![]() HarperTrophy, 1999 - Detective and mystery stories - 124 pages. Easton Royce, born Neal Shusterman, (born on Novemin Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an author of books based on The X-Files. It’s a shame that Royce (Shusterman) didn’t contribute more than three installments to the series he clearly has a superior understanding of the character dynamics. ![]() ![]() Anthropomorphic / Animals Anxiety Article/Essay/Analysis Biopunk/Ribofunk Children's Book Comedy/Satire/Parody Comic/Graphic Novel Cyberpunk Dark Fantasy Depression Detective Dystopia Eastern/Oriental Epic Fantasy Fantasy First Contact Game/Film/TV Novelization Grimdark Hard Science High Fantasy Horror Interview Journal Mental Health Military Mystery New Zealand Author/Book Paranormal/Supernatural Post-Apocalyptic Romance Science Fantasy Science Fiction Short Stories Space Opera Steampunk Steampunk/Teslapunk Stress Survival Sword & Sorcery Technoir Theological/Philosophical Time Travel Uncategorized Urban Fantasy Western Young Adult Follow Adrian McCauley on Tags Anger Anthropomorphicism Barbarian Fantasy Britain C. Easton Royce, Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan. Easton Royce (a pseudonym for author Neal Shusterman) beautifully depicts their strained relationship, far better than any other authors involved in this young-adult series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() saw me checking out one of the "Betsy" books in the school library, and sniffed, "I don't like them. In fact, I nearly had my very first literary argument over these books. I know I read some of the books in this series when I was in the eight to ten-year-old age range. Maud once stated that the three couldn’t have been closer if they’d been sisters. Maud, Bick, and Midge became lifelong friends. Tib’s character was based on another playmate, Marjorie (Midge) Gerlach, who lived nearby in a large house designed by her architect father. Among its many children was a girl Maud’s age, Frances, nicknamed Bick, who was to be Maud’s best friend and the model for Tacy Kelly. Shortly before Maud’s fifth birthday a “large merry Irish family" moved into the house directly across the street. When Maud was a few months old, the Hart family moved two blocks up the street to 333 Center. ![]() The street, Center Street, dead-ended at one of the town’s many hills. Maud’s birthplace was a small house on a hilly residential street several blocks above Mankato’s center business district. “That dear family" was the model for the fictional Ray family. Her sister, Kathleen, was three years older, and her other sister, Helen, was six years younger. She was the middle of three children born to Thomas and Stella (Palmer) Hart. Maud Hart Lovelace was born on April 25, 1892, in Mankato, Minnesota. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Where formerly scientific theses, ecclesiastical dogma and political expediency have been generally accepted, we have placed Spiritual Truths and material facts side by side, thereby welding them together into a complete pattern. At time of listing there are no other copies of this work listed online. However, the appendices A and B, which the table of contents list as the final two sections, are present, the latter ending halfway up the final page, so there may not be missing pages, after all, and the gap may be caused by the way the book was laid in storage. There is a small gap at the rear of the pages making it appear that some pages formerly present may have been removed. Slight foxing to top page edges none to faces of the pages, which are bright. A couple small clusters of pages are dog-eared toward the corners. Spine a bit dulled, but titling is legible. ![]() Blue cloth with gilt titling and decoration of a pharaoh's face. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pretty soon, I was reading like I was running out of time.īut seriously, I’m glad I stuck with it. Next, I turned to the Kindle edition, with a vague plan to treat it as a serial read - maybe I’d devote 10 – 15 minutes a day, and sooner or later I’d get through the book.Īfter all, there were a million things I hadn’t known. And I did - but took a break to listen to a couple of other things, and then couldn’t get back into the flow. First, I started with the audiobook - a 36 hour audiobook! - figuring I’d make slow but steady progress. I was not giving away my shot to learn more about the ten-dollar founding father without a father. Once I actually got the tickets, I became firm in my resolution to read the book. And - oh yeah - let me just mention right here that I have tickets to the show FOR THIS WEEKEND! ![]() ![]() It’s no secret by now that this 800+ page history book is the inspiration for the Broadway musical Hamilton. I did it! I finally finished reading the mammoth biography, Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. ![]() ![]() In particular, what a non-indigenous researcher needs to be aware of when researching with indigenous peoples how non-indigenous researchers can improve their practices with indigenous peoples and, most fundamentally, whether it is appropriate for non-indigenous researchers to be involved in research with indigenous peoples. This review focuses on how Tuhiwai Smith's book can inform non-indigenous researchers who may be involved in research initiatives with indigenous communities. