![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his best moments of controlled, evocative storytelling, though, Winton’s descriptions eschew metaphor altogether and instead masterfully balance visual imagery with colloquial language. This is the recipe for his soaring popularity in his native Australia and also the reason he has garnered an international audience. Winton often locates a transcendent wisdom in nature, letting it guide his analogies to time, space, longing and the sort of existential entrapment that comes from being born into a particular place and culture. By the wave’s last section I was styling.” Then I leant into a turn and accelerated and the force of it slammed through my knees, thighs, bladder, and I came lofting back to the crest to feel the land breeze in my face and catch a smudge of cliffs before sailing down the line again. For a moment - just a brief second of enchantment - I felt weightless, a moth riding light. When the wave drew itself up to its full height, walling a hundred yards ahead as I swept down, it seemed to create its own weather. “All the way down the big board chattered against the surface chop I could hear the giggle and natter of it over the thunder behind me. But there’s a saltiness in “Breath,” Tim Winton’s newest novel, that offers an irresistible taste of oceanic communion: For this reader, who has attempted surfing only once, and only long enough to be washed ashore seasick, the siren call of the waves is faint at best. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As each one makes choices that will direct the courses of their own lives and those of so many others, they also work to find out more about Adam’s death and what events had brought him to their town: the intersections of the lives that led to his death. Though few mourn his passing, nearly everyone in town seems to be struggling with their own frustrations and losses, from Nora Wheaton, the history teacher who tends her ailing father, unable to confront him about his role in her brother’s death years ago, to Sal, who lost his mother to a drug overdose the year before. ![]() Lonely, broken people in a dead-end town are forced to confront the fragility of life and relationships in the aftermath of a horrific death.Ī young boy, Sal Prentiss, discovers a burned corpse in the lonely hills of a small Nevada town, soon revealed to be that of Adam Merkel, the middle school math teacher, a new arrival who came-and died-carrying a lot of secrets. ![]() ![]() It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief.īridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children’s Book and has become a touchstone of children’s literature, as have many of Katherine Paterson’s other novels, including The Great Gilly Hopkins and Jacob Have I Loved. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. ![]() The 40th anniversary edition of the classic Newbery Medal-winning title by beloved author Katherine Paterson, with brand-new bonus materials including an author's note by Katherine herself and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo. ![]() ![]() ![]() This weird and wonderful book includes the poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a talking pudding, and that immortal line “Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today.” Lewis Carroll was the nom de plume of Charles Dodgson (1832-1890) an Anglican clergyman, photographer, and mathematician. The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. ![]() ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert Through the Looking-Glass (version 2) ![]() ![]() A fun discovery from the History Reference Center is Proclamation 5219 declaring National Ice Cream Month on July 1984 and National Ice Cream Day on July 15, 1984. In the United States we celebrate National Ice Cream Month, opens a new window every July and National Ice Cream Day is on July's third Sunday. ![]() Debbie passes out ice cream to Summer Learning Challenge finishers at Millbrae Library's end of summer party, 2017. You’ll find variations and recipes going back to the middle ages, from sherbet in the Middle East to 17 th century sorbets in France, and gelatos in Italy ( Tori Avey, opens a new window). This famous dessert made its way through different countries and kingdoms throughout history and the world. The first ice cream made with milk was served to emperors of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) in China. The earliest form of iced desserts traces to Alexander the Great of ancient Greece who enjoyed flavored icy drinks, and supposedly Roman Emperor Nero harvested ice from nearby mountains to make a mixture of ice, honey, and fruit pulp. ![]() Have You Ever Wondered When Ice Cream Was First Made? ![]() |