![]() ![]() ![]() But she'll have to be careful-or curiosity may end up killing the cat whisperer. The problem is, how will Grace tell the distractingly gorgeous Sergeant Kai Duncan that it's the dog who's giving her the intel without spilling her big secret or sounding crazy? Left on her own, Grace will have to follow the pup's lead to track down the killer. The pooch turns out to be the only one who saw what happened the night of the shooting-and only Grace can get the information out of him. Grace's life gets even more complicated, though, when the cops summon her to a crime scene to help deal with the murder victim's terrified Doberman. When she's not helping out at the zoo by comforting agitated lemurs, she's listening to the woes of annoyed house pets. ![]() Grace Wilde's job is anything but normal. But when a Doberman turns out to be the only witness to a crime, Grace will have to let the cat out of the bag in order to catch a killer. Animal behaviorist Grace Wilde keeps her ability to psychically communicate with furry and feathered critters under wraps. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Body Horror is a recurring theme and imagery in the stories: people are mutilated, warped, distorted and changed. They are usually ordinary people who have stepped into the Twilight Zone and can't escape. The characters in Ito's stories are punished for the smallest infraction, being curious, stepping out of normal bounds out of curiosity and paying a horrible price. SMASHED ©Junji Ito Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. They get even more clammy and claustrophobic as the collection goes along. ![]() ![]() A high school girl who wants to lose weight wakes up every morning with tiny bite marks all over her body and finds herself losing weight and blood… An unfunny comedy act by two creepy women causes their audiences to die laughing… A pair of hikers discover a town plagued by a phantom flood with endless victims… A mysterious syndrome locks heartbroken people into poses that turns them into living statues… and these are the least gross and creepy of the stories. Smashed consists of thirteen stories, some longer than others with titles like "Bloodsucking Darkness", "Death Row Doorbell" and "I Don't Want to be a Ghost", which show Ito is not messing around. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gertrude thinks Horton does not notice her due to her small tail, so she takes advice from Mayzie and takes pills, causing her tail to grow. She falls for Horton the Elephant, but Horton does not notice her as he is busy finding the Whos. ![]() In 'Seussical the Musical', Gertrude McFuzz is an awkward, determined little bird with a one-feather tail, of which she is very ashamed. She is one of the main female roles along with Mayzie and Mrs. Seuss's homonymous short story Miss Gertrude McFuzz, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories and the Broadway musical Seussical, which elaborates upon her story. Miss Gertrude McFuzz is a fictitious character in:ĭr. In the book, she eats a vine of unnamed berries that have the same effects. She ate pill-berries that her uncle, Doctor Dake told her of. She was a girl-bird that had one feather. She is from Gertrude McFuzz, and Seussical the Musical. ![]() Gertrude McFuzz is a character from the Dr. ![]() ![]() Around the same time she was applying at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she made the decision to submerge herself in the culture, quitting her job to live in Paris for a few months at a time. When she was writing the first book in the series, she took what she called a research trip to Paris. In order to become better acquainted with French culture, she spent a significant amount of time researching in France. “And, of course, Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.” “I thought France would be a more romantic setting, and one that readers could more easily relate to,” she said. She thought it would be the perfect setting for her series. ![]() The author was captivated by the social dynamic and varying cultures she found.Īlthough she never studied abroad in France, Silag visited there a handful of times before she started working on her novels. Her inspiration for the series was heavily influenced by her studying abroad in Germany and Hungary, as well as various traveling opportunities in high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially, the villagers are identified by vocation with accompanying illustrations that depict something of their nature and demeanor. Hok, Lok, and Siew are three monks who initiate, tease, and provide a distrustful village with a recipe for generosity that serves up happiness. Literary elements at work in the story: A story that centers on human nature and the ingredients for happiness categorizes this story in the genre of folk tales. The villagers begin to contribute to the making of the soup that results in a feast and grand celebration that fills them with happiness. ![]() The unwelcome monks busy themselves with preparing a small pan of soup that triggers curiosity among the villagers. The villagers have grown suspicious and distrustful so they shut their doors and refuse to welcome the visitors (monks). Summary: Three monks travel to a village that has suffered the ravages of famine, floods, and war on a quest to discover happiness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can sum up this novel in just seven words: Beauty and the Beast.with a twist. Ratings: Violence -4, Sensuality -4-5, Humor -1-3ġ The Warlord Wants Forever (novella introducing the series, 11/2011) (also included in Playing Easy to Get anthology, 2006)(new revision in Blood Red Kiss anthology, 2016)(Click HERE to read my review of this story.)