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![]() Louise Erdrich is one of our era's most powerful literary voices. ![]() Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention," must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning. ![]() Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. Read The Sentence and then do just that."-USA Today, Four Stars In this New York Times bestselling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. ![]() ![]() But such family news rarely gets past the censors. Harassed by Communist Party officials, her father snaps. It intensifies as the fencing that Hanna slipped through becomes fortified by barbed wire, watchtowers and the Berlin Wall. Their separation widens after Hanna marries an American army intelligence officer and moves to the United States. ![]() ![]() Hanna, the oldest daughter of a school principal in Schwaneberg, flees to the West, leaving behind her parents, a growing number of siblings and the taint of suspicion that her family will carry for decades. In East Germany in 1948, the relief of peacetime gives way to dismay over tightening Communist control. Stitched from memories collected on both sides, it’s a Cold War story Willner knows well. The Iron Curtain rises again in “Forty Autumns,” Nina Willner’s account of a German family divided after World War II. ![]() ![]() O'Neill merely shook his head in apparent resignation, and glanced over at me. "I'm gonna stay here for a while," Daniel had tossed over his shoulder as he picked up the nearest book, blowing dust off the cover and squinting at the writing on the spine. ![]() It was with a growing sense of affection and amusement that I watched him slowly enter the room, turning in place, trying to take in everything at once. ![]() As soon as Daniel saw the multitude of books, he was lost to everything else. O'Neill was the first to discover the large room, calling Daniel Jackson to him with a decided smirk in his voice. ![]() This must have been a research outpost of a very old Goa'uld who enjoyed the tactile feel of paper and leather over cool crystals. It does, however, have what is a surprisingly extensive library. The one Goa'uld presence we found- a stronghold- is a crumbling ruin, bereft of any item of strategic import. While plant life abounds, there is no animal life more advanced than a large carnivore, comparable to the fox on Earth, or the la'man on Chulak. ![]() We are on P3R-518, a planet, to me, wholly unremarkable. Mood: anxious Title:Found in the TranslationĬharacters: Teal'c, Daniel, Jack, Carter, Fraiser, HammondĪuthor's Notes: For janedavitt and the LJ Teal'c Fic A Thon ![]() ![]() ![]() With tireless tenderness and humanity, caregivers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders-Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room. ![]() THE NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOMĭublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. Globe & Mail 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() Repeat to make more cookies, leaving at least 1-inch between them. Measure out a tablespoon of cookie dough, roll it into a ball, and place it on one of the cookie sheets. On low speed, add the flour mixture and then the remaining ingredients one at a time, beating until everything is mixed in well. Add the oil, egg, and vanilla and mix well. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, cream the butter and the two sugars until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Mix together the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt in a bowl and set aside. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. ![]() Set the oven to 350☏ and adjust the rack positions to the top and lower thirds. They have a secret ingredient: crunchy Rice Krispies.Ģ cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips It’s hard to stop eating them, so it’s a good thing the recipe really does make a hundred cookies. They’re chewy, crisp, sandy, rich, buttery, and light, all at the same time. So these cookies have no home and no mama. ![]() I got this cookie recipe with the wacky name from my Aunt Laura, who can’t remember who gave it to her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, while they attempt to thwart the "sinister plot", they inadvertently uncover a very real sinister plot involving terrorists and contraband weaponry. The protagonists invent a bizarre conspiracy theory from everyday details, involving a villain who plans to steal all the mail and garbage from America. Actor IS the Title Character: Tom Arnold is STUPID.The film adaptation features examples of the following tropes: Too Dumb to Live: Subverted by The Stupids Die, where they only thought to have died - but it was only the lights going out!.Stupid wears a cat on her head when she goes out with the family in one of the books. The Ditz: Much of the humor of the books is indeed a result of the mental acuity of the Stupids - they are so inept they are unable to do even the simplest of tasks (e.g., falling asleep, breathing) without being reminded how to do so.The books features examples of the following tropes: The books were made into a film adaptation in 1996 directed by John Landis, starring Tom Arnold as the family's patriarch, Stanley Stupid. It first debuted in 1977 with The Stupids Step out and ended with The Stupids Take Off in 1989, with four books in total. It features an unusual family that is Exactly What It Says on the Tin in that they are stupid and get easily mixed up when performing tasks, to the point that the dog and cat are smarter than them. The Stupids are the title characters of a series of books written by Harry Allard and illustrated by James Marshall. ![]() ![]() ![]() The nine Little House books are inspired by Laura’s own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America’s frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories. ![]() ![]() And every night Laura and her family are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pa’s fiddle to send them off to sleep. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, but it is also exciting as they celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town. Little House in the Big Woods, the first book in the Little House series, takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog, Jack. This beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family begins in 1871 in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. The story begins in 1871 with the Ingalls family living in the big woods of Wisconsin. ![]() Later editions featured new drawings by Garth Williams. It was published in 1932 by Harper & Brothers and illustrated by Helen Sewell. The first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series-now available as an ebook! This digital version features Garth Williams’s classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in the Little House book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. ![]() ![]() ![]() With malice in their hearts and vengeance in their veins, they will seek out the ones who hurt and destroyed them.ĭark Contemporary Romance. Time has made Ellis a shell of her former self, a little girl lost in the vastness of her pain.Īs Heathan pulls Ellis out of her mental prison, reviving the essence of who she once was, down the rabbit hole they will go. Time has made Heathan’s soul darker, polluted with hatred and the thirst for blood. Back to seek revenge on those who wronged them. ![]() Back from a place from which he thought there was no return. Until they were ripped apart by the sick cruelty of others, separated for years, both locked in a perpetual hell.Įleven years later, Heathan is back for his girl. The pair forged an unlikely friendship, unique and strange. Heathan was dark and brooding, and obsessed with watching things die. ![]() Ellis was loud and beautiful – all blond hair, bright laughs and smiles. When Ellis Earnshaw and Heathan James met as children, they couldn’t have been more different. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rising from humble roots as the son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career that was nothing short of extraordinary. ![]() Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair. The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.” Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]()
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