![]() ![]() The collection is particularly distinguished by the inclusion of a Wodehouse masterpiece, "The Great Sermon Handicap," in which bets are placed on the length of a Sunday oration and hilarity ensues. ![]() ![]() Eighteen connected stories trace Bingo and Bertie's shenanigans at home and abroad and introduce assorted Wooster relatives, from the terrifying Aunt Agatha to Claude and Eustace, the fun-loving, trouble-making twins. and best collections of stories about hapless aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his supremely efficient valet Jeeves. Mabel the waitress is only the first in a succession of Bingo's romantic interests, which include a parson's niece, a Communist, and Bertie's own fiancée-among others. In the opening entry, "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum," Bingo seeks help in persuading his wealthy guardian to accept his socially undesirable fiancée. Wodehouse's most popular characters, these comic gems recount Bertie's reluctant involvement in Bingo's misadventures and Jeeves' uncanny ability to rescue his employer from every scrape. One of the earliest and best collections of stories about hapless aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his supremely efficient valet Jeeves, this volume centers on the romantic travails of Bertie's school chum, Bingo Little. ![]()
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![]() What else can go wrong for Henry? Can Chocolate Fever be cured? Will Henry learn to control his chocolate obsession?īorn in Brooklyn, New York, Robert Kimmel Smith was 8 years old when he read his first book-a book that moved him enough to make him cry. ![]() He was picked up by a kind truck driver who was hijacked just as he convinced Henry to call home. The school nurse took him to the hospital where he was diagnosed with "Chocolate Fever." Henry felt afraid, and he ran away. One morning he broke out in large, brown, chocolate-smelling spots. His parents loved and indulged him even his older sister and brother were good to him. Henry Green loved chocolate so much that he ate it at every meal-in the regular ways, like chocolate cookies, chocolate cake (even for breakfast), and chocolate milk, and in unusual ways, like chocolate syrup on mashed potatoes, chocolate sprinkles on buttered noodles, and cocoa on fruit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zoey Caldwell has finally saved up enough tip money from her waitress job at a truck stop to take her dream vacation to Alaska. This story of Alaska marries together all the things you didn't realize you needed: a whirlwind vacation, a friendly moose, a grumpy diner owner, a quirky tourist, plenty of restaurant humor, and a happy ending that'll take you away from it all. ![]() But when an act of kindness brings Zoey into Graham's world, she may just find there's more to the grumpy local than meets the eye…and more to love in Moose Springs than just the Alaskan wilderness. One look at the mountain town of Moose Springs and she's smitten. Two weeks in Alaska isn't just the top item on Zoey Caldwell's bucket list. Not even the sweet, enthusiastic tourist in the corner who blushes every time he looks her way… Now he's stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless parade of resort visitors who couldn't interest him less. He had a strict "no tourists" policy…until she broke all of his rules.When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. And a sweet romance that doesn't need to scald the pages to burn its way into your heart.A rogue moose who threatens to steal every scene.A grumpy local and the sunny tourist who turns his world upside down.Curl up with a quirky small-town Alaskan rom-com that'll leave you laughing over: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, he sees the communist emphasis on equality and redistribution as an affront to individuality, which requires being able to favor some people over others. ![]() When he refuses, he’s not just greedily hoarding money and property-he’s also defending the right to choose his own values, commitments, and loyalties, instead of being forced to have the same ones as everyone else. Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. ![]() Vyazemskaya’s magazines for German children reflect what Bulgakov sees as the distorted Soviet attitude towards others: Vyazemskaya wants Philip to give because of social pressure to help others and an abstract commitment to equality, not because he actually cares about the German children. Despite the government’s professed belief in equality, it doesn’t make society much more equal-it just replaces an educated, civilized aristocracy with a cynical, manipulative communist elite. Everything you need for every book you read. Aristocracy used to protect Philip’s privilege, but now, nepotism does. Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov Upgrade to A + Intro Plot Summary Themes Quotes Characters Symbols Theme Wheel Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on Heart of a Dog can help. Philip’s phone call settles the conflict with the house committee, but it also shows the Soviet government’s absurd, dysfunctional corruption. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() John Marsden's Tomorrow series is the environmental-political Australian dystopian series par excellence. That somewhat gentle introduction to the ''harsh Australian weather'' subgenre of dystopian literature led me to darker fare that mixed its narratives of personal and communal heroism with pointedly political calls to arms. ![]() ![]() While she's better known for other works, my favourites were a five-part series, beginning with Music From the Sea, set in an Australia so parched by the sun that humans have become nocturnal and are living a lifestyle reminiscent of early farming/gathering societies. The first author I got into in a major way (and who, indeed, has the dubious honour of writing the first novel-length book I ever read) was Jackie French, whose hippie-like existence in a small town near Braidwood informed her futuristic science-fiction novels for children. Growing up in Australia in the '90s, much of what I read was dystopian, before I even knew what the word meant. I've always found it both surprising and amusing when people talk about the recent dystopian young-adult boom as if it's a new thing, as if Suzanne Collins plucked The Hunger Games