![]() ![]() The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots (2012).Cleopatra Confesses (2011), about the last Ptolemaic pharaoh.The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette (2010).Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine de Medici (2007).Patience, Princess Catherine (2004), about Mary's mother Catherine of Aragon.Doomed Queen Anne (2002), about Elizabeth's mother Anne Boleyn.Beware Princess Elizabeth (2001), about Mary's half-sister Elizabeth I. ![]() ![]() Mary, Bloody Mary (1999), about Mary I of England.As of 2013, there are nine books in the series: It began with The House of Tudor but has been expanded to other countries and time periods. Young Royals is a series of novels for children by Carolyn Meyer, based on the lives of historical royalty. ![]()
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Doctor sleep audio book7/6/2023 ![]() The scene plays out pretty much the same way in the book, except Dick is fully corporeal-the chef is alive and well, and drives to Florida to see Danny. In the film’s opening, when Danny talks to Dick about how to manage the spirits from the Overlook, he’s speaking to his friend’s ghost. This has both major and minor implications for the movie version of Doctor Sleep. ![]() ![]() So at the end of the book, the Overlook is dead and Dick’s alive, while at the end of the movie the Overlook is alive and poor Dick isn’t. Little Danny’s friend and fellow telepath Dick Hallorann, however, does not, as Jack stabs him to death, which didn’t happen in the book. In the movie, Jack instead freezes to death while the Overlook survives. At the end of King’s book, Jack Torrance, busily descending into madness and, while trying to murder his family, forgets to depressurize the Overlook Hotel’s boiler, causing the property to explode with Jack still inside. Many of the differences between the book and film versions of the story are rooted in the divergent endings in The Shining and its cinematic adaptation. The movie takes place in a world where the Overlook Hotel is still standing. ![]() 'Doctor Sleep' Redeemed 'The Shining' for King.All of Castle Rock's Stephen King References. ![]() The 20 Best Stephen King Adaptations, Ranked. ![]() Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Or just read Beautiful Oops! in your classroom or library, and celebrate the idea of turning accidents into teaching moments. A pleasingly tactile exploration of the possibilities inherent in mistakes. ![]() Then, using the hashtag #beautifuloops on social media, share your classroom projects with us as well as your fellow educators. Sign up and you’ll receive classroom materials, including a poster, stickers, and an Educator’s Guide. In Barney Saltzberg's Hip, Hip, Hooray Day: A Hip & Hop Story, the follow-up to The Problem with Pumpkins: A Hip & Hop Story, the titular hippo hopes for a birthday trip to the roller rink. Join the CELEBRATE OOPS! movement and foster a spirit of creativity and confidence in your classroom. Chock full of imagination, creativity, and paper engineering, Beautiful Oops! and My Book of Beautiful Oops!are filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlaps, and smudges-each demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder. Every Mistake is an Opportunity to Make Something Beautiful!īeautiful Oops! is a one-of-a-kind bestseller that started a movement: It’s OK to make a mistake! Along with his recent follow-up, My Book of Beautiful Oops! (a fill-in artist’s journal), Barney Saltzberg’s books show young readers how every mistake is an opportunity to make something beautiful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ani na mordercze skłonności, które w niej wzbudził. Nic nie mogło przygotować jej na spotkanie z nim. Nie jest więc przygotowana na nową wersję Reinera Kultiego, trenującego jej drużynę: cichy i zamknięty w sobie jest tylko cieniem wybuchowego, pełnego pasji mężczyzny, którym kiedyś był. Wystarczył tydzień, by dwudziestosiedmioletnia Sal Casillas zaczęła się zastanawiać, co właściwie widziała w międzynarodowej ikonie piłki nożnej – dlaczego miała jego plakaty na ścianach i nawet wyobrażała sobie, że za niego wyjdzie i spłodzi z nim małych superpiłkarzyków? Sal wiele lat temu doszła do siebie po najgorszym „nie-zerwaniu” w historii zmyślonych związków, z mężczyzną, który nie wiedział nawet o jej istnieniu. Gdy mężczyzna, którego uwielbiałaś będąc dzieckiem zostaje twoim trenerem, spodziewasz się, że okaże się to najwspanialszą rzeczą, jaka przytrafiła ci się w życiu. „Wierz mi, miałam ochotę walnąć cię raz czy dwa… albo pięć”. ![]() Prince gambit7/6/2023 ![]() A contest of arms is inevitable, and Stryker, still pursuing his own quarry, finds himself embroiled in one of the most remarkable episodes of the English Civil War. But Stryker knows that the monarch's formidable nephew, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, is gathering his own force to march to the rescue. ![]() But after running his prey to ground near the Royalist stronghold of Newark, disaster befalls the mission.Ī large Parliamentarian army is massing before Newark's walls and the garrison is out-gunned and its fall would spell ruin for the King's cause in the Midlands. Royalist officer Major Innocent Stryker is dispatched to hunt a dangerous spy, the link between power brokers in Westminster and Edinburgh. March 1644, and a Parliamentarian victory at the battle of Nantwich is quickly followed by news that the Scots have invaded, placing the King's northern territories in jeopardy. 'Fans of Bernard Cornwell will love Captain Innocent Stryker' Ben Kane ![]() Ramona's World by Beverly Cleary7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() There's a few odd details in some of them, but mostly they rely on good storytelling and. Although her books span a period of decades, they all read as though they were written today. Her characters, including Beezus and Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, have delighted children for generations. Henshaw won the Newbery Medal, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Ramona and Her Father have been named Newbery Honor Books. Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented to her in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature. ![]() ![]() And so, the Klickitat Street gang was born! She based her funny stories on her own neighborhood experiences and the sort of children she knew. When a young boy asked her, "Where are the books about kids like us?" she remembered her teacher's encouragement and was inspired to write the books she'd longed to read but couldn't find when she was younger. Before long, her school librarian was saying that she should write children's books when she grew up. But by third grade, after spending much time in her public library in Portland, Oregon, she found her skills had greatly improved. As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. ![]() Beverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. ![]() Expendable james alan gardner7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Festina and her partner, Yarrun (missing the left side of his face), are assigned to escort a banished admiral to Melanquin, a planet where a number of Explorers have been ""lost."" All three realize this is meant to be their last mission-but Festina has other plans. ![]() Their job is to land on hostile planets, to make first contact with alien cultures-a mission they don't usually survive. But if the victim was not so well-liked, and above all, ugly, well, bad things happen, but we all have to carry on."" Festina Ramos, born with a port-wine stain covering most of her face, is a member of the Explorer Corps, who are all bright and capable, but born with some disfigurement or handicap. ""If the victim was popular, well-liked, and above all, physically attractive, fellow crewmates took the death hard. Gardner's impressive debut novel has an intriguing premise: in a society whose members expect to die of old age, certain deaths are considered more disturbing than others. ![]() The Táin by Anonymous7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In both verse and prose the narrative is occasionally picked up by characters like Cúchulainn’s charioteer Laeg or Fergus mac Roich, who provide extrapolative moments for the listener/reader. The style shifts between verse and prose verse passages may border on undecipherable abstraction, particularly when delivered as prophetic, and others reflect a logical, rhetorical debate or dialogue between characters. Some parts are told in a neutral realism, while others contain elements of fantasy, folklore, and mysticism. The Táin is told in the third person with a directness that plainly describes death, mutilation, killing, and bodily matters such as urination, menstruation, miscarriage, sex, and seduction. The Táin and the Ulster cycle more broadly have had an enormous impact on Irish literature through the centuries and are sometimes considered Ireland’s national epic. Included in this guide are several remscéla, or pre-tales, that provide context for the main narrative. The action takes place between Connacht and Ulster, as the armies move across present-day County Louth. The Táin translates as the “cattle raid of Cooley” and is the central text in a cycle of epics that follow Cúchulainn. ![]() Leigh bardugo rule of wolves7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Deep undercover, Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital. Now duty demands she embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs. She saw her mentor die and her worst enemy resurrected, and she refuses to bury another friend. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war. But a dark threat looms that cannot be defeated by a young king’s gift for the impossible. As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm―and even the monster within―to win this fight. The wolves are circling and a young king will face his greatest challenge in the explosive sequel to the instant #1 New York Times –bestselling King of Scars. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series. 2021 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fantasy ![]() The chomsky foucault debate7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Even if they cannot provide a complete picture of a future society, theories can still offer a vision and a sense of direction for revolutionary struggle. Foucault explained the same phenomena by reference to human social structures.įor example, while acknowledging that it would be futile to try to accurately predict the nature of a post-revolutionary society, Chomsky maintained that it still is worthwhile to engage in the task of theory construction. ![]() Chomsky argued human nature was real, and identified it with innate structures of the human mind, consistent with his theory of universal grammar. The debate was broadcast on 28 November 1971 at 9:30 p.m.Ĭhomsky and Foucault were invited by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to discuss an age-old question: "is there such a thing as 'innate' human nature independent of our experiences and external influences?" Debate Īs the moderator summarized the topic: "All learning concerning man, ranging from history to linguistics and psychology, are faced with the question whether in the last instance, we are the product of all kinds of external factors, or if, in spite of our differences, we have something we could call a common human nature by which we can call each other human beings." Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault assumed opposing viewpoints on the question. The Chomsky–Foucault debate was a debate about human nature, between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, on 22 October 1971 at 7:30 p.m. ![]() |