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![]() But I never let my students lose sight of what the true prize is an appreciation of reading will add more to their life than a hundred days at Six Flags ever could. Yes, my classes participate in the schoolwide incentive programs when they are offered after all, they would blaze past the requirements anyway. ![]() For students who read a lot, these programs are neither an incentive, nor a challenge. ![]() In her popular book, The Book Whisperer, Donalyn reflects on her journey to become a reading teacher and describes how she inspires and motivates her middle school students. Peterson Elementary in Forth Worth, Texas. Rewarding reading with prizes cheapens it, and undermines students’ chance to appreciate the experience of reading for the possibilities that it brings to their life. Donalyn Miller has worked with a variety of upper elementary and middle school students and currently teaches fifth grade at O.A. And most of all, reading is a communal act that connects you to other readers, comrades who have traveled to the same remarkable places that you have and been changed by them, too. From a book’s characters, we can learn how to conduct ourselves. Through reading, we can witness all that is noble, beautiful, or horrifying about other human beings. Reading is a way to find friends who have the same problems we do and who can give advice on solving those problems. Reading allows us to travel to destinations that we will never experience outside of the pages of a book. Reading is a university course in life it makes us smarter by increasing our vocabulary and background knowledge of countless topics. “I want my students to learn what life readers know: reading is its own reward. Miller’s new book, The Book Whisperer, is a breath of fresh air. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henham's weird horror novel Tenebrae is reminiscent of the works of Poe. Published in 1898, at the end of a decade in which English writers explored the literary possibilities of the Gothic with such characters as Dorian Gray, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, and The Beetle, Ernest G. Is it a delusion brought on by incipient madness? the reincarnated soul of his murdered victim, returned for vengeance? or does it foretell a fate even more horrifying than can be possibly imagined? But after the consummation of his terrible act, he finds himself haunted by a huge, monstrous spider. Driven to murderous jealousy, he resolves upon a brutal crime. ![]() Perhaps unsurprisingly, though, she finds him rather unpleasant company and instead falls in love with his brother. ![]() When he falls in love with a neighbour, he looks forward to marrying her and trading his life of despondency for one of joy. This nameless narrator is a morbid young man who passes most of his time in a room painted all black, poring over arcane manuscripts dealing with the mysteries of death, while sipping garishly coloured liquors brewed by his uncle or cups of coffee flavoured with arsenic. The narrator of Tenebrae inhabits a decaying, desolate mansion in the remote and wild countryside with his younger brother and their mad old uncle, driven insane by abuse of opium and alcohol. Get Tenebrae for 20% off during the months of September and October. Join Reader Beware! for a reading group discussion of Tenebrae by Ernest Henham. ![]() ![]() ![]() Starting with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas, he built a sprawling empire of banana cowboys, mercenary soldiers, Honduran peasants, CIA agents, and American statesmen. Zemurray lived one of the great untold stories of the last hundred years. Working his way up from a roadside fruit peddler to conquering the United Fruit Company, Zemurray became a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. ![]() Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-Picayune The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. 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![]() ![]() He arranges his material in five parts, dividing the story into blocks of time during which Augustus reshaped his identity and reinvented himself. He makes clear that “this is not a history of the times, but a biography and thus, although wider events are considered, our attention is fixed on Augustus himself” (p. 11), and his mission is “to write as if this were a biography of a modern statesman, asking the same questions even if our sources make it difficult to answer them, and trying as far as possible to understand the real man” (p. In his Introduction, Goldsworthy states his goal is to “tell Augustus' story afresh” (p. The new biography joins his other well-received profiles of the great personalities of the Late Republic, Caesar: The Life of a Colossus (2006) and Antony and Cleopatra (2010). With a canny sense for timing, acclaimed military historian Adrian Goldsworthy has published a new biography of this important, and still controversial, historical figure. The 2,000th anniversary of the death of Augustus has renewed interest in the man regarded as the founder of the Roman Empire and its first emperor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Realizing that Gansey is the spirit she saw on the corpse road, Blue vows she will never fall in love with him. Blue dislikes and is determined to stay away from Raven Boys, thinking them pretentious and self-absorbed. Richard Gansey III, Adam, Ronan, and