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Smoos and the smeds5/30/2023 ![]() ★★★★ “A magical blend of catchy songs, adept storytelling and audience participation that youngsters lap up. ★★★★ “Their enthusiasm is infectious… tremendous fun.” East Midlands Theatre The Smeds and The Smoos is the tenth in a series of screen adaptations based on books by iconic children’s publishing duo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. ![]() ★★★★ “Catchy songs, good gags and interactive action.” The Scotsman ★★★★★ “Enchanting and incredibly engaging…a beautiful adaptation.” ★★★★★ “Magnificent… a tour-de-force family show.” One4Review Music, laughs and interplanetary adventures for everyone aged 3 and up, from Tall Stories – the company that brought you The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom live on stage. So when a young Smed and Smoo fall in love and zoom off into space together, how will their families get them back? On a far-off planet, Smeds and Smoos can’t be friends. Soar into space with this exciting adaptation of the award-winning book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. ![]()
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Honor book by thrity umrigar5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Smita is thrown into a whirlwind of emotion as she attempts to navigate not only Meena’s heartbreaking story and the inherent issues they illuminate for her homeland but also Smita’s own deep-seated traumas that lay hidden in that same land. When Smita arrives though, it quickly becomes clear that her coworker called Smita to India for a very different purpose: to take over coverage of Meena’s story. At first, Smita thinks her friend and coworker simply needs some help recovering from an emergency surgery, and Smita, though hesitant to return to the place of her birth, pushes her apprehension aside for her friend. ![]() An American journalist who was born in India and hasn’t returned since she left at fourteen, Smita is suddenly summoned to the country by her coworker who is stationed in India. Backed by a lawyer fighting to change the corrupt legal system in India, Meena presses charges against her two brothers-the men who burned her husband to protect their honor and hers. The woman, Meena, and her unborn child, though, survive the burning. A marriage between a Hindu and Muslim is nothing but dishonorable in their small Indian village. ![]() Honor begins with a newspaper clipping: a woman and her husband have been burned alive for their interfaith marriage. ![]()
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Drawdown the most comprehensive5/30/2023 ![]() These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being?giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an ![]() If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth?s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. ![]() One hundred techniques and practices are described here?some are well known some you may have never heard of. In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. ![]()
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O pioneer book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The scenery plays a major part in the novel, the lyrical episodes about the pastoral land are sprawling and majestic. The story tells of hard work, wide eyed innocence towards the future and opportunities abound as seen through the eyes of the immigrant class. The writing is outstanding and it has all the makings of the great American novel. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather is considered a classic and I can certainly understand why. I believe it was on some “top 100” list (who said they’re lame?) and figured I’ll give it a try. I’ve only been recently introduced to the writing of Willa Cather. The novel has many themes including isolation, love and feminism.īuy this book in paper or FREE in electronic format O Pioneers!By Willa Cather was written in 1913 and is considered the first novel of the Great Plains trilogy. DecemArticle first published as Book Review: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather on Blogcritics. ![]()
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London Under London by Richard Trench5/30/2023 ![]() The authors trace the routes taken by man and nature, and enable us to follow them from the comfort of our armchairs. Drawing extensively from the literature and visual archives of the underworld, London under London traces the history of the tunnellers and borers who have pierced the ground beneath the city for close on two thousand years. Layer upon layer, they run their urgent errands, carrying people, delivering water, removing sewage, passing currents, sending messages, conveying parcels. ![]() ![]() These lifelines of the metropolis twist and turn hidden beneath the pavements of the city - fifteen hundred miles of Neo-Gothic sewers, a hundred miles of Neolithic rivers, eighty-two miles of tube tunnels, twelve miles of government tunnels and hundreds of thousands of miles of cables and pipes. Beneath the familiar surface lies an unknown city, a Hades of buried and forgotten rivers, sunken sewers, underground railways, pipes and passages, tubes and tunnels, crypts and cellars. ![]() The London we know and see is only the tip of the iceberg. Clearly, metropolitan man is burrowing as actively as ever. A new section covers: the pioneering deep level water main 80 kilometres in length, much longer even than the Channel Tunnel new power tunnels and the enormous substation beneath Leicester Square new underground railways glass fibre communication and much more. ![]() One of the most popular books on London (it has reprinted six times since it was first published in 1984) London under London has now been updated to take into account the latest subterranean developments. ![]()
