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A long petal of sea5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Now, it's the solace of wisdom when we need it most, wrapped in a love story which reminds us, as abiding love always does, that grace takes many forms - yet its core is not faith, but truth. Only this time, that gift isn't just a beautiful story well told. Her new book, A Long Petal of the Sea - translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson - is another gift of epic storytelling. Specifically, Chile.Īnd if there's a writer whose gifted stories are the mortar of tenacity linking our two continents, she is Isabel Allende. If there is a region which understands the current anxiety in the United States over populist authoritarian regimes, manufactured coup d'états, the hope of resilience and the resilience of love, it's Latin America. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Long Petal of the Sea Author Isabel Allende ![]()
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Crying for the Moon by Mary Walsh5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() No stranger to television audiences, Mary may be best known for her work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC’s wildly popular take on current affairs. The series, which she also created, earned her many of her numerous Gemini awards and showcased her dynamic range of characters, including the flagrantly outspoken ‘Marg Delahunty’. Well known as a Newfoundland actor, writer, comedian, activist and mother, Mary will read from her novel, Crying For The Moon (Harper Collins Canada). In Crying For The Moon, Mary Walsh has created the unforgettable Maureen Brennan, a young woman coming of age in late 1960s St. John's, Newfoundland.Īmong her many awards and doctorates, Mary is also the recipient of The Order of Canada and the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the Performing Arts. ![]() The 2019-20 Writers Reading Series is pleased to welcome author, Mary Walsh. ![]()
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![]() There's no auditions, no singing experience is needed and you don't need to have a 'good voice' - just an openness to have a go! Our uplifting vocal sessions are led by conductor/composer/mother Marta Radwan. It is a baby friendly class, created especially so you can bring the baby you care for (in a sling / buggy / carseat). Meet new people and take some time for you in this new acappella choir for mums, dads, grandparents, carers and their babies! Singing is a great way to relieve stress and promote well-being. ![]()
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Lands of lost borders by kate harris5/12/2023 ![]() The farther she traveled, the closer she came to a world as wild as she felt within. Forget charting maps, naming peaks: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. Pedaling mile upon mile in some of the remotest places on earth, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. ![]() ![]() In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle down the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel. ![]() Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars. From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth there was nothing left to be discovered. It’s a modern classic."-Pico IyerĪ brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road-an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.Īs a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved-to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician-had gone extinct. " Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. ![]()
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Books like the faraway tree5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The bonus is that the reader is inundated with a host of the lovely Dorothy Wheeler pictures and who could complain about that? ![]() Robin and Joy initially distance the theme by a factor of one and viewed as a whole it might even be considered as a story within a story. Because of the format the book might not be classed on par with the first three Faraway Tree volumes but that's purely a matter of how you see it. Due to the popularity of the previous Faraway Tree tales it was fairly obvious that Up the Faraway Tree might also be welcomed as a dedicated book and this took place in 1951. It was in picture-strip form and there were four panels per issue. "Once there were two children called Robin and Joy." This is how the fourth of the Faraway Tree series begins in Sunny Stories of July 23rd, 1948. ![]() So off they go and have fun climbing the tree, meeting the people who live there, and visiting magical lands like the Land of Roundabouts and Swings, the Land of Magic, and the Land of Castles as well as having a party in the Land of Cakes! Review by Terry Gustafson Brief Summary by Robert Houghton: Two children, Robin and Joy read a book of exciting stories about Jo, Bessie and Fanny and the wonderful Faraway Tree and determine to go and visit the children from the book and share in their adventures. ![]()
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Eight Days by Scott Thompson5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() He grabbed hold of a platform leg, getting cut up by barnacles until he caught a swell of water and was able to reach a ladder. Thompson finally reached Platform Gail, greeted by a swarm of seagulls. I even asked him for a lift at one point.” “At some point a little seal showed up and started bobbing around checking me out, and I was so happy to see another living creature I just started to talk to it. He headed for what he thought was Platform Gina, trying to encourage himself and to push away negative thoughts as he kicked and pulled through 57-degree water. ![]() “I thought of my wife and kids immediately and just thought, ‘Okay, you’ve got this … figure it out.’” “Really? Really? This is how it all ends?” Thompson wrote. A very good friend had died of a heart attack recently at the age of 38, leaving his wife and two little girls about the same ages as Thompson’s own. In the comment stream of an Instagram post by TowBoatsUS, a salvage service out of Ventura Harbor, Thompson related that he’d gone out in a terrible mood. ![]()
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Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() She soon realized that there was still more of the Angevins' story to tell and the result was Lionheart, followed by The King's Ransom. ![]() In 2008, she published Devil's Brood, which was to be the final book in her trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The mysteries did not enjoy the same success as her "straight" historical novels, to which she returned in 2002, with Time and Chance, again covering the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II. ![]() ![]() In 1996, following the success of When Christ and His Saints Slept (which dealt with the Anarchy and the early career of King Henry II of England), Penman ventured into the historical whodunnit with four mysteries set in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine during the reign of Richard I. The Sunne in Splendour, a novel about Richard III of England is one of the most popular books on the Historical Novel Society's list of best historical novels. Penman received her bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, she majored in history, and also received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Rutgers University School of Law, and later worked as a tax lawyer. ![]()
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Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() In Hatha classes, you may do the standing poses individually with rest between each pose.
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Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() We spoke with Wolfe-food-blogger Kirsten Wright, creator of the Inspired by Wolfe blog, a blog which cooked its’ way through the full Nero Wolfe Cookbook and more. We spoke with American Crime Writer Lucy Burdette, author of the Key West mystery series, starring foodie Hayley Snow, about writing cozy crime and the appeal of food-related crime fiction. This book, in particular, had a national tour featuring dancers and a show band, as well as an accompanying Cookbook. Nero Wolfe is one of the most prolific detectives at the tail end of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, with Rex Stout putting out over 50 Nero Wolfe stories, leading to some of the most outrageous promotional campaigns in Literature history at the time. Can Archie and Nero solve the crime before they have to leave for New York. Despite initial reluctance, escalating drama finally drags Nero Wolfe into the fray, but he refuses to stay any longer than initially planned. ![]() On a trip to the Kanawha Spa to meet and discuss food with Les Quinze Maitres – the world’s best chefs – our detective duo of socialite Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin are dragged into solving the murder of controversial New York Chef Philip Laszio, found dead during his own contest at the meeting. ![]() Our full, extended discussion of Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout. ![]()
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Straight Boy by Alessandra Hazard5/11/2023 ![]() This novel contains derogatory language, mentions of violence, explicit M/M sex, strong D/s dynamic (without sadomasochism). The story of a boy who dreamed of Prince Charming and ended up falling for the Beast. If life were a fairy tale, Roman would be the main villain, not the hero.īut even villains can fall in love. His attraction to the guy is just some sort of Stockholm syndrome it must be. Luke is fully aware that Roman is all wrong for him. Cold, manipulative, and ruthless, he’s not a nice man and he doesn’t pretend to be. Roman Demidov, a homophobic, cynical billionaire who has a grudge against Luke’s father, is certainly not Mr. The problem is, Luke has the propensity for being attracted to men who are anything but nice. Right.Ī hopeless romantic at heart, he dreams of falling in love with a nice man, getting married, and having a bunch of adorable babies. Luke Whitford has always dreamed of meeting Mr. ![]() ![]() When you want someone completely wrong for you… ![]() |