Magic strikes5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Chances were, they might have caught a whiff of our scent, but would suspect nothing when it turned right, away from their route. The Reapers always headed north in a straight line. We veered south and circled Downtown, aiming for the south end of Unicorn. ![]() Having spent a considerable amount of time in Jim's company before, I was able to distill the gist of his displeasure from his filthy tirade: if he had known the tech was going to hit, he would've brought a gas-guzzling vehicle instead of two pieces of meat with skinny legs and a hysterical disposition. "That horse deserves a medal for not throwing you."Ī torrent of obscenities washed over me. Jim rode as if he were wrapped in barbed wire: stiff, shoulders rigid, keeping as straight and immobile as he could. We left the Arena without any incidents, mounted, and headed back to Downtown. ![]() I covered him with a blanket and we were off. His body shuddered and assumed the shape of Thomas Durand. WE DELIVERED THE GIANT TO DURAND'S ROOMS under the pretext of Durand wanting to meet him. ![]()
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![]() Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into the functioning of the brain and presents new discoveries from his own research as well: about the nature of synesthesia, about dreaming, and about wearable devices that are revolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. With his hallmark clarity and enthusiasm he reveals the myriad ways that the brain absorbs experience: developing, redeploying, organizing, and arranging the data it receives from the body's own absorption of external stimuli, which enables us to gain the skills, the facilities, and the practices that make us who we are. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new discoveries from Eagleman’s own laboratory, from synaesthesia to dreaming to wearable neurotech devices that revolutionise how we think about the senses. And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric. ![]() Summary: "The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric living fabric. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain Paperback 1 July 2021 by David Eagleman (Author) 1,244 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £6.64 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £12.99 3 Used from £5.50 7 New from £7. ![]() Animals from the mitten story5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Give each child a bag, and give them a few minutes to explore what is inside. Next, place the cards in a small plastic bag and add a small mitten to each bag. To prepare for the activity, cut out the animal cards that you need from your story. You can also make the story up a bit by including whatever animals you think the children would be interested in. There are many versions of the book, so select animals that fit the book you select. I have included a free printable of a bunch of different animals that you can use for your mitten activity. Reading “The Mitten” aloud and then following up with this activity was great for story retelling. I have two ways that I have introduced the story to my students over the years. I wanted to try something new with the story this year and not only read the story to the children, but also do a follow up hands-on activity with them. The old Ukrainian folk tale, “The Mitten” has many different versions, but it is basically about a bunch of animals who find shelter in a lost mitten.Īs a teacher and mom, I have read this story countless times over the years and children always love it and are engaged as they listen. There are so many wonderful books and stories that I love to bring out and read every winter. ![]() The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() To add some, click on the edit button! RepresentationĪn asterisk (*) indicates that the author openly identifies with that identity. Throughout: Jeremy generally reflects on English society’s inability to take him seriously or treat him with any real respect and on his family’s efforts to have him deny his Chinese heritage. Courtney Milan, a pseudonym for Heidi Bond, is a bestselling American author of historical.Fong notes that white people assume all Chinese people know each other.Ĭhapter 13 - Jeremy relates how he was not awarded his earned first in classics at Oxford because the faculty assumed that, being half-Chinese, he couldn’t possibly have done so well without cheating.Ĭhapter 14 - The innkeeper Dover initially attempts to deny Jeremy and Chloe service due, in large part, to their race.Ĭhapter 19 - Aunt Grace attempts to pressure Jeremy not to marry Chloe and to do everything possible to hide/subsume/bury his Chinese-ness so that he can attempt to assimilate with English society. Chapter 3 - Jeremy recalls people whispering about his features and asking whether his blood is red or yellow.Ĭhapter 8, Chapter 17 - Mr. ![]() The last full measure by jeff shaara5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() In short, it is everything that a reader could ask for."- Chicago Tribune "Masterful. ![]() The book is compelling, easy to read, well researched and written, and thought-provoking. It is rooted in history, but its strength is the element of humanity flowing through its characters. brilliantly depicted."- Chicago Tribune " The Last Full Measure is more than another historical novel. These characters come alive as complex, heroic, and flawed men."-Baltimore Sun " writes with considerable sensitivity and skill, setting vivid scenes and adding drama and suspense to a familiar tale."- The Seattle Times "Exhaustively researched, infused with a profound understanding of the great issues of a nation and the small quirks of the human heart."