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Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein5/10/2023 ![]() Were they evil incarnate, or merely a divine check on the population, keeping humanity from expanding past the capacity of the Ship to support? Of course, there were the muties, grotesquely deformed parodies of humans, who lurked in the upper reaches of the Ship, where gravity was weaker. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the universe, and as long as the sacred Converter was fed, the lights would continue to glow, the air would flow, and the Creator's Plan would be fulfilled. But he also understood this was just allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. ![]() ![]() Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. ![]()
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Nearly found by elle cosimano5/10/2023 ![]() Nearly's going to have to risk her future in order to discover the truth about her past in time to stop a killer before he strikes again. And Reece, her recklessly confident boyfriend, is preoccupied with a new girl as part of his informant work with the police. Then the corpse of a missing person is discovered, buried on a local golf course - and there's a message for Nearly etched into its bones.Ĭould the corpse be her father, who went missing five years ago? Or is her father a murderer?Īs a series of violent crimes with cryptic messages strike a little too close to home, her friends think she's being paranoid. She's determined to get out of Sunny View trailer park and prove to herself that she's nothing like her con man father.īut on her first day, a girl from the trailer park turns up dead and an old ally of Nearly's calls in a debt that could jeopardize her future. ![]() ![]() AFTER HELPING TO CATCH A SERIAL KILLER last spring, Nearly Boswell isn't looking for her internship in a crime lab to be anything more than an edge on her college applications. ![]()
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Fly with the Arrow by Sarah K.L. Wilson5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Choosing wrong will mean the desolation of everyone she loves, for failure in this world will mean ruination in the other. But his surprising kindness, hidden depths, and hinted plans might just persuade her to join him despite that. To make matters worse, her husband does not hide his former brides from her - or his intention that her fate will be the same as theirs. On the other hand, her new husband needs her as his pawn in a dangerous all-consuming fairyland game that might determine the fate of her nation more than a king ever could. ![]() On the one hand, her king wishes for her to become a spy for her homeland. But when a stranger arrives, kills her would-be husband and claims her as his bride instead, citing a law she’s never heard of, she is left with a tangled problem on her hands. The prospect of an arranged marriage to a much older man doesn’t worry her. Izolda is as chilly and practical as her icy homeland. ![]() This COMPLETED romantic fantasy series will grab you by the collar and pull you along into a world of magic and mystery that one reader described as “sophisticated fantasy.” He’s been stealing brides for centuries and now he’s stolen her. ![]()
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![]() Nearly a century later, Cambridge researchers seeking to “quantify children’s knowledge of nature” surveyed a cohort of four- to 11-year-old children in Britain. Farjeon was given an hour to complete the test: “60 for a Pass, 70 for Honours.” Her memory was sharp and she topped 90: “Bronwen was proud of me.” Those flower names would later blossom in Farjeon’s books for children, which are twined through with natural lore, notably her chalkland fairy fable, Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep (1937) and her Martin Pippin stories. ![]() ![]() Bronwen gathered a hundred different flowers and plants, taught Farjeon their names (“agrimony, mouse-eared-hawkweed, bird’s-foot trefoil … ”), and the next day sat her down “to a neatly ruled examination paper, with the numbered specimens laid out in precise order on the table”. “My ignorance,” Farjeon recalled later, “horrified her.” On their first walk together, Thomas’s 11-year-old daughter Bronwen realised that the city-dwelling Farjeon knew few of the names of the wild flowers that flourished in the surrounding landscape. I n August 1913 the children’s writer Eleanor Farjeon visited the poet Edward Thomas and his family at their home near the South Downs. ![]()
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![]() Released posthumously: Henry V, The Merchant of Venice Released 1941: Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Richard The Second, and Twelfth Night.Īlso released between 19: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing Released 1940: Henry IV, part 1, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet Released 1939: As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and The Tempest. The original series included the following volumes: The original series included an introduction to each play, text of the play, copious literary notes following the text, textual notes, and a glossary. Kittredge, who had taught Harvard undergraduates an introductory course on Shakespeare called English 2, had written very little on the subject, other than an address in 1916 at the Sanders Theater, before publishing his Complete Works in 1936 (see below) and the individual play series, starting in 1939. ![]() ![]() The original series included text and analysis of sixteen of Shakespeare's Plays. ![]() George Kittredge born in 1860, was nearly 80 years old when the first volumes of Kittredge Shakespeare were published in 1939. The first page in a 1946 edition of Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare Original series ![]()
