His father was a lawyer, and at the beginning, Verne wanted to study law as well. He was born in the city of Nantes, France. He was one of the first authors to write science fiction. Jules Verne (February 8, 1828- March 24, 1905) was a French writer. In Around the Moon, Verne describes how the gravitational force of a large asteroid can change the course of a space ship, and encouraged readers to dream about the wonders of the Moon's surface. In From the Earth to the Moon, many of Verne's calculations in launching a projectile into space were surprisingly accurate, and his placement of a launch site in Florida predated the Kennedy Space Center's construction in Florida by almost 100 years. In Journey to the Center of the Earth, readers were brought face to face with prehistoric creatures deep within the bowels of the Earth. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the description of Nemo's ship, called the Nautilus, was considered ahead of its time, as it accurately describes features on submarines, which at the time were very primitive vessels. In Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne helped make the world seem a little smaller, and accessible to young adventurers, spurring many to attempt a voyage around the world. The Jules Verne Collection includes five novels Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, and Around the Moon.
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She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. A must-read for those struggling with mental illness, or for their friends and family." - San Francisco Chronicle #1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller * #1 International Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see. " - The New York Times " Green finds the language to describe the indescribable. Setting of Sheffield and London was great. It was written in third person narrative mainly from Ruby’s perspective and there was also intermittent Kim’s POV. Writing was fun, refreshing, relaxing and steady paced. The story was about dream, hope, heartbreak, love, friendship, loss, and betrayal. It also revolved around Ruby’s employer and florist, Kim, and her love story. The Promise of Summer cozy and heart-warming romance that revolved around Ruby and Curtis trying to return the engagement ring they found on train and slowly falling in love. When the man accidentally leaves the engagement ring behind, Ruby is determined to save the day. But she hasn’t counted on fellow passenger Curtis stepping in and insisting he should be the one to track the stranger down.Īs summer closes in, the unlikely pair make a promise to reunite the ring with its owner. But can they find their own happy ever after along the way? Review Disclaimer : Many thanks to Rachel Rachel’s Random Resources for tour invite and publisher for provide e-copy via NetGalley, in change for an honest review. Wilde was in a sense documenting the “evolution of (his) character and intellectual attitude towards life.” (11). Wilde wanted to make certain his intentions were not seen as a defense of his behavior, but rather an explanation. In a letter to his friend Robert Ross, dated April 1, 1857, Wilde wanted Ross and others to understand why he wrote it. He was permitted to write during the day, surrendering the pages to the warden at night, and having them returned to him the next morning. Wilde spent three months crafting his personal manifesto. Wilde was transferred from Pentonville to Wandsworth before finally being sent to Reading, where he began writing De Profundis. Wilde took on full culpability writing, “I ruined myself, and nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.” (32). The passion for youth and beauty that had inspired Wilde had run unchecked and had flung him into ruin. The “love that dare not speak its name” became a source of deep regret for Wilde, not because of what it was, but because of what it became. Wilde, arrested on charges of indecency, and convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons” was sentenced to two years hard labor. In May 1895, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde began his prison sentence. “It is tragic how few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die.” Nicole Kidman was striking with her impossibly long, bright red hair and chic black-on-black outfits.Īnd then you had the aunts, who were never afraid to be themselves - and showed that in their fashion choices. Sandra Bullock in her loose-fitting jeans, a sweater, and white sneakers always looked casually, effortlessly cool. Those occupants are witches, of course: two sisters named Sally, played by Sandra Bullock, and Gillian, played by Nicole Kidman, as well as their aunts, played by Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest. Sunlight trickles through glass windowpanes into the house, where the occupants grow herbs for their spells and light candles by blowing on them. The film is set in New England, and most of the action takes place in a gorgeous old house on a cliffside. Marielle Segarra is the host of Life Kit, NPR's home for all the best tips and tricks. The Taliban extremists have transformed Afghanistan into a place Parvana can barely recognize. And she can do so only because she can disguise herself as a boy. The title character is Parvana, the preteen daughter of a Kabul couple who, when her father is arrested, will be the only person who can go forth to earn the family's nan, its bread. (Imagine if Anne Frank's diary had been published and grown popular while the family was still in hiding.) And the book didn't feel like an antiwar tract, it felt like an beautifully observed novel with multi-dimensional characters. When The Breadwinner was published in Canada in 2000 and the United States in 2001, it was a horror story unfolding almost in real time, revelatory even to adults who followed the news, let alone middle-grade readers. It's hard to imagine that any other children's book has cycled so quickly from tragedy, to hope, and back as this story about a girl's life under the Taliban.