![]() Blume spoke recently from a favorite refuge - its roof, looking out on a muggy morning over the island city. READ MORE: Judy Blume celebrates her 80th birthday at work in Key Westīooks & Books has become a Key West destination, like the former home of Ernest Hemingway. There’s also a new documentary, “Judy Blume Forever.” Premiering next week, it stars Abby Ryder Fortson as the preteen from New Jersey with a lot of questions about religion, boys and her own body. ![]() For the first time, one of her books has been adapted into a major Hollywood film: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. Now 85, Blume has never been forgotten, but is currently enjoying renewed interest. ![]() ![]() “I remind them of their childhood,” she likes to say. She is also a literary celebrity of the rarest kind, who has not only sold millions of books, but also moved young readers so profoundly that, as adults, they approach her in tears and thank her. At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the past seven years, you will find her own work in various sections: from general fiction, among the other “B”-named authors, to a shelf dedicated to her - a name unto herself.įor more than 50 years, Blume has been a proud member of the literary community. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Fantastic fox book![]() The reason that we think that they are all mean is that they are trying to kill Mr. Farmer Bean doesn’t eat, but he drinks a lot of apple cider. He spreads mashed goose livers on donuts and eats them at every meal. The most disgusting of them all is Farmer Bunce, who is really short with a pot belly. Farmer Boggis eats three chickens every meal time along with dumplings, making him really fat. Fox better than the farmers even though he is stealing from the three farmers. The author, Roald Dahl, creates a negative image about the farmers that makes the reader want to like Mr. ![]() ![]() While the fox family and all their friends are starving and hiding underground, Boggis, Bunce and Bean are eating right above them. The farmers have plenty of food, but they still won’t share with Mr. Fox is a thief, but the three farmers that he steals from are described as mean and gross. Will it be enough to save his family and friends? Fox is outnumbered, but he is very clever and dedicated. ![]() Fox, struggles to keep his family fed while three farmers named farmer Boggis, farmer Bunce, and farmer Bean are determined to kill him. How far would you go to save your family from starving while people are trying to kill you? That is the conflict facing a clever, sly and brave fox in the entertaining book Fantastic Mr. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Rome 1960 david maraniss![]() ![]() ![]() While Maraniss devotes much of his narrative to the individual events and their results, the meat of this story is in his argument that the Rome Olympics were placed at a crossroads of both the sporting world and global society as a whole, the biggest of these changes clearly represented by women’s track and field coach Ed Temple and his Tennessee State Tigerbelles, led by superstar speedster Wilma Rudolph. Maraniss has written on sports before, penning biographies of both Vince Lombardi and Roberto Clemente, but Rome 1960 looks at the broader cultural impacts the Seventeenth Olympiad had on the world and the effect the world’s changing social mores had on the Olympics. ![]() In Rome 1960, Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss brings his marvelous prose back to the world of sports and chronicles the Olympic Games at the center of global change. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Sweep by jonathan auxier![]() But the sweet and naive golem needs looking after as well and he and Nan form a warm friendship. Nan desperately needs protection from the cruel master sweep she is indentured to. She and her friend Toby believe The Sweep gave Nan the golem to protect her. Nan was a climber and one of the best in London, but after getting stuck in a flue, she discovers that her piece of coal has turned into an adorable golem. He told Nan many stories and when it was time for him to depart, he left her a magical piece of coal. ![]() When Nan was younger, she was looked after by a kindhearted man known as The Sweep. ![]() ![]() Sweep, The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier is a heartwarming story about an eleven-year-old orphan who works as a chimney sweep in London in 1875. Auxier masterfully mixes a m agical tale with the truth about the dangerous lives of chimney sweeps (often children) in the 1800s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marvel (with Ares, Black Widow, Iron Man, Sentry, Wasp, and Wonder Man) gathered in The Mighty Avengers-also originally written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Frank Cho, then Mark Bagley. It was also the title of the main Avengers series written by Bendis-with art by David Finch, then by Steve McNiven, Leinil Francis Yu, Billy Tan, and Stuart Immonen as the years went by.