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Long Night Moon
Cynthia Rylant
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Scarecrow
ASIN: 0689854269 |
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Have you ever stopped to consider what might be revealed in one spot over one year by twelve unique and exquisite full moons?
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Moon struck!.......2006-11-09
My 3 yo granddaughter loves the moon and loves this book. Although the prose is spare, it captures the essence of each month's full moon. The illustrations are soft, subtle and like Rylant's writing, full of wondrous detail.
This is a fabulous pairing of writer and illustrator. They compliment each other perfectly. I enjoy this one as much as my granddaughter.
Long Night Moo n.......2006-08-27
Grear book to inspire young writers to take off an re write thie own versions
not just for bedtime.......2004-12-31
i read this book late at night in the winter time during the full moon, and was so taken with the artwork, i stayed awake to reread and reread it. the landscape really caught me, i could feel it and smell it, it felt like i was walking through this panorama. i loved looking at each page to see how it connected to the page before, how the road got closer, then further away as i kept walking. when i read the book to my kindergartners, they were awed and silent. they loved finding some of the hidden art in the drawings, looking for the wolf in the sky was their favorite. this is a magical book, which leaves you feeling hushed, peaceful, happy.
Many delightful moments for parent and child.......2004-12-29
This book is a remarkable achievement. Rylant's simple yet moving and profound poems capture the magic and wonder of the night-time, and they have been further brought to life - and to light, amazingly so, in a rich diversity of luminous grays, blues, purples - by the illustrator.
Reading it with my five-year-old niece, who has often been afraid alone at night, was truly delightful: Long Night Moon brings out the richness, softness and intimacy of the nocturnal environment, in a way that a child finds reassuring.
The journey of the seasons is shown in snapshots, panning along a 360° view of the same landscape, bringing us back, at December's Long Night Moon, to the homey scene of the beginning. It gives a feeling of completeness and harmony, one more of the very successful uses of symbolism and imagery by this author/illustrator pair who were very fortunate to find one another.
I've recommended this book to several friends, who told me it also gave them very pleasant reading experiences with the children in their life.
indelible memories.......2004-12-29
From BOOKPAGE, December 2004:
Once in a blue moon
Inspired by the Native American custom of naming full moons, veteran Newbery Medal-winning author Cynthia Rylant teams up with newcomer Mark Siegel in a lovely new book showcasing the 12 full moons of the year.
As artist Mark Siegel shares in a note, although he was immediately captivated by Rylant's words, he wasn't quite sure of the best medium to use for his artwork. After trying acrylics and oils, he finally chose charcoal, pencil and pastels.
Perhaps more importantly, he took "many long walks by moonlight in the beautiful Rockefeller Farms, near Sleepy Hollow, New York," realizing that he'd never given so much attention to moonlight before. This careful attention paid off in Siegel's stunning illustrations exploring all 360 degrees of one spot in the countryside. The dark yet silvery images seem perfectly in tune with Rylant's words, which evoke the moons, the natural world and seasons, and the meanings they hold for us. The book begins:
"In January
the Stormy Moon shines in mist, in ice, on a wild wolf's back.
Find it and find your way home."
Each month is lovingly evoked, from the Sprouting Grass Moon of April, to June's Strawberry Moon, to the Acorn Moon of October. December's moon is the Long Night Moon, which waits, and waits, and waits for morning. This, Rylant tells us, is the faithful moon.
Long Night Moon is a perfect way to introduce young children to the seasons. Share it with your family after a moonlit walk, and you will create indelible memories.
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A Delicous Read.......2000-05-05
This is a book filled with delicious smells, wonderful sound and color images. A good cuddle together and read to me book. An excellent book to stimulate creative writing and to explore the senses through. A book to enjoy over and over again!
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Faith in the Night Seasons
Nancy Missler
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The Key: How to Let Go and Let God
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Jesus ministered to many but focused on a few. What makes this strategy so compelling? Because he understood the secret of living forward—spiritual multiplication through intentionally influencing a few people at a time. He knew that by concentrating on a few faithful men and women they would leave behind them a legacy of people whose influence would extend beyond a generation or two; in fact, a legacy that would continue to multiply until he returned.
This book is written to stimulate you toward a passionate desire to change people. The key is not so much how you pour your life into people but that you are a person worth following. God placed you here to invest your life in others. This book will show you how to live and speak truth into the lives of others in a way that will transform them forever.
