![]() Bee, who has learned about Raphael and Michelangelo in school, never expected she’d get to meet them and see them paint their masterpieces. But then she meets a cat and discovers a mysterious cabinet in her neighbor’s attic-a cabinet that leads her to Renaissance Rome. When an elderly neighbor shows Bee a sketch that perfectly resembles her, Bee, freaked out, solidifies her resolve to keep to herself. Herbert barters with Federico to get a sketch signed by the famous painter Raphael, but his plans take a dangerous turn when he hurries back to his era, desperate to save a dying girl.īee never wanted to move to New Jersey. Even stranger is the man named Herbert, apparently an art collector from the future, who emerges from the wardrobe the next night. But he must admit that a kitten walking into a wardrobe and returning full-grown a moment later is quite odd. ![]() This novel will engross anyone who loved When You Reach Me and A Wrinkle in Time.įederico doesn’t mind being a political hostage of the Pope, especially now that he has a cat as a friend. Two unlikely friends-Federico, in sixteenth-century Rome, and Bee, in present-day New Jersey-are linked through an amiable cat, Leonardo Da Vinci’s mysterious wardrobe, and an eerily perfect sketch of Bee. Newbery Honor author Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Da Vinci’s Cat is a thrilling, time-slip fantasy about rewriting history to save the present. ![]()
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Everett Osborne, the actor who plays Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, is outstanding. ![]() We thought it would be great, we hoped it would be great, and it exceeded our expectations. I recently attended the world premiere of the movie "Sweetwater" with my wife, Ann, children Joe and Chamy and her husband, Michael. 'Sweetwater' brings memories of Nat Clifton breaking NBA's color barrier and my father's role in historic event You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Stella’s community-her world-is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they’re never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn’t bothered them for years. Stella lives in the segregated South-in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. ![]() Draper presents “storytelling at its finest” ( School Library Journal, starred review) in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in the face of violent prejudice when the Ku Klux Klan reappears in her segregated southern town. 2016 Audie Award Finalist for Middle Grade ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Dream House is a maze of emotion and analysis. With bewitching, at times chant-like prose, Machado invites the reader into her dream house, lets us look in all the closets and the empty rooms and watch as she recreates, or resurrects-as she writes that all good memoirs should-what it was like to live for several years with an abusive partner. “You are being tested and you are passing the test sweet girl, sweet self, look how good you are look how loyal, look how loved.” That is how scary, Machado means to say, how incongruous and entrapping an abusive relationship can be. “This is how you are toughened,” Machado writes to the fairy-tale wife and to a younger version of herself. ![]() ![]() Though it frightens her, this fairy-tale figure manages to convince herself that it’s completely normal. Take, for example, this nightmarish moment from a fairy tale, described by Machado to show her reader the contradictory, illogical feelings she had about her then-girlfriend: the mythical Bluebeard’s young wife watches, horrified, as her new husband dances with the corpses of his former wives. One question is persistent throughout Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir about an abusive same-gender relationship: How did we get here? Followed, usually, by: Is this the last straw? In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado ![]() ![]() ![]() He likes oversteeped tea, feeling superior for not owning a car, and streets paved with brick.ĭavid is so excited about his first novel that he is constantly nauseated. ![]() He would like to set them down somewhere, but not before he figures out a way to use them. He holds a BA in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Master's in Library Science from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. ![]() You can also read several of his stories online: "The Water-Poet and the Four Seasons", "Oma Dortchen and the Pillar of Story", "Iron Ankles, "Screen", "The Colossus Vignettes", "The New Year's Party, "Vagina Music", "The Love Thing" and "The Lethe Man".ĭavid has lived in Chicago and Madison, Wisconsin he now resides in Saint Paul, where he was born and raised. They have appeared in numerous publications, including the anthologies Fantasy: Best of the Year 2007, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and the World Fantasy award-nominated Twenty Epics. If found, please return to the nearest person wearing flannel.īecause his luggage is full of lakes, he keeps his stories in his head. Scott Fitzgerald's head, dividing it by the secret formula on the Kensington Runestone, and adding the ghostly cry of a loon (usually a negative number). Schwartz carries Minnesota with him in a small camel-colored attaché with a combination lock it can only be opened by taking the number of hairs on F. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gary Busey as their fun-drunk uncle makes up for many of the cliché small-town townspeople. Without characters spouting such lines as "Are you gonna make lemonade in your pants?" THE SHINING stands out from (most of the) other King adaptations during the 1980's yet King's cinematic tastes were more along the lines of MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE and SILVER BULLET, where other awful and downright embarrassing comments are uttered by equally banal characters.Įverette McGill is fantastic in SILVER BULLET as Reverend Loweīut SILVER BULLET is an otherwise solid, entertaining werewolf picture, despite the screenplay where Megan Follows as the jealous older sister of crippled, wheelchair-bound Corey Haim, provides a cornball adult narration that, while perfect for STAND BY ME, has absolutely no place here. ![]() despite the fact it is very much his movie adapted from King's novel the author especially loathed the casting of Jack Nicholson, being a too-obvious choice for a man going crazy since being crazy's his forte but perhaps it was also the dialogue. Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING because it's not Kubrick's. Title: SILVER BULLET Year: 1985 Rating: **** ![]() ![]() ![]() Pedigree and poor white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters Cowards, Poltroons, and mudsills : civil war as class warfare Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and bastard stock in the age of eugenics Forgotten men and poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society - The white trash makeover. John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of Carolina and Georgia Benjamin Franklin's American breed : the demographics of mediocrity Thomas Jefferson's rubbish : a curious topography of class Andrew Jackson's cracker country : the squatter as common man - Degeneration of the American Breed. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New World. Fables we forget by - To begin the world anew. ![]() ![]() But can she traverse the tenuous trails of Tennessee without losing her head? Or worse, her heart? Sienna has successfully navigated the labyrinth of Hollywood heartthrobs. And habit of looking at her too long and too often. ![]() Sienna is accustomed to high levels of man-handsome, so it's not Jethro's chiseled features or his perfect physique that make Sienna stutter. Much to her consternation, Sienna's most frequent savior is a ridiculously handsome, charming, and cheeky park ranger by the name of Jethro Winston. Therefore, when Sienna's latest starring role takes her to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, she finds herself continually lost while trying to navigate the back roads of Green Valley, Tennessee. The simple truth is, everyone loves plus-sized Sienna.īut she has a problem: she can't read maps and her sense of direction is almost as bad as her comedic timing is stellar. ![]() The movie studio executives can't explain it, but her films are out-grossing all the fit and trim headliners and Hollywood's most beautiful elite. ![]() Sienna Diaz is everyone's favorite "fat" funny lady. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liz von Klemperer: I was drawn to the theme of using conventional femininity as a survival tool. With Manhattan Beach, Egan once again demonstrates her mastery of the sweeping, multi-character narrative. Of course, the investigation is merely the tipping point from which conflict proliferates and allows the vast narrative to breathe. True to the novel’s noir-inflected atmosphere, Anna investigates her father’s life, looking for answers to the questions that have dogged her. ![]() At the center of its orbit is one Anna Kerrigan, haunted by the mystery of her father’s disappearance. The characters in Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan’s latest novel range from sailors to gangsters, bankers, and union workers. Stanley discuss Jennifer Egan’s National Book Award–longlisted historical novel Manhattan Beach. In this edition, Liz von Klemperer and T.A. ![]() Double Take is a literary criticism series in which two readers tackle a highly-anticipated book’s innermost themes, successes, failures, trappings, and surprises. ![]() ![]() Gritty and clear-eyed, loud-hearted and beautiful, Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a rollicking book that might also be a lifeline.ĭamn blurb-land! Oh, sure, the blurb is just overflowing with compliments “best of” all over the place. ![]() From growing up in a Boston homeless shelter to bartending in San Francisco, from smuggling medical supplies into Burma to his lifelong struggle to make peace with his body, Fitzgerald strives to take control of his own story: one that aims to put aside anger, isolation, and entitlement to embrace the idea that one can be generous to oneself by being generous to others. ![]() In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self.įitzgerald's memoir-in-essays begins with a childhood that moves at breakneck speed from safety to violence, recounting an extraordinary pilgrimage through trauma to self-understanding and, ultimately, acceptance. ![]() But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. ![]() He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. ![]() |