![]() ![]() ![]() He was obsessed with perfection and felt that everyone-from family members to his demanding patrons-took advantage and let him down. Michelangelo had a turbulent, quarrelsome life. Soon after, Michelangelo was astonishing people with the lifelike creations he wrested from marble-from the heartbreaking Pieta he sculpted when he was only twenty-five to the majestic David that brought him acclaim as the greatest sculptor in Italy. His early sculptures caught the attention of Florence's great ruler, Lorenzo de' Medici, who invited the boy to be educated with his own sons. It certainly didn't come from his own father, a respectable magistrate who beat his son when he asked to become an artists apprentice. He often said it was from them that he got his love of sculpture. When he was born, Michelangelo Buonarroti was put into the care of a stonecutter's family. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Littlewood has concocted an addictive and delicious new series mixing food. ![]() ![]() Treat yourself to big helping of this hilarious magical adventure. McMillan, Tessa Joy (2015) Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood, Childrens Book and. But when eleven-year-old Rose Bliss and her three siblings are left in charge of the family bakery, one magical mishap follows another until the town is in utter chaos! Subjects Fantasy Juvenile Fiction Juvenile Literature. Centuries old and filled with magical recipes, it has been used for years to keep things running smoothly in the town of Calamity Falls. Kathryn Littlewoods culinary caper blends rich emotional flavor with truly enchanting wit. The Bliss family cook book is a closely guarded secret. “It was the summer Rosemary Bliss turned ten that she saw her mother fold a lightning bolt into a bowl of batter and learned – beyond the shadow of a doubt – that her parents made magic in the Bliss Bakery.” – A delicious new novel for girls, the first in a trilogy. The perfect novel for young readers who love baking and magic Rosemary Blisss family has a secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, they care for bees, attempt political change, and mutually pine. Penelope Flood is a beekeeper with strong opinions and an unfortunate desire to please, who Agatha turns to when she discovers that bees have taken over her warehouse. The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows explores family, the perceived legitimacy of relationships, and the hazards of marriage through the trial of Caroline of Brunswick, and the complicated relationships going on in a small seaside town.Īgatha Griffin is a sharp business woman, running her printing shop after the death of her husband and trying to keep her radical son from getting himself arrested. ![]() Olivia Waite’s The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows is the latest in the Feminine Pursuits series, and just like last time, I’m in love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Klosterman discloses this in the book’s opening pages: “There’s always a disconnect between the world we seem to remember and the world that actually was. not necessarily the way they happened.”Ĭhuck Klosterman’s The Nineties: A Book takes Fred’s oblique aphorism as its mantra: Klosterman wants to remember the ’90s his own way, not necessarily the way they happened. ![]() At one point an investigating officer from the Los Angeles Police Department asks Fred why he doesn’t own a camcorder - this being the ’90s - and he answers: “I like to remember things my own way. A mysterious videotape appears on their doorstep with camcorder footage showing them sleeping in their beds, filmed by an unknown stalker. In David Lynch’s Lost Highway, LA jazz musician Fred Madison and his wife Renee are haunted by malevolent forces they cannot see or name. Review of The Nineties: A Book, by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Press, 2022) ![]() ![]() ![]() So why does she feel like something-or someone-is missing? Now that the Verity is intertwined with her soul and Joshua’s finally by her side, El is ready to learn more about her mysterious birth land, the land she now rules. She has more important things to worry about-like becoming queen of the Second Reflection, a role she is so not prepared to fill. Not some unexplained Kiss of Infinity she once shared with the ghost of a boy she’s trying to forget. ![]() After defeating her grandfather and saving the Second Reflection, El only trusts what’s right in front of her. What happens when happily ever after starts to unravel?Įliyana Ember doesn’t believe in true love. “A sequel that outshines its already brilliant predecessor.” -Nadine Brandes, award-winning author of the Out of Time trilogy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He dreamed of breathing beneath the waves and swimming as gracefully as a fish. As he grew, Jacques fell in love with the sea. Once upon a time in France, a baby was born under the summer sun. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Only one disappointment: where are the source notes? Grades K-3. ![]() A closing scene, coated in sooty grays, describes how human activity has damaged sea life and in a final, inspiring message, Berne calls for young people to become caring stewards of the earth. Why he floated.” Puybaret’s smooth-looking acrylic paintings extend the words’ elegant simplicity and beautifully convey the sense of infinite, underwater space and an inventive format further reinforces the text: a bisected scene shows a diver’s waterline view above and below the surface a series of panels depicts Cousteau and his friends learning to dive progressively deeper and a gatefold dramatically suggests deep-sea depth. a manfish swimming, diving into the unknown.”), Berne offers a luminous picture-book biography about Jacques Cousteau. In just a few lines per page, she follows Cousteau through his life as he develops his twin passions for filmmaking and oceanic exploration, and she shows how a life’s path can begin with deep, childhood curiosity: “Little Jacques loved water-the way it felt on his hands, his face, his body. *Starred Review* Writing in simple poetic language, both lyrical and concise (“Bubbles rising through the silence of the sea, silvery beads of breath. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility against the Shadow Society. ![]() Forced to hide in the derelict sewers beneath the city, any hope of reclaiming Paris seems impossible-until Josse’s path collides with Mirabelle’s, and he finds a surprising ally in his sworn enemy. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant Dauphin. Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de France. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to purge. Goodreads Synopsis: After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother’s Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they’re not heroes of the people, as they’ve always claimed to be, but murderers. Release Date: February 26th 2019 by Page Street Kids ![]() ![]() ![]() So when Erik gets sick of the system and starts over with a new character, he does things differently. Which means that those who have more time to play the game and gather more money and equipment get preferential treatment, and those who actually have to labour in the real world get shafted. Violence is outlawed and punishable by exile, and everything is settled through interactions in an MMORPG, including legal disputes, appeals for more equipment for farms, lifesaving surgeries. hack with a dystopia and you have what Kostick is setting up here. If Erik and his friends win, they may have the key to destroying the Committee’s tyranny. When teenage Erik dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends must face the Committee. If you win, you have the chance to fulfill your dreams if you lose, your life both in and out of the game is worth nothing. On New Earth, society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Summary: (Taken from GoodReads) Welcome to a society governed through computer games! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mellie shares an ability to see and interact with ghosts with her mother, which comes in handy when an infant’s skeleton is found in the foundation during renovation work, an event that seems to awaken violent intentions in at least one of the many ghosts who live in her historic home. Mellie is reconciled to single motherhood and has a posse of people around her to help, including her until-recently estranged parents, her best friend, and Jack’s teenage daughter, Nola. Newly pregnant, she has broken up with the father, Jack, a local best-selling novelist, since he won’t tell her he loves her. Mellie is sinking a fortune into her inherited mansion in Charleston, S.C., while trying to convince herself that she hates old houses. Realtor and psychic Melanie Middleton is facing single motherhood in a haunted house she refuses to admit she loves, but it seems her pregnancy has awakened some malevolent feelings in at least one of the ghosts who shares her home. ![]() ![]() To learn more about Lois Lowry, see her website at author interviewĪ CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post-war Japan. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader's Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She is the author of more than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. ![]() ![]() Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. ![]() |