![]() 'A Little Piece of Ground has the same rights as any other book to be on the shelves of shops and libraries. ![]() 'This book must go down as a brave, serious and successful attempt to reach out and have this story heard' Michael Rosen, Books for Keeps 'A fine book, and a daring book' Michael Morpurgo Karim longs to play football with his mates being stuck inside with his teenage brother and fearful parents is driving him crazy. Ī Little Piece of Ground is an exciting, enlightening and important story that brings to life the reality of events reported daily in the news, and will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts affecting our world today. In Elizabeth Lairds A Little Piece of Ground, twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew.Israeli tanks control the city in response to a Palestinian suicide bombing. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew it seems impossible that he will survive. ![]() But in this city there's constant danger, even for schoolboys. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed buildings makes a brilliant den. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that's the perfect site for a football pitch. ![]() Karim longs to play football with his mates - being stuck inside with his teenage brother and fearful parents is driving him crazy. Israeli tanks control the city in response to a Palestinian suicide bombing. 12-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. ![]()
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Piranesi book![]() Another, "Mr Simonelli or The Fairy Widower," was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award in 2001. One, "The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse," first appeared in a limited-edition, illustrated chapbook from Green Man Press. She has published seven short stories and novellas in US anthologies. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.įrom 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, where she worked on their cookery list. She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. ![]() The following year she taught English in Bilbao. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. ![]() A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was born in Sialkot in 1923 and educated at Lahore University before migrating to Delhi with his family at the time of Partition. A revelatory must-read on the 18 dark months of Democratic Indias history.Ī veteran journalist and former member of Parliament, Kuldip Nayar is India's most well-known and widely syndicated journalist. He reveals the untold atrocities committed and the chief perpetrators and their modus operandi. With a new preface, the author reacquaints the current reader with the facts, lies and truths in an easy-to-understand, analytical style. One thing led to another until JP gave the call that the battle was between the people who wanted the government accountable and the government which was not willing to come clean.Īcclaimed author Kuldip Nayar, says the true story behind Emergency, why it was declared and what it meant is relevant now since the driving force was corruption and corruption is the watch word again. When he found no response, he took the issue to the nation. Her defence was that the Congress had no money even to run the party office. ![]() Gandhian Jayaprakash Narayan raised the matter of corruption with the Prime Minister. Nandini Satpathy was elected to the state assembly after spending lakhs of rupees. ![]() It all started with a by-election in Orissa in 1972. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for BEST HORROR 2019! what will happen? The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. ![]() A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort-a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one.īut everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door-ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Hustle by Ashley Claudy![]() ![]() She's a book star! Where do I even go with Drew? You fall in love with him as Brooklyn does. She made me laugh and she made me cry broken hearted for her. This book was pancakes, amazekitties, smex, and love!īrooklyn is one of my most favorite heroines. Now, in college she is finding herself the attention of the star quarterback and his group of friends-and his ex-girlfriend who is as hot and cold as he is. She's been the good girl but she carries the guilt of doing the right thing. ![]() Since that she has kept under the radar, determined not to bring the sorrow London on their mother. Her older sister, London taught her that lesson in a life crushing means that tore her family apart. But Brooklyn is worth waiting for, and waiting just makes him want her more.īrooklyn learned to avoid bringing any attention to her. All these things together makes her special, even more so than that ex who he can't entangle his life from. On top of all that she wants to get to KNOW him, like he matters. She demands a friendship over a one night stand. What isn't part of his plan is a girl who is innocent, nervous, naive, with no plans to be a notch in anyone's bedpost. Reader Beware: Sexy dirty talking, determined man who knows what he wants and will do anything to get it.Īndrew Fayden isn't just the campus King, he's also the campus manwhore with a complicated relationship with his ex-girlfriend, and an obsessive drive with making it in the NFL. ![]() ![]() So no one connected Mary and typhoid outbreaks. But lots of people got typhoid and died back then, and science was only first discovering that a healthy, asymptomatic person could be a carrier of a disease. A few family members, like the Kirkenbauer child, died. ![]() ![]() You see, many of the wealthy families Mary cooked for came down with the fever. That moment would haunt Mary through her troubled life. Keane's narrative acumen quickly engages readers in Mary's hardscrabble life and fierce personality, starting in 1899 when she served as the cook for the affluent Kirkenbauer family of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.- and had to care for their toddler boy who came down with typhoid fever. ![]() You've probably heard the term, but maybe didn't know the story. Mary Beth Keane's fascinating historical novel Fever re-creates the sadly tragic life of Irish immigrant Mary Mallon, whom history will forever demonize as Typhoid Mary. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let us know what you're planning on reading in the comments below. We've got seven-plus sci-fi and fantasy romance recs on our radar that are being released throughout the month of November, but this is certainly not an exhaustive list by any means. If you woke up to it suddenly feeling like winter all of a sudden, you're not alone - but we've got just the thing to cuddle up with so you can actively avoid going outside: our FANGRRLS Romance recommendations, where your readers of romance on Team FANGRRLS (that's us) list some of the books we're looking forward to this month, as well as the slightly older, occasionally non-genre titles that we're finally reading. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Hop on pop board book![]() ![]() Hop on Pop does much more than teach children the basics of word construction, it also introduces them to the incomparable pleasure of reading a book. For example, the rhyme "THREE TREE / Three fish in a tree / Fish in a tree? / How can that be?" is brought to life with a trio of plump, self-satisfied fish perched atop globular branches as two stymied hybrid dog-rabbit-humanoids look on in consternation. In contrast, the illustrations here are wild and wonderful, and the accompanying language, while simple, is delightfully silly. But what was radical about this little book at the time of publication (and what makes it still compelling today) is Seuss's departure from the traditionally dull pictures and sentences used in reading primers. Seuss creates uncomplicated, monosyllabic rhymes to foster learning and inspire children to read. Here, as in most of his extensive body of work, Dr. First published in 1963, Hop on Pop remains a perennial favorite when it comes to teaching kids to read. First published in 1963, Hop on Pop remains a perennial favorite when it comes to teaching kids to read. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments 20th century ghosts joe hill![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please note that new EU regulations make it impractical for us to post books to the EU. 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UK 1st edition / 1st printing (Gollancz, 2007). ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir![]() ![]() Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Recaptured after five days, Malika was finally able to leave Morocco and begin a new life in exile in 1996. Buy Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail Reprint by Oufkir, Malika, Fitoussi, Michele, Schwartz, Ros (ISBN: 9780786886302) from Amazons Book Store. After fifteen years, the last ten of which they spent locked up in solitary cells, the Oufkir children managed to dig a tunnel with their bare hands and make an audacious escape. Malika Oufkir, Michèle Fitoussi 4.10 31,569 ratings3,416 reviews A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller-the story of Malika Oufkirs turbulent and remarkable life. and her mother were immediately imprisoned in a desert penal colony. Malika, her five younger brothers and sisters. Then, on August 16, 1972, her father was arrested and executed after an attempt to assassinate the king. Adopted by the king at the age of five, Malika spent most of her childhood and adolescence in the seclusion of the court harem, one of the most eligible heiresses in the kingdom, surrounded by luxury and extraordinary privilege. Born in 1953, Malika Oufkir was the eldest daughter of General Oufkir, the King of Morocco's closest aide. Quotes to the Summary of Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir, (Hyperion: New York, NY) 1999. ![]() A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller-the story of Malika Oufkir's turbulent and remarkable life. ![]() |