![]() ![]() " compelling war drama, a legal thriller, and a lyrically written portrait of a young woman."- Booklist Praise for Love & War: An Alex & Eliza Story: The battles are just beginning in the sumptuous sequel to Melissa de la Cruz's New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love Story. Torn apart by new trials and temptations, can Alex and Eliza's epic love survive life in the big city? And with Alex's star on the rise, Eliza can't help but feel neglected by a husband who seems to have time for everyone but her. Eliza struggles to build a home in the hustle and bustle of New York City just as Alex's burgeoning law practice brings him up against his greatest rival-the ambitious young lawyer Aaron Burr. Yet even after the Revolution comes to its historic close, Alex and Eliza's happily-ever-after is threatened. But when the war unexpectedly arrives on Eliza's doorstep, she must fight for a better future-for their fledgling country and for her marriage. even if that means leaving his beloved Eliza behind to join the front lines at the Battle of Yorktown. ![]() Still, Alex is as determined as ever to prove his mettle and secure his legacy. The thrilling romance of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler continues in the sizzling sequel to the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love StoryĪs the war for American independence rages on, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler begin their new life as a married couple. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We are offering two different in-class, interactive performances this year: Koala Lou and an original class-devised piece called StoryMakers. These can be purchased for an individual class, a grade band, or an entire school. For each title, you will receive a copy of the book and a pdf with downloadable arts curriculum, including two reader’s theatre scripts and exercises in writing, acting, visual arts, and movement. The digital story kits take all the great curriculum ideas we created for our physical story kits in 2020-21 and make them more accessible. **Check out the KOALA LOU page to see the days/times of upcoming public performances!** This school year, we are offering Interactive Digital Story Kits, In-Class Performances, and free Reader’s Theatre scripts. We look forward to supporting you in the wonderful work you do for kids! Bringing theatre into your classroom is a wonderful way to bolster your students’ imaginations, problem-solving skills, team building, and enjoyment of reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() as part of the Twenty in 2020 Black British writers series. The novel was originally published in the UK by Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd. Through obsessive research on an overlooked Black modernist poet, the narrator buckles under the vacuousness of the art world and also curates a queer historical scene, breaking it open and reveling in it. Shola von Reinhold’s lavish debut novel lays bare, through ornate, layered prose, the gaps and faultlines in the archive. The feeling of not only recognising, but of having been recognised. Moonlight, of a kind, sighed up and down the tube of my spine, but above all, that indescribable note which accompanied all my Transfixions was present: humming beneath the high fine rush-probably not dissimilar to holy rapture-was an almost violent familiarity. This was confirmed by the sensations: flashes from Arcadia. “What was beyond doubt by the time I got back was that a new Transfixion had arrived in the form of Hermia Druitt, the woman in this photograph. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction Winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize Available in paperback and PDF (EPUB coming soon). ![]() ![]() ![]() Once she and her classmates Maxine and Lena reach the vibrant streets of France, Frances learns that the spell she used to speak to her dead brother has had terrible consequences-the veil between the living and the dead has been torn by her recklessness, and a group of magicians are using the rift for their own gain at a horrifying cost. When an opportunity to visit Paris arises, Frances jumps at the chance to go, longing for adventure and seeking answers about her power. But one thing nags: her magic has begun to act strangely. Druon and the witches of Haxahaven, Frances has built a quiet, safe life for herself, teaching young witches and tending the garden within the walls of Haxahaven Academy. Months after the devastating battle between the Sons of St. ![]() The lush and pulse-pounding sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Witch Haven “sparkles with magic” ( Kirkus Reviews) as it follows Frances and her fellow witches to the streets of Paris where family secrets, lost loves, and dangerous powers await. ![]() ![]() The “unintentional” clause provides the festival with a crucial counterpoint to all its snark: someone, somewhere earnestly created this video now being presented to you as comedy. The festival’s rules are simple: all clips must derive from physical tape (no YouTube videos here), and each piece submitted must be unintentionally funny. ![]() 19, the sixth volume of the festival will land in Milwaukee’s Turner Hall. Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have been collecting VHS tapes since 1991 and founded the FFF in 2004. ![]() Have you ever wondered what VHS tape heaven is like? I imagine it’s a lot like the Found Footage Festival, where discarded VHS tapes scavenged from garage sales, thrift shops and dumpsters find a second life providing a hilarious and sometimes touching anthropological commentary. Image courtesy of Found Footage Fest website. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Going back a few years a life assurance company inexplicably put about £4k into my account! - I was expecting a modest sum, but nothing like that much. Why should I have to look after the money? Whats more annoying is the only solution I can see to cancel this account and re-open another but why should I have to go to all that trouble? ![]() I know its not mine in the first place but its annoying to see an inflated balance that isn't mine.