![]() ![]() I know she can’t play our game now, but I lean down anyway and blink at her like we did at the sanatorium when her throat got too sore for her to talk. ![]() She’s wearing her dark green dress with covered buttons. So I drag it out, stand on top, and look into the creamy box with thick silver handles that has Mama inside. I reach under the curtain and pull the stool into my playhouse. Just the three of us at home together until the doorbell chimes and Daddy turns and walks away. Daddy takes a deep breath and holds it forever. The shiny toes of his black boots are so close I smell shoe polish. They stop right on the other side of the curtain. His footsteps scrape across the rug toward Mama and me. That’s why I’m wearing my scratchy church dress with the purple bows. They moved all the furniture against the walls except a little round stool right by the coffin box, so even short people can see Mama this afternoon. My little house in the center of the parlor has silky black curtain walls and a hard ceiling that I can touch with the top of my head if I sit cross-legged and stretch my neck. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Craig, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats * Rhymes To Learn By illustrated by Harvey Weiss * Animals of Africa illustrated with photos * Traveling the Underground Railroad by Michael Gorham, illustrated by Polly Jackson * Let s Visit Spain illustrated with photos.: Color Illustrations: 5.75 x 8.50 in.: 160 pages. Ripley * Sounds We Hear by Beatrice Davis Hurley and Gerald S. Wilcox from a screenplay by Hugo Butler based upon the 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home by Eric. Twelve Stories include: Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight, illustrated by Phoebe Erickson * Story of William Tell by James Baldwin, illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith * Penny and the White Horse by Marjory Collison and Margery Bianco, illustrated by Janina Domanska * Rumpelstiltskin by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Fritz Kredel * Three Little Pigs by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Richard Scarry * Poppy Seed Cakes by Margery Clark, illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham * Peanuts Are Not Nuts and Other Surprising Facts by Robert L. Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor feature film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. 10: KB#017312: Dustjacket is worn along edges and has several edge chips, but is otherwise complete. Illustrated by Phoebe Erickson / Lawrence Beall Smith / Janina Domanska /Fritz Kredel / Richard Scarry / Maud and Miska Petersham / Ezra Jack Keats/ Harvey Weiss / Polly Jackson (illustrator). ![]() ![]() ![]() He is behaving, one understands, in the child's best interests. In his concern to bring Oscar to God, and in much the same scientific way as he prizes the red-lipped anemones from the jagged promontories near his home, Theophilus tears Oscar from His father, Theophilus Hopkins, a marine biologist and a religious fundamentalist, although sensitive to the evolution of starfish, is hopelessly inept at understanding The novel proper opens in the last half of the 19th century, when Oscar is a child. Lucinda's church isĪ great white whale of an adversary, a Moby Dick improbably spawned in the rock pools of Devon. ![]() ![]() The reflection of its glass bulk dazzles the reader from the opening chapters. The building of this church, which is not completed until the book is nearly through, commences early. The construction of ''Oscar & Lucinda'' rests upon the same cast-iron framework as the glass church, manufactured by Lucinda for transportation to a remote site on a river in New South Wales, that stands as a symbol of their impossible,Ĭhancy union. Both of them, fractured by childhood, are Lucinda has inherited a glass factory she too likes to deal the cards. ![]() Oscar is a compulsive gambler he'll bet on anything, even his own happiness. Eter Carey's third novel is about a man and a woman who meet on board a ship bound for Australia, fall in love and don't ![]() ![]() Another woman, Shelby Tebow, had disappeared soon before that. With her return, it reopens questions about what happened the day she and her mother went missing. It opens with a girl, Delilah, who disappeared 11 years ago, finally being found again. This is definitely one of her better efforts. Local Woman Missing is a mystery novel about a series of disappearances. Though a couple of the final megatwists prove more shocking than convincing, Kubica’s plumbing of the darkness lurking beneath the shiny suburban dream should please her fans and draw in new ones. As usual for this author, much suspense stems from her storytelling sleight of hand, particularly the way she leaps forward and backward in time as well as among half a dozen distinctive if not always reliable narrators, who include Shelby, Meredith, and Delilah’s younger brother. However, the traumatized, emaciated teen subsequently brought to the house bears little resemblance to the Delilah he remembers, other than her distinctive red hair. ![]() Out of the blue, Meredith’s husband gets the call that will upend his life again: Delilah has been found. Eleven years after the disappearances of new mom Shelby Tebow, doula Meredith Dickey, and Meredith’s six-year-old daughter, Delilah, shook their tranquil Chicago suburb, troubling questions linger about just what happened to them in this daringly plotted, emotionally eviscerating psychological thriller from bestseller Kubica ( The Other Mrs.). ![]() ![]() ![]() Its time to bring eternity to light! About the Author Randy Alcorn is an author