![]() ![]() While this book did not live up to my highest expectations, I still really enjoyed it!Īlyssa, the main protagonist, was my least favourite character in the book. And when her parents don’t return and her life-and the life of her brother-is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbours and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers. The drought-or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it-has been going on for a while now. ![]() I featured “Dry” in a couple of my newest blog posts, including my October 2018 TBR and my seventh edition of “ In My Mailbox“. “Dry” by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman was one of my most anticipated releases of 2018, so when I received an ARC in the mail from Simon and Schuster Canada, I was so excited to read and review it! I knew the very basics about the plot, and knew nothing about the characters – other than the fact that the main protagonists name was Alyssa (we share the same name!). Welcome back to Reading, Reading, Reading! ![]()
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![]() ![]() The play's producer, Abraham Erlanger, put a heavy price on the screen rights. In 1922, two years after the play's last tour, the Goldwyn company purchased the film rights to Ben-Hur. ![]() īen-Hur: A Tale of The Christ had been a great success as a novel, and was adapted into a stage play which ran for twenty-five years. However, Messala does not die, as he does in the more famous 1959 adaptation of the novel.īen-Hur is eventually reunited with his mother and sister, who have developed leprosy but are miraculously cured by Jesus Christ. This eventually leads to a climactic showdown with Messala in a chariot race, in which Ben-Hur is the victor. This actually works in the admiral's favor because when his ship is attacked and sunk by pirates, Ben-Hur saves him from drowning.Īrrius then treats Ben-Hur as a son, and over the years the young man grows strong and becomes a victorious chariot racer. Once aboard ship, his attitude of defiance and strength impresses a Roman admiral, Quintus Arrius, who allows him to remain unchained. Along the way, he unknowingly encounters Jesus, the carpenter's son who offers him water. When an accident and a false accusation leads to Ben-Hur's arrest, Messala, who has become corrupt and arrogant, makes sure Ben-Hur and his family are jailed and separated.īen-Hur is sentenced to slave labor in a Roman war galley. Ben-Hur is a wealthy young Jewish prince and boyhood friend of the powerful Roman tribune, Messala. ![]() ![]() But when their desire places Lissy and her child in the path of a deadly faery feud, will the connection last, or will their separate worlds prove too great a divide? Mortal and immortal have nothing in common, and the attraction between Lissy and Trahern surprises them both. Her hectic life in sleepy eastern Washington is made even more chaotic with the sudden arrival of a demanding fae and his unusual “dog.” She’s busy juggling her career as an academic and her home life as a single mom to a young son with Asperger’s. Lissy Santiago-Callahan believes in love but has no time for it. Trahern doesn’t believe love exists, but he will do anything to keep his brother alive-even join the Wild Hunt and ride the night skies of the human world. ![]() Heir to a noble fae house, Trahern is forced to watch helplessly as his twin brother is cruelly changed into a grim-a death dog-as punishment for falling in love with the wrong person. The latest stand-alone novel in Dani Harper’s Grim Series will delight old and new fans alike, transporting them to the ancient fae realm beneath the modern human world, where magic rules and menace abounds… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() a sympathetic, historically sound treatment of an important human endeavor that someday could be the stuff of myth, told here with gripping effect."-The New York Times Book Review "Space is everything that Michener fans have come to expect. Space is one of his best books."-The Wall Street Journal "A novel of very high adventure. Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. senator who takes his personal battle not only to a nation, but to the heavens Dieter Kolff, a German rocket scientist who once worked for the Nazis Randy Claggett, the astronaut who meets his destiny on a mission to the far side of the moon and Cynthia Rhee, the reporter whose determined crusade brings their story to a breathless world. This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and women-people like Stanley Mott, the engineer whose irrepressible drive for knowledge places him at the center of the American exploration effort Norman Grant, the war hero and U.S. ![]() Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Süskind is saying quite bluntly that the only thing that would diminish this girl’s value for Grenouille is for her virginity to be compromised. Laure’s father knows that to protect her life he must wed her and deflower her as soon as possible. He describes Laure as having a scent that is “terrifyingly celestial,” (177) which demonstrates how highly he values her, but also has heavenly connotations. ![]() We see this most importantly with Grenouille’s selection of young, strictly virginal girls to make his perfume. In the patriarchal society within the novel, women have almost no power and are passed like property from father to husband, but without their virginity they are deemed worthless and impure. This stems from the significance behind the Virgin Mary herself, as well as the belief that sexual intercourse before marriage is a mortal sin. One way he does this is by highlighting the importance placed on virginity by Catholic society. Patrick Süskind frequently uses religious references in order to disparage society and the value it places on outmoded conventions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our next door neighbor was a physics professor. My father’s best friend was an aeronautical engineer. ![]() Five of my father’s seven siblings were engineers or technologists. My dad was a NASA lifer, a career Langley Research Center scientist who became an internationally respected climate expert. Just do an image search for the word “scientist”.