Winner of the 1994 Caldecott Medal, this story of Allen Say’s grandfather chronicles his journey to America and his exploration of it, as well as his return to Japan. Say captures the emotional connection to both countries and the longing to be in both places. [picture book, ages 4 and ...
Knowing her father would never allow her to marry a Dane, my heroine, Ædwen, and hero, Stefan, say their vows in secret. But when Stefan’s memories return and he remembers who he is and what happened the day he arrived on these shores, he cannot forgive Ædwen for hiding the tr...
Kaschnitz wrote The House of Childhood while she and her husband were living in Rome in the mid-1950s and some German critics have suggested the book was a symbolic attempt to explore the childhoods that were lost to younger Germans during the Third Reich. (Renate Rasp would take a much d...
The seven airplanes were attached to the Royal Air Force’s 138 Squadron, a special duties squadron that flew clandestine missions over Nazi-occupied Europe. On this night, they were bound for southeast France, on a mission to drop supplies and an important agent to aid the French resistance....
Brandon Sanderson’sThe Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archives #1)introduced us to a spectacular new fantasy series, a world where “shards” bestow magical power (in the form of marvelous swords and suits of armor) and armies battle it out on The Shattered Plains. ...
“Stories – frankly, human stories are always about one thing – death. The inevitability of death,” The Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien told a BBC documentary in 1968, as he tried to explain what his fantasy magnum opus was really about. ...
But if ever the curious reader were to chase its oblique meaning through the prose, they will be rewarded with moments of shuddering recognition of those early, shattered months after the Great War. Madam, by Ethel Sidgwick London: , 1921 Sarah Lonsdale is a journalist, critic and author....
I was not much surprised after the continual fanatical research by the Thought Police, to read that the Declaration of Independence being displayed at the National Archives in Washington has now attracted a ‘trigger warning’ on one of the original copies. How could we even hope that those res...
Produced by Ted Garvin, Thomas Berger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. AMONG MY BOOKS First Series by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL * * * * * To F.D.L. Love comes and goes with music in his feet, And tunes young pulses to his roundelays; Love brings
The book skips forward to an apocalyptic world which the author fills with issues that are familiar in the real world. Thousands of teenagers in America begin to die by suicide and no one seems to know why; Hawley describes the events in a manner that sounds similar to our own ongoing cri...