![]() ![]() Readers might initially think the purpose of this text is the rescue of a kitten. Katz describes moments with her deceased husband, or summarizes the story of Exodus. The story’s organization is also advanced in complexity as it shifts focus to different time periods when Mrs. Tush the cat is metaphorically referred to as “such a person,” and when the cat has kittens the “angel of life” has passed over. Polacco’s use of figurative language is unique to her Yiddish lead character, Mrs. Most of the Yiddish vocabulary is not defined and must be comprehended through context. Frequent usage of Yiddish contributes to the significant complexity of the text. Readers will also encounter more Yiddish words such as kaddish (mourner’s prayer), kugel (fruit tart), kattileh (kitten) and Bubee (grandmother). ![]() This fact will no doubt delight young students. In case you didn’t know, tush means buttocks in Yiddish. They agree to share in the care of the kitten that receives the name Tush, because she barely has a tail. A young African American boy who lives in her apartment building brings Mrs. Katz, a Jewish widow who is a first generation Polish immigrant, has been alone since her husband died. Patricia Polacco has written and illustrated a rich tale of an unlikely relationship in Mrs. New York: Bantam Books for Young Readers. Katz and Tush: A Multicultural, Multi-generational Picture Book ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments The Hunter by L.J. Shen![]() ![]() The Hunter is a sexy and unexpected romance between two complete opposites. I will remain immune to Hunter Fitzpatrick’s charm.Įven at the cost of losing everything I have.Įven at the cost of burning down his kingdom. It’s not like I’m in danger of falling in love with the appallingly gorgeous, charismatic gazillionaire who happens to be one of Boston’s most eligible bachelors. I needed the public endorsement Hunter needed a nanny.īesides, what’s six months in the grand scheme of things? Little does she know, that’s not the only pipe I’ll be laying…īut the deal was too sweet to walk away from. The virginal archer is supposed to babysit my ass while I learn to take my place in Royal Pipelines, my family’s oil company. Now my ball-busting father is sentencing me to six months of celibacy, sobriety, and morbid boredom under the roof of Boston’s nerdiest girl alive, Sailor Brennan. Like Stonehenge, Police Academy 2, and morning glory clouds. It was just one of those unexplainable things. I didn’t mean to star in a sex tape, okay? Shen Release Date: May 11th, 2020 Publisher: L.J. ![]() Thank you to Social Butterfly PR for the review copy. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Blue like jazz don miller![]() ![]() When Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France the other day, or when an athlete wins any big game, there's sort of a barbaric yelp, as Walt Whitman would say. That's very much like Christian spirituality. Faith seemed to contain a lot of paradoxes that I didn't want to hurt my brain thinking about.Īlso, jazz music is just a language of the soul that you can't say with words. ![]() I used to not like God because I felt he didn't have resolve. The more I thought about it, the more I liked this as a metaphor for my spiritual journey. It is not uncommon for people to see somebody else love something and it helps them love it themselves. He loved it so much that I found that I liked jazz music. But I watched this guy playing the saxophone. It didn't seem to go somewhere or have a conclusion. You could tell he just loved playing that music.īefore I saw him, I didn't like jazz music because I thought it didn't resolve. I was coming out of the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night, and I saw a man playing the saxophone. Why did you call your book Blue Like Jazz? His latest book is Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (Thomas Nelson.) Miller has written two books on spirituality from a uniquely Generation X perspective. Donald Miller is active in a small but effective youth ministry program at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Polk witchmark![]() ![]() Together, they hope to get to the bottom of both the murder mystery and a wider-ranging mystery of Tristan’s-where are all the souls going? There’s a whole bunch of layers and nuance to the plot here. But Miles also meets someone: Tristan, an otherworldly companion and soon-to-be lover. He thought he had wriggled out, only to discover that his freedom was always contingent and, indeed, easily curtailed when the time came. ![]() Miles is a competent protagonist trapped within the strictures of his society. ![]() Telephones and aetheric power, bicycles and pedal-cars and aetheric engines. It isn’t directly analogous to a specific time or place, but it blends some familiar tropes and set-pieces of, say, Edwardian England alongside more magical inventions. This is a world that feels comfortably different from our own, yet also very familiar. The result is a streamlined narrative-yet I never felt particularly lost. Polk has the knack for not bogging us down with infodumps. Soon there won’t be any secrets … but will the price be Miles’ independence? Or Aeland’s? ![]() But when a stranger dies in Miles’ arms and begs Miles to find his killer, Miles’ two worlds collide. He himself is hiding from his noble family, who would drag him back to use his magical talents as a mere battery and help prop up their power in Aeland. Miles Singer is a military psychiatrist treating veterans of Aeland’s war with Laneer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Add drawings of each vegetable beside the word. On a chart labeled “Plants We Eat,” list the vegetables children named. or dig up.” Ask, Can you think of vegetables you dig up from the ground? (Pictured are carrots and potatoes.) until the vegetables are ready for us to pick.” Ask, Can you name vegetables that you pick from a plant? (Pictured are corn and peppers.) Have any of them tried vegetable soup? What kinds of vegetables were in it? What did it taste like? Ask children to name their favorite vegetable.Ask children which of these vegetables they’ve tried. ![]() On a second reading, read the names of the vegetables next to the illustrations. While you read: You may want to read the book straight through once. Ask, What do you think “growing vegetable soup” means? What do you think might happen in this story? We eat certain leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds.