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The stories are accompanied by delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by Ms. Rowling herself, featuring a still-life frontispiece for each one. Professor Dumbledore’s commentary—apparently written some eighteen months before his death—reveals not just his vast knowledge of Wizarding lore, but also more of his personal qualities: his sense of humor, his courage, his pride in his abilities, and his hard-won wisdom. Names familiar from the Harry Potter novels sprinkle the pages, including Aberforth Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy and his forebears, and Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (or “Nearly Headless Nick”), as well as other professors at Hogwarts and the past owners of the Elder Wand. Dumbledore tells us of incidents unique to the Wizarding world, like hilariously troubled theatrical productions at Hogwarts or the dangers of having a “hairy heart.” But he also reveals aspects of the Wizarding world that his Muggle readers might find all too familiar, like censorship, intolerance, and questions about the deepest mysteries in life.
Altogether, this is an essential addition to our store of knowledge about the world and the magic that J. K. Rowling has created, and a book every true Harry Potter fan will want to have for their shelves.
This purchase also represents another very important form of giving: From every sale of this book, Scholastic will give its net proceeds to the CHILDREN'S HIGH LEVEL GROUP, a charity cofounded in 2005 by J.K. Rowling and Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, MEP. CHLG campaigns to protect and promote children's rights and make life better for vulnerable young people. www.chlg.org
Published by the Children's High Level Group, in association with Arthur A. Levine Books, THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD will be available December 4, 2008
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Harry Potter "THE TALES OF BEEDLE"
The stories are accompanied by delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by Ms. Rowling herself, featuring a still-life frontispiece for each one. Professor Dumbledore’s commentary—apparently written some eighteen months before his death—reveals not just his vast knowledge of Wizarding lore, but also more of his personal qualities: his sense of humor, his courage, his pride in his abilities, and his hard-won wisdom. Names familiar from the Harry Potter novels sprinkle the pages, including Aberforth Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy and his forebears, and Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (or “Nearly Headless Nick”), as well as other professors at Hogwarts and the past owners of the Elder Wand. Dumbledore tells us of incidents unique to the Wizarding world, like hilariously troubled theatrical productions at Hogwarts or the dangers of having a “hairy heart.” But he also reveals aspects of the Wizarding world that his Muggle readers might find all too familiar, like censorship, intolerance, and questions about the deepest mysteries in life.
Altogether, this is an essential addition to our store of knowledge about the world and the magic that J. K. Rowling has created, and a book every true Harry Potter fan will want to have for their shelves.
This purchase also represents another very important form of giving: From every sale of this book, Scholastic will give its net proceeds to the CHILDREN'S HIGH LEVEL GROUP, a charity cofounded in 2005 by J.K. Rowling and Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, MEP. CHLG campaigns to protect and promote children's rights and make life better for vulnerable young people. www.chlg.org
Published by the Children's High Level Group, in association with Arthur A. Levine Books, THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD will be available December 4, 2008
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Dreams from My father
By paul watkins
Now in his mid-30's, Mr. Obama is the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father who met and married as students at the University of Hawaii. His father returned to Kenya when Mr. Obama was still young. Mr. Obama charts his journey through adolescence into manhood with the familiar type of anecdotes, but adds to them a bewildering combination of races, relatives and homelands, from Hawaii to Indonesia to Africa to Chicago.
Mr. Obama was born into a cultural milieu that on the surface made for perfect social and racial diversity, but living such a life proved extraordinarily difficult. To balance the blessing of diversity and the pain of never feeling completely a part of one people or one place, the young Mr. Obama falls back on colorful stories from the world of his imagination. He boldly tells his classmates at the prestigious Punahou Academy in Hawaii, where he is on scholarship, that his father's tribe in Africa "is full of warriors." The name Obama, he tells them, "means 'Burning Spear.' The men in our tribe all want to be chief, so my father has to settle these feuds" before the boy can go visit him.
After college in Los Angeles and New York City, he sets out to become a community organizer. Mr. Obama admits he's unsure exactly what the phrase means, but is attracted by the ideal of people united in community and purpose: "A promise of redemption." He begins an apprenticeship at the Altgeld Gardens public housing project in Chicago, but he quickly becomes the pawn of professional organizers, intent on profiteering from money gouged out of the city budget. Although Mr. Obama is no more black than he is white, his quest for acceptance is aimed at the African-Americans with whom he shares his organizational duties, and his story bogs down in discussions of racial exploitation without really shedding any new light on the subject.
A Story of Race and Inheritance.
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Now in his mid-30's, Mr. Obama is the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father who met and married as students at the University of Hawaii. His father returned to Kenya when Mr. Obama was still young. Mr. Obama charts his journey through adolescence into manhood with the familiar type of anecdotes, but adds to them a bewildering combination of races, relatives and homelands, from Hawaii to Indonesia to Africa to Chicago.
Mr. Obama was born into a cultural milieu that on the surface made for perfect social and racial diversity, but living such a life proved extraordinarily difficult. To balance the blessing of diversity and the pain of never feeling completely a part of one people or one place, the young Mr. Obama falls back on colorful stories from the world of his imagination. He boldly tells his classmates at the prestigious Punahou Academy in Hawaii, where he is on scholarship, that his father's tribe in Africa "is full of warriors." The name Obama, he tells them, "means 'Burning Spear.' The men in our tribe all want to be chief, so my father has to settle these feuds" before the boy can go visit him.
After college in Los Angeles and New York City, he sets out to become a community organizer. Mr. Obama admits he's unsure exactly what the phrase means, but is attracted by the ideal of people united in community and purpose: "A promise of redemption." He begins an apprenticeship at the Altgeld Gardens public housing project in Chicago, but he quickly becomes the pawn of professional organizers, intent on profiteering from money gouged out of the city budget. Although Mr. Obama is no more black than he is white, his quest for acceptance is aimed at the African-Americans with whom he shares his organizational duties, and his story bogs down in discussions of racial exploitation without really shedding any new light on the subject.
A Story of Race and Inheritance.
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
By steve Harvey
The book is amazing! I have not been able to have a successful relationship thus far and after reading this book I now know why. I HAD NO CLUE how men thought. This book gives you an amazing insight into the mindset of men. I'm on chapter 8 now and I cannot wait to finish the book...stay tuned!"
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The book is amazing! I have not been able to have a successful relationship thus far and after reading this book I now know why. I HAD NO CLUE how men thought. This book gives you an amazing insight into the mindset of men. I'm on chapter 8 now and I cannot wait to finish the book...stay tuned!"
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