"The author has made an impact not only in his high tech field, but with his heart. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Jupiter's Travels | The Sea Wolf | Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road | The Bell Jar | The Great Gatsby | The Road | Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work | The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey | Gravity's Rainbow | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance But traditions, like everything else, had utterly unraveled.Īdrift in a workaday society he no longer recognizes, Greg is rattled in unexpected ways by the heartbreak in Haiti that clear January morning when he spots an unusual opportunity in the looped nightly news, something he can do - a small way he just might be able to help.įacing divorce and an anesthetized hereafter, Greg shucks tradition and packs his motorcycle, headed to a shattered country to unexpectedly find the one thing he's abandoned. It wasn't the traditional birthday letter Greg had written his daughter four times before. Please know that I never wanted to leave you. I'm sorry in ways you may never understand. * 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal Winner *įacing divorce, a broken mechanic packs his motorcycle and heads to Haiti to repair his own crumbling life. * 2012 Reader Views Literary Award Winner *
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"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. As it foreshadows the horrors of the Second World War, the novel asks what price is paid when identity becomes unfixed and the social order is upended. Gripping and darkly seductive, The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite showcases all the glitter and splendor of the brief heyday of the Weimar Republic, and the rise of Hollywood to its golden age. As the century progresses, Lilly and Hanne move from the tawdry glamour of the tingle-tangle nightclubs to the shadow world of health films before Lilly finds success and stardom in the new medium of motion pictures and ultimately falls in love with a man whose fate could cost her everything she has worked for or help her discover her true self. There she meets Hanne Schmidt, a teen prostitute, and forms a bond that will last them through tumultuous love affairs, disastrous marriages, and destitution during the First World War and the subsequent economic collapse. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous murder-suicide, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under the wing of the, at times, severe Sister August, the first in a string of lost loves. As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. But Maven is driven by an obsession so deep, he will stop at nothing to have Mare as his own again, even if it means demolish everything - and everyone - in his path. Cal's powerful Silver allies, alongside Mare and the Scarlet Guard, prove a formidable force. starting with the crown on Maven's head.īut no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost broke her. Now determined to protect her heart-and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her-Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all. Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal's betrayal nearly destroyed her. The #1 bestselling Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard comes to a stunning conclusion in this fourth and final book. " Say It with Shapes and Numbers is an invaluable resource for educators and families. The key is everyday – math is integral to everything we do – and Say It with Shapes and Numbers offers us a way to hold conversations to articulate the math present in our lives." -Mary Hoshiko Haughey, VP of operations for Youth Development and Social Responsibility, YMCA of Silicon Valley Math truly is 'mixed into' everyday activities in a fun and developmentally appropriate manner. "The Mixing in Math team has done a wonderful job making math easy and accessible to parents and practitioners for the preschool age child. 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In the early to mid-1960s, he worked in news at WLAK in Lakeland, Florida. Grimwood took an interest in EC Comics and radio journalism while growing up in Pensacola. His sister, Teresa Panther-Yates, once described him as "a brilliant, beautiful human being who knew that the best of fiction has a message." On New Year's Day, 2006, she recalled their youth: He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms, including Alan Cochran. In his fantasy fiction Grimwood combined themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concepts, themes found in his best-known novel, the highly popular Replay. Kenneth Milton Grimwood (FebruJune 6, 2003) was an American author who was born in Dothan, Alabama. The boy’s father accompanies her, very doubtful about this woman’s promises, but after Kate beats several goons unconscious, beheads the gang leader, rescues a handful of children, and torches the compound to the ground, he’s shell-shocked but a lot more optimistic. When it turns out the nephew of their contractor has been abducted by human traffickers, Kate straps on her sword and goes to kick some ass. Set seven years after Magic Triumphs (and about two years before the events of Blood Heir), Kate, her former Beast-Lord husband, and their extremely powerful shapeshifter son have moved to Wilmington to start a new life, determined to keep a low profile. As always, I would recommend strongly skipping the first book (as do the authors themselves). While this book is the start of a new chapter in the lives of Kate Daniels and her family, I suspect this book will work a lot better if you’ve read at least some of the previous thirteen books and various novellas. It was the Grammy-winner’s first arena tour run and the increase of her star power was evident everywhere. I don’t know if I was more surprised that these California residents had the fortitude to withstand the rain earlier in the day, or by the fact that acquiring affordable seats online has become so hard that Gen Z is now forced to take part in the age-old Gen X ritual of camping out for concert tickets. They told me they had been in line all day, some with chairs and blankets, in hopes of getting whatever cheaper tickets may be released at the box office or by resellers once the show began. Making my way into the venue that evening, I asked one of the hordes of teens standing in line what they were doing out there, since it was just past 8 P.M. It was night one of two sold-out shows SZA would be performing to close out the first leg of her SOS Tour, and fans were lined up for miles in the streets surrounding Los Angeles’ Kia Forum. As Blue cycles between the world of the living and the forest, he has to choose between being with Hamal and protecting him from the Reaper.įrom the beginning, we witness Blue’s insecurity about loving Hamal. The Reaper tells Blue that illegal necromancy is happening in the town and she needs Blue’s help to find out who the necromancer is. He keeps disappearing into what Joey calls “the scary place”- a dark forest, where a Reaper dwells. Strange things start happening in Blue’s afterlife. We meet the ghosts: April, the clumsy one Joey, a little kid and Blue, a sarcastic, sad-boy ghost with a huge crush on Hamal, though he dares not admit it. Both worlds exist at once all in the same space. But Hamal is special he lives with one foot in the world of the living- interacting with customers and his boss- and one foot in the world of the dead- joking, laughing, playing, flirting with and ultimately validating the experiences of the ghosts around him. All around Hamal is a world of ghosts, unseen by everyone else. He is a nurturer- not just with plants but with ghosts too. But, at its heart, Taproot is about being real with those you love- being vulnerable. It also exhibits a wisdom specific to youth- an openness and a desire to understand. Taproot is delightfully playful and even a bit corny. As you analyze the documents, take into account the source of each document and any point of view that may be presented in the document.ĭownload the student worksheet for Olaudah Equiano. Some of these documents have been edited, but all are authentic. They are designed to help you practice working with historical documents. These questions are based on the accompanying primary sources. Olaudah Equiano’s first-person account recalls his terrifying journey as an 11-year-old captive aboard a slave ship from Africa to Barbados in 1756. First-person accounts of the Middle Passage are very rare. The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration of people by sea in history. Buying and enslaving the people who supplied this labor ultimately became a lucrative and tragic part of the commerce in the maritime web that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Hard labor made tobacco, rice, and sugar plantations profitable. From the early days of the American colonies, forced labor and slavery grew to become a central part of colonial economic and labor systems. Under his gentle tutelage, she learns about the complex family dynamics of the hive, the role of the queen and what happens to a bee colony when everything goes wrong. All she knows for sure is that her grandfather, a beekeeper, is there to take her hand and immerse her in the astonishing world of the honeybee. When they arrive at her grandparents’ home and her mother goes straight to the bedroom-where she stays for days, weeks, months, even years-we don’t know why. When a 5-year-old Meredith gets on a plane with her mother and brother, leaving her father at the airport, readers are just as perplexed as she is. With a voice that is at once as innocent as a young child’s should be and yet as preternaturally mature as children from dysfunctional homes often have to be in order to survive, Meredith May invites us into the inexplicable yet strangely hopeful world of her California childhood in this moving memoir. |