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  Fiasol never gives up

  Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir

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  Fíasól is a ten-year-old fixer. And more than that—she’s the head of her own Rescue Squad. Ingó is special advisor to the squad. He’s two years older than Fíasól, but that doesn’t matter. They’re the best of best friends. Even so, Ingó will sometimes say things like: “You’ll get it one day, Fíasól, when you’re my age.” 
  	Fíasól lives in a little room—The Nook, she calls it—in a house on a street called Green Lane in a town called Grassville. She lives with her mom and dad. She also lives with her sister Bidda, who is a seventeen-year-old mirror connoisseur. Bidda owns thirty-seven mirrors that hang all over her room. The mirrors are long and skinny, short and wide, gilded with gold-leaf and adorned with pearls. There are mirrors fitted with magnifying glasses and mirrors with little lights on them. All day, she inspects herself in her mirrors, applying color and sweeping brushes across her face like the most accomplished of painters. Coach Lolli is often in Bidda’s room, too, but then, she locks the door.  
  	Fíasól also lives with her sister Pippa. Pippa is a thirteen-year-old book junkie. She can read while walking, eating—even biking and swinging. That’s not very safe, though. A lot has changed on Green Lane. But Fíasól always has plenty to do. That hasn’t changed at all.  
  	“I really have way too much to do,” she says. “The Rescue Squad puts a lot of stress on me—it’s an awful lot of work. Which is why I don’t have time to pick up my room. When I don’t have anything left to do, I’ll pick up.” 
  	Bidda says that Lolli isn’t her boyfriend. She says he’s just a friend who is helping with her homework. 
  	“You know, that’s strange,” says Dad. “Peculiar that you need so much help with your homework all of a sudden.” 
  	“They hold hands,” murmurs Pippa, looking up from the book she’s reading with her mouth full during dinner. “I’ve seen them when they’re getting off the bus.”

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  The Twilight of the Idols

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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  The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: "If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my time was standing on its head, he should begin reading me in this book. That which is called 'Idols' on the title-page is simply the old truth that has been believed in hitherto. In plain English, The Twilight of the Idols means that the old truth is on its last legs."Certain it is that, for a rapid survey of the whole of Nietzsche's doctrine, no book, save perhaps the section entitled "Of Old and New Tables" in Thus Spake Zarathustra, could be of more real value than The Twilight of the Idols. Here Nietzsche is quite at his best. He is ripe for the marvellous feat of the transvaluation of all values. Nowhere is his language – that marvellous weapon which in his hand became at once so supple and so murderous – more forcible and more condensed. Nowhere are his thoughts more profound. But all this does not by any means imply that this book is the easiest of Nietzsche's works. On the contrary, I very much fear that unless the reader is well prepared, not only in Nietzscheism, but also in the habit of grappling with uncommon and elusive problems, a good deal of the contents of this work will tend rather to confuse than to enlighten him in regard to what Nietzsche actually wishes to make clear in these pages.

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  Night in the City

  Julie Downing

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  " As Harriett Foy guides listeners through the city at night, her voice is as warm as the sunny yellow interior scenes that contrast with the surrounding nighttime blues in this picture book. Its central character is a child of color who is going to bed as nighttime activity is carried out by a diverse group of adults with a variety of occupations...Background sound effects--car engines, sirens, a dog yapping--underscore the bustle."  AudioFile Magazine

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  Baby Koalas

  Rebecca Sabelko

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  Koala joeys spend the first six months of their lives in their mother’s pouch! In this adorable title, beginning readers can learn about these bean-sized babies through easy-to-read text and clear photos. Simple features highlight life stages and favorite activities. Students just starting to read independently can climb into the treetops and take a peek into the lives of koala joeys with this fun title!

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  Ame Mattu Mola Aane mattu...

  Gaathastory

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  Listen to the stories from the jungle!

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  Little Durga S01E03

  Qais Jaunpuri

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  One day, a man-eater lion attacks in the village. The whole village was living in the terror of that man-eater lion. Then Durga alone fights with that man-eater lion. Will she be able to win?

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