![]() ![]() These creatures are amazing their intelligence is so remarkable that it is hard to even fathom. Bias because I am a huge ape advocate and am fascinated by them. My Review: I may be bias, but this is one of my favorite nonfiction graphic novels ever. ![]() ![]() Primates tells the stories of Jane Goodall, a researcher of chimps, Dian Fossey, a gorilla expert, and Birute Galdikas, an orangutan researcher, and how their lives overlap and differ. Three woman who took risks when many did not believe that woman should be part of the sciences. Three woman who took a chance and researched potentially dangerous animals in their wild habitats. Summary: Three woman in the 1960s and 1970s took part in primatology research that would change the way that we think about primates. Published June 11th, 2013 by First Second Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas ![]() Be sure to visit Kid Lit Frenzy and see what other nonfiction books are shared this week! Most Wednesdays, we will be participating and will review a nonfiction text (though it may not always be a picture book). Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday is hosted by Kid Lit Frenzy and was started to help promote the reading of nonfiction texts. ![]()
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Romina Russell (pen name for Romina Garber) is a Los Angeles based author who originally hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina. ![]() Welcome to The Debut Club interview series! Sweet Sixteener Kali Wallace recently spoke to Fearless Fifteener Romina Russell about her YA Science Fiction/Fantasy debut novel, ZODIAC (Decemfrom Razorbill). ![]() ![]() ![]() The only drawback? Dex MacLean: a guitarist with a killer smile, the Casanova of the Faire… and her traveling companion for the summer.ĭex has never had to work for much in his life, and why should he? Touring with his brothers as The Dueling Kilts is going great, and he always finds a woman at every Faire. ![]() Lulu’s cousin Mitch introduced her to the world of Renaissance Faires, and when she spies one at a time just when she needs an escape, she leaps into the welcoming environment of turkey legs, taverns, and tarot readers. The Renaissance Faire is on the move, and Lulu and Dex are along for the ride, in the next utterly charming rom-com from Jen DeLuca.Ī high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa “Lulu” Malone lives to work, and everything seems to be going right, until the day she realizes it’s all wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas and Charlotte, now expecting their first child, form the perfect sleuthing couple. With her sister Emily, Lady Ashworth, who lives on Callander Square, she delves into the lives and secrets of the residents. Also intrigued by the mystery, Pitt’s well-born wife, Charlotte, pursues her own investigation into places Thomas would never have access-the parlors and inner chambers of the mansions on the fashionable square. ![]() Pitt is not convinced that the case should be so easily dropped. When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and resent the intrusion of Inspector Thomas Pitt into their well-ordered lives. Someone on posh Callander Square will kill to keep a secret in this “superior” mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author of Twenty-One Days ( The San Diego Union-Tribune). ![]() ![]() Tldr: I don’t need to read this book ever again. Honestly, the reading curriculum is insanely overdone. I appreciate the choice of curriculum, because it’s obvious that some of the things Celeste is talking about mirrors the sort of envelope-pushing convos she has with her students. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. While it’s used and glossed over in order to make the point that Celeste has a one track mind. In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. I felt like the scene where Celeste was running naked through neighborhood was a bit too over dramatic. A middle school teacher in Tampa, Fla., goes to outrageous lengths to hide her voracious sexual appetite for adolescent boys. Take the incident with Buck’s heart attack and the way Celeste chose to deliver the news to Jack by having him touch her breasts. The actual teacher, Debra LaFave, who had an affair with her fourteen-year-old student. Initially I thought that there was too much gratuitous sex, I do to a point, but I also see that as a way to distract the reader. Tampa is based on a true story about a beautiful woman with whom Nutting went to school who later had a relationship with a student. ![]() ![]() ![]() So many great characters-Ford, Jack, the poet who has a crush on Celeste at the beginning of the novel. T he plot of Tampa, a debut novel by Alissa Nutting, is simple: Celeste Price 26 years old, married, affluent, gorgeous has just been hired as a schoolteacher in suburban Tampa. She’s revolting as a predator and, really, a human being. ![]() Celeste is a well-written, effective character. ![]() ![]() ![]() To capture this constrained setting and quiet character requires specific skills, which Baume has in spades. But it is the beautifully measured control of plot and the authenticity of the narrative voice that most impresses.