![]() ![]() “You didn’t dump me because I wouldn’t sleep with you. ![]() People like that? Did he mean poor? “My family hasn’t changed.” My bewilderment at this news kept me from becoming angry. All the times we broke up, it was in my mind. “It didn’t matter so much in high school. I talked to my parents about it and they said you’d turn out like your people.” Of course, I’d planned on staying longer than I did, but not forever. I wouldn’t have stayed one day longer than planned. “When have I ever said I’d stay at the Fry Hut forever?” The thought alone gave me a chill. What was he talking about? I wished he was here in person so I could read his brown eyes and see his expression. I wanted to take the phone away and stare at it. I thought you’d stay at the Fry Hut, make Head Chef, lose your dreams.” “People plan for college, but life gets in the way. This is a summer job and a fluke landed me on that show.” I was headed to college and going places.” “Wrong to break up with me as soon as we graduated?” Some of my indignation came out in my voice as I found my backbone. “I miss you, Marissa, and I, well, I was wrong.” ![]()
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![]() The technologies that we have available substantially define who we are. But it’s also possible to view it just as things (or, indeed, processes) that enable us to perform tasks more effectively than we could without them. It’s common to think of technology as encompassing only very new, science-intensive things-ones with electronic or digital bits, for instance. Perhaps you think I should have said that I’m surrounded by things, only some of which really count as technology. ![]() ![]() I’m sitting on a semi-antique wooden chair, though when my back is hurting I tend to switch to a new, expensive ergonomic contraption. ![]() In front of me is a wooden bookstand, made for me by a talented friend and festooned with Post-it reminders of things to do (a method I prefer to my digital calendar). Drawers to my left hold cutlery-some modern Chinese-made stainless steel, some Georgian sterling silver. Nearby is a gas range, a French cast-iron enamelled casserole, and a ceramic teapot. ![]() There is a cordless phone, a microwave oven, and a high-end refrigerator, and I’m working on a laptop. I’m writing in the kitchen, surrounded by technology. We tend to think of technology in futuristic terms, barely noticing many older technologies so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A touching portrayal of a father-son adventure, Hike speaks volumes on the value of legacy and upholding family traditions. With the absence of words, Oswald’s illustrations must speak for themselves, and the rich greens, warm taupes, and muted grays effortlessly evoke the crisp scent of pine, the sun-warmed mountain paths, and the wafting mist of a waterfall. Along the way, they stop for a snowball fight and to examine animal tracks and natural wonders, but the journey is not without its dangers, and their bond is strengthened as they overcome challenges together. A father and son embark on an expedition through towering trees, over gurgling creeks, and around sparkling lakes to complete a beloved family tradition-the story depicted only through Oswald’s layered illustrations and scattered onomatopoeias. New York Times bestselling illustrator Pete Oswald prompts you to sit up and listen without making a sound in his nearly wordless picture book, Hike. ![]() Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Great for Earth Day, environmental awareness and stewardship, or Arbor Day to look at conservation. FOREWORD’S LIT HIT-INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text picture book Hike by Pete Oswald. ![]() ![]() Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. He was found the next morning by library director Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. ight of the year in Spencer, Iowa, at only a few weeks old-a critical age for kittens-he was stuffed into the return book slot of the Spencer Public Library. Dewey (Large Print Edition) (Hardback, Large type / large print edition)Įxperience the uplifting, "unforgettable" New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world - with over 2 million copies sold! (Booklist) Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Kull gets distracted in the dark and suddenly finds two identical human babies lying in the cradle in front of him, he's forced to run away empty-handed into the night upon hearing the mother approaching, leaving Annie Burton - after a mild freakout - left to raise both boys as her own, regardless of the town gossip saying one of them is a goblin in disguise. See, the magic of the surrounding Wild Wood, which Kull and his fellow goblins (and many other creatures) call home, is dying out, but good fortune has brought a changeling to the goblins - a baby that can transform itself into a duplicate of any human baby, so that Kull can steal the human baby and give it to the faeries to raise, securing some magic restoration for the goblins. ![]() ![]() Changeling opens with the nicest, perhaps most inept goblin ever, Kull, as he slips into a home in the middle of the night to swap out a newborn baby. so to say the least this reader was eager to get his hands on the first book of Ritter's new fantasy series for middle-grade readers. After a massive reading slump of nearly two years, in late 2014 I happened across William Ritter's Jackaby - which would end up my favorite read of the year even before spawning three sequels. ![]() ![]() The idea that humans are not