![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recommended for those who have picked up Blue is the Warmest Color by Jul Maroh or Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. Not only do the breathtaking illustrations offer endless fodder for reflection, but the underlying commentary on pollution, patriarchy, religion, and sexuality will provide endless threads for personal or group contemplation. The scrolling middle eastern motifs float from page to page it is hard to know where to look first. This scripture like book is an opulent treasure of black ink calligraphy. In truth, the stunning art makes the read. Habibi, the graphic novel released this week by the acclaimed Craig Thompson, has nearly 700. Sometimes hard to read, due to numerous graphic depictions of violence and sexual aggression, this is ultimately a tale of perseverance over tyranny and trauma through friendship, love and faith. SOMETIMES AN IMAGE is so powerful visually, it feels almost inadequate to respond only verbally. Set in a timeless Mideast, Habibi follows the star-crossed paths of two victims of abandonment, sexual exploitation, poverty, and the corporate machine. ![]() Who doesn’t want to uncover the dark secrets and illicit whispers of a challenged or banned book these days? Craig Thompson’s enigmatic graphic novel, nay tome, Habibi, is sure to satisfy your need for the heinous and enigmatic. This week the Matchmakers team welcomes our guest blogger, Youth Services Associate Shannon Cooch! Shannon writes: ![]()
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![]() Thank you for this tribute, Harlequin, and for putting up with me for thirty long years! Love to all of you. ![]() Thanks to all of you for making this job and my private life so worth living. I also need to extend thanks to my family (my husband, James, son, Blayne, daughter-in-law, Christina, and granddaughter, Selena Marie), to my best friend, Ann, to my readers, booksellers and the wonderful people at Harlequin Booksâfrom my editor of many years, Tara, to all the other fine and talented people who make up our publishing house. You can't imagine how much you enrich my life. And quite frankly, most of you are like part of my family. ![]() Over the past thirty years, I have made lasting friendships with many of you. And since I reside in a small community, and my daily life is confined to such mundane things as feeding the wild birds and looking after my herb patch in the backyard, I feel rather unconnected from what many would think of as a glamorous profession.īut when I read my email, or when I get letters from readers, or when I go on signing trips to bookstores to meet all of you, I feel truly blessed. What I do for a living is so much fun that it never seems like a job. In fact, there are days when I forget that writing is work at all. I never think of myself as writing books that are collectible. ![]() I really can't express how flattered I am and also how grateful I am to Harlequin Books for releasing this collection of my published works. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A New York native, Sarah currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and dog. Her books have sold in over thirty languages. She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows and Empire of Storms, and the series' prequel, The Assassin's Blade. MAAS is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller A Court of Mist and Fury, and its prequel, A Court of Thorns and Roses. Find the Countries of Europe - No Outlines Minefield. ![]() Find the US States - No Outlines Minefield. Maas, the earth will be painted red as mighty armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy them all. Follow That Line: A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) Quiz - By heatherhayes98. In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Sarah J. As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords and hunt for allies in unexpected places. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well. Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So she stayed quiet, keeping her sorrow and her fractured heart hidden away.Īs West’s pain becomes too much to handle, he knows he needs to talk to someone about his father-so in the dark shadows of a post-game party, he opens up to the one girl who he knows won’t tell anyone else. Even the move to Lawton, Alabama, couldn’t draw Maggie back out. And after she told the police what happened, she stopped speaking and hasn’t spoken since. Two years ago, Maggie Carleton’s life fell apart when her father murdered her mother. But while West may be Big Man on Campus on the outside, on the inside he’s battling the grief that comes with watching his father slowly die of cancer. To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the cocky, popular, way-too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god who led Lawton High to the state championships. A #1 New York Times bestseller and the first novel in a brand-new series-from bestselling author Abbi Glines-about a small Southern town filled with cute boys in pickup trucks, Friday night football games, and crazy parties that stir up some major drama. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since we couldn’t get enough of their story from one movie, a sequel was made and is premiering on Netflix Feb.12. The “To All the Boys I Loved” book series become such a success that in 2018 its film premiered on Netflix and the world fell in love even more with Jean and Kavinsky. One of these letters was written to her old childhood friend Peter Kavinsky who is now the popular jock at her school, and this is where their love story begins. But then somehow all her letters get mailed out unexpectedly to the boys they were written for. “To All the Boys I Loved” is the love story of Jean a high school student who writes love letters when she wants to get over a hopeless crush, but she never sends them and instead hides away in a hat box. It was 2014 when the world first met Lara Jean, the protagonist of Jenny Hans Novel “To All the Boys I Loved Before”, this young adult romance novel quickly became a New York Times Best seller and led to its trilogy, “P.S I Still Love You”and “Always and Forever, Lara Jean”. ![]() ![]() You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. Seuss Quotes About Reading and Learning ( EDUCATION) The more that you read, the more things you will know. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ![]() When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love. Why fit in when you were born to stand out? Sometimes you will never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Seuss Quotes (BEST) To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. ![]() ![]() Seuss Quotes About Life and Embracing Yourself (DREAM) Seuss Quotes About Reading and Learning (EDUCATION) ![]() ![]() In chapters four and five, Chan uses scripture to present inappropriate responses to God's love. In Chan's third chapter, he writes about the way that a person's relationship with their earthly father can color their relationship with God. The lesson of this second chapter is that the only thing that is really important in life is what has been done for God. In the second chapter, Chan reminds his reader how quickly the human life can be taken away. Chan claims that when men are encouraged to love and worship God, however, they often forget how awesome and all-powerful he really is. ![]() In the first chapter of his book, Chan starts his readers' journey of love by impressing upon them how awesome God really is. Chan's intention in the book is to encourage his readers to follow God's leading and become the Christian that God wants them to be. He ends his book by sharing with the reader several examples of people who have followed Christ with reckless abandon. ![]() He then describes the lukewarm Christian and uses scripture to explain the disdain that God feels for this type of person. ![]() Chan first impresses upon his reader how majestic and awesome God really is. In his book Crazy Love, Francis Chan uses scriptural references and real life stories to encourage his readers to move closer to God. ![]() ![]() After Nero died in 68 CE, Plutarch would not hesitate to label him a tyrant. When Nero visited Greece Plutarch traveled with his teacher to see the Emperor compete in the Pythian Games at Delphi Plutarch may even have witnessed Nero declare Greece’s freedom (soon revoked) after competing in Corinth’s Isthmian Games. He studied under the philosopher Ammonius and read Plato’s works as a student in the Academy. Under Nero, Plutarch reached maturity and left home for Athens. Plutarch was born about 45 CE in the small but historically significant town of Chaeronea, the site of battles that confirmed Macedon’s and later Rome’s conquest of Greece. A corpus so unwieldy inevitably touches on a variety of themes, but the source of Plutarch’s enduring influence has been his insight into human excellence in political life. A catalog of Plutarch’s works compiled a century or so after his death records another hundred works, now lost. ![]() He also wrote more than seventy treatises, dialogues, and speeches that have come down to us as the Moralia. ![]() Plutarch of Chaeronea is best known as the author of the Parallel Lives, a collection of forty-six short biographies arranged in pairs of Greeks and Romans. ![]() ![]() ![]() This picture book biography tells the story of Meg Lowman, a groundbreaking female. ![]() This amazing informative Earth Day and leaves book can be used in speech therapy to address social/emotional issues like overcoming obstacles to reach your dreams. The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest. She studied, invented, and persevered, not only creating a future for herself as a scientist, but making sure that the rainforests had a future as well. Male teachers would not let her into their classrooms, the high canopy was difficult to get to, and worst of all, people were logging and clearing the forests. But she encountered challenge after challenge. The Hidden Leaf ninja has become a figure known around the world, and his journey continues to this day despite the odds. Meg set out to climb up and investigate the rain forest tree canopies - and to be the first scientist to do so. 1 day ago &0183 &32 By now, it is safe to say Naruto is an icon. ![]() Meg Lowman was always fascinated by the natural world above her head - the colors, the branches, and, most of all, the leaves and mysterious organisms living there. ![]() This picture book biography tells the story of Meg Lowman, a groundbreaking female scientist called a “real life Lorax” by National Geographic, who was determined to investigate the marvelous, undiscovered world of the rainforest treetops. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anything I could say about these books will sound hollow, but here goes: The Queen of Attolia and the rest of these books are so, so, so well done. I picked up the second book because it was handy, and I had heard it was better - thus began my intense love affair with Megan Whalen Turner and her amazing series. Where do I even begin with these books? After hearing a good friend wax poetic about them, I decided to pick up the first book in the series, The Thief. I appreciate that the characters’ faces are never really shown, just suggested – I prefer to imagine characters based on the author’s descriptions. They’re a little “generic fantasy,” but not so much that I think it would put a reader off. Whereas some YA books have covers that make them look deceptively fluffy or “young,” all four of the most recent covers in this series (so far) are simple, subtle, pretty, and best of all, I wouldn’t hesitate to read them on the train. ![]() |