![]() Her title My Heart Fills with Happiness was selected for the 2019 TD Grade One Book Giveaway. ![]() The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. The author is well-known for her board and picture books. 'A quiet loveliness, sense of gratitude, and-yes-happiness emanate from this tender celebration of simple pleasures.'-Publishers Weekly, starred review The sun on your face. ![]() What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. about Key Selling Points Simple but powerful text shows us the different ways we can respect and be kind to one another in this moving picture book. |c Monique Gray Smith illustrations by Julie Flett. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I’m not going to lie, those first three chapters were a struggle to get through. ![]() It is an incredibly dense story - especially if you have no background on church and political roles and structure back then (points to self). However, reading through “The Warden” felt like it was the 900 page book instead. “Can You Forgive Her” was published 10 years later at about 900 pages. This was his first novel, originally published in 1855 at 117 pages. (I don’t have a review for that one, but I will write one once I read it again.) It was then my goal to buy a Trollope book whenever I found him in a used bookshop. I went out searching for him in a used bookshop and found one of his books: “Can You Forgive Her”. I had read an article that said something along the lines of, “If you like Austen, you should also read….”. I have read Austen over and over again, and needed a new voice in the mix. Anthony Trollope is my new favorite author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She knows what she’s doing and we like what she’s doing. “The gal who’s running it has been there over a year. “Some of you think you know how to run the Senior Center when you’ve never been there,” Cassem said. “The board got personally attached,” Gaylord said. “Score it, narrowing it down to the final three should’ve been done by more than one person,” said Scholtes, then reiterated that the Senior Center board still recommended Jahnke. Huisman pointed out the previous city administrator evaluated and scored the candidates by herself, and others agreed that was not the way to do it. We have a chance to take the Senior Center and go to another level if we get the right person in the job.” “I think we had qualified people who applied for the job and didn’t get interviewed. ![]() “I don’t feel the person they are recommending has the qualifications,” said Councilman Glenn Gaylord. Mayor Rick Scholtes acknowledged Interfaith would be able to do different things for the Senior Center, but he questioned whether making such an abrupt change might be too much. Councilman John Huisman figured it would be less expensive to pay Interfaith the $15,000 than pay a director.Ĭouncilman John Gartzke pointed out that Thomas was making more than $30,000 while Jahnke would make more than $20,000. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two undercover agents who share a common cause - and an undeniable attraction - Malcolm and Elle join forces when they discover a plot that could turn the tide of the war in the Confederacy’s favor. Subterfuge is his calling, but he’s facing his deadliest mission yet - risking his life to infiltrate a Rebel enclave in Virginia. Malcolm McCall is a detective for Pinkerton’s Secret Service. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the South - to spy for the Union Army. ![]() Fiction, African American Fiction, Romance, Historical FictionĪ former slave finds danger, intrigue, and passion undercover as a spy in first of this Civil War - era romance series from an award-winning author.Įlle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s another step forward in an already noteworthy career.īecker continues the loving and gorgeous homage to imagination he began in Journey with this direct sequel. he strong visual narrative and inventive action sequences offer even more to savor. As before, hearts will beat faster during cliff-hanging moments in which the children must draw their way out of danger. Breathtaking in scope, consider this a wordless testament to the power of not just imagination, but art itself picture books rarely feel this epic.īecker includes wonderfully evocative set pieces-a submerged city, a Mayan temple-as the pair follows the map to collect chalk markers in all the colors of the rainbow to free the king and save the city. ![]() Part Indiana Jones, part Avatar: The Last Airbender, this book proves to be more exciting than its Caldecott Honor predecessor, emphasizing adventure over evocative metaphor. ![]() On the coattails of Journey Becker gleefully expands and details his award-winning fantasyland, growing even more ambitious with his storytelling. ![]() The vast landscapes ably detailed in vibrant watercolors. A wordless picture book with an enormous following. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife, who is trapped in a marriage as stultifying as Therese's job. ![]() First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic.īased on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, The Price of Salt (or Carol) tells the riveting drama of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose routine is forever shattered by a gorgeous epiphany-the appearance of Carol Aird, a customer who comes in to buy her daughter a Christmas toy. Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. "A great American writer…Highsmith's writing is wicked…it puts a spell on you." - Entertainment Weekly ![]() ![]() ![]() If, like me, you either miss the depths or do see them but don't find them that intriguing, you'll still have enjoyed the journey. It's very accessible and enjoyable on the surface. There are some major revelations but they seemed pretty normal for a series with time travel.ĭefinitely recommended. Both Severian, the narrator, and many reviewers say you have to re-read the entire sequence for many things to be revealed, but I saw nothing in a long Reddit Q&A that significantly changed what I thought had happened. I feel like a kid listening to grownups having a conversation about something going in the family who understands all the words and names but not what it all means. While I certainly recommend the series - really one story in four long acts - I still don't get the masterpiece aspect of it, the unreliable narrator aspect, or that there's something very different happening than what's on the surface. ![]() The conclusion to the Book of the New Sun, though many more things are revealed in the sequel The Urth of the New Sun. ![]() ![]() Military service: British Women's Royal Naval Service, 1943 –46. Writer-in-residence at universities, including University of Alberta, 1984 –85, and at Canadian public libraries. ![]() ![]() Dress designer in London, England, 1948 –49, and Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), 1950 bank clerk in Umtali, Rhodesia, 1951 National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, laboratory technician, 1952 –57 full-time writer, 1975 –. Hobbies and other interests: Swimming, walking, traveling, beachcombing ("very difficult on the prairies"), gardening, sewing, puzzles, church activities. Education: Attended Convent of the Holy Child Jesus (Harrowgate, Yorkshire, England) attended Edinburgh University, 1942 –43. Hughes, Monica (Ince) 1925 –2003 Personalīorn November 3, 1925, in Liverpool, England naturalized Canadian citizen, 1957 died March 7, 2003, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada daughter of Edward Lindsay (a mathematician) and Phyllis (Fry) Ince married Glen Hughes, Apchildren: Elizabeth, Adrienne, Russell, Thomas. ![]() ![]() He was getting away from the town and the people that made him feel like he was less. Getting accepted to King University was his out. But he was led to believe that he was dirty for feeling this way. He knew he was different, that he liked boys instead of girls. Then, on the first day of classes, someone literally bowled him right over, and his life was forever changed.Įlijah (Eli) Williams grew up in a very small town, with equally small minded people, including his parents. He has just never met anyone that made him want more than casual. He’s comfortable with his life but he has never been in a long term relationship. ![]() He’s known he was gay all of his life and has enjoyed the complete love and support of his family. The characters do recur in this book but are not required to enjoy this one! All of the genres involved in this book, M/M, student/professor, and age gap, are favorites of mine.Ĭole Huxley has just relocated to accept the job as a professor at the esteemed Ivy League King University. ![]() The first book in the series, Depravity, is by Jacob Chance. ![]() This is my very first book by Marley and WOW! What an amazing book! This book can be read as a stand alone. ![]() Devilry, by Marley Valentine, is book two in the King University series. ![]() ![]() ![]() it read like they had to be described as such just to use the photo, I felt they flowed better in the previous books. the photos in this book were much more forced than the previous two books. i mean come on, we get it they were up shit Creek. ![]() it got to the point that it wasn't even believable anymore. everything that could go wrong did and then some. I've never read a story that climaxed as much as this one did. the first two books I couldn't put down but this one was impossible. I'm curious if he got the the movie deal between this book and the last because that would explain a lot. ![]() this book took me 8 months to read because of how poorly it was written. I have never been more disappointed in a series finale book. ![]() |