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![]() ![]() Thankfully, Paul Kocak volunteered for the job. Somebody needed to write a book about that night. ![]() It was a night that will forever be frozen in baseball time. ![]() ![]() This beautifully told story captures baseball at its very best." Doris Kearns Goodwin "September 28, 2011. "This is a magical book about a magical night. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, and Tampa Bay Rays provide exciting and deeply personal eyewitness accounts - either from the stadiums or their living rooms. Going beyond a standard retelling of the balls and strikes and homers and webgems, the book hears from 20 fans in their own words. Baseball's Starry Night gives you a fan's-eye view of a night that many have called the most exciting night in the history of Major League Baseball. ![]()
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The inconvenient indian7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I learned a lot from this and was blown away by King’s ability to compress so much history by focusing on a limited set of themes. This is a book both timeless and timely, burnished with anger but tempered by wit, and ultimately a hard-won offering of hope-a sometimes inconvenient, but nonetheless indispensable account for all of us, Indian and non-Indian alike, seeking to understand how we might tell a new story for the future. ![]() In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. ![]() Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history-in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. ![]()
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Cake by j bengtsson7/4/2023 ![]() Check out the cover for Genes by Mary Ting (Cover.Read an excerpt from A Match for Emma by Pepper Ba.Trix's Pros & Cons List for Constellation of Roses. ![]() A new spin-off of #ArtemisFowl & a #giveaway.New Releases/#Free & Bargain Books for November 18.Home for Christmas by Catherine Lanigan (Tour Gran.Read an excerpt from The Cracking of Monday Egg by.The wise man searching for the Messiah.How you know you're living in an Austen novel.New Releases/#Free & Bargain Books for November 25.Though if Lia and her network don’t stop the person pulling the strings-and fast-Lia may end up the next target. ![]() Together, they work to uncover the master puppeteer behind the group. But due to debilitating asthma and PTSD that leaves her with a tenuous hold on reality, Lia is the last person to mount a crusade on her own.Īfter a close encounter with the Swarm puts Lia on their radar, she teams up with a teen hacker, a reporter, and a mysterious stranger who knows firsthand how the mob works. Devastated and desperate for answers, Lia will do anything to uncover the reasons behind his death and to stop someone else from being struck down. ![]() Lia is the only one still pursuing her father’s killers, two years after attorney Steven Finch’s murder by the Swarm. ![]() It’s been two years since the last attack, but Lia Finch has found clues that reveal the Swarm is ready to claim a new victim. The Swarm is unrecognizable, untraceable, and unpredictable-random attacks on the streets of Chicago by a mob of crazed teens that leaves death in its wake. ![]()
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Lucas film star wars7/4/2023 ![]() Systems was established to edit and mix Star Wars and later becomes (Industrial Light & Magic) to produce the Make this movie from Flash Gordon and the Planet of the Apes films. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). From 1973 toġ974, he began writing the screenplay which became Gave him the clout he needed for his next daring venture. Won the Golden Globe and garnered five Academy Award nominations. TheĬompany's first project was Lucas' full-length version ofįormed his own company, Lucasfilm Ltd. Scholarship by Warner Brothers to observe the making ofĬoppola became good friends and formed American Zoetrope in 1969. As a film student, he made several short films includingĮlectronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967) which won first prize at theġ967-68 National Student Film Festival. He decided to attend Modesto JuniorĬollege before enrolling in the University of Southern California film However, a terrible car accident justĪfter his high school graduation ended that dream permanently. During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and ![]() His father was a stationery store owner and he had three was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto,Ĭalifornia. ![]()
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Zofloya book7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Additionally, desire is not only reflected in female figures but also in 'rational' male characters. It appropriates topics of erotic violence, abandoned insatiability, and demonic love to engage a language of excess that eighteenthcentury critics described as too 'shock' for the 'delicacy of a female pen and mind'.1 Such critical reviews, associating a female writer's 'pen' with the 'delicacy' of her mind, reflected a general rise in discourse about women's education, conduct, and manners that, in turn, shaped the moral rubric of contemporary novels.2 As Dacre's critics objected, the text's display of excess modes of desire, and extensive focus on libidinal femininity, transgress the discursive boundaries prescribed to female reading and writing. Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya, or The Moor (1806) is an unconventional tale about an aristocratic woman dominated by her sadistic tastes and desires. ![]()
