![]() ![]() ![]() She finally understands that even though she feels responsible and guilty for the events that happened in her family’s life, she would not get better without their love and support. Her roommate Sydney, who is in for drug addiction, and some of the other girls in Sea Pines help Callie on her road to recovery. She did not think she would be able to get any help if she started talking. ![]() She is surprised that she is able to express herself to her therapist. She finally realizes that she must tell her story to her therapist so she can stay in the facility and all of the time and money her parents have spent to get her help. Those in charge at Sea Pines threatened to kick Callie out of the facility because she is not cooperating. For her, keeping quiet is a way to inflict pain on herself since she can’t feel the pain physically. Callie even meets with a therapist who she does not talk to. Callie does not talk to any of the girls but she listens as they share their stories during group therapy. The girls are in there for many different reasons, one of them being eating disorders. She is among the many girls who are there to receive help. They sent her here because they saw that she had been cutting herself. Plot Summary: Callie’s parents send her to Sea Pines, a residential treatment center. Published By: Front Street, New York, NY, 176 Pages ![]() Bibliographic Information: Cut by Patricia McCormick ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jennifer Jenkins signing Nameless chapter samplers for Mindy and ravenousreader ![]() Signing SERPENTINE for Sophie mundiemoms and her lovely daughters Love this pic of Jennifer Jenkins and ravenousreader! Group pic with Jennifer Jenkins cindypon,Month9Books Publicity and Marketing Director arnoldjaime13, Tom the intern, and book bloggers ravenousreader Angie and Jess Pics from the Month9Books Author Blogger Tea ![]() We wanted to share some of the event photos with you! Check them out! This past weekend Month9Books authors attend ALA Annual in San Francisco and we had an absolute blast! We had 2 sets of signings at the IBPA booth on Sunday and they were so amazing to work with! We also had a tea with some of our favorite bloggers and employees! We wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to support our authors the signing lines were crazy and every book we had went to librarians, readers, teacher, and bloggers! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() JM: HEIR TO SEVENWATERS is a stand-alone novel but shares the same setting as my first series, the Sevenwaters Trilogy. Q: What would you like people to know about the story itself? The great strength of the protagonist, Clodagh (that’s pronounced kloh-da) is her capacity to accept difference – something not all the characters are so ready to do. A storyteller named Willow tells three tales near the beginning, but the characters listening are slow to pick up the fact that this is more than after-supper entertainment. It also includes something quite dear to my heart, the power of storytelling to help people solve real life problems. There are several strands dealing with the relationship between parent and child. ![]() JM: HEIR TO SEVENWATERS has a theme of identity and alienation. We’re eager to learn more about her new work and happy she took time out for this Take Five interview. Juliet, who’s also a valued contributor here at WU, is known not only for the uniquely detailed worlds she creates in her epic fantasies–featuring her signature blend of well-researched mythology and magical realism–but for her mellifluous prose and characters that all but breathe through the page. release of internationally acclaimed and best-selling novelist Juliet Marillier’s latest work, Heir to Sevenwaters. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins delivered a Jane Eyre retelling that was fresh, twisted and addictive. How can she, plain Jane, ever measure up? And can she win Eddie’s heart before her past - or his - catches up to her? Yet as Jane and Eddie fall for each other, Jane is increasingly haunted by the legend of Bea, an ambitious beauty with a rags-to-riches origin story, who launched a wildly successful southern lifestyle brand. Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddie - not only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she’s always yearned for. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. ![]() Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.īut her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates - a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, 'THE WIFE UPSTAIRS' pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, James re-united with former Diplomats in a new group, The Moody Blues 5. After attracting the attention of Pye Records producer Tony Hatch, Nicky left the Diplomats in the autumn of 1963 to record a solo single, "My Colour is Blue." He continued to play in a number of bands, including the mod band The Jamesons alongside John Walker (aka John Maus) of the Walker Brothers. James led the early 1960s band the Lawmen before joining Denny Laine and the Diplomats in early 1963 the band was soon renamed Nicky James with Denny Laine and the Diplomats. ![]() After moving to Birmingham he first performed with various musical acts involved in the early "Brumbeat" scene. He attended Park Lane School, and at age sixteen moved to Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. James was born in Tipton, Staffordshire, England. Nicky James (2 April 1943 – 8 October 2007), born Michael Clifford Nicholls, was a British musician and songwriter. ![]() ![]() That’s the version we picked up recently-the fact it’s published like that is down to the enduring popularity of the film and this timeless piece of writing. Since then, the work that was adapted into The Shawshank Redemption has also been published into standalone novella form. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is from Stephen King’s 1982 collection of short stories Different Seasons: Hope Springs Eternal. Themes of Friendship and Hope in Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Finally, we bought a book of his to get on with things.Īnd what better place to start than Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption? It’s not part of his horror oeuvre, but is a mighty fine tale all the same. However, when he started following the 75 year old on Twitter recently we found his challenging, intelligent, and witty posts to get us on moving. ![]() ![]() Quite famous and all that, but we’ve not read much of his work before. He’s a writer and did stuff like The Shining. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If the kids accomplish their tasks rather easily-well, this is a book for younger readers, and it makes a terrific introduction to the more complex fantasies to come. While the launching of the quest is rather labored-Mordred’s involvement in Camelot’s plight is explained quickly and not altogether satisfactorily-once Jack and Annie get going, the story moves along at a good clip, full of magical talismans, rhyming clues, Otherworldly foes, and a happy ending. Their quest is to travel to the Otherworld to bring back the Water of Memory and Imagination in order to restore Camelot to its former glory. This time, however, instead of traveling to actual places and times in history, they find themselves at Christmas in Camelot-a Camelot sadly transformed from a place of celebration and laughter to one from which joy has been robbed and magic banished. Jack and Annie, the brother-and-sister pair from Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, here take their 25th magical journey in Morgan le Fay’s magic tree house. Judging from this latest series entry (the first in trade hardcover), the popularity of these transitional chapter books is richly deserved. Anyone who hasn’t yet heard of the Magic Tree House has evidently spent the last several years on another planet (at Midnight on the Moon, perhaps?). ![]() ![]() And ready to fight for it.īut what are the tools that will help us imagine a future beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, beyond the racialized divisions threatening to tear our very society apart? Among the other liberatory theories and practices at our disposal, there is a critical role for an unexpected revolutionary force: children’s literature. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice…Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. In a 2020 essay called “The Pandemic Is a Portal,” novelist and activist Arundhati Roy wrote, ![]() ![]() ![]() Canadians know now, as they always have, why their team won: hockey is ours + Canadian heart (almost) always trumps foreign guile and/or finesse + in the battle between our way of life versus theirs, no contest + Henderson, in Moscow that week, nobody was going to stop that guy.Īnd yet. It was more of a desperate shunting of the puck over the line, after which a snow-shovel raised high in celebration might have been more appropriate than the stick that Henderson actually brandished.ĭoesn’t matter. It could have gone either way, as the sportscasters say: a last-minute goal by Paul Henderson was the difference. It was 50 years ago this September gone by that the best of our hockey best beat the Soviets in Moscow in the final and deciding game of the 1972 Summit Series. In Canada, all that matters is this: we won. ![]() ![]() Bacon, The Greatest Comeback: How Team Canada Fought Back, Took the Summit Series, and Reinvented Hockey (2022) If a Canadian hockey player could be said to have a security blanket, that’s what it would look like: his wife, a thick steak, and a cold Canadian beer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, there are a few references to post-war objects and events in the novel, but the main plot could easily be set in the 30s.Ī much more significant change, however, is to introduce a new subplot. In fact, that makes hardly any difference. Obviously, the setting is moved from the 1970s to the 1930s. I think he has been reasonably successful. He needed to re-structure, trim and re-focus the plot and make it work as two hours (or 89 minutes, to be precise) of exciting television. With this in mind, Nick Dear faced a challenge. Some even suggest that it shows early signs of Alzheimer's. It's been criticised as rambling, chatty and out of focus. This was the last Poirot novel that Agatha Christie wrote (Curtain was written in the 1940s). It was adapted for television by Nick Dear and directed by John Strickland. This episode was based on the novel Elephants Can Remember, first published in 1972. ![]() |