![]() ![]() The case for the Grau/McGinley state being first is that the Grau and McGinley reviews were replaced by the Daniels blurb on the stated second printing of the dust jacket. ![]() There has been significant debate about the order of the states. They are identical except for the back flap reviews. They both have the author's photo on the back panel. Both states have the Capote blurb in green, the $3.95 price, and no printing statement on the front flap. The other state dust jacket has a single Jonathan Daniels review, and we have seen many of these. One state has two reviews on the back flap - by Shirley Ann Grau and Phyllis McGinley. There appears to be two states of the first edition dust jacket. Boards are brown with green cloth spine.Ī first edition dust jacket has no statement of printing and has a price of $3.95 on the lower corner of the front flap. "FIRST EDITION" is stated on the copyright page. Approximately 5,000 first printings were produced. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But when the group dynamic among the boys starts to shift, will Jorge be able to balance what his friends expect of him versus what he actually wants?", The only time he ever really feels off his game is when he crosses paths with a certain girl. He's big enough that nobody really messes with him, but he's also a genuinely sweet guy with a solid, reliable group of friends. "item_description" : "Following the overwhelming success of AWKWARD and BRAVE, Svetlana Chmakova's award winning Berrybrook Middle School series continues with its next installment - CRUSH Jorge seems to have it all together. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the collaboration of composer Michael Ford, Philadelphia Chickens is that rarest of kids' musical discs-one whose inimitable lyrics and music make it as irresistible to parents as it is to their children. What exactly it is/ I don't know." Also joining in are Eric Stoltz, Scott Bakula, and two Boyntons, including daughter Caitlin McEwan, who performs a piece that every little listener will relate to-a love song to the chocolate chip cookies that are just out of reach. Here is a full-color songbook of 17 1/2 illustrated story-poems, and a full-length, fully orchestrated CD of original songs performed by such luminaries as Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, The Bacon Brothers, and Laura Linney, who pleads "Please, Can I Keep It?-it followed me home. ![]() Grade Level: 2nd (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) Philadelphia Chickens: A Too-Illogical Zoological Musical Revue Volunteers needed in July! Click here to sign up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To spice up the adventure and mimic the Scottish writer’s saga, they are sometimes accompanied by a donkey… Putting on a packsaddle, brushing, cleaning the hooves… Whether they decide to tackle it all in one go over a dozen days or in sections, everyone is on foot along this Grande Randonnée (GR 70) hiking trail, but not necessarily alone. Each year, more and more hikers make the journey between Le Puy-en-Velay and Alès: a great escape covering 272 km across the four departments of Haute-Loire, Ardèche, Lozère and Gard. Is it the rediscovery of Stevenson’s account of setting off on a walk with a donkey in 1878? The success of My Donkey, My Lover & I, a refreshing film relating the tragicomic adventures of a tourist with her four-legged friend? Or is it simply the call of the great outdoors? All of the above have contributed to the success of the Chemin de Stevenson. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pirenne’s major thesis is that it was the advance of Islam rather than the Germanic invasions that caused the break with antiquity and the consequent decline of Western civilization in the Middle Ages.” ![]() “This last work of the great Belgian scholar Henri Pirenne offered a new and revolutionary interpretation of the evolution of Europe from the time of Constantine to that of Charlemagne. In this more mature work Pirenne takes a broader historical claim, arguing that, as the editor claims: There his fundamental thesis concerned the Medieval world and centered around his contention that the control of water ways, the rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, shaped the nature of the cities. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1956 from 1935 original.įive years ago I read Henri Pirenne’s earlier book MEDIEVAL CITIES and found it just fascinating. Translated from the French by Bernard Miall. Pirenne, Henri – MOHAMMED AND CHARLEMAGNE MOHAMMED AND CHARLEMAGNE By Henri Pirenne. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Sigrid Nunez’s novel The Friend, the narrator, a writer whose best friend has committed suicide, takes the friend’s now ownerless Great Dane into her 500-square-foot New York City apartment. ![]() The idea of seeing it, as 60 looms, is unthinkable. Seeing it at 20 was like having fears I never entertained, fears of being old, destitute, and alone. I have never been so wiped out by a movie. is the work in which De Sica took his genius for melting the distance between the audience and the people on screen as far as it could go. ![]() The story of a proud and impoverished pensioner evicted from his rooming house along with his beloved dog, Umberto D. THE ONLY GREAT MOVIE I have no intention of ever seeing again is Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, after years of working at Hall Aviation and flying with Mr. Hall, the owner, takes Leah under his wing (ha! puns!) after she starts saving her paychecks for flying lessons. Leah’s world opens up when she gets a job working in the office at Hall Aviation, a company that tows banners in the air up and down the beach. That is until at age 14, she and her mother move into the trailer park next to the Heaven Beach Airport. Often facing eviction because her mother rarely works, Leah’s life has always been in upheaval. She lives with her mother who floats from town to town based on promises from each new boyfriend-promises that never come to fruition. Leah is a girl who’s grown up in trailer parks, most of which have been by airports. ![]() The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.Īt first glance, Jennifer Echols’ new YA novel, Such a Rush, has all the tell-tale signs of a typical YA romance: two attractive boys, absent parents and high-stakes drama.Īnd, yet, between the covers (and what a gorgeous cover it is), you’ll find a sensitively-crafted story of an 18-year old girl, who’s never had it even remotely easy, trying to figure out what sort of person she’s going to be. ![]() In practice this worked about half the time. The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The family struggled financially, and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un barrage contre le Pacifique ( The Sea Wall). They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. ![]() Between 19, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. Marguerite had two older brothers: Pierre, the elder, and Paul.ĭuras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921. Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.ĭuras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu ( French pronunciation: , 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras ( French: ), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is strangely flattering – and professionally inspiring, a bit like being a literary bloodhound – that people think we can produce the book from that, and I guess it works, because what really surprises me is how often you can, with a little gentle questioning (people usually know more than they think) and some lateral thinking, actually identify the book that is wanted. You will all have heard about the customer who knows what colour a book is, declares they know little else and they want it right now – this is not a joke, it happens a couple of times a year (oddly, in my experience, usually green books rather than any other colour). Campbell, a longtime book-gal, started writing down these charming and bamboozling verbal treasures and putting them on her blog, then other booksellers from all over the world added their snippets – to create an affectionate, wryly and gently amused take on the symbiotic relationship between bookshoppers and booksellers. ![]() So, we particularly like Jen Campbell’s collection Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Constable), a collection of the odd, wonderful and often jaw-dropping things that people say or ask in their local bookshops. ![]() Working in a bookshop is fascinating: frequently joyful, always interesting and sometimes, well, just really weird – and while deeply pleasurable, never quite as ‘relaxing’ as the people who tell us “I have always wanted to work in a bookshop, it is so relaxing” seem to think! ![]() ![]() At first, it was not even much of a fight. Lincoln kept insisting, a fight to reunite the United States. It was not initially a war against slavery. ![]() ![]() And then the author reveals how the sweeping force of all-out conflict changed the war’s purpose, in turning it into a war for human freedom. This would not be the neat, short, “limited” war both sides had envisioned. First, he describes how the war slowly but steadily got out of control. In Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton tells the story of the Civil War as never before-of two turning points which changed the scope and meaning of the war. ![]() The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war-an epic struggle for freedom. ![]() |