Witches! has been honored with many prestigious awards, including. Robert F. Taught in middle and high schools around the U.S., the 17th-century saga remains hauntingly resonant as people struggle even today with the urgent need to find someone to blame for their misfortunes. The riveting, true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children into a witch hunt that took over a dozen people's lives and ruined hundreds more unfolds in chilling, novelistic detail-complete with stylized black-white-and-red scratchboard illustrations of young girls having wild fits in the courtroom, witches flying overhead, and the Devil and his servants terrorizing the Puritans- in this young adult book by award-winning author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer. He grimly announced the dire diagnosis: the girls were bewitched! And then the accusations began. The doctor tried every remedy, but nothing cured the young Puritans. In the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. Synopsis: Tackling the same twisted subject as Stacy Schiffs much-lauded book The Witches: Salem, 1692, this Sibert Honor book for young readers features. Synopsis: Tackling the same twisted subject as Stacy Schiff's much-lauded book The Witches: Salem, 1692, this Sibert Honor book for young readers features unique scratchboard illustrations, chilling primary source material, and powerful narrative to tell the true tale.
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Only in 1980, with the posthumous publication in Switzerland of Life and Fate was his remarkable novel to gain an international reputation. Declared a non-person, Grossman died in obscurity. Though he finished the war as a decorated lieutenant colonel, his epic account of the battle of Stalingrad, Life and Fate, was suppressed by Soviet authorities, and never published in his lifetime. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report "The Hell of Treblinka," was the first eyewitness account of a Nazi death camp. Vasily Grossman (1905-64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. "A definitive treatment of one of the Soviet Union's most significant writers."- The Russian Review The novel hits the target audience right between the eyes on "hot button" issues, especially global warming and its consequences, but should be popular with readers who are looking for a slightly different dystopian adventure or those who just dream of living in the ocean and playing with dolphins.- Saleena L. This is an enjoyable book, with lots of adventure, suspense, and underwater scenes. Their journey through the ocean to asylum isn't easy, but with some help from Nere's telepathically linked dolphin friends and other Neptune Project victims the kids just might make it-if they can stop quarreling among themselves. Nere and two other children are given injections that finalize their mutations and enable them to breathe water. Now the government wants to close down the project and kill all involved. She thinks nothing of her comfort with the sea until the day her mother breaks the news that Nere is a product of a genetic-mutations experiment called the Neptune Project. Nere lives by the ocean and has always had an affinity for water. See the complete The Neptune Project series book list. Gr 6–8-In this dystopian adventure, Earth can no longer sustain life in many places and the United States has devolved into a totalitarian government. by Polly Holyoke includes books The Neptune Project, The Neptune Challenge, and The Neptune Promise. Salvation on Sand Mountain begins with a crime and a trial and then becomes an extraordinary exploration of a place, a people, and an author's descent into himself. "When Dennis Covington covered the trial of Glenn Summerford for The New York Times, a world far beyond the trial opened up to him. Glenn Summerford is convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison." The trial, which becomes a sensation throughout southern Appalachia, echoes familiar themes from a troubled secular world - marital infidelity, spouse abuse, and alcoholism - but it also raises questions about faith, forgiveness, redemption, and, of course, snakes. At gunpoint, he forces her to stick her arm in a box of rattlesnakes. A snake-handling preacher by the name of Glendel Buford Summerford has just tried to murder his wife, Darlene, by snakebite. "It is Scottsboro, Alabama, in the fall of 1991. As the twinkling lights of nightclub marquees yield to the rising flames of a fascist revolution, these three will struggle to survive using whatever means-and people-necessary. Enter streetwise Cordelia Lehane, top dancer at the Bee and Aristide's runner, who could be the key to Cyril's plans-if she can be trusted. One of his concerns is safeguarding Aristide, who refuses to let anyone-the crooked city police or the homophobic Ospies-dictate his life. Returning to Amberlough under the Ospies' watchful eye, Cyril enters a complex game of deception. When Cyril's cover is blown on a mission, however, he must become a turncoat in exchange for his life. Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta, smuggler and emcee at the popular Bumble Bee Cabaret. The radical One State Party-nicknamed the Ospies-is gaining popular support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision. "Welcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. It is a Novice support spirit that can be equipped to increase the damage and power of foot and knee strikes. The Mimicutie appears as a collectable spirit in the game's aptly named Spirits mode. Defeating them grants the player power-ups. Mimicuties appear as enemies in the multiplayer feature Smash Run. It may also home in on its foes with a series of sweeping kicks, and will occasionally drop loot upon defeat. As such, its main strategy is to home in on its foes and attack with a flurry of kicks, finishing the attack with a single, powerful kick that sends opponents flying. Only possessing a pair of legs, Mimicuties attack exclusively with kicks. When active, it will suddenly sprout humanoid legs from underneath, which sport brown, toeless shoes with gold trimming. When inactive, the Mimicutie appears to be an average blue and gold Treasure Box, only slightly smaller. She would later win the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for "examining the damaging consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s administration of Medicaid." Personal life ĭominick and her husband have three adopted children together. Her journalism pieces earned her a nomination for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing. In 2001, Dominick joined the editorial writing staff at the Des Moines Register. She began writing this book after her older sister died of a heart attack, cocaine, and diabetes abuse. Career Īfter graduating from Iowa State, Dominick published her first book titled " Needles: A Memoir of Growing Up with Diabetes". Dominick attended and graduated from Iowa State University in 1994, and earned her Master's degree in literature and creative writing three years later. As a child, Dominick would retrieve her sisters needles from the trash and use them as squirt guns, until she herself was diagnosed with the disease at the age of nine. Her older sister Denise, whom she idolized, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes as a baby. She received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for "examining the damaging consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s administration of Medicaid."ĭominick was born and raised in Iowa. BA, 1994, MA., 1997, Iowa State UniversityĢ018, Pulitzer Prize for Editorial WritingĪndie Dominick (born 1971) is an editorial writer at the Des Moines Register. I've mentioned before how much of a fan of Usagi Yojimbo I am, so I'm not going to go through all of what makes the series, characters, and stories so good. His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959). He also made a futuristic spin-off series Space Usagi. First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly-sole artist (Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story "Broken Ritual" is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black and white version of the story "Return to Adachi Plain" that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paper-back edition of Usagi Yojimbo). He began his career by lettering comic books (notably Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier) and became famous with the production of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena. He later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Stan Sakai (Japanese: 坂井 スタンSakai Sutan born May 25, 1953) is an artist who became known as an Eisner Award-winning comic book originator.īorn in Kyoto, Sakai grew up in Hawaii and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii. Though she acknowledges that she’s lucky to be able to exercise the freedom to while away the hours in her favorite rose garden or to go bird-watching, Odell seems to disregard just how individualistic her strategies are. But her book is least convincing when she suggests that meaningful political change would follow if the strategies she has adopted were taken up en masse. She has a knack for evoking the malaise that comes from feeling surrounded by online things. Then, summoning the ideas of others, she goes on to construct a complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto. Odell’s first collage (or maybe it’s a compost heap) of ideas about detaching from life online, built out of scraps collected from artists, writers, critics and philosophers. It’s a story that speaks to the demands of ‘feminine perfection’ – a rejection of the abject parts of us and the weight of social taboos. Disgusted, she does her best to dispose of it, only to find it reemerging decades later, having grown into a beautiful young version of herself – and a vengeful one at that. In ‘The Head’, for instance, a woman is confronted by a creature who lives inside her toilet, and who is made up of all the woman’s bodily effluence. The fictional short-stories blend the genres of magical realism, horror, fantasy and folklore, with some of those reading like critiques of social standards upheld by contemporary society (that don’t just pertain to South Korea). Cursed Bunny was originally published in 2017, two years after the phrase ‘Hell Joseon’ was popularised in South Korea, used by a younger generation as a satirical term to describe the nightmarish socioeconomic crisis they’re facing: a lack of stable, well-paid jobs, entrenched social expectations, an increasing wealth gap.Ī series of nightmares is one way to describe Bora Chung’s cursed tales, the English translation of which was nominated for this year’s Booker Prize. |