![]() ![]() I’m so grateful for this support, especially now. ![]() Most of my applications have not been successful-it’s amazing when they are. Grant applications are a way to describe and focus my projects for myself-as well as a jury. ![]() I applied for this award many times over the years, gave up for a while, and early this year applied again. We are now all the more eager for the day when we can return to bookstores, galleries, museums, libraries and all the other vibrant spaces where art happens. The world closed down while we were reviewing their portfolios, but their creativity opened the world back up to us. cities, Costa Rica, and Turkey they are parenting thirty-four children. The Sustainable Arts Foundation supports writers an artists with children.įrom the 2020 award announcement: “Chosen from a field of nearly 1,800 applicants, these twenty artists and writers come from eighteen U.S. This award will help support the Middle Grade Graphic adventure I’m currently working on as well as a memoir. ![]()
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![]() Mummy has an idea… when she can get away from all the other ideas, that the world is full of mums who go to advanced yoga classes, get tiddly on a half glass of white wine, and attend polite book clubs. Since publication of her first book just over a year ago Gill has sold over half a million books. Gill’s second book Why Mummy Swears, published in early 2018, was a Number One Sunday Times bestseller for seven consecutive weeks and has spent a total of 18 weeks in the Top Ten. ![]() ![]() Why Mummy Drinks spent over six months in the Sunday Times bestsellers Top Ten and was the number one bestselling debut hardback novel of 2017. Books will be available to purchase and sign as well. Join Gill as she is interviewed about her blog, books, character and much more! There will be readings from her books and also a chance to ask Gill questions from the audience. Author of online sensation Peter and Jane, Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind "Why Mummy Drinks", its follow up "Why Mummy Swears" and the recently announced "Why Mummy Doesn't Give A…”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Juggling her confusing feelings with the rapidly approaching May Crowning, not to mention her hilarious non-star turn in the school play, Brie navigates truth and lies, expectations and identity, and how to-finally-make her mother really see her as she is. An own-voices LGBTQ novel from the acclaimed author of Hurricane Season, about eighth grader Brie, who learns how to be true to herself and to her relationships. ![]() But sometimes just looking at Kennedy gives Brie butterflies. Worse, Brie has almost no chance to get the job, which always goes to a top student.ĭesperate to make her lie become truth, Brie turns to Kennedy, the girl everyone expects to crown Mary. Brie’s mom is distracted with pride-but Brie’s in big trouble: she has not been chosen. But when Brie’s mom walks in on her accidentally looking at some possibly inappropriate photos of her favorite actress, Brie panics and blurts out that she’s been chosen to crown the Mary statue during her school’s May Crowning ceremony. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for In the Role of Brie Hutchens. She’s going to be the star of the school play and convince her parents to let her go to the performing arts high school. Introducing Brie Hutchens: soap opera super fan, aspiring actor, and so-so student at her small Catholic school. An own-voices LGBTQ novel from the acclaimed author of Hurricane Season, about eighth-grader Brie, who learns how to be true to herself and to her relationships with family, friends, and faith. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the big canine who Travis calls “Old Yeller” proves his worth by defending the family from danger. Living in Texas Hill Country during the 1860s, Travis comes to face new, unanticipated, and often perilous responsibilities in the frontier wilderness.Ī particular nuisance is a stray yellow dog that shows up one day and steals food from the family. When his father sets out on a cattle drive toward Kansas for the summer, fourteen-year-old Travis Coates is left to take care of his family and their farm. A timeless American classic and one of the most beloved children’s books ever written, Old Yeller is a Newbery Honor Book that explores the poignant and unforgettable bond between a boy and the stray dog who becomes his loyal friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. ![]() It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. ![]() Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. ![]() However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() She doesn’t need any more complications in her life―especially not a handsome, convention-flouting, scandal-raising one like Sam. So when the eccentric and brilliant professor, Samuel Moore, appears and informs her that he can get to the bottom of the mystery that surrounds Liefdehuis, she turns him down flat. However, fresh starts aren’t as easy as they seem, as Alva discovers when stories of a haunting at Liefdehuis begin to reach her. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis, a dilapidated Hyde Park mansion, and hopefully her reputation at the same time. ![]() It’s 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. ![]() A young widow restores a dilapidated mansion with the assistance of a charming, eccentric genius, only to find the house is full of dangerous secrets in this effervescent Gilded Age debut novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later at college his memoirs of the events would be stolen by someone he counted as a friend, who would go on to release a book and become a best selling author. I want to keep all this life corked tight inside me, bubbling and dangerous.’ ‘This is the best day of my life,’ I almost tell them - but I don’t. This friendship and what happened to them would have a profound effect on all their lives. Looking Glass Sound follows the life of Wilder Harlow, who in his childhood, made friends with Harper and Nathaniel whilst on holiday in Whistler Bay. Firstly I’ll say that Catriona Ward’s writing is simply sublime, there’s not many authors that drag me along word for word afraid to skip for fear of missing the compelling prose. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() andldquo If the next two volumes are as lively and entertaining as Fall of Giants,andrdquo said The Washington Post, andldquo they should be well worth waiting for.andrdquo ![]() Ken Follettandrsquo s Fall of Giants, the first novel in his extraordinary new historical epic, The Century Trilogy, was an international sensation, acclaimed as andldquo sweeping and fascinating, a book that will consume you for days or weeksandrdquo ( USA Today) and andldquo grippingly told and readable to the endandrdquo ( The New York Times Book Review). Ken Follett follows up his #1 New York Times bestseller Fall of Giants with a brilliant, page-turning epic about the heroism and honor of World War II, and the dawn of the atomic age. ![]() ![]() ![]() mobi file on your mobile device, please use. (Oxford Companion to English Literature, Chambers Biographical Dictionary) The series is peppered with Christian allegory and ethics and rates among the most important writing for children in the 20th century. But perhaps his best known stories belong to a series of children's books known as the Chronicles of Narnia which begins with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". This series is heavily influenced by Christian thinking and was inspired by his friendship and association with fellow writers J.R.R. He is better known for his adult science fiction trilogy: "Out of a Silent Planet", "Perelandra", and "That Hideous Strength". His strong religious background influenced such books as "The Problem of Pain" and "The Screwtape Letters". He was a fellow of Magdalen College, a prestigious College at Oxford University. Lewis (1898-1963) was a British literary scholar and novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() That being said, it’s not a mindless rage that Stark is feeling, there’s a very real history there, and Kadrey wastes almost no time letting readers know just what it is. I mean, this guy is screaming “baditude” and I absolutely love it. This guy is out for his own goals, and he’s not afraid to steal cars and kick ass along the way. The fact that his goals and aims line up with a fairly good cause is just coincidence. ![]() Sandman Slim, AKA James Stark is a bad boy with an attitude and he’s out for himself. We all know I’m weird, I don’t need to advertise it. ![]() Whenever I do feast upon such a book, I feel like I’ve hit the lottery. I love a good antihero and I don’t read books featuring antiheroes often enough. You tell me there’s an antihero in (insert book here) and I’m there with bells on. I have to admit that I have a soft spot for protagonists who are kind of antagonists. ![]() Saving the world is worse.ĭarkly twisted, irreverent, and completely hilarious, Sandman Slim is the breakthrough novel by an acclaimed author. But when his first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head, Stark discovers that the road to absolution and revenge is much longer than you’d expect, and both Heaven and Hell have their own ideas for his future. Or, if you’re James Stark, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los Angeles. ![]() |