![]() ![]() Buy tickets for six or more events and save 20%.Īll proceeds from tickets go toward supporting programming at The New York Public Library.īecome a Friend of the Library to save up to 20% on general admission tickets and subscriptions, get access to presales, plus discounts at The Library’s Shop and Amy’s Bread Café in the Stephen A. Interested in coming to more than one event? Think ahead, and save with subscription packs. Buy tickets for three to five events and save 15%. She will be joined in conversation by author and translator Jenny McPhee. ![]() ![]() Through a series of conversations that read almost as oral histories, Cusk reveals a panoply of people and places who cross Faye’s path and shape her world.Īs the final volume makes its paperback debut, Cusk looks back at the trilogy as a whole to discuss her unique brand of suspense and storytelling. In her groundbreaking trilogy- Outline, Transit, and Kudos-Cusk explores the nature of family, art, love, and suffering as her protagonist, a writer named Faye, encounters friends and strangers in the course of her daily life. The best-selling British author Rachel Cusk is credited for reinventing the form of the novel, hooking readers with an inimitable voice, and unconventional sense of plot. ![]() A pioneer of fiction speaks about her characters and herself. ![]()
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![]() It’s no accident” that one found a whale. “It might be in a shark’s best interest to stick around a month longer than the rest of the sharks. ![]() “This (time) is when a lot of whales expire,” he said, referring to the end of the whales’ migration period that can leave whales exhausted. ![]() He quickly climbed a cliff to get a better view of the scene, and observed the shark coming up from underneath the dead whale about three times in the span of 10 minutes.īite marks from a shark are seen on the underside of a whale carcass near Point Reyes National Seashore. Peering through his binoculars, he briefly saw the telltale tail fin. While looking out to the surf, he noticed that a flock of birds that had been circling the whale suddenly darted up. Later that afternoon, he came back to the beach. But that morning, he still hadn’t seen a shark. A few surfers were debating whether to stay at the beach and decided to leave after Anderson told them that white sharks are notoriously attracted to dead whales. ![]() That morning, Anderson noticed a big white hump on the water. ![]() ![]() “They didn’t hide their light from anyone. The Spider, ignored, experiences a nighttime epiphany as stars shine down. A five-legged creature stole the Wonder and took it back to the sky.” (This deus ex machina is a child’s hand.) Time passes, WonderVille reverts to its previous state, and insects return. That self-aggrandizing assumption is rendered moot by “the Unexpected Disaster. The Spider presumes they’ve gone to invite prospective customers. He constructs a “Grand Exhibit” to showcase “the Wonder from the Sky.” As lines of visitors lengthen, admission increases from one leaf to two-then more-until visitors cease. Is it a gumdrop, a comet, a chrysalis? The Spider, nixing the chatter, asserts that “whatever it is, it most certainly belongs to me,” insisting that the sphere has fallen into his web. The object (readers will recognize it as a yellow-green marble) invites considerable speculation. ![]() When a strange orb falls into their habitat, the Spider commandeers it, constructing “WonderVille” and selling tickets to long lines of curious insects. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, and author of The How of Happiness It is full of whimsy, wonder, energy, and joy. Ingrid Fetell Lee's delightful book evokes the same positive feelings she describes. ![]() Joyful overturns conventional wisdom about happiness: that it comes from within, and that experiences-not things-make us happier. Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS, GIVE AND TAKE, and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg Warning: reading this book may cause unexpected bouts of joy. Ingrid Fetell Lee’s blockbuster debut will open your eyes to all the places where joy is hiding in plain sight. Joy is the most basic building block of happiness, and this mesmerizing book reveals where to find it-and how to create it. Joyful is an inexhaustible and exciting guide to what makes life good - Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global Founder, The Huffington Post A completely original treatment of a completely new and original idea: we all have within the power to design joy into our lives. ![]() ![]() Chloe and Alexander meeting one another agitated Isobel and she became restless and aggressive, not wanting Chloe there, so she made Chloe face the consequences. However, Alexander appeared very real to Chloe and she fell in love. Alexander and Isobel were in love until their deaths. Although Chloe is able to see all ghosts, she’s never seen one