![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s charming, hilarious at times, and is filled with lots of action and adventure, especially towards the end. I adore Airborn, and not just because it’s steampunk or takes place in the 1800s. This book is what I wish The Lost Kingdom had been like. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist’s granddaughter that he realizes that the man’s ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is the life Matt’s always wanted convinced he’s lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This telling of Tubman’s story brings to life the tale of a remarkable black woman who has gone down in history as a unique American heroine. Beginning with Tubman’s childhood-and discussing other notables in the war against slavery such as Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass and the issue of slavery and its effect on the nation’s history-here is the breathless, terrifying true story of Tubman on the Underground Railroad, where she risked her own life over and over again to bring others to freedom. Here is the true tale of a remarkable African American woman, told as a story filled with danger, espionage, and even humor. She would go down in history as a hero and spy who helped hundreds of American slaves run away and find freedom by following the Underground Railroad. ![]() Once there, she changed her name to Harriet Tubman. ![]() After years of backbreaking labor and the constant threat of being sold and separated from her family, she escaped north to freedom. Meet Underground Railroad abductor Harriet Tubman in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series!Īraminta Ross was an enslaved woman born in Delaware. Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.” - New York Times “These books are, quite simply, brilliant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1945, the novel received the Premio Nadal, one of Spain’s most prestigious literary prizes, accompanied by a cash award of 5,000 pesetas, a significant amount of money for the time. Focusing on her writing, Laforet wrote short stories and articles for local journals before composing Nada, her first novel and an instant success with critics and publishers. She studied later in Madrid but did not complete her university education. After the death of her mother in 1934 and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), she moved back to Barcelona and enrolled as a humanities student at the University of Barcelona. ![]() A novel set in Barcelona in the early 1940s published in Spanish (as Nada) in 1945 in English in 1958.Ī young woman who moves to Barcelona to attend the university and live with her extended family experiences a variety of challenges in her personal relationships as she searches for her own identity.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn in Barcelona in 1921, Carmen Laforet spent her childhood and adolescence in the Canary Islands ( Las Palmas). ![]() ![]() “When arguing from first principles, you are deliberately starting from scratch. First principles are the group of self-evident assumptions that make up the foundation on which your conclusions rest-the ingredients in a recipe or the mathematical axioms that underpin a formula.” It’s the practical starting point to being wrong less, and it means thinking from the bottom up, using basic building blocks of what you think is true to build sound (and sometimes new) conclusions. “The central mental model to help you become a chef with your thinking is arguing from first principles. Being Wrong LessĬarl Jacobi once said, “Invert, always invert.” What Jacobi meant by that, was thinking about a problem from an inverse perspective can unlock new solutions and strategies. ![]() “When you don’t use mental models, strategic thinking is like using addition when multiplication is available to you.”.Super Thinking is about the frameworks and shortcuts top performers rely on the cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ina O'Shea had been sheltered her whole life by everyone from her abusive father to a territorial ex-boyfriend. until a country girl falls into his lap and has him questioning everything. love, and settling down with one woman wasn't meant for him. Dante Collins enjoyed a wild life of women and alcohol in abundance, christening him with the name Date for his Casanova ways. Casey comes a fun, sexy, and very Irish, new series. Read more ISBNįrom New York Times and USA Today bestselling author L.A. the more he believes she's the one.Get it now and find out how it all played out. It would end in disaster, but he can't help himself.It's becoming clear she's perfect for him.A movie star and a politician are a disaster but it's exactly the one he wants to fix.If she says yes.He never believed so many obstacles might get in the way, but the more time he spends with her. is but he find sthis might be exactly the plan he needs.Except he needs a wife for voters to believe in him.But there was no way Nicole Wyland was the type for him.Yet she was all he wanted.And he remembered her before she was a movie star.He shouldn't go near her. ![]() ![]() Solving problems is what Gerard's good at.And that's why he ran for office.To fix what was broken.His brother had talked him into th. ![]() Please note that this title is Independently Published or self published and the quality of production may vary. ![]() ![]() ![]() But here I stopped minding less than halfway through the narrative, and I’ll admit that it did provide for a clear line of distinction between past and present. The story is told in the third person when moving in the present and in the first person when revisiting Fin’s and his schoolmates’ past something I ordinarily don’t much care for and which almost