![]() ![]() ![]() I Spy Animals by Jean Marzollo, photos by Walter Wick Perfect for young children who are beginning school. ![]() Look at the accompanying full-color photo filled with everyday objects to find the items listed. I Spy School Days by Jean Marzollo, photos by Walter Wick Similar to other books with amazing full-color photographs of objects, search in the photographs to find the hidden objects. Younger learners use stickers to find hidden objects. It’s so fun! My kids always preferred the sticker hidden picture books to the color books.Īround the World A Can You Find It Bookby Sarah L. We highly recommend it.ĭevelop counting and sorting skills while searching for the hundreds of hidden things in the busy, colorful scenes packed with multiple images and objects to seek and find. Help your preschooler identify numbers with this exciting search and find board book all about counting and numbers. 100%! It’s a great way to practice thinking skills, observation, colors, vocabulary, and cooperation, all of which are foundational for litearcy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano never faltered as he fused scientific analysis of an immense vault of historical material, with the impassioned perspective of plundered peoples. These are the veins which he traced through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where to this day they empty continuously into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Thus he was concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. Rather than charting the continent according to more traditional geographic or chronological delineations, Eduardo Galeano told the story of Latin America by uncovering the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. debut fifty years ago, this brilliant classic set the standard for historical scholarship on Latin America. 50th Anniversary edition! Honored by an inspiring introduction by one of the most important writers of our time, Isabel Allende ![]() ![]() As the structures that once guided their lives begin to crumble, can each of these three unlikely allies hold their own against the coming storm? Full of epic adventure and thrilling intrigue, this adventure will thrill readers who love the Spirit Animals and Wings of Fire series, as well as the legion of dedicated fans who’ve made Erin Hunter a bestselling phenomenon. And Tailgrabber, a young hyena, is desperate to find peace between her clan and the lions of Noblepride-even though it marks a betrayal of the hyenas’ longstanding allegiance to the Great Devourer. Stride the cheetah is keeping secrets from his coalition that could get him killed for disloyalty. Echo, a water buffalo, is chosen by the Great Spirit to lead after a horrific accident-but can’t command the respect of any of his herd. The Shattered Horn Erin Hunter 3.00 2 ratings1 review A thrilling new arc in Erin Hunter's bestselling Bravelands series Set in the African highlands and told from three different animals' points of view, this is a perfect adventure for dedicated fans and readers new to the Bravelands world. ![]() ![]() ![]() A thrilling new arc in Erin Hunter’s bestselling Bravelands series! Set in the African highlands and told from three different animals’ points of view, this is a perfect adventure for dedicated fans and readers new to the Bravelands world. ![]() ![]() “When Pat died, I moved to an active adult community in Chico, CA, where my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter live. I remember Junior Week dances in the Armory with big name bands at either end of the building. ![]() During those years we took many cruises, as well as golfing and fishing trips. In 1988 he retired, and we spent 21 years in Sonoma until he died in 2009. “We later moved to Foster City and Pat opened his architectural office in San Mateo. Another roommate, Rosemary Williamson Colgate, and her husband, Stirling ’48, PhD ’52, lived in Livermore, also close. ![]() “My Alpha Phi roommate, June Johnson Reynolds, and her husband, Hugh, lived in Sunnyvale, not too far away. ![]() We then returned to the West Coast and lived for 18 years in Sacramento, where our daughter Gail and son Tom were born. “After being married, we spent a year in Seattle and returned to Ithaca, as Pat needed one more term to get his degree. We received a wonderful letter from Joan Dall Patton, who fondly reflected on her life with husband Ed “Pat” Patton, BArch ’49. ![]() ![]() ©2022 by Steven Konkoly (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. And also to vindicate his mother, by seeing the mission through to its treacherous end. Countersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new. ![]() Now it’s Devin’s mission to destroy a covert network poised to deliver a fatal blow to the future of the United States. novel by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Steven Konkoly. What he uncovers, clue by clue, is a conspiracy more widespread and insidious than anyone could have imagined. With the help of longtime friend and former Marine helicopter pilot Marnie Young and a loyal team of covert operatives Helen summoned just before her death, Devin is propelled into a high-stakes chase across the country. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe - a mission worth dying for. Stopping the most dangerous conspiracy to ever threaten America means believing the unthinkable in an explosive novel by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Steven Konkoly.Ĭountersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. Devin Gray 1 Deep Sleep Steven Konkoly 4.06 10,331 ratings535 reviews Stopping the most dangerous conspiracy to ever threaten America means believing the unthinkable in an explosive novel by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Steven Konkoly. ![]() ![]() ![]() She digs a flask from her pocket and swigs before passing it to me, never taking her eyes off the woman, who blushes red to her scalp line under Dana’s scrutiny. ![]() Even if there's a chance Mary Carlson might be interested in her, too. Dana sits back down and slumps in the chair, then crosses her leg across her knee, a rakish grin settling on her lips. But Jo couldn't possibly think of breaking her promise to her dad.