![]() ![]() ![]() He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010. In 2001, he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. ![]() He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. Recorded May 2008 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub ![]()
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![]() Keeping your lawn in good health helps to prevent crabgrass from becoming established. ![]() So even when you think you’ve killed the crabgrass plants growing in your lawn, they usually come back with a vengeance. The seeds can survive in the soil for years waiting for the right conditions to germinate. And they lie dormant in the soil waiting to germinate in the following spring. Each crabgrass plant produces up to 150,000 seeds. The big problem with crabgrass? Its prolific reproductive capacity. Growing in unsightly clumps and spreading to take over your lawn. But because of its tall growth and thicker blades, it stands out from your turfgrass. ![]() Crabgrass is a lawn weed that looks very similar to grass. Black Medic (Medicago lupulina) Crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis)Ī tuft of crabgrass (also known as finger grass)Ĭrabgrass is one of the most notorious types of weeds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mysteries But that’s only the first surprise in a series of shocking twists that will turn Addie’s vision of where her life is going and where she’s come from upside down-including a suspicious death in the present that suggests foul play. To her surprise, a handwritten inscription on the title page provides a clue to unraveling a complex mystery in Addie’s family. As the owner of Beyond the Page Books and Curios and a lifelong bibliophile, Addie is delighted to find a rare collection of classic children’s books gathering dust in a secret room beneath the rafters, including a first edition of The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. But a discovery in her attic leads her to startling revelations about the past. ![]() Wedding bells are about to ring again in Greyborne Harbor, and as Addie slips into her white dress her thoughts are focused on a bright future with Dr. A first edition of The Velveteen Rabbit provides bookshop owner Addie Greyborne a telling clue to a cold case in her family’s past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thereupon, he sees Onini on the branch he is holding. The next morning, he came up with a big palm stick and approached the water hole. ![]() ![]() He shared the problem with his wife Aso and made a plan to capture Onini the python. If Anansi brought all four beings that Nyame asked for, the god would open his box so Anansi could bring all the stories to the children.Īfter a talk with Nyame, Anansi came down from Heaven, now knowing many creatures that are dangerous to his life. The four important individuals to give to him are Onini, the python who could swallow a goat, Osebo, the leopard with the teeth as sharp as spears, Mmboro, the hornet whose stingers are painful as red hot needles, and Mmoatia, the bad-tempered fairy that no one can see. Nyame said that no one is able to buy his box.Īnansi made a request to pay, and Nyame gave him a request. He asked him, "I wish to have your box of stories and take it back to the people what is your price?". Anansi spun one of his silken threads and ascended to Heaven, where he met Nyame. However, all the stories are locked up in a wooden box by the sky-god Nyame. Anansi had an idea he decided to bring stories to them. Anansi sat on his webbing at night and watched the children restless around the campfire. ![]() ![]() She travelled widely and often spent summers in New Brunswick, Canada. ![]() In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, 'One of Ours' (1922), set during World War I. Her novels on frontier life brought her to national recognition. Because of this, she changed her major and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English.Īfter graduation in 1894, she worked in Pittsburgh as writer for various publications and as a school teacher for approximately 13 years, thereafter moving to New York City for the remainder of her life. ![]() She then attended the University of Nebraska, initially planning to become a physician, but after writing an article for the Nebraska State Journal, she became a regular contributor to this journal. ![]() Wilella Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley (Gore), Virginia, in December 7, 1873. ![]() ![]() ![]() but there honestly wasnt much world building. as i said, i loved the ‘uglies’ series, so i have been beyond excited to relive that experience, in a way. However, i think the one thing i was really hoping to get from this, which may have led to too high of expectations, was more interaction with the world. i cant wait to see what happens in the next book! the plot development and pacing of this was just so good! ![]() and dont even get me started on that ending - holy cow. ![]() the fact that there was always something going on, in addition to the very simplistic and unhindered writing, makes this a story that is difficult to put down. its action packed, full of daring rebellion and planning. this hits the ground running from the very first chapter and honestly doesnt slow down. Scanning the reviews for this, there has been one word that keeps popping up and that is ‘nonstop.’ i cant think of a better word to describe this book. so what a treat its been get the chance to re-enter that world 10 years later in a brand new story. The ‘uglies’ series was one of my all time favourites as a teen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sexy and intense, Jax is in Calla’s business from the moment they meet, giving her a job and helping her search for Mona. Instead, six feet of hotness named Jackson James is pouring drinks and keeping the place humming. Of course, when she arrives at her mother’s bar, Mona is nowhere to be found. Now, Calla has to go back to the small town she thought she'd left behind and clean up her mom’s mess again. ![]() She still carries the physical and emotional scars of living with a strung-out mother, Mona-secrets she keeps from everyone, including her close circle of college friends.īut the safe cocoon Calla has carefully built is shattered when she discovers her mom has stolen her college money and run up a huge credit card debt in her name. But growing up, she witnessed some things no child ever should. She’s never been kissed, never seen the ocean, never gone to an amusement park. ![]() At 21, Calla hasn’t done a lot of things. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Not proud?” you exclaim, “How can that be?!” Well, he wasn’t ashamed of it, either, it’s just that men of his time and place and station had a different system of values 200 years ago, and Moore had much else to be proud of, not the least of which included creating the neighborhood of Chelsea. After all, he wasn’t exactly proud of it. (A vocal but small minority believes the author to have been Major Henry Beekman Livingston, Jr., but thereby hangs a tangent that could occupy us until next Christmas.) The poem was initially published anonymously Moore didn’t acknowledge authorship until 1837. ’Twas the Night Before Christmas, one of the best-known and best-loved pieces of American literature in the world. | If the public knows only one thing about Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), it’s that he is widely held to be the author of the 1823 poem A Visit from St. | Image from The New York Public LibraryīY TRAV S.D. ![]() “He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf.” Children’s book illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863-1935). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games
![]() ![]() As the day turns to twilight (signaled by the backgrounds that darken from mauve to gray to charcoal), Gerald gets grumpy. ![]() ![]() Gerald lets out an almighty “GROAN!” Variations on this basic exchange occur throughout the day Gerald pleads, Piggie insists they must wait Gerald groans. When Piggie cartwheels up to Gerald announcing that she has a surprise for him, Gerald is less than pleased to learn that the “surprise is a surprise.” Gerald pumps Piggie for information (it’s big, it’s pretty, and they can share it), but Piggie holds fast on this basic principle: Gerald will have to wait. Gerald the elephant learns a truth familiar to every preschooler-heck, every human: “Waiting is not easy!” ![]() |