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 "Do you know what love feels like? That feeling that makes your heart so warm you would never need summer to come again." - Unknown -

The Life of Jesus - a Graphic Novel

Title: The Life of Jesus - a Graphic Novel

Author: Ben Alex

Illustrator: Jose Perez Montero

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Middle Grade

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    The birth of our Lord

    The death of our King

    The resurrection of our Savior

    A dramatic Scripture-based presentation of the story of Jesus Christ as you've never seen it before!

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"One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by." - Jeannette Walls -

Sonnet 58

Sonnet 58

by William Shakespeare

That god forbid that made me first your slave,
I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,
Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!
O, let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison'd absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each cheque,
Without accusing you of injury.
Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you yourself may privilege your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;
Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.

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 “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” ― Mitch Albom ―

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 “My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” ― Rick Riordan ―

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“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”― Walt Whitman―

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“The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII ―

Clanless

Title: Clanless

Author: Catherine Witzaney

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Middle Grade

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    Wingless sprite Asher Song feather is adjusting to life in the Bat Colony. To atone for his role in the recent poisoning, he frees a Dragonfly slave girl and vows to reunite her with her sister. But her sister has joined forces with rebel leader Ryn. 

    Halfwing Siobhan Eirwensa is struggling to reconcile the past with her newfound loyalties. When she learns her father is fighting for his life as a captive of the Arena, she is determined to rescue him. But she has much to learn about trust. 

    As Asher and Siobhan work toward solutions, they uncover Ryn's newest plan - one that will lead to full-blown civil war if he isn't stopped. They're running out of time. 

    And beneath it all lurks an unforseen threat that will shatter life as they know it. 

    Clanless is the sequel to Wingless. If you like, you can view that post here. 

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 “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” ― Albert Einstein ―

Sonnet 57

Sonnet 57

by William Shakespeare

Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love that in your will,
Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.

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“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”― Ann Brashares —

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 “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” — Mother Theresa  ―

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 “Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” — John C. Maxwell —

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"Some of the best memories are made in flip flops." - Kellie Elmore -

The Story Book of Science

Title: The Story Book of Science

Author: Jean Henri Fabre

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Middle Grade

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    The wonders of plant and animal life told with rare literary charm by Uncle Paul in conversations with three children, who ask their uncle to tell them "true stories." Besides such stories as the ants' subterranean city, the spider's suspension bridge, and the caterpillar's processing, he unlocks the mystery behind thunder and lightning, clouds and rain, the year and its seasons, volcanoes and earthquakes. 

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"Love is like a summer night, mysterious but beautiful and heartwarming." - Unknown -

Sonnet 56

Sonnet 56

by William Shakespeare

Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow sharpen'd in his former might:
So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes even till they wink with fullness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.
Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two contracted new
Come daily to the banks, that, when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
Else call it winter, which being full of care
Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

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"I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen." - Winnie the Pooh -

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 "The summer night is like the perfection of thought." - Wallace Stevens -

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 "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." - Carl Jung -

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"When you have something to say, silence is a lie." - Jordan Peterson -

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Title: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Author: Ian Fleming

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Middle Grade

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    "Crackpot" is what everybody calls the Pott family. So when they go to buy a new car and come back with a wreck, nobody is surprised. Except for the Potts themselves. First, the car has a name. And she tells them what it is. Then they find that she can fly. And swim... Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a car on a mission to stop a criminal gang in its tracks - and she is taking the Potts with her!

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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." - Frederick Nietzche -

Sonnet 54 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 54

by William Shakespeare

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.

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 “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.” ― William Shakespeare ―

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 “There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle ―

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 “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter ―

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 "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty." — Haniel Long – 

Blaze Finds the Trail

 

Title: Blaze Finds the Trail

Author and Illustrator: C. W. Anderson

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Children's Literature

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    Billy and Blaze Are Lost

    Billy and his pony Blaze love to explore the forest. So one day they set out on an old woodland road that is new to them. They have a wonderful ride, but their adventures soon lead them off the trail and deep into the woods. Before they know it, the sky grows dark with a coming storm, and Billy can't find the way out of the woods. Can Blaze find the trail and get them safely home again?

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 "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." — Desmond Tutu —