Kate harris books5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Once on the other side, Harris marvels at the landscape. She and Yule sneakily make their way through the checkpoints (mostly under). Harris had always wanted to go to Tibet from China which, at the time, was hard to get to. The book opens with a prologue set about five years before Harris and Yule’s epic bike trip. This book gave me the opportunity to tag along, like a Go Pro on their shoulders, on this remarkable journey. ![]() I would never be able to do what Harris and her fried, Mel Yule, did and spend ten months biking (biking!) along parts of the old Silk Road from Istanbul to Leh, in Ladakh. After reading her informative and impressive blend of travelogue and history of science and ecology, I agree-but I’m also glad that people with an undaunted desire to go out into the world and bring back their impressions for the rest of us still pop up from time to time. Kate Harris says near the beginning of her book, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road, by explaining that she believes she was born in the wrong era. ![]()
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Jack and holman wang5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Cozy Classics: Moby Dick uses twelve photographs, and pairs up a single word with each photograph. Telling the story of Moby-Dick in a baby-friendly way is a challenge, I suppose. I cannot say enough good things about them. Okay, first of all, the felted objects and photography in the Wangs' retelling of Moby Dick - I read the digital version, but IRL it's a board book for babies - are PERFECT. ![]() From Moby Dick to Pride and Prejudice, here are The Great Books of Western Literature for toddlers and their parents in board book form-a little bit serious, a little bit ironic, entirely funny and clever, and always a welcome gift. They hit upon the classics as the basis for their infant primers, and the rest, as they say, is history. The Cozy Classics series is the brainchild of two brothers, both dads, who were thinking of ways to teach words to their very young children. It's a first words primer for your literary little one! In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, meet an enterprising young sailor, tremble at the fierce Captain Ahab, and follow their thrilling pursuit of the white whale. Budding bookworms will delight in this clever retelling of the classics made just for them! ![]() Simple words, sturdy pages, and a beloved story make these books the perfect vehicle for early learning with an erudite twist. Cuddle up with a classic! In twelve needle-felted scenes and twelve child-friendly words, each book in this ingenious series captures the essence of a literary masterpiece. ![]() Magpie by elizabeth day paperback5/29/2023 ![]() I think a lot of people were yearning to talk about failure because they were exhausted pretending everything was perfect. It took off pretty instantaneously, much to my surprise. Was it a slowburn success or did it take off immediately? I thought it would be interesting to get people to talk about the things that went wrong, rather than the external successes, and what they’d learned from them. One of them, Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin?, made me realise the form lent itself to intimate, honest conversations. I started listening to a lot of podcasts during that time, because music seemed too resonant with my heartbreak. My life looked very different from how I’d thought it would. It had been my first long-term relationship after my divorce and I felt like such a failure when it ended – staring down the barrel of my 40s, single, divorced and without the children I longed for. What was the initial inspiration for launching How to Fail ?Ī romantic break-up, three weeks before my 39th birthday. ![]() She’s the author of five novels, the latest of which is Magpie. ![]() ![]() She hosts Open Book on Radio 4, Sky Arts Book Club and is a judge for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction. In 2018 she launched the podcast How to Fail, which has topped the iTunes chart, spawning live events and two books. A uthor and broadcaster Elizabeth Day, 42, was raised in Belfast and later became an award-winning journalist, including a nine-year stint at the Observer. ![]() Dean koontz the mercy of snakes5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() That isn’t really the vibe I was hoping for going into the final novella in the series. Maybe there were too many moving parts, a lack of chapters involving Nameless, or maybe I’ve listened to too many true crime stories about “Angels of Mercy”. This was the weakest novella in the Nameless series. ![]() But righteous retribution stirs disquiet in the avenger as light starts to shine on the black hole of his past. Nameless must concoct a scheme just as cunning. For a cut, they make impatient heirs happy. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also the go-to facility in assisted dying. Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt. A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident-and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. ![]() The anarchy india5/29/2023 ![]() “I believe that stories that are compelling, relevant and authentic have the potential to resonate with audiences across all nationalities and cultures, whichever part of the world those stories may come from,” said Roy Kapur. ![]() His recent credits include “The Sky Is Pink,” starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Farhan Akhtar, and Netflix original “Yeh Ballet.” ![]() Roy Kapur, former MD of The Walt Disney Company India and current president of the Producers Guild of India, produced 2016’s “Dangal,” India’s biggest worldwide grosser of all time. There couldn’t be a more opportune moment for adapting ‘The Anarchy’ into a television event.” Dalrymple has entrusted us with his epic masterpiece. “We are beyond thrilled to be partnering with him, along with our good friends at XPat, on ‘The Anarchy.’ Paul, the Wiip team and I are humbled - and to be honest, slightly terrified - that Mr. ![]() “Siddharth is not only India’s most formidable producer, but he is also a true gentleman,” said Roybal. Wiip and RKF will assemble a diverse international team of writers to create a global series both in scale and quality. The series will be set up as an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films to be produced across the U.S., U.K. ![]() Dearest milton james5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Kilpatrick on “60 Minutes” during much of the 1970s, Alexander’s credits over the past half-century are formidable.ĭuring the 1950s, she was the first woman staff writer and the first woman columnist for Life magazine from 1969 to 1971, she was the first woman to serve as editor of McCall’s magazine, and from 1972 to 1975, she was a regular columnist for Newsweek.Īs an author, Alexander, 70, has spent much of the last 16 years concerned with the American legal system, producing such highly regarded books as “Anyone’s Daughter” about Patty Hearst and “Very Much a Lady” about Jean Harris, the boarding-school headmistress convicted of killing the “Scarsdale Diet Doctor.” Her other books include “Nutcracker,” “The Pizza Connection” and “When She Was Bad.” ![]() ![]() ![]() There was a time back in the 1950s and ’60s when the noted journalist and author Shana Alexander considered herself “a female Green Hornet,” a pioneering newswoman who not only had the “entire planet” as her beat, but one who could “swoop around the world at will” to cover it.Ī professional more popularly known, perhaps, as the liberal voice on the “Point/Counterpoint” segment opposite conservative columnist James J. ![]() Hellboy koshchei the deathless5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Now he finally sits down with Hellboy to elaborate on his incredibly long and dismal history… Often referred to as “Koshchei the Deathless” or “Koshchei the Devil” due to the fact that he literally cannot be killed, he has otherwise been a mysterious enemy of Hellboy’s for some time. ![]() After his body was dismembered, his soul was placed inside a duck, inside a rabbit, and then inside a goat where it is said Baba Yaga has it hidden to force Koshchei to do her bidding. Hellboy’s immortal foe Koshchei was once sent by Baba Yaga to kill Hellboy, but now he relives his tragic past through telling of his own origins with none other than Hellboy himself…in Hell!Īs a villain of Hellboy’s since “ Darkness Calls”, Koshchei is most commonly known as the immortal slave of Baba Yaga. ![]() ![]() ![]() History and geography come alive with these well done literature guides. Students will need to color, cut and assemble the timeline and figures. Timelines are cardstock and include the figures referenced in the study. ![]() Recommended Timelines, Maps, or a Composition Book maybe available. Numbers of lessons vary, and are scheduled 1 to 4 days per week. The latter two are recommended to be completed together for one year of study. Most guides provide content for one year of study, with the exception of Geography through Literature and Western Expansion. See our website for lists of literature resources to accompany each guide. The Guides provide book lists, chapter readings, discussion and research questions, background information, website links, answer keys, and more. ![]() Beautiful Feet curriculum takes a multi-level, living book approach to teaching history, geography and world cultures, using easy to use Guides for the teacher and engaging, well-written literature for the student. ![]() ![]() ![]() Auden, Louise Bogan, David Constantine, Barker Fairley, and Elizabeth MayerĪ master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 18, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions. ![]() The cosmic drama of Faust goes far beyond the realism of the novels in a poetic exploration of good and evil, while Italian Journey, written in the author’s old age, recalls his youth in Italy and the impact of Mediterranean culture on a young northerner. Its exploration of the conflicts between ideas and feelings, between circumstance and desire, continues in his controversial novel probing the institution of marriage, Elective Affinities. ![]() The Sorrows of Young Werther is a story of self-destructive love that made its author a celebrity overnight at the age of twenty-five. This collection of his four major works, together with a selection of his finest letters and poems, shows that he is not only one of the very greatest European writers: he is also accessible, entertaining, and contemporary. One of the towering figures of world literature, Goethe has never held quite as prominent a place in the English-speaking world as he deserves. There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN10 here. ![]() Richard wagamese starlight5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Richard Wagamese and Starlight: Interior, and characters whose scars cut deep even as their journey toward healing and forgiveness lifts us, Starlight is a magnificent last gift to readers from a writer who believed in the power of stories to save us. With astonishing scenes set in the rugged backcountry of the B.C. He wants revenge and is determined to hunt her down.Īn instant national bestseller, Starlight was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese's death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. But Emmy's violent ex-boyfriend isn't content to just let her go. Frank takes in Emmy and her daughter to help them get back on their feet, and, gradually, this accidental family grows into a real one. His contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of Emmy, a woman on the run who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a life of abuse. ![]() From the beloved, bestselling author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese's final novel is a rapturous and profoundly moving story of love, compassion, mercy, and the consolations to be found in the natural world.įrank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, occasionally venturing into the unbroken country around his property to photograph the wild animals who thrive there. ![]() |