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Tuhiwai Smith, "decolonization" is concerned with having "a more critical understanding of the underlying assumptions, motivations and values that inform research practices". Tuhiwai Smith's book challenges traditional Western ways of knowing and researching and calls for the "decolonization" of methodologies, and for a new agenda of indigenous research. This line, from the introduction to Linda Tuhiwai Smith's book Decolonizing Methodologies, sets the scene for an extensive critique of Western paradigms of research and knowledge from the position of an indigenous and "colonised" Maori woman. "Research" is probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world's vocabulary. ![]() By Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 1999, Zed Books, London ![]() ![]() ![]() Although not in the original novel Geraldine McEwan appears as Miss Marple in ITV's 2006 episode. Tommy is now over seventy, and Tuppence is sixty-six. ![]() ![]() Unlike Christie's other recurring characters, the detectives have aged in accordance with time. The novel marks the return of Tommy and Tuppence after nearly three decades of silence. Her incessant reference to 'something behind the fireplace' and a 'poor child' seems at first the incoherent ramblings of an elderly woman, though when Aunt Ada sadly passes away, a painting left to Tommy in her will leads the duo on a dangerous adventure where they finally discover exactly what Mrs Lancaster was talking about.Published in 1968, the title is taken from a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada. "By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes."William Shakespeare – Macbeth (Act IV, Scene 1)When visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada in her nursing home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents, Mrs Lancaster, being the strangest of them all. ![]() ![]() ![]() He fashions us to want precisely what He will give us so what He gives us will be exactly what we want. ![]() Why? Because we will experience all God intends for us. ![]() If we would miss something from our old lives, it would be available to us in heaven. The upgrade from Earth to heaven will be vastly superior to that from economy to first class. Have you ever bought an economy ticket for a flight, but because of overbooking, been upgraded to first class? Did you regret the upgrade? Did you spend your time wondering, What am I missing by not being in the back of the plane? Study of the Scriptures, here are some of the most frequently asked questions. Though most of us are in no hurry to get to our final destination, we all have questions about it. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place. Etched in my memory is the sound of a gasp going through my snorkel as my eyes were opened to a breathtaking underwater world.Īs believers, I imagine our first glimpse of heaven will cause us to gasp in a similar way-with amazement and delight. ![]() Just when I thought I'd seen the most beautiful fish, along came one even more striking. I saw countless fish of every shape, sizeĬolor. When I anticipate my first glimpse of heaven, I remember the first time I went snorkeling. ![]() ![]() While he tended to his studies, Verne found himself attracted to literature and the theater. Afterward, his father, a lawyer, sent his oldest son to Paris to study law. ![]() While attending boarding school, he began to write short stories and poetry. There, Verne was exposed to vessels departing and arriving, sparking his imagination for travel and adventure. Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in Nantes, France, a busy maritime port city. Although he died in 1905, his works continued to be published well after his death, and he became the second most translated author in the world. Often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction," Verne wrote books about a variety of innovations and technological advancements years before they were practical realities. ![]() Jules Verne hit his stride as a writer after meeting publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, who nurtured many of the works that would comprise the author's Voyages Extraordinaires. ![]() ![]() ![]() History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! 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In a letter to her teenage daughter, Caitlin Moran explains that some boys are as evil as vampires, and you must drive stakes through their hearts. Anne Sexton gives her daughter the advice to live life to the hilt, and be your own woman. ![]() Melissa Rivers lovingly chides her mother, Joan, for treating her house like a hotel and taking her thirteen-year-old son to see Last Tango in Paris. In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour and frustration, wisdom and sacrifice the role brings to both parent and child.Ī young Egyptian girl mourns her mother's death in the fourth century AD. ![]() A fascinating new volume of messages about motherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. ![]() |