Some of the essential leadership characteristics discussed in this book:
• Self-disipline
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In the winter of 2001, Charles Laird Calia lay down on the lawn in his front yard, looked up at the sky, and rediscovered a childhood passion. Part primer on the science and history of astronomy, part love poem to the night sky, The Stargazing Year is this amateur astronomer's memoir of a year spent gazing upward. In chapters spanning the twelve months of the night sky, the author invites readers to discover the mystery and beauty of stargazing.
Throughout the world, on any given night, thousands of people direct their telescopes to the heavens. Two centuries ago, an amateur observer was largely up against himself and his optics. Now, much of that has changed and, with the affordable equipment available today, amateur astronomers have made inroads in the study of variable stars, novas, and eclipsing binaries that have proven to be immensely valuable to scientists. Calia elegantly weaves the history of amateur astronomy and astronomers with his own personal story of how, one starlit evening when he was in his early forties, the galaxy opened its arms to him again. The Stargazing Year is a paean to the universe and its many mysteries.
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Reads like Cotton Candy, lacks a solid center.......2006-07-15
I found Calia's book interesting a first, but quickly tiresome. The writing is a bit amatuerish, with sachrine prose more likely found in a romance novel, almost, as Calia would say, "desperately so." All in all, I found it a bit too fluffy. It constantly runs off on romantic or nostalgic tangents dotted with a little history or science to hold it together, but never enough to be satisfying in my opinion. And some of the true comedy of being an astronomer is completely lacking. I can't say that I would truly recommend this book.
Serendipity! Charles Calia has written a gem of a book!.......2005-07-10
In the opening sentence of his "Conclusion" to The Critique of Practical Reason (1788), the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) wrote: "Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
In The Stargazing Year, Charles Laird Calia, while apparently having no significant quarrel with "the moral law within," writes of how his imagination was hooked at an early age in Pennsylvania and Minnesota by wonder, admiration, and awe at "the starry heavens above," and how he came full circle, after the passage of half a lifetime, to his fascination with the stars, his own return to the eternal return of the night sky.
Tracing the trajectories of the heavens, he simultaneously traces the trajectory of his own life: "Nostalgia is part and parcel of the human condition, a natural gift of aging, and it protects us from the message that the universe telegraphs to us with frightening accuracy. You are small and will soon be forgotten."
A frequent contributor to Sky & Telescope magazine, Calia is a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, and the British Astronomical Association. He now lives in Connecticut with his wife and two daughters, where he has built a backyard observatory.
Calia divides The Stargazing Year into 12 chapters, January through December, cataloguing the transit of the seasons from winter to autumn, and the changing constellations of the heavens.
Stumbling across Calia's work is a remarkable example of serendipity, a fortunate discovery, for The Stargazing Year is charmingly written, insightfully informative, and delightfully funny--a gem of a book.
Escaping from the planetary pull of his mother's obsession with astrology, Calia developed an obsession of his own, a passion for and love of astronomy. Under the watchful eye of his wife, who keeps a close watch over family expenditures, Calia's account of building his backyard observatory is hilarious, as he fumbles and flounders his way through the daunting construction, with help from the guy in the orange jacket at Home Depot.
The book is star-studded with arresting metaphors, similes, and analogies and an ingratiating self-deprecating humor. Think the staccato-voiced words of Rod Serling. Think the bucolic poetic lyricism of Robert Frost. Think the sly wit and wisdom of Mark Twain. Think the whimsy and zany inventiveness of Douglas Adams. Think the contagious enthusiasm and passion of Carl Sagan.
"Love can bring us a long distance," writes Calia, "if we take notice. I finally did. Throughout a celestial season, I had spent twelve months noticing, watching comets and asteroids, faint galaxies, sunspots, and distant stars. Creation unfolding. Some may witness the unfolding of the universe, like a gathering of planets, as comforting, a creation that cares enough to influence us, and they interpret it as such--a mystery with human fingerprints. Others scoff and find no connection where none was intended. Both sides miss the point, I think. And therein lies perhaps the greatest mystery: not how strange it is for the universe to unfold, but rather, that there is a universe to unfold at all."
Along the way, we learn a lot about astronomical history, such as Galileo and Tycho Brahe, and we are enthralled by Calia's playfully anthropomorphic description of the constellations as the mythological movements of predators and prey, monsters and mavericks, lovely maidens and rescuing heroes.
