![]() ![]() The campfire legends of youth metastasize into adult fears as Anna must piece together a connection between these anomalies while guarding herself from the strangers around her. The team stumbles upon the tracks and the mutilated victim of a preternaturally large, unidentified beast, and local packs of wolves descend on human-populated areas, a behavior out of step with their species. ![]() Crowded into inhospitable lodgings and persecuted by unrelenting cold, Anna is far from her comfort zone as nature turns awry with a series of bizarre events. Complicating the study is Bob Menechinn, an untrustworthy Homeland Security officer assigned to shadow the research. In bestseller Barr's chilling 14th mystery thriller to feature National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon (after 2005's Hard Truth), Anna joins the team of Winter Study, a research project intended to study the wolves and moose of Michigan's Isle Royale National Park, the setting for 1994's A Superior Death. ![]()
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![]() Have you ever wanted to teach in a Theatre Education Utopia? In Creative Dramatics: An Art for Children, Geraldine Brain Siks seems to be doing so!Īfter reading Creative Dramatics: An Art for Children, I was left wondering what it must have been like to be Siks, teaching in the Seattle area, in the 1950s. 9 Chapter 9: CREATIVE DRAMATICS WITH NINE-, TEN-, AND ELEVEN-YEAR-OLDSĬreative Dramatics: An Art for Children by Geraldine Brain Siks. ![]() 8 Chapter 8: CREATIVE DRAMATICS WITH SEVEN- AND EIGHT-YEAR-OLDS.7 Chapter 7: CREATIVE DRAMATICS WITH LITTLE CHILDREN. ![]() ![]() ![]() There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella's mausoleum. Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. It's 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Girls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this unique and powerful retelling of Cinderella from a stunning new voice that's perfect for fans of Dhonielle Clayton and Melissa Albert. "Wholly original and captivating." - Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and Lonely ![]() ![]() ![]() But the reunion between two families is soon fraught with personal and political challenges.Īs the harsh realities of racial divides and the injustices of the Gilded Age conspire to hold them back, the women find they need each other more than ever. With Jordan’s mother on her deathbed, Sadie leaves her disapproving husband to make the arduous train journey with her mother to Chicago. ![]() There, Jordan’s and Sadie’s mothers developed a bond stronger than blood, despite the fact that one was enslaved and the other was the privileged daughter of the plantation’s owner. But years ago, their families intertwined on a plantation in Virginia. Two thousand miles away, Sadie, the white wife of an ambitious German businessman, lives in more tolerant Oakland, California. ![]() Jordan, a middle-aged black teacher, lives in segregated Chicago. Jordan Wallace and Sadie Wagoner appear to have little in common. From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus and Mustard Seed comes the empowering novel of two generations of American women connected by the past and fighting for a brighter future. ![]() ![]() Hannah learns that the FBI has been investigating the firm for about a year regarding some hot new software they took to market before it was fully functional, falsifying their financial statements. ![]() ![]() Then there’s the bag full of cash Bailey finds in her school locker and the shocking news that The Shop’s CEO has been taken into custody. Their lives are shattered, however, when Hannah receives a note saying “ Protect her” and can’t reach Owen by phone. They live in a lovely houseboat in Sausalito Hannah is a woodturner whose handmade furniture brings in high-dollar clientele and Owen works for The Shop, a successful tech firm. Despite the drama, the family is mostly a happy one. She’s also determined to win over his 16-year-old daughter, Bailey, who has made it very clear that she’s not thrilled with her new stepmother. ![]() Hannah Hall is deeply in love with her husband of one year, Owen Michaels. When a devoted husband and father disappears, his wife and daughter set out to find him. ![]() ![]() He lost his one hand but he gets married to the Queen of Attolia. The gods of Turner's pantheon, ruled by the Great Goddess Hephestia, are her own, and her world possesses items such as guns and pocket watches.