![]() He’s unconcerned about the mess on his side of the bedroom that he shares with little brother Norman and blissfully unaware of the slights that come his way form eighth grade jock Jason (Jeffrey Omura) and cheerleader Patty (Lauren Marcus). Aside from the anxiety of trying to fit in with the big kids in junior high, Michael lives a pretty happy existence. ![]() For instance, if Michael (Jason “Sweet Tooth” Williams), the seventh grade hero of the amiable new musical The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, now being presented as part of TheatreworksUSA’s 20th annual Free Summer Theatre Program at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, had been introduced to Little Shop of Horrors, he might have realized that planting the mysterious box of seeds that he receives in the mail might not be the best of ideas.Īdapted from Nancy McArthur’s children’s book by Joe Iconis, the show takes us to Levitt Lane (which scenic designer Michael Schweikardt gloriously indicates with a backdrop of a 1950s subdivision), where Michael lives with his family perpetually stressed workaholic Mom (Lorinda Lisitza), conciliatory Dad (Kilty Reidy), and neatnik little brother Norman (Lance Rubin). ![]() Clearly, a child’s introduction to musical theater can never happen too early. ![]()
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Written in diary form, this truly hilarious picture book tracks the ins and outs of a worm's life from the perspective of the worm family's young son. ![]() ![]() Doreen Cronin ( Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type) and cartoonist Harry Bliss (illustrator of A Fine, Fine School) shed a whole new light on a creature that spends most of its time underground: the earthworm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawn by the intriguing duchess Tain Hu into a circle of seditious dukes, Baru may be able to use her position to help. ![]() Sent as an Imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn, another conquered country, Baru discovers it's on the brink of rebellion. ![]() When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, overwrites her culture, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her fathers, Baru vows to swallow her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her way high enough to set her people free. In Seth Dickinson's highly-anticipated debut The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a young woman from a conquered people tries to transform an empire in this richly imagined geopolitical fantasy.īaru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people-even her soul. ![]() ![]() A high official in the British government, he obsesses about the English rebelling, as the French did. As it turns out, he’s the one orchestrating the campaign against Sovay’s father, and countless others. ![]() While in London, Sovay meets the spymaster Robert Dysart. He discovers that Hugh was “sent down” because he wrote a seditions pamphlet. Meanwhile, Gabriel, son of the Compton steward, checks on Sovay’s brother Hugh at Oxford. The housekeeper informs her that her father is no longer there. Sovay goes to London to try to warn her father, who has been away from Compton, their country home, for some time. He then takes his revenge by reporting her father as a traitor. As it turns out, she robs a coach carrying the lover who spurned her. Sovay, betrayed by her first love, decides to re-invent herself as a highwayman. Most of the book is set in England, in 1794. ![]() Bold, adventurous, strong-willed, she is the embodiment of what we women would all like to be, if we only had the nerve. With a large cast of characters, it must be difficult to give a distinctive voice to each one, but she manages to pull it off. I was a great fan of her book Vanished, and I think Sovay is even better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And what she unearths will prove there’s never such thing as an open-and-shut case.īONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley’s The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches.Īcclaim for Speaking from Among the Bones ![]() ![]() Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR įrom award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.”Įleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The sweetness of sugar can be amplified to 200 times its normal state. Some cereals are really a form of candy, with 50% or more sugar. That "healthy" yogurt you eat could have two times the amount of sugar as sweetened cereal. Kellogg spends a billion dollars a year on advertising. It's all "perfectly engineered to compel overconsumption." They have been wildly successful. The "creators of crave" utilize the most sophisticated ways and means available to them, from brain research to ruthless and deceptive marketing tactics. When you enter a grocery store, not the slightest detail whatsoever has been left to chance. True, consumers bear their own responsibilities, but he lays the blame squarely upon the food behemoths like Cargill, Philip Morris, Kraft, General Foods, and Coca-Cola for poisoning us. Michael Moss, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his previous investigative journalism, explains how we got to this point, and it's not a pretty picture. ![]() The United States is the most obese country in the world. Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and hypertension are now epidemics. Michael Moss, Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (New York: Random House, 2013), 446pp. ![]() ![]() When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, her father, the head of a Sufi order, became a prominent leader in the mujahideen fight against the Russians. She is currently one of four women on the government team at the peace talks, negotiating face-to-face with the Taliban.Īnother woman at the talks, Fatima Gailani, brings a different personal history to the negotiating table. At 46, Koofi is a well-known women’s rights activist and parliamentarian, the first woman ever to be second deputy speaker of Afghanistan’s National Assembly. It also offered the freedom to do what her father would never have allowed: for her to go to school, dream big and become-as her mother promised-someone special. Her father was sent on a peace mission by the Soviet-backed government and was killed by the Mujahideen. ![]() All that changed when Koofi was still small. In The Favored Daughter, Koofi writes that her father was a member of Afghan Parliament, wealthy enough for the family to lead a privileged life among the gardens and rushing waters of one of the country’s most remote and beautiful provinces. Years later, her mother added a sadder motive to that story, telling her, “I didn’t want to have another girl to suffer as much as I suffered.” Her mother, deeply unhappy and desperate for a son after her husband took a new wife, allowed her newborn daughter to be left out in the sun to perish. ![]() That is how Fawzia Koofi’s memoir begins. “Even the day I was born, I was supposed to die.” ![]() ![]() In Innocents, conventional assumptions about Europe, its traditions, and the value of its artistic heritage, were subjected to the iconoclastic eye of 'Mark Twain', playful and 'free-talking American frankly sizing up the Old World'. The final suggestion is that, as parasites on their cultural hosts, tramps and tourists are not finally as different as they might at first appear.Ī Tramp Abroad (1880) is normally considered one of Twain's less successful books, seen as a rather tired attempt to follow up the success of his earlier The Innocents Abroad (1869). The essay also examines the book's self-conscious concern with tourism as a subject, Twain's own depiction as tourist rather than sensitive traveller, and his awareness of the way mass tourism affects, and promotes a false version of, the countries it colonizes. ![]() ![]() This is a re-reading of Mark Twain's neglected travel book, A Tramp Abroad (1880) which explores the title pun, paying particular attention to Twain's highly ambivalent attitude to tramps as represented back home in America. ![]() ![]() Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Twelve Cats of Christmas at. ![]() ![]() ![]() All ages.Ĭopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Catnip to the favorably predisposed, dressed-up doggerel to everyone else. Whats not to love This is a fantastic read around Christmas for cat lovers. /rebates/2f97808118010272fTwelve-Cats-Christmas-Radzinski-Kandy-08118010202fplp&. A small format (six-and-a-half-inches square) heightens the lavishness of the details here, and each of the full-spread illustrations receives a border with a different holiday theme (holly and ivy, gold stars, paper chains, Christmas cookies, etc.). An excellent picture book featuring a bunch of adorable cats doing cat things. Instead, they'll appreciate Radzinski's solemn, admiring paintings of her subjects, each whisker heroically articulated, and her settings (the sleeping twosome curl up prettily in a basket with a Christmas quilt, six cats a-playing are decorously entangled with ribbon and gift wrap). These people won't care that the lines don't scan well and display little imagination (".three climbing cats, two cats asleep, and a white cat with a red bow"), and that all the cats seem frozen in space, including the 12 cats a-leaping and the 11 cats a-racing. Although billed as a children's book, this cat-happy twist on the traditional English Christmas song is best targeted to hard-core feline fanciers of any age. ![]() ![]() Notable books and authors entering US public domain in 2023 Those published between the years 19 usually have a 95-year term. For works produced prior to that date, the length of copyright depends on a number of factors. 1, 1978 in the US, copyright generally lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. This means that Hermann Hesse’s novel “Steppenwolf,” the final set of Sherlock Holmes stories, and the classic song “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!”-among many other works-will be free for anyone to copy, share, and build upon.ģ ways to reduce invisible labor for women at workģ6 ways to build a family-friendly cultureįor works published after Jan. ![]() On January 1, works of literature, music, and film first copyrighted in 1927 will enter the public domain in the US. ![]() “Auld Lang Syne” is in the air, you’re readying for a midnight kiss, fireworks crackle in the sky. ![]() |