![]() ![]() As people start to resettle Europe and make contact with the Americas, some of the story takes place in those continents as well. ![]() As in real history, the former spends most of the time split into a bunch of different polities (not necessarily hostile, just not having effective centralized power) while the latter spends most of the time as a unified empire (with varying degrees of acceptance of that unity in the provinces). ![]() Most of the story takes place in Asia, which is mostly divided between the Islamic world and China. It starts with a world in which Europe was almost entirely wiped out by the black plague and then imagines how things develop from there. The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson, is an alternate history novel. I usually only write reviews of non-fiction books that I read but a novel I read recently was different enough from typical fiction that I thought I'd make an exception. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Hadlock died, frozen while seal hunting in Canada, his sister Abigail inherited the house, and it came to be called the Preble house when she married William Preble. It is certain that Rachel Field knew of the Prebles and their house because another book of hers, God’s Pocket, relates the life and adventures of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr., who built and lived in that very house, before the Prebles. We believe Rachel Field had them and their house in mind when she wrote Hitty. ![]() On Great Cranberry Island, Maine, there still stands today a large white clapboard house, with lilacs out front, and a tall tree on the side - the Preble house. ![]() Hitty currently resides at the Stockbridge Library Museum, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.Īlso, in the book, the family that Hitty first stays with, and their house, in which she was carved, does actually exist, and Rachel Field knew of them. Rachel, and Dorothy Lathrop really did find Hitty in a New York City antique shop, and they took her to the Cranberry Isles while working on the book. First and foremost, of course, is the doll itself. Although a work of fiction, Rachel Field did base Hitty, Her First Hundred Years on some facts. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. In One Crazy Summer, eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. ![]() ![]() Rita Williams-Garcia's books about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds's and Ibram X. Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in One Crazy Summer. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern's story continues in P.S. This moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. A strong option for summer reading-take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at home. In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nora gives the local sheriff a recommendation of an expert to identify the paper, which brings her former college roommate to town, though Nora hasn’t seen her since her own life fell apart years earlier. ![]() Nora’s group springs into action to support Celeste and do some detection. When Bren is found dead in Nora's yard, the only clue is a sheet of paper covered with strange symbols and letters that she left under Nora's doormat. After Celeste Leopold and her moody daughter, Bren, open a health-food store selling CBD oil in Miracle Springs, they’re shunned and verbally attacked by the narrow-minded Women of Lasting Values Society, which also targets Nora's shop for putting a display of books about witches in the window for Halloween. Each member's success in overcoming a troubled past has given her the strength and insight to help Nora solve several murders. ![]() Nora Pennington, the owner of Miracle Books in Miracle Springs, has a coterie of friends calling themselves the Secret, Book, and Scone Society. A North Carolina bookseller takes time out from her vocation of matching every reader with the perfect book to solve another murder. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel has a dual narrative structure, flipping between Fereshteh/Angel’s and Jimmy’s perspectives over the course of one week, during which the former attends an Ark concert and meet-and-greet with members of the band, including Jimmy. The novel, by 27-year-old author and illustrator of the sensationally popular (for good reason) Heartstopper series of graphic novels, follows teenage fangirl Fereshteh (who goes by her online alias of Angel) and the object of her affections, Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, one-third of the sensationally popular boy band The Ark (which, while fictional, certainly finds a few parallels in the real world). ![]() I Was Born For This by YA author and illustrator Alice Oseman is a heartwarming and eye-opening look at the often misunderstood world of fandom and online culture, which brings to life a delightful and very human set of characters with compassion and nuance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ginger, married to Candace’s son, struggles to play dutiful wife and mother while burying her calamitous past. ![]() Candace is Greenleaf’s “First Lady,” a force of nature who’ll stop at nothing to protect her church and her superstar husband. ![]() Reeling from the death of her mother, Ruthie suffers a crisis of faith-in God, in her marriage, and in herself. Ruthie follows her Wall Street husband from New York to Magnolia, a fictional suburb of Atlanta, when he hears a calling to serve at a megachurch called Greenleaf. Lisa Takeuchi Cullen’s debut novel Pastors’ Wives follows three women whose lives converge and intertwine at a Southern evangelical megachurch. What’s it like when the man you married is already married to God? asks Pastors’ Wives, an often surprising yet always emotionally true first novel set in a world most of us know only from the outside. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rocket, for one, seems kind of depressed. They’ve gone legit, with an office, a neon sign, and everything. The Guardians have set up shop on Knowhere, the city inside the skull of a dead Celestial, which was first seen in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Meanwhile, cinematographer Harry Braham takes the audience on a swooping camera tour of the new status quo. ![]() ![]() 3 begins on a maudlin note, with Rocket (Bradley Cooper) muttering the lyrics to the acoustic version of Radiohead’s “Creep” as it plays on the Zune he borrowed from expat Earthling Peter Quill (Chris Pratt). Gunn’s trilogy-capping Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() This adult coloring book provides hours of quiet pleasure and leaves you with folk art you can keep or share to spread the blessing. ![]() THE COLOR OF HEAVEN (Book 1) A deeply emotional tale about Sophie Duncan, a successful columnist whose world falls apart after her daughter's unexpected illness and her husband's shocking affair. Immerse yourself in the pastoral nature of these pages and delight in the illustrations of the Lord's celestial messengers appearing in beloved Bible stories. It's more than 700 pages of deep emotion, unexpected twists, and memorable family drama. Each scene includes a verse from Scripture and brings to mind the many ways God has intervened on behalf of His people. These precious designs by Donna Moses have been drawn with sweet simplicity and eagerly await the cheery colors of your crayons, colored pencils, watercolors, or markers. Book excerpt: A Heavenly Experience For those moments when you long for refreshment and a touch of heaven's joy, open up the pages of Color Heaven's Angels. This book was released on with total page 82 pages. Download or read book Color Heaven's Angels written by and published by Harvest House Publishers. ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Īfter reading 'A Song of Ice and Fire', I found myself craving more dark and gritty adult fantasy. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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And a bill, signed into law by Governor Walker this week, gives landlords additional powers to evict tenants. According to his research, one in every eight Milwaukee renters faces eviction - either by legal or other means - every two years. "Eviction is really coursing through our cities today," Desmond says. "If you look at books from the 1930s and 1940s, you're left with the really clear impression that evictions used to be rare," he says. So in his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison almost a decade ago, Desmond set out to learn what issue ties these groups together. What he found was evictions. These kind of bonds between poor folks and non-poor folks that are really central to creating and maintaining inequality today." "What's missing," Desmond says, "is kind of a relationship. 1 in 8 renters faces some form of eviction every 2 years here. ![]() Eviction impacts blacks and whites in Milwaukee. ![]() |