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Castors Away by Hester Burton5/28/2023 She worked as an assistant editor for the revised Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia, and edited two 1959 anthologies: A Book of Modern Stories and Her First Ball. She worked for Oxford University Press from 1956 to 1964, contributing two volumes to the Oxford Sheldonian English Series for secondary schoolchildren: Coleridge and the Wordsworths, 1953, and Tennyson in 1954. In 1949, Burton published a biography of Barbara Bodichon, the 19th-century feminist, artist and educationalist. From 1925 to 1936, she attended Headington School, Oxford and then St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received an honours degree in English. She was born Hester Wood-Hill on 6 December 1913, in Beccles, Suffolk, where her father was elected town Mayor three times. Flood waters at Erith, 1953 which killed 41 people in Suffolk and inspired Burton's novel The Great Gale.
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The last report on the miracles5/27/2023 After she was named writer-in-residence at Dartmouth, she married professor Michael Dorris and raised several children, some of them adopted. She attended the Johns Hopkins creative writing program and received fellowships at the McDowell Colony and the Yaddo Colony. She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books.
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Mrs piggle wiggle by betty macdonald5/27/2023 They fuss and sputter when eight o'clock bedtime and bathtime arrives, with excuses that their friends get to watch more TV programs, and stay up much later than they do. The first story stars Kitten and Sean Hanover in The Just-One-More-TV-Show Cure. Alexandra Boiger's illustrations are among the best black pencil, full-page sketches I have come across, vividly catching details of characters' expressions, setting and mood. Piggle-Wiggle to bring about changes in their children's behavior. Piggle-Wiggle is a collection of short stories in which parents seek the advice of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle story along with notes for others. The author's daughter, Anne MacDonald Canham, found in her mother's possessions a never-before-published Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series, with stories such as Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald & Anne MacDonald Canhamīetty MacDonald (1908–1958) authored scores of children's books, including the lovable Mrs.
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Speedy Reads by Chris-Jean Clarke5/27/2023 There are two main places to find other people messing around with mynt: GitHub and IRC. You can also check out what people are making with mynt if you prefer working off of examples as many are open source. Otherwise, if you're familiar with static site generators in general, the other more reference style doc pages may be a better jumping off point for you. If you're looking to get up and running quickly, give the quickstart guide a read. Freedom in the markup language and rendering engine used.Automatic generation of common pages such as those for archives and tags.
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Episode thirteen by craig dilouie5/27/2023 "An epistolary descent into a living nightmare. A story told in broken pieces, in tapes, journals, and correspondence, this is the story of Episode Thirteen-and how everything went terribly, horribly wrong. But as the house begins to reveal itself to them, proof of an afterlife might not be everything Matt dreamed of. It's also famously haunted, and the team hopes their scientific techniques and high tech gear will prove it. This brooding, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly hauntings investigated by a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts.Įpisode Thirteen takes them to every ghost hunter's holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. From the macabre mind of a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, this heart-pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined.įade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show.
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The sea women book5/27/2023 The Seawomen is a fiercely written and timely feminist novel, at once gothic, fantastical and truly unforgettable, for fans of Margaret Atwood and Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Women of the Sea Edward Rowe Snow, Dorothy Snow Bicknell (Foreword), Jeremy DEntremont (Primary Contributor) 3. When the water pulls her under, she discovers a different reality – and an unexpected kindness – hiding there.Īs she tastes freedom for the first time, the insular world Esta has always known begins to unravel… Thus begins Lisa See’s newest novel, The Island of Sea Women, which is set on a Korean island and draws on the centuries-long history of the haenyeo, female divers who have effectively. Anyone who disobeys or fails to conceive will be cast into the sea, the place they fear the most.īut is the real wickedness hiding in the men who rule?Įsta doesn’t dare to dream of another life, until one day, danger forces her beyond the shallows. On the isle of Eden, there is only one path for a woman: a loveless marriage and motherhood. ‘Dive in and don’t look back’ ZOE GILBERTĮsta knows the fate that awaits her. ‘A powerful, enchanting novel’ ANNA BAILEY ‘Unsettling and lushly written’ KIRSTY LOGAN ‘A gripping tale of love and bravery’ SOPHIE WARD From the sea they gather sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crabs, conch, sea squirts, sea slugs, agar-agar, kelp, octopus, and abalone. ‘An allegorical love story with echoes of fairytales’ KATE SAWYER The women do subsistence farming on Jeju, raising millet, rapeseed, red beans, and sweet potatoes.
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Homeland doctorow novel5/27/2023 He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him - but he can't admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. It's incendiary stuff - and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco - an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state.Ī few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform.
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When she’s not writing, she’s an assistant coach for her daughter’s high school cheer team, which is a two season sport. She’s also known as USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson.Ī native Californian, she lives on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere with her husband, two kids, one dog, and four cats. Both a traditionally published and independently published author, she writes young adult, new adult and contemporary romance. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. Monica Murphy is a New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling romance author. I’ll let Whit Lancaster ruin me behind closed doors instead.ĭownload today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited That’s when I strike a bargain with the devil. I’ll be ruined if my darkest secret gets out. And he promises to use my words against me. When he leaves me alone in the dead of night, he takes my journal with him. Let him possess every single part of me until I’m the one left a gasping, broken mess. My instincts scream to leave and let him suffer, but I can’t. When I stumble upon him one night alone, I find him broken. Yet his intense gaze scorches my blood, fills me with a longing I don’t understand. His taunting words carve into my skin, shredding me to ribbons. The school with his family name on the sign. Cold, heartless and devastatingly beautiful, like the statues in our prep school gardens. Whit Lancaster burst into my life like a storm. Things I Wanted To Say (But Never Did) by Monica Murphy is now live!
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Clementine series by sara pennypacker5/27/2023 She is always trying to help other people, but somehow gets in trouble for it every time! Whether it is for cutting her friend Margaret’s hair or using her mother’s fancy pens to draw hair on Margaret’s head, she was just trying to help a friend! Clementine is really just a sweet, misunderstood, girl.Īlthough Clementine would have been one of my favorites as a child, reading this book as an adolescent was still so enjoyable! I think that any parent would also love to read this to their children because many parents can relate to Clementine’s parents’ struggles and laugh at the absurdity of Clementine’s thoughts and actions. Throughout the book, Clementine is nervous that her parents want to give her away because she is the “hard” child because she somehow gets herself into these sticky situations. Jones, which was my absolute favorite series as a child. I loved this book! The main character and narrator, Clementine, is a hilarious girl that reminds me of myself at her age.
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Septimus heap pathfinder5/27/2023 Angie soon graduated to authoring children’s stories and published “Magyk” the first novel of the “Septimus Heap” series in 2005. She studied Illustration and Graphic Design and worked for a while illustrating school books after finishing school. She went to college and studied medicine, but soon quit to go study art and design in Leicester. Reading about history was akin to time travel as it allowed her to travel to distant places, which she would then draw on her books. She remembers the first time she learnt how to read and asserts that it was one of the most exciting periods of her life. Her father was renowned publisher that often brought home blank books that Angie would spend hours filling with stories and pictures. Angie was raised in Kent, London, and the Thames Valley. Besides authoring the Septimus Heap novels she is also a writer and illustrator of children’s novels. Besides the “Septimus Heap” novels, Sage is also the author of the Araminta Spookie, and the Todhunter Moon Trilogy that are a sequel to the Septimus Heap novels. “Septimus Heap” is a series of novels by popular fantasy author Angie Sage. |