![]() The enduring popularity of The Dybbuk can be attributed to its being far more than a ghost story - a Fiddler-on-the-Roof-meets-The- Exorcist. There have been theatrical films, a television show, operas, even puppet theater productions. Habima, the national theater of Israel, made it its signature piece. Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein created one of at least two ballets based on it. Today, it continues to be performed around the world, in a stream of new translations and adaptations, by companies ranging from the Royal Shakespeare Company to New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theatre. The play - about a “dybbuk,” or a disembodied spirit that possesses a young woman and is exorcised to tragic result - was an immediate hit and went on to become the most popular play of Yiddish theater. Ansky’s The Dybbuk at the Elyseum Theatre in Warsaw 100 years ago - on Decemit could not anticipate the phenomenon it was unleashing upon the world. When the Vilna Troupe staged the world premiere of S. ![]()
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![]() With her nomination and win of the In the Margins Committee Top Ten Books for Teens award for her second published book, Ruby, Between the Cracks, Workman's young adult fiction books began to be recognized for their frank and insightful treatment of issues facing BIPOC youth and youth on the street or in restrictive custody. She is best known for her cozy mystery series Auntie Clem’s Bakery and Reg Rawlins, Psychic Investigator, and her P.I. In the early part of her career as an author, Workman focused on young adult literature, but for the latter part has written mostly mystery and suspense novels. She continued to write novels for her own enjoyment, but did not publish her debut novel, Looking Over Your Shoulder until 2013. She wrote her first novel-length fiction at the age of twelve. ![]() Workman was born in Fort McMurray, Alberta in 1972 and moved to Calgary, Alberta at the age of seven. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What might be the most impressive part of FLUENCY is the attention paid to each character, making them not one-note stock characters (there are no Red Shirts here!) but interesting, complicated individuals. The dialog is natural and entirely believable, making it easy to get caught up in the action without being distracted by characters that speak like they’re in a made-for-TV sci-fi flick. Author Jennifer Foehner Wells focuses as much on these details as she does on the stranded Ei’Brai and the space slugs, making Fluency a novel as interested in the complicated history of its characters as it is in fighting bloodthirsty aliens. Aliens are great, but things like good dialog and character development are necessary for a novel to transcend its genre. When writing science fiction, it’s easy to get so caught up in a plot that everything else falls by the wayside. ![]() But can she trust this creature that can only speak to her? And what will she do with a crew that’s becoming violent and mutinous? ![]() The ship is far from abandoned, however, as Jane begins to communicate telepathically with a creature that insists that the fate of humanity (and beyond) is in her hands. Jane Holloway, an internationally respected linguist, has been asked to act as Earth’s ambassador on a journey to an apparently abandoned spaceship that’s on a collision path with an asteroid. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Teenage characters are few and far between, but a story that's simultaneously romantic, tragic, horrifying, and transcendental is more than enough to hold readers' attention, no matter their age. Midwinterblood, Free Chapter Sampler Marcus Sedgwick 3.72 165 ratings31 reviews Download the chapter sampler of Midwinterblood, the Printz Awardwinning novel by Marcus Sedgwick. In a present-day story about an archeological dig, Eric is a oddly strong, brain-damaged teenager and Merle his mother in the 10th century, when the island was inhabited by Vikings, Eirek and Melle are young twins, whose story answers questions raised by what the archeologists discover. Set on a mysterious and isolated Nordic island, the stories all include characters with variations on the names of Eric and Merle. Sedgwick appears to share Bridget's sentiment: as he moves backward through time in seven interconnected stories from the late 21st century to an unspecified ancient era character names, spoken phrases, and references to hares, dragons, and sacrifice reverberate, mutate, and reappear. ![]() Don't you?" a woman named Bridget says to her daughter, Merle, at one point in this heady mystery that joins the remote northern setting of Sedgwick's Revolver with the multigenerational scope of his White Crow. "I always prefer a walk that goes in a circle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Defying the odds, the expedition survived another five months camping on ice floes, followed by a perilous journey through stormy seas to remote and unvisited Elephant Island. Five months later and still 