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V for vendetta book 15/10/2023 ![]() ![]() He calls himself V and he has a vendetta against the monsters that stole everything he held dear, enslaved his people and destroyed his beloved homeland. ![]() He has no name and no one knows his face. Millions of people were slaughtered without mercy, but a single man managed to escape from the hellish death sentence of the camps. Anyone that doesn’t belong to the master race or refuses to fall in line with the extreme rules are viewed as undesirables and are sent to concentration camps where their existence is completely erased from society. On top of the society having Orwellian characteristics, it also has the teachings, punishment and disciplinary methods shared by Adolf Hitler’s Reich and Joseph Stalin’s rule over the Soviet Union. ![]() The United Kingdom was overthrown by a Nordic supremacist who turned the country into an Orwellian police state where art, music, literature, free speech and every other basic right that people take for granted has been outlawed. V for Vendetta takes place in a nightmarish version of London in the year 2032 after the world has been torn apart by a prolonged civil war and a mysterious virus that ravaged the population of America and Europe. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Though at times self-aggrandizing, Malcolm X tells of his extraordinary transformation from a boy whose father was murdered by white supremacists to a young scam artist and drug dealer in Harlem, New York to a self-taught scholar in prison to a prominent leader in and minister for the Nation of Islam and then finally, to a man transformed by his trip to Africa and to Mecca and marked as a threat by the Nation of Islam leaders. The Autobiography is told through the first-person voice of Malcolm X with added content and narrative provided by Alex Haley. Written by Alex Haley, who had conducted extensive audiotaped interviews with Malcolm X just before his assassination in 1965, the book gained renown as a classic work on black American experience. Biography of the American black religious leader and activist who was born Malcolm Little, published in 1965. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Markandaya received great admiration and acclaim for Nectar in a Sieve. Rukmani’s life is a moving battle of survival and protection of her loved ones. Throughout the novel, Rukmani endures seemingly endless setbacks and she believes that poverty will never cease to exist. ![]() She works as a laborer on the field in the face of droughts, famine, and urban development. It tells the story of Rukmani, an Indian peasant woman who underwent an arranged marriage as a child to a tenant farmer. One of Markandaya’s most acclaimed novels is entitled Nectar in a Sieve (1954). She is known primarily for her pieces that explore the clashing values of Eastern and Western societies. She attended Madras University, a prestigious school in India, and later moved to Britain. Kamala Markandaya is an Indian novelist born in 1924 in Mysore, India. Written by Chiara Pathiraja and other people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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Be my love kit pearson5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The DRA3 combines three decades of teacher input with the latest research to validate the premier reading assessment of individual student reading behaviors in the classroom. Training dates are scheduled 4-6 weeks from order placement.ĭRA3 Benchmarking, Progress Monitoring, and Word Analysis Essentials in Person 6 Hours A103000150990 A training consultant will contact you to coordinate your training. Training orders will be processed within 5-7 business days of order placement. Price includes up to 30 people per session. Participants will learn how to use the DRA3 either the paper-scoring or digital platform to organize student information and data, launch assessments for scoring, and generate reports. This session also covers the efficient and appropriate use of Word Analysis and Progress Monitoring with the DRA3 Benchmark Assessment to observe struggling and emerging readers. Participants will be introduced to the DRA3 platform and kit components and learn how to consistently benchmark students, complete the new streamlined continuum on the Teacher Observation Guide, and use the new Level Estimator. This 6-hour session will emphasize the strong connection between the DRA3 and reading achievement. ![]() DRA3 Benchmarking, Progress Monitoring, and Word Analysis Essentials Live Webinar 6 Hours A103000072431 ![]()
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Two can keep a secret series order5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Which is why in Echo Ridge, it's safest to keep your secrets to yourself. The thing is, secrets are dangerous-and most people aren't good at keeping them. The book features Ellery, one who is obsessed with true crime stories, and who intends to investigate one of the cold cases as soon as she can. Which is why in Echo Ridge, its safest to keep your secrets to yourself. And the longer she's in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. The thing is, secrets are dangerousand most people arent good at keeping them. Her mother has them her grandmother does too. ![]() Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.Įllery knows all about secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. The 'must-read YA thriller' (Bustle) from 1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying about a small town with deadly secrets. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. McManus is in a league of her own." - Entertainment WeeklyĮcho Ridge is small-town America. The "must-read YA thriller" ( Bustle) from #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying about a small town with deadly secrets. ![]() |