![]() ![]() Reminiscing about my early reading days and looking for an interesting and fun read, I was immediately drawn to the book and soon settled into a Jeffrey Archer paperback after 15 years. After a week of some dry and slow reading (here’s looking at you Bill Bryson and Virginia Woolf), I noticed Kane and Abel sitting on my bookshelf under the To-Be-Read section. This was fifteen years ago.Ĭut to present. I was amazed at Archer’s way with words and his ability to keep me engaged with every twist and turn. I do not remember the book, but the story was a riveting tale of love, loss, jealousy, and deceit. Jeffrey Archer was one of the first books in that category. ![]() In those early years, I went through Enid Blyton and Hardy Boys collection, and by the time I stepped into my teens, I was ready for the grown-up stuff. ![]() I fell in love with reading around the age of ten. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The poems range from the athletically driven, pulse pounding beats of basketball, to the simple, emotional thoughts of a boy becoming a young man. There are rhyming couplets, free verse, and the most striking of all, poems that epitomize the rhythm, hustle, and movement of basketball. This verse novel utilizes a variety of poetic forms. ![]() At the climax of the book, a game-changing moment turns the family’s world upside down and changes their lives forever. Changes in their personal life begin to alter the relationship of the two brothers, leaving Josh to cope with being alone for the first time in his life. With his coaching and their mother/assistant principal’s guidance, the two are an unstoppable pair on and off the court. Their father, Charles “Chuck” Bell, was known as “Da Man” during his glory days in the European basketball league. Josh and his twin brother Jordan, better known as JB, own the court on their junior high basketball team. In this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor award winning verse novel, Kwame Alexander tells the story of 12-year-old, dread-locked, basketball loving Joshua Bell. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ĭlick to expand.Ben could you help me out. Now all of a sudden it Only shows up in a totally different state and with exact name search. Is there something I could do to send signals to Google to show that I am in Matthews, NC?Ģ months ago my listing quit showing up at all unless you typed exact business name What could possibly cause my listing or Google to do this? I have been without my listing for a few months now and have NO calls coming in from it. If you search Locksmith Independence, KS it shows up on the maps. If you search Locksmith Matthews, NC my listing does not show up at all. Keep in mind the GMB is in Matthews, NC All my service areas and the actual map show the correct areas. ![]() Now if I search my business name under the auto populate I see it with Independence, KS on the listing. I pretty much do not have any traffic, views or calls now. Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clearly harmed by her proximity to fame, the narrator seems to provide Smith a means of critiquing all the attention she has received since her ascendance in the literary world at the age of 24. When we first encounter our narrator, who remains unnamed throughout, she’s encamped in a London flat, recently dismissed from her position as personal assistant to an Australian pop-star named Aimee. With her most recent novel, Swing Time, Smith continues her protean evolution by downplaying her characteristic humor and exploring the lives of her characters through a subjective first-person viewpoint, a technique she had not attempted until now. ![]() Forster’s Howards End, while NW (2012) refracted contemporary London through a gaze evoking Virginia Woolf - Smith’s vivacious, wide-roving, and often satirical perspective has consistently provided a stylistic through-line. Yet while her techniques and influences have indeed varied over time - On Beauty (2005), for example, paid homage to the domestic interplay of E.M. Ever since James Wood irritably classified Zadie Smith’s debut novel White Teeth (2000) as “hysterical realism,” quite a lot of ink has been spilled praising or deriding the adaptability of her subsequent fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() The deception started in a windowless basement beneath Whitehall. ![]() ![]() Using fraud, imagination and seduction, Churchill's team of spies spun a web of deceit so elaborate and so convincing that they began to believe it themselves. The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer and a brilliant Jewish barrister, the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist, a gold-prospector, an inventor, a beautiful secret service secretary, a submarine captain, three novelists, a transvestite English spymaster, an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing, and a dead Welsh tramp. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece. ![]() It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I know Adrian doesn’t like that she seems interested in Flynn, Story’s younger brother and one of the band members, but I think it’s great. I’m also thrilled that she’s excited to go out. It will be fun.” I give her a warm smile and leave her in the bathroom to rinse the bleach out. Or we’ll leave you there, if you want that. The one that’s getting so popular, you have to buy tickets in advance just to get in. We’re going to see Story’s band play tonight at their regular Thursday night gig. She bobs her head, still looking a little lost. She searches my face, as if I have the answer and I’m just not telling her. ![]() “What’s fun for you? What would make you smile?” “Do you want to?” I drag the foils out of her hair. “Do you think I should cut it?” Nadia asks. She bleached two chunks of hair just past my bangs and is going to color them purple and I’m putting bronze highlights in her brown hair. So we’re doing each other’s hair color in the bathroom of the apartment. She’s in therapy for her agoraphobia, and Adrian says she’s improved a lot, but she has to work herself up to leave the premises. We have five million dollars, but going to a hairdresser or even paying a stranger to come to our apartment is too much for Adrian’s sister. I peel the foil back on Nadia’s hair to check her highlights. ![]() ![]() ![]() The main character, the narrator, is Lizzie, and she’s a librarian at a university library. Jenny Offill: Weather is a novel about a librarian who slowly becomes a climate change doomer and then slowly comes back out of that again. Mary Laura Philpott: Let’s start with a zoomed-in focus on this latest book, and then we’ll talk more broadly about some other things. (She also shares what she’s been watching on TV during the pandemic.) In this interview for Nashville Public Television’s A Word on Words, Offill talks with host Mary Laura Philpott about how she translates the human experience into spare, sparkling novels packed with compelling emotional truth. In fact, her books have such a unique quality that it’s difficult to make comparisons when describing her writing if you were to liken her new book, Weather, to anything else, you would probably compare it best to her own prior book, the critically acclaimed and reader-beloved Dept. An Interview with Jenny Offill, Author of WeatherĪuthor Jenny Offill has been called “the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments” (New York Times). ![]() ![]() ![]() Popverse: It's been 30 years of Magic Tree House-and you're still going! How has writing these books changed over the years? In the wake of the publication of this new book, Popverse had a chance to sit down and chat with Mary Pope Osborne about 30 years of Magic Tree House, the importance of literacy, and keeping things fresh. Osborne has recently published a new book featuring life recollections as well as lessons that kids and adults alike can take from Magic Tree House called Memories and Life Lessons from The Magic Tree House. ![]() Over the past 30 years, Mary Pope Osborne has been writing her way through more than 50 installments of her popular children's series Magic Tree House, which follows the adventures of two siblings, Jack and Annie, as they use a magic tree house to travel to different times and places. ![]() ![]() ![]() Against the Fall of Night remained popular enough to stay in print after The City and the Stars had been published. ![]() The major differences are in individual scenes and in the details of his contrasting civilizations of Diaspar and Lys. The new version was intended to showcase what he had learned about writing, and about information processing. Several years later, Clarke revised his novel extensively and renamed it The City and the Stars. Campbell, Jr., editor of Astounding Science-Fiction, had rejected it, according to Clarke. This novel is a complete rewrite of his earlier Against the Fall of Night, Clarke's first novel, which had been published in Startling Stories magazine in 1948 after John W. The City and the Stars is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Nathan reveals the trio of women behind the legend: the willing patient, her ambitious shrink, and the imaginative journalist who spun their story into bestseller gold. The actual identity of Sybil (Shirley Mason) has been available for some years, as has the idea that the book might have been exaggerated. But what do we really know about how Sybil came to be? In her news-breaking book Sybil Exposed, journalist Debbie Nathan gives proof that the allegedly true story outlined in the megabestseller was largely fabricated. ![]() The book rocketed multiple personality disorder into public consciousness and played a major role in having the diagnosis added to the psychiatric bible, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Sybil: a name that resonates with legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973. Now available in paperback, Sybil Exposed is the New York Times bestselling book that offers a new perspective on the smash hit book and film, Sybil, and on multiple personality disorder itself. ![]() |