Noah are so-called “Raven Boys” who attend the prestigious private school Aglionby Academy in Henrietta. ![]() Blue, having never been able to see the spirits before, sees a teenage boy who introduces himself only as “Gansey.” Neeve tells Blue she could see him either because he is her true love, or she will kill him. Blue joins her half-aunt, Neeve, who has arrived in Henrietta under mysterious circumstances, in an annual tradition of watching the spirits of those in Henrietta destined to die in the next year appear along an invisible line called the Corpse Road. ![]() Her only power is that she makes the psychic's powers stronger. Blue lives with her mother, Maura, and assorted other female relatives, all of whom are psychic except her, and they have predicted that if she kisses her true love, he will die. The Raven Cycle follows the story of teenagers Blue Sargent, Richard Gansey III, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch, and Noah, taking place in the fictional town of Henrietta, Virginia. The first novel, The Raven Boys, was published by Scholastic in 2012, and the final book, The Raven King, was published on 26 April 2016. The Raven Cycle is a series of four contemporary fantasy novels written by American author Maggie Stiefvater. ![]() ![]() ![]() Noticing how limited his life is now and that he has few ambitions, Louisa tries to motivate Will to change. Through their frequent talks, Louisa learns that Will has traveled extensively his favorite place is a café in Paris. ![]() ![]() Over the next few weeks, Will loosens up and Louisa begins taking him on outings and the two grow closer. However, she tells Treena, and together they devise ways that will help convince Will to abandon his death wish. Louisa conceals knowing about Will and Camilla's agreement. Camilla intends to prove that, in time, he will believe his life's worth living. ![]() Horrified by his attempt, Camilla promised to honor her son's wish, but only if he agreed to live six more months. Louisa notices Will's scarred wrists and later overhears his mother and father discussing how he attempted suicide shortly after Camilla refused his request to end his life through Dignitas, a Swiss-based assisted suicide organization. Under Louisa's care, Will gradually becomes more communicative and open-minded as they share experiences together. Things worsen after Will's ex-girlfriend, Alicia, and best friend Rupert reveal that they are getting married. Louisa and Will's relationship starts out rocky due to his bitterness and resentment over being disabled. Ī second sequel, Still Me, was published in January 2018. A sequel titled After You was released on 24 September 2015 through Pamela Dorman Books. The book was first published on 5 January 2012 in the United Kingdom. Me Before You is a romance novel written by Jojo Moyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the process of searching for the source she must face parts of her past she had hoped to forget and sets in motion events that jeopardize her career and happiness, even as they also bring her within reach of realizing a dream she’d abandoned long ago. Only four people could be responsible, she thinks: Of them, one is dead, one loves her, one desires her, and the last, she believes, never thinks of her at all. Lilliet Berne, famous soprano in the Second Empire French opera, is offered an original role (the desire of every singer) in a new opera that she immediately understands could only be based on a part of her life that she had hoped to keep secret. And I hear he’s got a second one on the way.” The Queen of the Night is that second novel, and worth the wait. Edinburgh, his first novel, is unstoppable. ![]() When Junot Diaz was asked by Flavorwire to name his favorite emerging writer, he didn’t hesitate. Sophomore novelist Alexander Chee and debut writer Sunil Yapa team up to launch two electric new works of fiction. RSVP appreciated: fill out the “Bookings” form at the bottom of this page. For more information, please call 718.666.3049 ![]() ![]() ![]() He was a careful and accurate observer, more at home in the fields and woods than in village and town, and with a gift of piquant originality in recording his impressions. Thoreau was one of the world's greatest nature writers, and as the years pass, his fame steadily increases. His home was in an Indian village on an island in the Penobscot River at Oldtown, a few miles above Bangor. The Indian retained many of his aboriginal instincts and ways, though his tribe was in most respects civilized. He liked especially the companionship of men who were in close contact with nature, and in this book we find him deeply interested in his Indian guide and lingering fondly over the man's characteristics and casual remarks. For though he was a person of culture and refinement, with a college education, and had for an intimate friend so rare a man as Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was half wild in many of his tastes and impatient of the restraints and artificiality of the ordinary social life of the towns and cities. ![]() No one could have been better fitted than Thoreau to enjoy such a region and to transmit his enjoyment of it to others. ![]() Here was a vast tract of almost virgin woodland, peopled only with a few loggers and pioneer farmers, Indians, and wild animals. The chief attraction that inspired Thoreau to make this canoe trip was the primitiveness of the region. ![]() |