![]() ![]() ![]() A fluffed pillow, new box of tissues and stack of books are just what Mama needs. ![]() But after lunch the tables turn-Llama Llama is feeling better, but Mama now has the sniffles: “Llama Llama, red pajama, / sick and bored, at home with Mama.” Luckily, he’s still in that delightful preschool stage where helping out is a favorite playtime activity, and he has learned how to care for sick people from a master. The listless boy struggles to occupy himself, but Mama saves the day with a book, after which he takes a curative snooze. When Llama Llama’s feeling “just not right” turns into a full-blown sickness complete with aches, sneezing, fever and sore throat, Mama sends him back to bed (wearing red pajamas, of course) and administers the inevitable yucky medicine. Proving once again that she understands the preschool set, Dewdney shows what life is like when first Llama Llama and then Mama get sick. ![]()
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His one brush with danger of any kind-the only bright spot in his otherwise boring life-is Cruz Arcadio, a dark-haired, hard-bodied engineer whose physical prowess hints he’s something much more. He has his pick of casual hookups passing through Dadelus-Kaku Station. Tover Duke’s rare ability to move anything instantly across light-years of space makes him a powerful, valuable asset to the Harmony Corporation, and a rock star among the people of the colonies. ![]() Worst Possible Birthday: Being sold into slavery by none other than your lover. ![]() ![]() But the largest issue may actually stem from the Homecoming Queen race, as DJ, Eliza, Taylor find themselves in a three-way competition that threatens to further divide the house. The Carter House experiences a shake-up when Taylor returns home after an unnerving disappearing act. Add guys and dating, a little high-school angst, and huge personalities … and you’ve got the Carter House Girls. Mix six teenaged girls and one ’60s fashion icon (retired, of course) in an old Victorian-era boarding home. ![]() With six teenage girls living under one roof, things are bound to get interesting. The upcoming Homecoming dance only makes the existing tensions worse, as Taylor, Eliza, and a reluctant DJ have all been nominated for homecoming queen. ![]() In book three of the Carter House Girls series, Taylor returns from her disappearing act to find the girls are still at odds. ![]() ![]() ![]() One year prior, Rapp landed on Kennedy’s radar. Riding shotgun with Irene Kennedy–a brilliant young counterterrorism analyst with the CIA–the book opens with Rapp being dropped off at Stan Hurley’s remote training compound in southern Virginia. ![]() When readers first meet Mitch Rapp, he’s a grieving twenty-three-year-old who lost his girlfriend after terrorists blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Going back after penning ten novels as part of his best-selling franchise, Vince Flynn delivers this high-octane prequel, offering readers a look at the origin story of Mitch Rapp–one of the greatest, most beloved fictional characters ever created. (Editor’s note: This book was originally published in 2010, but is now being re-released with a brand new cover that ties directly into the ‘American Assassin’ movie coming out in September.) ![]() ![]() “But I was in too much pain.” Chandler’s speech style started in the audition He worked on a group scene with Jonah Hill that never made it onscreen, and had to leave the set before working with Streep because of his injuries. He was on 1,800 milligrams of hydrocodone, but flew to Boston to film. Perry was supposed to be heading to another rehab stint - this time in Switzerland, much farther afield than his past stays - and had recently broken eight ribs while getting CPR. He was to play a Republican journalist, in a small role that called for several scenes opposite Meryl Streep (who played a comically narcissistic U.S. While the Netflix climate-apocalypse satire was in development, Perry took a meeting with one Adam McKay, which resulted in the offer of a role. Here are a few key revelations from Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It isn’t a Hollywood tell-all in the traditional sense (most of the telling is used up with his stories about continually coming back from the brink), but offers very specific trivia that even the most die-hard of Friends fan wouldn’t know. Brittany Snow Hopes Her New Mental Health Book Helps Readers Feel "They're Not Alone"īut Perry also dedicates time in the book to reflecting on his high-profile acting career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.īut then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. ![]() David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. ![]() ![]() Hess, an academic attempting to elucidate the mystery that is Harriet Burden. The novel, written in the aftermath of Harriet’s death, is presented as a collection of texts compiled and edited by one I.V. As with all convincing subterfuge, though, the boundaries between her and her ‘collaborators’ begin to break down with disturbing results. Harriet ‘Harry’ Burden, an artist railing against the New York art establishment that she believes has overlooked her work, undertakes a unique and complicated experiment: hiding behind the fronts of three male artists who exhibit her work as their own, she attempts to confront the prejudice she sees all around her. Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World is a sparkling tour de force examining ideas about perception and identity. ![]() ![]() Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren’t just accidents. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies’ most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. ![]() But Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory―even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.įorbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. ![]() ![]() Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent.įind a gateway to the underworld. ![]() ![]() ![]() many normal Americans had started investing in the stock exchange and borrowing money to do so.The Wall Street Crash happened as a result of the following factors: Wall Street is a street in New York City, where many financial firms are based, and the term Wall Street is used to describe the American sector, even though not all American finance companies are actually based there. The Great Depression took place following the Wall Street Crash in October 1929 and affected the world’s economy. ![]() His experience of working with farm labourers and his interest in their lives is clearly evident in Of Mice and Men, as well as in some of his other books, like The Grapes of Wrath. Although his family was not poor, when he was a teenager he spent time working on ranches near his home and this had a big impact on his writing. John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. The novel is set during the Great Depression, a period of significant poverty and unemployment across the USA following the Wall Street Crash in 1929. The novel is set in a place called Soledad, (a Spanish word meaning solitude or loneliness ) in California. Written by American author John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men was first published in 1937. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Laura Arnold Leibman is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, VP of Program (AJS), and the author of "The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects" (Bard Graduate Center, 2020) which won three National Jewish Book Awards. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten people of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived. Leibman traces the siblings’ extraordinary journey around the Atlantic world, using artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York. ![]() In this talk, Professor Leibman overturns the reclusive heiress’s assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor, Christian, and enslaved in Barbados. ![]() Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother’s maternal line. An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. ![]() |