tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53309135765993513882024-03-05T05:59:26.405-05:00Vick's PicksVicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.comBlogger358125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-63716903743246709592021-09-21T11:22:00.002-04:002021-09-27T09:50:55.109-04:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> Just finished this-it's a fun read!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3FL9iqdpEMJAeT83woDX3yj63HrxbJST0l4tdN-9E_xqRc3iUD7XnCw6R0_C7lrlk8mG_qNGc7KOGHPRrLvqLTD_Mr2D8UN0SyJh0fPDNJC-Gp6kd2DAqIIwgHfJnZZI-ddgr-l4UJI/s575/52439531.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="381" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3FL9iqdpEMJAeT83woDX3yj63HrxbJST0l4tdN-9E_xqRc3iUD7XnCw6R0_C7lrlk8mG_qNGc7KOGHPRrLvqLTD_Mr2D8UN0SyJh0fPDNJC-Gp6kd2DAqIIwgHfJnZZI-ddgr-l4UJI/s320/52439531.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch--and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.</span></span></div><br /><p></p>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-52741251055438236322021-08-31T11:26:00.000-04:002021-08-31T11:26:13.243-04:00<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_MGHYz_NTDsAnySlwavZlHLpjysprC3ZtcqY_SJcvehQWHvK6Z5O2WxlxrVN74l6FxWtYBw3ktsmGWFfBZKNoiTyYDHEcfodGqgOcYtL2N8TsXKN4o_lrFWf-tj2HApn3XAvmvXmHlM/s475/55315487._SY475_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="313" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_MGHYz_NTDsAnySlwavZlHLpjysprC3ZtcqY_SJcvehQWHvK6Z5O2WxlxrVN74l6FxWtYBw3ktsmGWFfBZKNoiTyYDHEcfodGqgOcYtL2N8TsXKN4o_lrFWf-tj2HApn3XAvmvXmHlM/w159-h241/55315487._SY475_.jpg" width="159" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><h1 class="gr-h1 gr-h1--serif" id="bookTitle" itemprop="name" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; width: 455px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">The Plot</span></h1><h2 id="bookSeries" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 4px 0px;"></h2><div id="bookAuthors" style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><span class="by" style="font-size: 16px;">by</span> <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><div class="authorName__container" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 16px;"><a class="authorName" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/72027.Jean_Hanff_Korelitz" itemprop="url" style="line-height: 24px; text-decoration-line: none;">Jean Hanff Korelitz</a> </div></span></span></div><div class="uitext stacked" id="bookMeta" itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/AggregateRating" style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px; position: relative;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div id="descriptionContainer" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); font-size: 12px;"><div class="readable stacked" id="description" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; right: 0px;"><span id="freeText266677017415787724" style="display: inline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written--let alone published--anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then... he hears the plot.<br /><br />Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that--a story that absolutely needs to be told.<br /><br />In a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: <i>You are a thief</i>, it says.<br /><br />As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his "sure thing" of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?<br /><br /><b>Hailed as breathtakingly suspenseful, Jean Hanff Korelitz's <i>The Plot</i> is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.</b></span></span></div></div>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-10877036512265677152019-07-19T15:55:00.001-04:002019-07-19T15:55:11.530-04:00Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a fast read for me. I especially enjoyed the three different eras that the novel was set in and how the characters from each were all connected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I find that there is less of a waiting list if you request the audio version and I'm glad I did. Got to hear the North Carolina dialects... Great read for the summer. The NC marsh isn't just a setting in this book, it's a character...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens.</span><br style="font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, </span><i style="font-size: 14px;">Where the Crawdads Sing</i><span style="font-size: 14px;"> is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.</span></span></span>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-47392172343719569262019-05-24T09:40:00.001-04:002019-05-24T09:43:06.200-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people</div>
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In a time of immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, <i>We Are
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BriainPickings has a great <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/31/jane-goodalls-reading-a-velocity-of-being/" target="_blank">blog post</a> about the wonders of reading. Mary Oliver's quote really resonates with me "<span style=";">We read to remember. We read to forget. We read to make ourselves and remake ourselves and save ourselves. </span><em style="; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life,”</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style=";">That life-steering power of books </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592702287/braipick-20" style="; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 155, 155); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader</em></span></a><span style=";"> (</span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/velocity-of-being-letters-to-a-young-reader/oclc/1061863690&referer=brief_results" style="; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 155, 155); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">public library</em></a><span style=";">) — a labor of love eight years in the making, comprising </span><a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/20/a-velocity-of-being-letters-to-a-young-reader/" style="; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 155, 155); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">121 illustrated letters to children</a><span style=";"> about how books form and transform us by some of the most inspiring humans in our world: artists, writers, scientists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and adventurers whose character has been shaped by a life of reading.</span></span>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-1282218712573864812019-01-08T15:27:00.000-05:002019-01-08T15:27:06.634-05:00Educated by Tara Westover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong style="color: #181818;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of <em>The Glass Castle</em> about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University</span></strong>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-65254825517839717292018-08-12T13:49:00.000-04:002018-08-12T13:49:17.119-04:00Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is one of the many novels that I enjoyed over summer break-great plot twist...</span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat.<br />Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete.<br />An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two.<br />A bad romance, or maybe three.<br />Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains.<br />A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Check out the <a href="https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2017/" target="_blank">Book Concierge</a> for a guide to great reads!</span><br />
