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Monster Makers by C.V. Cook5/24/2023 The toy that made toys used “bottles of luridly hued synthetic liquid known as Plastigoop - non-toxic in that very special way other chemicals were non-toxic back then,” he wrote. (Want to see the candy version? Check out the Incredible Edibles maker.)Īs columnist Dan Craft remembered in the Bloomington, Illinois Pantagraph newspaper in 2010, “for a 7-year-old recently graduated from Tinker Toys, the Thingmaker was practically a weapon of mass destruction.” The result: rubber bugs… and flowers, dragons, monsters, men, cars and more. Kids would fill an aluminum mold from a squeeze bottle of some colorful plastic compound (that would undoubtedly be considered unsafe today), then would use a high-temperature heating element (estimated to get up to 440 degrees F) to cure the goop into the desired shape. Vintage Thingmaker toys were pretty basic - but could be so much fun.
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Swindle series in order5/24/2023 School Library Journal Kormans fast moving, feel-good suspense novel will have middle schoolers, especially boys, turning the pages. Kirkus Reviews Pure fun from top to bottom. Voice of Youth Advocates Praise for the Swindle series: Goofball-funny and addictive. trying to break the animals back into a (better) zoo! Review Quotes Praise for the Swindle series: Goofball-funny and addictive. And they really dont expect to have to hide the animals once theyve rescued them! Hilarity ensues as Griffins team once more pulls off a heist. They dont expect to find Cleo, Dog Whisperer Savannahs pet monkey whos been missing for weeks. Book Synopsis The sequel to Gordon Kormans SWINDLE-the Man With A Plan is back! When Griffin Bings class goes to a floating zoo, they dont expect to see animals being treated so badly. They also dont expect to find Cleo, the pet monkey belonging to Dog Whisperer Savannah, which has been missing for weeks. About the Book When Griffin Bings class goes to a floating zoo, they dont expect to see animals being treated so badly.
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Trouble in mudbug series in order5/24/2023 They also got two technical fouls for arguing with the officials, who whistled Golden State for 22 fouls to the Lakers’ 21. The Warriors were held under 100 points for only the fifth time in 92 games this season. We’ve done it in our existence for 10 years here.” “As ugly as this was tonight, we have an opportunity to respond on Monday, so there’s no point in dwelling on it and hanging our head and getting discouraged,” Thompson said. Draymond Green had two points in 23 minutes while playing with foul trouble. Klay Thompson had 15 points and seven rebounds for the Warriors, but the rest of the roster beyond their top three scorers struggled mightily, combining for just 18 points before coach Steve Kerr pulled his starters with 9:11 to play. … We were just playing a really physical, forceful downhill game.” “They dialed up their competitiveness, and their communication was great. “After that first quarter, guys just really turned it up,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said.
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Plain city virginia hamilton5/24/2023 Draper Blended Karen English Pizza Party Book 6 Strawberry Moon Mari Evans Dear Corinne, Tell Somebody! Love, Annie Bernette Ford Just For You! Don’t Hit Me Just For You!: Hurry Up! Juwanda Ford Just For You!: Shop Talk Just For You! Sunday Best Sundee T. 3) Veronica Chambers Marisol and Magdalena: The Sound of Our Sisterhood Quinceanera Means Sweet Fifteen Paula Chase Turning Point So Done Brandy Colbert The Only Black Girls in Town Jerry Craft New Kid (Bk. Baptist Isaiah Dunn is My Hero Ronde & Tiki Barber Kickoff! Wild Card Jump Shot Extra Innings Goal Line End Zoner Red Zone Go Long! Derrick Barnes Brand New School, Brave New Ruby #1 Trivia Queen, Third Grade Supreme #2 The Slumber Party Payback #3 Ruby Flips For Attention #4 We Could Be Brothers Victoria Bond/ T. 2) Crystal Allen How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy The Laura Line Kelly J. 1) Rebound (The Crossover Series) Booked (The Crossover Series Bk. Fiction>Chapter/Middle>Realistic Fiction Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Streetball Crew Book One Sasquatch in the Paint Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing the Game Kwame Alexander The Crossover Graphic Novel The Crossover (The Crossover Series Bk.
