7/7/2023 0 Comments Sylvie and bruno concluded![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having given directions to have my luggage taken to my old lodgings, I strolled off alone, to pay a visit, before settling down in my own quarters, to my dear old friends-for such I indeed felt them to be, though it was barely half a year since first we met-the Earl and his widowed daughter. “And yet, if I were to find him here,” I muttered, as in solitary state I followed the porter, who was wheeling my luggage on a barrow, “and if he were to ’strike a sudden hand in mine, And ask a thousand things of home,’ I should not-no, ’I should not feel it to be strange’!” It was sad to return to the place, and to feel that I should never again see the glad smile of welcome, that had awaited me here so few months ago. The year-what an eventful year it had been for me,- was drawing to a close, and the brief wintry day hardly gave light enough to recognize the old familiar objects bound up with so many happy memories, as the train glided round the last bend into the station, and the hoarse cry of “Elveston! Elveston!” resounded along the platform. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]()
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7/7/2023 0 Comments Mercury Ice by Michael Morrow![]() Many of these patches corresponded to the location of large impact craters mapped by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in the 1970s. ![]() The idea received a boost in 1991, when the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico detected unusually radar-bright patches at Mercury's poles, spots that reflected radio waves in the way one would expect if there were water ice. Scientists suggested decades ago that water ice might be trapped in those shadowed areas at Mercury's poles. But the tilt of Mercury's rotational axis is almost zero - less than one degree - so there are pockets at the planet's poles that never see sunlight. Given its proximity to the Sun, Mercury would seem to be an unlikely place to find ice. ![]() (The mapping of shadows is still incomplete near the pole.) Yellow shows the locations of bright polar deposits imaged by Earth-based radar. ![]() Red denotes areas that are in shadow in all images acquired by MESSENGER to date. ![]() ![]() School Library Journal (starred review) Product Details This really is an enjoyable beginner’s look at these miniscule organisms and the effect they can have on everything from our bodies to the soil to the clouds in the sky. Very little information is available for this age group about these microscopic creatures, making this an especially welcome introduction. ![]() A handsome and rewarding picture book about the power of “tiny creatures.” Sutton’s large-scale illustrations help children to visualize microorganisms and processes that are too small to see. By the end of the book, Davies and Sutton have beautifully made the case that microbes are “the invisible transformers of our world - the tiniest lives doing some of the biggest jobs.” Both Davies’s tone and the charming retro-ish watercolor illustrations by Sutton seem likely to please young children by balancing repetition and flights of fancy. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The atlas six book cover![]() Here, each must study and innovate within esoteric subject areas. Finally there’s Tristan Caine, whose powers mystify even himself.įollowing recruitment by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they travel to the Society’s London headquarters. And Callum Nova is an empath, who can manipulate the desires of others. Reina Mori is a naturalist who can perceive and understand the flow of life itself. ![]() Parisa Kamali is a telepath, who sees the mind’s deepest secrets. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited – to fill five places.Ĭontenders Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds. Their members enjoy a lifetime of power and prestige. ![]() Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. When the world’s best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. The book includes gorgeous new illustrations. ![]() If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you’ll love this. The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok sensation – the must-read fantasy novel of the year. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Tolkien christmas![]() Among these is his delightful, whimsical collection of Letters from Father Christmas.īeginning in 1920 with a letter to his first child, John, and concluding in 1943 with a final, poignant letter to his youngest daughter, Priscilla, Tolkien’s letters became a part of his children’s Christmases. Epic in the breadth of its world building, epic also in the span of its action and, finally, epic in the scope of its moral vision, Tolkien’s work has enchanted the world – to use his own language – for decades.