![]() ![]() ![]() Koalas are NOT bears, and it is time that everyone knows it! With hysterical text, wacky illustrations and non-fiction facts woven throughout, this koala is out to prove that despite the fur, he’s definitely not a bear. ![]() Koala is sick of being called the wrong thing. A cautionary tale exploring what happens when one little koala decides he wants something else…maybe ice cream?! Picture Books About Koalas Koalas Eat Gum Leaves by Laura Bunting RELATED: Be sure to also check out our list of 50+ of the best Australian picture books by our favourite Australian authors.īest Picture Books About Australian Animalsįor more information about the titles listed below, each is linked to an online bookstore page where you can find reviews and age recommendations for titles you are unfamiliar with (these are affiliate links). Echidnas, koalas and kangaroos, oh my! You’ll find all of these super cool and slightly unusual animals in this list of the best picture books about Australian animals – there’s a platypus, emus and wombats too! ![]()
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![]() ![]() What I loved : The bird's serious dissection of racism and classes throughout the book in a kid-friendly way. They'll challenge her ideas of right, wrong, and what truly makes a hero. Ellie's new friends offer not just roadside companionship. ![]() Soon her path intertwines with a colorful band of fellow outcasts, each with their own aspirations. Foul creatures called gargols lurk behind every cloud, ready to slay anyone unlucky enough to be caught outside in a storm - just as Ellie's family was. Determined to honor her parents' memories and prove herself worthy of the Goldwings, Ellie sets out on her own for the capital. This rigid hierarchy means that Ellie is destined to become a farmer. There's just one problem: Ellie is a Sparrow, and the Goldwings are almost invariably picked from the higher clans like Eagles and Ospreys. It was a Goldwing, after all, who saved her life on that terrible day her parents were killed. Ellie Meadows dreams of growing up to join the Goldwings - the famed knights who defend all the people of the Clandoms. ![]() In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, with tight-knit communities formed around bird types: Jay, Falcon, Crow. In a world where everyone is born with wings, stone monsters prowl the skies, hunting those who dare to fly too high. Jessica Khoury brings her masterful world-building and emotional depth to a brand-new fantasy series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Matt, all of thirty-two now, spends his time with James’ wife, Penny, to forget his past. The story starts on a Thursday, with the fall approaching again, after sixteen long years. What has the future in store for him? Review: ![]() Empire High is back and with it, a Matt who has grown up over the years, is now the coach of the Empire High football team, and in a story which made me cry from the first few pages, with grief as old as time hanging over the pages of the story. Matt is back, as Coach Caldwell this time. If you haven’t read the previous book, then there may be SPOILERS in the review. Warning: This is a series where the books are in continuation. A promotional banner announcing that the book is now available Join Ivy’s Group for access to bonus content from the book and visit Ivy on her Facebook page for exclusive news. This title is a new adult, contemporary romance. Today I am reviewing Empire High Matchmaker by Ivy Smoak, book four in the Empire High Series. Empire High Matchmaker is the story of Matthew Caldwell, sixteen years after we met him in the Empire High trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is an associate professor at Yale, and has perfectly satirized the New England university in “Hell Bent.”īardugo’s novel paints a picture that most Dartmouth students can recognize. Leigh Bardugo has asserted herself as a literary force over the past decade, authoring the widely popular young adult fantasy series “Shadow and Bone,” whose Netflix adaptation received rave reviews following its release in April 2021. ![]() What if I told you that all of the intersecting pathways on the Green actually formed a protective pattern to ward off evil spirits? In Leigh Bardugo’s new novel “Hell Bent” - the highly anticipated sequel to the fantasy hit, “Ninth House” - that is the uncanny truth behind the central quad at Yale University. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, his name was cleared, largely because of the publicity Conan Doyle brought to bear. He was convicted on the flimsiest evidence and sent to jail. ![]() Frequently harassed by his local constabulary, Edalji was arrested for a series of ritualistic slaughters of cows, horses, and sheep that had terrorized the community for years. Now he brings out Arthur & George (Knopf), an utterly absorbing, beautifully crafted old-fashioned novel based on the true story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's taking up a miscarriage of justice at the turn of the last century-the false conviction of a half-Parsi, half-Scottish young solicitor named George Edalji. The English novelist Julian Barnes accepts this: He has been fooling around in complex, intelligent ways with 19th-century figures and forms since his early success with Flaubert's Parrot. The novel is a stubborn form-150 years ago it found the shapes and approaches that