![]() ![]() Yet it is Alaina who saves the Captain's life when he is attacked on the road one night and left for dead. Little does he know that beneath the boy's clothes is a beautiful young woman whose destiny is deliciously and dangerously linked with his! Once in New Orleans, Alaina's spoiled cousin, Roberta, takes a fancy to the Captain, and Alaina, seething with anger at the "bluebellies" who killed her parents and destroyed her home, is disgusted by her cousin's posturings. Her waifish appearance attracts the compassion of a handsome Yankee surgeon, Captain Cole Latimer, who gives the "lad" a job as a hospital orderly. ![]() "Disguised as a ragged, dirty-faced boy, lovely Alaina MacGaren flees the Yankee troops ravaging her plantation and makes her way by riverboat to New Orleans, hoping to find refuge with her only surviving kin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She’s too busy watching me, watching the tubes hooked into my arms and nose, watching that machine beep-beep-beep, proving I’m still alive. There’s a book open on her lap, but I know she’s not reading it. She sits on the edge of the pea-green pleather chair that doubles as a bed in my hospital room. I’ve made my own stomach twist more than once, but this kind of stuff is not for the faint of heart. ![]() The scalpel zips down my sternum, and my body squelches and squishes as gloved hands dip into my open chest. A lot of people leave out noises and smells when they let their imaginations ramble, but not me. The color is pretty, bright red against my pale skin and the white and steel operating room. It’s my heart, after all, puny as it may be, the lousy blood-bringer to all my other top-notch organs. When you’ve spent most of the past two years on your couch watching the sun tick across the sky like I have, you’ve got a bunch of time to work on your thoughts. One of the best on Juniper Island, if I had to guess. Day in and day out, while Kate biked back and forth from our house to the bookstore she owns downtown about a million times a day to check on me, I would weave together this very moment in full color. ![]() Kate keeps telling me no way, nohow is it going to be forever, but she isn’t the one who’s about to have her most important internal organ switched out like a new swimsuit at the start of the summer. Definitely for a few minutes and maybe forever. ![]() ![]() She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. ![]() Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. ![]() There’s a lot of Shakespearean swearing in this new Tempest adventure…but also a mischief, curiosity and vigour that’s entirely Atwood and is sure to delight her fans. When he lands a job teaching theatre in a prison, the possibility of revenge presents itself – and his cast find themselves taking part in an interactive and illusion-ridden version of The Tempest that will change their lives forever. In Margaret Atwood’s ‘novel take’ on Shakespeare’s original, theatre director Felix has been unceremoniously ousted from his role as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Festival. All Prospero, the great sorcerer, needs to do is watch as the action he has set in train unfolds. Here, Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, plots to restore the fortunes of his daughter Miranda by using magic and illusion - starting with a storm that will bring Antonio, his treacherous brother, to him. The Tempest is set on a remote island full of strange noises and creatures. ![]() ![]() Hag-Seed is a re-visiting of Shakespeare’s play of magic and illusion, The Tempest, and will be the fourth novel in the Hogarth Shakespeare series. ![]() ![]() At the Admiralty, in London, a secret group of code breakers had deciphered a message Germany sent in March 1915, citing the Lusitania as a target. The Lusitania was at sea.īritain knew of the threat to the liner. And when the Germans attacked and sank a British merchant ship, killing 104 people, they made it clear they would attack any ship, military or otherwise. ![]() Though neither the British nor the Germans initially considered submarines a formidable threat, the countries quickly realized the vessels’ potential for destruction after one German U-boat sank three British warships in the North Sea, killing 1,459 sailors. When the Lusitania embarked from New York harbor on its journey to Liverpool, war had been raging for 10 months in Europe between the Allies (France, Russia and Great Britain) and the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary).Īnd in the waters off the coasts of Britain, which Germany had declared a war zone, a deadly type of naval warfare was being born. But he also shows that the ship and its passengers and crew were caught in the currents of many other world events and forces then at play. He centers, of course, on the Lusitania’s seven-day journey and its grim denouement. ![]() Larson’s book clears the haze, bringing the tragedy of the Lusitania into sharp focus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Made from exotic matter, it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter. Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Earth became a vast factory for alient foodstuffs. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. The second novel in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence. Timelike Infinity: the strange region at the end of time where the Xeelee, owners of the universe, are waiting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a fun read, loved getting to know Everett better and meeting Watson. There are NO shifters in this series, only the OTHER kind of bears. It’s really not my fault, have you even seen those cute bowties he wears? After everything it’s taken to get here, am I going to work up the nerve to come out to my ex-wife and my best friends? Am I ready to shake up my comfortable, simple life and take a chance on Watson? Or am I going to throw a wrench in my own chance for happily ever after? ***Hardwood is a steamy, seriously so much delicious tension, single-dad, gay awakening, low angst story, which happens to be the third in the Four Bears Construction Series. Is it too late to admit to myself and everyone else that deep down I’m really all about the Hardwood? It took me over thirty-five years to admit to myself that I’m gay, another seven to find the courage to say it out loud to anyone else, and exactly thirty seconds to develop a massive crush on my daughter’s music teacher. ![]() I’ve spent forty-four years of my life telling the world I’m a carpet man. ![]() ![]() The now-tenuous/now-tenacious quality of the book’s middle-grade friendships will ring true to its audience, and Amanda’s voice is likable and humorous.” Publishers Weekly also states, “Like a Groundhog Day for middle grade readers, Mass' winning story features a girl seemingly trapped in her 11th birthday. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books published a review by Jeannette Hulick, which states that 11 Birthdays “is imaginatively developed and kid-pleasing. ![]() ![]() Reception ġ1 Birthdays, was positively received by both the general public and critics. Chosen as a 2009 Library Guild Selection, this novel has been the recipient of various nominations and awards across the country. With her 11th birthday fast approaching, a falling out between the two friends has caused a shift in this birthday tradition leading to consequences both of them never could have imagined. ![]() The novel follows the life of a young girl named Amanda Ellerby who has spent each of her first ten birthdays with the same boy, her best friend Leonard "Leo" Fitzpatrick. It is the first novel in the Willow Falls series. 2009 children's time loop novel by Wendy Massġ1 Birthdays is a children's time loop novel written by Wendy Mass and published in 2009 by Scholastic Press. ![]() ![]() An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern–and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Marketers at Procter and Gamble study videos of people making their beds. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. ![]() ![]() She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. You can read this before The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī young woman walks into a laboratory. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business written by Charles Duhigg which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg ![]() ![]() ![]() Hydrating ourselves is a basic human need, and feeling parched is often the result of hard work… we’ve extended ourselves. Klug uses a metaphor about thirst to describe the diminishing returns, and it’s a befitting choice. ![]() The ‘how’ and ‘why’ of it is too vast to dissect here-we all have our rhymes and reasons. In the case of Olive Klug’s new single “Parched,” which dropped last week on Nettwerk, we’re rewarded with a track that expresses the futility of love affairs that weren’t meant to be… those times when we’re attempting to shape-shift in an effort to see something through that we’ve decided is worthwhile. We don’t always get what we came looking for in relationships, but in the hands of a capable songwriter, the world gets a reward on the other end of the equation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The grown-up twins, Rahel and Esthappen (Estha), female and male, attend a theatrical dance performance ( kathakali) of scenes from the Mahabharata, scenes that they had witnessed earlier as six-year-old children. The narrative, set in a small community in Kerala, weaves between these two periods. Notes to the text: The God of Small ThingsĪrundhati Roy’s first novel tells the story of non-identical twins from the dual perspective of their childhood and their adult life, when they are re-united after a long separation. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, Chapter 12 (London: Flamingo, 1997), pp.You are welcome to bring your lunch to the session. In Chapter Twelve of the novel, the twins attend a kathakali performance that encapsulates in an indirect, that is to say a symbolic, manner the dilemma of modern India in having to choose between retaining its spiritual capital, saturated with religious and mythological values, or cashing it in in pursuit of secular goals. Kalamandalam Gopi as Dasharadhan ( Creative Commons)Īrundhati Roy’s novel, The God of Small Things, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize, explores the theme of childhood as experienced by non-identical twins of opposite genders in a small, southern Indian community that is engaged in the process of adapting to changing values. ![]() |