įor me, growing up in Hampton, Virginia, the face of science was brown like mine. Even Google, our hive mind, confirms the prevailing view. We all know what a scientist looks like: a wild-eyed person in a white lab coat and utilitarian eyeglasses, wearing a pocket protector and holding a test tube. HIDDEN FIGURES: THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BLACK WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE recovers the history of these pioneering women and situates it in the intersection of the defining movements of the American century: the Cold War, the Space Race, the Civil Rights movement and the quest for gender equality. ![]() What about Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Kathryn Peddrew, Sue Wilder, Eunice Smith or Barbara Holley? Most Americans have no idea that from the 1940s through the 1960s, a cadre of African-American women formed part of the country’s space work force, or that this group-mathematical ground troops in the Cold War-helped provide NASA with the raw computing power it needed to dominate the heavens. You've heard the names John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cast, the concept for the House of Night novels came from her agent, who suggested the theme "vampire finishing school." The books take place in an alternative universe version of Tulsa, Oklahoma inhabited by both humans and "vampyres" (Cast uses this alternative spelling in the books, explaining it as a choice she made "just 'cause I like the way it looks" ). In the wake of the current popularity of vampire fiction led by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, the Casts' books have enjoyed substantial and increasing critical and commercial success, and in March 2009, the fifth book in their series, Hunted, opened at number one on the best-seller lists of USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. In 2005, she and her daughter began co-writing the House of Night series. Her first book, Goddess by Mistake, originally published in 2001, won the Prism, Holt Medallion, and Laurel Wreath awards, and was a finalist for the National Readers' Choice Award her subsequent books have also won a variety of prizes. Cast is known for her Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series. ![]() ![]() Phyllis Christine Cast (born April 30, 1960) is an American romance/ fantasy author, known for the House of Night series she writes and her daughter Kristin Cast edits, as well as her own Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel includes stories of his brother, Royal, and sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice. In the growing season, he plants and tends crops in winter, he hauls logs, helps fill the ice house, trains a team of young oxen, and sometimes - when his father can spare him - goes to school. Young as he is, Almanzo rises before 5 am every day to milk cows and feed stock. It describes in detail the endless chores involved in running the Wilder family farm, all without powered vehicles or electricity. It covers roughly one year of his life, beginning just before his ninth birthday and describes a full year of farming. The novel is based on the childhood of Wilder's husband, Almanzo Wilder, who grew up in the 1860s near the town of Malone, New York. Thus the later Little House on the Prairie is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of "the Laura Years". It was the second-published one in the Little House series but it is not related to the first, which that of the third directly continues. Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1933. ![]() ![]() ![]() But a supporting cast of stock characters and forced dialogue may disappoint readers of her previous novels. As in Squashed, Bauer begins with an intriguing premise, weaves in unusual settings and scenarios and creates an offbeat first-person narrator to relay them. She arrives back in Chicago both braver and wiser. While Jenna educates herself in the ways of big business and dealing with difficult people, she also ruminates about her alcoholic father, her ailing grandmother and her mom and sister waiting at home. During the road trip Jenna gets a chance to demonstrate her passion for shoe salesmanship at various Gladstone stores she also learns of Elden Gladstone's plan to push his mother aside in favor of a major merger. Madeline Gladstone, the imposing president of the shoe store chain, from Chicago to Dallas for an important shareholders meeting. Even better, she's been tapped to drive Mrs. She's just received her driver's license and she loves her job at Gladstone's Shoe Store. Sixteen-year-old Jenna Boller has the world by the tail. Jenna is a gangly, gutsy 16-year-old who. Meet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5'11'' at 16 years old, Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to. Gladstone is the elderly, crusty president of a chain of shoe stores. Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer - Reading Guide: 9780142404256 - : Books Meet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone Shoe Store in Chicago. Bauer's novel about an earnest teenager who chauffeurs a crabby, wealthy woman has the underpinnings of a quirky Driving Miss Daisy, but the story quickly runs out of gas. Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer is about Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() The uneasy boys vow to leave Wikipedia alone but someone continues to edit articles about classmates dying in gruesome ways. So after the star soccer player steals Cole’s girlfriend, the boys take their revenge by creating a Wikipedia page for him, an entry full of outlandish information including details about his bizarre death on the soccer field.It’s all in good fun, until the soccer player is killed in a freak accident. They edit key articles and watch their classmates crash and burn giving oral reports on historical figures like Genghis Khan, the first female astronaut on Jupiter. And whatever you do, DON’T turn on your computer.Cole and Gavin love playing practical jokes through Wikipedia. It’s the return of Point Horror for the Internet generation! Don’t open the door. ![]() You can read this before Wickedpedia PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Wickedpedia written by Chris Van Etten which was published in June 24, 2014. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: Wickedpedia by Chris Van Etten ![]() |