suited it, and it has never for long been happy in other clothing. ![]() Julian Barnes's dazzling novel about the real-life heroism of Sherlock Holmes's creator. ![]() ![]() But at the time, copies of it were prohibitively expensive and I despaired of every getting a copy of it, just like the other two books on my wishlist: STORMFIRE and THE SILVER DEVIL. It was like something out of a Lisa Frank-themed porno shoot and I knew I had to have it. ![]() Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestĮNCHANTED PARADISE has been on my to-read list for a while ever since I saw it featured on a blog celebrating beautiful covers. He knew he must possess her totally and have her by his side, so together they could share love's Enchanted Paradise Her long raven hair was like silk to his touch her ruby lips beckoned for his kiss. She was an innocent child on the brink of womanhood, and his desire for her pulsed through his body with burning fury. ![]() ![]() The sight of his strong, muscular chest made her weak with longing, for once he awakened her to the joys of passion, she wanted to spend the rest of her nights with him alone!įrayne's quest left him with little time for anything other than his search for the unicorn, yet he could not believe his good fortune when he first set eyes on the ravishingly beautiful Aurora. Frayne - magnificent warrior, reckless lover - the only man Aurora ever needed. It was not until she met Frayne that she understood her destiny was in his embrace. ![]() Aurora knew that she didn't belong with the elves who raised her, but was happy to live among the gentle creatures of the glade. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When She Woke operates on a chilling principle: the United States is ruled by a right-wing, evangelical religious party that has deemed abortion illegal. Upon her release, she will be in arguably worse circumstances, a societal outcast inhabiting a dystopian near-future, an object of hatred and scorn requiring all her wits to survive. She will remain a “red” for 16 years, with ten years added to her sentence for refusing to name the child’s father.įor the next 30 days, Hannah will remain locked in the hospital room, where live television cameras will record her every move for a reality-television hungry public. As Hannah regains consciousness, we see what see she does: a bare room whose sole bit of color is Hannah herself: her skin is a bloody crimson red, the result of “chroming”, punishment for the crime of abortion. We awaken with Hannah Payne in a hospital room. ![]() ![]() ![]() In letters to family members, the cause of death was attributed to all manner of illnesses except starvation, a word that was never mentioned. After Jiabiangou was shuttered, a doctor assigned to the camp spent six months fabricating the medical records of every inmate. In October 1961, the government ordered Jiabiangou closed and subsequently mounted an exhaustive cover-up. When word of the soaring death toll reached the capital, Beijing began an investigation. All but 500 of them would perish in Jiabiangou, mostly of starvation. In his introduction, the translator, Wen Huang, explains that the camp, which was built to hold just 40 or 50 criminals, came to hold roughly 3,000 political prisoners between 19. Yang’s stories, which he painstakingly collected over a three-year period a decade ago, are the recollections of people the Chinese state branded as “rightists” in the late 1950s and sent to Jiabiangou (夾邊溝), a camp notorious for “re-education through labor” in the northwestern desert wastelands of Gansu Province. ![]() Xianhui Yang’s (楊顯惠) Woman From Shanghai: Tales of Survival From a Chinese Labor Camp (上海女人-中國勞改場幸存者的故事), a newly translated collection of firsthand accounts that the publisher deems “fact-based fiction,” centers on what might be called the Gulag Archipelago of China. ![]() ![]() It is a novel about female friendship and devotion, the roles made available to us, and how we become ourselves. Who will she be if she isn't with her sisters? These women, the church, have been her home?or has she just been hiding? Disarming, delightfully deadpan, and full of searching, Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone, to teach math at a local all-girls high school, where for the first time in years she will have to reckon with what she sees and feels all on her own. They head up a halfway house, where they live alongside castoffs like the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. ![]() It is a novel about sisterhood, friendship, and devotion, about figuring out how we fit in (or don’t), and about the unexpected friends who help us find our truest selves. ![]() They land in Woonsocket, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. Disarming, delightfully deadpan, and full of searching, Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. But when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. ![]() The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life. Their world is contained within the little house they share. Agatha of Little Neon Claire Luchette Buy Now Indiebound Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Date AugFiction Literary A novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or dont), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self. Agatha has lived every day of the last seven years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. ![]() |