"Wonderfully creative, visually inventive. Drawn in a spidery, cross-hatched pen-and-ink style reminiscent of Edward Gorey, this charming collection will transport readers of all ages. Originally published in the Philippines, where it is an award-winning bestseller, Meläg: Town of Fables marks the English language debut of Filipino American illustrator and author B. Travel on a train with singing, blob-like beings, spy a shack that floats above the treetops because of a "borrowed" magical broomstick, romp with futuristic creatures on a playdate, roam a carnival with two goofy boys, dance the father-daughter dance at a wedding with a robot, and cry with two lost souls who come together as friends in the rain. Redila's childhood hometown in the Philippines and where love, joy, and heartbreak hold hands. Welcome to Meläg, an eerily fantastic town located somewhere between dreamland and the real world of B. This haunting, nostalgic collection of short comics by Filipino American illustrator and author Bong Redila is at once an homage to childhood and a simple wish that tomorrow everything will be fine.
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With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. But Hill House is gathering its powers-and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting" Theodora, his lighthearted assistant Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. 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" Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." -Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal When the cupboard is bare at the Flopsy Bunny's burrow, the family all have to go in search of food. 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But for each anniversary, they also open up with, like, a word of the day or word of the year. It was on one of the chapters, the top of all her letters for each we’re reading our cover. And then tomorrow they’ll remind me what that word means again. Oh, yeah, I’ll remember that for the next two or 3 hours. But is it when two souls combine or something? No, it’s when the love that you share for someone is reciprocated back in equal amounts. What’s up, buddy? You’ve already said the word Reed of his name to me before, and this was yesterday, and I still don’t remember what it means. And who would have thunk I’d find it here with you, Keith. Welcome, readers, to the Buddy Book Club 2022 edition in 2021. They also welcome Steph from as the first guest of the program!Īll right. The Buddies tackle many of the subjects that lead to failed marriages: anniversary gifts, phone stealing, face-blindness, and what you throw first (or kick) in a game of RPC/Roshambo. The Buddies kick off 2022 with Alice Feeney’s winter-mystery-thriller Rocks Paper Scissor. If you’re in, we will coordinate,” Daniella Levine Cava wrote on Twitter. We want you to come to Miami-Dade to do a reading of your poem. “Your poem inspired our youth to become active participants in their government and to help shape the future. Miami-Dade County’s mayor on Wednesday invited Gorman to visit for a reading. “Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech.” Ever since, I’ve received countless letters and videos from children inspired by ‘The Hill We Climb’ to write their own poems,” she wrote. “I wrote ‘The Hill We Climb’ so that all young people could see themselves in a historical moment. Gorman was “gutted” by the district’s decision, she said in a statement on Tuesday. |