![]() I loved James and Sydney (aka Danny) and their wonderful story. " the great vast blue, a deep velvet glass cupping the earth in its wet palms and beckoning James out to its depths with the soft, rolling, even crush of the waves against the shore." "The endless blue stretches out in front of him, a question and an answer all at once." It's hard to believe this is a debut novel. That dried and slithered in shrinking flakes across the skin of his forearms under the baking sun."īeaumont's writing is lyrical, emotive - just stunningly beautiful. ![]() That whipped through the valleys of his pruny fingertips and nestled thickly in the thin hair on his arms, the tiny crevices of his big toe nails, the hidden curve just behind his ear. Salt that crackled across his tongue and burned in the corners of his tear ducts. The kind that coated shivering skin in chalky warmth and crusted like splintering glass in between tiny strands of hair, seeking the water, seeking the sun, seeking the froth. A couple of sentences in, I was hopelessly hooked, and I knew I would fall in love with this one. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments When another scot ties the knot![]() ![]() “We marry for our own reasons, as a mutually beneficial agreement. MacKenzie arrives at her castle with a band of soldiers, ready to settle in, in effect blackmailing her into marriage by threatening to release her letters to a scandal sheet. ![]() So it's something of a shock when one Highland Capt. In the meantime, she’s inherited a castle in Scotland and has established a career as an illustrator for naturalists. Finally, out of guilt for the long deception she’s created, she kills him off and pretends to go into mourning for her valiant captain, fallen in battle. Logan MacKenzie, then spends five years "corresponding" with her fictional love, pouring out her teenage heart and posting letters off, imagining them landing in some enormous lost-mail room. So, at 16, on the cusp of a London season, she creates a fictional suitor and actually writes to him, Capt. Miss Madeline Gracechurch is good with drawing pencils but terrified of drawing rooms and especially crowds, becoming so painfully shy that she literally freezes up, practically unable to speak or move. ![]() ![]() A young debutante creates a fictional soldier-sweetheart, conveniently away in the war, to avoid a London season, then is stunned when, years later, the embodiment of her imagined beau shows up on her doorstep, prepared to marry her. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Dr seuss apples on top![]() ![]() ""A hilarious story in rhyme about a number of animals who could carry 10 apples on their heads.""-Elementary English. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning. This book makes the child count numbers in a fun and adventurous way. Seuss’s apple-balancing characters will have youngsters reading, counting, and giggling! Originally created by Dr. Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr.Seuss is a tale about three animals- a lion, a tiger and a dog who count and balance apples from 1 to 10 on their heads and go on an adventure to save these apples from falling down. Whether drinking milk, jumping rope, or roller-skating, they can do a lot with ten apples up on top! But watch out, she has a mop! She’ll knock those apples from up on top. ![]() I spent a while coloring, cutting, gluing, and covering each one. ![]() I made 30 apples, so that each character would have 10 apples. Then I made smaller versions of the apples on white. Counting, Animals, Stories in rhyme, Counting, Animals, Stories in rhyme, Board books. I copied smaller versions of the characters onto yellow paper. When a lion, a dog, and a tiger meet up, they soon discover that they can each do different things while balancing apples on their heads. To go along with the book I made a magnet center. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Canada's Wars by Jonathan Webb![]() ![]() If you wish to contact Jonathan, please do not hesitate to do so at connect with him on LinkedIn. Jonathan currently works as an intelligence analyst with the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2014, Jonathan completed a Masters of Arts, majoring in International Relations and specializing in Global Political Economy, also at McMaster University. Petersburg, Russia and traveled through Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. In summer 2013 between degrees, Jonathan completed Russian language courses in St. In 2013, Jonathan completed an Honours Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Political Science and Cultural Studies & Critical Theory at McMaster University. The Art of Battle and the Palmer History Group are operated solely by Jonathan Webb from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. ![]() To generate interest in history and academics as a whole.To promote the use of innovative technology in the pursuit of real-life objectives.To produce strategic knowledge in the pursuit of real-life objectives.It was founded in August 2010 with the following objectives: The Art of Battle is operated by the Palmer History Group, a non-profit organization based out of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1999, he was on the six-man short-list for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century. Owens was ranked by ESPN as the sixth greatest North American athlete of the 20th century and the highest-ranked in his sport. The Jesse Owens Award is USA Track and Field's highest accolade for the year's best track and field athlete. