![]() I thank God for granting me the ability to read, enjoy and share them. After that, at the top of my list- can you guess? Books! First and foremost, my faith, my family and friends, good health. But since this is November, I am posting my thanks early in honor of Grampap Batch. As the retail world began pushing the ‘buy-me’ state of mind earlier and earlier in the year, Grampap would say, “People should give thanks for what they have before thinking about what they want.” I agree with him and try to remember to count my many blessings every day. The following Friday was the official beginning of the Christmas season. ![]() Back in the day, Christmas lights didn’t show up on houses and holiday shopping didn’t begin in earnest until after Thanksgiving. As Thanksgiving approaches, I think of my maternal grandfather. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Prudence the custard protocol![]() "Blending steampunk and urban fantasy in a colorful alternate Victorian England, Carriger presents a grand cast of characters on a harrowing adventure that stretches from England to India. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Soulless Changeless Blameless Heartless Timeless ![]() Faced with a dire crisis (and an embarrassing lack of bloomers), Rue must rely on her good breeding - and her metanatural abilities - to get to the bottom of it all. Soon, she stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife, and some awfully familiar Scottish werewolves. When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama ("Rue" to her friends) is bequeathed an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female under similar circumstances would do - she christens it the Spotted Custard and floats off to India. ![]() ![]() From NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a witty adventure about a young woman with rare supernatural abilities travels to India for a spot of tea and adventure and finds she's bitten off more than she can chew. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Acorna books in order![]() ![]() ![]() Acorna and Calum are captured by these Starfarers, then rescued by rebel Starfarers and caught up in a small-scale civil war. There they find starving colonists, victims of a nefarious band of Starfarers who used stolen meteorological technology to wreck Rushima's weather when the colonists wouldn't submit to their extortion plot. Her trip stalls early on, however, when trouble with her ship forces her and her space-pilot partner, Calum, to land on Rushima. This second book in the series finds Acorna determined to escape the protective bubble her friends have built around her and to set off across space in search of her people. Introduced in McCaffrey and Ball's Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (1997), the eponymous unicorn-horned girl of mysterious origins was found in a jettisoned spaceship's escape pod by kindly asteroid miners, and raised to young adulthood in secret in order to keep unsavory space businessmen from exploiting her superior intelligence and psychic abilities. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Every line of you by naomi gibson![]() ![]() ![]() A psychological YA thriller driven by ideas of grief and revenge and morality and companionship. Bonnie and Clyde for the digital age, Every Line of You is a gripping thriller about the power of AI and a fresh twist on the intensity of first love." - Amy McCaw, author of Mina and the Undead "I am floored. ![]() So tense - and it didn't lead where I thought it was going." - Sue Wallman, author of Your Turn to Die " Frankenstein meets Heathers. Frankenstein meets I, Robot." - Kirkus Reviews, Praise for Every Line of You "What a debut. Frankenstein and Carrie for the coding/artificial intelligence age!" - Lee Newbury "Fast-paced and highly engaging.the novel confronts solid ethical dilemmas, such as whether an AI can ever understand human morality. Praise for Every Line of You "What a debut. ![]() ![]() Suddenly their rivalry is starting to feel like an actual rom-com. The Nerd Daily contributor Mimi recently had the chance to sit down with Auriane Desombre, debut author of the upcoming YA novel I Think I Love You, a Shakespeare retelling that is tropey goodness galore and will make you rethink your stance on romance with every POV change. until a real-life plot twist unfolds behind the camera when Emma and Sophia start seeing each other through a different lens. The movie is doomed before they even start shooting. Forget starry-eyed romance, Sophia knows what will win: an artistic film with a message. She’s big into boycotts, namely 1) relationships, 2) teen boys and their BO (reason #2347683 she’s a lesbian), and 3) Emma’s nauseating ideas. She loves a meet-cute Netflix movie, her pet, Lady Catulet, and dreaming up the Gay Rom Com of her heart for the film festival competition she and her friends are entering. and finding out that real life romance is better than anything on screen. You can read this before I Think I Love You PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī sweet and funny debut novel about falling for someone when you least expect it. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book I Think I Love You written by Auriane Desombre which was published in. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: I Think I Love You by Auriane Desombre ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Good mourning elizabeth meyer![]() ![]() ![]() Others are flying loved ones abroad to watch as their body is pushed out to sea like Viking warriors and the boat set ablaze. Some are being serenaded by gospel choirs in great halls, amid a sea of their favourite flowers flown in by private jet. “It’s become one last display of power and wealth.”īusinessmen and billionaires are often aggressively competitive in life “and that doesn’t end when they think they’re going to die,” said Klontz, a Nashville, Tennessee-based financial psychologist. “There’s a certain set of expectations about how you’re supposed to go out,” said Ted Klontz, chief executive officer of Klontz Consulting Group. Some are even flying friends and relatives to exotic locales for destination funerals.