![]() ![]() Her sound began to move towards more atmospheric pop in 1983. Her next release, Get Nervous (1982), sold less well than her previous two albums, but did include the North American hit " Shadows of the Night". Its single " Fire and Ice" charted highly in the US and Canada. Her third album, Precious Time (1981), was another success, topping the US Album Chart and becoming her first top 10 album in Australia. Its single " Hit Me with Your Best Shot" reached the top 10 in the US and Canada and is considered to be her best-known song. 2 in North America and France, being certified 4× and 5× platinum in the US and Canada, respectively. Her second album, 1980's Crimes of Passion, was her most successful work, peaking at No. Two singles from it were hits: " Heartbreaker" and "We Live for Love", the latter written by her lead guitarist and future husband, Neil Giraldo. Her 1979 debut album, In the Heat of the Night, was her breakthrough in North America, especially in Canada where it reached No. ![]() She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November 2022. She is also a four-time Grammy Award winner. In the United States, she has had two multi-platinum albums, five platinum albums, and 15 Billboard top 40 singles, while in Canada she had eight straight platinum albums, and she has sold over 35 million albums worldwide. ![]() ![]() Patricia Mae Giraldo ( née Andrzejewski formerly Benatar born January 10, 1953) is an American rock singer and songwriter. ![]()
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![]() This book is a classic tale for every child. She started drawing as a very young child, making up stories about the characters she created and her drawings have appeared in many different types of books, including fairy tales and nursery rhymes, animal stories and folk tales, published throughout the world. In The Lion in the Meadow, award-winning author Margaret Mahy tells a delightful story of truth and imagination. A native of London, Williams was educated at the Wimbledon School of Art and University of London. ![]() Jenny Williams is a hugely talented illustrator whose style is recognisable at a glance. 'It is in the nature of books, that they have the capacity to make you feel powerful about what you can alter and achieve in your life' - Margaret Mahy ![]() Appointed to the Order of New Zealand in 1993, Mahy also won many global prizes for children's writers, including the Carnegie Medal and the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. ![]() She is the author of more than 150 titles, which have been translated into many different languages and sold around the world. Margaret Mahy (1936-2012) is one of New Zealand's most celebrated children's writers. ![]() ![]() They agree to let Lady Susan stay with them even though they are aware of her flirty, gold-digging history. A recent widow and completely broke, she makes her way to the estate of her brother-in-law Charles (Justin Edwards) and his wife Catherine (Emma Greenwell). ![]() Kate Beckinsale plays the conniving, opportunistic Lady Susan. That last description is especially impressive since the film perfectly fits within its late 18th century aristocratic setting. “Love & Friendship” is very much a Stillman picture – intelligent, tightly focused, and refreshingly modern. It’s the fifth film from writer and director Whit Stillman and his first since 2011’s fabulous oddball campus comedy “Damsels in Distress”. It’s “Love & Friendship”, a whip-smart period comedy named after an early Austen story but actually based her epistolary novel “Lady Susan”. The latest Austen film treatment may be the cleverest and best executed of the bunch. ![]() To venture even further into absurdity just this year we had “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”. ![]() You could also include the wide range of movies that found their inspiration in Austen’s work – movies ranging from “Bridget Jones’s Diary” to the wackier “Clueless”. Obviously you have the gushy, sudsy dramas such as “Sense and Sensibility” and “Pride and Prejudice” which together have been adapted nearly twenty times in film and television. You could almost say Jane Austen adaptations make up their own small, intimate movie genre. ![]() ![]() The Forgotten Sisters, book 3, was another fun change in scene as Miri enters a dangerous and wild swamp as a tutor. I love the political idealism in this second book and the focus on not who is right and who is wrong, but who is kind and informed. This is refreshing and I read louder to make sure all the hidden ears heard how to face situations, especially situations that are uncomfortable. There is a love triangle that made my kids hide their heads however, Miri is brave, honest, and loyal to all the boys involved. Palace of Stone, book 2, is my personal favorite, as we follow Miri continuing to mature and develop away from her beloved mountain. Friendship, familial understanding, nature, and home are beautifully portrayed in this novel as well as the liberation of education and knowledge. ![]() ![]() The limited omniscient narrator unfolds a discretely magical world where history is communicated and absorbed into the stone that has chiseled away at the lives of the small neglected mountain village, Mount Eskel. Princess Academy‘s Miri suffers from poverty, feeling misplaced, and feeling unloved in a fierce quarry environment. “History was as hard to hold as a wet fish.” – Palace of Stone, pg. ![]() ![]() ![]() it is a significant book." -The Bloomsbury Review a carefully presented wealth of much-needed information." -Audre Lorde propels third world feminist perspectives from the periphery to the cutting edge of feminist theory in the 1990s." -Aihwa Ong ![]() provocative analyses of the simultaneous oppressions of race, class, gender and sexuality. "This surely is a book for anyone trying to comprehend the ways sexism fuels racism in a post-colonial, post-Cold War world that remains dangerous for most women." -Cynthia H. ![]() the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to win the struggles thrust upon us by the 'new world order' of the 1990s." -New Directions for Women "The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. ![]() ![]() *"Chima offers a pitch-perfect blend of high fantasy and small-town reality." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) * "Twists and turns abound in this remarkable, nearly flawless debut novel that mixes a young man's coming-of-age with fantasy and adventure." - VOYA (starred review) The Wizard Heir Old friends and foes return as new threats arise in this stunning and revelatory conclusion to the beloved and bestselling Heir Chronicles series. The question is whether they can survive long enough to unearth them. It seems more and more likely that the answers they need lie buried in the tragedies of the past. ![]() As they struggle to rebuild their trust in each other, Emma and Jonah must also find a way to clear their names as the prime suspects in a series of vicious murders. Brought together by their shared history, mutual attraction, and a belief in the magic of music, they now stand to be torn apart by new wounds and old betrayals. Emma and Jonah are at the center of it all. The delicate peace between Wizards and the underguilds (Warriors, Seers, Enchanters, and Sorcerers) still holds by the thinnest of threads, but powerful forces inside and outside the guilds threaten to sever it completely. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s cute, despite the weird little moustache. Only now we have to get home, and I’m the only one even looking for a cab.įi has commandeered the only nearby doorway and has her tongue down the throat of the guy she chatted up earlier on at the bar. Carolyn’s sister is a promoter and got us discounted entry, so that’s why we schlepped all the way here. We’re all standing together on the corner of some street in south-west London I’ve never been to before, with music pounding faintly from the club below our feet. Honestly, I’m the world’s biggest sucker. They were half a size too small but the girl said they would stretch, and that they made my legs look really long. I bought these boots last week in the sale (flat black patent, I only ever wear flats). I’m never buying shoes from Cut-Price Fashion again. But we’ve been waiting here for ten minutes and there’s no sign of a cab. ![]() I just want to find a taxi, get home, kick off these stupid boots and run a nice hot bath. I’m holding my denim jacket over my head as a makeshift umbrella, but it’s not exactly waterproof. Rain spatters down my collar as I shift from one blistered foot to another. And it’s not like I even have very high standards. Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I’ve ever had in the whole of my crap life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its other accolades include the Sydney Taylor Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Cybils Middle Grade Fiction Award, a Charlotte Huck Award Honor, and a Malka Penn Award for Human Rights Honor. His 2017 novel Refugee has spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, and is the winner of 14 state awards. ![]() But with betrayals and deadly risks at every turn, can the Allies do what it takes to win?Īlan Gratz is the bestselling author of a number of novels for young readers. In a breathtaking race against time, they all must fight to complete their high-stakes missions. And in the thick of battle, Henry, a medic, searches for lives to save. Meanwhile, paratrooper James leaps from his plane to join a daring midnight raid. Behind enemy lines in France, a girl named Samira works as a spy, trying to sabotage the German army. He feels the weight of World War II on his shoulders.īut Dee is not alone. And Dee - along with his brothers-in-arms - is terrified. soldier, is on a boat racing toward the French coast. ![]() The only way to stop them? The biggest, most top-secret operation ever, with the Allied nations coming together to storm German-occupied France.ĭee, a young U.S. June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. Alan Gratz weaves an array of voices and stories into an epic tale of teamwork in the face of tyranny - and how just one day can change the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. ![]() A sweet and funny story that shows fitting in isn't always the best fit. Like all of us, Oliver just wants to find where he fits, but finding his place in the great puzzle of life isn't easy. Oliver is a little piece of a big puzzle. Like all of us, Oliver just wants to find where he fits, but finding his place in the great puzzle of life isnt. ![]() But like any puzzle, a little trial and error leads to a solution, and Oliver figures out exactly where he belongs. Oliver is a little piece of a big puzzle. Oliver changes himself to fit in and is accepted but is unhappy for not being his true self. He tries to fit into other groups but is rejected for being different. Will he be in the mane of a unicorn? The tentacle of a pirate squid? The helmet of an astronaut? When he finally goes in search of his perfect place, he finds that trying to fit in is a lot harder than he thought. Where Oliver Fits Written by Cale Atkinson Synopsis This book is about a little puzzle piece trying to figure out where he belongs. ![]() Like all of us, Oliver just wants to find where he fits, but finding his place in the great puzzle of life isn't easy.Oliver has always dreamed about where he will fit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Did their mother’s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?Īs Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.Īs the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. But not everything buried should come alive again. It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. Gamache is a fascinatingly complex protagonist’ BOOK OF THE MONTH, THE TIMES ‘Electrifying drama … the bodies pile up, the intensity and horror are reminiscent of Thomas Harris at his finest. *** SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN *** ![]() |