![]() ![]() But when he shows his true color it is a thrill to watch him soar. With each blue heart the crayon draws, children can feel the tension of being misunderstood. ![]() The visual details - including the mismatched endpapers - are witty and plentiful. It takes a new friend with a fresh perspective to encourage Red’s natural gifts. He tries to draw strawberries, a stoplight, and cherries, among other rosy objects, with disappointing results. Narrated by a pencil, “Red” is the story of a mislabeled crayon, a little guy whose waxy blue self is covered in a red paper wrapper and no one - not his well-meaning parents, his diligent teachers, his generous grandparents (charming silver and gray nubs), nor his baffled peers - can see past his label. ![]() He has done lovely work with picture books’ most basic vocabulary before: shape in “My Heart Is Like a Zoo” and “Perfect Square” and color in “It’s an Orange Aardvark.” He plays with color again in “Red,” but this time Hall has written a deeper story. It’s early in the year for sweeping declarations, but I can’t help myself: “Red: A Crayon’s Story” by Michael Hall will be one of 2015’s sensations in kid lit. Red: A Crayons Story Author Michael Hall Illustrated by Michael Hall Edition illustrated Publisher HarperCollins, 2015 ISBN 0062252097, 9780062252098 Length 40 pages Subjects Juvenile. ![]()
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![]() Lauren Shippen’s The Infinite Noise is a heart-warming story of young love, a story that lingers on allowing two teenage boys to feel their feelings and grow to love one another in a thoughtfully rendered fashion. And maybe the reason Adam can’t lie about what he’s feeling isn’t because he’s gotten bad at hiding his emotions. Caleb’s cute and Adam definitely has a crush, but worst of all, he’s incredibly perceptive and Adam can’t seem to hide around him. Adam’s biggest problem is his depression, and how it impacts every aspect of his life, until his biggest problem becomes Caleb Michaels. And maybe the reason Caleb can’t control his emotions is because it’s not just his own emotions he’s feeling.Īdam Hayes seems like a whiz kid in the way you expect: a natural talent for debate and public speaking, placed in the super-special math class, and, unsurprisingly, bullied. ![]() Bright’s specialty is a little unexpected, though: she works with Atypicals, humans who also happen to have supernatural powers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joan Bright to talk through his uncontrollable emotions. After Caleb blacks out and gets into a fight in a school hallway, he’s sent to the therapy practice of Dr. Caleb Michaels seems like a high school football player in the way you expect: a cute and popular running back having issues with his grades and his temper. ![]() ![]() ![]() " Wonderfully written and…the heart-pounding adventures are topped only by the heart-melting romance."- The Deseret News ![]() " Rick Riordan fans who are looking for another series will delight in this fantasy."- SLJ " must-read for thrill-seekers and fans of alternate worlds."- RT Book Reviews It is time for Lily to find her sunset.Īnd don't miss new adventures with Lily in the rest of the Reawakened series: Reawakened and Recreated! Reunited is the heart-pounding conclusion to the Reawakened series. On the journey, she will transform into the being she is destined to become. Hassan, Lily departs on her final voyage through the cosmos and across the plains of Egypt. And if that isn’t bad enough, she must harness this power of three and become Wasret: a goddess destined to defeat the evil god Seth once and for all. Her body is now part human, part lion, and part fairy. ![]() Her sun prince, her travels to Egypt, and her journey to the Afterlife are all distant memories.īut Lily is not the girl she once was. From Colleen Houck, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Curse, comes the third and final book in the Reawakened series in which Lily will train to defeat evil once and for all and find a way to her everlasting love.Īfter surviving her otherworldly adventure, Lily wakes up on her nana’s farm having forgotten everything. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every minute they spend together rekindles feelings that pull them toward their disastrous past. The competition on the show is fierce…and so is the simmering desire between Ashna and Rico. ![]() The only silver lining to this bizarre situation is that he can finally prove to Ashna that he's definitely over her.īut when their catastrophic first meeting goes viral, social media becomes obsessed with their chemistry. Losing Ashna years ago almost destroyed him. ![]() ![]() She’s a chef, what’s the worst that could happen?īeing paired with a celebrity who was her first love, the man who ghosted her at the worst possible time in her life, only proves what Ashna has always believed: leaps of faith are a recipe for disaster.įIFA winning soccer star Rico Silva isn't too happy to be paired up with Ashna either. How else can she save her beloved restaurant and prove to her estranged, overachieving mother that she isn’t a complete screw up? When she’s asked to join the cast of Cooking with the Stars, the latest hit reality show teaming chefs with celebrities, it seems like just the leap of faith she needs to put her restaurant back on the map. From the author of Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors comes another, clever, deeply layered, and heartwarming romantic comedy that follows in the Jane Austen tradition-this time, with a twist on Persuasion.Ĭhef Ashna Raje desperately needs a new strategy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dietrich (with Parrots and Alex the Cat)ĩ. Bryce Ziegler (with a Song Sparrow in his beard)Ĩ. ![]() Mark Kesserich (with Barn Swallows in his beard)ħ. Victorio Piva (with a Falcon on his hand)Ĥ. Evan Skov (with generic birds in his car)ģ. ![]() Matt Krueger (with a Lazuli Bunting in his beard)Ģ. This book appeals to all ages, though the coloring is probably too detailed for young children.