![]() ![]() Sadie also reads as a touching coming-of-age tale. As in the best of thrillers, this is the story of an ordinary person faced with extraordinary circumstances. Sadie is not a detective in any way, nor is she a hard-trained action heroine. Her search for revenge blossoms into a much bigger mystery than anyone could predict in the deceptively simple beginning of the book. While the plot does not lead to planet-threatening danger, Sadie’s road-trip-cum-investigation takes her into the worst neighborhoods in America and brings her face-to-face with a variety of dangerous characters intent on keeping their own secrets. ![]() As in any good mystery, she meets surprises and twists along the way. We also follow the clues Sadie finds trying to chase down a killer. As one journalist tries to track her down, we follow the clues Sadie leaves behind. Our heroine, Sadie Hunter, is a runaway herself. ![]() First, it is a fascinating mystery rooted in the protagonist’s search for her sister’s killer. Beyond its riveting plot, Sadie is a triumph of innovative storytelling.Īs a story, Sadie is many things. With Sadie, Courtney Summers has served up a deep and satisfying read. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Physical Information: 0.2" H x 9.8" W x 8.75" (0.30 lbs) 32 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Productįrom picture-book master Byron Barton, this is the perfect story for young readers who love outer space and want to know more about how NASA astronauts do their job. Juvenile Fiction | Technology - General Juvenile Fiction | Transportation - General Juvenile Fiction | Business, Careers, Occupations ![]() Oustanding Science Trade Books for Children 1988 (NSTA/CBC) The illustrations positively glow in this simple, lyrical picture book that will have nearly everyone off and flying.' -SLJ.īest Illustrated Children's Books of 1988 (NYT) It's fun to fly aboard the shuttle.and then come back to earth.'A young girl declares her longing to 'fly on the shuttle into outer space.' The familiar acts of eating, sleeping, and working become intense and special as she and the rest of the crew go about their business. ![]() Into orbit, the astronauts get a taste of ready-to-eat food, experience zero gravity, go for space walks, and even fix a satellite. ![]() WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: Blast-off! Up into the shy goes the space shuttle. Contributor(s): Barton, Byron (Author), Barton, Byron (Illustrator) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can visit Susan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or on her website. ![]() In addition to being a New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and USA Today bestseller, she is a hiker, lazy gardener, horrible singer, passable cook, passionate reader, wife, mother of two grown sons, and grandmother. Susan's newest book, WHEN STARS COLLIDE, was published in hardcover, ebook and audiobook in June 2021 She is also the highly acclaimed author of both the CHICAGO STARS football series and the Wynette, Texas books. She’s the only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award, and a recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award. An internationally acclaimed author, her books have been published in over 30 languages. Susan Elizabeth Phillips is the creator of the sports romance, beginning with her 1989 bestseller, FANCY PANTS. ![]() ![]() ![]() This pays off in the book’s approach, which is to distil the enormous wicked problem of climate change into categories that are easy to understand. He calls in experts and asks questions, and he has a genuine enthusiasm for topics others might find very boring, such as fertiliser or cement or the workings of the US energy grid. As we’ve seen with his work on poverty, health, or unpopular topics like toilets, Gates has a huge capacity to take in information. I do believe, though, that it is an informed opinion, and I am always trying to learn more.” “I can’t deny being a rich guy with an opinion. “The world is not exactly lacking in rich men with big ideas about what other people should do” he says at the outset. It’s worth reading because it’s going to be influential.īecause he’s a very smart man, Gates is aware of the grumbling. Politicians who read one climate book a decade will probably pick this one. ![]() Even if you disagree, this is likely to be the most read climate book of the year. But if we have to have billionaires, we want them to be involved in the biggest challenges facing humanity, rather than firing their money into space*. 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As a teenager, I was continually annoyed by some of her requests: comb your hair pull up your jeans (remember when low-rise jeans were a thing? It was not a good look, I can assure you!). In her note, my mom confessed to doing many things that the writer of this piece had done: checking my hair, my appearance. Above it, my mom had written a note: “Dear Benny”-I was “Benny” from the time I was a toddler the family folklore was that when we were babies, a man approached my parents, commenting on their cute baby boys, and my parents played along, pretending our names were Benjamin and Beauregard, later shorted to Benny and Bo. My mom, and her mom before her, loved clipping newspaper articles and cartoons from the paper to send to Barbara and me. ![]() On one visit home, I found an essay from the Washington Post by the linguistics professor Deborah Tannen that had been cut out and left on my desk. My mom knew this and wanted me to know it too. ![]() “Mother-daughter relationships can be complicated and fraught with the effects of moments from the past. ![]() ![]() Fault Lines exposes how prevalent and subliminal this ideology is in our culture and how we operate out of it, a lot of times without even knowing. This particular fault line is the ideology of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Intersectionality (I). Voddie Baucham, black pastor and professor, has written this book to expose the fault line that exists in the world today that is sure to widen and do damage to our society and our churches. This may be a sentiment you’ve voiced yourself or have heard recently. “Why are people so up in arms and claiming we’re teaching/preaching/perpetuating Critical Race Theory?! We don’t even know what it is! 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