He was even forced to sleep on the porch. They are unhappy people who kept Leven around to do the cleaning and other manual labour. His mother died giving birth to him and left him in the care of Terry and Addy Graph. Leven Thumps lives in an unremarkable town called Burnt Colvert in Oklahoma. The key to stopping him lies in the hands of a single boy: Leven Thumps. It is on the brink of war as Sabine attempts to unite Foo with earth. Foo is the land where all humanities dreams are manipulated. ‘Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo’ is the first book in a series of five. I have a few minutes now so I decided to crank one out. Been trying to prepare for the move overseas and have had to put this on the sidelines. I know it has been a while since I last posted something.
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Tension dean koontzWhether in the form of Classical Hollywood Cinema’s deliberately invisible grammar or the deconstruction and radicalism of a filmmaker like Godard, there is something inescapably real about watching bodies in motion in space, making us see things we didn’t see because they made us feel things we definitely felt. So much of the power of film comes from its verisimilitude-something unachievable by the theater or the novel. The camera can only capture what is in front of it, creating a permanent record of a sort of (heavily manipulated) reality, while the editing process gives that record shape and structure and much (if not all) of its meaning. And every cut is a lie.” As with so many Godard quotes, it is enigmatic enough to be unassailably true. Jean-Luc Godard, the John Lennon of the French New Wave (McCartney: François Truffaut Harrison: Éric Rohmer Starr: Roger Vadim), once said (via Le Petit Soldat), “The cinema is truth 24 times a second. “If he wanted to kill you, he'd already have done it.” 6/10/2023 0 Comments The alliance by reid hoffmanSo, paradoxically, the alliance begins with managers acknowledging that great employees might leave the company, and with employees being honest about their own career aspirations. We can rebuild that lost trust with straight talk that recognizes the realities of the modern economy. Sadly, trust in the business world is hovering at an all-time low. But this win-win scenario will happen only if both sides trust each other enough to commit to mutual investment and mutual benefit. And your employees want the company to help transform their careers for the long term. As a manager you want your employees to help transform the company for the future. The solution? Stop thinking of employees as either family or as free agents. The employer-employee relationship is broken, and managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: the old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment defined by continuous change, but neither does a system in which every employee acts like a free agent. A New York Times Bestseller Introducing the new, realistic loyalty pact between employer and employee. 6/10/2023 0 Comments The day i died by lori rader dayIt kept me locked up and locked in from the very first word to the very last.” - Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone Not fair! The Day I Died is a terrific novel-gripping and twisty and beautifully layered. “Lori Rader-Day is so ferociously talented that it kind of makes me mad. Richly written, complex, and imaginative…this is a perfect read for fans of Mary Higgins Clark.” - Susanna Calkins, Macavity Award-winning author of the Lucy Campion mysteries “Secrets lie behind every loop, slant, and swirl of The Day I Died, Lori Rader-Day’s compelling story of a handwriting analyst searching for a lost boy. “An unusual protagonist, a timely crime, and outstanding writing make Lori Rader-Day’s The Black Hour a stand-out debut.” - Sara Paretsky, New York Times bestselling author “A searing, psychological suspense novel about small-town dreams shattered by a deadly secret.” - Terry Shames, Macavity Award-winning author of A Killing at Cotton Hill "A quest for an outstanding hot dog that blossoms into a family bonding experience, the real sense of understanding felt between old and new friends, plus plenty of humorous mishaps along the way should appeal to younger middle school students looking for a quick read during summer break. The book is a sequel to All Four Stars, but definitely stands alone." -Children's Literature Read The Stars of Summer: An All Four Stars Book by Dairman, Tara, lexile & reading level: 880, (ISBN: 9780698173675). In this charming sequel to All Four Stars, eleven-year-old foodie Gladys Gatsby now has her first published review under her belt and is looking forward to a quiet summer of cooking and reviewing. The story has a solid ending, but invites you to think of what things Gladys might do next. Joan Bauer meets Ruth Reichl-Tara Dairman's charming sequel to All Four Stars brings Gladys Gatsby to summer camp. "Readers themselves are trying to navigate the world between being a kid and becoming an adult, making this all very relatable. "Give this one to foodies as well as readers looking for a fun summer tale."- School Library Journal With her broad straw hat, full skirts, and kind face, Miss Maple is the perfect embodiment of a caregiver, whether sweeping the tree house porch, floating downriver with her charges in a green leaf boat, or flying home atop one of her large blue birds. A rich palette of warm greens, burnt oranges, and peacock blues dominates the spacious watercolor and ink illustrations, which are completely enchanting. Though the text veers a bit toward cloying, the whole is masterfully redeemed by its visual charm. Her repeated mantra, "Take care, my little ones, for the world is big and you are small," is as comforting and encouraging as Miss Maple herself. When spring arrives, she releases them back out into the world where they can root and grow into whatever they are bound to be. At night, they are snuggled into cozy beds. Each one is treated like a treasured child, "all similar yet none the same." She teaches them what it means to be a seed and takes them on field trips to their natural habitats. K-Gr 2-Miss Maple travels all summer looking for orphaned seeds that she can shelter and nurture until the following spring. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm is a brilliant and sometimes darkly hilarious portrait of these men-damaged, egotistical Wilhelm quiet, stubborn Nicholas and anxious, dutiful George-and their lives, foibles and obsessions, from tantrums to uniforms to stamp collecting. Miranda Carter uses the cousins’ correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell the tragicomic story of a tiny, glittering, solipsistic world that was often preposterously out of kilter with its times, struggling to stay in command of politics and world events as history overtook it. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world. In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie’s memory then all her other years combined. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?Īn urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home. A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed.Ĭadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. Dead? “Yes! Absolutely!” If something happened to him, there “would be expressions of the most heartfelt regrets, yet privately they would be saying, ‘Thank God.’” All things being equal, Pullman told me, New Line would prefer he were, well, the late author of The Golden Compass. Pullman - who’s previously tried to market the film by telling reporters, “I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief,” and “My books are about killing God” - thinks the film studio’s job would be easier if he were dead. Much to the obvious delight of New Line’s publicity department, The Atlantic’s Hanna Rosin visited the novelist at his home near Oxford, England. The biggest challenge? Getting Pullman to STFU. The December issue of The Atlantic contains a lengthy piece on The Golden Compass, this holiday season’s most anticipated epic fantasy film about killing God, and the lengths to which New Line Cinema is going to scrub their $180 million movie of the more controversial elements of the book series (the His Dark Materials trilogy by atheist author Philip Pullman) on which it’s based. Photo: Getty Images, Courtesy of New Line Cinema Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. But what does it mean? Matt Ridley's Genome is the book that explains it all: what it is, how it works, and what it portends for the futureĪrguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability." - The New Yorker "Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. |