Magic and monsters and plenty of chicanery abound, but underneath it all, Scheherazade wants to teach the king to trust and to love. Scheherazade saves her own life through the intricate, interwoven stories with which she wins the king’s favor. Napoli’s beautiful retelling is mesmerizing. “Tales from the Arabian Nights” by Donna Jo Napoli, illustrated by Christina Balit (National Geographic, $24.99, ages 9-14) Stunning illustrations decorate this classic Middle Eastern feast of tales. If you ever thought your dog really understands you, then you will relish this poignant confirmation told from the dog’s point of view. In a well-constructed novel that is impossible to put down, Daisy helps a boy find his father and a new home for both of them. More than anything, she wants to find her human parents again and act as a loyal, loving pet for them But it’s not to be. When 12-year old Daisy dies in a car acciden,t she is reincarnated as a dog. “The Dog Ray” by Linda Coggin (Candlewick Press, $15.99, ages 9-14) For any dog lover this is a must read. Spradlin (Scholastic Press, $16.99, ages 9-13) This gripping WWII fictional tale tells how a 12-year old Ukrainian Jewish boy tries to save his grandmother from the clutches of the Nazis. What better solution for filling their time than to occupy them with a good book? Here are some suggestions for middle school and teen readers. With the holidays already upon us, the schools will be setting their students free for a couple of weeks.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The lean startup riesFounders should start by understanding the assumptions behind their business using a Business Model Canvas, which requires founders to fill in nine boxes covering topics like “Value Propositions” and “Customer Segments.” Founders turn the key questions they have about their business into testable hypotheses and then build fast and cheap Minimal Viable Products to test these hypotheses. In short, the Lean Startup Method proposed that the key to a successful startup was to be biased towards action. The first was the rise of the Lean Startup Method, pioneered by Steve Blank and Eric Ries, and covered very ably by Blank in HBR six years ago. How can you teach entrepreneurship?” As a result, I have heard a lot of startup pitches (last year was blockchain this year was CBD) but I also have thought about how to answer the bigger question: what can we teach founders to make their startups more successful? Fortunately, the last decade has given me a lot of valuable lessons I can share, and these lessons come from two different sources. When someone finds out that I am an entrepreneurship professor, they tend to either ask me to listen to their startup pitch, or else they look at me quizzically and say: “But I thought entrepreneurship was all about improvisation. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Wonder Woman/Conan by Gail SimoneShe had recently worked with Robert on the his Grindhouse installment Planet Terror playing the film’s leading heroine Cherry Darling. The film rights to both Conan and Red Sonja had been acquired by the same production company Millennium Films (formerly known as Nu Image) around this time, in theory, a crossover could have happened.Īt the time, Rose was attached to the Red Sonja reboot with Robert Rodriguez set produce, the project had been promoted at San Diego Comic-Con 2008 with mock-up posters/teaser images. The project never actually written but seemed kind of interesting since there were plans for a new Red Sonja film before the Conan reboot was released. Comic book writer Gail Simone (Red Sonja, Deadpool, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman, Domino) has taken to Twitter to reveal that Conan The Barbarian actor Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Game of Thrones) once wanted her to write a treatment for a potential crossover film featuring Jason’s Conan and Rose McGowan’s Red Sonja. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Curse of the night witch bookSomething about this debut fell flat to me. With only his village’s terrifying, ancient stories as a guide, and his two friends Engle and Melda by his side, Tor must travel across unpredictable Emblem Island, filled with wicked creatures he only knows through myths, in a race against his dwindling lifeline. There is only one way to break the curse, and it requires a trip to the notorious Night Witch. The next morning Tor wakes up to discover a new marking on his skin…the symbol of a curse that has shortened his lifeline, giving him only a week before an untimely death. So, on the annual New Year’s Eve celebration, where Emblemites throw their wishes into a bonfire in the hopes of having them granted, Tor wishes for a different power. But he hates his mark and is determined to choose a different path for himself. Twelve-year-old Tor Luna was born with a leadership emblem, just like his mother. Their lifelines show the course of their life and an emblem dictates how they will spend it. On Emblem Island all are born knowing their fate. I received an eARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Ian stays firm and they finally agree on one thousand guineas. Ian wonders what would bring a woman like that to marry Mather - for he is a bounder of the first order, with a house of kept women who assent to his rare proclivities.