![]() ![]() ![]() I also wouldn’t have known what a cake with a whole bottle of concentrated lemon tastes like. Without you, I wouldn’t have known the magic to be found in books and the written word. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Ĭover design: Ravenborn Book Cover Designsĭiscuss theories, compare favourite quotes, and discuss which of the guys you like the most (all of them, it has to be all of them, right?) in my reader group: Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Noting that Japan's ispace and Israel's SpaceIL failed to land their robotic, privately developed landers safely on the surface of the moon recently, Couluris said Blue Origin will lean upon its large industry team for "lessons learned so we don't repeat those lessons again" on the Artemis 5 mission.īlue Origin's "SLD National Team" also includes Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, Astrobotic and Honeybee Robotics. After docking with Gateway, two astronauts will move into Blue Moon to journey to the south pole of the moon for about a week. The astronauts will launch separately aboard NASA's Space Launch System rocket in an Orion spacecraft. ![]() "We'll be testing out full lander systems and the full architecture prior to any astronauts entering the vehicle, and that will be roughly one year prior," John Couluris, Blue Origin's vice president for lunar transportation, said during the same press conference.Īrtemis 5 calls for Blue Moon to launch on a yet-to-be-announced rocket and dock with Gateway, a future NASA-led outpost in lunar orbit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the heir to the crown reaches marrying age, a competition called The Selection is held. Ones are the royalty, Twos are the celebrities and members of the military, Threes are the ‘great minds’-teachers, inventors, doctors and such, Fours are the businessmen, Fives are the performers, Sixes are the workers and the servants at the palace, Sevens are the manual laborers and Eights are the ‘unemployable’– those with mental illnesses, addictions and traitors to the crown. It takes place in a society where citizens are divided in castes, numbered One through Eight, each with its own role to play. This wonderful YA series is kind of like a cross between The Bachelor and The Hunger Games (with less death and gore). Title: The Selection Series By: Cass, Kiera Published: 2012- Call #: YA Fiction Cass.K ![]() Encuentros de Escucha e Intercambio Comunitario.10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 6 pm 12 pm - 6 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 10 am - 8 pm 9 am - 6 pm 9 am - 6 pm 12 pm - 6 pm See All Evanston Public Library ![]() ![]() ![]() In the video, he pointed to some books and said they were for the Irish Mythology course he's taking and said that he is going to write a book on Irish mythology! Irish Mythology is the most detailed branch of Celtic mythology. He spoke throughout, telling of his upcoming live and how Carlos and he were going to quiz each other, and the loser would have to shave off his hair. Some hours before the allotted time, he tested out the Live feature, to check his connection and how well the video came out. He was to go live with author Carlos Hernandez and talk about his upcoming book under Riordan's Imprint. The popular mythology author, like many celebrities, did an Instagram live this week. ![]() Rick Riordan is completing a series this year and he finally tells us of a future writing project. ![]() ![]() And when we look at an animal, its hard not to imagine that its face is communicating human feelings. Observing another persons features and expressions tells us whether they are happy, angry, excited, or sad. Even as babies, we humans pay close attention to faces. Book Synopsis Dear axolotl: Why do you have feathers growing out of your head? Axolotl: They arent feathers-theyre gills! They let me breathe underwater. ![]() Packed with many cool facts and visuals on where certain animals live and what they eat, this book captures 25 animals and explains how their markings help them to survive. About the Book A Caldecott Honor-winning duo gets up close and personal with unique animals from around the world in this playful exploration of unusual animal facial features. ![]() ![]() And here’s my review…įor centuries, little was known about Cleopatra VII’s daughter, Cleopatra Selene. I think it’s safe to say that I devoured the book. I almost fainted when I saw it among the sea of writers’s names. My name also appeared in the Acknowledgements section. ![]() So imagine my surprise when I received an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this book, complete with Isis wings: ![]() Dray’s books since the beginning, following and reading her blog posts, and even exchanging information and opinions about Egyptian mythology, the importance of the Isis cult as a precursor for Christianity, Roman “celebrities” (like Caligula and his beloved horse-turned-consul) and the Garamantes on Goodreads. “I may crumble away to dust, but my spirit remains”… “And in the Nile of Eternity, I shall live forever.”