īut that’s not all! After some massive events, a concurrent government-sanctioned team led by Ms. It was the end of an era and the start of a new one that ended up being a series of crossover events that changed the Marvel Universe in a big way.Īt first, with the Avengers in ruins, a new team named The New Avengers is created: Iron Man, Captain America, Luke Cage, Wolverine, Ronin (aka Echo), Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, and Sentry. ![]() In 2004, Brian Michael Bendis’s Avengers run began with the destruction of the existing traditional roster of the team. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Leon uris![]() ![]() Uris attended schools in Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore, but never graduated from high school, after having failed English three times. He derived his surname from Yerushalmi, meaning "man of Jerusalem." (His brother Aron, Leon Uris' uncle, took the name Yerushalmi) "He was basically a failure," Uris later said of his father. William spent a year in Palestine after World War I before entering the United States. ![]() His father, a Polish-born immigrant, was a paperhanger, then a storekeeper. Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William and Anna (Blumberg) Uris. His two bestselling books were Exodus, published in 1958, and Trinity, in 1976. ![]() Leon Marcus Uris (AugJune 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Jla grant morrison vol 1![]() The waiting period until the complaint may not be longer than 5 days after receipt in the case of transport damage and the like ("externally visible damage") in the case of production issues ("internal damage") no longer than 30 days. Please keep our original packing box until the damage claim has been cleared. 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We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. ![]() ![]() Elsa's search for a better life for her children takes them out west to California, where things turn out to be even worse. Though she finds some joy working the land, tending the animals, and learning her way around Mama Rose's kitchen, her marriage is never happy, the pleasures of early motherhood are brief, and soon the disastrous droughts of the 1930s drive all the farmers of the area to despair and starvation. ![]() Despised by her shallow parents and sisters for being sickly and unattractive-“too tall, too thin, too pale, too unsure of herself”-Elsa escapes their cruelty when a single night of abandon leads to pregnancy and forced marriage to the son of Italian immigrant farmers. There were times in my journey when I felt as if that penny and the hope it represented were the only things that kept me going.” We meet Elsa Wolcott in Dalhart, Texas, in 1921, on the eve of her 25th birthday, and wind up with her in California in 1936 in a saga of almost unrelieved woe. ![]() ![]() “Hope is a coin I carry: an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love. The miseries of the Depression and Dust Bowl years shape the destiny of a Texas family. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Genuine fraud plot![]() ![]() After hearing about Genuine Fraud I thought the premise sounded really interesting and decided to give it a shot. I bought a copy for my kindle and read the book in a single sitting but I wasn’t entirely sure it was my cup of tea. At one point I was seeing We Were Liars everywhere, I think around the time it was featured in the Zoella Book Club. Lockhart, who is well known for the YA thriller We Were Liars. Genuine Fraud is the newest title from E. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains.Ī girl who refuses to give people what they want from her.Ī girl who refuses to be the person she once was. A murder, or maybe two.īlunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete.Īn intense friendship. ![]() Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. ![]() Source: I was sent a copy of this book of this book through ReadersFirst ![]() ![]() ![]() It tries very hard to appeal to a large audience.Īnd mostly it succeeds. And from what reviews I’ve read, it doesn’t go into enough depth about wicca/paganism to bother most Christian readers but may disappoint some wiccan/pagan practitioners for lack of detail. There isn’t really any swearing or gruesome violence, even though a few people experience unpleasant endings. There’s sex, but brief scenes that don’t go into much detail. Even with the Catholic witch hunters who try to expose the Orchiéres for what they are, Christians are only lightly touched on. A SECRET HISTORY OF WITCHES follows their genealogy from 1821 to World War II, showcasing a line of vibrant women connected tightly to their family’s past and future.Ī SECRET HISTORY OF WITCHES is the kind of book you bring to your ladies’ book club. ![]() The Orchiére women have used their magic for hundreds of years, the magic following their daughters from generation to generation. ![]() And the only reason they escape is through the efforts of the group’s matriarch and the magic she’s inherited from her witch ancestresses. ![]() The book begins in 1821, when a small group of Romani (gypsies) are escaping immanent death by leaving France for England. ![]() |