This paean to the cosmos is a joy to read. A word of caution, however, is in order: The Stargazing Year may send you scurrying to the nearest supply store to purchase a telescope. If so, I can envision Calia exulting, "My work here is done!"
Roy E. Perry of Nolensville is an advertising copywriter at a Nashville publishing house.
Note: An alternate translation(by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott) of the quotation by Kant is: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."
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It is never too late to recapture the wonder of the holiday season, to wish again for your deepest dreams to come true. The backdrop of lights twinkling in the darkness and boundless good will make Christmas the perfect time for love, as the heronines in these four romantic novellas will discover. Come along as storytellers Yvonne Lehman, Loree Lough, Tracie Peterson, and Debra White Smith weave magical holiday tales of gifts that are "just right" and loves that are "meant to be." A sparkling ring - a long awaited trip - a heartwarming surprise - the thrill of life time commitment - these gifts and the loves that give them will draw your heart and imagination into a splendid Season of Love.
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The origin of many threads in the series..........2001-11-18
As in all the anthologies in this series, FEVER SEASON's stories are written in a braided format, so that the effect is almost seamless as the events of the book flow forward. My comments are organized more by author than by appearance in the book.
Cherryh's own story, "Fever Season", is the thread around which the others develop. There's been no Plague, only the Crud, but since Mondragon hasn't fully adapted to Merovingen's local germs, he is seriously ill. At this point in the series, the Takahashi brothers move into Mondragon's place, so that he can be cared for without publicly showing weakness.
Abbey, Lynn: "Life Assurance" - More about the Kamats, particularly Richard, beginning with lunch at the Ramsey Bell, the tavern frequented by heirs and second sons of trading houses. (As Richard's peers are mostly his father's generation, he still eats at the Bell - a fine place to pick up information.) Jordie Slade, one of Kamat's workers, has disappeared, so Richard, with a Kamat's sense of responsibility, investigates the matter personally. Eleanora, Jordie's wife (or is she a widow?), appears for the first time.
Asire, Nancy: "Night Ride" - When 6 men attack a youngster on a walkway, Justice Lee rescues the kid - who turns out to be Raj. Raj wants to know how an Adventist got into the College (no real Revenantist would get involved in a stranger's karma). He'd give anything for the College's medical training...
Fish, Leslie: "War of the Unseen Worlds" - Rif appears at Jones' tie-up to collect on her promise (see Festival Moon, "First Night Cruise") to help Rif on her next run through the city.
Lackey, Mercedes: "A Plague On Your Houses" - Raj has 2 apparently hopeless dreams - a crush on Marina Kamat, and becoming a doctor. As it happens, Raj'd be a fairly good doctor; he knows a lot of swampy herb lore...enough, maybe, to save the life of one Thomas Mondragon, if Raj can trade get the drugs he needs from the swamp.
Unfortunately, Raj leaves anonymous poems for Marina Kamat. When she catches him, she believes his 'I'm-just-a-messenger' tale - then traces him to Mondragon's place(!). The consequences of Raj's actions come home to roost in subsequent volumes.
Morris, Chris: "Hearts and Minds" - Cardinal Ito Boregy, conducting Mike Chamoun's catechism sessions, bitterly resents Cassie's betrothal to this Adventist convert. Consequently, he spices up the lessons with a 'sacrament' of hallucinogenic deathangel powder - with major consequences, as Mike apparently has visions of a past life.
Morris, Janet: "Instant Karma" - Here is the 'sharrh overflight' we hear so much about in later books, which panics the city...but are the sharrh really responsible?
The appendix on Merovingen ecology discusses Epidemiology 101 (this town is making me sick), Pharmacology 101, Aquatic Ecology 101 (what's to eat?), 102 (what's eating you?), and Oceanography 101 (whose fault is it?)
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- First Rate Suspense
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In the Night Season: A Novel
Richard Bausch
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Hello to the Cannibals : A Novel
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An 11-year-old boy and his recently widowed mother face dangers both internal and external in Richard Bausch's bloody but psychologically acute thriller. After a freak bus accident leaves Jack Michaelson dead and his family destitute, Nora and Jason Michaelson just barely scrape by. When their black neighbor Edward Bishop offers to drop in on Jason each afternoon, Nora is grateful--until Bishop finds a series of increasingly frightening hate letters stuffed into his mailbox, signed by an organization calling itself the Virginia Front. "Watch your step with the white woman," they warn, and, "The woman & her son will burn with you." When two strangers break into Bishop's home, hog-tie, beat, and murder him, it's only natural that the police go looking for racists. Meanwhile, the real culprits go looking for Nora and Jason Michaelson.
