![]() ![]() First serialized in the French magazine Je Sais Tout in 1905, the Arsene Lupin stories soon caught the public imagination on both sides of the Channel. The stories are sequential in nature, but can be enjoyed as stand alone tales too. ![]() In this book, we find the urbane scoundrel engaged in a series of amusing shenanigans. Arsene Lupin is a gentleman, who “operates only in châteaux and salons” and “man of a thousand disguises: in turn a chauffeur, detective, bookmaker, Russian physician, Spanish bull-fighter, commercial traveler, robust youth and decrepit old man.” This master thief is a Robin Hood like figure who steals not just for his own gain, but for the ultimate good of someone else. The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc marks the debut of this suave, debonair crook who is considered to be the French answer to Sherlock Holmes. He sues Leblanc, who promptly changes the character's name to “Herlock Sholmes” and continues featuring him in more stories with typical French insouciance! When Maurice Leblanc introduces Sherlock Holmes in one of his Arsene Lupin stories, Conan Doyle is outraged. Holmes is a sleuth while Lupin is a burglar. Their literary creations, Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin are at two ends of the criminal spectrum. Two writers, famous in their own countries for creating immortal characters: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in England and Maurice Leblanc in France. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Read all the Hairy Maclary and Friends books by Lynley Dodd! She worked as a teacher before beginning to write her own books in 1974. She is enormously popular for her rhyming stories of the unforgettable HAIRY MACLARY and his friends. Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator who lives in New Zealand. ![]() Here every dog-from big-as-a-horse Hercules Morse to Schnitzel von Krumm with the very low tum-tries to have his day with HAIRY MACLARY'S BONE, but guess who triumphs! With cumulative rhymes and sunny ink and watercolor illustrations, this international favorite chronicles the escapades of our hero Hairy and his crew of five kooky canines. Hairy Maclary's Bone is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world. "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley" is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. His two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis in 1994, followed by Careless Love in 1999, placed the story of Presley's career into a rise and fall arc. He then began writing books about the history of rock'n'roll, blues, country music, and soul music. Guralnick graduated from Boston University in 1971 with a master's degree in creative writing. He specializes in the history of early rock'n'roll and has written on Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Sam Cooke. Peter Guralnick (born December 15, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American music critic, author, and screenwriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last pages of the book, after the story is complete, is the wonderful Author's Note. ![]() ![]() Everyone pitches in then, and for the moving in party at the end of the book. You never know.")īut this year the first frost arrives early.īut more people are needed to build this house, of course, and they throw a frame-raising party where extended family comes to help as well as workers from the quarry and sawmill. "Dad lays the rocks one on top another while we fill the loud mixing machine." Later, Grandpa visits with his backhoe (Ben: "Does Grand-Dad have a backhoe, Mommy?" Me, thinking of how my father doesn't even have a tool box: "I don't think so, Ben, but we can call and ask. Each page shows them working hard, together. ![]() His core family-at the beginning of the book, four people, but by the end there's an additional baby-is the work crew. Based on the true story of his parents moving out to the country and building their own home with the help of all kids big enough to wield a hammer, Jonathan Bean writes a simple tale of building his family's home. I think there's a little pile of Ben drool still there.Īnyway, this book is a gem. Or maybe he's just trying to shove the pictures in his brain through osmosis he fell asleep with his head on the last page of this book. Can one children's book do that? I sure do think so. Here is a book that has the potential to stay in his head and work its magic through childhood and into adulthood. Everyone in our house likes this book, but Ben is the most smitten. ![]() ![]() ![]() He denounced the premature end of Reconstruction and the emerging Jim Crow era. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglass became the most famed and widely traveled orator in the nation. He broke with Garrison to become a political abolitionist, a Republican, and eventually a Lincoln supporter. Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, often to large crowds, using his own story to condemn slavery. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence, he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. ![]() He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.