![]() ![]() ![]() With nostalgic black-and-white photos from the era throughout, this treasure of a book offers an authentic, poignant glimpse into one family's struggle to stay together when the world around them was falling apart. Family life Death All from 1.45 New from 33.72 Used from 1.45 All Copies ( 13 ) Softcover ( 13 ) Choose Edition ( 1 ) Book Details Seller Sort of 1 Books by Bernice Thurman Hunter Janeys Choice Starting at 2. And soon, soon, she knows her parents will stop fighting, her hunger pangs will subside, and her family will laugh again. Yes, life is full of setbacks.īut through the eyes of Booky Thomson the world has an energetic, rosy tinge: there are street games to play at night with the neighbourhood kids butter and white sugar sandwiches important talks with her Grandpa riding the streetcar to her Aunt Susan's nut and candy shop and an oh-so-special afternoon at the talking picture show. : That Scatterbrain Booky (9780590710824) by Bernice Thurman Hunter and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available. ![]() Booky's father can't find work her mother is expecting another baby the bailiff keeps threatening to evict the family from their home and her older brother Arthur is terribly annoying. It's almost 1933 and the Great Depression has hit the east end of Toronto. Scatterbrained, incorrigible and irrepressible ― Booky will win you over in this Canadian classic set in Depression-era Toronto. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is a testament to Wyld's vivid storytelling that readers will feel determined to drag themselves through her tale's more unsavory moments to its final revelation." - Publishers Weekly ![]() ![]() With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption. And there is also Jake's past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back - a past that threatens to break into the present. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. But every few nights something - or someone -picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. ![]() Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. ![]() ![]() The madman's messages are hitting closer to his loved ones. He has to find out who the killer is and the reason for the killings. ![]() The killer always seems to be a few steps ahead of Michael. ![]() Then more bodies are found and more pictures arrive in the mail. Photos of a young dead girl had arrived in the mail with a note in bold black print saying, "I told you you'd be sorry!" Michael believes this was in direct connection to the man whose life he saved. The interest in that story didn't last long as a report of murder hits the headlines. ![]() Like most police, he said that "he was just doing his job". The story made the local paper and Michael was embarrassed at being called the city's hero. Some of ladies, with their cameras, caught the heroic deed as it happened. The man tells Michael, "You will wish you had pushed me.", in Murder Comes by Mail, the second mystery in this series by A. At the moment the man let go of the railing, Michael catches him and swings him over to safety. He stops the bus and runs towards the man, who really wanted to jump. As he was about to drive over the Eagle River Bridge, he sees a man on the edge, in the middle of the bridge, looking like he was about to jump. ![]() less than enthusiastic about bussing a group of the Baptist senior citizens to a stage play staring the niece of one of the ladies in the flock. Review: Always willing to help where needed, Deputy Sheriff Michael Keane was, however. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() “Many of us don’t care about them at all.” Such was my disanglophilia, a failure to love English things and to love Englishness. “Americans care more about the royal family than the British do,” another American expatriate friend of mine once remarked shortly after I’d arrived in London. The Windsors are subsidized at a rate of £82 million a year, or £1.24 per British citizen, an amount it’s said they more than make up for by contributing to the economy as human tourist attractions, not to mention as mascots for various charitable causes. Paul’s, but none of this energy had been directed at the royal family. ![]() One Thanksgiving during the four years I was a resident of London, at a dinner of Americans and French people, one of the Yanks at the table remarked that if she were a member of the English working class, she “would be throwing Molotov cocktails on the King’s Road and torching Buckingham Palace.” There had been riots in London the year before, student protests were a constant, and the previous autumn had seen the occupation of St. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emmett was a fourteen (14) years old black youth, who in 1955, while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi was murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The author explains who Emmett Till was at the end of the book. While Nelson has presented fifteen (15) sonnets the last is just a compilation of the first sentence of the fourteen (14) sonnets. The title also refers that this is a wreath of sonnets which is fourteen (14) sonnets where the last sentence of the sonnet and the first sentence of the next sonnet are the same or very close. I liked that Nelson explains what an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet is and how she came to write it, before she presents the sonnet. ![]() Nelson has written an Italian sonnet for Emmett Till. ![]() While you will find this book listed in genres as a children’s picture book I think it is most appropriate for high school. Published By: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 2005 Author: Marilyn Nelson, Illustrated by Philippe Lardy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The core of Weber's argument is that the spirit of capitalism is an attitude that regards work as an end in and of itself. Throughout his text, he will show how this Protestant emphasis on hard work helped to shape this capitalist fixation on generating profit for profit’s sake. Weber also defines the “spirit of capitalism” as a motivation to work hard and save money not in order to survive, but in order to make a profit. ![]() This meant that more Protestants were motivated to apply themselves to their secular professions than Catholics were. Amongst other differences, Protestants believed that working hard should be valued for its own sake. In particular, Weber focuses on traditional Protestant ethics and the modern “spirit of capitalism.” He defines these ethics by explaining how Protestants differed from Catholics. Overall, he makes a historical argument for the importance of religion in contributing to capitalist culture. Weber helps to define and explain his early 20th century culture by tracing the influence of religious thought on capitalist values. ![]() The main question of Weber’s text is: how did Protestant ethics influence the “spirit” of capitalism? This central dilemma responds to the cultural debates of Weber’s time. ![]() ![]() We were lucky it wasn't particularly virulent.ĭavid Quammen's Spillover is a collection of stories about the sources of diseases called zoonoses. That's how "swine flu" spread in 2009 it was already unstoppable by the time we noticed it. ![]() These pathogens can spread around the world in hours by aeroplane to infect the unsuspecting on another continent. Our constant movement between vast, populous cities and novel environments makes us easy prey for opportunistic pathogens that replicate fast, and transmit by sneezes and dirty hands before sickness even begins to show. During this progress, humans have made many acquisitions, several of them unwanted. These characteristics have made us one of the most invasive species our planet has ever encountered and allowed us to colonise nearly every terrestrial environment. H uman beings are restless, nosey and aggressive. ![]() ![]() ![]() You see instead of surviving on blood from humans, she has to drink vamp blood and when she does she gets, for a time, the powers from the donor. It’s been six months since Cat was turned from half-vampire into fully fledged vampire but Cat being Cat things aren’t exactly normal. to say nothing of the repercussions Cat never imagined. But the price of her assistance may prove more treacherous than even the threat of a supernatural war. Now Cat and Bones are forced to seek help from a dangerous “ally”-the ghoul queen of New Orleans herself. A zealot is inciting tensions between the vampires and ghouls, and if these two powerful groups clash, innocent mortals could become collateral damage. With the mysterious disappearance of vampires, rumors abound that a species war is brewing. But just when they’ve triumphed over the latest battle, Cat’s new and unexpected abilities threaten to upset a long-standing balance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her vampire husband Bones have fought for their lives, as well as for their relationship. FYI – This review contains spoilers from the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() He begins slipping her comics without saying a word, with her always returning them the next day. The first part of the novel takes place on the bus, where she sits next to Park, a somewhat geeky boy who ’s half-Caucasian and half Korean.ĭays pass and they never talk to each other nor look at each other until one day Park notices that Eleanor is discretely reading his comics over his shoulder. She’s the school outcast and is bullied at school because she’s a big girl who wears very odd, patchwork outfits. Eleanor is the new girl at school with flaming red hair and clothes that, shall we say, are out of the norm. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under. ![]() Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. I saw this book at my local library while I was browsing and it caught my attention, as I’ve liked other books by Rainbow Rowell that I’ve read. She never looked nice.She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice it was supposed to make you feel something.” ~ Park ![]() |