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Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world, but in real life she only swipes right on her career-and the occasional hookup. Īlisha Rai returns with the first book in her sizzling new Modern Love series, in which two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom. The cynical dating app creator controls her love life with a few key rules: - Nude pics are by invitation only - If someone stands you up, block them with extreme prejudice - Protect your. Alisha Rai returns with the first book in her sizzling new Modern Love series, in which two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom. Later, I was a teacher (high school English and writing) in England and in Switzerland. It was in college, when I took literature and writing courses, that I became intrigued by story-telling. I also soon learned that I would make a terrible reporter because when I didn’t like the facts, I changed them. It soon became apparent that I had little drawing talent, very limited tolerance for falling on ice, and absolutely no ability to stay on key while singing. When I was young, I wanted to be many things when I grew up: a painter, an ice skater, a singer, a teacher, and a reporter. Bybanks also makes a brief appearance (by reference, but not by name) in The Wanderer. Bybanks appears in Walk Two Moons, Chasing Redbird, and Bloomability. I loved Quincy so much that it has found its way into many of my books-transformed into Bybanks, Kentucky. We were outside running in those hills all day long, and at night we’d gather on the porch where more stories would be told. One other place we often visited was Quincy, Kentucky, where my cousins lived (and still live) on a beautiful farm, with hills and trees and swimming hole and barn and hayloft. Sometimes the lies are for her mama, Evie’s sake-to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper. In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. "An important novel, beautifully written, this is a story to cherish." -Susan Wiggs, # 1 New York Times bestselling author "Young Dixie Dupree is an indomitable spirit in this coming-of-age novel that is a heartbreaking and honest witness to the resilience of human nature and the fighting spirit and courage residing in all of us." - The Huffington Post, Kim Michele Richardson, author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek This story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves, will take readers on a heartfelt and heartbreaking journey. A remarkable debut from the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill, composed in a voice as sure and resonant as that of The Secret Life of Bees. Great fun, and sure to become many a child's favourite.Īlso in this series: I Had a Favorite Hat, illustrated by Robyn Ng. Julia Denos' whimsical, multi-media creations are just divine in their quirk, movement, detail, colour palette and characterisation. Exuberance shines through again in the use of onomatopoeia and fabulous creative typesetting.Īnother exuberance, beyond the delightful characters, are the illustrations. The text, although on the higher side, is also likeable in that it's very easy to read and enjoy. I'm not personally into 'girlie' stories but this story has such exuberance and charm-anchored in a really cool concept that many mums and daughters can relate to. I didn't expect to love this book as much as I did. I wonder what item of clothing she'll eventually be left with? it, too, becomes too small.Īnd on it goes, with our girl sprouting up and the days of the week rolling by, and her clothes shrinking down down down, thanks to a very creative mum who's a dab hand on the sewing machine. Now her favouritist item of clothing, our girl wears her shirt on Wednesdays, until. Thank goodness for mum who-with a snip snip sew sew, hello!-produces a shirt version of the dress. This little girl simply adores it, wearing it every Tuesday because Tuesday is her favourite day of the week.īut little girls tend to grow, and pretty soon, the Tuesday dress no longer fits. She lives in Houghton, Michigan, with her four children. Boni Ashburn is the author of Hush, Little Dragon and Over at the Castle. Like many kids, our young protagonist has a favourite item of clothing-a fluffy pink dress. : I Had a Favorite Dress (9781633797888) by Ashburn, Boni and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. In the twentieth century, Communist leaders employed food as an ideological weapon, resulting in the death by starvation of millions in the Soviet Union and China. Food helped to determine the outcome of wars: Napoleon's rise and fall was intimately connected with his ability to feed his vast armies. In the late eighteenth century, Britain's solution to food shortages was to industrialize and import food rather than grow it. Trade in exotic spices in particular spawned the age of exploration and the colonization of the New World.