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Hearts in Harmony by Beth Wiseman5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The couple realizes they must compromise or part ways, but a tragic accident shakes their decision. They realize that, despite their differences, they have a shared love of music-and a shared confusion about whether their talents are God-given gifts or temptations luring them into the Englisch world. The mutual care for an aging Englischer, Adeline, reunites Mary and Levi as young adults. Mary comes from a more liberal district than Levi, but she’s facing family troubles of her own. One person knows Levi’s talents: Mary Hershberger, the girl who promised years ago to keep his secret. Levi asks God often why music tempts him when playing an instrument isn’t allowed in his world. ![]() ![]() His strict Amish community forbids instruments or the singing of any music not in their approved songbook. Musical prodigy Levi Shetler hasn’t touched a piano since he secretly played one many years ago. Their love of forbidden music brings them together, but it could be what tears them apart. ![]()
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The autobiography of martin luther king5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was left inspired, educated, and entertained. It should be noted that this is not a true “autobiography” in that it was commissioned by MLK’s family and written by Clayborne Carson, though incorporates much of MLK’s own writing and views. The Autobiography of MLK Jr has no shortage of quotes and parables to draw from. Their shared commitment to nonviolent protest as a means to make change is only one of the many parallels one can draw between these two storied men. We also are shown insight into some of the people he respected most - Mahatma Gandhi being near the top of that list. Leveraging many of his own words and writing, we are given an inside look into the way MLK Jr operated and the values for which he stood. This biography naturally weaves his life story in with the chronology and events of the Civil Rights Movement. After reading this book, the admiration and respect only heightened. MLK Jr has always been one of those figures who I knew to respect and admire for many obvious reasons, but I never fully researched the depth of admiration I should have. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]()
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Frankenstein underground5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() There are a couple of scenes that are flashbacks to the Shelley novel, so it’s rooted in the Shelley novel. I definitely had to find my own version of this character, even though I reference the Shelley novel and I think I’m faithful to the Shelley novel. And then really just finding my own voice for the character, which is not as eloquent as Mary Shelley, but a little bit more conversational than the Karloff Frankenstein. So the biggest trick with this book was to take this kind of dumb brute monster I’d started with in House of the Living Dead and kind of rationalize how the Mary Shelley character could have become this character. ![]() In fact, the Frankenstein monster that’s in my head is always the Boris Karloff Frankenstein. ![]() I didn’t realize it was actually the Frankenstein monster, so there was no attempt at all to make him like the Mary Shelley character. ![]()
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Us against them fredrik backman5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() A later scandal involving his top player rocks the town and, once again, the team’s shot at a comeback on the national level dissolves moments before the ultimate game. No one remembers the team that came in second.Īfter a stint in the NHL, cut short by injury, Peter returns to his hometown and accepts the General Manager position for the Bears team. The town’s dreams vanish before their eyes. Instead, the puck ricochets off the edge of the goal and back out onto the ice. In the last few seconds of play, with the eyes of the nation watching, Peter strikes the puck toward the goal in an attempt to send the game into overtime. ![]() In fact, thanks to him, Beartown almost made first place in the national championship. Twenty years ago Peter Andersson, a native of Beartown, was a star player for the Bears. It would be as simple as “us against you” if it were not so complicated. At its core, we find a story illustrating our own human nature: our desire to protect those whom we love and to defend that in which we believe. The narrative could have been told in any setting with any sport or political idea in the spotlight. It is the tale of neighboring communities caught up in the fervent heat of both athletic and political rivalries. ![]() Set in the subarctic forests of northern Sweden where hockey is king, the ice rink takes center stage. “Us Against You”, the sequel to Fredrik Backman’s incredible novel “Beartown”, is a story which has everything, yet nothing, to do with the sport of ice hockey. ![]()
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Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Young’s illustrations work to reinforce what the text has stated and uses color to connect each mouse to their perception of what they believed the object to be based on the part that they explored. ![]() She returns to confirm that they had all been wrong, as looking at the whole reveals a completely different perspective. Until the white mouse, which just so happens to be the only female mouse in the group, goes to investigate and explores the entire object. Each day of the week a different colored mouse goes off to investigate and comes back with a different theory as to what the object is based on the part that they encountered (i.e. This tale begins with seven blind mice becoming aware of something strange in the distance. This tale conveys the message that individual parts can be perceived as one thing, but truth is uncovered when the parts are seen as a whole. In this colorful and beautifully illustrated version of the classic Indian tale commonly referred to as “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” Ed Young swaps men for mice to tell this powerful fable. Boston Globe- Horn Book Honor (1992) & Caldecott Medal Award (1992) Story Summary ![]()
