![]() The Bad Seed is an indelible portrait of an evil that wears an innocent face, one which still resonates in popular culture today. ![]() Originally published in 1954, William March’s final novel was an instant bestseller and National Book Award finalist before it was adapted for the stage and made into a 1956 film. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around? With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she’s the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. There’s something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy’s classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything-even murder. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Though the dreams and eerie visions plaguing Nancy are certainly just products of her own mind.right?Īll old towns have their traditions and histories, but as Nancy will soon discover, they don't always tell the whole story. A vandalized locker and ominous notes are one thing, but soon enough lives-including Nancy's own-are at stake. This is Nancy Drew for today, perfect for fans of Riverdale, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Stranger Things A curse is just a. And no way is she letting this person stand in the way of her best friend, Daisy, finally getting her day in the spotlight as the lead in the much-anticipated Naming Day reenactment.īut as Nancy begins investigating, the so-called marks of the curse become bolder.and more sinister. Based on the TV series Nancy Drew, the most-watched new show on the CW In this prequel novel, the beloved teen sleuth investigates a sinister, once-dormant curse that may be threatening her town once more. So when the annual Horseshoe Bay Naming Day celebration is threatened by eerie warnings of an old curse, Nancy is sure someone-someone human-is behind them. ![]() ![]() This is Nancy Drew for today, perfect for fans of Riverdale, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Stranger Things!Ī curse is just a mystery dressed up in a sharp, stern warning.Īnd everyone knows that I love a mystery. In this prequel novel, the beloved teen sleuth investigates a sinister, once-dormant curse that may be threatening her town once more. Based on the TV series Nancy Drew, the most-watched new show on the CW! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through colorful narration and anecdotes, Wohlleben reveals the incredible intelligence, emotional depth, and cognitive abilities shown by a wide variety of animal species. Indeed, I found the book offers a captivating journey into the emotional and intellectual world of animals. But I found the title intriguing as it resonated with my belief (greatly influenced by those countless hours of observation) that there is more going on in an animal’s daily existence than meets the eye. I’m not sure how I came across “The Inner Life of Animals” by Peter Wohlleben (a German forester). ![]() Through it all I’ve learned habits and behaviors and developed a deeper sense of appreciation for the moment-by-moment nature of the lives that animals lead and endure. A book review by Mike Garth, Fairfax Master NaturalistĪs an avid nature photographer, I have spent countless hours observing wildlife, waiting for the peak moment to capture a photograph. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The artist's response to the work of art is direct and reasonable, for in him the emotion is translated into ideas which are pertinent to his own purposes, and to him ideas are but another form of action. Whoever is so affected is himself an artist. The emotion caused by a work of art has value only if it has an effect on character and so results in action. The pessimist refuses reality, but the artist accepts it. Life is a struggle or a weariness and in art he seeks repose or forgetfulness. The dilettante who cherishes the sterile emotions which he receives from the contemplation of works of art has little reason to rate himself higher than the toper. ![]() ![]() Art for art's sake means no more than gin for gin's sake. It is the glass of beer which the labourer drinks when he pauses in his toil or the peg of gin which the harlot takes to snatch a moment's oblivion from the pain of life. It rests them from the work which they consider the justification of their existence or consoles them in their disappointment with reality. Art to them is only a recreation or a refuge. It is plain that often they feel deeply, but I do not see that their feeling has any effect, and if it has no effect its value is slender. When I watch the audience at a concert or the crowd in the picture gallery I ask myself sometimes what exactly is their reaction towards the work of art. ![]() ![]() ![]() This hits a lot of my buttons because it’s calling the rain and dragon vs phoenix and dragon romance, all mixed in.It is well-written and all about hope and resiliency. This is the third story of the anthology about a dragon helping push back deserts.I have very little sympathy for genius creative men who are so violent when things don’t go their way that the women around them fear them.The emphasis on pregnancy and bio-kids was a little off-putting for me, though. The voice of this one was excellent and the story engaging.The rest of the story was fine, but I avoid books with young protagonists for a reason. It opened with her throwing a tantrum like a little kid. The protagonist was way too childish in this one for me. ![]() I loved the importance of rain and women turning into dragons. This was sweet and gay and delightful.The writing is great, the plot is surprising, the whole thing is heartwarming and full of hope. This is the first one that really captured my heart.The technology was cool, Farscape-esque stuff, but I picked the villain in the first 500 words and there were no surprises or twists at all. A cute story that reminded me a lot of a lesbian Winry from Full Metal Alchemist.As I often do, I’m going to go through each story one by one and leave a little comment about each one. Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology, edited by Claudie Arseneault and Brenda J Pierson, is not explicitly queer, like a lot of the anthologies I’ve been reading recently. Dragons and hopeful nature-settings in an anthology form? Hell to the yes. ![]() ![]() In writing the novel, Thomas attempted to expand readers' understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as difficulties faced by black Americans who employ code switching. It won several awards and received critical praise for Thomas's writing and timely subject matter. The book was a commercial success, debuting at number one on The New York Times young adult best-seller list, where it remained for 50 weeks. The Hate U Give was published on February 28, 2017, by HarperCollins imprint Balzer + Bray, which had won a bidding war for the rights to the novel. She speaks up about the shooting in increasingly public ways, and social tensions culminate in a riot after a grand jury decides not to indict the police officer for the shooting. ![]() ![]() Starr becomes entangled in a national news story after she witnesses a white police officer shoot and kill her childhood friend, Khalil. The book is narrated by Starr Carter, a 16-year-old African-American girl from a poor neighborhood who attends an elite private school in a predominantly white, affluent part of the city. It is Thomas's debut novel, expanded from a short story she wrote in college in reaction to the police shooting of Oscar Grant. ![]() The Hate U Give is a 2017 young adult novel by Angie Thomas. ![]() ![]() It comes awkwardly, casting Shaw’s wife in an especially strange light. There’s a long wait for a break in the case. Shaw was driven “by the purest, most painful love”? Abbott guides us skillfully through Lizzie’s hothouse fantasies, but at the expense of action. After all, thinks Lizzie, doesn’t she have her own huge crush on Mr. ![]() Abbott’s spin on the situation is what’s important: the possibility that Evie, a willing conspirator, wanted this attention from an older man. ![]() (The location is Anyplace, U.S.A.) The crime element is handled perfunctorily. Shaw, a married middle-aged insurance agent, who has driven Evie away. It doesn’t take long to figure out that it’s Mr. Lizzie recalls that Evie had a secret admirer, an older man who would watch her at night, standing in the yard. She has the feeling something momentous is coming, and then it does: Evie disappears. Lizzie’s own dad has split after an ugly divorce. Verver, the most fun dad you could imagine. Aside from Evie, there is her older sister Dusty, impossibly beautiful and glamorous, and Mr. Lizzie, the narrator, is fascinated by the Ververs. ![]() The 13-year-olds are on the cusp of puberty, and all the revelations it will bring. Next-door neighbors, they are tomboys who think nothing of getting banged up in a hockey game. Edgar Award–winning crime writer Abbott’s sixth novel ( Bury Me Deep, 2009, etc.) is a change of pace: a delicate skein of fantasies and obsessions, shared by two adolescent girls and shadowed by an abduction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s determined to learn more about his past, but first she must face her own-and welcome three visitors who, like her, are setting out on new paths. Jo Marie knows surprisingly little about Mark’s life, due in no small part to his refusal to discuss it. However, she seems to be thinking about this particular friend a great deal lately. Despite some folks’ good-natured claims to the contrary, Jo Marie insists that Mark is only a friend. Summer is a busy season at the inn, so proprietor Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor have spent a lot of time together keeping the property running. In this enchanting novel set at Cedar Cove’s cozy Rose Harbor Inn, Debbie Macomber celebrates the power of love-and a well-timed love letter-to inspire hope and mend a broken heart. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author engages in plenty of sociologizing and philosophizing as he takes an amiable, booze-soaked ramble through the genre, listing favorite albums and musing on the merits of big-hair bands like Cinderella and Whitesnake and the relative status of guitarists like Eddie Van Halen-who regularly earns top honors in magazine lists of the greatest guitar players of all time. Characterized by a “beautiful combination of virtuosity and imbecility,” 1980s-era heavy metal was guaranteed to polarize critics hated it, but the kids (who lived and breathed for albums like Mötley Crüe’s Shout at the Devil and Ozzy Osborne’s Diary of a Madman) were as confident of the righteousness of their cause as was any old-hippie fan of the Grateful Dead or the Beatles. For Klosterman and a few of his beer-chugging pals, that music was heavy metal: the guaranteed-to-drive-parents-insane, bottom-heavy fuel of the rural dispossessed. Klosterman, now a music critic for the Akron Beacon Journal, grew up in a farm town in North Dakota whose 500 residents included dozens of teenagers who categorized themselves on the basis of the music they liked. ![]() ![]() A witty journey into the demimonde of 1980s heavy-metal music by way of the High Plains. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rousseau thinks or the possible co-existence of humans in relations of equality and freedom despite his consistent and overwhelming pessimism that humanity will escape from a dystopia of alienation, oppression, and unfreedom. In maturity, he principally explores the first political route, aimed at constructing institutions that allow for the co-existence of equal sovereign citizens in a community the second route to achieving and protecting freedom, a project for child development and education, fosters autonomy and avoids the development of the most destructive forms of self-interest. Rousseau a fact that in the modern world, humans come to derive their very sense of self from the opinions as corrosive of freedom and destructive of authenticity. This concerns a material dimension and a more important psychological dimensions. ![]() The concern to find a way of preserving human freedom in a world of increasingly dependence for the satisfaction of their needs dominates work. Own firmly negative view saw the post-hoc rationalizers of self-interest, apologists for various forms of tyranny, as playing a role in the modern alienation from natural impulse of humanity to compassion. ![]() This important figure in the history contributed to political and moral psychology and influenced later thinkers. Swiss philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau held that society usually corrupts the essentially good individual his works include The Social Contract and Émile (both 1762). ![]() |