Ģ A Hunger Like No Other ( Pocket Books, 3/2006)ģ No Rest for the Wicked ( Pocket Books, 10/2006)Ĥ Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night ( Pocket Books, 9/2007)ĥ Dark Deeds at Night's Edge ( Pocket Books, 4/2008)Ħ Dark Desires after Dusk ( Pocket Books, 5/2008)ħ Kiss of a Demon King ( Pocket Books, 1/2009)Ĩ "Untouchable" (novella in Deep Kiss of Winter - Pocket Books, 10/2009)ĩ Pleasure of a Dark Prince ( Pocket Books, 2/2010)ġ0 Demon from the Dark ( Pocket Books, 8/2010)ġ1 Dreams of a Dark Warrior ( Pocket Books, 2/2011)ġ2 Lothaire (Gallery Books, Pocket Books, 1/2012)ġ3 Shadow's Claim ( Pocket Books, 11/2012) ![]() ![]() Larson has created a magical world of adventure -a world that shows who princesses truly are: people of character and courage and strength. No one rescues Pennyroyal princesses they rescue themselves."-Reese Witherspoon on Pennyroyal Academy ![]() Larson has created a magical world of adventure-a world that shows who princesses truly are: people of character and courage and strength. It’s up to Evie and her friends to unravel the devious plot and save Pennyroyal Academy. A secret society has come out of the shadows with a wicked plan, putting the Academy in peril. Then, amidst piles of fan mail, she finds a letter with an ominous threat. ![]() Pennyroyal’s Headmistress General, Princess Beatrice, is dubious about what Evie saw-princesses are enforcers of truth and justice, not thugs. Evie witnesses the vicious attack of an innocent woman-by a trio of princesses. While it’s good to be returning to the Academy as a second-class Cadet, things are not as they should be. News of her heroism has traveled far and wide-inspiring a kingdom of grateful citizens and, when the new term starts, a wave of fresh Academy recruits. ![]() Larson's Pennyroyal Academy, hailed by the New York Times as a "breathtakingly exciting novel" with a heroine who "deserves a special place in a new pantheon of capable, feisty and, yes, admirable literary princesses."Ī triumphant victory over the witches has proven that Princess Cadet Evie really does belong at Pennyroyal Academy. Perfect for fans of The School for Good and Evil comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to M. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was many things at once, some of them seemingly irreconcilable. Now he no longer appears on our screens, it is easy to forget that Burgess was an irrepressible international literary figure whose work was disseminated through the mass media of the 1970s and 1980s. The linguistic innovations of that novel, the strict formal devices used to contain them, and its remarkable range of themes are all firmly present in Burgess's poetry. Perhaps his most famous example is A Clockwork Orange (1962), originally an indifferently-received novella which was later adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, and provided Burgess with plentiful opportunities to explain his particular artistic vision. ![]() Through over fifty published books, thousands of essays, and countless other drafts and fragments, he articulated the struggles, freedoms and changes that he saw around him, and predicted many more to come. ![]() John Anthony Burgess Wilson (1917–93) was an industrious writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ganucheau renders her art digitally in Photoshop, and Holm’s big-eyed characters emote in such a lovely way with those eyes. Back matter includes recipes and bonus art. I already adored Savanna Ganucheau’s art from her collaboration with Kevin Panetta in their YA graphic novel Bloom, but this collaboration with Holm and Pien is something special. Her palette of cool blues captures the coastal town in winter and summer and her two page spreads depicting baking are fantastic. How Ari copes with this, over time, shows growth of character and maturing that is so rewarding to see in a work of fiction, and so valuable for young readers. As Ari finally begins to accept the status of his friendships with old high school friends and trust in Hector, he grows into himself. Very slowly, a romance blooms between Hector and Ari, with Ari acting like a petulant, jealous child when Hector's friends visit, or when Hector makes a visit back to Birmingham. Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, in which the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow. But, things with his friends and bandmates aren't quite as solid as he imagined, and, as he trains Hector in the family recipes, he almost enjoys his work in the bakery again. When Hector applies for the bakery job, it seems like Ari can finally pursue his dreams and get away from the bakery he hates. ![]() ![]() ![]() These are cases of space shifting from cars to people on foot and bikes, what traffic engineers and others argue against, saying that less roads means more traffic jams. ![]() But now cities are giving invitations to pedestrians and bicyclists through the closure of some streets to cars and adding bike lanes. His term for this is "invitation" since the middle of the 20th century cities have invited more cars by giving them more space on roads and in parking lots and garages. This isn't to say that he proposes their outright removal from city streets, but that public spaces stop catering to four-wheel automobiles and instead reorient themselves to pedestrians and bicyclists. What Gehl is fighting against can be described in one word: cars. Or in other words, Gehl needs to continue articulating and spreading his ideas, and in this his fifth major book he does so clearly, with an abundance of illustrations and examples of the good and bad in today's cities. ![]() It's a hard position to argue against, but one that is a difficult sell against the entrenched modernist principles of architecture and planning. In response to modernism's emphasis on objects (buildings) over spaces (streets and plazas) and its bird's-eye-view planning, Gehl argues for the prioritization of the design of public space as a supporter of social life. ![]() In 1971 Danish architect and urban designer Jan Gehl articulated the ideas that he would build upon for the rest of his career in the book Life Between Buildings. ![]() |