![]() Something is very wrong, and Alice is determined to help.Desperate, Nyl and Alice come up with an audacious plan that could save both of them and their community. until Alice realizes that the people suffering the most are all ethnically Ukrainian, like Nyl. ![]() but a murderous plan leading all the way to Stalin.Alice has recently arrived from Canada with her father, who is here to work for the Soviets. ![]() ![]() On top of bad harvests and a harsh winter, conditions worsen until it's clear the lack of food is not just chance. Ever since the Soviet dictator, Stalin, started to take control of farms like the one Nyl's family lives on, there is less and less food to go around. From acclaimed author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, this incredibly gripping and timely story set during the Holodomor in 1930s Ukraine introduces young readers to a pivotal moment in history and how it relates to the events of today. ![]()
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Here is what Colleen & Tarryn had to say: “ Some of you may have been notified that the preorder for Never Never has been cancelled. ![]() ![]() The adventure ramps up when they learn about the museum's recent acquisition of a marble angel statue-possibly created by Michelangelo-purchased for just $225. ![]() The story is about two siblings, Claudia (12) and Jamie Kinkaid (9) who escape their humdrum suburb for "the greatest adventure of our lives." With Jamie's pockets stuffed with coins, they take the train into New York City and spend over a week hiding out at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, blending in with crowds during the day and outwitting security guards at night. Konigsburg and published in 1967, it has been beloved by generations of children (and adults) and has never been out of print. Frankweiler came out on top in the 2023 edition of NYPL's #LiteraryMarchMadness. ![]() We weren't surprised that the children's classic The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. ![]() ![]() Helfer has passed it off as a true story, when clearly, it is not. If you love books about animals, go read Old Yeller. Most of the high reviews read, "I love elephants." And, "I love animals." Really? That is not a book review. When I saw this book had an average review of 4.19, I took the time to read through several of them and see what I had missed. It could have taken place in any time and in any country (and I don't mean that in a good way). Also, there was no character development or sense of space or time. Somehow, the uneducated "Bram" spoke flawless English even though he had never left his little village in Germany and had no schooling or parents who spoke English. It was hilarious that all of the characters from all of the different countries all spoke the same way. First, is it fiction or non-fiction? Seems that the "author" is claiming non-fiction, but this story is terribly contrived and rings as untrue in almost every chapter. ![]() ![]() If I were to teach a class in creative writing right now, I would use this book as an example of what NOT to do in your writing. The ONLY reason I read past page 3 was that this was a book club pick. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, it suggests that while war and its devastation cycles through history, the forces of art and love remain steady, eternal, and life-sustaining. Berry’s evocative novel starts slow but gains steam as the stories flesh out. James and Aubrey witness horrors on and off the battlefield, and Hazel and Colette cling to each other during the best of times, such as when Hazel has the opportunity for a brief reunion with James, and the worst, as when Aubrey goes missing. ![]() She's a shy and talented pianist he's a newly minted soldier with dreams of becoming an architect. There, she meets Colette, who is still reeling from her wartime losses, and introduces her to Aubrey, who quickly steals Colette’s heart. Lovely War Julie Berry 4.24 48,540 ratings9,282 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Fiction (2019) It's 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at a London party. After James reports to duty, Hazel follows, taking a wartime volunteer position in France. To show her husband, Hephaestus, the real meaning of love and its connection to war and art, Aphrodite (with the help of Apollo, Hades, and Ares) tells the emotion-packed WWI saga of two besotted couples drawn together by music and war: British pianist Hazel and soldier James African-American jazz musician Aubrey and Colette, a Belgian war orphan with a remarkable singing voice. Berry ( The Passion of Dolssa) brings to life wartime horrors and passions with commentary from Olympian gods in this love story filled with vivid historical detail. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. ![]() The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. That was when Vanja’s otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back… by stealing Gisele’s life for herself. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele’s dutiful servant up until a year ago. Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love–and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl… ![]() ![]() ![]() Few stories raise so many questions about the nature and roles of men and women, about self-discipline and happiness. ![]() ![]() Buck, a Nobel Prize winner born and raised in China. Pavilion of Women is a thought-provoking combination of Old China, unorthodox Christianity, and liberation, written by Pearl S. When her son begins English lessons, she listens, and is soon learning from the "foreigner," a free-thinking priest named Brother Andre, who will change her life. Alone in her own quarters, she relishes her freedom and reads books she has never been allowed to touch. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame Wu will not be dissuaded and arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed.Įlegant and detached, Madame Wu orchestrates this change as she manages everything in the extended household of more than sixty relatives and servants. On her 40th birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after 24 years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through different paths, Joan and Alex tread deep into the violent, dangerous world of criminal magic - and when their paths cross at the Shaws' performance venue, despite their orders, and despite themselves, Joan and Alex become enchanted with one another. Alex Danfrey, a first-year Federal Prohibition Unit trainee with a complicated past and talents of his own, becomes tapped to go undercover and infiltrate the Shaws. Joan Kendrick, a young sorcerer from Norfolk County, Virginia accepts an offer to work for DC's most notorious crime syndicate, the Shaw Gang, when her family's home is repossessed. Gangs have established secret performance venues where patrons can lose themselves in magic, and take a mind-bending, intoxicating elixir known as the sorcerer's shine. Smugglers funnel magic contraband in from overseas. ![]() Sorcerers cast illusions to aid mobsters' crime sprees. It's 1926 in Washington, DC, and while Anti-Sorcery activists have achieved the Prohibition of sorcery, the city's magic underworld is booming. Magic is powerful, dangerous and addictive - and after passage of the 18th Amendment, it is finally illegal. THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets THE PEAKY BLINDERS in Lee Kelly's new crossover fantasy novel. ![]() ![]() I confess that it took me a little while to get into this one, I don’t know why exactly, but I swear that I must have gone back to the beginning at least four times before I finally got on board. Like most first books this is a good introduction, it gives you a feel for the world, it introduces a couple of characters that I understand pop up again throughout the series and it demonstrates the madcap, quirky humour so you can get an idea if this will be something for you or not. As starts to series go this is kind of what I anticipated and a number of people had also mentioned to keep my expectations in check for this one as it isn’t the best that Discworld has to offer. So, The Colour of Magic is our first read and to be honest this is definitely a book where forewarned is forearmed. ![]() ![]() Today is my review for the first book in the Discworld series and the first step on a journey that Louise over at Lou’s Book Stuff and I agreed to undertake together whereby we read the entire Discworld series in order. ![]() |