Ī couple of weeks ago, author Stephanie Dray released her latest book, Daughters of the Nile, the final installment of her series about Cleopatra’s daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mo Yan turns these events over and over, introducing each a fragment at a time and exploring their significance as they pass from one character's experience into another's memory. ![]() ![]() A few key episodes serve as recurrent motifs: murders counterpoint battlefield massacres women are raped by their saviors and by enemy soldiers the community leader punishes gamblers and thieves with floggings, while the Japanese flog a saboteur as a preamble to skinning him alive. The narrator, a young man from the provinces, relates the intertwined histories of the Sino-Japanese war of the 1930s and of his parents and grandparents. In the way that Chinese landscape painting reshapes the viewer's perspective by offering not one but many focal points, this singularly forceful contemporary Chinese novel reinvents the notion of chronology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I thoroughly enjoyed the story and will certainly listen/read more from this author. The Heart’s Invisible Furies proves that John is not just one of Ireland’s best living novelists but also one of the best novelists of Ireland.' - Sunday Express 'Written with verve, humour and heartat its core, The Heart’s Invisible Furies aspires to be not just the tale of Cyril Avery, a man buffeted by coincidence and circumstance. Finalist for the 2018 LAMBDA Literary Awards Finalist for the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction 'By turns whimsical and heartbreaking, Boynes sprawling novel treads Dickensian territory across seven decades of Irish history, ending with a redemption for both a country and a native son. ![]() ![]() The author has developed deep characters which resonate well with the story, and he provides some dark satire on some of Ireland and humanities worst characteristics across a spectrum of history, and also provides an inspirational story of resilience and ultimately long awaited happiness. The Hearts Invisible Furies - by John Boyne (Paperback) 13. However, I thoroughly enjoyed the audio book despite being a little sceptical about the subject matter to start. The author, John Boyne, wrote this intriguing story with a good deal of Irish humour, and a touch of class which I believe is achievable only when someone writes from their personal experience! I wont give a synopsis of the story itself - there are plenty to choose from. ![]() ![]() ![]() In college, King discovered social and political philosophy, along with theological liberalism. He lived well for a black person at the time and often thought deeply about religious issues, struggling with his Christian faith on many occasions. ![]() Much of his early life was spent in church and experiencing the injustices of segregation in the Atlanta, George of the 1930s and early 1940s. King was born in the late 1920s to a long line of ministers. Instead, the manager of his papers, Clayborne Carson, reconstructed an autobiography from King's autobiographical sketches, notes and speeches. King never wrote an official autobiography. The famed civil rights leader was also a preacher, philosopher, and orator. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s autobiography is the story of one of the great social and political figures of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Someone has it out for him, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let him get hurt on my watch. On the way there, all I have to do is peek in on little Lucky Reed and make sure he’s okay. ![]() I accept a summer job teaching high-risk search and rescue. When the army dumps my sorry self back into the real world, it’s time to start over. I’m going to Glacier National Park to learn how to rappel from helicopters… Zach Two years ago I wanted something I couldn't have, so I threw myself back into my job as an Army Ranger and wound up scarred in more ways than one. I need to get him off my back before he finds out I’m not heading to Wyoming for summer break like everyone thinks. It’s bad enough Zach still thinks of me as a child now he also thinks I’m incapable of looking out for myself. ![]() Everything’s going exactly as planned until my dads send Zach to check on me just as I’m dealing with an ex who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word no. After all, what they don’t know won’t hurt them. And perhaps I’ve kept the danger part a secret from my two dads. Meanwhile, I’ve built a life for myself in northern Montana, pursuing my college degree while working hard toward certification in high-risk alpine search and rescue on the side. Lucky Two years ago I humiliated myself by declaring my love to an older man who clearly didn’t share my feelings. ![]() |