įood's influence over the course of history has been just as prevalent in modern times. Why farming created a strictly ordered social hierarchy in contrast to the loose egalitarianism of hunter-gatherers is, as Tom Standage reveals, as interesting as the details of the complex cultures that emerged, eventually interconnected by commerce. The first civilizations were built on barley and wheat in the Near East, millet and rice in Asia, and corn and potatoes in the Americas. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes-caused, enabled, or influenced by food-has helped to shape and transform societies around the world. Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. He has recovered enough that he is able to perform live, but has put his writing career on hold until he is fully recovered. In August 2008, Munsch suffered a stroke that affected his ability to speak in normal sentences. Munsch has obsessive-compulsive disorder and has also suffered from manic depression. The Munsches have since become adoptive parents of Julie, Andrew and Tyya (see them all in Something Good!) This book was listed fourth on the 2001 Publishers Weekly All-Time Best selling Children's Books list for paperbacks at 6,970,000 copies (not including the 1,049,000 hardcover copies). Out of the tragedy, he produced one of his best-known books, Love You Forever. Munsch's wife delivered two stillborn babies in 19. In Guelph he was encouraged to publish the many stories he made up for the children he worked with. He also taught in the Department of Family Studies at the University of Guelph as a lecturer and as an assistant professor. In 1975 he moved to Canada to work at the preschool at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. In 1973, he received a Master of Education in Child Studies from Tufts University. He studied to become a Jesuit priest, but decided he would rather work with children after jobs at orphanages and daycare centers. He graduated from Fordham University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and from Boston University in 1971 with a Master of Arts degree in anthropology. Robert Munsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time.Ī lot of it ain’t gonna be pretty. When I was growing up, if you’d have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn’t have put money on me, no f**king way. People ask me how come I’m still alive, and I don’t know what to say. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f**king two miles per hour. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years. I shot the chickens in my house that night. I’ve killed a few cows in my time, mind you. I’ve got eighteen of the f**king things at home. ’ Now me, kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. But then you hear things like, ‘Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn’t perform until he’d killed fifteen puppies. I mean, okay: ‘He bit the head off a bat.’ Yes. “They’ve said some crazy things about me over the years. Recent clients include The BBC, CBS Radio, Delmarva Broadcasting, Three Eagles Communications, Miller Group Media, and stations owned by Clear Channel, Univision,and NPR and more. Geller Media International works with programmers, talent, news and producers training broadcasters throughout the world to get, keep and develop audiences through personality and powerful radio content. She's worked top stations and personalities throughout the world at more than 500 stations in 27 countries. Valerie Geller, president of Geller Media International, a broadcast consulting firm, trains broadcasters throughout the world with Creating Powerful Radio seminars, workshops and one-on-one coaching for news, talk, information and personality programming for radio and television. I like that he’s tested on the bad parts of this but also that the narrative humanizes this on such a fundamental level. It’s established in book one that he will torture anyone but he also won’t hurt kids and won’t hurt friends of his. Kovit’s moral code: I’m SO passionate about the way Kovit’s character is written. I’ve already gone over some of my favorite parts of this book in my review of book one, so let me just get on into a good long spoiler section. Possibly the only thing I don’t like about this is that occasionally, the author needs to establish world or character further, and tends to do that in a somewhat infodumpy way that I don’t love. ➽ Diana, a ghoul with morals and an excellent hacker every second he’s on the page is a fucking delight he keeps telling everyone he’s going to murder them in the basement. ➽ Marielle, a half-dolphin side character Something I absolutely adore about this story is the wide and interesting cast of side characters. Schaeffer quickly gets you to root for people who are, on an objective level, awful neither Nita nor any other character are particularly good, but almost all of the characters are strangely likable. occasionally kind of brutal? But it is so engaging. This series is so interesting and new and revels so hard in being over the top and. Nita really found out the world would try to kill her for money and decided the best solution was to become so scary no one would try… icon |