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Three dark crowns box set7/4/2023 ![]() Once born, the old queen announces the baby's name and gift. When the new queens are born, their mother always knows immediately what their gift is. ![]() Most presume that they make a life for themselves on The Mainland, though in truth few give the departed queens a second thought once they are gone. Queens Crowned depart the island with their king-consort as soon as they recover from giving birth to the new queens. Once the Goddess sends the new queens, the old queen's reign has ended. Temple doctrine decrees that queens have no mother or father they are daughters of the Goddess only. All of the triplets are linked to the Goddess in a unique way, and only a queen can receive the next generation's triplets. ![]() Each Queen Crowned earn her crown by killing her sisters during the Ascension Year. Each are considered equal heirs to the throne, but only one of the triplets can become the next Queen Crowned. ![]() In each generation, three triplet queens are born to the current Queen Crowned. ![]()
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Inside the Human Body by Joanna Cole7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() They reconnect with her eventually, and the group ends up back in the classroom, making a chart and a mobile based on their discoveries. When Miss Frizzle leaves the bus to investigate, she gets lost in space, and the students visit the outer planets without her. ![]() She manages to launch her rickety school bus into space and steers it around the solar system, visiting the moon, the sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars before an asteroid knocks out one of the taillights. ![]() When a closed planetarium disappoints her students on a class trip, the likable teacher saves the day. This latest expedition, on which the energetic Miss Frizzle offers a tour of the planets, should not be missed. Cole and Degen have already escorted young readers on three enlightening, boisterous rides on the magic school bus-in explorations of the human body, waterworks and the inside of the Earth. ![]()
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![]() They decide to share the jeans equally over the summer, before parting the next day. While shopping together, they find a pair of jeans that inexplicably fit them all perfectly. Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Rollins, Carmen Lowell, and Bridget Vreeland are teenagers from Bethesda, Maryland, who have been best friends their whole lives and are about to spend their first summer apart: Lena is visiting her grandparents in Santorini, Greece Bridget is going to soccer camp in Baja California, Mexico Carmen is visiting her father in South Carolina and Tibby is staying home. A third film is in development, as is a musical adaptation based on the first film. ![]() A sequel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, was released on August 6, 2008. It was released in the United States on Jby Warner Bros. ![]() They share the pants equally as they spend their first summer apart. It follows four best friends who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them despite their differing sizes. It stars America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, Blake Lively and Alexis Bledel. ![]() The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Ken Kwapis from a screenplay by Delia Ephron and Elizabeth Chandler, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Ann Brashares. ![]()
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The end of everything katie mack7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() This revelation set her on the path toward theoretical astrophysics. ![]() Katie Mack has been contemplating these questions since she was a young student, when her astronomy professor informed her the universe could end at any moment, in an instant. But what happens to the universe at the end of the story? And what does it mean for us now?ĭr. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life as we know it. ![]() NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIANįrom one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an “engrossing, elegant” ( The New York Times) look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology. ![]()
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Barbarian Days by William Finnegan7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() I threw on a pair of trunks, grabbed my surfboard, and left without a word. Everyone at the house was busy unpacking and fighting over beds. Then I spotted, well off to the west, and rather far out at sea, a familiar minuet of stick figures, rising and falling, backlit by the afternoon sun. ![]() Waves broke here and there along the outer edge of a mossy, exposed reef. I ran to the beach for a first, frantic survey of the local waters. But the cottage was near the beach-just up a driveway lined with other cottages, on a street called Kulamanu-and the weather, which was warm even in January, when we arrived, felt like wanton luxury. ![]() My brother Kevin and I took turns sleeping on the couch. The budget for moving our family to Honolulu was tight, judging from the tiny cottage we rented and the rusted-out Ford Fairlane we bought to get around. And nobody, blessedly, seemed to notice me. ![]() |