With the new Star Wars movie due next month and living with the biggest Star Wars fan in the world I just had to read this to keep up with the play. This Review: 9.0/10 Price: Value for Money: ReReadability: Personal Choice: This incredible, original story captures all of the humor, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school-all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, sketches, e-mails, and more. If he doesn't find out who it is, and fast, he may get kicked out of school! Why can't middle school just be easy. But now, someone is setting him up to get in trouble with everyone at school, including Yoda. He's been busier than ever learning to fly (and wash) starships, swimming in the Lake Country on Naboo, studying for the Jedi obstacle course exam, and tracking down dozens of vorpak clones-don't ask. It's hard to believe this is Roan's last year at Jedi Academy. Available: September 2015 Star Wars Jedi Academy #3: The Phantom Bully product reviewsĪward-winning author/illustrator Jeffrey Brown returns for the third installation of the NY Times Bestseller Star Wars: Jedi Academy! No fee was accepted by KIWIreviews or the reviewers themselves - these are genuine, unpaid consumer reviews. Disclosure Statement FULL DISCLOSURE: A number of units of this product have, at some time, been supplied to KIWIreviews by Scholastic (NZ) or their agents for the purposes of unbiased, independent reviews.
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Nearly is a talented high school student trying to make a better life for herself. Nearly Gone was a gripping mystery thriller with many twists and turns and intrigue. Nearly might be the one person who can put all the clues together, and if she doesn’t figure it out soon – she’ll be next.īig, dark, scary, and brilliantly plotted, Nearly Gone will leave you guessing until the very end. Then a serial killer goes on a murder spree and starts attacking students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper. Only her best friends know about her obsession with the personal ads, and Nearly hasn’t told anyone about the emotions she can taste when she brushes against someone’s skin. Living in a trailer park outside Washington, DC, with a mom who works as an exotic dancer, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Keeping secrets is second nature to Nearly Boswell. The course began as an experiment ten years ago, has become one of the Stanford MBA program’s most popular electives, and inspired her forthcoming book, Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe (Currency/Penguin Random House, 2020). An innovator in the classroom, her course “Acting with Power” is a highly unusual collaboration between social scientists and professional actors that focuses on the leadership challenge of internalizing unfamiliar roles. Professor Gruenfeld has taught courses on groups and power for more than 25 years. She is currently most intrigued by the effects of having power while feeling powerless, and by the related and surprisingly common preference for ranking second-not first-in social groups. The author of numerous scientific articles on power and group behavior, Gruenfeld’s most recent work explains when and why power corrupts, and shows that power affects a wide range of social and organizational behaviors, from the reasoning of Supreme Court judges, to perspective-taking and helping behavior, to objectification and sexual aggression. Deborah Gruenfeld, Ph.D., the Joseph McDonald chaired professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, is a social and organizational psychologist who studies the psychology of power and powerlessness. We recommend reading the Shadowhunters books chronologically, starting with book one City of Bones. The Mortal Instruments is the first series in the Shadowhunters Chronicles. This startling discovery triggers a series of action-filled adventures and romance.Ĭassandra Clare’s books have been adapted for screen several times: in 2013 into the film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and, more recently, into an American TV series on Netflix starring Katherine McNamara as Clary. In book one City of Bones, Clary meets Jace and discovers that, like him, she is a Shadowhunter, a human-angel hybrid who hunts down demons. The Red Scrolls of Magic was an amazing YA romance and a great start to this new series it was cute, Magnus and Alec were adorable together, and it just gave me warm fuzzies I can’t wait for The Lost Book of the White to be published, I know this book will be even more cute with Magnus and Alec as parents. Searching for her missing mother, Clary is pulled into an alternate New York – Downworld is filled with mysterious faeries, partying warlocks, vampires who aren’t want they seem, an army of werewolves and the demons who want to destroy it all. The Mortal Instruments books are a favourite amongst young adult readers, for their compelling and mysterious plots, dynamic characters and passionate love story.Ĭasandra Clare’s Young Adult fantasy series tells the story of Clary Fray. The Eldest Curses is a trilogy of books (The Red Scrolls of Magic, The Lost Book of the White, and The Black Volume of the Dead) that tell the story of Magnus and Alec's adventures together, starting with an action-packed trip to Europe set just after they began dating. Scholar Robert Solomon has called No Exit “one of philosophy’s most profound contributions to the theater,” while Irish critic Vivien Mercier has suggested that all of Samuel Beckett’s major plays, and by extension the theater of the absurd, ultimately derive from it. Of his nine plays No Exit is centrally important both as a crucial text applying the philosophical precepts that dominated the post–World War II era and as a formulation of a new kind of drama that significantly influenced the theater in the second half of the 20th century. Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to the Deutsche Gramaphon recording of No ExitĪlthough drama was only a small part of Jean-Paul Sartre’s remarkable oeuvre that included the central texts of French existentialism-the philosophical movement that he named and spearheaded-in the forms of novels, essays, and an almost continual stream of articles, Sartre is unique among philosophers in illustrating his ideas in literary works. And if people do not break out, they stay there of their own free will. Whatever the circle of hell in which we live, I think we are free to break out of it. the importance of changing our acts by other acts. In fact, since we are alive, I wanted to demonstrate, through the absurd, the importance for us of liberty, i.e. It is a sort of living death to be surrounded by the ceaseless concern for judgments and action that one does not even desire to change. Speaking of figuring out why things happened, that is something I would still like to know. Super creepy! And they're not the only terror: "I had begun to throb with the desire to understand why things happened, why some people lived under the ground, like our enclave, the Freaks, and the Burrowers, and why some stayed Topside and turned into the greatest monsters of all" (173). What they reminded me of more than anything actually were the morlocks from The Time Machine. They have the speed of any other predator and are learning, like in Aftertime. Zombies have been done before, of course, but these feel much more terrifying. Book two will so be mine (and I totally want to acquire a copy of this one for my personal collection). The writing, the plot and the characters are all fantastic. That sets the standard for quality in a teen dystopia pretty darn high.and Aguirre totally came through! I was completely pulled into this world from the first pages. The front of the book compared Enclave to The Hunger Games. “Eighty-six when I called in this afternoon,” Crawford said. “Two families killed in their houses a month apart. “What was in the Miami Herald and the Times,” Graham said. If you brought pictures, leave them in the briefcase. You’ve got to talk about it, so let’s have it. “I don’t want to talk about it anywhere, Jack. “I should have caught you in Marathon when you got off work,” he said. Jack Crawford looked at the pleasant old house, salt-silvered wood in the clear light. Will Graham sat Crawford down at a picnic table between the house and the ocean and gave him a glass of iced tea. Red Dragon is now exactly 40 years old and remains the best of the canon. The first and last Harris books, while still valuable, are unconnected to the Lecter mythos. Compared to most professional thriller writers active during the same 44-year span, this is a slender bibliography, but the middle four entries concerning Hannibal Lecter had major impact. Thomas Harris produced six books from 1975 to 2019. I worked in a small radio station myself in the 1970s in Yellowknife. I could see that a small radio station would provide me with a laboratory of sorts in which to study the shy and the self-confident alike speak on air and stumble and either recover or not. I was fascinated by the dilemma of being shy and by the movement out of shyness and hesitation into a larger world. We spoke with Hay about her inspiration, how she builds her characters and why the North is so compelling.Ĭanadian Living: What was your inspiration for the book?Įlizabeth Hay: Often something I’m curious about acts as a magnet for other connecting things. The Canadian Living Book Club pick for December is Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay, the winner of the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Eliot, were inspired and influenced by his work. Generations of writers and poets, including Sigmund Freud and T. AUTHOR: Scottish folklorist and anthropologist Sir James Frazer (18541941) spent three decades assembling The Golden Bough, a pioneering study of ancient cults, rites, and myths. This abridgment of his multivolume magnum opus omits footnotes and occasionally condenses text nevertheless, as the author himself observed, all of the original work's main principles remain intact, along with ample illustrative examples. Frazer's definitions of such terms as "magic," "religion," and "science" proved highly useful to his successors, and his explications of the legends profoundly influenced generations of prominent psychologists, writers, and poets. An extensive study of the cults, rites, and myths of antiquity, The Golden Bough explores ancient customs and their parallels with early Christianity. This 1890 work by Sir James George Frazer, an expert in myth and religion, was inspired by the legend. If the runaway could kill the tree's attendant priest, he would become King of the Wood until his defeat by a new challenger. According to legend, runaway slaves could attain a sort of freedom by breaking off a branch - the Golden Bough - from a sacred tree. I read about American Presidents - and I read a lot about American Presidents - in part because of the Shakespearean themes that confront them and the Shakespearean characters they become. As usual, Goodwin's writing was superb and I look forward even if forward might be another five years down the road to her next masterpiece. I followed up reading this volume with a trip to Taft's home, and again was dazzled with various snippets of information that is usually neglected in generic history books. Thus, she chose President Taft, a lesser known, yet honorable man, who later went on to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I would think that originally Goodwin would have liked to write just on Roosevelt however, much has been penned about him already, and she did not have the requisite information to fill an entire book. I was captivated by Alice Roosevelt, leading me to read her biography later in the spring. From a historical perspective, I get exhilarated by her writing to learn about the cast of characters and important issues of the day. In this tome, she compares and contrasts how the muckraking journalists influenced the Roosevelt and Taft presidencies. Doris Kearns Goodwin is one of this country's master historians, so it is always a treat to read her books. |