![]() ![]() ![]() Unexpectedly, Noon rises up and takes the lead in the opposition, fighting for all she's worth to keep her family and community together. When a road planned by the city council threatens to break up this South Philadelphia neighborhood, the community must band together. While she seeks salvation in the church, Herbie gains sexual gratification in the arms of a bewitching jazz singer named Ethel, a woman who profoundly affects both Noon's and Herbie's lives when she leaves with them, first, a baby girl and then later, a five-year-old named Liz. Its central characters, Herbie and Noon, are a loving but unconventional couple whose marriage remains unconsummated for many years as Noon struggles to repossess her sexuality after a brutal attack in her past. Diane McKinney-Whetstone's lyrical first novel, Tumbling, vividly captures a tightly knit African-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the forties and fifties. ![]()
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![]() The real Saint Nicholas was a real person who lived in the 4th century, famed for his generosity. Imagine sitting at the foot of the bed of your child reading from an edition that is nearly identical to what children were familiar with for more than 100 years! And it gets better than that. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: Good US 5. Boyd, one of the earliest published editions of this timeless classic. The Night Before Christmas Moore, Clement C., Jaramillo, Raquel Published by Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing, 2001 ISBN 10: 0689840535 ISBN 13: 9780689840531 Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, U.S.A. That makes this edition, with original woodcut illustrations by T. Moore did not openly acknowledge that he was the author until almost 1840. ![]() So begins the immortal lines that begin one of America's most famous poems adding magic to one of America's most favorite holidays. Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house. In this edition, the beloved poem is joined with delightful illustrations.Ĭhildren will be delighted to snuggle in for story time on Christmas Eve and wait for their own visit from Santa Claus after reading this book. Nicholas," has been brought to lovable life by the talented Jessie Willcox Smith. Moore Stories to Share 04:56 Play Audio Add to Playlist Share Report Twas the night before Christmas. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."Ĭlement C. ![]() "Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, ![]() The Christmas Classic in it's Original Text with Cute Illustrations ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alraune in front of the man's daughter and colleague, Marlene Alraune. ![]() During a job in Sudan, Spector is appalled when ruthless fellow mercenary Raoul Bushman attacks and kills archeologist Dr. The son of a rabbi, Marc Spector served as a Force Recon Marine and briefly as a CIA operative before becoming a mercenary alongside his friend Jean-Paul "Frenchie" DuChamp. ![]() Created by writer Doug Moench and artist Don Perlin, the character first appeared in Werewolf by Night #32 (August 1975). Moon Knight is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Jacen Burrows, Ty Templeton, Paul Davidson 4)ĭavid Finch, Mark Texeira, Mico Suayan, Javier Saltares, Jefte Paloĭeclan Shalvey, Greg Smallwood, Ron Ackins Sal Velluto, Ron Garney, Gary Kwapisz, James Fry, Stephen Platt Warren Ellis (1–6), Brian Wood (7-12), Cullen Bunn (13-17)īill Sienkiewicz, Kevin Nowlan, Bo Hampton ![]() ![]() First, there's the hero mom who goes shopping with 5 children! Then, there are the kids who help by finding the things in the grocery store that the family needs and with loading and unloading the car. I love that this has a real narrative and interesting, true-to-life characters. The story also counts up to ten twice one set takes place at the grocery store the other set takes place at home, splitting the book into two distinct acts. This kind of writing is perfect for kids with autism, the beat and sound of the words anchor children in the text and help them attend to the story. The text on each page is a tightly constructed, brilliant poem with a subtle, easy rhythm and rhyme scheme: one cart into the grocery store // two pumpkins for pie // three chickens to fry // four children off to look for more. The colorful, and often patterned illustrations, are offset against a plain white background that perfectly focuses a child's attention on the people, what they are doing, and the things to count. The numeral is shown and the sight word for that numeral begins the text for the page. Each page has a scene from the story featuring something that is being counted. ![]() Feast for 10 is a moderately advanced counting concept book. ![]() A classic! An African American family shops at the grocery store, cooks dinner, and eats together. ![]() ![]() Today, little of Kafka’s full oeuvre remains. Kafka died ten years later after contracted tuberculosis. It had been written several years earlier over a brief period of three weeks. He published The Metamorphosis when he was thirty-two years old. First, because his job was deemed essential and later because he contracted TB. Despite this, he did not fight in the war. During his youth, the First World War broke out after Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914. Antagonist: The transformation that Gregor undergoes and his family members who turn against himįranz Kafka’s political beliefs were defined by the time period he grew up in.Climax: When Gregor leaves his room during Grete’s concert.Setting: Somewhere in Europe, in an apartment, mostly Gregor’s room.Point-of-View: Third-person limited with exceptions.When/where written: In three weeks in 1912 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, things only get worse from there and the last days of his life are filled with guilt, suffering, and fear. It follows Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who wakes up one day to discover that he’s been transformed into a giant insect. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a disturbing and thrilling book that leaves a reader with more questions than answers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. ![]() The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around-and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. I hope you’ll bear with me, as this is my first official book review (aside from the short after-thoughts I put on my Goodreads account) Every time I try to share my thoughts about something, words often fail me and I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to give justice to the book. So I’ve mentioned before and I’ll say it again- I’m not good in giving reviews. ![]() ![]() Yn Fire & Dew hat Anne einlings profyt fan har libbene fantasij, dy't har yn it ferline gauris yn 'e swierrichheden brocht, as se koarte ferhalen begjint te skriuwen. Yn 'e twadde helte fan 'e njoggentjinde iuw is Anne Shirley in weesfamke dat oannommen is troch de âldere boer Matthew Cuthbert, in frijfeint, dy't mei syn krektlyk ûntroude suster Marilla op it lytse boerespultsje Green Gables wennet, yn 'e neite fan it ( fiktive) doarp Avonlea op it Kanadeeske Prins Edwardeilân. De plot folget it weesfamke Anne Shirley wylst se opgroeid op it boerespultsje Green Gables op it lanlike Prins Edwardeilân, dêr't se adoptearre is troch de 'e âldere boer Matthew Cuthbert en syn net- troude suster Marilla. De film is in kostúmdrama en jeugdfilm, produsearre troch de filmstudio Breakthrough Entertainment. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is it trêde en lêste diel fan in filmtrilogy dy't basearre is op it wrâldferneamde berneboek Anne of Green Gables, fan 'e Kanadeeske skriuwster L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew is in Kanadeeske tillefyzjefilm út 2017 ûnder rezjy fan John Kent Harrison, mei yn 'e haadrollen Ella Ballentine, Martin Sheen en Sara Botsford. ![]() ![]() Gambling and bootlegging Tammany Hall and City Hall Wall Street and sports and the theater are all joined at the hip-or, rather, the hip flask.Īt the heart of all this wickedness nests a “Prince of Darkness,” Arnold Rothstein: the New York City gangland kingpin of kingpins, the shady moneyman who bankrolled baseball’s infamous 1919 World Series Fix. ![]() Here in the big city resides a crowded world of power and vice, of bright lights and big money, of murder and more murder circling itself like a venomous snake. ![]() Welcome to the kaleidoscopic netherworld of Jazz Age Manhattan. A site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan-where gamblers and gangsters, crooks and cops, showgirls and speakeasies ruled the day and, always, the night. ![]() ![]() With Helen Hester, he is currently finishing a book on. The Challenges of Platform Capitalism: Understanding the Logic of a New Business Model. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) and Inventing the Future (Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams), and editor of The Speculative Turn (Re.press 2011, with Levi Bryant and Graham Harman). international political economy digital economy historical materialism anti-work. This book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the most powerful tech companies of our time are transforming the global economy. Nick Srnicek is a Lecturer in Digital Economy at Kings College London. ![]() It shows how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future. McKenzie Wark, author of Telethesia: Communication, Culture and Class 'Probe the slithering, creeping collusion between public and private, work and exhaustion, capitalism and death. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of 'platform capitalism'.This book critically examines these new business forms, tracing their genesis from the long downturn of the 1970s to the boom and bust of the 1990s and the aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. Srnicek gives good reasons for thinking the platform moment in capital accumulation might be less all-conquering than it looks. ![]() What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. ![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, if you're looking for a cult mystery series where most of the books haven't aged well, you can do better. And the loopy genius billionaire creator of the Perfect Mirror is what this story is mainly about. ![]() This last one splits time between Fletch and his son, giving us two middling stories and also letting us all know that the Fletchverse is in a parallel universe to our own where everyone has "Perfect Mirrors" which somehow show us exactly as we are instead of a reflection. One great book ( Fletch Won), one pretty good book ( Fletch's Moxie), and the rest.throwaway fiction at best and awful at worst. After reading all 11 books, I can say that I don't really get why Fletch has some sort of legendary status among pop culture aficionados. I would say that this book ended the series on a fairly mediocre note. I even watched "Confess, Fletch!" during this mega-read, and it hewed pretty close to the book, actually. ![]() and thus I completed the entire Fletch library. ![]() |