6/3/2023 0 Comments The butterfly lionThe Butterfly Lion combines music, design and puppetry to bring a magical adventure to life: celebrating nature, friendship and the triumph of love.īased on Michael Morpurgo’s best-selling novel, which won the Smarties Prize and the Writers’ Guild Award, this new stage adaptation is written by CFT’s Writer-in-Residence Anna Ledwich and directed by Dale Rooks whose many Chichester productions include The Midnight Gang(2018) and Running Wild (2015). When Bertie is sent away from the African farm of his childhood to school in England, he leaves behind not only his beloved mother and the beautiful land, swarming with wildlife, but also his best friend – a white lion he rescued as a cub.īertie’s struggle to adjust to his new life in harsh, grey England is alleviated only by a chance friendship with the equally lonely Millie and his dreams of his treasured lion, now trapped in a French circus. But their remarkable journey is only just beginning, and the pair are destined to meet again.
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6/2/2023 0 Comments Carnal Gift by Pamela ClareIt is the mid 1700's and the English are notorious for their cruelty to the Irish and Catholicism was banned. While hunting, they come upon a group of Irish Catholic peasants gathered to bury a baby. Quite quickly, Jamie realizes that his friend has changed, and not for the better. And so does our heroine, Brighid, in Pamela's Clare's second historical entitled "Carnal Gift".Jamie is visiting his friend Sheffield Tate on his estate in Ireland. Brawn and brains.an enticing mixture in a man, one each and every female would be happy to have. His manner is charming, witty and extremely intelligent. Yet, put him in a gentleman's dress.expensive tailoured waistcoat and breeches, hair tied back in a tight cue, and he fits right in. His body is tanned and toned, every muscle and chord stark proof of the hours spent toiling in the fields. A man who isn't afraid of hard work, back-breaking, long-into-the-night kind of work. 6/2/2023 0 Comments Brandon webb mastering fearThis revelation developed into a mindset that guides Webb through daily struggles. “At that point they knew they could not break me.” “I had to dig deep within my head and think, ‘You know what, I do belong here and worked hard to get here,’” Webb said. During one excursion, Webb recalls being pulled out of a class only to have his abilities ferociously criticized by his superiors. One of the final tests in the training Webb describes as “hell week.” It consisted of 5 sleepless days and nights with ocean swims, paddling 20 to 30 miles, running while carrying logs on the beach, and other physically exhausting activities. He says the training was designed to break a person down, both mentally and physically. During his SEAL training, he developed ways of conquering his own fears and hesitations. Navy Chief and SEAL for more than a decade and was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fear can often instigate a rippling feeling of helplessness, but what if this same emotion could be converted into empowerment? Brandon Webb, former Navy SEAL, joined Ben Kieffer on River to River to talk about his experience with grappling with his own fears in his latest book, "Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide" 6/2/2023 0 Comments Clarity and connection yung“How many times have you been unable to fully enjoy a special moment because you couldn’t stop thinking about what was missing?” But he does suggest, rightly so, I think, that we “throw away the idea that you need to pause your life until you are fully healed.” Life is motion. His vision of self is a very healthy one. I can’t truly have a healthy relationship at any level if I don't understand myself first. Not trauma as we often think of it, perhaps, but the trauma of “jealousy, anger, doubt, and low self-worth.” And the recovery “is not about managing your emotions it is about managing your reactions to your emotions” because “our reactions tell us what our mind has internalized from our past experiences.” And since each and every one of us has different experiences, everything starts with self. There is material on self-awareness, personal relationships, and society at large, but it all comes back to self. I have never encountered this author or his work before reading this book but was not surprised to learn, after finishing the book, that he began his thoughtful journey during a meditation course focused on the self. The French in Algeria looked to it as an example, as did the Nazis in Eastern Europe. This was one episode in a long history of colonial conquest that included waging war and spreading disease, but Saunt argues that Indian Removal was truly “unprecedented” it was a “formal, state-administered process” designed to eliminate every native person to the east of the Mississippi - a systematic expulsion that would later serve as an ignominious model for other regimes around the world. Saunt’s book traces the expulsion of 80,000 Native Americans over the course of the 1830s, from their homes in the eastern United States to territories west of the Mississippi River. Transporting so many people up western rivers entailed squeezing them into cramped quarters, where diseases proliferated and a burst boiler could scald hundreds to death in an instant. In “Unworthy Republic,” the historian Claudio Saunt describes how the boats functioned as instruments of American expansion and - for the slaves and Indigenous people forced to travel on them - “as floating prisons.” The policy known as Indian Removal was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson in 1830. The steamboat: For many Americans in the 19th century, it was a symbol of power and progress, a triumph of technology that ferried goods and people upriver with impressive speed.īut for certain passengers, it represented something less glorious and more terrifying. 6/1/2023 0 Comments Jane yellowrock book 13If you are new to the series you may not know that Jane is staying in her beastly form more than ever in this book. One of the things I really enjoyed in this addition to the series was the interaction between Jane and her shifter alter ego, Beast. Its emotional and it will leave your mouth watering for more. Shattered Bonds is about looking death in the eye and basically saying give it to me and I’ll show you what I got. The future for Jane is definitely still evolving. ever! This may be book thirteen but it proves that there is a lot more story to tell. Has it gotten boring? Repetitive? Does it just need to end vbefore it’s ruined? No! No! And absolutely not. Urban Fantasy has all of this and the Jane Yellowrock series hits all the right buttons. Let’s face it! We all know I like paranormal characters from ghosts, to witches, vampires, to shifters. Battles and strong characters that must make hard choices just feels good to read about. A good book with a lot of that often hits the spot for me. But, I also find that I don’t need that strong romantic undertone to make a book a good read for me. What’s not to like with a new Jane Yellowrock book? This is a series that really solidifies for me why I like Urban Fantasy. Brilliant, funny, and consistently wise a work of vast talent * NEW REPUBLIC *Īmerican fiction dotes on its plucky rebel kids - those clear-eyed but big-hearted outsiders and vagabonds who from Twain to Salinger, and far beyond, light out for the territory of a hard-won liberty. Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. Irving's characters will stay alive for years to come * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * fascinatingly unique * NEW YORK TIMES *Ī social tragi-comedy of such velocity that it reads rather like a domestic sequel to Catch-22 * OBSERVER *Ī brilliant panoply of current attitudes toward sex, marriage and parenthood, the feminist movement and - above all - the concept of delineated sexual roles. The World According to Garp is a huge narrative full of complex emotional rollercoasters typical of a writer's life. a marvellous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remarkable powers * CHICAGO TIMES *Ī wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking. Like all extraordinary books, Garp defies synopsis. The most powerful and profound novel about women written by a man in our generation. Like all great works of art, Irving's novel seems always to have been there, a diamond sleeping in the dark, chipped out at last for our enrichment and delight.As approachable as it is brilliant, Garp pulses with vital energy * COSMOPOLITAN * Absolutely extraordinary.a roller-coaster ride that leaves one breathless, exhausted, elated and tearful * LA TIMES * 6/1/2023 0 Comments One book sarah crossanDon't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, Toffee, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water. They're connected by the hip, but they both have their own hearts, lungs and minds. Plot Summary Grace and Tippi are conjoined twin sisters. Somehow they have always managed to be individuals while also part of each other. One, is a book about two conjoined sisters and their life journey from going to school, making friends, and helping their family. Not just twins but conjoined twins, sharing the lower half of their bodies. One that could change their lives more than they ever asked for.This moving and beautifully crafted novel about identity, sisterhood and love ultimately asks one question: what does it mean to want and have a soulmate? _ Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation. Award-winning Sarah Crossan tells an astonishing and difficult story with the surest of touches in this tender, funny and life affirming book. And what about love?But a heart-wrenching decision lies ahead for Tippi and Grace. They're conjoined twins - united in blood and bone.What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people. Grace and Tippi don't like being stared and sneered at, but they're used to it. Isn't that amazing? How we manage to be here at all. _ 'Broke my heart and mended it' - Cecilia Ahern 'It will shake up preconceptions and move readers to tears' - Sunday Times Book of the Week 'Truly remarkable' - Irish Times _ WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER OF THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF THE CLIPPA POETRY AWARD _ Here we are. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Taken By Desire by Valerie TwomblyHe ends up taking her because he needs someone to help nurse him back from a wound. Greydon is one of the good guys, and he meets Aimee when he's tracking one of the bad guys and they're attacking her. We are introduce to the world of demons, some good and some evil. Reluctantly Rolfe agrees to her plan as he really has no other option.Īnd he also persuades Zarina to travel with him on a voyage to India – and she accepts his offer to escape a loveless marriage and perhaps to find a true love of her own at the end of the long voyage. Taken by Desire is the first in a new series. She makes an offer to use her inheritance to pay all The Priory’s debts and avoid the auction if only Rolfe will make her his fiancée, thereby making marriage to the Duke impossible. He is just about to start an auction for everything he owns when Zarina arrives to dramatically save the day with her huge fortune and she comes up with a cunning plan. She then hears the sad news that her childhood friend, Rolfe, now the Earl of Linwood, is being forced to sell the neighbouring Priory with all its contents and its huge estate to pay off the accumulated debts of his now dead elder brother, So when her uncle and Guardian insists that she should marry the middle-aged Duke of Malnesbury, she is appalled at the idea and refuses point blank. Having inherited a considerable fortune from her American Godmother, the beautiful young debutante,Zarina Bryden, really is the belle of the ball throughout London Society, wooed by an endless parade of insincere suitors in love with her money and not with her.īoth her mother and father have died and so she is an orphan, but a very rich one indeed. March 27th is Earth Hour Day #EarthHour.Break a … no don’t – call everyone ‘luvvie’ instead – much better for health and safety. #TolkienReadingDay Combine it with World Hat Day and dress up as Gandalf. To highlight brain tumour research, schools are encouraged to fundraise by wearing a hat at school. OUP has published a useful set of free resources for primary schools on their blog. Here’s a comprehensive and diverse range of resources for teachers. The third week of March is Neurodiversity Celebration Week.Unesco has more information about this international celebration. March 16th is Young Carers Action Day – the Care Trust has a range of toolkits for schools and educators. There are lots of free downloadable activity packs for both primary and secondary educators on the organisation’s website. British Science Week is a 10-day celebration of science and STEM that takes place in the middle of March.The World Book Day website has lots of ideas for teachers and schools, and we have a page with lots of World Book Day costumes and activities. BBC Teach has a great range of free resources for schools including videos and activities. These hashtag days might provide current and relevant talking points for secondary-aged pupils aged 13+ in KS3, KS4 and KS5, especially when linked to related literature. Themed day / social media opportunities for March 2023 |