Ī deft and moving debut. This book is a stunning and wonderful achievement by a writer touched by greatness.Īn ambitious stylist with an astonishing eye for detail and a clear passion for language. ![]() Boundaries melt, other hearts become knowable…. At its heart is a touching and inspiriting sense of empathy, that rarest but most human of traits. Again and again it wows you with its ambition…. This is a novel bursting with brio, braggadocio and bite. No writer since JM Coetzee or Cormac McCarthy has written about an animal with such intensity. Lovely book…destined to become a small classic of animal communion literature.Ī tour de force. ![]() ![]() The father of a Russian girl who drew an anti-war picture was sentenced to two years in prison and detained in neighbouring Belarus when he attempted to flee. Since mid-March, Russia’s parliament has also broadened censorship laws on what people can say about its armed forces and voted to extend the punishment for treason to life imprisonment instead of 20 years. ![]() Putin has told Russians that the West is seeking to use traitors as a “fifth column” to sow discord and ultimately destroy Russia. The Kremlin says it has no say over court decisions and Navalny’s treatment is a matter for the prison service. The following day, supporters of Alexei Navalny, the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin who is serving 11-1/2 years for alleged fraud and contempt of court, said he had been beaten by prison guards for the first time and faced new charges carrying five more years for thwarting prison authorities. The European Union on Monday (17 April) condemned Russia’s sentencing of opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in jail on “politically motivated charges”. EU slams 'outrageously harsh' sentence for Kremlin critic Kara-Murza ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Following Lady Jane Grey's journey from the deadly intrigues of her childhood that led inexorably through to her trial and execution, historian Nicola Tallis unravels the grim tapestry of her life along the way. ![]() The recent trend of trying to highlight her achievements and her religious faith has, in fact, further obscured the real Jane, a young religious radical who saw herself as an advocate of Protestantism, and who ultimately became a martyr for her faith.This is an important and significant retelling of an often misread tale, examining evidence that has never before been published. Crown of Blood is the result of five years of. While the story of 'the Nine Days Queen' has been told, the human and emotional aspects are often ignored. As a researcher, Nicola has worked with many great writers, including Alison Weir and Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Her death for high treason sent shockwaves through the Tudor world and served as a gruesome reminder to all who aspired to the Crown that the axe could fall at any time. She has previously lectured at the University of Winchester and worked with Historic Royal Palaces and the National Trust. ![]() Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same'.These were the heartbreaking words of a seventeen-year-old girl, Lady Jane Grey, as she stood on the scaffold on a cold February morning in 1554. Nicola Tallis’s debut book, Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey, was published to wide praise in America and Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a CNN post recently, Aslan explains how his life experiences influenced his faith and fueled his desire to write Zealot. ![]() “Perhaps the book is a sign that things are changing.” “There has been a shortage of serious academic scholarship on the historical Jesus or the New Testament generally written by Muslims,” he says. Matthew Anderson told The Daily Beast that Aslan's book is a crucial contribution to the Christian-Muslim dialogue. “Very few scholars of religion who are Muslim write about Christianity.” Rev. ![]() “It should be welcomed.” In fact: “About 90 percent of the scholarly historical study of Islam is written by Christians or Jews,” Aslan says. “A Muslim writing an academic book about Jesus is groundbreaking,” they reported. In response to Fox's criticisms, The Daily Beast argues that Aslan's “refreshingly unique” voice is much-needed in scholarly religious works. “The clip was watched and cheered by millions,” The Guardian recounts, “It was extraordinary.” His already bestselling book Zealot also shot to #1 on The New York Times Bestseller list after the interview aired. Emily Nussbaum, of the New Yorker, says that Aslan handled the surreal line of questioning “with remarkable calm.” His professionalism in the interview helped the video to go viral. Why a Muslim would write a book about Jesus? That's what Fox News repeatedly asked religions speaker Reza Aslan in a controversial interview in July. ![]() ![]() All the characters of the novel are unique and refreshing. The beauty of this novel is that it contains many short stories that entertain the readers from the very first page to till the last word of the novel. In this novel, the author entertains her readers with a mind-blowing story. 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