![]() ![]() The simple rhythmic text has a sing-song repetition perfectly suited to young listeners. From removing her diaper to tub splashing to taste-testing sand, mischief and messes are this little girl's middle name. ![]() Unexpected plot twists, three dynamic and creative pals, and a bit of Twilight Zone style eeriness will draw in even reluctant readers.Īn exuberant, curly haired toddler explores her world with her exhausted yet loving mother at her side. These lively tales, replete with clever and expressive illustrations, subtly poke fun at the flat, generic nature of Dick and Jane- type primers. Fans of beloved author James Marshall's droll wit will delight in this trio of summery beginning readers: "Three By the Sea," "Three Up a Tree," and "Four on the Shore." Featuring the misadventures of friends Lolly, Spider, and Sam, these are probably the only beginning readers to feature a scheming chicken and doll duo, a witch who only eats potatoes, and a rat who buys himself an unlikely pet. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “ Blood and Thunder is a big-hearted book whose subject is as expansive as they come. James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys With his keen sense of drama and his crackling writing style, this master storyteller has bequeathed us a majestic history of the Old West.” “Hampton Sides doesn't just write a book, he transports the reader to another time and place. Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt ![]() Hampton Sides is a terrific storyteller.” Legendary figures like Kit Carson leap to life and history moves at a pulse-pounding pace-sweeping the reader along with it. “The story of the American West has seldom been told with such intimacy and immediacy. Howard Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University and editor of The New Encyclopedia of the American West Here is a national hero on the level of Daniel Boone, presented with all of his flaws and virtues, in the context of American people’s belief that it was their Manifest Destiny to occupy the entire West.” Unusually, Sides gives full voice to Indian leaders themselves about their trials and tribulations in their dealings with the whites. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans. “Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But now a military takeover has occurred and the communists are in power, a group known as the Derg. Ethiopia today is still two-thirds Christian (Coptic) and one-third Moslem. ![]() ![]() It’s the last days of Christian Emperor Haile Selassie who successfully led the fight against Mussolini’s soldiers - spears vs. This novel is set in Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, in the late 1970’s. Emotionally gripping, poetic, and indelibly tragic, Beneath The Lion’s Gaze is a transcendent and powerful debut. It is a story about the lengths human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. And Dawit, Hailu’s youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement-a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia.īeneath the Lion’s Gaze tells a gripping story of family, of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution. ![]() |