![]() ![]() ![]() The next three months tested just how far humans could go in their battle against the sea as, one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. ![]() Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the furthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Nathaniel Philbrick now restores this epic story-which inspired the climactic scene in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick-to its rightful place in American history. The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the Titanic disaster was in the twentieth. ![]()
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![]() It is a seriously great moral for all the over-achievers out there. So how to do you cope when your life is at the limits of what you can realistically do?Īt the heart of this novel is the message that you need to let yourself rely on other people and work as a team, whether that's on a running team or in real life, and to be proud of yourself and what you do achieve. ![]() Patina takes responsibility for everything and everyone – even her school project with the posh girls at her new mainly white school. After her dad died, her mum developed diabetes so bad that she had to have her legs removed and is so unwell that Patina and her adorable little sister live with her Uncle Tony and his wife Emily, who the girls call Mumly. ![]() Elite runner Patina is a girl with a lot on her plate and she takes her responsibilities heartbreakingly seriously. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only when the door is open does the family realize no one is in danger. Thurber’s father wakes up to commotion and thinks the house must be on fire. Thurber’s mother heads to the attic, but the door is stuck. Briggs tries to stumble to an open window but finds a closed one and smashes it open in the confusion. Thurber wakes up on the floor, under his bed, and imagines he’s been buried. He sniffs a bottle of camphor he keeps by his bed to revive himself. A cousin, Briggs, groggily decides his worst fear has come true and he is suffocating in his sleep. ![]() The noise also wakes several other members of the family. Thurber’s mother wakes up, convinced the attic bed has fallen on Thurber’s father. That night, Thurber, who sleeps on an old army cot, rolls too close to the edge of the bed and it tips him over with a crash. ![]() Thurber’s mother fears the old bed up there is not safe to sleep in and might collapse in the night. In Chapter One, “The Night the Bed Fell,” Thurber’s father decides to sleep in a spare bed in the attic, where he can enjoy some peace and quiet. Thurber was a celebrated American cartoonist, journalist, and writer, known for his deadpan sense of humor. ![]() Thurber also provided pen-and-ink illustrations to accompany the text. It details the eccentricities and unusual goings-on that surrounded a young Thurber growing up in Columbus, Ohio, around the time of World War I. My Life and Hard Times is a 1933 comical memoir from humorist James Thurber. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Rod Serling series imagined that the eponymous raven actually harassed Poe as he was trying to write his poem back in the 1800s. "No Parking Hare," Looney Tunesīugs Bunny recites a few lines from “Poe’s Kiddie Komics” to complain about his interrupted sleep in 1954’s “No Parking Hare.” 9. The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on the art of music has been considerable and long-standing, with the works, life and image of the horror fiction writer and poet inspiring composers and musicians from diverse genres for more than a century. ![]() Here’s Lou Reed reciting his inspiration at the Cannes Advertising Festival last year. Below is DaFoe’s contribution to the album: The album’s guest stars included Steve Buscemi, David Bowie and Willem DaFoe. Poe also resonated with Lou Reed, whose 2003 album “The Raven” paid tribute to the poem. The Dead performed their own interpretation of “The Raven” at the Baltimore Civic Center on April 19, 1982. (Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha” transitions into “The Raven” around 9:30.) 6. Each minute of music corresponds exactly to each verse of the poem.Mu. It should come as no surprise that Gonzo’s a big Poe fan. symphonic rock/metal instrumental track inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven. In a season six episode, the young Muppets explore various poems. In this 1942 version, the persistent raven is a vacuum cleaner salesman. “A Cartoon Travesty of ‘The Raven,’” Fleischer Studios This Poe-esque piece was an original strip created for The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury. ![]() ![]() Stand! paints a stirring portrait of an iconic moment in Olympic history that still resonates today. Cowritten with Newbery Honour and Coretta Scott King Author Honour recipient Derrick Barnes and illustrated with bold and muscular artwork from Emmy Award-winning illustrator Dawud Anyabwile, Victory. In his first-ever memoir for young readers, Tommie Smith looks back on his childhood growing up in rural Texas through to his stellar athletic career, culminating in his historic victory and Olympic podium protest. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats and faced ostracism and continuing economic hardships. ![]() ![]() ![]() On 16 October 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. ![]() ![]() That formative experience on the extreme roller coaster that is the contemporary music industry helped shape Charles’ most personal book to date. “There were four of us-and then there were three of us,” she says. ![]() ![]() It was a whirlwind time with major highs, major lows, and friends and bandmates lost along the way, she tells Kirkus via Zoom from her home in New Jersey. The group performed with Boyz II Men, appeared on BET and Showtime at the Apollo, and-yes-had a song on the radio. “I used to be that girl,” says New York Times–bestselling author Tami Charles, who joined an all-girl RB singing group in the 1990s, when she was just 13. The girl who hears her own clear voice on the radio at night. Cuts a record on an honest-to-goodness label, tours the world. ![]() The girl who forms a singing group with her friends in middle school, performs at all the local events, wins prizes, gets noticed, gets signed. You know that girl-maybe you are that girl-the one with sky-high talent and the drive to match. ![]() ![]() “On an island,” thinks the grandmother, “everything is complete.” In The Summer Book, Jansson creates her own complete world, full of the varied joys and sorrows of life. They discuss things that matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and of love. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship, build boats from bark, create a miniature Venice, write a fanciful study of local bugs. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. ![]() This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer-its sunlight and storms-into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. ![]() ![]() (Tom Cruise, friendly yet almost robotically intense, is the one who complains to his agent when the cast mates are asked to share hotel rooms. He writes viscerally and insightfully about what would turn out to be a watershed moment in his life and career. Coppola would put in “The Outsiders,” his 1983 teen-rebel movie that launched a whole generation of future dreamboats? The whole neighborhood, Mr. Guess what Charlie’s father, Martin, had been doing? Having a meltdown while making “Apocalypse Now” for Francis Ford Coppola. Guess who Chris’s best friend was? Charlie Sheen. Guess who liked to make home movies of his schoolmates? Chris Penn, brother of Sean. ![]() ![]() But his own story doesn’t catch fire until he gets to the guess-who game that gave him his big break in movies. Lowe was outstandingly ambitious among his schoolmates in Malibu and Santa Monica, many of whom were bound for glory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, Maureen Johnson doesn't take any of the easy paths or settle for obvious "lessons" with her characters so what we end up with is a rich exploration of growth, friendship, relationships, and family with just the right pacing of events to move the story along. She's pretty aggressive and that always bugs me. And I thought I'd have a harder time with Aunt Peg than I actually did. She's pretty passive and that always bugs me. I thought I'd have a harder time with Ginny than I actually did. ![]() When her aunt Peg dies and leaves her a stack of envelopes with travel instructions, Ginny reluctantly begins following the path they describe. Yes, she knows that she is shy, even with her aunt Peg (who she loves wholeheartedly), but she's okay with that. She doesn't get into trouble, she gets good grades, and she follows the rules. I loved this book and I'm afraid this review won't do it justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Feed gives you just that: a zombie story set up to explore politics in a really interesting, and very gripping way. ![]() ![]() If you ever thought, "West Wing would be so awesome, if only it had zombies", I have excellent news for you. But then things start to go wrong on the campaign trail and George is sure that there is something bigger going on. When they actually get the gig, they know that they have hit the jackpot. The three of them have applied to shadow the campaign of Senator Peter Ryman as he prepares to run for president, hoping to get unprecedented access for a blog. Their friend Buffy takes care of fiction. George deals with politics, Shaun with action, happiest when he is poking a zombie with a stick. Feed is an electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own that the New York Times calls Astonishing a novel of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant. George and her brother Shaun run one of the many blogs that have become the major news source for most people since the Kellis-Amberlee virus changed the world forever. Feed is an electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own that the New York Times calls Astonishing - a novel of zombies, geeks. Feed is the first book in the Newsflesh series by Mira Grant, aka Seanan McGuire. Buy a cheap copy of Feed book by Mira Grant. ![]() |