Jack Michaelson was, as it turns out, a man of many secrets, and Nora and Jason's kidnappers expose them one by one. Even the villains here are fully fleshed out, their demons rivaled only by those of loneliness, family dysfunction, and greed. But make no mistake: this may be a "literary" thriller, but it's also a very scary one. The author of critically acclaimed short fiction and novels, including the comic gem Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea, Bausch proves himself here as adept at building narrative tension and suspense. The characters don't always have the depth--or the appealing quirkiness--of those in Bausch's previous work, but what this novel lacks for in subtlety, it makes up for in sheer ominous power.
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Nora Michaelson and her eleven-year-old son, Jason. are going through a difficult adjustment to life after the accidental death of Jason's father. at a time when the family's small business was failing. The loss of Jack Michaelson has left his wife and son nearly destitute. It has also placed their lives in jeopardy. This is a story of terror, and resourcefulness in the face of terror, from a master storyteller.
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First Rate Suspense.......2002-06-21
I had read the book of Bausch's short stories and was impressed. However, this novel was absolutely first rate. He manages to hold the tension in the book right up to the epilogue. I love authors who fully develop their characters, and Bausch is a master of that, even in a suspense novel. As a writer I always read with one eye on the craft of the novel.
This was like seeing a movie that had you on the edge of your seat the whole time. I plan to read lots more by this author.
Can't Put It Down--Kept me up ALL NIGHT.......2001-10-26
I thought this was a great book. As far as mysteries and thrillers go, this one kept me up all night. The characters were realistic and you could keep track of it. It was a great book. I'm looking into other books by Bausch now. I just discovered him after reading Stephen King's book On Writing.
Brings Nothing New to the Genre.......2001-10-05
This is a very well-written thriller, but it brings nothing new to the genre. I can't complain about the prose, which is full and efficient. I wish Richard Bausch would stick with short stories, or at least stories with gentler and less generic themes.
A bi-coastal mystery.......2000-11-12
The possibilities are all there at the beginning. A young newly-widowed mother, Nora, and her 11-year old son, Jason, are befriended by a neighbor, a black man who offers to check on Jason while Nora works. An element of racism is introduced when both Nora and her neighbor, Edward Bishop, begin receiving hate mail. It would seem that they are being watched. They are. The culprits eventually get to Edward, whom they brutally murder, then move on to the next prey, Jason, home alone. As the men are stalking Jason, I kept thinking, why doesn't he do this or that, but it doesn't matter, because of course they find him and wait for his mother. The story becomes bi-coastal when Nora's parents in Seattle are drawn into the picture. Apparently Nora's dead husband has something to do with all this. After a bloody, facile ending Nora and Jason are rescued as are the grandparents in Seattle. So what did the hate mail have to do with the story? Nothing.
All Violence, No Character.......2000-04-10
While I found parts of this book gripping, I wouldn't say it was because I cared about any of the hostages, three long-suffering people who'd been beaten down by life and were therefore passive in the face of fear. In fact, one of the most interesting characters was cruel Travis, who enjoyed using his charm to get to know his victims. Travis seemed to understand Jason better after only a short time than Mr. Bishop or either of Jason's parents. Some of the most tense scenes in the novel were when the hostages had to wait to find out what the bad guys were going to do to them. The passivity of the characters was compounded by the fact that none of them knew anything about what the criminals were looking for, and wasted a lot of dialogue repeating that fact. I was glad when the torture was over so I could put the book down, but I felt that Bausch left too much out in his attempt to maximize the suspense in this novel.
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A backstage guide to SNL.......1999-08-30
A long, long time ago Saturday Night Live was simply Saturday Night. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Chevy Chase were among the cast-members. Elliot Gould, Richard Pryor, and Paul Simon were all guest stars.
This book chronicles the first 2 seasons of SNL. It features interviews, scripts, pictures, and other miscellaneous information about the show that gave us all a reason to stay home on Saturday nights.
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A fresh insight to the area of dreams and interpretations is presented in this book. You will learn how you can know if your dreams are from God and some techniques to help you understand them.
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