![]() ![]() ![]() With gentle illustrations as heartwarming as the story, we’re sure this book will find its way into your kids’ hearts and yours, too! The DVD version of The Snowman is also sure to delight and provides a lovely opportunity to review the story in a different way. The snowman in turn takes the boy on a flight across the snowy parts of the globe. The boy takes the snowman on a tour of his home. A little boy finds a new friend – in his snowman. Following along the rather complex story requires plenty of thought though and is sure to provoke an interesting conversation with your students. The Snowman, Raymond Briggs – This wordless classic is deceptively simple looking. From classics to funny, we’re sure your students will warm to these winter themed books as much as we have! (As always, any purchase made after clicking through an Amazon link on CKA’s website benefits CKA without costing you anything additional. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Loved the dialogue – the wit and humor is just so English!!! And fabulous. The love, support and acceptance by both family members was really touching and very lovely. The family dynamic was another part of the story that I really liked. I liked that the relationship developed over a time and not immediately. I loved the sexual tension build-up and the love scenes were absolutely passionate, sexy and well-written and so believable. And both have to deal with the fear of not surviving and ultimately wanting to live. Maggie has a lot of things to overcome – the attraction she feels for Alex and has been trying for years to deny. She’s engaging, endearing and totally sexy. She’s comfortable with who she is and how hard she tries to handle her feelings for Maggie. Alex’s strength, courage and never giving up were truly awesome. ![]() I loved the development of Maggie and Alex’s relationship. Thrown together again to work on an investigation, they are forced by circumstances to spend two weeks with each other in a cabin surrounded by snow and miles away from anywhere after their aircraft crashes and the pilot is killed. They are total opposites – Alex is stubborn and will bend the rules whilst Maggie does everything by the book. A beautiful love story that’s brilliantly written, with incredible characters and a unique plot.ĭetective Inspectors Maggie & Alex have a long not so great history together, which has led to bad feelings between the two for the last three years. ![]() ![]() ![]() The titular protagonists present their stories in alternating chapters, a style that proves a bit tedious. ![]() The American unit was commanded by the newly commissioned Major Charles Whittlesey. This champion bird, named Cher Ami by its trainer, was a hen misidentified as a male (Cher, not Chérie). With ammunition depleted and more than half its men dead, wounded, or missing, the unit’s remainder was saved by a British homing pigeon. While advancing at Argonne, France, an American unit was surrounded by the Germans. managed to suffer 53,402 deaths, more than Korea (33,686) or Vietnam (47,424).Ĭher Ami and Major Whittlesey concerns a small battle of that long war that gained international notoriety. Though we entered the war late, in 1917, the U.S. Do you remember “the War to End All Wars”? Apparently, most of us have forgotten the horrors and stupidity that resulted in 40 million military and civilian deaths and casualties from 1914-1918 during WWI. ![]() ![]() “As smart, ferocious, and uncompromising as its crew, Seafire is the adventure you’re looking for. "Mastering high seas, high stakes, and high emotions, Natalie Parker gives us a whole host of girls who get the job done and kicks off an adventure to remember." -#1 New York Times bestselling author E.K. “In these turbulent times, Seafire gives teens just what they need: A reminder that with unity and courage, they can rise up and ultimately change the world." - Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles series You don’t want to miss this book!” - Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin' “A gutsy tale of sisterhood, courage, and unshakeable trust. “An exciting, action-packed tale.this adventure never loses its pace." - Publishers Weekly "The pace of the book is fast and relentless and the action sequences tense and believable, but the best moments are the ones in which the female relationships shine." -NPR ![]() "A fast-paced, thrilling tale." - BuzzFeed "One of the most spell-binding adventures of the year." - San Francisco Chronicle "One of the year's most anticipated new fantasies." - Entertainment Weekly ![]() ![]() ![]() When the two actresses - one young, and one aging - and the two writers - one successful, and one struggling - meet at the family estate one fateful summer, their loyalty, love, and ambition are put to the ultimate test, as this play follows these four characters. Nina, a young ingenue and the beloved muse of Arkadina’s playwright son, Konstantin, absorbs this statement completely. “If you ever need my life, come take it.” So, wrote Trigorin, lover of the fading actress Arkadina, in his most famous book. About The Seagull Watch a video introduction. from Wednesday through Saturday, October 30 through November 2 and November 6 through 9 with a 2 p.m. ![]() Greer Studio Theatre on the university campus during an extended two-week performance run at 7 p.m. The play was Chekhov’s first successful naturalist play, and follows the lives of young artists as they navigate life. The Appalachian State University Department of Theatre and Dance proudly presents The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, in a translation by Paul Schmidt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amongst other novels she has written are the adult paranormal and the science fiction. In her writing career she has wrote the young adult contemporary and also in the pen name J.lynn has written the New