’re sometimes surprised by his materials-who could forget the tower he built of dirty diapers? When his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. ![]() A hilarious, irreverent book about doing your own thing Meet Iggy Peck-creative, independent, and not afraid to express himself! In the spirit of David Shannon’s No, David and Rosemary Wells’s Noisy Nora, Iggy Peck will delight readers looking for irreverent, inspired fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your talent is beyond words and you will get noticed real soon, that is a promise. You are a bright star, just like the Southern star in this book. ![]() I laughed so many times at that, and treasure your input. Zoe, my British girl, I know this has been a challenge for you as you cringed at every British English word that you had to change to American English. Thank you so much for always being honest. Monique, you made Elena stronger, set her emotions straight when it wonders and didn’t sound like Elena. I can’t believe this is the end of one tale, you have loved this world as much as I have, you have unraveled my sentences, made the descriptions and the characters stronger, each of you are so unique in their special way, Hillery, you are like my limp, as I can’t write any of my novels without you. I love and treasure you for ever and ever. To my family, for giving up their precious time with me so that I could write this story, and keep writing all of the others that is still yet to come. I would always believe in You till the end of time. The times that I didn’t know which way to take it, You guided me and showed me a solution. It has given me such great pleasure and to know that it was something I could do with You at my side. Thank you for blessing me with this story, that I was chosen to tell it. My first thanks, as always is to the Greatest King of all times, He is still alive and watches over all His children. ![]() I have cried while writing this book as it is the end of a long emotional journey. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of those books where I eeked out the reading of it. ![]() There is a part of me that hopes I find a Maggie there. By the end of the story it made me determined to make the most of my local library before it is too late. I loved this story, with its strong central characters and the library front and centre. Will these two unlikely friends be able to bring everyone together and save their library? ![]() As Maggie helps Tom navigate the best way to ask out Farrah, Tom helps Maggie realize the mistakes of her past won't define her future.īut when the library comes under threat of closure, it's up to Tom and Maggie to rally the community and save the library! When Tom comes to her rescue after a library meeting, never did she imagine a friendship that could change her life. Maggie has been happily alone for ten years, at least this is what she tells herself. So Tom quickly decides the best way to learn about women is to delve into romance novels, and he finds himself at the village library where he befriends 72-year-old Maggie. Farah makes Tom want to stand up and be seen – at least by her. He happily blends into the background of life. An unlikely friendship forms between a sixteen-year-old boy and a seventy-two-year-old woman as they rally the community to save their local library. ![]() ![]() I was excited by the prospect of meeting Clarke, and when I did finally meet her it was in the company of Greenland, who had, shortly after their first encounter, persuaded her to entertain his suit (an odd expression, now I come to write it down. ![]() He called her and asked to buy her story for an anthology he was editing. I loved everything about it: the plot, the magic, the glorious way she put words together, and was particularly delighted by the information in the cover letter that she was writing a novel set in the world of the tale, and that it would be called Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – so delighted that I sent the story to an editor of my acquaintance. Gamely, though, she sent me the rest of the story. This came as some surprise to Susanna Clarke, who had no idea that Colin had sent me an extract from “The Ladies of Grace Adieu”. ![]() ![]() I read it, and wrote back, and demanded more. ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. New York Times-bestselling author Lucy Knisley brings to life a story inspired from her own childhood in an amazing journey of unlikely friends, sisters, and home. Besides cleaning the chicken coop, trying to keep up with the customers at the local farmers' market, and missing her old life, Jen has to deal with her own insecurities about this new family. If learning new chores on Peapod Farm wasn't hard enough, then having to deal with perfect-at-everything Andy might be the last straw for Jen. Most of all, Jen did not want to get new "sisters," Andy and Reese. She did not want to leave her friends and her dad. She did not want to move to a farm with her mom and her mom's new boyfriend, Walter. ![]() This contemporary middle-grade graphic novel about family and belonging from New York Times bestselling author Lucy Knisley is a perfect read for fans of Awkward and Be Prepared. So suddenly moving the country and getting new stepsisters shouldn't be too much of a surprise. Jen is used to not getting what she wants. ![]() ![]() ![]() The power of community and the healing abilities of positive growth and shared love. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love? Full of energy, curiosity, and compassion, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers. In “We Kin” he thinks about the garden (especially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come on) as a laboratory of mutual aid in “Share Your Bucket” he explores skateboarding’s reclamation of public space he considers the costs of masculinity in “Grief Suite” and in “Through My Tears I Saw,” he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying. ![]() Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we expand it. In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. ![]() An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ala sends Echo on a mission to retrieve it, which is complicated when she runs into a pair of Drakharin who are also after the firebird. Hidden inside the box was a map to the legendary Firebird said to be capable of ending the war. They’ve been at war with the Drakharin, a dragon people, for as long as anyone can remember.Įcho’s a thief so when she wants a present for her adoptive mother, the Ala she steels a music box. She considers them her family and her people, but not all Avicen feel the same way about her. Predictability: 5 out of 5 (Where 1 is totally unpredictable and 5 is I knew what was going to happen way ahead of time.)Įcho was adopted by the Avicen, a bird like race, when she was seven. Point of View: Third (Echo, Caius, Dorian, Ivy, with one chapter by Ala and Jasper) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Quality of life means more than just consumption”: Two MIT economists urge that a smarter, more politically aware economics be brought to bear on social issues. ![]() Hyde." Hunter Thompson has several things going for him: a unique style, an impudent sense of the banal, a wariness of rigged importance, a feel for the emotional expenditure involved in the competition for power. Thompson exposed Big Ed as an Ibogaine addict), on through "this goddamn mess" to California, the conventions, the election (the latter new chapters not previously published in RS), and the November reaffirmation of fear and loathing - "Our Barbie doll President, with his Barbie doll wife and his box-full of Barbie doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Thompson, fresh from the spooky gig with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, agreed to cover the late presidential campaign for Rolling Stone from the primaries on, armed only with an eye for gnostic drill, an ear for byzantine bullshit, and a pen aimed pointedly at the political gonads of every event and aspirant who crossed his mad path from New Hampshire (mainly watching McGovern "do his thing - which was pleasant, or at least vaguely uplifting, but not what you'd call a real jerk-around") to Florida where he was barred from the Muskie camp over the Boohoo incident which is so unbelievable it must be read (later Dr. ![]() ![]() In searing and intimate photographs, presented alongside the young people’s voices of passion, pride, embarrassment, lust, pain, bewilderment, anxiety, joy, uncertainty, and rage, the book charts the coming of age of the largest generation in America-77 million strong-in every region of the country and every socioeconomic group: from a Texas debutante to teenage gang members in New York City, from a drag queen in Georgia to a coal miner in West Virginia.īowman’s intimate photographs ask us to reconcile preconceived ideas and stereotypes of teenagers with the diversity of individuals in the portraits. Robin Bowman’s five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created a series of 414 “collaborative portraits,” wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now coming of age. ![]() |