Īs a result of his fame and the interest in his works, a number of treasures that would otherwise have gone unnoticed have been unearthed and published. JRR Tolkien exists in the minds of many as the creator the 20th century’s great epic, The Lord of the Rings. Ruadhán Jones explores a little-known Christmas treasure by JRR Tolkien ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Night soldiers series in order![]() ![]() ![]() Influenced byĮspionage writers Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, the social novelist Anthony Powell, and perhaps by films such as Casablanca (1942) and the noirish, The Third Man (1947), Furst set out to create his own niche in the espionage literary domain and published the first of thirteen historical As a result, readers can be confident that the streets, restaurants and nightclubs are accurately depicted and that they are not likely toįind anachronisms any book or film that a character or the narrator cites could have been read or seen at the time of the novel’s setting. He purchased old books and maps to ensure greater Wife relocated to Paris – the setting, at least in part, for almost all his subsequent novels. ![]() To gain a greater grasp for the historical and geographical milieus, he and his He decided that he would never again write a novel set in contemporary times, but that the threat posed byĮvery expression of fascism between 19 would be his subject. As he noted later, he saw fear in theĮyes of the people he met, and it shocked him. In 1984, Alan Furst, a journalist and author of four novels, travelled to the Soviet Union and it changed his life. ![]() ![]() I read Stoddard’s version, and via that gateway discovered what all the fuss was about. Stoddard did a supreme service to all of us by simply adapting the work into accessible modern English. The fact is, one of the all-time great masterworks of sustained horror and imaginative vision, was, unfortunately, self-hampered by its author with his choice of writing it in a clunky, pseudo-archaic language. If you’re thinking of maybe reading Stoddard’s version, I must tell you this:ĭO IT. ![]() In 2010, James Stoddard (a fantastic fantasy author in his own right) wrote a “translation” into a more modern, readable vernacular. ![]() If you’ve at any point heard some rumors, some whispers, some strange buzz about this book by William Hope Hodgson called The Night Land… maybe you’ve heard it is one of the greatest works of horror or dystopian dark fantasy…but you’ve also heard that it’s practically unreadable because of Hodgson’s choice to write it in a very weird prose style…”Penned in 1912, The Night Land is considered by many to be a work of genius, but one written in a difficult, archaic style that readers often find impenetrable.” ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments A man called ove kindle![]() ![]() ![]() The book is all about love,loss and finding love when you are ready to give up. I picked this one only after reading rave reviews and the claims of being a best seller. And it wasn’t as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. “One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else’s future. Ove happens to have a big heart filled with grief and after years, he lets people fill in the emptiness and thus the story ends. ![]() ![]() He begins to reflect the life that he lived with his wife. But, the core of the book is a heartwarming love story between Ove and his wife. So,this is how the entire novel goes with strange characters appearing and disappearing at inopportune moments. Every time he makes an attempt to end his life, life has other plans for him. A new neighbor from Iran moves in and wham! there starts the twist in Ove’s otherwise not so happening life. He is determined to end his life and join his wife Sonja. He lives in a pod with staunch principles and rules reluctant to adapt to the new era and the technological inventions. The book revolves around Ove,a grumpy old man and an introvert who is set in his own ways. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Justice sleeps![]() ![]() Avery knows Judge Whitner had been extorted, but as she investigates the names and cases associated with other judges on the list she begins to see a frightening pattern-and she worries that something far more sinister may be unfolding. It is this body that grants permission to the government to wiretap American individuals or corporations suspected of terrorism. Moments later, Avery is shocked when she witnesses Davies being murdered.Īfter breaking the encrypted file Davies gave to her, Avery reveals a list of names-all federal judges-and, alarmingly, all judges on the FISA Court (the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court), also known as America's secret court. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before she recently took her own life, and he gives Avery a file, a burner phone, and a fearful warning that there are highly dangerous people involved. ![]() But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States in While Justice Sleeps. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She shows, through the weight of historical evidence, that whiteness is a construction of the powerful, a metaphor the privileged use to define themselves, and a concept “driven by an age old social yearning to characterize the poor as permanently other and inherently inferior”. Painter’s brilliant study forces its readers to look hard at the concept of race, specifically the meaning of “being white”. Its also a much needed book at a time when, despite the mapping of the human genome that tells us otherwise, public opinion tends to regard race as a biological fact rather than a social construction. In fact, it’s a deeply serious, and highly accessible study, of the concept of race itself. The title of acclaimed historian Nell Irvin Painter’s The History of White People may sound a bit like Christian Landers satirical Stuff White People Like. ![]() |