Adult and Adult Romance. At this level is where her writing career started to shape. In class she hated algebra such that she used to write short stories during algebra classes and as a result performed dismally poor in math’s grade. ![]() She is used to hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki. Some false rumors about her state are moving around. Most of her time is spent, reading, exercise, watching movies especially the zombie movies. Despite the fact that she’s not hardworking in writing she managed to become the current top seller in New York Times and the USA today. Living in West Virginia with her husband, his partner in K-9 known as Diesel and jack Russell who is her hyper. Armentrout the successful author both in New York Times and the USA Today. She has been an author since 2011 to date. Born in June 1980 she grew in Martinsburg West Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cast features intergeneration actors and actresses outstanding in the theaters but also the television and the films, including Golden Bell Award winners as well as promising youth actors and actresses. The audiences will be led to the never-dawning Kingdom of Darkness with the joys and sorrows of those outcasts renounced by their families and expelled from the society. By the stream of consciousness, the director ingeniously interweaves the present and the past the reality and the imagination for the stage, presenting the love and lust, life and death, and repentance and redemption from the original novel. The story surrounds the passionate love affair between a gay couple, the most entangling father-and-son relations in the Chinese society. ![]() PAI Hsien-yung’s gay classic to be presented on the stageįor the kids who have nowhere to go but wander alone in the darkest nightsĬrystal Boys, PAI Hsien-yung’s classic novel depicting the marginalized status of gay community in Taiwan in the 1970s, is now adapted for the stage in Chinese for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ng is herself a graduate of Harvard who grew up in an academic family in Ohio, and she renders the Lees with great precision and empathy. ![]() In her last encounter with her doomed daughter, Marilyn means to say, “I love you,” but instead urges Lydia to study harder: “Don’t let your life slip away from you.” To add a sense of urgency, Marilyn continues: “When I’m dead, that’s all I want you to remember.” Her mother’s words “sucked the breath from Lydia’s lungs.” But they aren’t especially loving either. James and Marilyn are never cruel to their children. To James, anything else was a failing,” Ng writes. “Though Nath dreamed of MIT, or Carnegie Mellon, or Caltech … he knew there was only one place his father would approve: Harvard. His ambitions hover like a cloud over the family, especially over his oldest son, Nath. ![]() Years later, he has not shaken his sense of loneliness. history at Harvard - but his students treated him like an exotic interloper. In the 1960s, he became one of the first Asians to lecture in U.S. At the same time, he has never quite felt he belonged anywhere, and not just because he grew up as the lone Asian student in a Midwestern boarding school where his father was the janitor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You got Luca and Merritt, the happily married well to do family of restauranteurs, whose life is thrown for a loop when the missing presumed dead first wife of Luca’s shows up out of the blue after a decade. Racked with guilt over the beautiful life they?ve built, Merritt and Luca agree to help get Lydia back on her feet?it?s the least they can do.But the more enmeshed Lydia becomes in Merritt?s family, the more questions Merritt has. This is essentially a story of an unconventional love triangle. ![]() ![]() A torturous confinement that should?ve ended with her dead. Missing for ten years, presumed dead, and very much alive, she has quite a story. That dream ends with a late-night knock on the door.Weak, broken, and emaciated, it?s Luca?s first wife, Lydia. Unmissing by Minka Kent Raven Ink Creative Unmissing by Minka Kent Amanda Danielle Book Review Octo1 Minute The future isn’t carved in stone it isn’t event written in pencil on the back of a napkin. DESCRIPTION BOOK : A return from the past knocks a family dangerously off-balance in a novel of spiraling suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent.Merritt Coletto and her husband, Luca, have the life they dreamed of: a coastal home, a promising future, and a growing family. Unmissing by Minka Kent has a storyline that packs many punches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. This is my story, from point A to B, of my life and times in the midst of hell on Earth." So many things were going through my head at that moment, and in one single heartbeat I was overwhelmed with a flashback of my entire life. Young nineteen and twenty year old kids were crying like children, but fighting like someone had raped their sisters. I watched a young, courageous black medic take an 81-millimeter round to his head, and his whole body instantly turned to smoke. ![]() Some of the events I witnessed during that moment were beyond comprehension. Medics were running left and right, risking their lives to help others with bravery that even the most amazing soldier couldn't hope to match. I saw my entire company falling like dominoes. But as I looked back, I realized that my safety net was no longer safe. As I quickly mowed them down with my automatic rifle, I crawled backwards away from the enemy gunfire, using my helmet to push sand in front of me as I went, which made it possible to look behind me. Two of the enemy soldiers, which we often referred to as gooks, quickly came after me. ![]() ![]() Excerpt: "I watched two point men take a 50-caliber machine gun bullet to the head, and watched the third being grabbed and taken behind enemy lines. ![]() |