![]() What’s so great about The Jesus Storybook Bible?įirst of all, it’s beautifully written. Please see my full disclosure statement for more information. We’re pretty much the biggest JSB & Sally Lloyd-Jones fans out there! I’ve given it as a gift, used it to teach my preschool Sunday school class, and used it with my own children in our homeschool. ![]() Our family has now enjoyed a total of 3 copies (one is now in tatters!) as well as the wonderfully narrated audiobook version with David Suchet. These past 10 years have seen it translated into 31 languages, with over 2 million copies sold! It is also available in both audio and video formats, and even has a curriculum kit! This year, The Jesus Storybook Bible is celebrating its 10th anniversary. It was originally published the year my oldest was born, and I’m so glad that my children are a part of this generation of children who will grow up hearing the stories in God’s word told through Sally’s voice. It’s been a part of our family since my oldest was tiny, and her sisters are also growing up on these gentle, beautifully told Bible stories. ![]() It’s no secret that I love The Jesus Storybook Bible. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She meets two hot men named Xavier and Rick, respectively. ![]() Shoutout to cinema classic High School Musical's Troy Bolton.)Īnyway, Ever is sent to a summer-school type situation in Taiwan, which is really more like sexytimes nightclub camp. (Yes, the plot of this is the Disney Channel movie trope known as NO DAD, THAT WAS *YOUR* DREAM. This book is about Ever, a girl who likes to dance except her dad wanted to be a doctor and couldn’t be, so now she has to be a doctor. Quick synopsis so we can get into some complaints: Like, I probably could have read it in 2-3 hours, and I was in a reading mood so I wanted to, but then I would catch myself frowning enormously / cringing so hard my shoulders were touching my ears / verbally berating fictional characters and have to stop and go get a cookie or otherwise heal my soul. This story is so unrelentingly dramatic that I had to take breaks. Mostly because this book was awful and I never should have read it. The only reason I even looked at this book was to possibly add it to my wishlist, and then I saw the ebook was on sale for $4… ![]() ![]() The first part deals with the childhood and adolescent of the author and the protagonist. ![]() The book has many parts – three to be precise. He has kept the tone and tenure of the book near to the aspirations and expectations of the readers and one can safely say that he, as an author, does not bore you or does not let you throw the book aside that simply. Snowden, to be honest, has done very well with writing an autobiography – compared to what he does writing his codes. It is not as much thrilling as the books by some of the best crime thriller novelists in India may be, but it is certainly much better than many autobiographies you might have read. Well, the experience that I had reading this book was nothing like you have while reading an autobiography by an amateur writer. Before Snowden discovered and disclosed these things, no one in the world could have thought in this direction and the love that people have for Obama could not taste the bitterness when Obama did everything possible to get Snowden back and try him as a traitor – yes, dear ladies and gentlemen, Obama isn’t a holy cow! Well, I am not talking about politics I am here to discuss a book that Edward Snowden has written – Permanent Record: An Autobiography. ![]() Edward Snowden has become synonymous with internet freedom or, in sophisticated terms, one’s right over one’s data – privacy in true sense and transparency on the part of government towards the citizens in terms of mass surveillance and observation. ![]() ![]() ![]() It really is their space and not just a place I am imparting on them.Ĭo-creating and collaborating with students and other educators allows me to decolonize my classroom and what I’ve been taught to believe about the role of the educator in the classroom and in schools. They help to organize the physical space by moving shelves around, taking care of plants, helping me choose the artwork, deciding what is needed in the classroom and how to make it accessible to everyone. into the classroom so they can really make it their own. ![]() This can be done by inviting them to bring their families, their culture, artifacts, etc. One of the ways that I try to continually decolonize classroom spaces.is by really bringing my students’ whole selves into the space and to give it up to them. We’ve got to not just understand personal biases and prejudice, we need to go further and understand how our institutions are working to uphold white supremacy culture and colonial mentality. We can decolonize our minds by doing the work for ourselves. How can educators, teachers, and librarians decolonize not only their bookshelves but their minds? How can people in positions of power use their privilege to fight racism? Jewell discussed her book, its message, and the importance of educators and teachers decolonizing their bookshelves with SLJ. ![]() Tiffany Jewell's recently published anti-racist primer, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (Quarto/Frances Lincoln Gr 5 Up), aims to provide everyone, especially young readers, with ways to combat racism. ![]() ![]() When the actress disappears, the show must go on, which with Hammer means swift, violent retaliation. But Rita is an old flame of Hammer's, and when their romance is rekindled, the detective finds the actress facing death threats and himself the target of one hit man after another. of all, draws a seemingly routine assignment: playing bodyguard to diva Rita Vance on the eve of her big Broadway comeback. ![]() In Encore for Murder, Hammer, the toughest P.I. Presented in radio-show format, this is the first production of the show in Iowa following stagings at the International Mystery Writers Festival at Owensboro, Kentucky, and Ruth Eckerd Hall’s Murray Theatre in Clearwater, Florida, with the Saturday-night presentation, like the previous ones, starring Gary Sandy of WKRP in Cincinnati fame as Spillane's iconic private investigator Mike Hammer. ![]() With the mystery thriller produced as a special, 75th-anniversary tribute