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Book pie in the sky5/11/2023 The only problem is his mother's rule: no using the oven while she's at work. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly passed away. School is torture, making friends is impossible, since he doesn’t speak English, and he's stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. When Jingwen moves to Australia, he feels like he’s landed on Mars. Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processesĮl Deafo meets Inside Out and Back Again in this funny, emotional illustrated middle-grade debut novel about immigrating to Australia, being upstaged by an annoying little brother, baking cakes and overcoming loss. Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2023.Hong Kong Golden Dragon Books 2022-2023.
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The black dahlia ellroy5/11/2023 Why did I choose to read it? I'd never read a crime novel before. I read The Black Dahlia for the first time in early 1991. But The Black Dahlia thrives in both arenas. Horror, to paraphrase Poe and Lovecraft, is about that singular frisson of terror itself. But because it's concerned with the procedural aspects of tracking down criminals, and not solely trying to freak you out, it gets a pass on the horror label. The genres seem to split fans too: how many people deny The Silence of the Lambs is horror? And yet it's about a serial killer and a cannibal. The two genres delve into human depravity but approach it in different manners: crime is generally matter-of-fact in its dealings with violence horror wants to reduce you to whimpers and overwhelm you. I've been thinking about Ellroy since he's got this new TV series starting up on the history of Los Angeles murders and scandals, as well as my recent musings about the intersection of crime and horror fiction. My introduction to the disturbing real-life horror story that is the death of Elizabeth Short came in the form of James Ellroy's novel The Black Dahlia.
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The outlander by gil adamson5/10/2023 In addition to poetry, Gil Adamson has also published a short story collection, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau (1995), co-authored a biography of actress Gillian Anderson entitled Mulder, It's Me (1998), and written a novel, The Outlander (2007). Her second poetry collection, Ashland, was published in 2003. Adamson's first publication came in 1991 with Primitive, a collection of poetry. She has also worked as a publicist for the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, and as an associate editor for What! Magazine. In 1987 Adamson moved to CBC Radio Guide to work as a publishing assistant. She began her publishing career in 1985, working with Coach House Press as an editorial assistant and publicist. Growing up in the Greater Toronto Area, Gil Adamson studied anthropology and philosophy at the University of Toronto. Gillian (Gil) Adamson, poet, novelist (b at North York, Ont, 1961).
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Red riding hood book sarah blakley5/10/2023 “Do you want to marry him?" Peter stopped in front of her, pressing close. ― Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, quote from Red Riding Hood She made he choice and brought her lips to his.” And if he was a Wolf, then she would be one, too. She didn't care if he was the Wolf or not. Valerie knew that she could never be apart from him, that she was what he was and that she would be his always. Enveloped in a shelter of white, standing out in black and red, were just the two of them. Her fingers warmed his cheek, and his arms slipped underneath her crimson cloak as her long blond hair blew around them. They gave in to each other, finally, their bodies fitting together. An amazing and terrible thought entered Valerie's mind, clearing away all others. "I have to leave you." His breath came in uneven bursts. He was beautiful, the snow in his eyelashes like diamonds, the cool pink of his cheeks, the wet red of his lips.
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The opposite argument-that the kind of book a child has his or her nose buried in does make a difference-has been mounted elsewhere, notably by Tim Parks, in an essay that appeared on the blog of the New York Review of Books. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.” A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn’t hackneyed and worn out to them.” Well-meaning adults, he continued, can easily kill a child’s love of reading: “Stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21 st-century equivalents of Victorian ‘improving’ literature. They can find the stories they need to, and they bring themselves to stories. Fiction is a “gateway drug” to reading, Gaiman said. “I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children,” he argued, adding that it was “snobbery and … foolishness” to suggest that a certain author or particular genre might be a baleful influence upon young reading minds-be it comic books or the works of R. In the lecture, which was reprinted in the Guardian, Gaiman came out in favor of what might be called the “just so long as they’re reading” camp. About a year ago, the novelist Neil Gaiman delivered a lecture at the Barbican, in London, on behalf of the Reading Agency, a not-for-profit organization that promotes literacy and reading for pleasure among children and adults.
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Cutie Pies by Barbara Bell5/10/2023 Taxes, fees not included for deals content. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this matter, you are welcome to contact our customer support team.Ĭanada247 is not a booking agent, and does not charge any service fees to users of our site.Ĭanada247 is not responsible for content on external web sites. The brand names, logos, images and texts are the property of these third parties and their respective owners. cannot be held responsible or liable for the accuracy, correctness, usefulness or reliability of the data. The content displayed in the Directory consists of information from third parties, among others from publicly accessible sources, or from customers, who have a presentation page in our directory. © 2023 All Rights reserved.Īt Canada 247 our purpose is to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists, restaurants, bars, hotels, local businesses.
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In Angels with Dirty Faces, Jonathan Wilson chronicles the operatic drama of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Perón led the country, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fútbol, the fusion of beauty and efficacy under César Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats. Argentina's rich, volatile history-by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic-is mirrored in the style and swagger of its national and club sides. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di Stéfano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer
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The book lust5/10/2023 relies more on angering her father in order to see how much he cares about her. With Rose Smiley portrays an aggressive love. Smiley is portraying how not to show one‘s love and she does so With each of the children in the novel. She falls prey to it as soon as she expects her father to return her “love” in the same fashion that she expresses it namely by being bloody annoying. Daddy, it looks like we picked all the same things) He ignored me”, and thus Ginny has sown the seeds of her own demise. However this love is a clingy, needy love that her father cannot return. Telling the novel only through Ginny‘s perspective serves to clarify and focus the events through the lens of a child‘s fragile. Smiley’s novel revolves around the consequences of confusing lust with love and the love of a Wife With the love of a daughter. What comes only with one type of love the love of a man and a woman this love cannot be transferred to other types of love that of father and daughter. However Smiley has put a new spin on the love involved in the love test a sort of hybrid of “honor thy mother and thy father” and an Oedipal complex not true love but. Her message is quite clear (since she stole it from Shakespeare) love in its very nature is something one cannot measure attempting to do so can only lead to disaster. Smiley presents what at first seems to be a typical American farm family, but is quickly revealed to be anything but. In Jane Smiley‘s “A Thousand Acres” the main focus is of the family and familial relationships.
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Killing for Company by Brian Masters5/9/2023 Nilsen replied 'Fifteen or sixteen, since 1978. 'Are we talking about one body or two?' a detective asked. The next day, local resident Dennis Nilsen was arrested. To his horror, it appeared to be formed of human flesh and bones. When a plumber was called to investigate, he discovered a large blockage of biological material. In February 1983, residents of Muswell Hill had been plagued by blocked drains. This ground-breaking criminal study of his killings was written with Nilsen's full cooperation, resulting in a fascinating - and horrifying - portrait of the man who worshipped death. The definitive story of the Dennis Nilsen case featured in BBC's The Nilsen Tapes, and the book behind ITV's Des, starring David Tennant***WINNER OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR CRIME NON-FICTION and THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***_Dennis Nilsen, who died in May 2018, admitted to killing at least 15 people before his arrest in 1983. |