As always, where this is the case I’ve made sure to research the book using the reviews of others to support the reasoning for my recommendation. While I always like to showcase books I’ve actually read, there are some on this list that I haven’t. So, for those of you who’ve only just discovered these fiction dynamos and those sick of re-reading them for the twentieth time, here are a few recommendations that’ll help scratch that specific itch. Today’s three books are backlist reads but super popular ones that continue to be read in massive numbers, just ask the Goodreads’ most read sections. Well, here I am to help (I hope) with another instalment of ‘Liked This, Try These’. But where to find a good readalike, you wonder. If you’re anything like me, once you read something you love, all you can think about is finding something similar to keep the good times rolling.
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"Full of pace and laughter, bruises and heart. Paul Griffin’s breathtaking middle-grade debut will warm your heart as much as it breaks it. But as their story unfolds Ben’s life begins to unravel, and Ben must discover for himself the truth about friendship and the meaning of home. Rainbow Girl convinces Ben to write a novel with her. Ben begins thinking of her as “Rainbow Girl” because of her crazy-colored clothes and her laugh, pure magic, the kind that makes you smile away the stormiest day. Scruffy little Flip leads Ben to befriend a fellow book-lover named Halley-yes, like the comet-a girl unlike anyone he has ever met. Ben prefers to spend his time with the characters in his favorite sci-fi books…until he rescues an abandoned mutt from the alley next-door to the Coney Island Library. As a former foster kid, he knows people can up and leave without so much as a goodbye. “This story convinced me all over again that love and imagination are life’s biggest magic.” -Rebecca Stead, author of Newbery Award winner When You Reach Meīen Coffin has never been one for making friends. A breathtaking middle-grade novel about happiness, loss, and an unforgettable dog named Flip Neither of her parents taught her their native languages which is why she always felt like an outsider even in her own family spaces. While she was never baptized, she attended an English Catholic school. She was born to a Canadian French mother of Irish Serbian descent and a Muslim Egyptian father. In a recent interview, Mona Awad who was born and raised in Montreal in Canada but now lives in the United States said that she always felt like an outsider. She now works at the Syracuse University Creative Writing program as an assistant professor. She would then get her doctorate in English literature and Creative Writing from the University of Denver. Mona got her MScR in English from the University of Edinburgh and an MFA from Brown University. Before she became an author, she was a bookseller for the likes of Blackwell Books in Edinburgh and The Kings English Bookshop and Pages in Toronto. Mona has taught creative writing at the University of Denver, Brown University and has been a Visiting Writer at the UMass Amherst MFA program. She has also been nominated and won several awards for her fiction works over the years. Her writing has been featured in a variety of publications such as Maisonneuve, The New York Times, The Walrus, Vogue, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s and TIME magazine. Mona Awad is an award winning and bestselling author of literary fiction. At age ten she and a neighborhood friend began making up plays and performing them on a tape recorder. Soon she was writing and illustrating her own books, mostly about a cat and the kittens she has. Klause wrote a poem about her mother ironing and decided from then on to save all her poems in a notebook. She recalls that her first experience with creative writing occurred when she was incapacitated with a twisted ankle at age eight or nine. When she was seven, Klause and her family moved north to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Robinson before I ever saw any of their movies." Her father also let her speak to Willoughby, an imaginary little boy who lived down his throat. I knew all about Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Jimmy Cagney, and Edward G. "But my daddy used to sit me on his lap and tell me the plots to gangster and monster movies. "My mother read and sang to me," Klause explained. A vampire love story, Klause's first novel is a darkly seductive thriller with heart and message.īorn in Bristol, England, in 1953, Klause became fascinated with grisly things at an early age. Annette Curtis Klause broke new ground in young adult literature with The Silver Kiss, a book that is at once "sexy, scaring, and moving," according to Roger Sutton writing in the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Dickey is also author of two novels, Innocent Blood and The Sleeper.Ĭhristopher Dickey talked about his book Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force - The NYPD. Dickey is also the “Shadowland” columnist in Newsweek online and author of With the Contras, Expats: Travels from Tripoli to Tehran, and Summer of Deliverance about his father, the late poet and novelist James Dickey. 14 quotes from Christopher Dickey: It did not take Bunch very long, amid the politicking and the revelry, to discover the darker side of life in Charleston’s homes. He’s the former Cairo Bureau Chief and former Central America Bureau Chief for the Washington Post. Christopher Dickey is Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Editor for Newsweek. He responded to audience members' questions. In the book, the author takes a inside look at New York’s counterterrorism effort to prevent another attack on the city - and to be able to go anywhere to counter an impending attack. T20:30:51-05:00 Christopher Dickey talked about his book Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force - The NYPD. Christopher Dickey, the Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor of Newsweek, discussed his new book Securing the City: Inside Americas Best. Published his findings in various academic papers.He continued to build his database synthesising meta-analyses. In 1992, John Hattie published Towards a Model of Schooling: A Synthesis of Meta-Analyses. He did so in a paper titled Identifying the Salient Facets of a Model of Student Learning: A Synthesis of Meta-Analyses. He (along with his colleagues) publicly published his first synthesis of research in 1987. But his work goes further back than that. I first came across John Hattie’s work when I read his 1999 Inaugural Lecture on the Influences on Student Learning. John Hattie & the History of Visible Learning It continues today.