![]() ![]() They both the right look for her and can act. Lani: Lucy Hale from Pretty Little Liars would be a good Yara as would Nina Dobrev from the Vampire Diaries. Lani: I think people will enjoy reading my book because it has a little bit of everything: danger, magic, mystery and romance.ĮJ: If your book(s) were being made into a movie, who would you cast for the leading roles? Why? It would be amazing to see some people who have passed on that I would love to see again.ĮJ: Tell us why readers will enjoy your new release. It would be awesome to visit friends and places anywhere in the world without paying for airfare. ![]() ![]() Lani: Only one? :) I wish I could teleport to any place and anytime I wished. I saw it when I was really little and I loved that the kids had magical abilities.ĮJ: If you could be any paranormal or have any one supernatural talent, what would it be? Why? I think it all actually started with the Disney movie Escape to Witch Mountain. Lani: I have always loved ghost stories and books with magical elements to them. I've been creating stories and characters ever since then.ĮJ: What brought you to the paranormal genre? I used to make up plays and have my friends act them out for me. Lani: I started writing when I was in elementary school. Lani is the author of Intrinsical which released earlier this week. Please welcome today's guest author Lani Woodland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We are always buying and considering fresh material, and we can draw upon our extensive network to source rare books and manuscripts. You’ll find below our current selection of material by and relating to T. His work is also notable for its exploration of themes such as identity and power. His writing is characterized by its vivid descriptions of the desert landscape and its inhabitants, as well as its insights into the complexities of Arab culture and politics. ![]() The book is a memoir of his experiences in the desert, where he served as a liaison officer between the Arab tribes and the British army. His most famous work, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is considered a classic of war literature and travel writing. Lawrence, commonly known as Lawrence of Arabia, wrote on his experiences in the Middle East during the Arab Revolt in the First World War. Lawrence, including first editions, limited editions, and signed and finely bound copies of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tokuda-Hall’s biting dialog and Sterle’s stylish and bold artwork combine to tell a teenage horror story rife with complications. Because these popular girls aren’t just punishing people with gossip and cutting wit-they’re werewolves, and their favorite prey is teenage boys who prey on girls. She is swept up in the whirlwind of new clothes, social climbing, and taking whatever power she can find. Squad Maggie Tokuda-Hall (writer) and Lisa Sterle (artist)Īfter a chance encounter with Marley, Becca finds herself welcomed into a powerful clique. A quote from Megan Abbot’s Dare Me made the rounds on Tumblr a few years ago: “There’s something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.” Maybe Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle had that quote in mind as they penned Squad, an original young adult graphic novel following Becca as she finds cruelty and violence where she expected to find popularity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My mom writes poetry and creative nonfiction and my grandmother worked for newspapers and wrote feature stories. My grandmother, Elizabeth Williams, was also a writer as is my mom. On my mom’s side of the family there are lots of writers dating back to the late 1800s when my great-great-great grandfather Edward Eggleston published many history books and some novels. ![]() Finally, after 15 or 16 books, she’d get me in bed. At night my mom would finish the last page of a book and say, “time to go to bed.” I’d always reply with “one mo” which meant “one more.” It was one of the first phrases I learned to say and my mom couldn’t say no so she read one more book. Even when I was a toddler, my mom would read and reread books to me, and then from memory I would tell them back while looking at the pictures. My vision for writing books started when I was very young. ![]() ![]() Modules of a network switch receive data transmissions from network stations via its I/O ports, each data transmission including an address of a source network station sending the transmission and an address of a destination station to receive the transmission. ![]() Real Estate Brokerage, Sales, Rentals, M Ģ137 Sw Daybreak Way, Wood Village, OR 97060ĩ30 Tahoe Blvd, Incline Village, NV 89451Ĭolliers International South Florida, LLCĥ000 N Ocean Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33404Ģ22 N Sepulveda Blvd Ste 2222, El Segundo, CA 90245ġ115 New World Tower 100 N.524 Castle Creek Rd, Binghamton, NY 13901ģ238 16Th St APT D, San Francisco, CA 94103 ![]() ![]() ![]() His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957). John Wyndham (1903-1969) is