![]() ![]() ![]() Providing an impressive exploration of the profound impact these plants have on our survival and our pleasure, this well-illustrated book is a must have for gardeners, foodies, and environmentalists. Harris describes this symbiotic connection against the background of climate change, contending that humans must find a way to balance their need for grass as food, as living space, and potentially even as fuel. ![]() In this book, Stephen Harris explains the history of our relationship with these vital plants from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day.Ĭombining biology, sociology, and cultural history,and#160 Grassesand#160 explores how these staple crops bear the mark of human influence more visibly than any other plant and how we, in turn, are motivated to protect green space such as public parks. Indeed, grasses include four speciesand#151 wheat, rice, maize, and sugarand#151 that provide sixty percent of human calorie intake, and we become more and more dependent on these as the worldand#8217 s population increases. Most people have memories of playing on well-manicured lawns or running across the flat green surface of a local park, but we often donand#8217 t think of grasses as something we consume. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() V for Vendetta 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition collects DC Comics' original 10-issue series in its entirety, including the bridging pages colored by David Lloyd, which originally ran between the issues' story pages. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance. Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit that rebels against it. A frightening tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pages and endpapers are bright and clean. Additionally, the Book Club DJ has a War Bonds advert on rear flap, and retail DJ's do not, instead the top of the rear flap has the header "Psychothrillers." As for this copy, the book is bright, tight and clean. The difference of course is the Book Club Edition slug is on the bottom of the front flap, whereas the retail trade edition has a $2.50 price. ![]() First edition, first printing of the Book Club edition, in its original DJ that matches the desirable DJ (and artwork) of the very pricey, first trade edition. Overall this is still a very decent copy of this hard to find first edition. This book was the basis for the award winning movie of the same name. There is some dirt and age toning present on both front and rear panels of the jacket which is now housed in a Brodart cover to prevent any further damage. Approximately 1/4 inch and the width of the spine at the top and approximately 1/2 inch and the width of the spine at the bottom. Jacket does show wear at the corners and there are pieces missing at both the top and bottom of the spine. Jacket is not price clipped and does bear a previous owner's name and salutation on the inside front panel. Boards are in very good shape only showing minor wear at the points and top and bottom of the spine. This copy is clean throughout but does show very minor age toning as is common with most older books published in England. Very good first British edition of this famous novel by Vera Caspary. ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s this? I ask, picking up the letter that’s lying in the middle of my plate and scooching my chair closer to the table. When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them suddenly snatched away, it does leave an awfully empty, gnawing sort of sensation. Read moreĭon’t you think it would be interesting if you really could read the story of your life-written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author? They are already readers with some skill problem areas. I will put it on my shelves but I can think off hand of only three students that would maybe enjoy this book. ![]() They idea flowing throughout this book was that as long as you had a group of good friends and a good book then everything would work out. I fight to get them to read 10 – 30 minutes each day and for a large number of them they choose books that deal with issues they face, gangs, teen pregnancy, etc. This is where I knew I would lose my students. ![]() Amidst all of the situations the girls decide to become pen-pals with another book club in Wyoming. Not all of them were pleasant or easy to handle. Just like my eighth graders there were new changes for them to face. The four main characters Megan, Jess, Cassidy and Emma are starting eighth grade. I will tell you up front that it was a “cute” book but not one I really enjoyed. This is the third book in the Mother-Daughter Book Club Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. “Ng’s most powerful work to date.” - People Magazine “As lyrical as it is chilling, as astonishing as it is empathic, Our Missing Hearts arguably achieves literary perfection.” - Booklist (starred review) Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.įrom the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, will be published in October 2022. Celeste Ng will discuss “Our Missing Hearts.”Ĭeleste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Ross, in his A Concise History of South Africa, states that Black Beauty was banned. The story goes that the South African government disliked the book’s title because it placed the words ‘black’ and ‘beauty’ side by side. There appears to be some debate about whether this is true, however. There is a story that the book was banned in South Africa during the Apartheid era. This makes it the ancestor of – and a possible influence on – some notable later animal-narrated stories, such as Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Maltese Cat’ (1895), which centres on a polo match told from the perspective of the ponies.ģ. ![]() ![]() Sewell’s unusual conceit was to tell the story from the perspective of the horse rather than have a human or impersonal ‘omniscient’ narrator. ![]() Black Beauty is described on its title-page as ‘translated from the equine’. ![]() ![]() ![]() So she found a fifth-floor walkup underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, and, to make rent, began supplementing her magazine income by designing women’s tops. She moved to another all-women’s hotel, but was soon kicked out for smoking in her room. With a full-time job, she decided that it was time to leave the strict environment of the Barbizon, where pants were forbidden and some residents had a designated chaperone. (Past alumna of the program included Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion.) Though most guest editors spent just one season at the magazine, Johnson had stayed on to fill a spot vacated by a woman on maternity leave. She had landed at the magazine by winning its summer scholarship contest, a program that placed promising young ladies in “guest editor” roles while housing them at the Barbizon, an all-female boarding house on East 63rd Street. ![]() ![]() In 1964, Betsey Johnson was a twenty-two-year-old magazine editor, working in the fabrics department of Mademoiselle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dalloway to kiss her and confesses that she rather likes the sensation. Which might be presumed to injure the mind of a "young person." So it is not strange that one night she permits Mr. Rachel has been kept by her father in ignorance of everything These people all talk smartly, and one rather wonders what it is all about, for it does not seem to get anywhere in particular. Pepper, wealthy and eccentric, with a leaning to abstruse learning, and a middle-aged, philandering member of ParliamentĪnd his wife, Clarissa, whom they pick up at Lisbon. On the ship are Willoughby’s daughter, 24 years old, Rachel, a Mr. ![]() Ridley Ambrose, a professor, and his wife, Helen, a woman of the smart London world, are going to the antipodes on a vessel owned by Helen’s brother-in-law, One after going through a hundred pages of it-there is little in this offering to make it stand out from the ruck of mediocre novels which make far less literary pretension.Īs for the story itself, it is painfully lacking, both in coherency and narrative interest. But aside from a certain cleverness-which, being all in one key, palls on In its most interesting aspects-those in which members of Parliament and their coterie of relatives and friends are the active figures-there can be no doubt. His English novel, by an English writer, gives promise in its opening chapters of much entertainment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But after meeting the ridiculously attractive and charming owner of the trouble-making retriever, she begins to think that maybe her luck has finally started to turn around"-īook Synopsis One trouble-making dog brings together two perfect strangers in this USA Today bestselling romantic comedy full of "fierce humor and fiercer heart." (Casey McQuiston, NYT bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue) Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan Monroe still can't seem to get her life back on track. So when a dog dashes in front of her car and gets her a ticket for obstructing traffic, at her wits' end. Two years after losing her fiancâe, her life consists of cemetery visits, unorthodox art projects, and drinking sessions with her best friend Kristen. ![]() About the Book "Sloan Monroe can't catch a break. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island, angry Louise reveals how Caroline has robbed her of everything: her hopes for schooling, her friends, her mother, even her name. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the one everyone loved. " With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Katherine Paterson's remarkable Newbery Medal-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sister's struggle to make her own way, is an honest and daring portrayal of adolescence and coming of age.Ī strong choice for independent reading, both for summer reading and homeschooling, as well as in the classroom, Jacob Have I Loved has been lauded as a cornerstone young adult novel and was ranked among the all-time best children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. ![]() |