![]() ![]() for Senior Day.įans can catch the action on the KSU Owl Network and admission is free. The Owls and Eagles' series finale is set for Sunday, May 7 at 11:00 a.m. The Eagles added two in the fourth to go up 3-0.īishop had a stellar second game at the plate, drawing a career-high three walks in the contest.įGCU's pitching staff held off the Owl offense to secure the win in game two. ![]() Henry reached base again on an infield single to lead off the first inning for KSU, extending her streak further to 17 games. Starter Kenley Hilleary (7-10) pitched a complete game allowing only two earned runs while striking out five.įGCU scored to open the game and got out to a 1-0 advantage early. The Owls were unable to come back to even the score against the Eagles. The Eagles extended their lead back out to two in the fifth to go up 3-1. Henry led off the inning for the Owls with an infield single, extending her reached-base streak to a 2023 team-high 16 games.įGCU scored in the top of the fourth to take a 2-0 lead.Ī throwing error by the FGCU shortstop during Laura Bishop's at-bat scored Mary Greg Anderson from second and cut the Eagle lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the frame. ![]() KENNESAW, Ga. – Kennesaw State softball (19-32, 10-13 ASUN Conference) dropped two games to the FGCU Eagles (31-23, 13-10 ASUN) Saturday inside Bailey Park.įreshman Stella Henry shined again at the plate for KSU with an infield single in each contest, extending her reached-base streak to a 2023 team-high 17 games.įGCU took game one, 3-1 and game two, 3-0. ![]()
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![]() In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself.Īs the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters–caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York–overlap in unexpected ways. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride’s funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. 38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. ![]() ![]() ![]() In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a. ![]() From the author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Birdand the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It takes us on a grand, in-depth tour of the American oil and gas industry from its beginnings in the mid-1800s all the way to today, where interesting and insidious international wheeling and dealing by a more familiar cast of characters helps to explain the current state of world tensions as well as why it’s so much harder than it should be to confront head-on the worsening climate change situation that threatens all of us well into the future.įor fans of Maddow’s reporting style on MSNBC, there is a wealth of knowledge to be gained about things we may never have been interested in knowing before. That means it’s dense and scholarly in the good doctor’s inimitable way, including long histories, seemingly divergent facts and associations, and a parade of villains a majority of people never heard of. Rachel Maddow’s new book Blowout isn’t so long (at a mere 367 hardcover pages sans notes and index) that it looks daunting to the interested reader. Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ferguson details his experiences hitchhiking across Japan in Hokkaido Highway Blues (later retitled Hitching Rides with Buddha), his travels across Canada in Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, and a journey through central Africa in Road Trip Rwanda. With his brother, Ian Ferguson, he wrote the bestselling sequel How to be a Canadian. After coming back from Japan he experienced a reverse culture shock, which became the basis for his first book Why I Hate Canadians. They now live in Calgary with their two sons. He married his wife Terumi in Kumamoto, Japan, in 1995. He joined the Japan Exchange Teachers Programme (JET) soon after and spent five years in Asia. Visit him at WillFerguson.caįerguson studied film production and screenwriting at York University in Toronto, graduating with a B.F.A. His new novel, The Shoe on the Roof, will be released October 17, 2017. He has won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour a record-tying three times and has been nominated for both the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His last work of fiction, 419, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Will Ferguson is an award-winning travel writer and novelist. ![]() ![]() I’ve also edited MANGAKA AMERICA (Collins Design), a gallery and tutorial book featuring some of the hottest emerging North American manga artists of the time, and am currently working on another tutorial book for Focal Press on character design. AOL Comics Alliance described my work on SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH as “One of the best and most underrated all-ages comics of the last 10 years”! Most recently, I am the author of DIARY OF A GIRL NEXT DOOR: BETTY, an illustrated novel for Archie comics. ![]() My clients include Archie Comics, Dark Horse, and Marvel. The sequel, WARREN THE 13TH AND THE WHISPERING WOODS comes out on March 21st, 2017! I’m also a professional comic book writer and artist with 10 years experience writing and illustrating for a young audience. ![]() Hi, my name is Tania del Rio, author of the middle grade novel, WARREN THE 13TH AND THE ALL-SEEING EYE for Quirk Books. ![]() ![]() (I have just bought it on Amazon and will report back after reading it.) The second is an espionage novel called Blind Man's Buff and carries the tale of the Great Game for control of Central Asia into the present. The first, Humpty Dumpty: The Fate of Regime Change, deals with the history and current affairs of Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Libya, and Mali. He also has two new books available on Amazon. In the years since, he has written and taught extensively about international affairs, especially in the Middle East.