![]() Wendy Darling, Alice Liddell, and Dorothy Gale have all experienced madcap adventures in fantastical lands throughout their childhoods. What an absolute treat! This unlikely pair of Andy Weir ( The Martian) and Sarah Andersen – better known for her often viral Sarah Scribbles comics – creates a fun and beautiful romp through all of your favorite childhood books. ![]() Title: Cheshire Crossing By: Andy Weir & Sarah Andersen Published: 2019 Call #: YA Graphic Weir.A ![]() Encuentros de Escucha e Intercambio Comunitario.10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 6 pm 12 pm - 6 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 6 pm 12 pm - 6 pm See All Evanston Public Library ![]()
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![]() She has a quiet, reclusive life, taking care of her mother, who lives with mental illness, avoiding her regrettable ex, who bartends in town, and trying to make inroads in the tight-knit island community that still sees her, five years in, as an outsider.Īnd she's happy with how things are-really-until British royals rent the property next to hers and their brooding bodyguard decides she's a security threat. Piper Evans: elementary school teacher by day-avid romance reader and anonymous podcaster by night. ![]() One of PopSugar's Top Summer Reads of 2021!Īn ordinary summer goes royally awry when a prince and princess move next door, bringing their handsome bodyguard with them, from New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilson completed his first translation, Hagakure, while living in an old farmhouse deep in the Japanese countryside. in Japanese language and literature from the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies in Monterey, California, then undertook extensive research on Edo-period (1603-1868) philosophy at the Aichi Prefectural University, in Nagoya, Japan. ![]() degree in political science from Dartmouth, Wilson earned a second B.A. This eye-opening journey, beautifully documented in National Geographic, spurred Wilson's fascination with the culture and history of Japan.Īfter receiving a B.A. As an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College in 1966, he was invited by a friend to join a three-month kayak trip up the coast of Japan from Shimonoseki to Tokyo. WILLIAM SCOTT WILSON, the translator, was born in 1944 and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His memoirs have been translated as Fragments of a Past. ![]() At the time of his death in 1962, he was one of Japan's most popular novelists. Beginning his literary career at the age of twenty-two, he continued to work as a journalist while writing novels that reached a large and appreciative readership. EIJI YOSHIKAWA was born in 1892 near Tokyo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems that Zephyr might just be the Nyx, a dark goddess that is prophesied to shift the power balance: for hundreds of years the half-gods have lived in fear, and Zephyr is supposed to change that.īut how is she supposed to save everyone else when she can barely take care of herself? Read moreĭo you love moody boys and Greek Mythology? Then Promise of Shadows may be just the young adult book for you. On the run from a punishment worse than death, an unexpected reunion with a childhood friend upends Zephyr’s world-and not only because her old friend has grown surprisingly, extremely hot. But all that changed when her sister was murdered-and Zephyr used a forbidden dark power to save herself from the same fate. ![]() Zephyr was ready for a future pretending to be a normal human instead of a half-god assassin. ![]() She’d rather watch reality TV than learn forty-seven ways to kill a man, and she pretty much sucks at wielding magic. Zephyr Mourning has never been very good at being a Harpy. “A healthy dose of action, a strong thread of humor and just a touch of romance” ( VOYA, starred review).Ī teen who is half-god, half-human must own her power whether she likes it or not in this snappy, snarky novel with a serving of smoldering romance that Kirkus Reviews calls “a dark, slyly funny read.” ![]() ![]() ![]() The tale begins with the introduction of an old cotter and his wife who delight in trapping and violently killing any cats who venture onto their property. It was first published in the literary journal Tryout in November 1920 and now resides in the public domain.Īn unnamed narrator, while gazing upon his pet cat, begins to reminisce about a law in the town of Ulthar which forbids the killing of cats and relates the story of how this law came to be. Considered one of the best short stories of Lovecraft's early period, aspects of "The Cats of Ulthar" would be referenced again in the author's works The Other Gods and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Influenced by Lord Dunsany, the tale was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's and has remained popular since his death. Upon witnessing the result, the local politicians pass a law forbidding the killing of cats. Upon hearing of the couple's violent acts towards cats, Menes invokes a prayer before leaving town that causes the local felines to swarm the cat-killers' house and devour them. ![]() When a caravan of wanderers passes through the city, the kitten of an orphan (Menes) traveling with the band disappears. As the narrative goes, the city is home to an old couple who enjoy capturing and killing the townspeople's cats. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. " The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. Cover of the 1977 Necronomicon Press edition ![]() ![]() ![]() But in a small town full of secrets - some of which could answer the questions that have plagued Atlee her entire life - and digging deeper into the past could be more dangerous than she realizes. 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And I’m starting to recognize that I’m doing the best I can, rather than reaching further, further, further.” After 32 years of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) I have come to recognize that they did the best they could. I had a very, very busy father and my mother was rather reserved - a good mother, but rather reserved. She has lived in row houses her entire life, and their vernacular architecture defines, in part, not only the city she has always called home, but also a more intimate part of herself.Ī lifelong Baltimorean, Jennie was educated in the Baltimore school systems, which were quite good, she says. Jennie Alexander was born John Alexander on Dec. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Renowned for his biographies of William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther, Metaxas is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, the witty host of the acclaimed Socrates in the City conversation series, and a nationally syndicated radio personality. ![]() Now in paperback!What Happens When One of America's Most Admired Biographers Writes His Own Biography? For Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life-a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit. Learn how Eric Metaxas became the thought leader he is today. ![]() ![]() He continues to have an office at the University. In November 2005, the University of Saskatchewan announced that Martel would be scholar-in-residence. The composition, You Are Where You Are, is based on text written by Martel, which includes parts of cellphone conversations taken from moments in an ordinary day. ![]() He collaborated with Omar Daniel, composer-in-residence at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, on a piece for piano, string quartet and bass. Martel spent a year in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from September 2003 as the public library's writer-in-residence. In addition, its French translation, Histoire de Pi, was included in the French version of the competition, Le combat des livres, in 2004, championed by singer Louise Forestier. Life of Pi was later chosen for the 2003 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee. ![]() ![]() In 2001, he published Life of Pi, which was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2002. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1548 her mother, Mary of Guise, asked her envoy Henri Cleutin to buy cloth of gold for a gown for her, from the merchants who served the French court. įew details of known of Mary's clothes in infancy in Scotland, except that Margaret Balcomie, or Malcomy, had an allowance of soap and coal to warm the water to wash her linen. Details of her costume on the day of her execution at Fotheringhay in 1587 were widely reported and circulated in manuscript. Inventories were made of her clothing and her jewellery during her time in Scotland and after she abdicated and went to England. More detailed records of her costume survive from her time in Scotland, with purchases recorded in the royal treasurer's accounts and wardrobe accounts kept by Servais de Condé. Her wedding dress in 1558 was described in some detail. Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587) lived in France between 15 and clothing bought for her is particularly well-documented in the year 1551. ![]() A version of the so-called "Sheffield Portrait" by a follower of Rowland Lockey, the most familiar image of Mary, featuring devotional jewellery against the black velvet background of the queen's robe, GAC Clothes for a queen ![]() |