Īs a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. ![]() ![]() ![]() I guess it’s true what they say about remembering how people make you feel. It was the first time I was proud of the skin that I was in and it was the first time I had believed anyone who told me that I had a reason to be proud of my skin and who I was. Now, it’s been roughly 23 years since I’ve read Miss Flake’s powerful novel, so I can’t sit here and tell you that I remember the entire storyline, but I can, with confidence, tell you that it was the first novel I had ever read that impacted my life. Outside of being my mother, she and my sister are both lighter than I am, so as far as I was concerned, she HAD to think I was beautiful. My mother of course thought I was beautiful. ![]() There was nothing I could say or do that convinced the other kids that I wasn’t mixed and I didn’t stand a chance at simply hearing “you’re pretty.” Nope. My lips were full and I had a head full of hair that went all the way down my back to my waistline. At 10 years old, I was struggling with the fact that I was “dark-skinned” and my peers were “light-skinned”. Flake literally changed my life right around the same age my daughter is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From there Jonah persistently and deliberately misreports everything we witness, successfully creating and sustaining not only the most massive dramatic irony but also readers' sympathetic frustration and so empathy and emotional investment in poor Peter Parker's young plight. Jonah Jameson who besmirches the reputation of young, altruistic Peter Parker's alias in print long before he's had chance to even do anything. It protects us from those with great power and no sense of responsibility other than to themselves: Donald Trump, the Daily Fail and all those Brexiteers lying through their teeth forever and a day, just like Daily Bugle publisher J. That's the quote which everyone should take from this tome. "Unfortunately, if something is shouted loud enough, there are always those who will believe it." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On his first day, Dadier endures relentless mockery and ridicule and makes an enemy of the student body by rescuing a female colleague from a vicious attack. A tough vocational school in the East Bronx, Manual Trades is home to angry, unruly teenagers exiled from New York Citys regular public schools. After serving his country in World War II, Richard Dadier decides to be an English teacher-and for the sin of wanting to make a difference, hes hired at North Manual Trades High School. Book Synopsis The shocking and suspense-packed bestseller about one teachers stand against student violence, and the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film (The New York Times Book Review). ![]() About the Book First copyrighted in 1953 and first published in 1954. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both come in during the back end of the series, and are two of the most successful elements of the lukewarm adaptation. But thankfully, Frances’s health concerns remain, as does Bobbi and Frances’ romantic relationship, albeit in an altered state. ![]() The creators of the BBC/Hulu adaptation stripped so much of what was most interesting from the book-questions of whether Nick was predatory in his relationship with Frances, issues of class and money, Frances’ struggle with self-harm and self-image, even Bobbi and Melissa’s dynamic. The Conversations With Friends limited series, an adaptation of Irish author Sally Rooney’s debut novel, is a story about the many ways four people come together and fall apart over the course of a summer. ![]() Warning: contains spoilers for the Conversations With Friends finale. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the abrupt end of Poe's novel, a giant white-shrouded figure rises up out of a frozen chasm and. ![]() Even their teeth are black, and these folks are terrified of whiteness. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym keeps hallucinating about race: a black crew member heads the mutiny Pym and some survivors of the shipwreck drift to an island near the glacial whiteness of the South Pole where, lo and behold, all of the inhabitants are black. But, buried alive deep in Poe's icy adventure tale is the ultimate scary subject in 19th-century American literature: slavery. Masquerading as authentic journal entries, the tale chronicles the voyages of a young seafarer, Pym, who suffers through mutiny, shipwreck and cannibalism. Poe published the novel in 1838, trying, as always, to make some money from his writing by cashing in on the public's thirst for novels and newfound curiosity about Antarctica. ![]() It's this strain of ghastly humor in Poe that Mat Johnson mines in his new novel, Pym, an inventive and socially sassy play on Poe's one and only novel: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. I'm not talking belly laughs, but more a creepy comic vision that savored the absurd in desperate situations - like an annoying corpse whose darn heart just won't stop thumping or - spoiler alert! - a whodunit where the killer turns out to be an orangutan. ![]() If all you think of when you think of Edgar Allan Poe are poems like "The Raven," or tales of terror like "The Fall of the House of Usher," you might not realize that Poe was a funny guy. ![]() |