![]() (And Other Stories, paper, $15.95.) Quin’s experimental final novel, first published in 1972, offers a collage of styles as it tells the story of a man being chased across the country by his estranged lover and her new boyfriend.īRONZE DRUM, by Phong Nguyen. (Simon & Schuster, $30.) The longest-serving living American senator recounts his life in politics, from riding his tricycle into the governor’s office as a 6-year-old to his election as the first Democrat to represent Vermont in the Senate and his role in negotiating the custody case of Elián González with Cuba. THE ROAD TAKEN: A Memoir, by Patrick Leahy. (Grove, $26.) Acampora’s third book follows a former photographer from New York City who is growing tired of the “fairy-tale quicksand” of her family life in sleepy suburban Connecticut when a young and ambitious environmentalist artist crashes into their town. ![]() (Little, Brown, $28.) Donoghue returns to historical fiction in this novel set during the early Middle Ages, in which a devout scholar-priest recruits two monks to join him on a pilgrimage to an island he’s envisioned in a dream, resulting in a journey that severely tests their understandings of faith and humanity. ![]()
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![]() Indecent is about the controversy surrounding a 1923 Broadway production of God of Vengeance, a Yiddish play by Sholem Asch. PEN America, along with The National Coalition Against Censorship and the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund released a statement condemning the decision and "urged school officials to rescind their decision and work with students to stage the play as planned." Officials said the play about a play about a love affair between two women is "inappropriate," as reported by WJCT. Last week, Duval County Public School officials canceled a production of Paula Vogel's Indecent at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. PEN America and two other free speech groups are drawing national attention to Florida county school officials' decision to cancel a play that is itself about censorship. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions Playwright Paula Vogel speaks onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards. ![]() ![]() The overall tone of the contemporary story is rather spooky and full of omens, hinting at a dark event from the building’s past. We also follow fabric pattern designer Mary-Louise Stephenson in the 1700s as she tries to break into a male-dominanted industry with her unique floral designs. In the late 1700s, maid Rowan Caswell finds herself working for a silk merchant whose business dealings are not all they seem. In the present day, we follow Thea Rust as she leaves Australia following her father’s death to teach history at the elite boarding school he attended in Wilshire, England. Filled with Nunn’s trademark feminist themes and rich settings, this was a perfect read to sink into. Anchored around the eponymous silk merchant’s house – an elite boarding school accommodation building in contemporary times – we watch the lives of grieving women unfold, as past dark deeds come to light. ![]() ![]() The Silk House is Kayte Nunn’s latest dual timeline historical/contemporary fiction offering, and it is a deliciously Gothic one. ![]() ![]() Encourage readers to count the vegetables. ![]() Encourage students to use all their senses! (See other books and websites such as the author’s for additional photos.) Even better, bring in the real veggies for hands on study, cross section, drawing, and tasting. Are there any vegetables your students cannot identify? Research to find other photos of them and compare to the chant photos. Patterns. Quantities. Are the vegetables dumped straight onto a table? Are they organized in any way? How? Why do you think they are in boxes, piles, and small groups? Who do you think organizes them and why?ĭifferent and the same. Which vegetables are the same? Which are different? Which show up in several parts of the book? Be a vegetable detective! ![]() Study other qualities such as bright, dark, and shiny. Here are some concepts to explore during small group and one-on-one readings of Rah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant:Ĭolors and shapes. Engage young readers in discussing what they observe about vegetable colors and frame colors. ![]() ![]() In Winterwood, you must be careful of the dark, dark forest… Some say the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven are magical-haunted, even. Penny will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself. Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets as townspeople turn against one another, Penny and Bo suspect the other of hiding secrets, and death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters. But like many outsiders, he doesn’t truly believe there is danger hidden beneath the waves. Out beyond the bay, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot tries to warn Bo Carter, a boy looking for work and a place to stay, unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Stones were tied to their ankles, and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding town. ![]() In The Wicked Deep, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery in the small coastal town of Sparrow, Oregon. ![]() From New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw comes two enchanting romances, “wickedly chilling” ( School Library Journal) The Wicked Deep and “spellbinding” (Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series) Winterwood, in one magical volume. ![]() |