![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He abandoned this line of work two decades ago to organize survival training and log-cabin tours for tourists, and his interactions with his visitors altered his views of the forest, making him aware of the need to adopt a more ecologically sophisticated approach to forest management. Wohlleben began his career as a professional forester whose job was to assess the suitability of trees for harvesting. In 2015, Peter Wohlleben, a German forester, published a popular book on the “hidden life of trees.” The English version, titled The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate-Discoveries from a Secret World, was published in 2016 and became a best-seller, but not without generating considerable controversy. Greystone Books, Vancouver and Berkeley, 2016. A review of Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate-Discoveries from a Secret World, trans. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains. In this book, gone are the docile women and male saviors. Through her gorgeous reimagining of fairytale classics and spellbinding original tales, she dismantles the old-fashioned tropes that have been ingrained in our minds. Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses girls who need rescuing and men who take all the glory.īut in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. ![]() ![]() Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Sympathetic and prodigiously ambitious…scrupulous. One of The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly and The Observer's most anticipated books of 2019 “Masterfully crafted and impossible to put down, The Flight Portfolio offers a testament to the enduring power of art, and love, in any form.” - Entertainment Weekly His many clients included Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall, and the race against time to save them is a tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage. Instead, he stayed more than a year, working to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and arrange journeys across Spain and Portugal, where the refugees would embark for safer ports. ![]() In 1940, Varian Fry traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to help escape within a few weeks. “Bighearted, gorgeous, historical, suspenseful, everything you want a novel to be” (-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less), a new book inspired by the World War II story you've never heard-the real-life quest of an unlikely hero to save the lives and work of Europe’s great minds from the impending Holocaust ![]() ![]() ![]() Beck delivers a wonderfully realized heroine with a voice so clear readers will feel like one of her friends. ![]() Unused to being unprepared, Emerson struggles to make sense of this new world order, control her abilities, solve the mystery of her power’s resurgence-and reckon with the chemistry that’s reignited between her and Jacob, a member of her coven. ![]() A decade ago, Emerson’s magical memory was wiped after she failed to show enough potential during a magical aptitude test. Cyprian than meets the eye-as Emerson learns when a vicious attack by magical beasts awakens her innate magical power and her best friends let her in on a secret: they’re all witches. Emerson Wilde has backup plans for her backup plans, and she’s determined to see her beloved hometown of St. This spellbinding magic-infused rom-com from Nicole Helm (the North Star series) and Megan Crane (the Alaska Force series), writing as Beck, brings modern witchcraft away from the typical New England setting, with quirky protagonists, stoic love interests, and fanciful interpretations of history in tow. ![]() ![]() ![]() And if you prefer your Nutshell Library books on their own and not quite so. In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government. Booktopia has Nutshell Library, Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with. ![]() In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library. Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages. Harper Trophy, 1991 - Juvenile Fiction - 26 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() But thanks to some help from her fellow Questioneers Iggy Peck and Ada Twist, Rosie gets the job done. And Rosie is just the engineer for the job!Īfter one flop. ![]() Rosie’s beloved Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters-a group of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II-need help inventing something new. After all, engineering is all about perseverance! But this time, Rosie has a really important project to tackle-one that feels much bigger than herself. RSVP HERE(Please note that your RSVP is requested, not required)Ībout the book: Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. Join bestselling author Andrea Beaty to mark the release of Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters: The Questioneers Book #1, the all-new chapter book series featuring beloved characters created by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts, based on the bestselling picture books, Iggy Peck, Architect Rosie Revere, Engineer and Ada Twist, Scientist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each team plays one home, one away and one neutral fixture. Each team plays the other teams in its group once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. In the All-Ireland Championship round-robin, 16 teams are drawn into four groups of four teams. The other 17 county teams compete in the 2023 Tailteann Cup. If Westmeath reach the Leinster final, then an 8th team will be chosen based on league position.Position is based on standing after promotion and relegation are applied and after finals are played therefore, the top two teams in Division 2 outrank the bottom two teams in Division 1, and if the 2nd placed team in Division 2 wins the final, they are ranked above the 1st place finishers who lost the final.The 7 next-ranked teams, based on final position in the 2023 National Football League.The 2022 Tailteann Cup winners ( Westmeath). ![]() Sixteen teams progress to the All-Ireland Championship round-robin: Format Provincial Championships Ĭonnacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster each organise a provincial championship. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only is it fun to make something new but also the feeling of being your own boss makes it worth it.”īeing from a weavers family, Vankar Murji Hamir, 47, was deeply inspired by his father, who often said that they should consider themselves fortunate to be from a community that makes fabric to cover the human race. From dyeing the wool to creating new products, there is so much creativity involved. Sharing his experience as a weaver he said, “There is so much scope in this field. Mansuk Vankar, 22, who became a part of Kalori five years ago, was among the youngest in the room. The artisans showcased products made from the indigenous wool of Kutch. Dinesh, along with his four batchmates from The Handloom School, Mysore started Kalori, which designs and creates various woven products such as curtains, bags, jackets and cushions. ![]() “I knew the work as my fathers and forefathers were actively involved in it,” he tells. Siju Prakash is not the first from his village to pick weaving over regular employment. Dinesh Vankar, 32, too decided to become a weaver as he felt the craft came naturally to him. Moreover, with the involvement of NGOs with weavers, a constant demand for woven goods has been created.” Explaining what drew him to this field, he says, “It feels good to not be employed under someone else. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a world in which boys discover that girls have tails, and girls discover that boys are unfathomable. ![]() Yesterday’s girl next door falls under the glam-rocking spell of David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, while Neil Young’s equally popular Harvest seems to serenade a parallel sphere. ![]() Identity is up for grabs, as experience and circumstance wreak transformations that leave some of these kids strangers to themselves, as well as to their friends. Within the world delineated through the nightmare caricatures of Burns, intercourse can leave an indelible impression on the skin, like a strange stigmata, while indulging in drugs can blur the already thin line between reality and illusion. It details the sexual and psychedelic misadventures of a group of teenagers, from their initiation into the grisly mysteries of Biology 101 through a summer in which some of their lives seem like science experiments gone awry. Though originally issued as a series of 12 comic books, this anthology by the Seattle-based Burns ( Big Baby, 1985) has the thematic coherence of a graphic novel. ![]() There’s nothing funny about high school in this black-and-white comics collection, which should strike a particularly sharp chord among those who endured and survived their adolescent rites of passage in the early 1970s. ![]() ![]() But the more she tries to hide her family’s magical secrets from this ever-present stranger, the more quickly she realizes he’s hiding a few doozies of his own. Hunter’s twenty-five, sometimes old-fashioned in a Jane Austen hero sort of way, and more delicious than molten-lava cake. Perfect takes the edge off her endless family drama. As if being an in-the-closet-Seer wasn’t bad enough, now she has to spend summer break with the snarky sister who hates her-and the magical birthright she was hell-bent on denying for all eternity. While struggling to bench-press more guilt than any nineteen-year-old ever should.īut fate intervenes and forces Chloe to return home. ![]() Since foreseeing the imminent death of her parents six years earlier, Chloe has lived a simple, not-so-charmed-life away from her remaining Wiccan family. ![]() ![]() No matter how hard you fight it-destiny has a mind of its own! ![]() |