![]() ![]() I liked the inclusion of the role playing game. I liked that we see how therapy helped Maggie. By the end of the book, she realizes she needs help and goes to see one. ![]() Her parents suggest she see a therapist, but despite the evidence, Maggie insists she is fine. ![]() She carries a 20 sided die with her and rolls it continuously to help her make decisions. Upon arriving home from school she engages in a ritual of switching the lights on and off. Maggie is controlled by a kind of magical thinking. As her anxiety increases, she starts to have trouble finishing homework. On the down side, one of her sisters might be leaving home, and there seems to be some kind of low crawling creature/monster lurking outside the school. She makes a new friend, joins an after school club, and seems to be settling in well. In spite of this, her new year in middle school starts out well. It is a story about a young girl with anxiety/OCD issues. Thanks to Max at Completely Full Bookshelf for introducing me to this title. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Censorship manifests in many ways, and the unique visual nature of comics makes them more prone to censorship than other types of books. After months of review, the Watauga county school board held a meeting Monday evening to debate the future of the book in the North Carolina high school.ĬBLDF joins coalition efforts like the one in defense of The House of the Spirits to protect the freedom to read comics.
![]() Now, in light of their spectacular trial of late 2018, and in a work of astounding reportage and painstaking self-discovery, Justin Fenton has pieced together a shocking story of systemic corruption. Because who would believe the dealers, the smugglers or people who had simply been going about their daily business over the word of the city’s elite task force? But all the while they had been skimming from the drug busts they made, pocketing thousands in cash found in private homes and planting fake evidence to throw Internal Affairs off their scent. At the same time, drug and violent crime were once again surging.įor years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers – the Gun Trace Task Force – were the city’s lauded and decorated heroes. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old black man who died in police custody. The astonishing true story of ‘one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation’ ( The New York Times)īaltimore, 2015. The astonishing true story of one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation (New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated. ‘Unputdownable … fantastic and terrifying.’ Nihal Arthanayake, RADIO 5 ![]() ![]() ‘Jaw-dropping… makes ‘The Wire’ look tame by comparison’ Daily Telegraph ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The design on the dust jacket differs from the design on the cover of the book. Preserved in a cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase First edition. A fine bright copy with none of the usual flaking to the white pigment on the binding. The rare dust jacket is complete with only minor wear and tear and a few archival tape reinforcements on the inside of the spine portion of the jacket. Edward Newton copy, with his bookplate, along with the armorial bookplate of George Jefferson Mersereau. Preserved in a cloth chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase. ![]() Tall 8vo, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How did you research and prepare to write THE SECRET CHORD? But who was this warrior-poet-musician, this lover and killer, who experiences every human joy and every human heartbreak? I went back to the bible to look for him, and found that the best stories from his life are the least told ones. He’s ubiquitous, after all: a cliché in our language (how many contests are David and Goliath battles?) gorgeously depicted throughout the history of Western art the psalms attributed to him sung in churches and synagogues across millennia. (I’d been braced for drums, so I didn’t actually resist the choice.) Watching him, dwarfed by his teacher’s gorgeous concert instrument, I began to think about that other long ago boy harpist, the shepherd who became a king. ![]() When my son was about nine years old, he made the unusual decision to learn to play the harp. What interests you most about King David? How did you decide to write a novel about him? ![]() |