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a black American man, was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy". He achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay. He set three world records and tied another, all in less than an hour, at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan-a feat that has never been equaled and has been called "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport". ![]() ![]() Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". James Cleveland " Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Zadie smith nw review![]() ![]() Natalie, who has accumulated prestige, money, and worldliness, thinks Leah has been duped Leah, in turn, thinks Natalie has been duped by her ambitions, though she envies her outwardly ordered life. When an unexpected visitor shows up at Leah’s door begging for money, their worldviews are drawn into sharper conflict. Meanwhile Leah has a good degree from a good university but works in a dead-end job in a welfare-distribution office her husband just wants her to get pregnant, but she is steadily, secretly, stealing Natalie’s birth-control pills. Leah and Natalie, best friends since grade school, have grown up to be mutually suspicious of the other’s choices: Natalie has become a successful lawyer, married a perfect man with perfect chinos (“He is handsome his shirt is perfect his trousers are perfect his children are perfect his wife is perfect this is a perfectly chilled glass of Prosecco”), and has “crossed over” into the land of motherhood. Despite an otherwise equal start in life, some pull ahead while others fall behind some follow predictable paths, while others attempt to reroute their tracks. NW follows four adults from the same rough council estate in Willesden as they each attempt to move beyond their down-and-out origins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An illuminating introduction, useful bibliography, and chronological chart are also included.Ībout the Author: James Bruce Ross was a medieval scholar who contributed to The Portable Medieval Reader and The Portable Renaissance Reader. With the aim of showing fourth the people,their ways, and the gems of thier literature, the editors of this volume have chosen selections from more than a hundred writers-selections "which have the power to draw the reader into their world" and many of which are not available else-where in English. certainly this era-the Renaissance-was one of the most eexciting, comples, and fertile in the areas of art, letters, and learning that the world has ever senn. Synopsis: No time in Western history has been more glorified, more disputed and deplored, than the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The hand on the wall book![]() ![]() In the tantalizing finale to the Truly Devious trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson expertly tangles her dual narrative threads and ignites an explosive end for all who've walked through Ellingham Academy. It's time to stay on the mountain and face the storm-and a murderer. Obviously, it's time for Stevie to do something stupid. This is too much for the parents and administrators. Then another accident occurs as a massive storm heads toward Vermont. ![]() Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers. ![]() The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Stevie is sure that somehow-somehow-all these things connect. Not only has someone died in town, but David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. With this latest tragedy, it's hard to concentrate on the past. The greatest case of the century.Īt least, she thinks she has. All at the exact moment of Stevie's greatest triumph. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Now available in paperback.Įllingham Academy must be cursed. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson delivers the witty and pulse-pounding conclusion to the Truly Devious series as Stevie Bell solves the mystery that has haunted Ellingham Academy for over 75 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes authors like these inextricably associated with a particular state is not simply the matter of their having been born there or choosing to live there. And what reader can think of Washington State without contending with the sparkle-vampire yarns of Stephanie Meyer? Illinois can lay claim to William Maxwell, Sandra Cisneros, and Adam Langer, among numerous others. ![]() Rural Pennsylvania is the playground of the much-heralded (and occasionally maligned) John Updike, and when many bibliophiles think of New Jersey, they also think of Richard Ford’s series of novels featuring recurring Everyman character Frank Bascombe. The state of Maine is gifted with Pulitzer winner Richard Russo and horror icon Stephen King. Mississippi has William Faulkner and his incomparable (fictional) Yoknapatawpha County and Missouri can lay claim to Mark Twain. ( STACKER) - Every state has its hallmark writers. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Red winter clancy![]() ![]() Twenty years after Tom Clancy's classic novel Red Rabbit, this is white-knuckle prequel introduces a never-before-seen Jack Ryan at the beginning of his career. Can he get the right answers before the Cold War turns into a Red Winter? Ryan is a former Marine and a brilliant CIA analyst, but this time he's in enemy territory with a professional assassin on his tail. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man - Jack Ryan. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer: invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. 1985: For Jack Ryan, the Cold War is burning hotĪ top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. ![]() |