Ī cottage industry of advisers is in place to meet the demand, and some wealth managers are encouraging clients to confront their own mortality and make advance plans - not only to ease the grief of those left behind, but also for tax purposes. They’re choosing to be laid to rest in $60,000 gold-plated coffins and ferried by horse-drawn funeral carriages or Rolls-Royce hearses. For many of the rich and powerful, funerals are becoming the final opportunity to flaunt immense wealth, competing with weddings and birthdays as a rite of passage worthy of a small fortune. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He continued to write and illustrate children's books until his death in 1985 from leukemia. THE CATERPILLAR AND THE POLLIWOG by Jack Kent CORDUROY by Don Freeman HERCULES by Hardie Gramatky THE UGLY DUCKLING written by Hans Christian Andersen and illustrated by Svend Otto S. Some of Jack Kent's more famous works are Silly Goose, The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo and The Caterpillar and The Polliwog. Meebles outstanding picture book of the year for 1970. Jack Kent's book, Just Only John, received awards from the Chicago Graphics Associates and the Children's Book Clinic. He began writing and illustrating children's books in 1968. Jack Kent and his wife named their home on the banks of the San Antonio River King Aroo's Castle. Jack Kent wrote and drew the 1968 syndicated Christmas cominstrip, Why Christmas Almost Wasn't. The early comic strips were collected in a 192 page book, King Aroo, published in 1953. His first nationally recognized work was King Aroo whcih was syndicated and distributed from 1950-1965. He left high school at the age of 15 and began a career as a freelance commercial artist. Jack Kent was born in 1920 in Burlington, Iowa. ![]() Impressed by the proud caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar very carefully and turn into a butterfly too. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The bread winner arvella whitmore![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, Sarah's reactions to her parents' despair are both convincing and moving, and it's impossible not to admire her never-say-die attitude. Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore, August 30, 2004, Houghton Mifflin edition, Paperback in English. ![]() The setbacks Whitmore throws in are almost formulaic, and Sarah's enthusiasm for baking does not fully emerge. However, she is a little too good to be true (for example, she voluntarily takes a math test on her first day in a new school because it looks ``easy and fun to do''). When Sarahs family lose their farm and are forced to move to Shantytown at the height of the Great Depression, Sarah saves them from starvation and. ![]() No sissy she, Sarah also fights back against the local bullies and rescues the store's cashbox from a thieving hobo. Pleasant if not entirely persuasive, this novel by the author of Youre. But while the adults buckle under the strain, Sarah rallies: before long, she has started a bread business, baking loaves and selling them to appreciative neighbors, eventually enlisting the aid of both parents and, ever resourceful, commandeering a storefront in the center of town. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 16 (144pp) ISBN 978-5-3. When the family farm is lost during the Depression, Sarah is horrified by the ramshackle hut she and her parents move to and worries when neither lands a new job. Pleasant if not entirely persuasive, this novel by the author of You're a Real Hero, Amanda features a heroine who is pluckiness personified. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments From the analects![]() ![]() He also says that when you hold a position of power, be respectful and honorable with your words, don’t overspend money, and make the common people work only when necessary.Ī master once said that the most important thing is to do good for others. Master Shun said that people who are always trying to please others are not usually kind. Gentlemen devote themselves to improving their character so they can be good men for others, which is the root of a person’s success. They do not rebel against their superiors and are always respectful. ![]() Yu believes that obedient sons are the best people to have in life. He believed that it was important to have friends from all walks of life, and that a gentleman didn’t get offended when others failed to recognize his talents. ![]() The Master enjoyed learning different philosophies and applying them to his daily life. 1-Page Summary of The Analects Overall Summary Book 1 ![]() ![]() After a visit from the FBI gives legitimacy to Tom's story, Ken will ultimately decide how far he's willing to go to witness humanity's greatest close encounter. ![]() Ken Wakeman, a skeptical UFOlogist who seeks the truth about paranormal phenomenon, struggles to discredit the myriad of crackpot theories out there. Tom Frasier, an infamous proponent of crashed saucers and frozen alien bodies, claims the local military base houses some intriguing secrets. High Strangeness by Eric Bickernicks (Goodreads Author), Jan Brady 3.60 Rating details 134 ratings 17 reviews Something strange has arrived on Cape Cod, and it’s not just the UFOs. Mel learns that when dealing with wing nuts, the truth isn't necessarily "out there". Joining the invasion is Klick, the promiscuous leader of a spandex-clad UFO cult whose members want to "amalgamate" with the Fornacisians when their spaceship lands. In addition to the frantic humans, Astro, Ken's Golden Retriever has also been acting strangely. When the Cape becomes the national focus over a rash of UFO sights, they join forces to get to the bottom it.ĭespite denials from town officials and the military that UFOs have landed, mass hysteria overcomes the seaside community. ![]() ![]() Melissa "Mel" Howard, a reporter for a small Cape Cod newspaper, copes with the seasonal tourist invasion and its accompanying anxieties. Something strange has arrived on Cape Cod, and it's not just the UFOs. ![]() |