![]() MCPL staff will get the book ready for you to pick up curbside. If you find something you like, place it on hold with your MCPL Access Pass (Library card). Try your own search of the Library's catalog. Storytelling in Medicine: How Narrative Can Improve Practice by Colin Robertson.Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story by Randy Olson.The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative by Stephen Denning.Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment by Carolyn Handler Miller.From Audience to Zeal: The ABCs of Finding, Crafting, and Telling a Great Story by Laura Packer.Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life by Lee MartinĪnd because telling stories isn’t limited to writers, we’re suggesting these resources too:. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Dog man lord of the fleas![]() ![]() Meanwhile Petey has created a clone of himself, which turns out to be the cutest little kitten and sidekick to Dog Man and his robot, 80-HD. Dog Man and pals are on a mission to stop the evilest cat, Petey from being a jerk. Their story involves central themes around savagery, consequences, the construct of morality, and a ring (no, scrap that last one, it’s not Lord of the Rings!). The storyline is also highly engaging, as narrated by 5th graders, George and Harold who, with perhaps some slight confusion, have been inspired by the classic literature, Lord of the Flies. ![]() It includes a fun, new ‘flip-o-rama’ feature that brings readers right into the cinematic, animated action. Like the others, Lord of the Fleas contains heavily illustrated, comic style spreads across manageable chapters in full, vibrant colour and inexhaustible energy. At the top of their game being New York Times bestsellers for over two years, Australian readers in the junior to middle grade market have equally savoured these books that absolutely engage even the most reluctant readers. ![]() ![]() author of the Captain Underpants fame is Dav Pilkey with yet another brilliant graphic novel in the Dog Man series #5 Lord of the Fleas. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Jonathan living![]() ![]() He would fly out alone to practice his flying skills from dawn to dusk, sometimes forgetting to eat while at it. He believed there was more to life -and flight- than what he experienced with the Flock.Ĭonsumed by his passion for flight, he continually strove to be better at it by constantly pushing himself beyond all possible limits. However, unlike every other seagull, he wasn’t satisfied with the conventional routine of scavenging for food. Like every other seagull, he grew up amid a Flock on a seashore. ![]() Spanning less than 10000 words, the book follows the life of a seagull named Jonathan Livingston. This piece of writing was well-received as it would go on to become a bestseller in 1972, sitting at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list for 37 weeks. “Jonathan Livingstone Seagull” by Richard Bach is a classic novella first published in 1970. ![]() The book turned out to be such a good read, and I decided to discuss it in today’s blog post. I carried out a little research and eventually stumbled on a pick that seemed to check all the boxes. Considering the group in question, I had to get a short, easy-to-read book that wouldn’t be so difficult to go through. As the coordinator, I was saddled with the responsibility of selecting the book to be read and discussed in the meeting. Over the weekend, I was privileged to lead a book club session with an ESL (English as a Second Language) group made up of college students. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a theme woven throughout the book, including after she arrived in America and settled in Arlington, Virginia, knowing almost no English. ![]() I felt like I was bigger and stronger than everyone else - even if I knew that wasn’t really the case,” she wrote. In her memoir, written with Rebecca Paley, Omar recounts taking on a much taller boy when she was just 7, rubbing his face in the sand after he picked on someone weaker. Instead, it sketches rugged years that Omar says made her a fearless fighter, unafraid to skirmish with President Donald Trump and her frequent conservative critics. “This is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman,” set for release Tuesday, offers no revelations on some of the controversies that have dogged Omar. Now, Omar is out with a new memoir that offers her own spin on her path to prominence, starting with her childhood in Mogadishu. Ilhan Omar’s metamorphosis from refugee to the first Somali-American in Congress has been well-documented. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Moxyland by Lauren Beukes![]() Lauren Beukes is an award-winning, best-selling novelist who also writes screenplays, TV shows, comics and journalism. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia, satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight. ![]() On a collision course that will rewire their lives, this story crackles with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cell phones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art. Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid and Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) is a guileless and honest young man whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk) are abruptly shattered when his best friend Fernand (Guy Pearce), who wants Mercedes for himself, deceives him. Features Alexandre Dumas Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806 by Tom Reiss November-December 2012 Portrait of a Hunter in a Landscape, attributed to Louis Gauffier (1762-1801), is said to be a portrait of General Dumas. ![]() Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dants is confined to the grim fortress of If. The classic story of an innocent man wrongly, but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him. Synopsis Edmond Dants, a young and successful merchant sailor who has just recently been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Leclre, returns to Marseille to marry his Catalan fiance Mercds. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Legacy by Sheridan Anne![]() ![]() ![]() The Phoenix Park and the adjacent village and parish church of Chapelizod would appear in Le Fanu's later stories. ![]() Within a year of his birth, his family moved to the Royal Hibernian Military School in the Phoenix Park, where his father, a Church of Ireland clergyman, was appointed to the chaplaincy of the establishment. ![]() īoth his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights (his niece Rhoda Broughton would become a successful novelist), and his mother was also a writer, producing a biography of Charles Orpen. His parents were Thomas Philip Le Fanu and Emma Lucretia Dobbin. He had an elder sister, Catherine Frances, and a younger brother, William Richard. Sheridan Le Fanu was born at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family of Huguenot, Irish and English descent. Three of his best-known works are the locked-room mystery Uncle Silas, the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla, and the historical novel The House by the Churchyard. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. j uː/ 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu ( / ˈ l ɛ f ən. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Hawk by Tiya Rayne![]() ![]() ![]() Boyden was an unsuspecting surprise as this was my first book by her. I loved that Ethan was a little savage in the bedroom and Tara's instant love for his son. What you get with this story is plenty of drama, humor, and lots of sexy moments. Tara was poised to takeover her family business when Ethan sweeps in and "steals" it from her. ![]() Takeover by Evelyn Sola is a enemies to friends and single dad romance. I'm so glad I did that as it freed me up to make my goal. I decided that this year I would not suffer reading a book if it did not grab my attention by the first 3 chapters or when my Kindle said I had read 20% of the book. It was challenging this year as I did not finish a lot of books this year. My book goal this year was 125 books and I'm proud to say I made it. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The silver blade by sally gardner![]() Perfect for 9+ readers and fans of The Red Necklace and I, Coriander. ![]() Set against a vivid historical background, prize winning author Sally Gardner brings to life the horrors of the French Revolution in this breath-taking adventure, complete with intrepid heroism and a touching love story. With Sido safely in England and the Terror at its height, Yann returns to France to smuggle. But when Sido is kidnapped, he must use all his strength and courage to outwit the evil Count Kalliovski, and rescue her for a second time. Buy The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner at Mighty Ape Australia. ![]() With Sido safely in England and the Terror at it's height, Yann returns to France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. The thrilling conclusion to the tale begun in The Red Necklace (2008) plunges readers back into the filthy. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Godsgrave![]() ![]() But as conspiracies unfold, secrets are revealed and the body count rises within the collegium walls, Mia will be forced to choose between her loyalties and her revenge. Upon the sands of the arena, Mia finds new allies, bitter rivals, and more questions about her strange affinity for the shadows. When it is announced that Consul Scaeva and Cardinal Duomo will be making a rare public appearance at the conclusion of the grand games in Godsgrave, Mia defies the church and sells herself into slavery for a chance to fulfil the promise she made on the day she lost everything. But after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia begins to suspect the motives of the Red Church itself. ![]() Her position is precarious, and she's still no closer to exacting revenge for the brutal death of her family. Mia Corvere, destroyer of empires, has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church ministry do not believe she has earned it. A ruthless young assassin continues her journey for revenge in this new epic fantasy from New York Times best-selling author Jay Kristoff. ![]() |