animals makes precisely as much sense as the idea that the earth is not a planet, or the sun not a star. Post-Darwin, it is more natural to think of humans as a subset of the category animal. But after Darwin, the distinction suddenly seems arbitrary - as arbitrary as the equally workable distinction between, say, turtles and non-turtles. Certainly, the human-animal distinction is still workable after all, we rarely make errors in assigning entities to one category or the other. We are one animal species among countless millions. ![]() We now know that we all came about through the same process, and our common origin suggests that we will have more in common with other animals than we previously imagined. ![]() It challenges the very idea that the inhabitants of this planet can be meaningfully divided into humans and animals in the first place. ![]() But Darwin's theory does more than simply stress our kinship with the animals. ![]() ![]() Yay!ġ6 year old Aden Stone is new in town, having recently being transferred to the D and M Ranch, house for wayward teens. Then, the Book Fairy (AKA Katiebabs) surprised me by sending me a copy she snatched over at BEA. ![]() Why did I read the book: I had seen the cover and the blurb and was dying to read it. Still, the four will enter a dark underworld of intrigue and danger but not everyone will come out alive… ![]() A bond about to be tested by a werewolf shape-shifter who wants Mary Ann for his own, and a vampire princess Aden can’t resist. Somehow, they share an inexplicable bond of friendship. And while he attracts the paranormal, she repels it. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks she tries to make everyone happy. Why? Mary Ann Gray is his total opposite. Or he’ll walk past a total stranger and know how and when she’s going to die.Īnd then he meets a girl who quiets the voices. One wrong move, and he’ll change the future. Like, he’ll blink and suddenly he’s a younger Aden, reliving the past. But now they’re causing him all kinds of trouble. With no other family and a life spent in and out of institutions, Aden and the souls have become friends. ![]() ![]() Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: Summary: Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Stand Alone or series: book 1 in a planned series ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wracked by all kinds of longing, The Employees probes into what it means to be human, emotionally and ontologically, while simultaneously delivering an overdue critique of a life governed by work and the logic of productivity. Structured as a series of witness statements compiled by a workplace commission, Ravn s crackling prose is as chilling as it is moving, as exhilarating as it is foreboding. Gradually, the crew members come to see their work in a new light, and each employee is compelled to ask themselves whether they can carry on as before and what it means to be truly living. Our shared, far-away Earth, which now only persists in memory. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew is perplexed to find itself becoming deeply attached to them, and human and humanoid employees alike start aching for the same things: warmth and intimacy. Those who will die, and those who will not. The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship consists of those who were born, and those who were made. Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeThe near-distant future. ![]() ![]() Leaning on others for help is something Angel cannot do, and while he searches for clues as to who may be targeting him and his brother, Angel finds his heart steadily growing occupied with Simeon, Elder and vampire. ![]() When his brother's boyfriend is used as a pawn in a mysterious plot to draw Angel out, Angel is once again drawn back into the old hostilities that fueled the Blood Wars and led to his family's death. Now, years later, Angel struggles to balance his career as a teacher of the higher magical arts, his role as big brother, and a tenuous relationship with an Elder vampire from the local clan. He and his brother Isaac are the lone survivors of an attack by an army of the undead, in which Angel used a spell so powerful it forever marked his place in history. ![]() In a world where magic is real and evil walks amongst humanity, a young sorcerer is beset by enemies, both old and new.Īngelus Salvatore is the only necromancer in all of Boston, and his name is whispered warily by the undead and fellow sorcerers alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clearly her French language program is first rate with wonderful staff who care for the students and are willing to do all they can for them. The scenes depicting Linda’s language study pass in a delightful whirl of fine food and phantasmagoric French verbs. She drops down to Level Two and with the help of many native and non-native speakers of French emerges as the star student in this class. The book’s three sections entitled Unsettled in Tours, A Fresh Start, and Paris trace these developments.Īt the beginning of the second book Kovic-Skow receives Christmas gifts from a class of grateful schoolchildren whom she helped with their English and enrolls in the local language institute where she lands between Level Two and Level Three in French. Los Angeles, CA ( The Hollywood Times) 6/11/15 – FRENCH ILLUSIONS: FROM TOURS TO PARIS picks right up where the first FRENCH ILLUSIONS book left off and carries author Linda Kovic-Skow through a few more eventful months in France on limited means with less limited French. ![]() |