![]() Taking a cue from the style and humor of Robert B. Back in Saskatoon, Quant comes face-to-face with a client who may be the bad guy, a quarry who turns up in the most unexpected place, and a cast of colourful suspects: the vile sister, the best friend, the colleague, the ex-lover, the lawyer, the priest, the snoopy neighbour -are they involved? Or is someone else lurking in the shadows? As he works through his case, Quant juggles his detective gig with the responsibilities of a personal life full of captivating personalities. From the smudgy streets of Paris, he cajoles and sleuths his way to the pastel-colored promenade of Sanary-sur-Mer. With a nose for good wine and bad lies, Quant is off to France on his first big case. ![]() Enter Russell Quant -cute, gay, and a rookie private detective. ![]() New Edition of Canadian favourite Russell Quant's first case. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Though stern and sometimes a bit haughty, Mary's abilities, firm moral compass, and unexpected acts of kindness quickly make her beloved by the entire family. As the eldest of the Banks children, Jane and Michael often accompany Mary on her excursions (in the later books, the other three kids join the fun)-from peculiar tea parties and outings with Bert the Match-Man to Christmas shopping with stars. Mary is more than happy to oblige and, promising to stay until a westward wind carries her away, starts using her magical gifts to right the chaos of Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane. Published in 1934, the first Mary Poppins book sees the titular character arrive in London, where the Banks family is in dire need of a replacement nanny. ![]() ![]() It's been 86 years since the world was introduced to Mary Poppins-and 56 since she danced across our screens-and everyone's favorite umbrella-wielding, spoonful-of-sugar-touting nanny visited us once more with the sequel, Mary Poppins Returns. ![]() ![]() ![]() A shojo adherent tried to define her own life, eschewed worry over the reaction of authorities, and resisted archaic social conventions. ![]() The quintessential shojo was feminine and youthful, but she was neither docile, nor meek, nor pure, nor innocent rather, she was a young woman, not quite at adult femininity, whose life was characterized by freedom and a dearth of strong male authority. ![]() Publications targeting young women also proliferated, and thus both the school environment and the literary world became spaces for constructing girlhood. In 1899, the Meiji government’s Girls’ Higher School Order initiated a wave of new girls’ schools concomitantly, literacy rates rose. The term shojo means “girl,” but in the context of contemporary culture, it is specifically about a cultural space that is girls-only, a space in which, scholar Emily Jane Wakeling writes, “girls negate and make complex the dominant gender stereotypes that exist in contemporary Japanese society through creations of gender that transgress hegemony.” We will look at what this term means, which will provide greater context for Yoshimoto’s works and greater insights into Kitchen. Banana Yoshimoto is often classified as a purveyor of “ shojo culture,” a term that may not be familiar to most readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the passages revealing the killer's mind to the final heart-stopping twist, The Various Haunts of Men is an astounding and masterly crime debut and is the first in what promises to be a magnificent series featuring Simon Serrailler. ![]() She and the enigmatic detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler have the task of unravelling the mystery behind this gruesome sequence of events. Young policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case she's new to the job, compassionate, inquisitive, dedicated, and needs to know, perhaps, too much. But when a young girl, an old man, and even a dog disappear, no one can deny that something untoward is happening in this quiet cathedral town. The police are not alarmed people usually disappear for their own reasons. ![]() A woman vanishes in the fog up on "the Hill", an area locally known for its tranquillity and peace. ![]() ![]() ‘Douglas’ came from her nostalgic affection for Douglas Fairbanks, the Hollywood idol, so there’s another red herring right there. My parents, both deceased now, raised me in Ipswich my father a doctor, my mother a teacher of biology. Traditionally, Scandinavians are a fair, handsome, hearty and uninhibited people and I am none of those things. You see that intriguing final ‘e’ in the Petersen? I’m told it’s the legacy of some Scandinavian heritage, some great-grandfather, though I have never been to and have no interesting stories to tell about Scandinavia. My name is Douglas Petersen and I am fifty-four years old. ![]() ![]() But before I say any more about this and the other events that took place during that particular summer, I should tell you a little about myself and paint some sort of ‘portrait in words’. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. ![]() The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: “Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human.” The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. ![]() ![]() Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom. This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is not seen as a person but as a phenom in sports. The absence of his father and the discrimination he faces in his Alabama neighborhood affect him greatly. Nana had been a gifted athlete, first in soccer and then basketball. Although Chin-chin Man, Gifty’s father, wanted to leave Ghana, he eventually deserts his family and returns to his homeland to start life anew. The writing flows beautifully as Gifty describes Ma’s experiences working as a caretaker and her father’s work as a school custodian. Gifty tells the story of her parents’ immigration to the United States from Ghana and her brother’s and her own life stories as flashbacks while conveying the present story of her life at Stanford. Her mother is living in her small California apartment, and the depression has been a huge issue in her mother’s life since Nana, her son died. She is working with laboratory mice, but she has formulated her research goals to understand her mother’s depression and her brother’s death due to a heroin overdose. With reward-seeking, like in depression, where there is too much restraint in seeking pleasure, or drug addiction, where “Could optogenetics be used to identify the neural mechanisms involved in psychiatric illnesses where there are issues Her research question, as stated in the novel, is: student at Stanford University School of Medicine. Gifty, the first-person narrator, is a Ph.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes wasn’t something that he wrote for publication. He wrote the novel Porgy, which was adapted by his wife into a play and later inspired the opera Porgy and Bess. The author, DuBose Heyward, was a novelist and playwright. This book is what every other Easter bunny book is pretending to be. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should.) The fact that The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes gets shelved with all those other Easter bunny books is a real injustice. (Yes, there is a brand of chocolate called Pascha. If it were candy, it would be Pascha organic dark chocolate. And if you like chocolate, why would you eat one of those?Īnd then there’s The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes. They remind me of the sort of Easter candies that say “chocolatey” on the label instead of “chocolate.” They’re sweet enough. If you go to a bookstore this time of year, you’ll find dozens and dozens of books about bunnies delivering eggs. ![]() |