Stone Soup by Jon J. Muth5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Intrigued by the idea, everyone brings what they have until- together, they have made a feast fit for a king! In this inspiring story about people working together, Muth takes a simple, beloved tale and adds his own fresh twist with beautiful illustrations.Ībout the Author Jon J Muth is beloved all over the world for his seven books featuring Stillwater the Panda, whose love and balanced approach to life always serve to make the world a better place for his young friends. That is, until the clever strangers suggest making a soup from stones. Embittered and suspicious from the war, the people hide their food and close their windows tight. WongFORMAT: Paperback Book & CDThree strangers, hungry and tired, pass through a war-torn village. Full color.īook Synopsis Award-winning artist and author Jon J Muth retells the favorite tale of a selfish community who is tricked into creating a delicious soup from stones. Includes an audio CD with a reading of the story. ![]() About the Book In this inspiring story about people working together, Muth takes a simple, beloved tale and adds his own fresh twist with beautiful illustrations. ![]()
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The goldfinch book genre5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The story focuses on Theo Decker (played at different ages by Oakes Fegley and Ansel Elgort) and a valuable painting he takes from a museum after a terrorist attack kills his mother. ![]() Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph – a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate. Parents need to know that The Goldfinch is a drama-mystery based on Donna Tartts 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. He is alienated and in love – and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. ![]() He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. ![]() Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. (2013) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014Īged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. ![]() The world of throne of glass5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Everyone involved makes this an entertaining experience, especially Elizabeth Evans, who does a fantastic job of bringing the characters to life and giving them each their own distinct "voice". I've been on an audiobook binge this year and I'm happy to say, this one (along with it's sequel, Crown of Midnight) is one of the best on the market. ![]() Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined. Then one of the other contestants turns up dead. but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilarating. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom. ![]() Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. ![]() After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. ![]() Big hoom5/13/2023 ![]() Em is such a big character in the book, she can be crude at times and blunt to the point of hurting her family during the manic periods of her illness and I felt for all involved. ![]() There are struggles and times of calm and bits in between and Em and the Big Hoom tells the story with warmth and humour, but you can feel the frustration at times. It tells the story of Imelda and Augustine and how they met, describing the happy times before Imelda’s mental illness took over and started to control both of their lives, as well as the highs and lows of living with a mother with bipolar.Įm and the Big Hoom takes an honest, upfront look at what it can be like dealing with mental illness, from the viewpoint of the sufferer and those around them, on a daily basis. The narrator is a young man who is looking back on his childhood, recounting the lives of his parents. ![]() Em has been suffering with bipolar since her children were very young and the book tells of the struggles the family have endured during her illness. Imelda and Augustine – or Em and the Big Hoom – are the parents of the book’s narrator. ![]() This post was originally published at and is now at. ![]() And the Shofar Blew by Francine Rivers5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() OL15197423W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.01 Pages 474 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1414304838 Urn:lcp:andshofarblew00rive:epub:44ee4d38-ac7a-4004-8144-dace28921e5f Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier andshofarblew00rive Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8jd5vr1p Isbn 0842365826ĩ780842365857 Lccn 2002156552 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition using poignant humor and bittersweet revelation to open hearts to reconciliation. ![]() Her numerous bestsellers include Redeeming Love, A Voice in the Wind, and Bridge to Haven, and her work has been translated into more than thirty different languages. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:06:34 Boxid IA140615 Boxid_2 CH120121106-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Wheaton, Ill. New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers continues to win both industry acclaim and reader loyalty around the globe. ![]() Red Rain by Dean Koontz5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Dwyer, Aaron Wolfe, David Axton, Brian Coffey, John Hill, Leigh Nichols, Owen West, Richard Paige, and Anthony North. His Known aliases include Deanna Dwyer, K. Follow him in each story, which can be read or listened to in a single sitting. Red Rain (2019) The Mercy Of Snakes (2019) Memories Of Tomorrow (2019). From 1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes Red Rain, part of Nameless, a riveting collection of short stories about a vigilante nomad, stripped of his memories and commissioned to kill. In the 1970s, he began publishing popular suspense and horror novels under his surname and under several pseudonyms. (Ray) Koontz nació el 9 de julio del año 1945 en la localidad de Everett, Pennsylvania. What the Night Knows (with bonus novella)ĭean Ray Koontz Is an American novelist and short story writer, bestselling author most commonly from the popular genres of suspense, horror, and science fiction 06.5- You are Destined to Be Together ForeverĠ6- Memories of Tomorrow as Leigh NicholsĬollection Poetry – The Book Of Counted Sorrows ![]() Silver Wattle by Belinda Alexandra5/12/2023 ![]() As Emma begins to question her sister's true motives, a disaster strikes, and New York society is stripped bare - beneath the glittering exterior lies a seething nest of deceit, betrayal, moral corruption.and perhaps even murder. Caroline invites Emma to visit her in New York, on one condition: Emma must tutor her shy, young niece, Isadora, and help her prepare for her society debut.Ĭaroline lives a life of unimaginable excess and opulence as one of New York's Gilded Age millionaires, and Emma is soon immersed in a world of luxury beyond her wildest dreams - a far cry from her bohemian lifestyle as a harpist and writer with her lover, Claude, in Montmartre.Įmma hopes for an emotional reunion with her only family, but instead she finds herself in the viselike grip of her charismatic and manipulative sister, who revels in the machinations of the ultrarich. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly 20 years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all. ![]() ![]() What is your price? From the best-selling author of Tuscan Rose comes a mesmerising tale of two sisters and the dangers and seductions of excess. ![]() In Gilded Age New York, money buys everything. ![]() Tony shea book5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() #1 New York Timesand Wall Street Journal bestseller Fast-paced and down-to-earth, Delivering Happiness shows how a very different kind of corporate culture is a powerful model for achieving success-and how by concentrating on the happiness of those around you, you can dramatically increase your own. In Delivering Happiness, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. After debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer in Fortune magazine’s annual “Best Companies to Work For” list in 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing. Sound crazy? It’s all standard operating procedure at Zappos, the online retailer that’s doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually. Help employees grow-both personally and professionally Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a departmentįocus on company culture as the #1 priorityĪpply research from the science of happiness to running a business ![]() Alexander gottlieb baumgarten aesthetics5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Apple’s obsession with design has made it a leader and Jobs has communicated the obsession with design in every demonstration during the launches. ![]() ![]() Steve Jobs created a mythic value for not only him but also for his company – a combination of two contradictions of aesthetics or design and technology. No matter how much unconventional it is to cite the example of a tech company in luxury business, I can’t possibly explain this without citing the example of Steve Jobs and Apple. ![]() Widow for a year john irving review5/12/2023 ![]() Characters grow old with the reader, experience lust and loss, love and life. ![]() John Irving has yet again created a whole world between the covers of a novel. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. She’s about to fall in love for the first time. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.Ī Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. When we first meet her-on Long Island, in the summer of 1958-Ruth is only four. Ruth’s story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. ![]() By no means is she conventionally “nice,” but she will never be forgotten. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character-a “difficult” woman. This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. ![]() “One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking-it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.” ![]() |