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How Could Love Be Wrong? by B.G. Thomas5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Is Agatha still a member of the nobility amid the “Great Experiment”? Does her son inherit the title of lord? And does she have to immediately remarry?īridgerton already gave us the answers, but that doesn’t diminish Thomas’s intrepid portrayal of the character as she angles her way to a better life. ![]() The younger Agatha, played by American actor Arsema Thomas, endured a loathsome marriage to a man she was promised to at the age of 3, and even though he dies halfway through the prequel series - much to her delight - it presents a new set of problems on par with those of Succession. Netflix’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story gives her a further backstory, and after six episodes, we learn her life has been a tale of survival despite her position as a trusted member of the queen’s court. In Bridgerton, we’re introduced to Lady Agatha Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) as a fabulous anomaly for the time period: a widowed doyenne who commands fear and respect from the ton with nary a man in sight. ![]() Photo: Jason Mendez/Getty Images for BAFTA ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The full title of Ms Mann’s book reads: ‘Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs’, which differentiates it from the Duchess of Cambridge’s book.Īlthough she is an aspiring photographer, the images in Kate’s book were also not taken by her but submitted by members of the public up and down the country.ĭespite the comparisons to Ms Mann’s book, the text has received a staggering response online - many Amazon reviewers give it five stars, and dub it an “absolutely beautiful book”. ![]() The sight of my eye All the pretty horses The bending arc The family of Mann The remove Our farm, and the photographs I took there Hold still Ubi amor, ibi oculus est - My mother: Memory of a. Her images are also accompanied by lyrical prose, while the photographs show a range of tragedies from “the return of the prodigal son” to “clandestine affairs”. Mann, Sally 1951-Subject Mann, Sally 1951-Mann, Sally 1951- Family Contents Prologue: The Meuse - Family ties: The importance of place. Ms Mann's photo memoir recounts her own personal family history, and many of the images were discovered after she sorted “through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs”. Ms Mann’s text was a National Book Award Finalist, and voted one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly and Bookpage back in 2015. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A splendid introduction to the monthly lunar cycle, this is also a wondrous work of art that will stand up to countless readings. It isnt easy to climb to the moon, but he finally succeeds- only to find the moon is too big to carry home. ![]() But not for long: a thin sliver soon appears in the sky, growing larger and becoming full once again. Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Board Book By: Eric Carle Illustrated By: Eric Carle Simon & Schuster / 1999 / Hardcover Write a Review In Stock Stock No: WW29590 Monica wants the moon to play with, so her Papa sets out to get it. ![]() She jumps and dances and frolics with it, but it keeps shrinking, until one day it's gone. But the moon is too big for him to carry, so he waits while it grows smaller, until finally it is the right size to bring home to Monica. Ingeniously designed with several fold-out pages, the books opens out horizontally to show a very long ladder Papa fetches, opens vertically to show him climbing the ladder above a very high mountain, and unfolds into a huge spread of the full moon, where the ladder has led Papa. Monica wants to play with the moon, but can't reach it, so she asks her father to get it for her. Carle, whose The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been extraordinarily successful, scores again with this stunning picture book, drawn in thick, brilliant brushstrokes of blues and greens and reds that dazzle the eye. ![]()
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I Once Was a Monkey by Jeanne M. Lee5/21/2023 ![]() 'I will tell you a story to pass the time. A lion, a jackal, a turtle, and a dove bicker in the cramped space, until a statue of Buddha comes to life. Agent- c/o Author Mail, Harcourt Brace, 525 B. A colorful introduction to Buddhist fablesA monkey, caught in a monsoon, finds shelter in a cave amid the rubble of a temple. ![]() (Full name David Abraham Adler) American author… Eve Bunting, (Evelyn Bolton, A. Illustration i… Jane Yolen, YOLEN, Jane (Hyatt) 1939-īorn February 11, 1939, in New York, NY daughter of Will Hyatt (an author and publicist) and Isabelle (a social w… David A. I Once Was a Monkey: Stories Buddha Told, 1999 Bitter Dumplings, 2002. Once you have located your funds on the website, complete and sign the form. ![]() ![]() Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen, Hans Christianīorn April 2, 1805, in Odense, Denmark died of complications resulting from cancer of the liver, August 4, 1875, a… Illustration, illustration, any type of picture or decoration used in conjunction with a text to embellish its appearance or to clarify its meaning. Source for information on Lee, Jeanne M.: Writers Directory 2005 dictionary. ![]()
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Katherine rainbow magic fairy5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Sue Mongredien was born in 1970 and grew up in Nottingham, England. She lives in Leicestershire with her husband and daughters. Linda Chapman has written over 50 children's fiction books, including the following series: My Secret Unicorn, Stardust, Not Quite a Mermaid, and Unicorn School. ![]() Bentley is the author of the Magic Kitten, Magic Puppy, and S Club series and lives in Northamptonshire. She worked in a library after completing her education and began writing for children once her own began school. Sue Bentley was born in Northampton, England. She lives in Cambridge, England with her husband and cats. ![]() ![]() Dhami has published many retellings of popular Disney stories and wrote the Animal Stars and Babes series, the latter about young British girls of Asian origin. After having taught in primary and secondary schools for several years she began to write full-time. She received a degree in English from Birmingham University in 1980. Narinder Dhami was born in Wolverhampton, England on November 15, 1958. Rainbow Magic features differing groups of fairies as main characters, including the Jewel fairies, Weather fairies, Pet fairies, Petal fairies, and Sporty fairies. Daisy Meadows is the pseudonym used for the four writers of the Rainbow Magic children's series: Narinder Dhami, Sue Bentley, Linda Chapman, and Sue Mongredien. ![]()
