![]() | ‘Those pretty, pretty eyes bore into mine the way they did the first time I saw him play.’ In the audio… I cracked up the most about 13 mins till the end so much I had tears from laughing so hard. I also LOVED that he was a figure skater, and not just for a little bit of time but for a long time. And even after all the “other stuff” how he makes it right. I do like how things went down with him mom. Alex oh what to say about this fella that Violet hasn’t already said… esp about The MC. Even with the STEP, in there it was very much like they had grown up together made for good dynamic. I very much enjoyed the brother, sister relationship between Buck and Violet. I will never think of “jilling it” without thinking of her I swear to god. not really I loved Violets wit, lord have mercy she cracked me up. But if I say eh like that someone smack me lol. ![]() Being as I am Canadian, I loved the narrators BOTH of them. ![]() It was surface and fun and flirty just the right kind of book to read in between those dark and twisty reads. It was light, very humorous, and HELLO Canadian’s!! I didn’t find it a deep read. ![]()
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![]() ![]() 1952, Todd, b.1956, and Georgeanne, b.1959.Īnne McCaffrey’s first story was published by Sam Moskowitz in Science Fiction + Magazine and her first novel was published by Ballantine Books in 1967. She married in 1950 and had three children: Alec Anthony, b. Her working career included Liberty Music Shops and Helena Rubinstein (1947-1952). She had two brothers: Hugh McCaffrey (deceased 1988), Major US Army, and Kevin Richard McCaffrey, still living.Īnne was educated at Stuart Hall in Staunton Virginia, Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent. Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t remember how long we searched, but for a number of years , every time my mom and I went into a book store, we would go to the customer service desk and ask if they had a copy of the elusive book three. I have vivid memories of my mom and I, prowling bookshelves. ![]() ![]() So, of course, my mom and I headed off to Barnes and Nobles to pick up a copy of the third book. There were two books, the first called “Into the Land of the Unicorns,” and the second called “Song of the Wanderer.” I read them sometime when I was in elementary school and, at the end of the second it became immediately clear that there was another book in the series. I think it was that mix of beauty, purity and ferocity that made them my favorite mythological creature when I was young.Īt some point, I came across a series called the Unicorn Chronicles, written by Bruce Coville. They were beautiful and majestic, pure-hearted but also incredibly dangerous. The unicorns I read about weren’t dainty, cute, pink maned creatures that pooped rainbows - the kind you see everywhere these days. It was hard to find novels that featured them, but I read every one I could get my hands on. When I was younger, I was obsessed with unicorns. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie’s life? What happens will unlock the roots of her mother’s tormented past, but most of all, it will allow Jessie to discover selfhood and a place of belonging as she explores the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic. Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks, and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right, and with the immutable force of home and marriage. When Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother’s seemingly inexplicable behavior, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life “molded to the smallest space possible.” Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk about to take his final vows. ![]() Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. ![]() A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery-the New York Times–bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings ![]() ![]() Such pseudo imaging might have accounted for even puzzler case given that it was the very localization of the artificial hole which initially suggested the surgery made for reasons other than treating the supratentorial trauma, i.e. Although CT scans in a prior study confirmed normal air cell appearance in both mastoids and pyramids, the sediment matrix imaged as seemingly “increased” radiographic opacities (“dense“ greyish X-ray shadows), in the air cell system of the trepanned mastoid and concomitant pyramid (base) – where should have been air opacity (imaged black), tended to be suggestive of possibly “reduced” pneumatic spaces. This paper aims to discuss, additionally, “issues” with diagnosing “increased” opacities in the air cell system of the trepanned mastoid and concomitant temporal pyramid scored from initial screening by plain film radiography. So far unique “history case” of infratentorial trepanation, appeared in combination with supratentorial fracture indicative of a onetime trauma whose therapeutic treating was eventually hypothesized as a possible reason for performing such surgery – due to lack of CT evidence of otopathology. ![]() In a prior study, we reported on bone and CT evidence of an antemortal mastoid trepanning in a deceased from the 11th century AD cemetery Zvonimirovo (Northern Croatia). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She recently served on the National Book Award Committee for Young People's Literature and is on faculty at Vermont College MFA Writing for Children and Young People.Ĭlick here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.