Īnd perhaps thinking it would sway Ian to a better price, Mather invites Ian to meet his fiance at the opera that night - but of course it doesn’t work. Ian wonders why not give her the bowl itself? But Mather laughs at that - for women don’t know the first thing about porcelain! Besides, she is a beautiful woman and rich in her own right. So Ian stays firm, even when Mather explains the need for the marriage gift. There were at least five fakes in the glass cases on the other side of Mather’s collection room, and Ian wagered Mather had no idea. If Mather couldn’t tell the value of his pieces, he had no business collecting porcelain. Ian’s rapidly calculating mind had taken in every asset and flaw in ten seconds flat. He paid fifteen hundred for it! Ian must explain himself! quote Mackenzie offers one thousand guineas and Mathers is displeased. Mather is engaged to be married, and the sale of this bowl will fund his wedding present. Lord Ian Mackenzie is a highly respected collector of ming bowls, and today he’s looking at a bowl available for purchase from Sir Lyndon Mather. And when she loses her heart to a fellow volunteer, Ellie discovers the frightening true nature of the people living in Round Hill. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized parents scorn her efforts, and her neighbors reveal their prejudices. She’s chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn’t as committed to her expected future as her family believes. █████████████████████████████████████████████████Ī community’s past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain’s The Last House on the Street when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery.1965Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The lacuna book reviewThe tempestuous Frida becomes a life-long friend, and through this couple Shepherd becomes acquainted with the Communist revolutionary Trotsky, the former Russian leader who has sought asylum in Mexico City from Stalin’s death threats.ĭisheartened by Trotsky’s assassination, Shepherd seeks a new life in America just as World War II is about to begin. Ignored by his father and threatened with having to attend a school for mentally handicapped children (though he is exceptionally bright), Shepherd returns to Mexico and becomes a cook and typist in the household of muralist Diego Rivera and his wife, the painter Frida Kahlo. Finally, she packs teenage Shepherd off to be with his father in the United States, where he witnesses the Bonus Army protest on Washington, D.C. Though his mother is the first to encourage him to write, she provides only a precarious support system for Shepherd as she pursues relationships with several Mexican oil tycoons. Born in the United States, Harrison William Shepherd spent his boyhood in Mexico with his Mexican mother who is divorced from his American father. Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel in ten years, The Lacuna, opens with the words: “In the beginning were the howlers.” The howlers are monkeys on an island off the coast of Mexico, and the year is 1929. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Raven gabriel picoloRaven remembers how to solve math equations and make pasta, but she can’t remember her favorite song or who she was before the accident. When a tragic accident takes the life of seventeen-year-old Raven Roth’s foster mom–and Raven’s memory–she moves to New Orleans to live with her foster mother’s family and finish her senior year of high school. Genre(s): Graphic Novel/Young Adult/Superheroes How would a new author and a new artist handle one of my favorite DC personas?Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Goodreads | Indiebound Figuring all or even any of that out is a lot, especially considering her age. She’s long been a favorite character because of her conflicted nature, her inner turmoil, and the enormous amount of power that she has at her disposal. The first book in the DC Ink Teen Titans series, Raven felt like the perfect choice before I picked this book up. 5/12/2023 0 Comments In the shadow of man goodallShe describes the difficulties of living in Africa, not only physically but socially. Leakey, who secured her funding throughout much of her early research. Goodall was lucky enough to study with L. In the first two chapters, Goodall discusses her fascination with animals and the chimpanzee from an early age, her decision as an adolescent to study animals in Africa and her attempts to save money to finance a trip herself. A few of the chapters towards the end make moral arguments about the proper treatment of the chimpanzee and philosophical arguments about the ties between chimpanzees and humans. The book contains twenty-one chapters, most of which tell a chronological story whereas, other chapters discuss special features of chimpanzee life and string together various stories to make a single point. But within the pages of In the Shadow of Man, the reader hears Goodall tell her story from her own perspective and from the very beginning. Goodall has been known across the world for decades as the scientist who first studied the chimpanzee in his natural habitat she has won numerous awards and produced a slew of books and documentaries. In the Shadow of Man gives the back story to Jane Goodall's famous study of the chimpanzee. 5/12/2023 0 Comments ابن النجوم by نهاد شريفOn June 30, he held a press conference in Pristina, the Kosovo capital, where he demanded that covering of girls’ and women’s hair be allowed in all public institutions in the republic. Ternava has now spoken out, but unfortunately, he has chosen to do so in defense of the headscarf. These incidents included attacks by Wahhabi infiltrators on moderate Muslim clerics for whose safety Ternava is ostensibly responsible, and threats to Christians, as well as actions by local villagers to curb Wahhabi agitation. Ternava, who bears the title of “mufti” or president of the local Sunni Muslim apparatus, had said nothing about increasing intra- and inter-religious conflicts among Kosovar Albanians over the past year and a half. The Baha'i Creed and the Conflict among the Man-Made Religions of Today's Muslims. |