![]() ![]() Once inside, the elephant knocked over the peanut roaster, snarfed a couple of the treats, rolled Mrs. Kessler ducked into the drugstore, but Modoc followed, squeezing through the front door of the corner shop. Chauncey Kessler was entering the Bradley Brothers Drug Store when she saw a 1,900-pound pachyderm barreling towards her (allegedly attracted by the woman’s striped muskrat coat). Judy and Empress merely escaped to the nearby woods, but Modoc made a break for it and headed toward the center of town. Terrified, they broke loose from their chains and ran for the hills. All was well until neighborhood dogs began barking at the elephants. Outside the high school gymnasium, the elephants stood chained up. Everyone, Wabashians and circus performers alike, was ready and excited for the show. ![]() The circus was there as part of an annual military fundraiser at Wabash High School, but the circus owner predicted it would be the last performance for years to come because so many circus hands were headed off to war. In November of 1942, Great American Circus was in Wabash, Indiana with its star performers: Judy, Empress, and Modoc, three Indian Elephants. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The American writer was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his contribution to the education of young children. The book was ultimately retained in the Toronto Public Library’s children’s collection after members of the review committee decided that the book was designed to engage children, and that the story actually advises children against hopping on their fathers.īowles said the committee reviewed the book based on its content, as well as the reputation of its author, Theodor Seuss Geisel. The patron recommended the book be removed, and requested the Toronto Public Library not only apologize to Greater Toronto Area fathers but pay damages resulting from the book's violent message. "The complaint was that it was violent and encouraged children to be violent with their fathers," Vi ckery Bowles, the Toronto Public Library’s director of collections management, told CTV News Channel on Tuesday. Seuss was one of seven books that patrons have asked Toronto Public Library to remove from its collection over the past year.Ī library patron asked the library's materials review committee to pull "Hop on Pop," a children's classic written in 1963, because of the book's violent themes. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Living breathing characters who inhabit unusual yet believable worlds." -Jean Auel ![]() I couldn't turn the pages fast enough." -Diana Wynne Jones ![]() I really have seldom enjoyed a book so much. "It is such a delight to read something by such a good writer, who now seems to be writing at the height of her powers. "Fresh, intriguing, and, as always with Lois McMaster Bujold, superb." -Robert Jordan Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping-something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn't due to power outages in the Cryocombs. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to re-write her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning Don't mess with the secretary. On Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of generation past repair. ![]() But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp-an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future-attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove-he's been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. ![]() ![]() ![]() To stop Apophis they'll need to find the god Ra, but there's just one problem: nobody has seen Ra in centuries. ![]() Things only get more stressful when they learn that Apophis, the serpent of chaos, is going to be loose in only a few days. They converted Brooklyn House into a training facility for magicians who want to learn how to channel the gods and use their magic. So, now let’s take a look back at the second book in The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire.Ĭarter and Sadie Kane have had their hands full over the past few months. This is less of a formal review, and more of a look back, along with my thoughts and observations. That means we're taking a look at Percy Jackson, its sequel series and its spin-off series. For those of you just joining the fun, this is my look back at the works of Rick Riordan. Welcome back to the Riordan Retrospective. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither quest goes as the protagonists hope, of course. He too falls in love and embarks on a quest to win a woman. Sancho starts off in black and white and soon bursts into full colour-like Pinocchio, he wants to be real he wants an independent life, away from his father. As they travel the world in pursuance of Quichotte’s quest, the question of what it means to be human is posed over and over again. ![]() He also brings into existence, through sheer force of will, the son he has always wanted, whom he names Sancho. Most of the narrative focuses on the eponymous lunatic, whose mind, addled by a stroke and by the consumption of far too much TV, conjures up a dream of gallantly proving himself worthy of Salma’s love. The dual plotline follows both Sam as he writes the story of Quichotte and the character of Quichotte himself. He chronicles the travels of a lunatic who calls himself Quichotte, who is on a quest to earn the love of Salma R., a woman he only knows from a daytime TV show. Quichotte is the name of a book-within-a-book being written by Sam DuChamp, a mediocre ageing spy-fiction novelist. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-nominated novel Quichotte (pronounced in the French way, key-SHOT) is a work of postmodern picaresque with a metafictional narrative device thrown in for good measure. ![]() ![]() ![]() This entry was posted in Wednesday Briefs and tagged Carol Pedroso, Cia Nordwell, Flash Fiction, Free Stories, Julie Lynn Hayes, Louise Lyons, Nephy Hart, Wednesday Briefs on Novemby wedbriefsfic. “Being with you is what makes everything special,” he said sincerely. Lee pulled Marshall closer to him, circling his waist. “A little something special for our last night here.” “It’s like champagne, but sweeter,” Lee replied. “Sounds good to me.” Lee relayed the order, then hung up. “Maybe some of that lava cake we had before?” Something sweet would hit the spot after making love. He wasn’t really hungry now, but he might be later. “Want anything to eat with that?” he asked Marshall. When they returned to their room, Lee called Room Service and ordered a bottle of Prosecco. Moving Forward #59 (14.3) by Julie Lynn Hayes Click the link after the snippet to be taken to the complete story on the author’s home page. Here is a list of all the authors flashing this week, along with a brief snippet from their latest free work. ![]() ![]() "In her compulsive, sharply-drawn debut, Stephanie Wrobel peels back the layers of the most complicated of mother-daughter relationships. And she's waited such a long time for her mother to come home"- … ( more) Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling. She says she's forgiven Rose Gold for turning her in and testifying against her. Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes. After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold. ![]() She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He graduated with honors from the University of Missouri and is married to his high school sweetheart. Sanchez was born near Boston, but was raised in Colorado. ![]() In addition to his magazine experience, Sanchez is a former staff writer for the Associated Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Denver Post, and the Rocky Mountain News. Sure, its a little embarrassing when you realize youre wearing threadbare panties purchased in 1988, but thats a. In 2014, he was named CRMA’s writer of the year. Introduction, Author of When Pigs Fly, Getting Lucky, and Little Mountain, editor of The Internet Review of Books, active in the El Paso Writers League and. Additionally, his work has been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”, as well in ESPN The Magazine, Esquire, and Men’s Health. Sanchez’s work has been anthologized twice in the “Best American Sports Writing” series (with two other stories listed as “notable”), in “Next Wave” (a collection of the best American writers younger than 40), and in “Words Matter” (which features 20 influential University of Missouri School of Journalism graduates). Features he’s written have been recognized by the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, the City and Regional Magazine Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists, among others. Robert Sanchez has written on everything from inner-city gangs to brain trauma to natural disasters. ![]() ![]() Finally, characters we care about, do die. The Verhagens then lie to Dutch informants who have sided with the Germans about the birth and baptism of the Jewish baby. At one point, early in the story, a Jewish woman leaves her baby with the family without a word. Additionally, the Verhagen family farm serves as an underground safe house of sorts. ![]() In this way, these bitter pills are easier for young readers to swallow.Ī few notes about content: this story involves necessary deceit (good men lying to evil ones), a little bit of unnecessary deceit (as defiance against evil occupiers) and not graphic but chilling scenes of children starving in the cold. ![]() Because the target audience is young readers (approximately 2nd or 3rd grade and up), Van Stockum gives us a collection of wartime abuse vignettes rather than sustained situations. Like The Hiding Place, Van Stockum leaves the reader with hope and clear examples of how everyone can choose rightly even when the world seems to be on fire. Unlike The Hiding Place, however, our main characters are able to combat the evil that presses in on them. There are scenes in this book that will stay with me and my nine-year-old for life. ![]() Written like a high adventure novel, the main story centers on 2 brothers (10 and 14) and allows us to view the sacrifices and suffering of occupation through the eyes of children. The Winged Watchman is full of hope, joy, fortitude, a celebration of life, trust in the Almighty, and a good helping of resistance and sabotage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book series has the potential to be epic. It was only later I thought how hard that must have been. He did them perfect and I didn't stop to think at the time that it was a man doing the voices. Not only could he do all the strange voices but he had to do several women's voices and many of them with foreign accents. A very good and exciting book with fantasy, magic, action, adventure, danger, suspense, and a touch of romance thrown in too. She didn't know how deep things really went until she started poking around. Unfortunately, a nosy gal is on to him and has figured out he is the one helping people. Then off stage he does help those in need. I really liked this paranormal book about an illusionist, but his secret is that they are not illusions. Magic, adventure, action, touch of romanceįade to Black The Weir Chronicles, Book 1 By: Sue Duff Narrated by: Christopher J Mayer This is an audible book I requested and the review is voluntary. ![]() |