![]() All the girls write to Neil Armstrong and all the boys write to Buzz. Ten-year-old Mamies class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts. Readers will be charmed by Mamie's story of hope in a difficult moment in American history. Its 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. "Baratz-Logsted weaves in just enough history to root Mamie's story in her time, a moment when a nation came together and felt proud of human possibilities. With I Love You, Michael Collins, Lauren Baratz-Logsted has created a heartwarming story about family and being true to yourself. And as the date of the launch nears, Mamie can't help but wonder: Does no one stay with the ship anymore? Only Mamie writes to Michael Collins, the astronaut who will come so close but never achieve everyone else's dream of walking on the moon, because he is the one who must stay out in space with the ship.Īfter school ends, Mamie keeps writing to Michael Collins, taking comfort in telling someone about what's going on with her family as, one by one, they leave the house thinking that someone else is taking care of her-until she is all alone except for her cat and her best friend, Buster. ![]() ![]() All the girls write to Neil Armstrong ("So cute ") and all the boys write to Buzz Aldrin ("So cool "). ![]() Ten-year-old Mamie's class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts. It's 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. A funny and heartwarming middle-grade historical fiction novel about a girl who writes letters to her favorite astronaut as America prepares for the moon landing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He carried no weapon because he feared nothing in the forest, nothing in the night, nothing on Earth.Īlthough he was unusually tall, muscled, and powerful, his physical strength was not the source of his confidence and fortitude. He needed no lamplight to guide him and he would have needed none even deep in the blackness of the mountain woods.įrom time to time, he heard sounds of unknown origin issuing from among the towering pines, but they inspired no anxiety. Where patches of lawn were bleached by recent cold, the dead grass resembled ice in the lunar chill.Īt two o’clock in the morning, Deucalion walked the perimeter of the seven-acre property, following the edge of the encircling forest. With the hiss of an artist’s airbrush, it seemed to blow the pale moonlight like a mist of paint across the slate roofs of the church and abbey, across the higher windows, and down the limestone walls. ![]() The October wind came down from the stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() That baby girl, called Beloved, ends up haunting the house in which Sethe and her youngest child Denver live. The book is about a slave woman, Sethe, who-before the book even begins-kills her baby girl in order to keep her away from slave catchers. So here's what you absolutely need to know about Beloved. But since the author is none other than the esteemed, Nobel Prize-winning Toni Morrison, you better believe that the book is way more than that story. Yep-this is one of those "based on a true story" books. She would have killed her other children and herself, too, but she was caught before she could complete the deed.Īnd there you have the starting point for Beloved. It's actually a true story: back in 1856, a runaway slave named Margaret Garner killed one of her kids-a two-year-old girl-with a butcher knife, in order to keep her away from slave catchers. ![]() Sounds like one of those crazy mothers who ends up on the evening news, right? Close. Toni Morrison's Beloved: Novel Study Guide IntroductionĪ mother slits her baby girl's throat because she has this deranged idea that she's saving her daughter from a fate worse than death. ![]() ![]() ![]() A non-Ludlum book supposedly inspired by his unused notes, Covert One: The Hades Factor, has also been made into a mini-series. Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including The Osterman Weekend, The Holcroft Covenant, The Apocalypse Watch, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series- The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum-among others. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. ![]() ![]() RELATED: Spider-Punk's Spider Van Does Whatever The Spider-Car Could Thus, it's impossible to talk about the story, with its deconstructive view on superheroes, without finding a few key similarities to DC's darkly influential Watchmen. It was incredibly unique, at the time, at least, to see "DC's stable of heroes" engage in morally questionable behavior. Other stories and series would be spun off from the 12-issue miniseries, but perhaps none were quite as timeless and classic. This only makes Nighthawk’s team even more vigilant to turn America back over to the people, a goal that results in several deaths. This is especially the case after they begin using advanced technology to mentally reprogram unwilling villains, forcing them to work alongside them for the greater good. ![]() ![]() Much like how Batman would come to oppose different versions of Superman, Nighthawk and several other heroes grow disgusted with the Squadron’s tactics. Several powerful heroes vie to make the world a better place, no