and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit ministry dedicated to teaching principles of Gods Word and assisting the church in ministering to unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. Get ready to embark on a wonderful journey! After reading and reflecting on these soul-stirring meditations, the next time you hear someone say, We cant begin to imagine what Heaven will be like, youll be able to tell them, I can. 50 daily devotional meditations Great for personal reflection and small group study A perfect gift for someone who has recently lost a loved oneRandy Alcorn brings eternity to light in 50 inspiring and thought-provoking meditations that will forever change the way you think about the spectacular new universe that awaits us: new heavens and a New Earth, where Jesus will be the cosmic center and joy will be the air we breathe-a universe free from pain and suffering, filled with unending beauty and adventure. From the author of the bestselling book Heaven, here are 50 daily devotional meditations that will touch your heart, capture your imagination, and fill you with hope and anticipation. ![]() Book Synopsis If youve always thought of Heaven as a realm of clouds, disembodied spirits, and eternal harp-strumming, youre in for a wonderful surprise. ![]() ![]() Yet, like ancient Troy, is it possible that this fabled city actually existed? If so, what happened to it and what are its secrets? The fascinating reality of Atlantis’s epic glory and destruction are uncovered, finally, in these pages in thrilling detail by the iconoclastic historian Gavin Menzies-father of some of “the most revolutionary ideas in the history of history” ( New York Times ). Until now, it has remained shrouded in myth. For three millennia, the legend of Atlantis has gripped the imaginations of explorers, philosophers, occultists, treasure hunters, historians, and archaeologists. New York Times bestselling historian Gavin Menzies presents newly uncovered evidence revealing, conclusively, that “the lost city of Atlantis” was not only real but also at the heart of a highly advanced global empire that reached the shores of America before being violently wiped from the earth. “MENZIES PROPOUNDING ONE OF THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY.” - New York Times Magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women. What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other? Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. ![]() One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nagoski believes that to put an end to these misguided cultural standards and the damage they cause, women must better understand the science behind their sexuality. Research examining attitudes toward female sexuality demonstrates that, as recently as the 19th century, doctors were advocating for clitoridectomies to "cure" masturbation and nymphomania.) (Shortform note: These false ideas about what’s normal with regards to women’s sexual experience stem from a long history of contempt toward female sexuality, even in the medical field. This tendency forces women to view themselves through a scope that wasn’t made for them, ultimately inflicting harm to their sexual health and well-being. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Come As You AreĪccording to sex researcher Emily Nagoski, our culture’s tendency to consider men’s sexual experience the standard perpetuates a lot of misinformation about what’s sexually normal and healthy for women. ![]() ![]() ![]() These ‘systems of power’ are constructed in terms of rigid binaries which necessitate the location of subjectivity within the boundaries of these constructed categories or ‘truths’. In a postmodernist conceptualisation, Foucault’s ‘systems of power’ can be defined as ‘grand narratives’ which produce and assert hegemonic transcendental ‘truths’ that are seemingly self-reflexive and incompatible with the notion of legitimacy of multiple opposing and alternative discourses or ‘truths’. ![]() ![]() It’s not a matter of emancipating the truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the form of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time (Foucault, 1976, p. “The problem is not changing people’s consciousness – or what’s in their heads – but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth. In “Truth and Power”, an excerpt of a translated transcription of an interview with Michel Foucault by Alesandro Fontana and Pasquale Pasquino in June 1976 – published as “Intervista a Michel Foucault” in Microfiseca del Poetere in 1977 – Foucault argues, in relation to ‘systems of power’ and their consequent transcendental ‘truths’, that: ![]() ![]() ![]() Morrigan is still very much unsure about her Knack and what she needs to learn about it as time goes on, but she quickly realises that although there are some firm friends who support her, she needs to earn the loyalty of those others in her group. After some troublesome trials in book 1 we know that many of the students were dropped without a chance of making it to the Wonderous Society, but now it is time for the ones who have made it to go to WunSoc and learn about just what they can do. This book continues where the first one leaves off. I think if you like the first you will love the second! There was so much to like in this book, and Morrigan's story felt a bit darker and the stakes were higher too. ![]() I think this one gave me all those nostalgic feelings of when I first read Harry Potter, and I couldn't help but to fall in love with the world once again and get emotionally invested in the characters. ![]() Wow, this was brilliant fun and in my opinion even better than the first in the series. ![]() |