![]() ![]() Jonathan Hunt of School Library Journal starts off by saying "the beginning is awfully slow", suggesting that readers will have to plow through the first couple chapters before the novel starts to actually make sense. Throughout the novel, Turnage constantly introduces new characters, plots, and sub-plots which can cause readers to be confused about what the story is actually about. They believe it is hard to focus on reading when there too much plot. With a complex and multi-layered plot and its themes of romance, mystery and secret identities, all readers enjoy it. A writer for Kirkus Reviews claims that Sheila Turnage's first adolescent novel is "an engaging, spirit-lifting and unforgettable debut for young readers". Many critics say Three Times Lucky is a one of a kind Southern-style novel. Three Times Lucky was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 2013. ![]() ![]() Three Times Lucky is a 2013 New York Times Best Seller adolescent novel by author Sheila Turnage. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first Nichelle Clarke crime thriller, FRONT PAGE FATALITY, was nominated for the Agatha Award for best first novel, and her second Faith McClellan novel, LEAVE NO STONE, was named a 2020 Thriller Award finalist. LynDee Walker is the Amazon Charts bestselling author of two crime fiction series featuring strong heroines and "twisty, absorbing" mysteries. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story opens some time after the end of the American Civil War. The character of Michel Ardan, the French member of the party in the novel, was inspired by the real-life photographer Félix Nadar. ![]() However, his version of a space gun for a non-rocket spacelaunch turned out to be impractical for safe human space travel since a much longer barrel would have been required to reach escape velocity while limiting acceleration to survivable limits for the passengers. The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and in that, considering the comparative lack of empirical data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are remarkably accurate. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post- American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people-the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet-in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. ![]() From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes ( French: De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. ![]() ![]() To keep a roof over her head, she works in the printing industry as a graphic production artist. When she’s not curled up on the sofa with her laptop, her latest story, a box of chocolates and a cup of tea (or a glass of wine, depending on the time of day), she can be found volunteering in the world of animal rescue. With an overactive imagination and a slightly twisted mind, she enjoys reading dark and dangerous tales almost as much as writing them. After reaching a milestone birthday (she won’t say which one), she figured it was about time she took a shot at writing professionally. *Sign up for my newsletter for information on future publications*Ī lifelong resident of northern New Jersey, Dawn Altieri has been scribbling stories practically since birth. ![]() ![]() 2017 New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf Finalist, Best First BookĢ018 Heart of Denver Romance Writers Aspen Gold Runner-Up, Best Romantic Suspense ![]() ![]() ![]() After describing the exploits of some of his ancestors, Amos tells his own story: The eldest of 26 siblings living in the Christ Church, Philadelphia, he sets out on his own in 1745 to find work. In DTV, the short was set to Stevie Wonder's For Once in My Life.Īt a statue of Benjamin Franklin, the leader of a tour group of mice reveals the contributions of a mouse named Amos to Franklin's career, reading from Amos' diary, titled Ben and Me. ![]() When Disney's regular distributor RKO Radio Pictures resisted the idea of a full-length True-Life Adventure, Disney formed his own distribution company to handle future Disney releases. On its release, Ben and Me was packaged with the True-Life Adventure documentary The Living Desert. This short was also notable for being the second release on the Buena Vista Distribution label, with the first being Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, released on the same day. ![]() The short received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. Though both book and film deal with the relationship between a mouse and American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, the book, with illustrations by Lawson, focused more heavily on actual historical events and personages, and included incidents from Franklin's French career at Versailles. It was adapted from the children's book written by author/illustrator Robert Lawson and first published in 1939. Ben and Me is a 1953 American animated two-reel short subject produced by Walt Disney Productions and released theatrically on November 10, 1953. ![]() |