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The selection the prince and the guard5/24/2023 Then America meets Prince Maxon-and realizes that the life she’s always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her, and competing for a crown she doesn’t want. And yet, for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. The Selection is a chance of a lifetime, giving a select few the possibility of escaping a rigid caste system that rules society. The Selection is set in a dystopian future where 35 girls are selected to move to the palace and compete for Prince Maxon’s heart. The Selection series weaves together a fairytale romance that is a mixture of The Hunger Games, Cinderella, and The Bachelor only with young adults as the main characters. The Selection series continues to be a popular pick among readers, especially those on Tiktok, even ten years after its publication, thanks to #Booktok. Since its release, The Selection series has sold more than 11 million copies around the world. The first book in the series, The Selection, was released in 2012 by HarperTeen and was nominated for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction book in the Goodreads Choice Awards that same year.Ĭass went on to release a new book in The Selection series each year thereafter with the final book, The Crown, releasing in 2016. The Selection series is a five-book, young adult dystopian fantasy series written by Kiera Cass.
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The book of longing by sue monk kidd5/24/2023 She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha, who harbors a compelling secret. Ana's pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome's occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. ” -Glennon Doyle, author of UntamedĪn extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings a triumph of insight and storytelling.” -Associated Press
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The present paper deliberates upon how this can be reconciled with Kundera's departure from classical realism in his The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and argues that the novel's insistence on the ineffable phenomenological otherness and contingency inherent in human experience amounts to an ethical as well as aesthetic stance against totalizing discourses, politically the foremost among them being Russia's Stalinist communism, Kundera's native country Czechoslovakia had suffered for decades under whose imperialist yolk. Milan Kundera had defined the novel as a genre as " the great prose form in which the author thoroughly explores, by means of experimental selves (characters), some great themes of existence, " thus taking an apparently solipsistic view of authorship, in which characters are " experimental selves " of the author.
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After Midnight by Irmgard Keun5/24/2023 "When there are two of you, you can laugh at a good many things which would make you cry on your own". As Sanna says at one point about her relationship with Franz. By using humour and satire Keun invites the reader to join in the sheer craziness of a country not only losing its mind but its soul. Keun injects humour to highlight Sanna's constant bewilderment at what is happening to her friends but also the political chaos of the day. Her lover Franz is stuck with her Aunt who she fears will denounce them, her brother can't publish his novels anymore and his wife is in love with Heini a disillusioned journalist-and then there is the ever manipulative Betty Raff who constantly needs to satiate her appetite for drama through vicarious means. However the streets of Frankfurt are blocked because the Fuhrer is holding a rally and the city including Sanna are in a state of flux. Depicting a young womans life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations. ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK - Susanna Moder, 19, known as Sanna is helping her sister-in- law to plan a party for a man who doesn't reciprocate her feelings (and is not her husband).
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A river of royal blood 25/23/2023 And without Baccha to guide and train her magick, Eva must find a way not only to survive her own metamorphosis, but to unite all the people of Myre, including her sister, by finally taking the Ivory Throne. With the two princesses on the run, the Queendom of Myre is on the brink of a revolution. This perhaps provides an opening for a truce and a more hopeful future for both the sisters and the queendom, if only Isa would see reason and give up the battle for the throne. Since the Entwining ceremony, Eva's and Isa's lives have been bonded, and each can only die by the other's hand. Despite their history, Eva is convinced that to survive the growing unrest in the queendom, she and her sister must make peace. Princess Isa is a difficult, unremorseful captive, and Eva knows better than to trust her sister, but she wants to. Along with Aketo, a small contingent of guards, and the sister she could not kill, Eva flees Ternain in hopes of finding friends and allies to the north-not to mention Baccha-to help her decide what to do next. Now on the run, Eva is desperate for answers about her transformation and her true heritage. In this sequel to A River of Royal Blood, Eva and Isa must find a way to work together if they want to save their queendom in the thrilling conclusion to this royal fantasy duology.
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No longer human genre5/23/2023 The novel has come to “echo the sentiments of youth” (Hiroshi Ando, The Mainichi Daily News) from post-war Japan to the postmodern society of technology. Semi-autobiographical, No Longer Human is the final completed work of one of Japan’s most important writers, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948). Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness. Oba Yozo’s attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. |