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The Captive Heart by Michelle Griep5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Review Quotes The Captive Heart is filled with heart-tripping action and romantic tension between a half-Cherokee frontiersman and a proper English governess. ![]() Who wants to wed a murderer? Both Samuel and Eleanor are survivors, facing down the threat of war, betrayal, and divided loyalties that could cost them everything, but this time they must face their biggest challenge ever. He decides its time to marry again, but that proves to be an impossible task. ![]() The life of a trapper in the Carolina backcountry is no life for a small girl, but neither is abandoning his child to another family. Backwoodsman Samuel Heath doesnt care what others think of him-but his young daughters upbringing matters very much. But freedom is hard to come by as an indentured servant, and downright impossible when shes forced to agree to an even harsher contract-marriage to a man shes never met. Book Synopsis The wild American wilderness is no place for an elegant English governess On the run from a brute of an aristocratic employer, Eleanor Morgan escapes from England to America, the land of the free, for the opportunity to serve an upstanding Charles Town family. ![]() About the Book Eleanor Morgans new life in the British colonies is anything but a fresh start when the only option she finds on the shores of the new world is marriage to a man shes never met. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I still play golf and keep busy with bridge, etc.”Ībout Cornell, Joan writes, “I remember Junior Week dances in the Armory with big name bands at either end of the building. He is a professor at the University of California, Chico. ![]() “When Pat died, I moved to an active adult community in Chico, CA, where my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter live. I remember Junior Week dances in the Armory with big name bands at either end of the building. During those years we took many cruises, as well as golfing and fishing trips. In 1988 he retired, and we spent 21 years in Sonoma until he died in 2009. “We later moved to Foster City and Pat opened his architectural office in San Mateo. ![]() Another roommate, Rosemary Williamson Colgate, and her husband, Stirling ’48, PhD ’52, lived in Livermore, also close. “My Alpha Phi roommate, June Johnson Reynolds, and her husband, Hugh, lived in Sunnyvale, not too far away. We then returned to the West Coast and lived for 18 years in Sacramento, where our daughter Gail and son Tom were born. “After being married, we spent a year in Seattle and returned to Ithaca, as Pat needed one more term to get his degree. We received a wonderful letter from Joan Dall Patton, who fondly reflected on her life with husband Ed “Pat” Patton, BArch ’49. ![]()
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Mythology by Alex Ross5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Kirby, he has an innate belief in the iconic power of superheroes that gives them a dimension far beyond the usual four-colored adventures. Like Rockwell, Ross uses photographs to set up lighting and staging-a process documented in a section at the end of the book-and like Rockwell, he favors otherworldly lighting effects that somehow serve to make his figures more realistic. ![]() The son of a preacher and an illustrator, Ross was always captivated by superheroes, but it wasn't until he discovered the use of live models in art school that he was able to realize his visions of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest. This lavish coffee- table tribute puts him into a pantheon as exalted as the superbeings he depicts. With art that looks like a hybrid of Norman Rockwell and Jack Kirby, artist Ross has become the preeminent painter of superheroes of his generation. ![]()
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Mitch and amy beverly cleary5/22/2023 ![]() For example, the kids are in awe at having a television set in class as an audio-visual aid, and Amy is surprised to learn that Bernadette's mother goes to college instead of being a homemaker (and leaves the homemaker chores to her daughter). The '60s: The book was published in 1967, and while its themes in regard to bullying and sibling rivalry are timeless, there are, naturally, nods to the time period in which the book is set.As they start a new school year, with bullies and schoolwork awaiting, they try to figure out how to survive each other while each handling their obstacles. The titular twins are polar opposites Mitch hates reading but loves math, while Amy hates math and loves to read and act out stories. ![]() Mitch and Amy is a children's novel by Beverly Cleary. ![]()
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![]() All other shifters fear him, even the cockiest of the wolves. Then I heard he was a were-bear virgin hero. ![]() When I heard from the author that this book had a virgin hero, I got excited. Note: Jessica Sims's Midnight Liaisons series includes the following installments as of July 2016. “I’d snap every neck in this room to bring a smile to your face.” “That is the sweetest, most bloodthirsty thing anyone’s said to me.” If you enjoy suspenseful and sexy shifter-based romances, then check it out! The shifter-world story was OK but the romance element was what kept me engaged. A damaged heroine who finds her strength. ![]() It's the second in a series and while I do feel that I missed a few things by not reading the first one, it worked out fine for me in terms of the romance.ĥ. Desperately Seeking Shapeshifter hit the spot for sure. It's been a long while since I read anything paranormal and I was in an epic mood for a good, steamy romance so I decided to find a worthy combination. ![]()