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<br />Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-27479615954780662632018-03-12T14:45:00.000-04:002018-03-12T14:45:16.878-04:00Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great book, loved the snippets of Filipino culture included. The main character is a Pinoy, just like my husband.</span><br />
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Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-3260081927943107322018-03-04T13:38:00.002-05:002018-03-04T13:39:37.714-05:00Congrats to Chloe our Edible Book Contest Winner!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-57430549873670454842018-01-24T15:02:00.002-05:002018-01-24T15:02:31.660-05:00Edible Book Contest Feb 1-20 IHHS Media Center!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-19237147599269956552018-01-09T13:44:00.001-05:002018-01-09T13:44:36.221-05:00The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWWUw7GCtk6-0yhRbVLc6E8MrY3kJg_KaNd5i2zbtayzKMvRLRcalh7L4j1vOc35ovm00S8P5QSuzAICT2qzVlDNF8fNnRda3L_w7ruRTQDlT0JucZCzc5kqON7J3CMIUWWy1VGPNOiI/s1600/28256439.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWWUw7GCtk6-0yhRbVLc6E8MrY3kJg_KaNd5i2zbtayzKMvRLRcalh7L4j1vOc35ovm00S8P5QSuzAICT2qzVlDNF8fNnRda3L_w7ruRTQDlT0JucZCzc5kqON7J3CMIUWWy1VGPNOiI/s320/28256439.jpg" width="224" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Started reading this over break and have found it fascinating. Perhaps I was a Druid in a previous life 😊 🌿🌳</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In </span><i style="font-size: 14px;">The Hidden Life of Trees</i><span style="font-size: 14px;">, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they grow, sharing nutrients with those who are sick or struggling and creating an ecosystem that mitigates the impact of extremes of heat and cold for the whole group. As a result of such interactions, trees in a family or community are protected and can live to be very old. In contrast, solitary trees, like street kids, have a tough time of it and in most cases die much earlier than those in a group.</span><br style="font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Drawing on groundbreaking new discoveries, Wohlleben presents the science behind the secret and previously unknown life of trees and their communication abilities; he describes how these discoveries have informed his own practices in the forest around him. As he says, a happy forest is a healthy forest, and he believes that eco-friendly practices not only are economically sustainable but also benefit the health of our planet and the mental and physical health of all who live on Earth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the longest time, Selznick's book has been on the bottom of the pile of one of my shelves at home. Finally picked it up and am enjoying it so much! Like his other novel the Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck does not disappoint!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ben and Rose secretly wish for better lives. Ben longs for his unknown father. Rose scrapbooks a famous silent actress. When Ben finds clues and Rose reads enticing news, the children independently run to New York for what they are missing. Ben's story in words, Rose's in pictures, come together in deafness.</span>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-11030960971439157182017-11-21T10:52:00.000-05:002017-11-21T10:52:13.783-05:00Turtles All the Way Down by John Green<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.</span></span></span>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-12254755924671024822017-11-13T13:59:00.000-05:002017-11-13T13:59:11.703-05:00All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidentally poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wow! Glad chocolate and coffee are not illegal...can you imagine??? I sure don't want to! I think you'll enjoy this tale of Anya, a mafia boss's daughter, who has to navigate her birthright and her desires...</span></span>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-23551878824760290742017-10-10T08:06:00.000-04:002017-10-10T08:06:13.444-04:00The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just finished listening to this. Powerful how your life can be shaped by a series of small decisions...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">I'm enjoying learning about the camaraderie and thrill of racing in regattas and listening to this true account...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.</span>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-85768923017467085962017-05-14T16:12:00.001-04:002017-05-14T16:12:36.666-04:00State of Wonder by Ann Patchett<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span 14px="" font-size:="" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her lush descriptions of the Amazon Rainforest made me want to reach for my mosquito repellent. </span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #181818; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness. Stirring and luminous, </span><i style="font-size: 14px;">State of Wonder</i><span style="font-size: 14px;"> is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss beneath the rain forest's jeweled canopy</span></span></span>Vicky Mendozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06242125255831649683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330913576599351388.post-55499803428262684572017-03-06T14:33:00.000-05:002017-03-06T14:33:13.294-05:00Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Midwesterner Gary D. Schmidt won
Newbery Honor awards for <i>Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boys</i> and <i>The
Wednesday Wars</i>, two coming-of-age novels about unlikely friends finding a
bond. <i>Okay For Now</i>, his latest novel, explores another seemingly
improbable alliance, this one between new outsider in town Doug Swieteck and
Lil Spicer, the savvy spitfire daughter of his deli owner boss. With her
challenging assistance, Doug discovers new sides of himself. Along the way, he
also readjusts his relationship with his abusive father, his school peers, and
his older brother, a newly returned war victim of Vietnam.</span><span style="color: #44546a;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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