Įugenides, is a former Thief of Eddis. The character's names are also Greek, and references are made to actual Greek authors. ![]() The action takes place in the countries of Eddis, Attolia and Sounis. The books are set in a Byzantine-like imaginary landscape, reminiscent of ancient Greece and other territories around the Mediterranean. It is the third novel in the Queen's Thief series that Turner inaugurated with The Thief in 1996. ![]() The King of Attolia is a young adult fantasy novel by Megan Whalen Turner, published by the Greenwillow Books imprint of HarperCollins in 2006. 2006 young adult fantasy novel by Megan Whalen Turner ![]() ![]() ![]() Milne noticed that cows always went down to the lake where Pooh lived, that cows say "moo" and that "moo" rhymes with "Pooh". According to the introduction, Milne first got the idea to write some poems when he went with his son to feed a swan that Christopher Robin had named Pooh. In an introduction, called "Just Before We Begin", Milne says that Christopher Robin was the inspiration for all of the poems in the book. The book is dedicated to Milne's son Christopher Robin Milne, who is referred to by name in four poems in the book. Shepard's illustrations have been colorized in some more recent editions. Shepard, who would later go on to illustrate Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six and The House at Pooh Corner and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. ![]() The first edition is illustrated with black and white line drawings by E.H. ![]() When We Were Very Young is a collection of children's poems by A.A. A first edition of When We Were Very Young. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She did a superb job with voicing these characters and really brought the story to life. I listened to the audible version of this novel which was narrated by Addison Barnes. Worthy of more than 5 stars this was a phenomenal read and I would highly recommend it to all lovers of paranormal bully RH romances. This story consumed me and I cannot stop thinking about it. It was a unique and refreshing tale, that was well written, descriptive and layered and an excellent introduction to these new to me authors. I wish this novel was longer because I loved these characters and was not ready for the story to end. There were a couple of supernatural powers in this story that I've never heard of, but I was captivated nonetheless. This bully reverse harem novel was hot and steamy with nail biting twists and turns and a storyline you won't easily forget. Void was engrossing and will capture your attention from beginning to end. ![]() ![]() But still, they are a necessary part of the fabric of life in Nessus, the executives of justice who carry out the will of the mysterious Autarch who rules somewhere from his house in the northern wilderness. His guild is widely loathed torturers rarely leave the Matachin Tower where they are stationed because they are suspected, spit upon, distrusted. ![]() Severian is a journeyman in the Guild of the Torturers in the Citadel of Nessus. I am wise now, if not much older, and I know it is better to have all things, high and low, than to have the high only. ![]() Life, after all, is not a high thing, and in many ways is the reverse of purity. (And I still desired that, even then, when I had been cast out of it.) Perhaps it was for the same reason that the love of living things, which I had felt so strongly as a child, had declined until it was hardly more than a memory, when I found poor Triskele bleeding outside the Bear Tower. That, I think, was why I so desired that our guild regain the position and regard it had once possessed. Justice is a high thing, and that night, when I lay beside Dorcas listening to the rain, I was young, so that I desired high things only. ![]() ![]() ![]() But soon it becomes clear that the killer isn't finished yet. ![]() The detective wants Katie's help finding him, but she has only one thing on her mind: proving her brother's innocence, and finally making up for her negligence all those years ago. The case has thrown up many unsettling questions, but only one prime suspect: Chris. They're investigating a particularly brutal murder, in a half-ruined house that once belonged to a notorious local serial killer. Then she receives a call from the police. Carelessness cost her one family, and she won't let it destroy another. ![]() Now a mother, Katie vows not to repeat her mistakes. Katie Shaw always looked after her younger brother Chris - until she left him alone one carefree afternoon and he was savagely attacked. 'Dark, gripping, and twisty' CLARIE MCGOWAN Breath-taking and terrifying' HELEN FIELDS 'One of those books that made me wish I'd written it. ' The Half Burnt House is Alex North at his best - a writer who can terrify you on one page and break your heart on the next' STEVE CAVANAGH The spine-tingling new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Richard & Judy pick THE WHISPER MAN ARE YOU READY TO ENTER THE HALF BURNT HOUSE?. ![]() |