5/11/2023 0 Comments Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett![]() Hillerman's mystery is set on and near a large Navajo reservation near the four corners area. ![]() Find out more about Terry at and the Facebook page https//(610K fans). He passed away in 2015 from Alzheimer's Disease. Edwards Award for Lasting Contributions to Young Adult Literature from the American Library Association. ![]() The recipient of several honorary doctorates, Sir Terry was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 for his services to literature. He was awarded Britain's highest honor for a children's novel, the Carnegie Medal, for THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS (HarperCollins, 2001). Printz Honor Book, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, and LA Times Book Prize for YA Literature winner-and DODGER (HarperCollins, 2012), for which he won his second Michael L. ![]() These include the books of the BROMELIAD TRILOGY (HarperCollins, 2003), as well as THE WEE FREE MEN (HarperCollins, 2003), A HAT FULL OF SKY (HarperCollins, 2004), WINTERSMITH (HarperCollins, 2006), I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT (HarperCollins, 2010), NATION (HarperCollins, 2008)-a Michael L. In addition to his phenomenal-and phenomenally popular-Discworld series for adults, Terry is the multi-award-winning author several children's books. His books have sold more than 85 million copies worldwide. He wrote his first published story when he was 13 and his first novel, THE CARPET PEOPLE, when he was 17. ![]() Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of more than three dozen novels, is one of the world's best-selling and best-loved novelists writing in the English language. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Sensational production values, imaginative direction, whipsmart writing, and infectious, knowing performances make these four films an absolute delight - and an absolute must-see for Christie and mystery fans. "I hate an unsolved case."-Geraldine McEwan as amateur sleuth Miss Marple "Frighteningly fun"- Entertainment Weekly Miss Marple is the popular ITV series adapted from Agatha Christie’s murder mystery novels. "People do tend to confide in old ladies-don't you find?"- Miss Marple Agatha Christies Miss Marple: Collection 1 ( The Body in the Library / The Moving Finger / A Murder is Announced ). Miss Marple (Geraldine McEwan) investigates when a writer sends a series of poison-pen letters to residents of a sleepy village. "Worldly lady with a past, full of fun and mischief"- London Times to the terrible ITV series starring Geraldine McEwan and Julia Mackenzie. "Not your mother's Miss Marple"- The Associated Press 11 It is a shame that the screen adaptations of the Miss Marple books. ![]() ![]() Run Time: 19 hours, plus bonus programming ![]() Hour-long backstage feature with cast and crew interviews.All 12 episodes starring Geraldine McEwan, "a formidable, twin-setted presence in the series"- Birmingham Evening Mail (UK). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Stand up like a girl, by refusing to stand’-Rosa Parks sits calmly on an (empty) bus, looking out at readers ‘Stand up like a girl, by extending your hand’-Mother Teresa offers a bowl of rice to three children of different races. Each page holds one line of a rhyming couplet with one woman at work in illustrations composed of strong shapes and vivid colors. The endpapers present the multicultural roster of talented, hardworking women and girls, all apparently cis, depicted in grayscale portraits with their names below their pictures. ![]() “Twenty-four women leaders are pictured as models of working ‘like a girl’ in this rhyming inspirational poem. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are multi-faceted and believable as people. Each book is complex and detailed without being stuffy or difficult to follow. There is adventure, friendship, true love, and plenty of kickass fight sequences. ![]() Despite the name, this series is about so much more than a school for vampires. I have read and listened to this series several times, but the new TV adaptation of the series motivated me to do so again this month. I feel like I couldn’t get enough of them! Of course, I had my favorites, but it was the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead that topped my list. and the Strigoi are always close by.īack in the 2000’s there seemed to be a glut of YA vampire series on the market. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger. Vladimir's Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.Īfter two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. ![]() The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a dhampir. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. ![]() Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. Amazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Apple ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Wandfasted by Laurie Forest![]() I'm stunned by the author's courage in telling such an emotionally raw story with such universal themes. Seriously, just read it - it's the most inspirational thing I've read in a long time. I feel like there just aren't adequate words for how good this book is. ![]() This is not just a slow-burn love story (and that aspect is always well done in Abigail Johnson's books) - this is an emotionally hard-hitting book about moving on after incredibly great loss and finding hard-won hope for the present and future. Ethan and Rebecca (the boy and girl next door) have been friends since they were kids, in and out of each other's lives with incredible difficulties thrown at them both - Ethan's mom is a drug addict always spinning out of control, and Rebecca has been seriously injured in a car accident that left her paralyzed and using a wheelchair for mobility. Ethan and Rebecca (the boy and girl next door) have been friends since they were kids, in and o I just finished this spectacular YA Contemporary and it's so good I'm a bit speechless - the last line so powerful, I just sat here, stunned for a minute. I just finished this spectacular YA Contemporary and it's so good I'm a bit speechless - the last line so powerful, I just sat here, stunned for a minute. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Stand For Ukraine by Trinity Wood![]() ![]() All the parishioners worked voluntarily and additionally contributed $25 each towards the construction costs. With the assistance of Yuriy Martyniuk, additional lumber was purchased and the construction was completed. The parishioners faced some setbacks during this period as some of the construction lumber was destroyed by fire. ![]() Adalbert Saburen assisted the parishioners with the construction by sending lumber and the foreman Anton Kruk from Manitoba. The second church was constructed in 1912 two miles north of the original church site this was a rectangular wooden structure, larger than the first church, measuring 30 x 18 feet. The first church, constructed 1906-1907, was a log structure erected by the parishioners under the fore-manship of Ivan Drushka and was situated on a two acre site six miles south-east of Norquay. ![]() NORQUAY farms - The church of the Holy Trinity is the third church of the parish. Church of the Holy Trinity constructed 1935 near Norquay R.M. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Plato the republic book 4![]() ![]() ![]() Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. ![]() Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humor or imagery, or more dramatic power. But no other Dialogue of Plato has the same largeness of view and the same perfection of style no other shows an equal knowledge of the world, or contains more of those thoughts which are new as well as old, and not of one age only but of all. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws as works of art, the Symposium and the Protagoras are of higher excellence. The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. 2 Plato, Republic Book 1 The Republic by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Book I ![]() ![]() Horror Meterīefore starting the review, I would like to preface this by saying that I’m a newbie in the horror genre. But for this novel, I felt there was a need to treat them separately. ![]() When writing about books, I don’t typically separate the atmosphere and the overarching plot of the book, since they are intimately linked. He also remembers the way he felt back then: the fear, the uncertainty in the face of such bizarre events and the horror - a mix of feelings that will transport you back to your own childhood. ![]() He remembers the man who committed suicide next to his house, the evil supernatural being who gained access to his world as a consequence, and Lettie, his young and mystical neighbour living in the farm at the end of the lane, who did her best to protect him. ![]() He recalls the strange and dark events that happened to him when he was a little boy. While there, he visits his childhood home and certain memories resurface. An unnamed narrator returns to his hometown to attend a funeral. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments The shores of the cosmic ocean![]() ![]() And what did they study? They studied everything. It was the first true research institute in the history of the world. On its dark side, super bolts of lightning illuminate the clouds as first revealed by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979. ![]() The largest planet in our solar system is Jupiter. A mere one and a half billion kilometers. We are now only 80 light minutes from home. Saturn’s majestic rings are made of trillions of orbiting snowballs. If it has a solid surface, it must lie far below the clouds we see. There are new worlds to chart even this close to home. The rings of Uranus were first detected in 1977. Its moon, Charon, remained undiscovered until 1978. Only a century ago, we were ignorant even of the existence of the planet Pluto. Even in the outskirts of our own solar system, we humans have barely begun our explorations. ![]() ![]() Only four light hours from Earth is the planet Neptune and its giant satellite, Triton. We are approaching a single, ordinary, yellow dwarf star surrounded by a system of nine planets, dozens of moons, thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets: the family of the sun. Each system is isolated from its neighbors by the light years. Most stars belong to systems of two or three or many suns bound together by gravity. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Lincoln by gore vidal![]() Vidal took great pleasure in being a public figure. Perhaps more than any other American writer except Norman Mailer or Truman Capote, Mr. And he could always be counted on for a spur-of-the-moment aphorism, put-down or sharply worded critique of American foreign policy. For a while he was even a contract writer at MGM. He also wrote plays, television dramas and screenplays. ![]() He published some 25 novels, two memoirs and several volumes of stylish, magisterial essays. Few American writers have been more versatile or gotten more mileage from their talent. ![]() Vidal was, at the end of his life, an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right. The cause was complications of pneumonia, his nephew Burr Steers said. ![]() ![]() Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003 after years of living in Ravello, Italy. ![]() |