Ĭlayton Byrd delights in playing music with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and his band of Bluesmen. Known for their realistic portrayal of teens of color, Williams-Garcia's works have been recognized by the Coretta Scott King Award Committee, PEN Norma Klein, American Library Association, and Parents' Choice, among others. They hunger for stories that engage them and reflect their images and experiences."Īuthor of four award winning novels, Rita Williams-Garcia continues to break new ground in young people's literature. Writing stories for young people is my passion and my mission. ![]() ![]() In the midst of real events, I daydreamed and wrote stories. "I learned to read early, and was aware of events going on as I grew up in the 60s. Even now, my daughters call me 'Pokey Mom', because I slow poke around when they want to go-go-go. I like to believe I was dreaming up a good story and wouldn’t budge until I was finished. Although I was her last child, I took my time making my appearance. My mother, Miss Essie, named me 'NoMo' immediately after my birth. "I was born in Queens, N.Y, on April 13, 1957. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Twain famously wrote a letter from “Santa Claus” to his elder daughter, Susie Clemens. Tolkien was not the first author to produce letters from Father Christmas for his children. In 2018, the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford will exhibit the letters, alongside other manuscripts, artwork, maps, letters and artefacts from Tolkien collections around the world. It would be written in his spidery hand (he would, after all, be a very old man) and illustrated with funny scenes from life in the North Pole. So inevitably, his family traditions were something rather special.Įvery year, from 1920 to 1942, the Tolkien children – first John, and later Michael, Christopher and Priscilla – would receive a letter from Father Christmas. ![]() Yet this was a man whose rich imagination brought to life an entire world with thousands of years of legendary history described different orders of creatures, wars and battles even invented languages. Tolkien dedicated considerable time and effort to making Christmas a joyful time for his young children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cyril Dion is the co–founder of Colibris, a movement launched by Pierre Rabhi, and of the magazine Kaizen. ![]() What they found were men and women changing the world: cities that produce their own food and energy, zero-waste systems, businesspeople and towns creating their own currency to prevent speculation and the appropriation of wealth, citizens rewriting their own constitution, and pioneering educational systems.īy linking these initiatives together, Dion and his crew bring to light a new philosophy, a community of thought among people who often don’t know each other. Convinced that spreading catastrophic news is not effective, Dion decided to explore, along with actress and director Mélanie Laurent and a small film crew, what our world could look like if we brought together some of the best solutions to date in agriculture, energy, economics, education, and democracy. This news barely received any media coverage at all. In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world that forecasts the extinction of multiple forms of life, and possibly a large part of humanity, by the year 2100. What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with? ![]() ![]() It is unusual to find signed vernacular poetry from this period. (The prologue to one lai names “Marie” in the third person, and the epilogue to the fables is in Marie’s voice, adding that she is from France.) Scholars have endeavored, without success, to identify her with a crew of contemporary abbesses and noblewomen.ĭespite her shadowy history, Marie remains a singular, appealing figure. We do not know if a single person wrote all the works ascribed to “Marie,” or if this was a pen name adopted by multiple authors. She wrote a collection of animal fables, translated a religious treatise on Purgatory and a life of Saint Audrey from the Latin, and composed a series of twelve short tales in verse, called lais, about passionate love. In the story most often told about her today, Marie was a learned French émigré connected to the court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine in late-twelfth-century England. The best-known woman poet of the Middle Ages is a chimera, pieced together centuries after she lived from stray clues in the poems that are attributed to her. ![]() ![]() It is hard to pin down Marie de France, though many have tried. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is one sex scene, and while it is clear what is happening, it is not detailed or graphic. The language was on par with the last two books of the series mild language is used intermittently. I thought this book was a fitting end to the trilogy, a good mix of action and romance, happy and sad, victory and defeat. ![]() Will Day and June be alive at the end of this war? Will their relationship survive all that has happened and will happen? But why has she reached out now? Anden, the new Elector, is in the midst of staving off war with the Colonies, finding a cure for a plague, and bargaining for an alliance with Antarctica to help in the seemingly inevitable war with the Colonies. That is, until Day gets a personal invitation from June to attend a ball in Denver. Day and June haven’t talked since that day, eight months ago, when Day told her to stay in Denver and train for the Princeps-Elect. June is thoroughly involved in her training as a Princeps-Elect and Day is with his brother, Eden, in San Francisco. This final book in the Legend trilogy picks up with Day and June eight months after Prodigy left off. ![]() |