![]() ![]() Determined to save him, April begins the most important journey of her life… He is starving, lonely and a long way from home. But one endless summer night, April meets one. ![]() At least, that’s what April’s father tells her when his scientific research takes them to this remote Arctic outpost for six months. There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. It is deeply moving, beautifully told, quite unforgettable.” Michael Morpurgo. “This is an important first novel, important for us, for polar bears, for the planet. ![]() WINNER OF THE 2022 BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE 2022 WATERSTONES CHILDREN’S BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR CHILDREN’S FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 Imagine making friends with a polar bear… The Last Bear is perfect for readers of 8+, beautifully illustrated throughout by Levi Pinfold – winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and illustrator of Harry Potter 20th anniversary edition covers. ![]()
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Rabbit Hole has stayed on the best-seller list for eight weeks because it mixes these opposing elements with a more modern and primal malaise-women’s rage against men in a world in which sexual mores are shifting more quickly than you can say affirmative consent. But she also channels feminist tell-alls, especially that of Gloria Steinem, whose rousing 1963 article about her life undercover as a bunny launched her career. At times, she seems like a twentieth-century gold digger-a word I kept thinking of while reading Down the Rabbit Hole, her best-selling exposé of her years at the Playboy Mansion. Holly Madison is a star but in some ways she is from another galaxy. Holly Madison attends a signing for her new book “Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny” (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. ![]() ![]() For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. Print Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seenįull of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is good, because it also doesn’t give too much away and you’ll get to discover on your own just how compelling and unpredictable this story is. That description up there does not at all capture how completely absorbing this book is. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham’s lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important question about the complex state of US race relations – both yesterday and today. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what’s right the night Tulsa burns. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. ![]() When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past… and the present. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drama written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier.This young adult graphic novel, winner of both a Printz and a Caldecott Honor Award, was restricted, relocated, and banned because it includes LGBT characters, drug use, and profanity, and it was considered sexually explicit with mature themes. This One Summer written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki.Here’s ALA’s complete list of the ten most challenged books in 2016: Other comics in the top ten are Drama by Raina Telgemeier and Big Hard Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s award-winning graphic novel This One Summer sits at the top of the American Library Association’s list of the most challenged books in 2016. Graphic Novels: Suggestions for Librarians.Working With Libraries! A Handbook For Comics Creators.Know Your Rights: Student Rights Fact Sheet.Raising a Reader! How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love To Read!.Adding Graphic Novels to Your Library or Classroom Collection.Kirkpatrick, NY State Court of Appeals (1973) Obscenity Case Files: Joseph Burstyn, Inc.Des Moines Independent Community School District Obscenity Case Files: United States v.Pacifica Foundation (George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words) Obscenity Case Files: People of New York v. ![]() ![]() Heather Lloyd has also written a new afterword for this edition. Both novellas have been freshly translated by Heather Lloyd and include an introduction by Rachel Cusk. In A Certain Smile, which is also included in this volume, Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways. Bonjour Tristesse tells the story of Cecile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry - with devastating consequences. Now this fresh and accurate new translation presents the uncensored text in full for the first time. ![]() However, this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain, and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication. ![]() Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. ![]() ![]() (1991), Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980's, New York: Urban Institute Press and Russell Sage Foundation.Ĭardia, Clara (1992), “The Spatial Evolution of New York City, 1810–1900”, in Marcuse, Peter (ed.), The Permanent Crisis, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, forthcoming.įainstein, Norman, and Susan Fainstein (1987), “Economic Restructuring and the Politics of Land Use Planning in New York City”, Journal of the American Planning Association ( 53) no. Sharpe.īlau, Joel (1992), The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States, New York, Oxford University Press.īurt, Martha R. 93–4.īellush, Jewel, and Dick Netzer (1990), Urban Politics, New York Style, Armonk, N.Y.: M. ![]() ![]() Abu'lugod (ed.) (forthcoming), The Lower East Side, (University of California Press).īeauregard, Bob (1991), “Capital restructuring and the new built environment of global cities”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (15) no. ![]() ![]() ![]() THE NAMELESS CITY-Death lies beneath the shifting sands, in a story linking the Dream Cycle with the legendary Cthulhu Mythos. THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER-"You fool, Warren is DEAD!" THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH-Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse consume the land of Mnar. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales: This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. ![]() John Carpenter, Director of At the Mouth of Madness, Halloween, If one author truly represents the very best in American literary horror, it is H. A master craftsman, Lovecraft brings compelling visions of nightmarish fear, invisible worlds and the demons of the unconscious. " dream fantasy works are as terrifying and haunting as his tales of horror and the macabre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I mixed the truth with the dramatically necessary. NH: I amalgamated some events and characters and focused on an impression of the music scene I knew would be cinematic and interesting. It was also refreshing to approach a music film from the point of view of a band not succeeding.īT: The book itself is very interesting and funny, but does not seem to have the structure for a screenplay, how much did you had to change it and what was the process of making it into a script? He presented an everyman character, whose journey I felt a lot of people could identify with. ![]() Nick Hamm: I read Neil McCormick’s book, and became fascinated by the story of a failure. The film is based on Neil McCormick’s memoir “Killing Bono: I am Bono’s Doppelganger.”įollowing is Cinema Without Borders’ interview with Nick Hamm, director of Killing Bono.īijan Tehrani: What interested you in making Neil’s Killing Bono book into a film? Based on real events, KILLING BONO tells the story of young Irish rocker Neil McCormick (Ben Barnes) and his younger brother, Ivan (Robert Sheehan), who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their school friends form U2 and become the biggest band in the world. ![]() |