Įarlier this year, Polk wrote a series of very widely read dispatches for our site about U.S. ![]() Soon after that, he was recruited from a teaching position at Harvard to work on the State Department’s Policy Planning staff in the Kennedy administration. ![]() Polk first wrote for The Atlantic during the Eisenhower administration, with a report in 1958 about tensions in Iraq. Free Syrian Army fighters walk along a street in Deir al-Zor that has been scarred by war. ![]() ![]() I thought it would go straight to the action, like Code Name Verity where we learn straight ahead that Julie had been imprisoned. ![]() Speaking of masterful, this story totally sneaked up on me. When it finally dawned on me it was her, I was agape! It was awesome that Rose’s path crossed with her’s in such a way. I wasn’t surprised, though, to learn a bit about them and how they were coping with Julie’s decease, yet I was not expecting to run into Engel again, and trust me, you’ll find her in the most unexpected place. It was just a glimpse because they are not the centre of this story, but I was glad to get it. ![]() I was ecstatic to see Maddie and Jamie (I’m sorry if I didn’t get the spelling of their names right, but I listened to the audiobook, so I didn’t get the chance to read it) again and to see they were well and happy. They are definitely two different stories, with a common theme and some shared characters. They were as good, I’m even tempted to admit I enjoyed this one better, but it is still so fresh in my heart I feel a bit biased saying that, but they were still so different from each other. I was expecting a heart wrenching beautiful and historically accurate story, based on what I experienced with Code Name Verity, but I was still blown away by it. ![]() I waited a while before writing this review in hopes I’ll have a better idea of how to express my feelings. ![]() ![]() ![]() There she meets a group of kids who also have their own secrets to keep, none of which concern illnesses. ![]() Yet, the adults around her convince her that she is suffering from schizophrenia and she is sent to Lyle House, a home for teens with mental illnesses. In the series’ first novel, The Summoning, Chloe discovers that she can see, communicate with, and even raise and control the dead. ![]() Armstrong’s series, however, features a protagonist with different and unique abilities. Sorcerers, witches, and werewolves – these are the common characters in teen fiction these days, and all are to be found in Kelley Armstrong’s Darkest Powers series. The Summoning(Darkest Powers, Book One)written by Kelley ArmstrongDoubleday Canada, 200 (pb) $16.95for Grades 8 and upThe Awakening(Darkest Powers, Book Two)written by Kelley ArmstrongDoubleday Canada, 200 (pb) $16.95for Grades 8 and up Fiction – Fantasy – Science and Magic Get Published: The Writing for Children Kit.Bibliovideo: Canadian Kids’ Books on YouTube.How You Can Help the CCBC – A resource for educators.Donate to the David Booth Children’s and Youth Poetry Award.Donate to the Jean Little First Novel Award.Donate to Canadian Children’s Book Week. ![]() ![]() As players begin to discover more and more infected crew members, they’ll need to battle hordes of the undead to uncover the truth and escape Wyler’s films once and for all. Wyler once again has trapped the four protagonists inside an all-new horror film, now set in a desolate military station on a distant ice planet. Overview " The Beast from Beyond, the final chapter of the five-part Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare zombies experience, features the return of Willard Wyler, the enigmatic movie director villain portrayed with voice and likeness by Paul Reubens (Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, Gotham). ![]() ![]() a more sincere, insightful version of Nick Hornby, that other master of male psyche. “Often sidesplitting, mostly heartbreaking. Then Jen delivers the clincher: she's pregnant. When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and. The week quickly spins out of control as longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed and old passions are reawakened. ![]() Simultaneously mourning the demise of his father and his marriage, Judd joins his dysfunctional family as they reluctantly sit shiva and spend seven days and nights under the same roof. There is, however, one conspicuous absence: Judd's wife, Jen, whose affair with his radio- shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the entire Foxman clan has congregated in years. ![]() Conspicuously absent: Judds wife, Jen, whose 14-month affair with Judds radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. A riotously funny, emotionally raw New York Times bestselling novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind-whether we like it or not. The death of Judd Foxmans father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family - including Judds mother, brothers, and sister - have been together in years. ![]() |