like Alexander Reade or Isobel. Isobel, the evil ghost has a past life in England and after Chloe and Rory’s mother passed away they went on holiday to England to live with their Grandma Fee. The conflict within this book was very intriguing. Sadly their mum passed at the beginning of the story. Other main characters are Rory Kennedy, younger brother to Chloe Kennedy, Grandma Fee, Chloe and Rory Kennedy’s mother’s mum. The main characters are Chloe Kennedy who sees ghosts, Alexander Reade, a 157 year old ghost that Chloe visions and Isobel, a ghost stronger than any other who is out for revenge. ![]() The book starts off in the United States in the state of California, but slowly moves to England in the UK. ![]() ![]() Using a core sample collected in 2016, University of Texas at Austin geologist Sean Gulick and a team of dozens of other researchers have further pieced together the story of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction. The best clues to what happened now lie buried in rock layers stacked 12 miles deep. ![]() Lizards, snakes, mammals and more suffered their own setbacks. The catastrophe not only decimated the dinosaurs, leaving only birds to carry their legacy, but also annihilated various forms of life from flying reptiles called pterosaurs to coil-shelled nautilus relatives called ammonites. The asteroid strike triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction. The immense Chicxulub crater is a remnant of one of the most consequential days in the history of life on Earth. ![]() ![]() Now, thanks to a new analysis of core samples taken from the crater’s inner ring of mountains, called a peak ring, geologists can create a detailed timeline of what happened on the day after impact. ![]() The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs. One of the greatest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He learned about the headless `rokuro-kubi’, the monstrous goblins 'jikiniki’ and the faceless ‘mujina’ who stalk lonely neighbourhoods and he sued them in his tales which he wrote in English. Throughout his fourteen years in Japan, Hearn, who grew up in Ireland, learned to accommodate into his stories traits and tropes in story-telling which he came across in his adopted land. These he learned to adapt for his own purposes and he was conscious of the differing traditions, the Western and the Eastern, a contrast alluded to in A Passional Karma, which is included in the stories from the new Penguin Classics edition. The indelible effect of ghost stories heard by Hearn during his boyhood in Ireland, along with the tales from the Fianna cycle which he also heard made the writer receptive to the spirit of the Japanese folk sagas. Master of the supernatural, the magical and the ghoulish, the work of Patrick, or Paddy Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is enjoying a revival not least with this new edition of Japanese Ghost Stories, just reissued by Penguin. ![]() ![]() ![]() On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from McEwana story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. ![]() Ian McEwan has caught with understanding and compassion the innocence of Edward and Florence at a time when marriage was presumed to be the outward sign of maturity and independence. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florences response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florences anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite. On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from McEwana story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. ![]() Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Ian McEwan has inexplicably produced a small, sullen, unsatisfying story that possesses none of those earlier books emotional wisdom, narrative scope or lovely. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This traumatic discovery combines with Valancyâs inspirational reading to prompt her to take back her lifeâmuch to her relativesâ consternation. Even this, however, fails to support her when her chest pains prove to be the sign of a terminal condition. In order to find some relief, she builds a fantasy world in her imaginationâher âBlue Castleââfull of love and beauty. Add to this the oppressive home life she endures with her mother, and Valancyâs misery is complete. Yet Valancy, now in her late 20s, has never had a flicker of interest from any suitor. In Valancy Stirlingâs rural Ontario town, marriage is thought to be a young womanâs vital accomplishment. But of her novels intended for adult readers, The Blue Castle is the most famous. Montgomery is perhaps best known as an author of youth fiction, especially her Anne of Green Gables series. Standard Ebooksħ0,810 words (4 hours 18 minutes) with a reading ease of 76.11 (fairly easy) Montgomery - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Students return to school Tuesday, January 7th.
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