Gr 9 Up–In an alternate Tang dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan takes the imperial exams—and secretly raises the dead. Pulled into court politics, she connects with the Crown Prince as the Empress seizes power. An inventive, competition-based plot and exceptional worldbuilding will pr...
Pregnant with her third child, Boyle found herself with the burden of filling the many gaps in the collection left by contributions that were never submitted and contributions fundamentally out of keeping with the design and spirit of the anthology, which aimed to portray the year 1934 imaginativel...
Gilbert’s tour of High Society’s courtiers and household staff continues with a visit to Big D’s, the Park Avenue discotheque where DJ Ray Noonan (a surrogate, perhaps, forKiller Joe Piro) takes control over a crowd of the idle and powerful each night: Watch him now: a record is pl...
“And my mother, basically at 10 years old, was trying to run the household. She had to take care of the younger ones. It took my grandmother probably three or four months to get out of bed.” For years, Reid’s parents would remember their lost son on the anniversary of his death ...
Her mother shrank from the mere idea of domesticity, shunning her role in the household. In this dysfunctional environment, the Walls children took care of one another and dreamt together of a way to get out. This is the tale of the guts, drive, and unconditional love that it took to ...
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich raised a wooden staff fashioned from charred timbers and gave three mighty knocks on the doors, commanding them to open. Inside, the 8000 pipes of the Cavaillé-Coll organ, the biggest in France, burst into glorious thunder, the mighty doors swung open, and Our Lady...
Live and Let by Judith Barrow New Release In this short memoir, the author shares her young married life when her husband’s new business wasn’t quite covering the household bills. They decide to set up a small apartment in their large home and rent it to vacationers. With the set-up...
A romance begins to blossom between the two dogs, but their many differences, along with more drama at Lady's household, threaten to keep them apart. Released: 1955 Directed by: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske Also ranks #2 on The Best Disney Movies Starring Animals Also ...
Her father came from noble families in Hungary (Kemengi, more often spelled Kemenyi) and Austria (Ausch) and was a counselor and lawyer to the royal household of Emperor Franz Joseph. Sixty years after the fact, she remembered watching her father marching in one of the annual court parades...
Her father came from noble families in Hungary (Kemengi, more often spelled Kemenyi) and Austria (Ausch) and was a counselor and lawyer to the royal household of Emperor Franz Joseph. Sixty years after the fact, she remembered watching her father marching in one of the annual court parades...