100 miles from land, their ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. ![]() In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his crew sailed from England on the Endurance in an attempt to become the first team of explorers to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. The extraordinary true story behind Ernest Shackleton's harrowing expedition to Antarctica on the Endurance-the ill-fated ship that became trapped in ice and sank to the ocean floor. Defying the odds, the crew made it back alive, bringing with them the astounding collection of photographs included in this critically acclaimed, timeless book. ![]() ![]() The mini-magazine also included some fun activities, while the other page is another interview with a vendor from Fable Grounds Coffee. ![]() Knowing what inspired the author to pen a story can help us understand the book better. This month’s featured author is Ciannon Smart. The mini-magazine includes an author interview. The flip side of the info card contains some spoiler warnings. The items were cushioned with white squiggles. OwlCrate always has the best info card prints! April’s theme is RUTHLESS RIVALS! OwlCrate’s YA book subscription made the list in our 2021 readers’ choice of the best subscriptions for teens!ĭEAL: Use coupon code HELLO15 to save 15% on your first subscription! OwlCrate always sends the best items to go along with their theme with the hottest new books. Each OwlCrate contains one new Young Adult novel, as well as 3-5 other bookish items all matched to the monthly theme. ![]() ![]() OwlCrate is a monthly subscription of YA books and bookish items. ![]() ![]() ![]() Do your best to provide lore-based reasoning behind your answer. ![]() Rule 4c: All hypothetical question posts must make an effort to answer the question.While these are allowed in specific cases, you must also provide a summary of the work, a specific reason you are posting, and credit to the original creator. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Jumper is a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox/New Regency Productions, starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. And a Jumper bent on revenge is not going to let anything stand in his way. Griffin grows up with only two goals: to survive, and to kill the people who want him dead. Griffin knows that the men were looking for him, and he must never let them find him. That was the day that the men came to his house and murdered his parents. The most important time was when he was nine. The first time was when he was five, and his parents crossed an ocean to protect the secret. Griffin is a Jumper: a person who can teleport to any place he has ever been. It's a secret that he's sworn to his parents to keep, and never tell. What if you could jump? Go anywhere in the world in the blink of an eye? What would you do? Where would you go? What if you were only five years old? An original novel from Steven Gould, creator of the Jumper series, that tells the back story of Griffin O'Connor, a character created for the film of Jumper. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, I don’t know about you, but I immediately balk at the very mention of math. Whether she’s hopping on a carnival ride in the documentary episode “Numbers as God” or trying to use an algorithm to forecast the timing of the next riot, making math exciting is what Dr. She’s doing this to prove a point – that Newton’s Law of Gravity, like all mathematical theorems, has very real, relevant, and thrilling consequences, and we feel them every time we take a leap. ![]() Hannah Fry is upside down on a rollercoaster. From her documentaries about whether mathematics is real to her research on Christmas to her TED talk and book on the statistics of finding long-lasting love, she has a way of making math appealing and profoundly relevant for everyone. In a world that’s increasingly reliant on ever-more-obscure algorithms, it’s crucially important to consider math and science through a sensitive, deeply human lens – which is exactly what Dr. Today, she’s an eminent mathematician teaching millions to find the magic in numbers. ![]() Hannah Fry was an awkward young student finding solace in her love of mathematics. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the daughters of the second Duke of Richmond (descended from an illegitimate son of Charles II, he was a a cabinet minister and a gentleman-scientist), these intelligent, well-educated women were exposed to the newest ideas of the 18th century, as well as to the latest plays, books, and fashions. While thorough research accounts in part for the range and reach of Aristocrats, the privileged lives of the four sisters themselves gives the author unusual access to extraordinary stories. Tillyard (The Impact of Modernism, not reviewed) reveals the characters of four well-to-do Englishwomen who rode the shifting cultural currents between 1740 and the onset of the Victorian age. This colorful narrative succeeds at bringing four historically distant lives closer to us. ![]() |