![]() ![]() The collection culminates in ‘The Final Problem’, in which the evil Professor Moriarty is plotting the detective’s downfall. ![]() With Sherlock Holmes’s reputation as the scourge of the criminal underworld preceding him, the ingenious detective, with the aid of Dr Watson, is confronted in these stories by some of his most fiendishly difficult cases yet. “I know every move of your game… It has been a duel between you and me, Mr Holmes… If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.” ![]()
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![]() In June 1855, the family moved to 1 Merrion Square, a fashionable residential area. He was a renowned philanthropist, and his dispensary for the care of the city's poor, situated in Lincoln Place at the rear of Trinity College, Dublin was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, now located at Adelaide Road. Jane was a successful writer and an Irish nationalist, known also as 'Speranza', while Sir William was Ireland's leading ear and eye surgeon, and wrote books on archaeology and folklore. Wilde was born into a Protestant Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane. ![]() One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, known for his barbed and clever wit, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned after being convicted in a famous trial of "gross indecency" for homosexual acts. ![]() Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854- November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She's going to have to learn how to survive in their world if she wants a chance to live her dreams. Katya is locked in a guilded cage with predators circling, just waiting for a taste of her blood. She was ripped away from everything she knew and shoved into a world determined to destroy her. It might seem like every ballerina's dream to suddenly wake up in a billionaire's mansion, but it's a nightmare for Katya. Oh, and I was approached by the Russian Mafia - turns out that's the family business my grandmother kept hidden from me - a business that I need to stay far away from if I want to keep my life - or what little that remains of it. I'm trapped in a mansion with a dark-haired devil who watches me with stormy grey eyes and plots my demise. What did I have to replace everything and everyone that I loved? I have my fake mother who is only using me to con a billionaire. My grandmother, my home, my best friend, and even my spot in one of the best ballet schools in the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would imagine a comedian writing out the jokes and the lines.” I’m not cut out to be a comedian, but sometimes I have these kind of thoughts. “I was in a funny mood one morning,” he says. “Big Truck” is a track that does just that, inspired by his light-hearted relationship with fiancée Shayla. The singer nails in the importance of his life’s transparency with each song, but in addition to deep, thoughtful cuts, Carmichael wanted to have the new album sprinkled with laughter. You can hear the joy, you can hear the humor and the laughter.” Lot of great things have happened between then and now. I have a beautiful fiancée, we’re very happy. ![]() “First album - those songs were written in a very dark time of my life, just to be honest with you,” he says. However, he notes that he is in a different stage of life since his first work. Although four years have passed since Carmichael released his first album, Hell on an Angel, he says that doesn’t mean he’s changed as an artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And while Focused absolutely did that – it also helped dispel a lot of the misconceptions I had about ADHD, particularly how it tends to manifest in girls and women. And I picked up Focused anticipating that I would get a window into the experiences of a young girl with ADHD – that it would help me become a better, more empathetic teacher. Rudine Bishop’s analogy of books as mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors has always resonated with me. So….do you know that slightly disorienting feeling you have when you are looking out a window & suddenly the lights shifts, your perspective shifts, and you realize you are seeing your OWN reflection? That is the experience I had when reading Focused. Her latest novel is about a gutsy, chess-loving, 7th grader named Clea who is learning to cope with her ADHD. ![]() ![]() This is episode #71 and today and I’m sharing with you a conversation with Alyson Gerber – author of Braced and the recently released Focused. But if you live near a Wegmans, you can order one! And just in case you are wondering – no, I did not make it. Yesteday we celebrated her birthday with the most amazing cake – white with whipped cream frosting and layers of cannoli filling and raspberry filling inside. I’m your host, Corrina Allen – an elementary school teacher in Central New York and mom of two daughters – a 9 year old and a just turned 12 year old. Hi everyone and welcome to Books Between – a podcast for teachers, parents, librarians, and anyone who wants to connect kids between 8-12 to books they’ll love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A grim little room, more like a closet of ghosts than any joint for music, the cracked heaters lisping steam, empty bottles rolling all over the warped floor. Couple hours before, we was playing in some back-alley studio, trying to cut a record. The sunrise so fierce it seeped through the gaps, dropped like cloth on our skin. See, we lay exhausted in the flat, sheets nailed over the windows. Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art. When they are invited to attend the film’s premier, Sid’s role in Falk’s fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey.įrom the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk’s incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fictionīerlin, 1939. ![]() ![]() ![]() And we can now add another one to that list of greats. It only takes one visit to New York City to understand why so many timeless works of fiction happen to take place here, why so many unforgettable love stories are inspired by this city, and just how many recognizable icons of this great metropolis are now reminders of some of the greatest books we’ve ever read. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.Īfter seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. ![]() You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t see you again until a month ago. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. I learned more about myself that year than any other. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not bad like book two, not fun like book one, just meh. ![]() Then The One happened, and It was…fine I guess. ![]() These being the same characters I enjoyed in book one (for the most part). Not in the one star “this person didn’t even try” way but in the “these characters make me homicidal” kind of way. And addicting in the way that only reality TV can be.When the Elite came around I absolutely HATED it. When I read the Selection, I really enjoyed myself. I’ve never read an author that I found to be both so consistent and inconsistent at the same time. Kiera’s books and I have a bit of a rocky relationship. But for the first time in a lifetime of following the rules, Kahlen is determined to follow her heart. Handsome, caring, and kind, Akinli is everything Kahlen ever dreamed of.įalling in love with a human breaks the Ocean’s rules. Kahlen is resigned to finishing her sentence in solitude.until she meets Akinli. Though a single word from Kahlen can kill, she can’t resist spending her days on land, watching ordinary people and longing for the day when she will be able to speak and laugh and live freely among them again. To repay her debt, she has served as a Siren ever since, using her voice to lure countless strangers to their deaths. Years ago, Kahlen was rescued from drowning by the Ocean. Published by HarperTeen on January 26th 2016įrom Kiera Cass, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series, comes a sweeping stand-alone fantasy romance.Ī girl with a secret.The boy of her dreams.An Ocean between them. ![]() ![]() ![]() i never read this book when it was age-appropriate for me to have done so, but i was convinced that it was about two kids who find out that their neighbor is a nazi war criminal. The Pigman, first published in 1968, is widely taught in American schools, and also made it on to the list of most frequently banned books in America in the 1990s, because of what some deem offensive language. Many of his novels have wacky titles, such as My Darling, My Hamburger, or Confessions of A Teenage Baboon. Despite the often dark subject matter of his books, which deal with loneliness, loss, and the effects of abuse, they are also filled with humor. They tended to be semi-autobiographical, focusing on teenage misfits with abusive or neglectful parents. Many of these were set in his home town of Staten Island, New York. Zindel wrote 39 books, all of them aimed at children or young adults. Charlotte Zolotow, then a vice-president at Harper & Row (now Harper-Collins) contacted him to writing for her book label. It was also made into a 1972 movie by 20th Century Fox. It won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ![]() The play ran off-Broadway in 1970, and on Broadway in 1971. In 1964, he wrote The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, his first and most successful play. ![]() Paul Zindel was an American author, playwright and educator. ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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