![]() Rogers’s neighborhood, where a fixed storytelling routine and familiar characters bring comfort to children as they seek to navigate a world that becomes ever more complicated as they grow up. But readers who love Bear Country consider it a place not unlike Mr. Over the years, the Berenstains drew criticism for promoting long-outmoded gender roles and overly simple life lessons. ![]() Those books have been translated into almost two dozen languages and have inspired television shows, amusement park rides, McDonald’s Happy Meal collectibles and animal crackers made in the bears’ images. Since the release in 1962 of the first Berenstain Bears volume, “ The Big Honey Hunt,” the series has sold about 260 million books. Berenstain’s treehouse-dwelling ursine family - hapless Papa in his overalls, wise Mama in her polka-dot dress and kerchief, and their three archetypal children. Her husband, Stan Berenstain, died in 2005 at 82.įew American youngsters finish elementary school without taking a walk “down a sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country” and getting to know Mrs. ![]() She had suffered a stroke last week, her son Michael Berenstain said. 24 at a hospital near her home in Bucks County, Pa. Jan Berenstain, the children’s author who with her husband created the Berenstain Bears, whose winsome antics filled more than 300 picture books and helped guide millions of young readers through the vicissitudes of childhood, died Feb. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With his best selling novel, Fear: Trump in the White House, Bob Woodward avoids the issues of credibility and bias that weakened the previous books. ![]() However, Michael Wolff’s decision not to identify his sources and James Comey’s obvious bias in attempting to exonerate himself after Trump fired him as FBI director, left both books lacking in credibility. I haven’t read Unhinged by Omarosa Manigault Newman, but I suspect that bias may be a factor in limiting the credibility of that book as well. Both contain revealing inside views of the Trump White House, their facts consistent with media coverage of the Trump presidency that’s aired daily on every network since the 2016 election. I’ve previously posted book reviews of two best sellers relating to the Trump presidency– Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff and A Higher Loyalty by James Comey. This post was published on: 09/19/18 in the Book Reviews category ![]() ![]() ![]() Debut novelist Brashares renders each girl individual and lovable in her own right, emphasizing growing up without growing apart. ![]() The pants become a metaphor for the young women finding their own strength in the face of new love, unexpected friendships and death, a father’s remarriage, and a reckless relationship-and without their best friends. These magical jeans, dubbed the Traveling Pants, span the world, one week at a time, lending their mystical powers wherever they go. Visiting grandparents for the first time in Greece, attending soccer camp in Mexico, spending the summer with dad in South Carolina, or working at home, how will these girls survive their time alone? Leave it to a pair of secondhand jeans, which, despite their various body shapes, fits all four perfectly. Carmen, half-Hispanic, has a knack for math Lena, the beauty of the group and self-conscious about her appearance, demonstrates artistic talent Bridget is the tall soccer star and Tibby, the rebel, sports a nose ring. In this feel-good novel with substance, four teenage girls, friends since they were all born just weeks apart, are about to embark on their first summer as separate young women. ![]() ![]() Carlos knew Alejandro as a child when he had been a member of the Circle. Carlos Moreno works for the Ministry of Justice in northern Europe and is investigating the death in Dartmoor, England of Alejandro Casales, leader of the Circle, a religious cult in Texas. No word of the fate of the mission has been received. ![]() Plot summary Īfter Atlas takes place on Earth forty years after the departure of the spaceship Atlas to find God. ![]() Publishers Weekly selected After Atlas as one of its best science fiction/fantasy/horror books of 2016. Clarke Award, and placed eighth in the 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel was generally well received by critics, and was a finalist for the 2017 Arthur C. An audio edition of the book, narrated by Andrew Kingston, was published in the United States by Blackstone Audio in November 2016, and in the United Kingdom by Orion Publishing in December 2017.Īfter Atlas is the second book in Newman's four-book Planetfall series, and takes place on Earth forty years after the spaceship Atlas departed to find God in the first book, Planetfall. It was first published in the United States as a paperback original in November 2016 by Roc Books, and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in paperback in February 2018. ![]() After Atlas is a 2016 science fiction novel by British writer Emma Newman. ![]() ![]() ![]() And sometimes, just sometimes, there's something worse than all of the horrible people and vicious beasts combined. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. ![]() But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was so much fun to read! It was a sweet contemporary romance that was so cute and fluffy. With so many obstacles standing in their way, can she close the distance between them? But just when Xander’s loyalty and attentiveness are about to convince Caymen that being rich isn’t a character flaw, she finds out that money is a much bigger part of their relationship than she’d ever realized. Because if there’s one thing she’s learned from her mother’s warnings, it’s that the rich have a short attention span. ![]() Despite his charming ways and the fact that he seems to be one of the first people who actually gets her, she’s smart enough to know his interest won’t last. Enter Xander Spence-he’s tall, handsome, and oozing rich. And after years of studying them from behind the cash register of her mom’s porcelain-doll shop, she has seen nothing to prove otherwise. Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers learned early that the rich are not to be trusted. SUMMARY: Money can’t buy a good first impression. GENRE: Young-Adult,Contemporary, Romance. ![]() ![]() The woman began to plead and Hallam instinctively growled. His eyes glistened and his bottom lip dropped. The woman whimpered and Little Jim turned to watch unseen figures. A woman moaned and the man grinned with tobacco stained teeth at the sound. Tied around his neck was a filthy red neckerchief. His hair was shoulder-length, falling unruly over the red collar of his jacket. A man wearing a blue jacket took up a stone bottle and wiped his long flowing moustache afterwards. Hallam put a finger to his lips, but the boy, not even four, did not understand, and just gaped innocently back. ![]() Hallam leaned in even closer and a young boy with hair the colour of straw saw the movement to stare. He couldn’t see anyone but there was a murmur of voices. A small ham hung from the rafters, away from the rats and mice. ![]() There was a hearth-fire with a pot bubbling away and a battered table made of a length of wood over two pieces of cut timber. There was a crack in the wood and he gently inched closer to peer inside. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of the shuttered windows on the building’s eastern wall. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. ![]() ![]() She was a hundred-mile-an-hour single mother of two adopted children and the creator, solo writer, and daily juggler of multiple radio “soap operas.” It was not quite as easy for Irna Phillips. He agreed, and by the end of 1949, The Goldbergs was a hit with a solid sponsor, and Gertrude Berg was a television star. ![]() Berg wanted to take that popularity to the new medium of television, and she told William S. Gertrude Berg clearly understood how much power she wielded - still, in the fall of 1948, when she walked into the Madison Avenue office of the man in charge of CBS, she knew she was taking a chance.įor years, she’d been the writer, casting director, star, and force behind the network’s most popular radio show, The Goldbergs. ![]() You’ve seen every episode of this favorite show multiple times, and you know the must-watch scenes, every line, every outfit change, new set, and new character.Īnd in When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, you’ve still got a lot to learn. ![]() This is the best part of the whole series it’s a great bit, the funniest one. ![]() ![]() Or if you're catching the sun as it dips below the ocean's horizon, look to the best sunset quotes for your post. Want even more vacation inspiration? Use any of these Instagram vacation captions for your next vacation post. So if you find yourself craving even more connection to nature, or just need a change of scenery from the drab office with no windows you've been working in all year, check out these quotes. Woman and nature : the roaring inside her by Griffin, Susan. It's no wonder so many people have been inspired for centuries by the beauty and mystery of the ocean and have shared their thoughts and wisdoms with us. ![]() To plumb its depths is to discover a world filled with activity and creatures you never thought to imagine. The ocean is teeming with wildlife and mystery. Woman and nature: The roaring inside her Hardcover 53 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 15.19 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 66.34 6 Used from 66.34 Paperback 35.74 1 Used from 30.91 8 New from 33. Smelling that salty and briny sea breeze, seeing its vastness as our eyes scan the horizon to try to comprehend its end, and feeling so small in the middle of its mighty roar or quiet stillness: these are emotions only the ocean can stir. With each wave barreling in one after the other, our senses can’t help but be ignited. Woman and Nature : The Roaring Inside Her by Griffin, Susan and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at .uk. ![]() ![]() There’s nothing like standing at the edge of the ocean. ![]() ![]() ![]() "And then it allows the rest of the country to conceive of itself as relatively pristine." "The South in some ways becomes the repository for the nation's sins, right?" she says. Though popular culture often dismisses the South as backward and racist, Perry says that's a mischaracterization that, too often, lets the rest of the country off the hook. In her new book, South to America, she recounts her travels to the South - its cities, rural areas and historic sites - and reflects on the region's history of slavery and racism. Perry, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, was born in Birmingham, Ala., and has always considered it home, even though she moved north as a child. "It is, in some ways, an origin point for the way the whole nation operates." ![]() "The ideas about race, we get them from the way the stage was set in the South from the beginning," she says. 17.Īstrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Brooklyn Academy of MusicĪuthor Imani Perry says if you really want to know the United States, you must first understand the South. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in New York, on Jan. ![]() Imani Perry speaks at the Brooklyn Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() |