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![]() ![]() ![]() Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers.Īnd if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. ![]() ![]() Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay ZhaoĪ middle grade contemporary fantasy that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then they know enough to make an educated and informed decision." This is an attempt to tell kids what they're already eating. "This is not an attempt to tell kids what to eat. ![]() "The fast-food chains market so heavily to kids, kids should get an alternative point of view," Schlosser said. The study also found children consumed more calories, fat and sugar on fast-food days, potentially adding six pounds of weight gain per year. One of four children ages 4 to 13 eats fast food on a typical day, a percentage that jumps to nearly two of five for teenagers, according to a study of 6,212 children published in Pediatrics in 2004. "This stuff" is his investigative reporting of the fast-food industry in the best-selling 2001 exposé, "Fast Food Nation." Now Schlosser and his "Fast Food" fact-checker, Charles Wilson, target the 9-to-13 crowd with "Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food."įast food is now a childhood staple. When they were little - they're now 13 and 15 - he used to take them to McDonald's, "before I knew any of this stuff." ![]() ![]() Eric Schlosser's teenage children still get the occasional French fries and milkshake, but not from a national chain. ![]() ![]() Modern education includes morality therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. "Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvellous and manifestly unreal. This modernised fairy tale is heavily influenced by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen but with the author removing the heartache and nightmares, as he explains before the story begins: ![]() Few are unable to immediately identify these names, so ingrained are they in the minds of children, parents and grandparents around the world. Can Dorothy and her new friends survive the perils of Oz to reach the Wizard and find a way home?ĭorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man. ![]() ![]() Dorothy Gale and her little dog Toto are in for the ride of their lives when a tornado drops them off in the Land of Oz. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tags: Afua Richardson, Aimee Bender, Alex Dimitrov, Alex Espinoza, Alex Tresniowski, Allison Adair, Amelia Pang, Baynard Woods, Benjamin Garcia, Betina González, Billy Baker, Candace Jane Opper, Claire Lombardo, Darla Himeles, Denise Hamilton, Diane Wilbon Parks, Eman Quotah, Emma Smith, Emma Straub, Faylita Hicks, Fran Quinn, Gabriel Bump, Gabriel Byrne, gillian flynn, Gina Apostol, Hafizah Geter, Hannah Eko, Hannah Hirsh, Heather Cleary, Heather McGhee, Heidi Schreck, Hillary Jordan, Jalynn Harris, Jen Silverman, Joseph Bathanti, Jubi Arriola-Headley, Karen Thompson Walker, Kate Russo, Katherine Seligman, Kathryn Scanlan, Kawai Strong Washburn, Kenzie Allen, Koa Beck, Lee-Ann Roripaugh, Lily King, Lucie Elven, Marc Lamont Hill, Marcel Walker, Matthew Olzmann, Megan Fernandes, Michael Eric Dyson, Michael Patrick F. Literary events taking place virtually this week!. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this follow-up to his 2016 book, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, the author mines that work to illustrate our ongoing inability to confront what both Baldwin and Glaude call the lie at the center of our American self-conception and how the nation refuses “to turn its back on racism and to reach for its better angels.” Glaude employs a blend of genres: some biography of Baldwin (the text ends at Baldwin’s gravesite), literary analysis of key works, memoir (first-person appears throughout), and pieces of American history, especially those events that many of us don’t want to think about. Glaude, a frequent guest on political talk shows and chair of the African American Studies department at Princeton, has long read, admired, and taught Baldwin’s work. A penetrating study of how the words of James Baldwin (1924-1987) continue to have (often painful) relevance today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mutiny sees the women on the run and hunted by the mutineers. The women arrive at a time when there is some dissent between some of the hunters and the leaders Armstrong and Roxton. ![]() ![]() One of the hunters is Lord James Roxton, the son of Lord John Roxton from The Lost World and the other Professor Challenger stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Reinagel quickly lets us know that Hunter Island was formerly known as Ship-trap Island (from Richard Cornell’s The Most Dangerous Game) making this a follow on from that novel. The four women are kidnapped and taken to Hunter Island where Simon Blake was to be put one the trial and hunted for the rape and murder of Judge Armstrong’s wife and daughter. Set between The Khan Dynasty and More Than Mortal, the four heroines are on a cruise taking the place of Simon Blake The Guardian who was suddenly called away on a case. After reading Pulp Heroes: More Than Mortal and Pulp Heroes: The Khan Dynasty I saw that Reinagel had written this shorter piece focusing on the female pulp sidekicks, Pam Titan (an analogue of Pat Savage from the Doc Savage Series), Cassie Greyson (an analogue of Nellie Gray from The Avenger), Megan Meriwether (Margo Lane from The Shadow) and Whitney Van Pelt (Nita Van Sloan from The Spider). ![]() ![]() ![]() He retains a sense of wonder and a deep curiosity about the realities and the mysteries of fungi, all tempered by his rigorous scientific training. It is safe to say that young Merlin was steeped in both the natural world and the permeability of its boundaries from a very early age. ![]() ![]() He is a musician (there are a number of musical analogies within these pages), brewer (the lowly yeasts stimulated his first love for fungi) and son of Rupert Sheldrake, the famous parapsychologist who developed the hypothesis of morphic resonance. Sheldrake is a scientist who obtained his PhD in tropical ecology from the University of Cambridge. ![]() This well-written and well-researched book clearly demonstrates just how essential fungi are within the world that we live in, and mycophiles of all persuasions will find much to like within its pages. “Entangled Life,” first book by author Merlin Sheldrake, takes a deep dive into the science and fascination of fungus, and in the telling, makes it fun to read. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures ![]() ![]() ![]() The author again manages to hit the nail on the head here, we've got a great plot, excellent continuity (which I do find important) and even more importantly we get to see the major characters develop and learn a few more snippets regarding Harry's intriguing past. I really do love this alternative reality urban fantasy that we were introduced to in Jim Butchers first novel Storm Front and we are again immersed into this rich world full of magic and magical creatures. A full moon, strange paw prints and a mutilated body doesn't take a genius to guess just what they are up against. Just when it looks like he can't even afford his next meal a murder comes along that requires his very particular expertise. Since we left Harry business has been pretty non-existant and he's been unable to find any kind of work at all mundane or magical. ![]() Fool Moon is the second book in the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher and once again we meet up with Chicago's only professional wizard and one of only a dozen of his power in the country. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the family’s financial future lies in the perfectly manicured hands of a business rival, a woman who wants Edward all to herself.Įverything has consequences everybody has secrets. As the investigation into the death intensifies, he keeps himself busy at the bottom of a bottle-as well as with his former horse trainer’s daughter. ![]() The bad blood between him and his father is known far and wide, and he is aware that he could be named a suspect. No one is above suspicion-especially the eldest Bradford son, Edward. This is especially true now, when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder… ![]() And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the crème de la crème of high society-just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings series-a sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a façade of privilege and prosperity, while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation… ![]() Book Review with Excerpt: The Angel’s Share (The Bourbon Kings #2) by J.R. ![]() |