Īnd, his insights have developed along the way. Hattie’s work of collating meta-analyses started well before the book. Gleaned from synthesising meta-analyses. Yet, a more complete answer is that it is: A longer answer is that it a series of books. The short answer is that Visible Learning is a book. But what does it all mean for classroom teachers and school leaders? The answer, quite a lot – but you need to be careful. He soon became known as the go-to-guru for all things education. In 2009, John Hattie published his landmark book Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. Images-of the night sky, of running-leapt from her mind to mine through our pack-bond, as natural as words falling off lips. Maddy was sitting perfectly still, blinking her gray eyes owlishly, a soft smile on her lips. In control of the impulse to leap out of my chair and run for the woods, I glanced across the table at the last member of our little quartet. To my left, Lake, whose history with Devon’s flare for the dramatic stretched back almost as far as mine did, rolled her eyes, but her lips parted in a grin every bit as irrepressible and lupine as Devon’s.Ī wave of energy-pure, undiluted, and animalistic-vibrated through my own body, and I closed my eyes for one second …two. The smile on Devon’s face widened, making him look-to my eyes, at least-more puppy than wolf. “It’s Thanksgiving break, Dev, not summer vacation, and technically, it hasn’t even started yet.” “Everyone sing along!”Īs the leader of our little group-not to mention the alpha of Devon’s pack and his best friend since kindergarten-the responsibility for shutting down his boy-band tendencies fell to me. Leaning back in his chair with casual grace, he shot a mischievous look around our lunch table. “NO MORE SCHOOL, NO MORE BOOKS, NO MORE teachers’ dirty looks …”įor a two-hundred-twenty-pound werewolf, Devon Macalister had a wicked falsetto. June uses her training in counseling and her Christian beliefs in creating characters who find freedom to live godly lives. June enjoys writing stories about characters who overcome the circumstances in their lives by the power of God and His Word. To date June has seen publication of 15 novels. Red and the Wolf, a modern day retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, is available from. Ryan's Father is available from WhiteFire Publishing. The Bellewood Series, Give Us This Day, As We Forgive, and Deliver Us, and Hometown Fourth of July. June has written four novels for Desert Breeze Publishing. Ryan's Father won The Clash of the Titles book of the month for 2014 and is one of three finalists in the published contemporary fiction category of the 2014 Oregon Christian Writers Cascade Writing Contest and Awards. His past has paved the way for who he has become, and his attraction toward his male friend is about to ruin him. Told wi Ryan's story is filled with anguish and ongoing struggles. In 2013, June's book Give Us This Day was a finalist in EPIC's eBook awards and in 2014 a finalist in the National Readers Choice Awards for best first book. Ryan's Father deals with numerous social issues, including illegitimacy, alcohol abuse, abandon and homosexuality. An award-winning author, June Foster is also a retired teacher with a BA in Education and a MA in counseling. to Hungarian/British parents” but “raised in Paris.” Despite lacking any obvious connection to Japan-Murakami’s homeland, and usually his setting-Földes comes off as just the sort of international figure likely to be inspired by Murakami’s work. A French Luxembourgian Dutch Canadian co-production, “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” was directed by the composer-filmmaker Pierre Földes, whose official Web site says he was “born in the U.S. That last creature appears in Murakami’s short story “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo,” and it’s vaguely disconcerting to hear it speaking English-or French, for that matter, in the film’s original trailer. In contrast to “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” about which almost all information was withheld from the public before it went on sale, “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” has been publicized with all the means available to a production of its modest scale, including a trailer that emphasizes a host of identifiable pieces of Murakamiana: prowling cats, ethereal sex, dense Japanese urban landscapes, an absent wife, a descent into darkness, and a talking humanoid frog. The other is the release, in the United States, of “Saules Aveugles, Femme Endormie” (“Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”), an animated feature based on several of Murakami’s short stories. One is the publication, in Japan, of his latest novel, “Machi to Sono Futashika na Kabe” (“The City and Its Uncertain Walls”). For enthusiasts of Haruki Murakami, last month brought two major events in two different countries. ‘ The Red Knight is a must for fans of fantasy and medieval history both. I didn’t want it to end‘- Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Loved the blend of historical with fantasy, the realism of medieval life combined with absorbing characters and a driving plot. I can’t remember when I’ve enjoyed a book so much. It’s going to be a war …Įven after a decade, readers are being hooked by THE RED KNIGHT: The abbey is rich, the nuns are pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can’t deal with. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery it’s just another job. The Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he’s determined to turn a profit. It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men – or worse, a company of mercenaries – against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder. Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern’s jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild. This is a mercenary knight as you’ve never seen one before. Forget Sir Lancelot and tales of Knightly exploits. |