
Thunderstruck & Other Stories
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From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House - finalist for the National Book Award -...

Ursa Major
Yves Bonnefoy and Beverly Bie Brahic
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Yves Bonnefoy is one of the greatest living voices of contemporary French poetry. In this, his sixth...

Invisible Women: It's Time to Talk About You!
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Isn't it about time we talked about YOU? Tessa, Sandra and Harriet have been best friends through...

50 Fabulous Classical Monologues for Men
Freyda Thomas and Jan Silverman
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Fifty fabulous, fresh, new classical monologues for men await you within these pages. Everyone from...

Aesthetic Citizenship: Immigration, Theater, and Embodiment in Twenty-First Century Paris
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Aesthetic Citizenship is an ethnographic study of the role of theatrical performance in questions...

Beautiful Province
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The 2012 winner of the Yale Drama Series A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely...

Each Slow Dusk
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The Private misses the farm. The Captain dreams of painting. The Corporal relishes the fight. And a...

Lindsay (1760 KP) rated LUCY and la petite nouvelle: The Newcomer (The Front Porch Diaries #1) in Books
Jul 8, 2020
Like I said it does talk about race a bit. It set in the year 1960's so we are going to to see the reactions that will happen. What it mostly about seem to focus on friendships, growing up and siblings throughout the book.
There are some good life lessons to learn though out the book as well. Lucy seem to try and make friends with Simone and show her new friend around. We see how Lucy deals with some problems. Eddie seem to be good part of it as well and showing Simone's brother around.
I enjoy the story and life lessons learned though the book and how it told. Good for children in middle grade. We learn a bit of french and a little bit of history as well. We do read the story though the viewpoint of Lucy.

Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Snowpiercer in TV
Jul 14, 2020
Snowpiercer is based on a french comic series. There are three comics set before the series which is set 7 years after the extinction event (When the world froze) then another comic, then a movie (15 years after the EE) then two more comics, this means that if, like me, you have seen the film first you will know that there are some limits to what can happen in the series.
Like the film the series is foremost a commentary on class with the train having three official classes, 1st, 2nd and 3rd, the unofficial 'Night Car' and the tailys, a large group of stowaways who live in the tail of the train.
Snowpiercer also focus on the impact of living in a very closed and contained environment and the effect that even the slightest change could make.
Be warned there are a few violent scenes, a bit of nudity, and sex references so if you don't like that sort of thing you may want to avoid this

Goodbye to Boleyn: West Ham's Final Season at Upton Park and the Big Kick-off at Stratford
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West Ham's final season at the Boleyn Ground was always going to be memorable. It featured a new...