6/29/2023 0 Comments The magic misfits 4![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you’re a longtime expert at illusion or a new fan of stage magic, hold on to your top hat – the Magic Misfits have a few more tricks up their sleeves!Ĭan be purchased from, Audible. Can Ridley conquer her doubts, master her temper and put her extraordinary skills to good use? She’ll do anything to protect her friends and with the vicious magician Kalagan ready to finally reveal himself, the Misfits need each other now more than ever … One last time, join the Magic Misfits in this thrilling and action-packed finale that’s full of adventure, friendship and more than a few hidden secrets. Do you?) Now is no time for uncertainty, though, as Ridley and the rest of the Magic Misfits must confront the hypnotised townspeople, navigate an inattentive mother and come face-to-face with a villain they never thought they’d see again. Shes tough as nails, shes fiercely loyal, and shes smart as a whip. ![]() The Misfits must work together to fend off mysterious attacks in this magical finale to the 1 New York Times bestselling Magic Misfits series from acclaimed and wildly popular celebrity Neil Patrick Harris Ridley Larsen is everything you want in a friend. Ridley Larsen is everything you want in a friend. The Misfits must work together to fend off mysterious attacks. The Magic Misfits 4: The Fourth Suit Book. But deep inside, she often doubts herself. Read The Magic Misfits: The Fourth Suit by Neil Patrick Harris available from Rakuten Kobo. She’s tough as nails, fiercely loyal and smart as a whip. Ridley Larsen is everything you want in a friend. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Beautiful little fool book![]() ![]() There’s “careless, carefree” Daisy Buchanan from Louisville, Ky., who “wanted to be someone who mattered” her ambitious, sporty childhood best friend, Jordan Baker, who is embroiled in a women’s golf circuit scandal and Catherine McCoy, who leaves the family farm for New York City, where she works for the National Women’s League, attends suffrage meetings, and worries about the bruises on her sister. Here, Cantor imagines a woman shooting Gatsby in “.” Three women figure prominently in the narrative. In Fitzgerald’s version, it was George Wilson who killed Jay Gatsby. Cantor ( Half Life) succeeds brilliantly with this audacious revisionist murder mystery featuring characters from The Great Gatsby. ![]() ![]() ![]() provides a glimpse into the art world of 19th-century Paris." - Wall Street Journal ![]() " short, erudite investigation into the story behind Degas's masterpiece. ![]() "Fascinating.part historical chronicle, part artfully discursive personal response and part imaginative close reading of the sculpture's past and present.full of thought-provoking insights and revelations." - Washington Post " curiosity is contagious, and after reading this elegant pas de deux between the author and her elusive subject, you will surely look at Degas's celebrated tutu-clad ballerina with fresh 's artful achievement is to make us see the person behind Degas's famous sculpture." -NPR "A fascinating hybrid.of art history and art appreciation, a personal narrative that reads like a novel.quixotic, but also magical." - The New Yorker ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Passing by Nella Larsen![]() ![]() ![]() It includes a vibrant mix of perspectives from professional food writers, restaurateurs, scholars, and activists, whose stories range from emotional reflections on hardship, loss, and resilience to journalistic investigations of racism in the American food system. Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, told through the lens of food. For others, cooking was a way of reconnecting with homelands they could not visit during periods of lockdown. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American food system. Immigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Jerry scott jim borgman![]() ![]() As of 2020, Both Baby Blues and Zits are still in syndication. Scott is one of four cartoonists in history to have two daily comic strips simultaneously syndicated in over 1,000 newspapers. Zits currently appears in 1,700 newspapers in 45 countries and 18 languages. In Zits, Scott does the writing, while the drawings are done by Borgman. Later, Scott and Jim Borgman collaborated to create Zits, which follows family life with a teenaged son. ![]() There are 43 Baby Blues collections in print. Baby Blues currently appears in over 1,200 newspapers in 28 countries and 13 languages. Kirkman does the illustrations, while Scott does the writing. Scott became friends with Rick Kirkman and they created Baby Blues, a comic based on American family life with young children. ![]() Scott modernized the strip to his own specifications, and eventually handed it over to Guy Gilchrist in the 1990s. In 1983, Scott was selected to succeed Mark Lasky (in the wake of Lasky's sudden death) on Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy. Scott started cartooning professionally in the mid-1970s by submitting gag cartoons to magazines, and he sold one from his first batch to the Saturday Evening Post. He is one of only four cartoonists to have multiple strips appearing in over 1,000 newspapers worldwide. He is known for co-creating the comic strips Baby Blues and Zits. Jerry Scott (born ) is an American cartoonist and writer. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Brothers Sen Gogh by Manik Bal![]() ![]() The protagonists range from people migrating from cities to small towns for peace of mind to a girl who kills her father after not being able to live with the pain of his alcoholism. Whiskey and Suicide deals with the themes of self actualization, mid-life crisis, identity in modern urban India. Whiskey and Suicide” describes tender relationships, deep fears, and twist of fate that makes people vulnerable. Soubhik is going through his own struggle, his own love story and his own mental h ![]() Their love faces a number of obstacles, Soubhik being the first one. Nethra becomes Sourav's pillar of strength in the vast metropolis that is Mumbai, sharing his love for indie music. Soubhik is elder only by his numerical age, Sourav is the one who supports him. This is what immortality may mean, not a chain of infinite moments, but a moment that is immortalized in time for its permanence.Soubhik and Sourav have grown up together, but are far apart in terms of their personalities. Inspired by the brotherly love of Vincent and Theo Van Gogh, Brothers Sen Gogh ruminates about the pains of a sensitive soul, the inability of society to identify artistic talent and the heartbreaking tragedy of a flawed brotherly relationship. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Alice and wonderland books![]() LISBETH ZWERGER (1999)Īs an enormous admirer of Austrian artist Lisbeth Zwerger’s creative vision - her illustrations for L. After my recent highlights of the best illustrations for Tolkien’s The Hobbit, here come the loveliest visual interpretations of the timeless book. ![]() In the 150 years since Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations and the century since Arthur Rackham’s pioneering reimagining, the Carroll classic has sprouted everything from a pop-up book adaptation to a witty cookbook to a quantum physics allegory, and hundreds of artists around the world have reimagined it with remarkable creative vision. Alice in Wonderland went on to become one of the most beloved children’s books of all time, and my all-time favorite. To entertain her and her sisters as they floated down the river between Oxford and Godstow, Dodgson fancied a whimsical story, which he’d come to publish three years later under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Among them was a little girl named Alice Liddell. ![]() On July 4, 1862, English mathematician and logician Charles Dodgson boarded a small boat with a few friends. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The kite runner audible![]() ![]() ![]() But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows us for redemption. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds. ![]() Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. ![]() It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons - their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara - a shunned ethnic minority. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments A scots quair trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() This edition of A Scots Quair is edited and introduced by Tom Crawford. ![]() For Chris, with her intuitive strength, nothing lasts but the land. Grey Granite focuses on her son Ewan and his passionate involvement with justice for the common man. In Cloud Howe, as a minister’s wife, Chris learns to love again, and we witness the cruel gossip and high comedy of small village life. Chris and her son Ewan survive the war, but when tragedy strikes close to home, it subdues her wild spirit. In the years leading up to World War I, she finds love for the land and for the man who becomes her husband. Sunset Song introduces young Chris, the spirited daughter of a farming family. ![]() Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris’ life with the greater historical and political events of the time, from the Great War to the Depression and beyond. This classic trilogy-now in one volume-of a woman’s life on the Scottish coast in the early 20th century “may be read with delight the world over” ( The New York Times).Ĭhris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s trilogy of novels set in the Mearns of Northeast Scotland. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Jazz by Toni Morrison![]() ![]() In one instance, she sat down in the street and remained there, inexplicably, until people carried her to safety. Violet’s outrageous action at the funeral did not surprise local folks, as she had become notorious for strange, even alarming behavior. ![]() ![]() At the funeral, Violet, Joe’s fifty-year-old wife, attempted to mutilate the dead girl with a knife but was restrained. Thus, the narrator reveals, upfront, that on January 1, 1926, fifty-two-year-old Joe Trace shot and killed his seventeen-year-old lover, Dorcas Manfred, in Harlem. In subsequent chapters, the characters individually elaborate on this story. As a jazz piece begins with a complete melody that various solo instrumentalists then improvise upon, so Jazz sets down its quasi-complete story in the opening chapter. With a nod to its title, numerous literary critics have described Jazz’s nonlinear structure as improvisational. When Joe takes a lover and kills her, the tragedy precipitates a collision between past and present, paradoxically resurrecting Joe and Violet’s relationship. ![]() While the city surrounding them surges with music and vitality, Joe and Violet Trace experience loneliness and despair as their marriage sinks under the weight of past injuries. Toni Morrison’s 1992 novel Jazz opens in Harlem, New York in 1926. ![]() |