Ĭanadian activist Ellis traveled in 1997 to Pakistan to interview Afghani refugees. How sad it must make Deborah Ellis that this book still has ripped-from-the-headlines relevance. Published: Groundwood Books - October 25th, 2001 Pasteurization slowly became a legislative matter. But during the nineteenth century mass production and urbanization made milk safety a leading issue of the day, with milk-borne illnesses a common cause of death. But while mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is the milk of other mammals that humans have cultivated ever since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago, originally as a source of cheese, yogurt, kefir, and all manner of edible innovations that rendered lactose digestible, and then, when genetic mutation made some of us lactose-tolerant, milk itself.īefore the industrial revolution, it was common for families to keep dairy cows and produce their own milk. Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy – with recipes throughout.Īccording to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. Sydney’s first book is called “The Mysterious Birthday Gift” and her sequel is “Mystery on the Trail.” For Lauren-Kate, fantasy is featured in “Commander You You and the Imperial Diamond” as well as its sequel, “Commander You You and the Time Penny.” These books are published by The Bridge in Huntersville and are available at Main Street Books in Davidson and on line at. (Actually Lauren-Kate will not be 12 until later this month.) At age eleven they published their first novels and now at 12, each has a sequel on the market. ( LINK to AD 7) These young ladies are just 12 years old and sixth grade home schoolers. Not the case for Sydney Campanella, daughter of Ann and Joel Campanella of Black Farm Road, and Lauren-Kate Stewart, daughter of Karen and Bruce Stewart of Runnymede. Most of us talk about writing a book but never seem to get around to it. SYDNEY AND LAUREN-KATE HAVE WRITTEN SEQUELS (RISING) 8th grade authors have their books published After a reflection on what was practiced and understood in the movement in the 1980s, the paper offers some critical analysis of the current re-emergence of Black Consciousness and Africanist thinking. It went beyond an oppositional culture, and explored the possibility of egalitarian relationships which fundamentally challenged the existing power relations embedded in race, class and gender. This building of new cultures ran counter to the dominant racist, patriarchal, hierarchical and authoritarian cultures. The way in which organisations functioned and the culture of organisations were 'prefigurative' in anticipating the new South Africa that was being struggled for. The difficult and contested practice of nonracialism by grassroots movements in the 1980s was integrally related to attempts to inculcate non-sexist and democratic practices. The society envisaged by the popular movements of the 1980s was explicitly stated as being 'non-racial, non-sexist and democratic', situated within a unitary state. In this paper I defend nonracialism as a strategy and explore what was learned through the practice of nonracialism in popular movements during the late Apartheid era. Lewisohn described the book as "predominately. The Beatles: All These Years: Volume One – Tune In was published on 19 October 2013 the abridged American edition reduced the page count from 1,728 to 944. Other material was drawn from the raw transcripts of Brian Epstein's A Cellarful of Noise and Epstein's personal diaries, schedules and business records. He consulted many people who had never been interviewed before and employed methods "rooted in a psychotherapists' technique" to help them recover lost memories. In addition to drawing upon his previous research, Lewisohn devoted six years to researching the first volume in the book. At the time, it was expected that the books would be finished by 2017. A year later, he was given a £1.2 million advance to write a "definitive" three-part Beatles biography series for the publisher Little, Brown. He began formulating plans for a project of similar scope in 2003. He had expressed a view that there was an oversaturation of Beatles biographies, but in the early 2000s, his feelings changed, as he began to feel that no book had approached the depth or breadth of other serious biographies, such as Robert A. Mark Lewisohn previously wrote six Beatles reference books throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions. I felt this was a subject that deserved to be explored more comprehensively, more accurately, with greater understanding. I wasn't happy with the standard of Beatles literature out there. |