- Newsday, "Riveting. ![]() ![]() ![]() The world the world norman lewis5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Norman, of course, had his own agenda, though the outward mission of this unlikely pair was to locate the tomb of the last Spanish Corvaja in the Cathedral of Seville. He was acting as both friend and fellow-adventurer to his young brother-in-law, Eugene Corvaja, but also as minder, charged by his Sicilian father-in-law with keeping an eye on his son, who he knew to be a compassionate idealist easily attracted to left-wing causes. In 1934 he travelled across the breadth of Spain into Morocco. For the extraordinary set of misadventures recounted in The Tomb of Seville were first described in Norman Lewis's apprentice-work, Spanish Adventure, which he rightly refused to have re-issued in later life. It is satisfying, and entirely in keeping with the mischievous character of Norman Lewis, that his very last book, The Tomb in Seville, is also his first. ![]() Moses by carole boston weatherford5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Carole Boston Weatherford has authored more than a dozen children's books, including Jazz Baby, Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins, and A Negro League Scrapbook. Kadir Nelson's emotionally charged paintings embody strength, healing, and hope. This is a unique and moving portrait of one of the most inspiring figures of the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman's bravery and relentless pursuit of freedom are a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Tubman, courageous and compassionate, and deeply religious, would take nineteen subsequent trips back South, never being caught, but none as profound as this first. In lyrical text, Carole Boston Weatherford describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her North to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Taking with her only her faith, she must creep through woods with hounds at her heels, sleep for days in a potato hole, and trust people who could have easily turned her in. "I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free."īorn into slavery, Harriet Tubman hears these words from God one summer night and decides to leave her husband and family behind and escape. List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover - African American History / Leader / Spiritual / Bravery - 2006) Carole Boston Weatherford (A) and Kadir Nelson (ILT) ![]() The boyfriend project book5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() What are the chances? But is Daniel really boyfriend material or is he maybe just a little too good to be true? "A smart, funny digital-age romance about real women living in the real world. Which is the exact moment she meets the deliciously sexy Daniel Collins at work. The Boyfriend Project Paperback Import, 9 June 2020 by Farrah Rochon (Author) Visit Amazons Farrah Rochon Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. No men and no dating. For once Samiah is putting herself first, and that includes finally developing the app she's always dreamed of creating. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. ![]() Suddenly Samiah - along with his two other "girlfriends," London and Taylor - have gone viral online. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. ![]() A smart and delightful romantic comedy featuring fabulous female friendships and "a great love story." -Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of Party of Two Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. ![]() Pitch dark courtney alameda5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() But some of the death gods aren’t everything they initially seemed, nor as loyal to Kira’s cause as they first appeared. ![]() Unable to face the Shuten-doji and his minions on her own, Kira enlists the aid of seven ruthless shinigami-or death gods-to help stop the brutal destruction of humankind. one the yokai and their demon lord, Shuten-doji, will use to bring down an everlasting darkness upon the world. With the help of Shiro-the shrine’s gorgeous half-fox, half-boy kitsune-Kira discovers that her shrine harbors an ancient artifact of great power. Bullied by her peers and ignored by her parents, the only place Kira’s ever felt at home is at her grandfather’s Shinto shrine, where she trains to be a priestess.īut Kira’s life is shattered on the night her family’s shrine is attacked by a vicious band of yokai demons. Kira Fujikawa has always been a girl on the fringe. ![]() Stars Come Out Within by Jean Little5/21/2023 ![]() ‘As a child,’ she said, ‘I always went around with a black smudge on my nose from the ink, from holding the book so close.’ She never forgot that in the books she loved to read, ‘There were cross-eyed clowns, and once in a while cross-eyed villains, but never ever was there a heroine with strabismus. When she was seven, Little’s family moved to Canada, to the small town of Guelph, where she lived for the rest of her long life. Little had been born blind in Taiwan, in 1932. ![]() I found Brian, who began to feel his own hand, ‘checking to see if it felt like Drem’s.’ I found the teacher who wrote of the class, ‘My kids had far more in common with him than they did with Mary Poppins.’ I found six year old Paddy, who sat up straight, eyes wide after hearing Sutcliff’s description of Drem’s arm read aloud. The book is set in the Bronze Age, and follows a boy named Drem, who only has the use of one arm. (Sutcliff was a pioneer, and her disabled characters are alas too numerous to list here). I found a teacher reading Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1958 novel, Warrior Scarlet. ![]() I found a classroom in the early 1960s, in the Rotary Crippled Children’s centre in Toronto. ![]() |