![]() ![]() ![]() Penny and Her Doll is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it's perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. The Penny books are new classics for beginning readers and will appeal to fans of Frog and Toad, Little Bear, and Henry and Mudge. Kevin Henkes is a master at creating beautifully illustrated books that resonate with young children. Brief Summary of Book: Penny and Her Doll (Penny, 1) by Kevin Henkes Here is a quick description and cover image of book Penny and Her Doll (Penny, 1) written by Kevin Henkes which was published in Aug. But then Papa asks what the doll's name is, and Penny realizes that she doesn't know. ![]() She introduces her new doll to Mama and to the babies and to Papa. The surprise is a doll, and she is absolutely perfect, from her head to her toes. When Penny receives a surprise box in the mail from Gram, she is thrilled. Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes’s award-winning Penny returns in the second I Can Read story about a sweet and curious mouse, perfect for fans Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, and Chrysanthemum. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.Īs months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. Shes aloneleft behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. Perfect for fans of HATCHET and the I Survived series, ALONE, by Megan E. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. She’s alone - left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. ![]() When 12-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. ![]() Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle-grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. Twelve-year-old Maddie Harrison can’t wait for the secret sleepover she has planned with her two best friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After Nate notices her symptoms, Maeve confesses to her family about her perceived relapse. Phoebe notices Emma is becoming ill and consuming large amount of alcohol. Maeve believes she is relapsing into leukaemia, but hides it. The Unknown then reveals she broke up with Knox because he "could not get it up" Knox is angered at Maeve, who realizes someone must have overheard her when she told Bronwyn at a café. When Maeve is chosen, she does not respond. The following players choose dares, which are mostly harmless and humorous. Maeve reaches out to her and the two become close. ![]() As a result, Phoebe is slut-shamed at school and online. ![]() When she does not respond, the Unknown reveals the secret that she had sex with her sister Emma's boyfriend. One day, the students receive a message from an anonymous texter they call "the Unknown", who invites them to play a game of truth or dare. At Until Proven, lawyer Eli Kleinfelter, who is engaged to Ashton Prentiss-sister of Addy Prentiss, another suspect in Simon's murder-has been receiving death threats. Maeve Rojas-sister of Bronwyn Rojas, a suspect in Simon's murder-Knox Myers-Maeve's friend and ex-boyfriend, as well as an intern at the law firm Until Proven-and Phoebe Lawton-a waitress at a local café-are juniors at Bayview High. ( February 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īfter the death of Simon Kelleher, creator of About That, several copycat gossip websites have appeared, though none have lasted. You can provide one by editing this article. This article needs an improved plot summary. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Nahri accidentally summons Dara, an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior, during one of her cons, she learns that even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.įorced to flee Cairo, Dara and Nahri journey together across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire and rivers where the mythical marid sleep, past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises and mountains where the circling birds of prey are more than what they seem, to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass. She makes her living swindling Ottoman nobles, hoping to one day earn enough to change her fortunes. On the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, Nahri is a con woman of unsurpassed skill. Chakraborty perfect for fans of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts.įeaturing a stepback and extra content including a bonus scene and an excerpt from The Kingdom of Copper. ![]() ![]() Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. *Finalist for the British Fantasy Award: Best Newcomer *Nominated for the Locus Award: Best First Novel *Finalist for the World Fantasy Award: Best Novel NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Library Journal Vulture The Verge SYFYWire ![]() ![]() All sexually active characters portrayed in this ebook are eighteen years of age or older. Vida, who tries to ignore the escalating passion between them, learns the hard way that some men shouldn't be teased.This work of fiction is intended for mature audiences only. All the sensuous moves were just an illusion to gain the information she needed, even if it meant the men who watched thought she would keep the promises her body was making.Forced to sift through lies and betrayals, Colton discovers a woman who is as loving as she is loyal, but won't give him a chance. ![]() Fresh out of prison, his tattoo shop and getting rid of an aggravating ex were his first priorities, not a woman who should know better than to become involved in a situation that could get her killed.Vida will do anything to save her friend's life, even if it includes stripping on stage and doing lap dances in the VIP room under her stage name Trouble. ![]() He had no desire to succumb to the young woman tantalizing men with her provocative movements and killer body with no intention of satisfying their fantasies. ![]() ![]() "Here comes Trouble!" Colton took one look at the stripper on stage and knew that was exactly what Vida was, trouble. ![]() ![]() Compare this section of the poem with the man from ‘A Game of Chess’, the poem’s second part, who talks of still being ‘in rats’ alley’ among the bones of ‘the dead men’.