threw me at the beginning of the book. May does an excellent job of bringing to life both the starkness of the Lewis landscape and nature and its dramatic coastline, and the inner demons haunting his protagonist (DI Fin Macleod, on secondment from Edinburgh CID because a recent murder on Lewis bears hallmark similarities to a case he’s working on in Edinburgh) and Fin’s former schoolmates, one of whom – a much-feared bully – turns out to be the victim of this latest murder. ![]() Book 1 of May’s Lewis Trilogy a darkly atmospheric tale of childhood ghosts rearing their ugly heads to bring down the lives of a group of former schoolmates some 30+ years later set on the northern end of the largest and northernmost of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands, the Isle of Lewis. ![]() ![]() You’ve been thinking about Interaction of Color as chiefĬurator of the Albers Foundation for more than thirty years. I imagine many people come across the book this way, outside of the classroom or in an art-makingĬontext, wandering through bookstores. Mind: what exactly does it mean for colors to interact? The title is straightforward but poses an immediate question, at least in my The paperback is affordable and portable and compelling in its simplicity. I flipped through it standing in the aisle and then In this piece, Brenda Danilowitz and Amy Jean Porter discuss the far-reaching impact of Albers’s transfixing book.Īmy Jean Porter: I think I first encountered Interaction of Color in a New Haven bookstore-it would In 2013, the anniversary edition presented a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers’s original text. First a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color later also appeared in paperback in 1971 featuring ten color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since. Conversation between Brenda Danilowitz, chief curator, and Amy Jean Porter, assistant curator,īoth of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.ĭescribed as “one of the most important books on color ever written” (Michael Hession, Gizmodo), Josef Albers’s classic Interaction of Color is as integral to art education today as it was when it was first published in 1963. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Never Land isn't quite the place she imagined it would be. So when an opportunity to travel to Never Land via pirate ship presents itself, Wendy makes a deal with the devil. After nearly meeting her hero, Peter Pan, four years earlier, she still holds on to the childhood hope that his magical home truly exists. Wendy's only real escape is in writing down tales of Never Land. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much, and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess-it all makes her wish things could be different. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling's life is not what she imagined it would be. ![]() What if Wendy first traveled to Neverland… with Captain Hook? ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father was a key supporter of the Yorkist cause to overthrow the Lancastrian Henry VI. Anne and her older sister Isabel grew up at the Neville power base in Middleham Castle, North Yorkshire. Despite her noble lifestyle, it must have been a stressful childhood. ![]() Through her father, Richard Neville, the Great Grandson of John of Gaunt, Anne was cousins with King Henry VI and future Edward IV. ![]() On 11 June 1456, Anne Neville was born into one of the most powerful families in England. This article will try to rectify, exploring the tumultuous life of Anne Neville: Princess of Wales, Duchess of Gloucester, and Queen of England. ![]() In essence, she has been wrongly treated as merely a footnote in history. In-depth information about her is often scarce. However, despite her colourful life, her unique experiences have often been neglected in favour of her male peers. She had the opportunity of marrying both a Lancastrian heir and the final Yorkist King. As the daughter of the Earl of Warwick known as ‘the Kingmaker,’ she had a front seat to the conflict and family drama of the age. From militant Kings and backstabbing nobles to she-wolf Queens demonised for presenting attributes equal to men, its male influence is almost inescapable.Īnne Neville played a pivotal role during this period. How we see The Wars of the Roses is overwhelmingly masculine. ![]() ![]() The sheer wealth of fine characters, such as Queenie or Mr Ephraim: the local lighthouse keeper, are a joy to explore as a reader and this highlights how skillful Emma Carroll is as an author. ![]() ![]() The sleepy village the children now call home has it’s share of secrets and many centre around the lighthouse and how it may link to Sukie’s sudden disappearance. Emma Carroll carefully crafts the tale to show how the frustrations of Olive and Cliff would simmer, while introducing someone with even more heartache and upheaval in the form of the spikey Ester (by far my favourite character). However, before they can find any answers they are sent to the coast for safety. Her and her brother are shell-shocked at events that mean their older sister Sukie goes missing or is even dead. The story starts with a mystery with a tragic end that introduces us to our guide of wartime Britain: Olive. ![]() Letters From The Lighthouse presents ordinary people striving to help each other during an extraordinary time.Įmma Carroll has created perfect characters in that they will be timeless and their adventures with peril will be shared for years, decades even, to come. ![]() Like many stories of World War II, such as Rose Blanche and Friend or Foe, the viewpoint of those youngest is maybe the most interesting and definitely the most relevant for a child to read about. ![]() |