ī & B have just simply said that if it is wrong, which it definitely is as I have given no one these bank details to pay into the account, then it'll be claimed back eventually. I just have this fear that it'll go on for years and one day the cash will just be ripped from my account. I know its not much but it is building up, I can't spend it as it is not mine and I think the person paying it in in error needs to know about it. I have no clue where the money is coming from, just a name, and the bank don't seem to want to help me. ![]() I have a Bradford and Bingley account (which is now Abbey) and since July £20 is being paid into it every month. I know that a lot of people wouldn't see this as a problem but I want it sorted. I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask about this but I'm not sure where else to put it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Below, the pair break down the do’s and don’t of big friendship in the time of coronavirus. Bustle asked Sow and Friedman the best strategies for maintaining relationships now that every friendship has become long-distance. Now that coronavirus social distancing measures have upended our social lives, it can be difficult to find meaningful ways to connect with the friends we’re used to seeing face-to-face. Through it all, they’ve continued to opt into their friendship and do the work to preserve this big, special relationship. ![]() In the past decade, the pair have weathered cross-country moves, life-threatening health scares, fights, and one incredibly tense weekend at a Northern California spa. Sow and Friedman call this, “big friendship,” which is also the title of their forthcoming book, out this July. Once a week, Sow and Friedman hop on the phone for a conversation not unlike one you’d have with your smartest, most insightful friend, discussing everything from Love Is Blind to the worst bosses they’ve ever had.Īt its heart, Call Your Girlfriend is a celebration of a specific kind of all-encompassing friendship - one that carries just as much weight as any romantic relationship. Though they live on separate coasts, the pair co-host Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast dedicated to long-distance besties everywhere. Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman are the patron saints of friendship. ![]() ![]() Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Stephen King, Linda Nagata, Laird Barron, Margo Lanagan, and many others. ![]() Straub's piece "The Process is a Process All Its Own" started out promising but ended up rather disappointing and I felt the last story, "On These Blackened Shores of Time" was good but perhaps not the strongest ending for the anthology. Now, with the eleventh volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. The weakest of the bunch was definitely "Numbers," in that it seemed to have.very little reason for existing. "Ragman" was also a deeply unsettling exploration of the relationship between parents and children as well as the stories piled up in physical things. "Grave Goods" was also really well written and an interesting exploration of archaeology, ethics, identity, and (of course) monsters. Ellen Datlow Anne Billson Ralph Robert Moore Ray Cluley Michael Marshall Smith Thomas Olde Heuvelt Sam Hicks Peter Sutton, (Fiction writer) Dale Bailey Kristi DeMeester John Langan - The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in horror short fiction. ![]() I loved "The Days of Our Lives" for it's absolutely nonsensical yet still terrifying narrative and it's ricocheting pace somewhere between a British domestic comedy and a terrifying cult-esque tale of murder and inexplicable horror. Overall a very strong collection! There was a bit of repetition in the Lovecraftian pieces unfortunately but otherwise I really enjoyed these stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I used about half the jar of glitter for a doubled dough recipe… We read the story together, and I brought each plastic animal out as they appeared in the story and let the smalls put them in the mitten. This is what you will need to build this book-inspired play activity… You can use your favourite play dough recipe and just add glitter to give the play dough a snowy sparkle. Have you ever tried to find a toy mole? Anyway, the smalls didn’t mind. No, the animals are not to scale with each other, nor with the mitten, and we don’t have a mole. I have wanted to create a small world activity for this book for a really long while. The forest creatures come one by one, seeking shelter in the warmth of the mitten, and well, you’ll have to read the rest yourself… Nicky does indeed, lose one mitten in the snow. ![]() His grandmother worries he will lose them in the snow and not be able to see them. It’s a story of a young boy who wanted his grandmother to knit him mittens the colour of the snow. Her attention to detail is so incredible, that each time we read the story, we find something we didn’t see before…it’s magic. “Once there was a boy named Nicki who wanted his new mittens made from wool as white as snow.” ~Jann Brett, The Mittenįrom the time my oldest children were small, we have loved the story of The Mitten. ![]() ![]() Yet I, Gwenvael, will courageously face down this terrifying…woman? It turns out the Beast, a.k.a. A being so fearful, the greatest warriors will only whisper its name. So here I stand, waiting to broker an alliance with the one the Northlanders call The Beast. Yet for them, and because I am so chivalrous, I will brave the worst this land has to offer. But do they appreciate it? Do they say, “Gwenvael the Handsome, you are the best among us–the most loved of all dragons?” No! For centuries my family has refused to acknowledge my magnificence as well as my innate humility. You can read this before What a Dragon Should Know (Dragon Kin, #3) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Īttraction that’s off the scale… Only for those I love would I traipse into the merciless Northlands to risk life, limb, and my exquisite beauty. Here is a quick description and cover image of book What a Dragon Should Know (Dragon Kin, #3) written by G.A. Brief Summary of Book: What a Dragon Should Know (Dragon Kin, #3) by G.A. ![]() |