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Escaping Destiny by Amelia Hutchins5/22/2023 ![]() "Take the path for which you seek, but keep in mind, not all will take you to what you need. Holy shit, this book was perfect! Seriously, it couldn't be more perfect, if you asked me. Which path would you prefer to take? Death, or life, the choice is yours, but keep in mind, even immortals can make mistakes." ![]() "To find the goal, you must concentrate, for within these walls there is one at stake. ![]() If you’re following the Fae Chronicles, Elite Guards, and Monsters series, the reading order is as follows. Whispers of Fate (Intro to Kahleena’s book) If you’d like to check out more of her work, or just hang out in an amazing tribe of people who enjoy rough men, and sharp women, join her at Author Amelia Hutchins Group on Facebook.īooks by Amelia Hutchins along with reading order for series Sometimes a story isn’t about the romance it’s about rising to a challenge, breaking through them like wrecking balls, and shaking up entire worlds to discover who they really are. ![]() She writes fast-paced books that go hard against traditional standards. She writes alpha-hole males and the alpha women who knock them on their arse, hard. She is an admitted coffee addict who drinks magical potions of caffeine and turns them into magical worlds. Amelia Hutchins is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of the Monsters, The Fae Chronicles, and Nine Realm series. ![]()
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The Fires of Spring by Shelly Culbertson5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() News and World Report, the Georgetown Journal for International Affairs Online, and other outlets. Her commentaries about the ongoing Middle East refugee crisis have appeared in Newsweek, CNN.com, U.S. State Department on the Turkey Desk, and at LMI Government Consulting, conducting analysis about international trade. She coordinated RAND’s projects to design programs for the Qatar National Research Fund, which has supported over $620 million in research grants this work also included developing research priorities and research strategies for Qatar. ![]() ![]() Shelly co-led a multi-year effort to advise the Ministry of Education of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq on improving its K-12 and vocational education systems. She has conducted four studies about the Middle East refugee crisis, related to refugee education, job opportunities for refugees, and the management model for provision of public services for refugees. Her research focus includes international development, education, workforce development, innovation policy, and the Middle East. ![]() She is the author of “The Fires of Spring” about the current social, political, economic, and cultural effects of the Arab Spring movement. State Department and currently a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. ![]()
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Grace lin the year of the dog5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes one of the possible readings (please choose): Students see how Grace gets red corrections marks, just like on their homework! Afterwards, Grace reads from one of her books, answers questions and ends the presentation with a ‘draw-along’. ![]() How a book is made is an interactive presentation showing the many steps of book publication from sketch to finish. Student preparation: an author study is recommended. Grace gives an informational primer on the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and does and interactive book reading of “A Big Mooncake For Little Star,” complete with a prop of the Big Moon! Can include a rabbit draw-along if desired (add 10 minutes to presentation time).Įach student will need paper (if possible, please print this template for each student), pencil/crayon and something to draw on (clipboard, notebook) Student preparation: an author study is recommended Grace provides a drawing for each class in attendance! Student preparation: an author study is recommended please do NOT read “The Ugly Vegetables.”Ī reading of “The Ugly Vegetables” and a drawing demonstration. Grace offers these in-person programs: “The Ugly Vegetables” Book Reading Request a visit to schedule your in-person school visit with Grace. Please consider scheduling a virtual visit if you have a shorter timetable. ![]() Grace is now starting to schedule in-person school visits! Because of her full calendar, her in-person visits tend to be scheduled far in advance. ![]()
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Dark Secrets 1 by Elizabeth Chandler5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Before I could, however, the Wisteria police called. Growing uneasy, I decided to tell Mom about the phone message. Early the next morning I tried again to reach her. ![]() ![]() Though I figured this was one more overblown event, I stayed up till two a.m., calling her cell phone repeatedly. Thanks to her talent for melodrama, my sister could turn a small misunderstanding in a school cafeteria into tragic opera. Liza was a year ahead of me, but in many ways I was the big sister, always getting her out of her messes-and she got in quite a few. I called her immediately, if somewhat reluctantly. I RETRIEVED MY sister’s message about eleven o’clock that night when I arrived home at our family’s New York apartment. Okay, listen, I have to get back to rehearsal. Why haven’t you come? I wish you’d pick up the phone. Jenny, where are you? You promised you’d visit me. Did you get my e-mail? I don’t know what to do. Jenny? Jenny, are you there? Please pick up the phone, Jen. ![]()
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I lost my heart at wounded knee5/22/2023 ![]() 'We need protection.'īut the Ghost Dancers’ hopes were met with fear from white settlers, who worried the rituals would incite violence against them. Lakota believers wore special shirts thought to repel bullets, while some experienced a hypnotic state brought on by the repetitive songs and shuffling, circular mass dances shared by followers. The movement’s adherents thought that songs and ceremonies could hasten the coming disaster, bring back their dead, and ensure the restoration of their lands. boarding schools for Native American children.) ( Reckoning with a century of trauma at U.S. ![]() By 1889, they had been split into five separate reservations in North and South Dakota. Over the course of a few decades they had lost over 58 million acres of their land, and were forced to share what was left among multiple tribes and bands. The movement quickly took on special significance for the Lakota people of North and South Dakota. It was based on a series of teachings by Paiute medicine men, who prophesied that an upcoming upheaval would lead to the eradication of white men from the Earth and the resurgence of Native Americans. The Ghost Dance movement swept through Native American tribes in the American West beginning in the 1870s. The massacre at Wounded Knee was a reaction to a religious movement that gave fleeting hope to Plains Indians whose lives had been upended by white settlement. ![]() |