![]() ![]() Alamo All-Stars is chock full of unforgettable characters, informative facts, heart-pounding action, and oodles of humor and heart. Like his other graphic novels in this series, Hale offers young readers an authentic, complex, and profound glimpse at history, while remaining age-appropriate. There is A LOT to cover during this time in Texas, before and after the battle at Alamo, but Hale does a superb job of exploring and bringing all events and battles together, to create a comprehensive and exciting timeline. Once again, Hale succeeds in making history utterly engrossing, completely enthralling, and feel so tangible. ![]() Hale brings the rich history of Texas and these intense battles to life in this unputdownable graphic novel. Many battles were fought over Texas, the battle at Alamo being one of the most famous. ![]() In Alamo All-Stars, Hale explores the tumultuous times in Texas history in the early to mid 1800’s, when Texas was fought over by American settlers, the Mexican government, and Native Americans. ‘Remember the Alamo!’-something we’ve all heard, and probably shouted in fun, but just what does it mean? What’s the Alamo and why should we remember it? Nathan Hale answers all these questions and more in the latest book in his popular Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Alamo All-Stars. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So instead of writing anything down, Harold decides just to mail the letter. However, nothing comes out right it’s unsatisfying for him both emotionally and intellectually. He sits down at the table with pen in hand, trying hard to think of something grand or moving that he could say in response. He feels a powerful desire to let her know that she meant something to him when she was alive. They spend most of their time together, avoiding community events such as company parties, and they’ve avoided getting to know their neighbors. Harold recently retired, and he and his wife have no friends to speak of. They weren’t very close, but they shared kindnesses with each other and thought of themselves as friends. Harold thinks about the letter he got from Queenie. Harold’s wife expresses sympathy for Queenie but then goes upstairs to David’s room which she keeps clean in case he returns home one day. He opens the letter and finds out that Queenie Hennessy from his old job at the brewery has cancer and is dying in a hospice. Harold Fry is sitting down to breakfast when he receives a letter. In Rachel Joyce’s novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, she explores the life of a man who goes on an adventure to find a woman he met once. 1-Page Summary of The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry Overall Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() She's a newly blind teenager, and she's an artist. ![]() Cathy is a teen with glaucoma, and the surgery that's supposed to save her vision doesn't work. It feels like a precursor of sorts to Izzy, Willy Nilly. So this is another really old YA, and it's a good one. She used her other senses and her brilliant imagination to create her vivid stories which are still enjoyed by her loyal readers today. Her novel "Light a Single Candle" was based on her own experiences with blindness. She is survived by her niece and nephews. In Rhinelander till her death in 2007 at the age of 75. T V Olsen died in 1993 and she continued to live Beverly moved to Sun Prairie before marrying fellow Wisconsin author, Theodore Victor (T.V.) Olsen, and moving to Rhinelander in 1976. Degree from Marquette University in 1961 and she returned to Mount Mary in 1962 to teach writing there until 1974. ![]() In 1954, she graduated cum laude from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee where she wrote her first young novel, Song of the Voyager which later won Dodd Mead's For practice, she began typing remembered stories which led to her inventing stories. Beverly had planned to be an artist, but an impending blindness impelled her to learn typing in order to rejoin her high school class. Beverly was a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a long time resident of Rhinelander. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those opposing him include an ex-Marine bush pilot, who teams up with a Texas horse wrangler and a teenage Tolkien fanatic to create something very much like the Riders of Rohan. Chief among the latter is a former professor of medieval history with visions of empire, who sends bicycling hordes of street thugs into the countryside. ![]() The survivors are those who adapt most quickly, either by making it to the country and growing their own crops-or by taking those crops from others by force. As American society disintegrates, without either a government able to maintain order or an economy capable of sustaining a large population, most of the world dies off from a combination of famine, plague, brigandage and just plain bad luck. ) in this rousing tale of the aftermath of an uncanny event, "the Change," that renders electronics and explosives (including firearms) inoperative. ![]() What is the foundation of our civilization? asks Stirling ( Conquistador ![]() ![]() ![]() Courage watches as the Weevil uses his proboscis to drink from Eustace. After dessert, he gives Eustace a shoulder massage in his chair. Everyone is shocked, but the weevil plays it off afterwards. Muriel offers him a piece of watermelon and he proceeds to use his proboscis to suck up the remaining whole watermelon. He proceeds to assist Muriel with serving dessert and crowns Eustace by giving him the biggest piece of pie. As a way of asking for forgiveness for running him over, Muriel invites him to dinner and the weevil accepts.Īs they are about to start eating dessert, the bug tells them that he is a Jeeves Weevil, also known as the "Butler Bug," which means they live to serve. The bug, dressed in a top hat and suit, gets up from the ground and greets them in a friendly manner. It lands on the side of the road and Muriel suggests that they go back and check it out. Though, she has unknowingly invited a blood sucking parasite into their home.