įeaturing actual portraits of real men with beards, including:ġ. Color in the beard strands (which are like spaghetti in many of the pictures) and the intricate feathers of the many different birds, or just enjoy the silly rhymes about a love gone wrong, due to overzealous bird care. "You make think it's nice, and you may think it's weird, but beware of the man with a bird in his beard." So begins a ridiculous saga, a love story which includes 30+ portraits of men with beards and the birds who love them. ![]() ![]() His research focused on religious practices, African retentions, oral traditions, folklore, music, and dance. Over the next 30 years, he traveled to Haiti more than 20 times. In 1939, he published his first book about Haitian life entitled Haiti Singing. ![]() ![]() With the prize money from the Hopwood Awards, Courlander took his first field trip to Haiti, inspired by the writings of William Buehler Seabrook. There, he built a one-room log cabin in the woods where he spent much of his time writing. He spent time in the 1930s on a farm in Romeo, Michigan. He attended graduate school at the University of Michigan and Columbia University. ![]() At the University of Michigan, he received three Avery Hopwood Awards (one in drama and two in literary criticism). ![]() in English from the University of Michigan in 1931. He took a special interest in oral literature, cults, and Afro-American cultural connections with Africa.Ĭourlander was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of the painter David Courlander of Detroit, Michigan. The author of 35 books and plays and numerous scholarly articles, Courlander specialized in the study of African, Caribbean, Afro-American, and Native American cultures. Harold Courlander (Septem– March 15, 1996) was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist and an expert in the study of Haitian life. ![]() ![]() ![]() DC Black Label, a new publishing imprint from DC Entertainment, gives premier talent the opportunity to expand upon the canon of DC's iconic Super Hero comic book characters with unique, standalone stories that are outside of the current DC Universe continuity. And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and the Commissioner's brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. ![]() One bad day is all it takes according to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. ![]() Batman: The Killing Joke is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() But listeners no longer have to wait for his brilliant synthesis of what the history of #1s has meant to music and our culture. ![]() The Billboard Hot 100 began in 1958, and after four years of posting the column, Breihan is still in the early aughts. The column has taken on a life of its own, sparking online debate and occasional death threats. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, “The Number Ones”-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, in chronological order-he figured he’d post capsule-size reviews for each song. Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Qatik and Qanik-they refer to their group as the "hive," and neither expects to survive the trek-there are other, similar, survivors. ![]() Qanik and Qatik, the mules, don radiation-resistant suits, but Horkai needs none more, he can heal from any injury and seems to be immortal. To get Horkai where he needs to go, two "mules," placid, literal minded individuals of limited intelligence, will carry him. Horkai's legs are useless and, according to Rasmus, he needs regular injections in his spine to stop a lethal disease spreading upwards to his brain. Rasmus, the leader of the group, tells Horkai that he is the group's "fixer," needed to retrieve a mysterious cylinder that has been stolen by a rival group. Following the Kollaps, the landscape is pocked with craters, scarred by violence and poisoned by radiation only a few scattered groups cling to survival in shelters and caves. In this combination of two classic science fiction tropes-the post-apocalyptic future and the protagonist who has no memory-a man who may or may not be named Josef Horkai wakes from what he is told has been 30 years of cold-sleep storage. ![]() ![]() Realization of what appeared, briefly and fictionally, as a "hypothetical" novel in one of Evenson's ( Last Days, 2009, etc.) previous works. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With his characteristic precision in describing military technology, high-voltage action, and sweeping international sensibility, Blowback is a supercharged story that is sure to thrill. Ducking a congressional subpoena, Harvath travels to Cyprus where he learns about a weapon called The Sword of Allah, which terrorists intend to use to rid all Muslim lands of Western infidels.Īs the layers of truth unfold, Harvath is a witness to realities more menacing than he ever could have imagined and must rely solely on his instincts to confront a new evil closing in on the United States. Never before on CD and at a great price! When a mysterious new weapon tips the balance against American and allied forces throughout the Middle East, the only person the president can call for help is the man the administration just fired-NAVY Seal turned covert Homeland Security operative, Scot Harvath.Ĭaught live on Al Jazeera in an off-the-books operation, Scot Harvath is forced to go to ground, as a senator with presidential aspirations turns her sights on the White House and forces President Jack Rutledge to publicly end the career of America’s number one counter-terrorism operative.īut when the tide in the war against terror suddenly turns against the West, the president has no choice but to bring Harvath back inside. ![]() |