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Frat wars king of thieves read online5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() As things start heating up between them they figure out they are in rival frats and stop everything. ![]() A relationship with Chad would be betraying the very legacy that brought me here.īut I can’t help myself. Our houses have always had a rivalry, but some of the guys seem to hate Chad specifically, and I don’t know why. It’s a lot of pressure, but I’ve always been responsible, never had that rebellious need to rock the boat - and I like it that way.īut after a party at Sigma - the jock frat - I meet Chad Doomsen, and for the first time in my life, I want to step outside my square. I don’t know where he came from or why I’m so obsessed.Īnd our houses have a rivalry that’s written into legend. Parties, pranks, and frat politics - college life has never been sweeter. ![]() I get all the benefits of being in charge with hardly any of the responsibility. And without all the dying.īeing VP of Sigma Beta Psi is wild. ![]()
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Tobias wolff the night in question5/30/2023 ![]() Although most of them do not hope for much, many still have troubles separating their fantasies from reality. Despite their dishonesty and drug use, most of his characters fall within the range of a very shaky middle-class respectability or what passes for it in contemporary America. No overriding theme, message, or agenda seems to unite Wolff’s work-only his interest in people, their quirks, their unpredictability, their strivings and failings, and their predicaments as human beings. The influences on his work-his friend Raymond Carver and earlier masters such as Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Flannery O’Connor-indicate the company Wolff intends to keep. For the reader, the result is full of surprises, insights, humor, and other line-by-line rewards, particularly in character portrayal and style. He has said, in interviews, that he needs time to get to know his characters but that the finished story no longer holds any surprises for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Working slowly, sometimes taking months and countless drafts, he polishes each story into an entertaining, gemlike work that reads with deceptive ease. ![]() Tobias Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an outstanding contemporary craftsman of the American short story. ![]()
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Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The fourth and final book in the Hannibal series, Hannibal Rising was first published in 2006. A brutal tale filled with violence and beauty, Hannibal Rising is a story of innocence lost and how insufferable tragedy begets depraved monsters. Traumatized and orphaned, Lecter finds care in the home of his uncle and aunt, but vengeance consumes his thoughts. In the aftermath, Hannibal witnesses an unspeakable act of cruelty that will haunt him forever. ![]() But when their loving home is bombed by the Germans in 1945, killing their parents, Hannibal and Mischa are left to fend for themselves. Hannibal Rising introduces us to eight-year-old Hannibal Lecter, wide-eyed and innocent a brother to his younger sister Mischa, and a devoted son to his Lithuanian count father and Italian aristocrat mother. Twenty-five years after Hannibal Lecter first invaded the imaginations of countless readers worldwide in Red Dragon, author Thomas Harris crafted Hannibal Rising, the origin story of his iconic cannibalistic serial killer. ![]()
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Night soldiers books in order5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Read More: Inside the Race to Arm UkraineĬurrently, there are about 2,500 troops-members of the National Guard on active-duty orders-deployed along the 2,000-mile-long southwest border supporting CBP’s efforts. The DHS then formally asked for the Pentagon’s support, which Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved on Tuesday. President Joe Biden signed an executive order April 27 to call-up active-duty troops to combat international drug trafficking, officials said. ![]() We need transportation resources-all of the elements of addressing the needs of a large population of people arriving irregularly at our southern border.”Ĭustoms and Border Patrol (CBP) Commissioner Troy Miller told Congress last month his agency is preparing for about 10,000 migrant crossings every day once Title 42 ends. Mayorkas emphasized the immigration system was stretched thin on resources and made a public case for federal relief.“I just want to be clear that we are working within significant constraints,” he said Sunday on “Meet the Press.” “We need people. ![]()
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The celtic world jennifer paxton5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() And yet the consolations of thy mercy have sustained me from the very beginning, as I have heard from my fleshly parents, from whom and in whom thou didst form me in time–for I cannot myself remember. Or should I call it death-in-life? I do not know. For what do I wish to say, O Lord my God, but that I know not whence I came hither into this life-in-death. Yet perhaps even thou mightest scorn me but when thou dost turn and attend to me, thou wilt have mercy upon me. Allow me to speak, for, behold, it is to thy mercy that I speak and not to a man who scorns me. Still, dust and ashes as I am, allow me to speak before thy mercy. Confessions – Augustine of Hippo (Albert Outler tr.).The Triumph of Christianity – Bart Ehrman. ![]() ![]() Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction – Robert C.The New Testament – Bart Ehrman (The Great Courses).The Celtic World – Jennifer Paxton (The Great Courses).And I’ll include short comments or excerpts to some titles. My favorite titles of the year are bolded (not all bolded titles equally favorite). And they’re roughly listed in the order I read them. This is basically the list of everything I read/listened to in 2020. ![]() |