matter the cost. ![]() ![]() Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O'Connor's wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. ![]() As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series from the "master storyteller" (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author) follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two great 20th century films captured its mass appeal – Franco Zeffirelli’s lushly romantic 1968 version, which for my generation summed up the “make love not war” idealism of the 60s, and Baz Luhrmann’s edgier 1996 version, which did the same for millennials. Abandoning the harsh moralism of his source, Arthur Brooke’s Romeus and Juliet, which presented the story as an awful warning against “the lusts of wanton flesh”, Shakespeare made his lovers sympathetic and heroic figures whose tragic deaths have the potential to redeem their world.įor obvious reasons, Romeo and Juliet has always been popular with young audiences. YA, as its aficionados matily abbreviate it, is a fairly recent genre, introduced by publishers and booksellers in the 1960s to cater to the rising teenage market SE Hinton’s The Outsiders is sometimes called the first YA novel, others trace the origin of the genre back to The Catcher in the Rye.īut Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in the mid 1590s (apart from being a play rather than a novel) has the germ of the genre: a story with teenage protagonists, their passion and idealism pitted against a corrupt and dystopian adult society. You could make a case that Shakespeare, on top of all his other literary innovations, was the inventor of young adult fiction. Geoff Miles, a senior lecturer in Shakespeare and YA, reviews New Zealand writer Chloe Gong’s bestselling duology These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only surviving girl is adopted by the Laird to impersonate his daughter who pased away. Loving Her Highland Enemy starts with devastation as many are burned in a fire. This collection has some unforgettable characters and also a little more on the spicy side! A few of my favorite stories are Loving Her Highland Enemy, Brenna’s Yuletide Song, Highlander’s Christmas, and The Laird’s Midnight Dancer. It is a pleasant mix that kept me engaged! This collection has a total of 12 stories:ġ) Loving Her Highland Enemy – by Samantha Holtģ) The Kitchen Maid’s Tale – by Hildie McQueenĤ) Brenna’s Yuletide Song – by Cathy MacRaeĦ) Highlander’s Christmas – by Mariah StoneĨ) The Lady’s Guide to a Highlander’s Heart – by Emmanuelle de Maupassantĩ) The Laird’s Midnight Dancer – by Ashe Barkerġ0) An Angel at the Highland Court – by Celeste Barclayġ2) Scot Under the Mistletoe – by Caroline Lee ![]() 12 Days of Christmas in a Highlander’s Arms is a collection of historical holiday novellas by some wonderful romance authors! This collection has a clever mix of emotional tales but also some more romantic-comedy tales. ![]() ![]() Since his Russian is better than mine (and probably his English too, for that matter) I'm willing to take him at his word. Nabokov maintained that it was absolutely impossible to render Pushkin's Russian verse into English verse in a way that's even remotely true to the original. The first version I read was Nabokov's more-or-less literal non-rhyming version. I think there may be another discussion somewhere else about this. (And that Nabokov is almost erasing Pushkin as he's rescuing him.) But they're invaluable for some of the nuances – as when he discusses all the Russian words for silence, for different sounds of water moving in rivers, rivulets etc, and the Russian words for langorousness. Nabokov's long notes are also interesting if you can get beyond the petty score settling. ![]() ![]() Tatiana's letter has a different fate and Tatiana's dream is much more wide ranging than that in the ballet. Pushkin himself is a character (maybe three times over). Its tone is different – more like Jane Austen, and it's generally more complex. ![]() The novel is different from the ballet, which was a very controversial abridgement. I also read the James Falon Oxford Classics translation alongside it, more sparkling but you may miss some important details due to formal contraints. Nabokov's translation is more relaxed and accurate than other, rhymed versions. ![]() I liked the Nakokov version of Eugene Onegin and the notes, at least the shorter "Structure & Genesis of Eugene Onegin", were very helpful. ![]() ![]() ![]() "My car does look shady," I told my friend. It wasn't long before I found myself making excuses to justify why they were following me. Still, my shoulders never truly relaxed until they finally pulled away. I laughed about it, reverting to my go-to defense mechanism. I mentioned our new admirer to my friend and kept on my way. ![]() long enough to know being followed by a police car every once and a while is part of the life of a black man. Surely, they weren't really suspecting me of being up to no good. I thought nothing of it, especially due to the fact that it was around noon on a beautiful sunny Saturday. While visiting a friend in San Diego, I found myself being followed by a SDPD patrol car. ![]() Funny enough, I very nearly had the opportunity to test my theories in the real world. ![]() |