to the publication of Mickey Spillane's first novel I, the Jury, famed novelist, screenwriter, and playwright Max Allan Collins presents a one-night-only staging of Encore for Murder: The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, a special September 17 event held in the Muscatine High School Auditorium. Muscatine High School Auditorium, 2705 Cedar Street, Muscatine IA ![]() ![]() She ends up forming a gardening club, a rather unusual activity to be featured in a manga. Tanopopo is freely herself and just doesn’t understand the world of politics and pressure. Somewhat surprisingly, many of the obstacles in the story come from Koki being wealthy rather than Tanpopo being poor. ![]() Imadoki! is neither centered on the poor vs rich struggle a la Boys Over Flowers nor are the differences played for laughs like in Ouran High School Host Club. ![]() Several manga feature a poor kid in a rich kid’s school, and several involve clubs (unofficial or not). ![]() Since the two sections are about the same length, neither part is really deep. Imadoki! is pretty short, but the manga basically has two arcs: the “form the garden club” arc and the love square arc. The pair gain friends and face romantic rivals in order to discover their true feelings. A country bumpkin wants to become friends with the seemingly stoic school prince, and they bond over gardening. Imadoki! is not one of Watase’s biggest hits, and it’s not hard to understand why: it’s short and pretty average. Imadoki! is a cute but unremarkable romance, but the translation and adaptation is downright awful. She’s going to prove to Koki that friendship is meaningful. But when Tanpopo sees him again, the boy, Koki, denies meeting her and swears he has no use for friends - flowers or humans. Just before classes start, she meets a boy who loves flowers. ![]() Tanpopo is excited to be a new student at the prestigious Meio School. Shoujo – Comedy, drama, romance, slice-of-life ![]() ![]() ![]() After losing her parents as a child, Jude is forced to live in the kingdom of Elfhame with Madoc, the fey that murdered her parents. The “Folk of the Air” series is a fantasy YA trilogy that centers on the life of Jude Duarte and her trials of existing as a human in the High Court of Faerie. ![]() The “Folk of the Air” trilogy by Holly Black, however, has given me a fresh new reason to spend my money through the spectacular reviews for “The Cruel Prince,” “The Wicked King” and “The Queen of Nothing.” Spoiler Warning Now, people have to wrestle me into a bookstore since I fear blowing my paycheck. When I was a tween, there was nary a time when you would find me without a book. ![]() Unfortunately, purchasing books has become a part of this category - especially sad for an avid book lover like myself. As a broke college student, I can’t always splurge on luxuries, like getting my nails done or buying two-ply toilet paper. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reduced to bare survival, with his son gravely ill, Prescott calls on all his skills in a last-ditch effort to free his family from the grips of Stalin. Life in Russia, however, proves to be a beautiful lie. ![]() So when he has the opportunity to live in Moscow and work at the American Embassy, Prescott and his family seize the chance to take refuge and at last put down roots in what they believe is a fair society. ![]() With his outspoken artist wife, Loretta, and their two children, he lives a life of equality and continental elegance amid Europe's glittering capitals-beyond anything he ever dared hope for.īut he is still a man in hiding, from his past with the Bureau, from British Intelligence-and from his own tempting, dangerous skill at high-level espionage. International consultant Prescott Sweet's mission is to bring justice to countries suffering from America's imperialistic interventions. In this riveting and emotionally powerful historical drama, an ex-FBI agent plunges into the darkest shadows of 1930s Europe, where everything he loves is on the line. ![]() ![]() No revelation from the meaning of the death of a parent to being a blonde is too big or small for this Colorado born biologist to dissect. With cheeky wisdom, Jeffe Kennedy explores the extraordinary moments that transform ordinary lives. ![]() She is the scientist struggling with mortality, the liberal learning to shoot a gun. She is the feminist adolescent, ashamed to win a prize in home economics who learns to take joy in her pastry skills. ![]() From the book’s opening in a cornfield, where Kennedy is searching for the twenty five year old site of the plane crash that killed her father, she seems to be in constant motion. These essays explore the challenges Jeffe Kennedy has faced as a woman, a Westerner, a father less daughter, a stepmother, a biologist, and a girl with hair of no specific color. Wyoming Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel ![]() ![]() Nella seconda storia Coetzee, Jacobus, compare proprio nel titolo, è un antenato, o spacciato come tale, dell’autore, che racconta un episodio di caccia e guerra ai namaqua, una tribù dei nativi ottentotti. ![]() In entrambe le storie c’è un personaggio che si chiama Coetzee proprio come il suo autore: nella prima è il funzionario dei servizi incaricato di valutare la relazione del protagonista, Eugene Dawn, dedicata a come migliorare l’immagine degli Stati Uniti a seguito della guerra in Vietnam. ![]() In entrambi i racconti Coetzee inserisce un alter ego, o presunto tale (precorrendo l’arrivo di Elizabeth Costello). Il secondo, più lungo (un centinaio di pagine) ci catapulta in tutt’altra zona del pianeta, il Sudafrica dove Coetzee è nato e vissuto a lungo (da qualche anno s’è trasferito ad Adelaide, in Australia, che credo sia quell’altra parte del mondo che più assomiglia al Sudafrica in quanto a storia coloniale – una scelta alquanto peculiare) – e il salto è doppio, non solo geografico ma anche temporale, perché dal XX secolo si passa indietro di tre secoli. Ecco l’esordio di Coetzee, quasi cinquant’anni fa (1974), debutto fulminante: due racconti lunghi, il primo di una settantina di pagine è sulla guerra del Vietnam e i suoi effetti – più in particolare, su come la propaganda possa rimodellare la narrativa di quella guerra e allontanarla dall’inutile orrore che effettivamente fu. ![]() |