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![]() The poem was only found in February by James, a bookmark in a gift from Trefusis. Trefusis, daughter of Alice Keppel, the lover of King Edward VII, also had literary pretensions, and described how her lover's "profound, hereditary Sackville eyes were as pools from which the morning mists had lifted". Sackville-West also wrote extensively and the poem, which fell out of a bookin her writing room at Sissinghurst as her library was being catalogued, was written just five years after her marriage, when her on-off affair with Trefusis resumed. ![]() Knole, said to have a room for every day of the year, including one with silver furniture, was lost to an uncle because Sackville-West's parents had not produced a son – a loss Nigel Nicolson, who wrote a classic account of his parents in his book Portrait of a Marriage, described as the tragedy of her life. Sackville-West's most famous affair was with Virginia Woolf, who immortalised their relationship and her family background in the 1928 novel Orlando. Their tangled love life overlapped with the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. ![]() Nicolson and Sackville-West went on to create one of the most famous gardens in England at their home at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, now, like Knole, in the care of the National Trust, but both had many same-sex affairs during their long marriage, which only ended with her death in 1962. ![]()
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Moosed Up by Tiffinie Helmer5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ġ) Tiffinie spends most of her summers working as a commercial salmon fisherman (er, woman), in Bristol Bay on the Bering Sea of Alaska.Ģ) She has a Green Tea Frappuccino addiction.ģ) She is an accomplished potter with her own studio. To contact her or learn more about her books, please visit her website at or like her facebook page at. ![]() Raised in Alaska, she was dragged 'Outside' by her husband, but escapes the lower forty-eight to spend her summers commercial fishing on the Bering Sea.Ī mother of four, Tiffinie divides her time between enjoying her family, throwing her acclaimed pottery, and writing of flawed characters in unique and severe situations. USA Today Bestselling Author Tiffinie Helmer is always up for a gripping adventure. ![]()
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Effortless book sc stephens5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Zraste, se spremeni, se ui iz svojih napak. Stephens 321 Paperback 28 offers from 6.90 Thoughtful S. In Kiera je naredila veliko napak, iz katerih se lahko ui. A nauila se je in se odloila, da nikomur ne bo ve povzroila trpljenja, e posebej ne udovitemu fantu, ki je imel njeno srce. Stephens 918 Paperback 27 offers from 6.18 Product description Review 'Wildly addictive, beautifully written, and uniquely captivating. When they head off to a new city to start their lives together, Denny at his dream job and Kiera at a top-notch university, everything seems perfect. Then an unforeseen obligation forces the happy couple apart.įeeling lonely, confused, and in need of comfort, Kiera turns to an unexpected source-a local rock star named Kellan Kyle. ![]() At first, he’s purely a friend that she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does their relationship. And then one night everything changes…and none of them will ever be the same. ![]()
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Rob thurman nightlife series5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() The truth is Out There, and it's not very pretty." – Simon R. Sharp and sardonic, mischievous and mysterious. Nightlife (Cal Leandros Series 1) by Rob Thurman 4.3 (134) eBook 2.99 Paperback 7.99 eBook 2.99 Audiobook 0. " Supernatural highs and lows, and a Hell of a lean over at the corners. The fate of the human world will be decided in the fight of Cal's life. Official CAL LEANDROS and SUPERNATURAL (TV) Promo - CW Bay. This Cal Leandros Series photo contains anime, comic book, manga, and cartoon. ![]() And Cal is about to learn why they want him, why they've always wanted him: He is the key to unleashing their hell on earth. An anime version of Nightlife, will there be a manga in stores soon 18448340. He and his half-brother Niko have managed to stay a step ahead for four years, but now Cal's dad has found them again. Why? Cal hasn't exactly wanted to stick around long enough to find out. His father's dark lineage is the stuff of nightmares – and he and his entire otherworldly race are after Cal. ![]() Of course, most humans are oblivious to the preternatural nightlife around them, but Cal Leandros is only half human. There's a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side – and that's only the beginning. ![]() I've known that ever since I can remember, just like I've always known I was one. There always have been and there always will be. ![]()
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![]() The National Road is by no means an issue book, but it says more about predatory late-capitalism than many works that attack the topic head-on. Louis suburb plagued by racism, redlining and corruption the Nevada desert, where generations of fortune hunters have sought treasure above and below ground, in casinos and in gold mines, which, when they are stripped bare, leave behind ghost towns marked by toxic piles of tailings. Zoellner surveys other manifestations of malaise: the decline of the traditional porn movie industry in 'the other Hollywood,' L.A.’s San Fernando Valley a St. ![]() The National Road is a chronicle of Zoellner’s wanderings and wanderlust, what he calls his 'unspecified hunger' to cover the lower 48 states with 'a coat of invisible paint.' It’s also a sneakily ambitious book whose 13 'dispatches' present a sweeping view of the American land and its inhabitants - how each has shaped, and deformed, the other. ![]() |