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The cybernetic tea shop by meredith katz5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() When Clara stops by Sal’s shop for lunch, she doesn’t expect to find a real robot there, let alone one who might need her help. ![]() Her old master is long dead, but she continues to run the tea shop her master had owned, lost in memories of the past, slowly breaking down, and aiming to fulfill her master’s dream for the shop. ![]() She is older than the law, however, at best out of place in society and at worst hated. Sal is a fully autonomous robot, the creation of which was declared illegal ages earlier due to ethical concerns. Her childhood in a migrant worker family has left her uncomfortable with lingering in any one place, so she sticks around just long enough to replenish her funds before she moves on, her only constant companion Joanie, a fierce, energetic Raise hummingbird. Candidceillie: The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith KatzĬlara Gutierrez is a highly-skilled technician specializing in the popular ‘Raise’ AI companions. ![]()
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A bride for keeps by melissa jagears5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Everett is a strong Christian, but marriage to Julia reminds him of his responsibility to be the spiritual head of the house, even when he’s married someone who doesn’t share his beliefs (and while I don’t normally support this, I think A Bride for Keeps handles it well). ![]() ![]() I also enjoyed the Christian aspects of the story. What made this interesting is that we know Everett’s secret almost from the outset, and that provides some good comic moments as it seems that every female Julia meets in Salt Flatts was at one time engaged to her husband. Both Everett and Julia were hiding secrets, and that’s always a good source of conflict for a novel. I’m always a sucker for a good marriage-of-convenience story, and this one was well done. But when she arrives, she finds Everett isn’t exactly pleased to see her-it’s as though he knows nothing about her… Julia Lockwood is from a well-to-do Boston family, but has run away to be Everett Cline’s mail-order bride on the advice of her pen-pal. He wants a wife, but he’s given up hope of finding one after one jilted him, one arrived dead, one arrived married and the fourth left him for a farmer with a bigger spread before they got married. Salt Flatts, Kansas, Spring 1876, and the train has just arrived in town with another mail-order bride for Everett Cline, only he didn’t order this one. ![]()
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Doctor Who by Cavan Scott5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() What connects John Dee with Sir Francis Drake and the impending attack of the Spanish Armada?ĭan Starkey, who plays the Sontaran Strax in the hit BBC TV series, reads this original audio story by Cavan Scott. Between them they must discover who is waging supernatural war - before the planet is pulled apart. When the TARDIS lands on a Spanish galleon, caught in an unnatural storm, the Doctor, Alex and Brandon are shipwrecked and separated from each other. A dread prophecy was made: "the Earth will burn". But Dee's magic was lost, his library ransacked, his spells and hexes stolen. (Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor (Titan Comics) 3) by Cavan Scott (Writer), Adriana Melo (Illustrations), Chris Bolson (Illustrator), Cris Bolson (Illustrator ) 3. Beyond Doctor Who, he has written for The Sarah Jane Adventures, Judge Dredd, Warhammer 40,000, Pathfinder, Adventure Time, Blake's 7 and many more. He was given secrets from beyond time: how to mix potions how to tame the elements even how to trap a demon. Cavan Scott is a writer, editor and producer of over 60 books and audio dramas, including the Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Who-ology - The Official Doctor Who Miscellany. Then one day a face appeared in his mirror, a face that was not his own. People laughed at John Dee for years, dismissing the astrologer as a madman or a fraud. Categories Adult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasyĭan Starkey reads an intriguing original story featuring the Twelfth Doctor, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi. ![]()
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The colorless life of tsukuru tazaki5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() One day, sixteen years later, he meets a woman who tells him to find out what the four are up to so that he can piece himself back together again. Tsukuru finds it difficult to be truly vulnerable and intimate with anybody because these friendships abruptly end with no explanation being offered. He feels like he has lost a part of himself. Tsukuru invests so much in these friendships, that when the time comes for him to take a different route in life, he experiences a great sense of loss. This is because his name is devoid of any color and therefore he feels like he lacks personality. Even as a kid, when he meets a group of four others (two boys and two girls) all of whom have names that stand for colors, Tsukuru feels like the odd one out. Tsukuru has never really felt like he fit in anywhere. ![]() What sort of role do friendships play in shaping our sense of self and identity? How rare friendships, when they happen in real life, is the kind of stuff we don’t tend to easily forget. One of the aspects that struck me the most about Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is that it’s a story of friendship. ![]()
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Man Alone by Eric Josephson5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Pinter’s plays generally take place in a single and prison-like room which symbolizes the world of its inhabitants. Pinter was influenced by Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco. Loneliness, lack of communication and infertility are almost universal themes in contemporary literature and the Absurdist Theatre. The assessment of the absurdist tradition will be made from three specific perspectives: absurdist theme, deflation and wide use of symbolism. These playwrights needed new forms of expression, new sites, new dramatic arrangements and new stage imagery, and thus Theatre of the Absurd was born. They shared the view of many existential theorists that life is worthless, communication impossible, society mechanical and ruthless. Theatre of the Absurd refers to particular plays written by European and American playwrights of the post-Second World War period. ![]() Absurdist drama was somewhat coined by Pinter. ![]() As an absurdist, he adopted many absurdist elements in his plays. The point that this paper is to explore is that although Pinter has taken on many qualities of the Absurdist Theatre, he has made much pioneering attempts in his creative work. ![]() |