īefore you read: Show children the cover, and read the title and author’s name.Many of the foods we eat come from plants. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The kindred alechia dow![]() But hiding might just be the perfect way to discover the true strength of the Kindred bond and expose a scandal–and a love–that may decide the future of a galaxy. ![]() Meeting in person for the first time as they steal a spacecraft and flee amid chaos might not be ideal…and neither is crash-landing on the strange backward planet called Earth. Someone will stop at nothing until he’s dead, which means they’ll target Joy, too. Then the royal family is assassinated, putting Felix next in line for the throne…and accused of the murders. He will exasperate his noble family to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finally meet his Kindred face-to-face. A commoner from the lowly planet Hali, she lives a simple life–apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility’s most infamous playboy brings.ĭuke Felix Hamdi has a plan. ![]() To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how rich or poor… ![]() Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Description Alechia Dow is a former pastry chef, librarian, and author of Young Adult sci fi-fantasies: The Sound of Stars, The Kindred, and A Song of Salvation. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Dark Demands by Nell Henderson![]() “I can see the need on your face and I can guess what turmoil is going on elsewhere in your body,” he added wickedly.Ĭould she really jeopardise her own self respect and sleep with him in return for the job she wanted. “ I’m flattered that my inspection causes such mayhem,” he purred gently. “Arousal suits you,” he whispered, his deep Scottish accent as sweet as a caress. ![]() ![]() He raised a dark eyebrow and pushed her against the wall again before running a finger down her cheek and delicately rubbing her full, red lips with his thumb again. She was on display and he liked to look and if he had anything to do with it, he’d do much more than just look later. The bodice of the dress was cut deep and showed off the round swell of her large breasts to perfection. ![]() Fully aware how uncomfortable she was by both his offer and this study he blatantly settled his gaze on her cleavage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have to keep it all inside.Įvery minute that ticks by is another minute closer to the dreaded word ‘good-bye.’ I’m breaking into tiny, fragile pieces.Ī few more hours is all we have left, and all I can do is tuck the past twelve years away. My head keeps churning away, telling me this will more than likely be the last time I have this insatiable, dirty-talking man inside of me. Please, God, don’t let my intuition be right. ![]() I spread my legs, run my hands up my sides, and palm my aching breasts. His arm is resting right between my thighs. My back hits the mattress with a soft thud as Roman stares down adoringly at me lying naked. Any resemblance to actual persons, things, living or dead, locales or events is entirely coincidental.Ĭover Models- Ryan VanDyke and Tessi ConquestĮditing done by Julia Goda of Diamonds in the rough editing. ![]() All names, characters, locations and incidents are products of the author’s imagination. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Dangerous minerva spencer![]() But when the two outcasts finally meet, assumptions will be replaced by surprises, deceit by desire-and a meeting of minds between two schemers may lead to a meeting of hearts-if the secrets of their pasts don't tear them apart. Dangerous is a delight from start to finish with swashbuckling action, scorching love scenes, and a coolly arrogant hero to die for.' -New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Hoyt 'Readers will love this lusty and unusual marriage of convenience story. However, in need of an heir, Adam will use the arrangement to his advantage. 'Minerva Spencer's writing is sophisticated and wickedly witty. Clearly Mia must resemble an aging matron, or worse. Nobody except Mia's father, the desperate Duke of Carlisle. Now there isn't a peer in England willing to let his daughter marry the dangerously handsome man the ton calls The Murderous Marquess. Adam de Courtney's first two wives died under mysterious circumstances. Fortunately, Mia is no longer a girl, but a clever woman with a secret-and a plan of her own. ![]() No doubt her potential groom is a demented octogenarian. Worst of all is her ashamed father's ultimatum: marry a man of his choosing or live out her life in seclusion. ![]() ![]() Now the sultan is dead and Mia is back in London facing relentless newspapermen, an insatiably curious public, and her first Season. Lady Euphemia Marlington hasn't been free in seventeen years-since she was captured by Corsairs and sold into a harem. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Saving Askara by J.M. Link![]() ![]() WARNING: Not intended for readers under 18.Įverything that I have come to love, want and need in my science fiction & fantasy books. *Saving Askara is a Part I of II* Book II coming Summer 2018 ![]() But the more he learns of humans, the more he comes to admire and respect them. Earth’s proposal is shocking and uncomfortable for a fierce, independent race that relishes in their solitude. When it affords them an unforseen and unprecedented opportunity to take back their world from those who seek to destroy them, however, Aderus begins to wonder if it wasn’t fate. Forced to interact with an isolated world and its inferior, albeit curious people. But they never thought their flight for freedom would put them in an uncharted system. But all that changes one morning, and suddenly she’s not so sure she didn’t stick her foot in it…Įscape had been their only drive, and even death was preferable to the alternative. That’s what it took to run a ship the size of a small city smoothly. Who wouldn’t? She was still happy with her career, however mundane and demanding it might be. ![]() Sure, she had always dreamed of interacting with intelligent extraterrestrial life- the real thing, not those microbes on distant moons. Such is the life of an emergency medicine specialist in the age of “post-discovery”. Victoria’s day starts out like any other aboard the transorbital ship, Phoenix. ![]() |