considered a pioneer of science fiction and horror, though he preferred to think of himself as a “logical fantasist.” He began writing science fiction and detective stories in the 1920s, but shifted to science fiction post-WWII, focusing on themes of disaster, invasion, and first contact. Faced with these unfathomable and potentially unstoppable children, the question arises: What will humanity do when faced with the threat of the unknown? The resultant children of Midwich are shockingly, frighteningly other. ![]() A day later, the object is gone-and all the women in the village, they will come to learn, are now pregnant. What if the women of a sleepy English village all became simultaneously pregnant, and the children, once born, possessed supernatural-and possibly alien-powers?Ī mysterious silver object appears in quiet, picture-perfect Midwich. I myself had a dream about a highly intelligent nonhuman baby after reading this book.”-Margaret Atwood, Slate a graphic metaphor for the fear of unwanted pregnancies. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, introduction by Kelly Link, cover illustration by Anders Nilsen / ISBN 9780593450123 / 213-page paperback from Modern LibraryĪ genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant-and neglected-science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.” ![]() ![]() ![]() And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. ![]() And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. ![]() Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. ![]() The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. ![]() ![]() ![]() But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one - and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret. ![]() With the help of a fellow artist named Robbie, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears… Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging out with her friends. To read our thoughts on the novel, see our Book Review. The complete guide is available for download at no cost: Vamos a Leer Educator’s Guide: Shadowshaper ![]() ![]() The standards are not included here, but are included with each section of the lesson plans in the PDF. The following information comprises a standards-based educator’s guide that the LAII has produced to support using Shadowshaper in the classroom. Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older is the selection for the LAII’s Vamos a Leer book group meeting scheduled for January 11, 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Donne.” John Tobin, ed., George Herbert: The Complete English Poems (London: Penguin Books, 1991), 271. George Herbert’s biographer Izaak Walton writes, “her great and harmless wit, her cheerful gravity and her obliging behaviour gained her an acquaintance and friendship with most of any eminent worth or learning, that were at that time in or near that University and particularly with Mr. Moreover, she was decently well-connected, in that she ran a kind of literary and academic salon that is, she managed a room used for the reception of guests that became a gathering place of Oxford University professors and dons and literary figures, including the poet John Donne. Though his father died when he was only three years old, Herbert’s mother, Magdalen, took responsibility for the education of her children. George Herbert was born on April 3, 1593, one of ten children. Essay / Literature The Architecture of George Herbert’s Poetry ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, it's huge, and it involves the National Gallery, the FBI, and a notorious crime syndicate known as EEL. James Ponti is the New York Times bestselling author of three middle grade book series: the all-new City Spies, about an unlikely squad of five kids from around the world who form an elite MI6 Spy Team the Edgar Awardwinning Framed series, about a pair of tweens who solve mysteries in Washington, DC and the Dead City trilogy, about a secret society that polices the undead living beneath. ![]() It's a technique he invented to solve life's little mysteries such as: where to sit on the on the first day of school, or which Chinese restaurant has the best eggrolls.īut when he teaches it to his new friend Margaret, they uncover a mystery that isn't little. ![]() He's learning his way around using TOAST, which stands for the Theory of All Small Things. If you're Florian Bates, you figure out a way to do both.įlorian is 12 years old and has just moved to Washington. Printer-friendly version Framed Last updated Sunday, JanuAuthor: James Ponti Date of Publication: 2016 ISBN: 1481436309 Grade Level: 5th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) Date (s) Used: Jan. So you're only halfway through your homework and the director of the FBI keeps texting you for help.What do you do? Save your grade? Or save the country? Get to know the only kid on the FBI director's speed dial and several international criminals' most wanted lists all because of his Theory of All Small Things in this hilarious start to a brand-new middle grade mystery series. ![]() |