Trick by Natalia Jaster6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Also they see each other as equals which is pretty hot! And they both are protective of the other which it's not often I this trait reflected in the FMC so loved that. And unlike with most books, the FMC was not presented as a brat, she's a reasonable woman with motives and agency of her own. Poet and Briar are such well rounded characters - their thoughts and actions felt real and just made sense. I can't imagine how daunting it was to write about such a sensitive topic but so far I feel like she handled it pretty well. Like to me I felt Jaster and her betas handled the world conflict, a delicate topic, with such respect and care. ![]() The overarching conflicts were none that I've encountered before and made for such a engrossing read. This is the first book I read from her and I can't wait to read more!Ĭompelling worldbuilding and story. Jaster's writing and storytelling abilities are phenomenal. Y'all I can't! This book? This book right here? OMFG go read it IMMEDIATLY I can not recommend this one enough! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Gouze’s journey coincided with the return to Montauban of Anne-Olympe’s lover, Jean-Jacques. ![]() Gouze was sent travelling in 1747, and a year later, on the day of his return, his daughter, Marie, was born. Anne-Olympe married Pierre Gouze, a butcher, in 1737. ![]() It is thought that Anne-Olympe died in sickness and poverty, with only her youngest daughter, Gouges, to support her.Īnne-Olympe and Jean-Jacques grew up together and developed a close relationship so that Jean-Jacques had to be sent away by his family, who wished to avoid a marriage with a respectable but non-aristocratic family. The latter inherited a high position in the church, and when Jean-Jacques died, he failed to act on a verbal promise to support Anne-Olympe financially. When Anne-Olympe was born, the Le Franc Pompignans asked Anne Marty to nurse their younger son, Jean-Georges. Jacques Mouisset was Jean-Jacques’s tutor. Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan was the son of a local high magistrate, heir to the castle of Pompignan, and godfather to Anne-Olympe. Official father: Pierre Gouze (1716–1750)Īnne-Olympe was the daughter of Anne Marty, of whom nothing is known, and a wealthy and respected solicitor and textile merchant, Jacques Mouisset. Marie Gouze (birth), Veuve Aubry (married), Olympe de Gouges, Marie-Olympe de Gouges (assumed).īorn in Montauban, Huguenot city in the South West of France.īirth father: Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan (1709–1784) ![]() Float wordless book6/24/2023 ![]() With wordless books, however, it’s the pictures that tell the story, offering magical opportunities for children to generate their own sentences, use their inventory of vocabulary, make inferences, and activate their background knowledge as they tell you all about the pictures. ![]() That’s great if you’re targeting listening comprehension, “wh” questions, or introducing new vocabulary. They usually have some fun pictures to talk about, but mainly rely on the text to tell the story. ![]() Of course, reading a storybook with text is a great speech therapy activity too. Wordless picture books are magical for eliciting language! Pancakes for Breakfast is such a fun wordless picture book for your next speech therapy session! ![]() Bolo! by David Weber6/24/2023 ![]() Another Bolo must decide whether or not to disobey when it is given an order that constitutes genocide. ![]() One Bolo is driven over the edge by the very humans it is pledged to protect. Now, David Weber, New York Times best-selling author of the Honor Harrington series, continues the history of the Bolo, in four short novels, one of them published here for the first time. Their artificial intelligences were designed to make them selflessly serve and protect humans throughout the galaxy and made each Bolo the epitome of the knight sans peur et sans reproche, and often far more noble than the humans who gave them their orders. ![]() ![]() ![]() Controlled by their tireless electronic brains which were programmed to admit no possibility of defeat, the gigantic robot tanks known as Bolos were almost indestructible, and nearly unstoppable. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. 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Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. ![]() This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ![]() Reamde6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() An intriguing yarn-most geeky, and full of statisfying mayhem.