out of the (dystopia-free) ether and opened the floodgates to a host of imitators. ![]() ![]() For Chad and Jeb, more than their own lives depend on the decisions they'll make. The Winter King wrote the impossible list hundreds of years ago. But this year, the Winter Prince is missing and the Summer King's seventy-five year old body is giving out. The Reincarnated Prince In the Kingdom of Kibus, everyone knows what a king should be. It is mid-autumn in a kingdom where seasons are thirty years long, death is temporary, magical songs destroy minds, and two kings have alternated rule for over eight hundred years. ![]() Both will have to take a hard look at who they are, and what kinds of men they want to become. The only thing they share are their birthdays - both born during the same eclipse fifteen years earlier - yet, both of them will undergo great change resulting from the consequences of a king's foolish act. Jeb, orphaned at age six, lives in the loft of a barn next to an ale house and trains horses. But can a real, living person be what the kingdom needs? Chad, the eldest living son of the most powerful lord in the kingdom, has been groomed all his life for leadership & command raised to be what would be needed to fill his father's boots to handle power and responsibility. ![]() The Winter King wrote the impossible list hundreds of years ago. Author Danny Macks has created an interesting new fantasy world in which powers contest for dominance. In the Kingdom of Kibus, everyone knows what a king should be. ![]() ![]() ![]() His third novel, Een schitterend gebrek, translated as In Lucia's Eyes (2003), was a return to the historical novel, about Casanova's first lover, Lucia, who, he reports in his memoirs, inexplicably abandoned him in his youth, only to resurface years later as a hideous prostitute in an Amsterdam brothel. His second book, De droom van de leeuw (2002), is a novelized version of his relationship with the Dutch actress and novelist Rosita Steenbeek in Rome, where Steenbeek became the last lover of the Italian director Federico Fellini. ![]() In November 2007, an opera based on the novel premiered in Rotterdam, with an English libretto by Arthur Japin and music by the British composer Jonathan Dove. ![]() The book became a bestseller and is considered a classic of modern Dutch literature. His first novel, De zwarte met het witte hart (1997), translated as The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi, was the story of two Ashanti princes, Kwame Poku and Kwasi Boachi, who were taken from today's Ghana and taken to the court of the Dutch king Willem I in 1837. He was also briefly an opera singer at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. After a difficult childhood-his father killed himself when Arthur was twelve years old-Japin entered the Kleinkunstacademie in Amsterdam, where he trained as an actor. His parents were Bert Japin, a teacher and writer of detective novels, and Annie Japin-van Arnhem. Arthur Valentijn Japin (born 26 July 1956 in Haarlem) is a Dutch novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Stories of Ibis, Hiroshi Yamamoto, because yes, let's talk about sociology and humanity and relationships in the digital age, hypothetical high school classroom, let's do it!īlack Maria, Diana Wynne Jones (or Aunt Maria, depending on your edition), because OF COURSE I'm putting a Diana Wynne Jones book in my hypothetical classroom curriculum. The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter, because hey, let's start thinking about whiteness as a socially constructed race like everything else and not as a default template, thanks The Steerswoman, Rosemary Kirstein, because as well as being a good book it's a really useful way of understanding the scientific method What books would I put on a curriculum, if I were designing one? Here's a few uncategorized options: ![]() that's a good way to think about this, though, I guess. Like, I do think Howl's Moving Castle, for ex., is almost universally charming to some degree but I don't need it to be imposed on a high school curriculum! And even the books that I think almost everyone would like doesn't mean I think everyone should read them. People are so different! There are very, very books I would actually recommend universally. December 4th! the_rck asked me about one book I think everyone should read, which is a question I'm having a lot of trouble answering. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After Ben ditched Selkie at the end of the first book ( The Girl Who Never Was), she’s learned not to trust a Le Fay.Īs in the last outing, shades of Doctor Who and Alice in Wonderland give the proceedings a delightfully screwball cant. Of course, the big question is not so much whether Selkie will save the world but whether Benedict Le Fay will actually betray her and die, and more importantly, whether they’ll wind up together either way. Dorset hits all the right notes for an urban fantasy featuring faerie creatures, from a magical clock that keeps its own time to an Unseelie Court visit to cursed objects. Skylar Dorset closes out her Otherworld series (at least, this storyline) with a grand adventure to stop an apocalypse of Fae proportions. Until she hears the rest of her prophecy: Benedict le Fay will betray you, and then he will die. ![]() Along with Ben and the rest of their ragtag group of allies-Selkie’s ogre aunts a wizard named Will Ben’s cousin Safford and Kelsey, Selkie’s best friend-Selkie is ready to embrace her destiny and bring the Court down. ![]() If they weren’t the two most-wanted individuals in the Otherworld before, they definitely are now. Selkie Stewart has just saved her quasi-boyfriend, Ben, from a fairy prison run by the Seelie Court. ![]() ![]() ![]() A future that would see him crowned and known for all time as Arthur, King of the Britons.ĭuring Arthur’s reign, the kingdom of Camelot was founded to cast enlightenment on the Dark Ages, while the knights of the Round Table embarked on many a noble quest. A future in which he would ally himself with the greatest knights, love a legendary queen and unite a country dedicated to chivalrous values. Once upon a time, a young boy called “Wart” was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation for a future he couldn’t possibly imagine. ![]() White’s masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations. ![]() |