Įven if she's starting to fall for the girl. And Jo reluctantly agrees.Īlthough it is (mostly) much easier for Jo to fit in as a straight girl, things get complicated when she meets Mary Carlson, the oh-so-tempting sister of her new friend at school. Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. Joanna meets the perfect girl for her and must decide whether to break a promise that could change everything for her and her family or lose out on love in this charming young adult romance that's perfect for fans of Julie Murphy's Dumplin' and Becky Albertalli's Simon vs. ![]() ![]() "A sweet, sexy, honest teen romance that just happens to involve two girls-all the more charming for being so very ordinary."- KirkusĪ Kirkus Best Book of the Year! A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year! A Bustle Best Young Adult Book of the Year! 3 starred reviews! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Mina must decide between long-held dreams and dangerous new desires. And although Mina thought she knew exactly what she wanted, one breathtakingly seductive kiss from Andrew changes everything. and halfway to melting Drew’s cold heart. How can a lady armed with such beauty and brains fall for his irresponsible degenerate of a brother? Drew vows to save her from heartbreak and ruin, no matter the cost.īut Mina is no damsel in distress. But when Drew meets Mina, she complicates everything. There’s only one very large, very unyielding obstacle: Rafe’s brother Andrew, the reclusive Duke of Thorndon. She determined her perfect match long ago: Rafe Bentley, the wickedest rake of them all. Raised in the countryside by her overprotective uncle, Mina Penny’s dream of a triumphant London season is finally here. ‘Georgette Heyer with a sexy twist’ Eloisa James ![]() ![]() ![]() Red Kelly is shown to have numerous brushes with the colonial police forces, resulting in his imprisonment and death when his son Ned was twelve years of age.Īfter the rest of the family resettles in northeast Victoria under the Land Grant Act, Ned's mother attempts to provide for her children by running a shebeen and taking on a series of lovers, including the notorious bushranger Harry Power. After marrying Ned's mother Ellen (née Quinn), the Kellys settle in Avenel, a rural area northeast of Melbourne. Ned Kelly begins his autobiography with a description of his father, John "Red" Kelly, an Irishman transported to Van Diemen's Land and eventually settling in the colony of Victoria, Australia. Despite its title, the book is fiction and a variation on the Ned Kelly story. It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One day Lynesse comes to Nyr’s door asking for his help to fight a “demon” loose on the land. Nyr is an anthropologist sent from Earth to study the culture of a colony planet long separated from Earth and its history. She inhabits a world that seems medieval, where queens rule the lands and swordsmen battling evil are mythological heroes. Lynesse is the youngest daughter of the ruler of her land. What is so much fun about Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new novella Elder Race is that it is both science fiction and fantasy. The best of both science fiction and fantasy use their imagined settings to tell stories that examine the human condition, and give us insights about ourselves. These imagined worlds of sci fi and fantasy include such different realities as Middle Earth with its elves and ents, and its humans and hobbits and the Vulcan home world with its star traveling warp drive, and a culture based on logic and reason at odds with their warlike cousins from the planet Romulus. Fantasies are set in a romanticized era with elements from history, often with battles between good and evil that are fought with shield and sword. Science Fiction stories are set in a far advanced time when technology can do remarkable things. ![]() ![]() Science Fiction and Fantasy are two distinct things, and also two sides of the same coin.īoth genres tend to have settings in imagined places. ![]() ![]() Let me be clear, however: in pointing out the familiarity of the various societies we see in Foundation, I'm not being critical. ![]() The Foundation itself seems to recapitulate a fair bit of American history, passing through Boss Tweed politics and Robber Baron-style plutocracy by the end of the trilogy it has evolved into something resembling mid 20th-century America – although Asimov makes it clear that this is by no means its final state. Trantor, the empire's capital, comes across as a sort of hyper-version of Manhattan in the 1940s. Asimov's Galactic Empire sounds an awful lot like the Roman Empire. The Foundation novels are about society, not gadgets – and unlike, say, William Gibson's cyberpunk novels, which are excellent in a very different way, they're about societies that don't seem much affected by technological progress. ![]() But these are superficial details, playing a fairly minor part in the story. Yes, it's set in the future, there's interstellar travel, people shoot each other with blasters instead of pistols and so on. Maybe the first thing to say about Foundation is that it's not exactly science fiction – not really. By the way, spoilers follow, so stop reading if you want to encounter the whole thing fresh. The trilogy really is a unique masterpiece there has never been anything quite like it. So how do the Foundation novels look to me now that I have, as my immigrant grandmother used to say, grown to mature adultery? Better than ever. ![]() |