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on REAMDE “Noir futurist Stephenson returns to cyberia with this fast-moving though sprawling techno-thriller.Who’ll prevail? We don’t know till the very end, thanks to Stephenson’s knife-sharp skills as a storyteller. ![]() “Stephenson’s REAMDE: perfectly executed, mammoth, ambitious technothriller.a triumph, all 980 pages of it.” - Cory Doctorow, The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, Reamde is a new high-and a new world-for the remarkable Neal Stephenson. With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace-not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton-once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations-whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future ( Snow Crash), or both ( Cryptonomicon). “Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.” - Time ![]() In a holidaze goodreads6/23/2023 ![]() But when Mae gasps awake…she’s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. ![]() The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.īut perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favourite place in the world-the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. ![]() It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. ![]() One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones in In a Holidaze, the quintessential holiday romantic novel by Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners. ![]() Behind the whispering door6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() With Hugo’s help, he finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life. But Wallace isn’t ready to abandon the life he barely lived. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, owned by a man named Hugo, who is just a regular tea shop owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead. Set to hit bookshelves in March of next year, Under the Whispering Door is the story of “a ghost who refuses to cross over and the ferryman he falls in love with.” Check out the full synopsis below: We are very excited to have a proper first look at Lambda Literary award-winning author TJ Klune’s upcoming adult fantasy novel, Under the Whispering Door, which Klune has described as “a queer romantic comedy about ghosts in a tea shop.” So… that’s a place on our Most Anticipated Books of 2021 list secured. ![]() Spell it out david crystal pdf6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Adapting the Roman alphabet to English meant adding what ended up being additional letters, including some Anglo-Saxon letters, including Germanic letters called eth, thorn, ash and wynn. In Early Anglo-Saxon England, the monks decided to use the 23 letter Roman alphabet to develop the English writing system.There are only 26 letters in our alphabet, but we have up to 44 different speech sounds in English.As David Crystal tells us in his excellent book “Spell it Out”, there are actually lots of reasons, including the following: I get asked this a lot – especially by young students. But, more than 30 years after learning the words, I still have pause and think when spelling “occasion”, “embarrass” or “harassment”. For example, most people can write their signature and high frequency words like “the” without thinking about it. ![]() ![]() Spelling lacks the automaticity we associate with handwriting or typing.But there are several ways of writing the sounds /si:p/, e.g. There is only one way to pronounce the word spelt by the letters s-e-e-p. There are far more spellings for a sound than pronunciations for letters.In some ways, spelling is harder than reading or writing: But spelling is an additional, separate skill from reading or writing. Lots of us – including the Oxford English Dictionary – define literacy as the ability to read and write. But many literacy programs focus only on reading and writing. Literacy involves three skills: reading, writing and spelling. ![]() I am legend book richard matheson6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() I think that his stories are what I've been looking for because they play off of true fears and some contain a lot of.myths. I honestly believe that Matheson is probably one of the best Horror authors that I have ever came across. ![]() ![]() Not much can creep me out or scare me but in a few of these stories, I was really freaked out. Needless to say, I am Legend is offically on my favorites list.Īs for the rest of the stories in this book, wow. Looking back on the movies, I can't believe they changed the ending and made it different from the book. Unlike a lot of books that I have read, the ending was powerful and made the whole story what it was. It was very original and one of those books that make me wonder how some people don't love it. ![]() I found myself wondering if the people who came up with the movie even read the actual story.Īnyway, I am Legend is one of the best Vampire stories I have ever read. But I didn't realize that the movie was so.different (or wrong) compared to the book. I knew ahead of time not to hope for the movie. Then I found out that my boyfriend had the book so I put it on my TBR list a few months ago. I am Legend, Buried Talents, The Near Departed, Prey, Witch War, Dance of the Dead, Dress of White Silk, Mad House, The Funeral, From Shadowed Places and Person to Person.Ī few years ago I saw the Will Smith Movie that was supposedly based on I am Legend and I really enjoyed it. This book contains 11 short stories by Richard Matheson: ![]() |