Įliot’s inspiration for these lines from a passage from the Inferno, a poem by the medieval Italian poet Dante (part of his three-part Divine Comedy): Why? One answer is survivor’s guilt: many of the young and middle-aged men travelling to their jobs as clerks in 1922 would have been veterans of the war, who would have seen many of their comrades killed in action in northern France. ![]() All of this death has ‘undone’ the living. ![]() ‘ I had not thought death had undone so many’.Ī reference to the crowd of commuters walking across London Bridge at dawn, on their way to their office jobs, this quotation suggests the emotional and psychological scars left by the First World War. ![]() ![]() Is he suggesting that such wars are nothing new, and have been a continual feature of all empires and all civilisations? Eliot even refers to one of the battles from the Punic Wars, the Battle of Mylae, in the ‘Stetson’ section towards the end of ‘The Burial of the Dead’. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has also worked as Head of School-English and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and Head of Communications at the United Nations Development Program, as well as Dean and President of The Manila Times College. His latest book is Riverrun, A Novel, from Penguin Random House. ![]() ![]() He was also a literature fellow at the Cambridge University Summer Seminar. He was a resident fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Arts Colony. It has been picked up as a required reading at some universities in the United States and the Philippines.ĭanton Remoto was a Fulbright scholar at Rutgers University and a British Council scholar at the University of Stirling. The novel was published by Penguin Random House Singapore to critical and commercial acclaim. It is told in the form of vignettes, flash fiction, recipes, a feature article, poems and vivid songs. Shaped in the form of a memoir, it glides from provincial barrio to modern Manila to cosmopolitan London. About this Eventĭanton Remoto presents Riverrun, a coming-of-age novel about a young gay man growing up in a colourful and complex dictatorship. Philippine Expressions Bookshop is delighted to bring you one of Asia's foremost writers, Danton Remoto, author of Riverrun: A Novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() If excessively worn, they will be marked as "tray worn." Flat trays for SPI games are not graded, and have the usual problems.If excessively worn, they will be marked as "card worn." The cardboard backing of miniature packs is not graded.In most cases, boxed games and box sets do not come with dice. ![]() Due to the nature of loose counters, if a game is unplayable it may be returned for a refund of the purchase price.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These Are Not the Words by Amanda West Lewis (Groundwood). ![]() The Red Palace by June Hur (Feiwel and Friends).The Oracle of Avaris by Alisha Sevigny (Dundurn).Murder at the Hotel Hopeless by John Lekich (Orca).Echoes and Empires by Morgan Rhodes (Razorbill).Eight Days by Teresa Toten (Scholastic Canada).What am I most looking forward to reading? There are too many to list but if I had to choose my top ten (and even those are very hard to choose), they would be: Hopefully it will be sufficient to get readers excited about new books by their favourite authors and illustrators and about sequels in favourite series enough to pre-order or purchase when available. Please recognize that the information presented here is as accurate as it can be at this time. (Fingers crossed.) That said, I came across numerous anomalies of books set for release whose release dates differ depending on my information source. I know things are still messed up with respect to publishing books and getting them from printers into the hands of readers but here's hoping that things start to get back to normal in 2022. With the new season and the new year comes a new selection of books set for release. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All that keeps her from turning on her ruthless master is the life of her beloved little sister hanging in the balance. Bloodthirsty, addictive, and searingly romantic.” -Axie Oh, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the SeaĪfter the destruction of her entire Talon gang, eighteen-year-old Shin Lina-the Reaper of Sunpo-is forced to become a living, breathing weapon for the kingdom’s most-feared crime lord. Sophie Kim writes enemies to lovers with heart-pounding intensity, blurring the line between love and hate. “Last of the Talons is a stunning blend of dark romance and Korean mythology. Epic Reads Pick for The 30 Must-Read YA Books for the Rest of 2022īookRiot Pick for 12 Amazing Asia-Inspired Fantasy Books ![]() |