Ĭourage, Eustace, and Muriel are driving down the road as a large, human-sized insect flies across the road and gets hit by the truck. After Eustace accidentally runs over a giant weevil with his truck, Muriel invites the insect to stay at their farmhouse and re-heal itself. ![]() ![]() If most of her stories aren’t politically utopian, exactly, they are nonetheless a literature of grief and of consolation. As truly nightmarish as her stories very often are, there is something about them that is healing, centering, that cracks us open and lets us see ourselves in a new way. There’s something more than a bit therapeutic in this work. That’s the source of the ever-reappearing Twitter hashtags #OctaviaKnew and #OctaviaTriedToTellUs.īut what did she know? And what did she see, not just for 2020 or 2022, but for farther into the future? On what would have been her 75th birthday, June 22, what knowledge might Butler have had for us about the next 75 years? ![]() That’s why in an annus horribilis of pandemic, ecological crisis, and political turmoil, the book (set in a decaying America of the 2020s) felt more like prophecy than ever. The rest of us are still trying to catch up. Butler saw clearly what would actually come next. ![]() Out of the dizzy techno-optimism of the 1980s and 1990s, Octavia E. There’s a reason, when reading Kindred with students in two courses last fall, I truly felt the book could have been written last year, as if it were responding to right now, rather than published six months before I was born. There’s a reason Parable of the Sower felt to so many people like a handbook for surviving 2020. Butler – but Butler’s fiction isn’t, not really. ![]() I may be a bit older now than I was in 1999 – the year I first read Octavia E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, this book is fairly well-known for having one of the first instances of a sentient humanoid automaton (or robot, if brevity is more your thing) in literature (far from the best instance, however - that title belongs to none other than Marvin, the Paranoid Android.but we’ll go ahead and give this one 42nd place ) in the character of Tik-Tok (not to be confused with the ridiculous social media platform that everyone and their mother seems to be obsessed with, confirming only that I have become a bitter, old man when it comes to these sorts of things). Don’t sweat it, though it happens to the best of us (believe me).Īnyhoo, back to the review (aw yeah, DJ bring that back). Then, you can kiss those dollar store instincts goodbye. Unless, of course, you are dating a woman with expensive taste. Frank Baum and I had so much in common? Next thing you know, he will be showing off his collection of rare Yusef Lateef LPs and telling people about how, if you just go out and grab a handful of seasonings and spices from the grocery store, you will never have to go to a restaurant again. You want them to have no idea what’s going on.Īt least, this has always been my approach. ![]() They won’t know what’s going on! And that’s exactly what you want to happen to your readers when writing a story. Now here’s an interesting take on the whole Oz franchise - hey, let’s still throw “of Oz” in the title, but have almost none of the story take place in Oz. ![]() ![]() There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. "For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. He describes don Juan's perception and mastery of the "non-ordinary reality" and how peyote along with other plants sacred to the Mexican Indians were used as gateways to the mysteries of "dread," "clarity," and "power." The Teachings of Don Juan is the story of a remarkable journey that has left an indelible impression on the life of more than a million readers around the world. ![]() In a series of fascinating dialogues, Castaneda sets forth his partial initiation with don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian shaman from the state of Sonora, Mexico. ![]() Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands. The Teachings of Don Juan initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. ![]() Thirty years ago the University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. ![]() ![]() It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The book : Scarce and attractive edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) - a 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Illustrations : Including a beautiful frontis illustration and in-text illustrations by John Tenniel. Rare find in this condition.Ĭontent : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing and staining, gift note dated 1899 from a previous owner on first endpaper). Publisher : Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, no date ( circa 1898).īinding : Atractive and Very good original Victorian decorated hardcover binding (overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover. Title : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Author : CARROLL, Lewis (John Tenniel, illustrator) ![]() ![]() ![]() So, turn one on, turn up the volume loud and quote along when they say something swoon-worthy, like, "You had me at hello. Plus, there are plenty of old favorites along with newer Netflix originals to choose from. And some mash up the romance with other genres, like action or science fiction, so there's a little something for everyone. Riley (5) Lucy Christopher (1) Lucy Darling (9) Lucy Eden (1) Lucy Ellis (3) Lucy Gordon (1) Lucy Monroe (1) Lucy Score (3) Lucy Wild (1) Lucy Woodhull. There are movies that take place now and deal with modern concerns like social media, and others in a period setting (often with amazing costumes). Others are more straight-faced and serious, with dire circumstances keeping lovers apart. ![]() Some of them are funny rom-coms - and there are even a few in a genre that Netflix perfected, if not pioneered: the romantic-comedy franchise, with two, three and sometimes four films in a series. These are the current best romantic movies on Netflix to watch in 2023. The only problem is shifting through all the choices. Whether you're looking for an activity for an at-home date night or are just watching solo, Netflix has every flavor of romance you could ask for. What kind of romantic movie are you in the mood for today? You can read this before Sweetest Secret PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Relationships that blossom amid dangerous circumstances. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Sweetest Secretwritten by Lucy Darlingwhich was published in 2022-11. ![]() Meet-cutes with lots of funny misunderstandings along the way. ![]() |