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![]() ![]() Immediate effect, and the kids seem to like her now. Based on her conclusions, Franny creates a potion to transforms herself into a nice-looking girl, modifies her head-biting doll into a glittery beauty and gets a squashy white bread sandwich for lunch, just like all the other kids. New teacher likes her and gives her a good advice: think of making friends as an experiment!Įxcited about the experiment, Franny makes her observations of the other kids (dolls they play with, lunch they eat, etc.) and analyses the data collected. ![]() ![]() Makes Franny sad, as she really wants them to be her friends. Schools, her new classmates are afraid of her weird style and behavior. In addition, she has a giant tarantula, a snake, a flying piranha and several bats as her pets. Her room is filled with steaming test tubes, strange bubbling beakers and a bunch of crackling electrical gizmos that Franny had made by herself. It also raises such important topics for kids as being yourself and accepting other people’s differences.įranny is an original main character, who loves the gooey part of science and all things that are dark, and creepy, and spooky. Stein, Mad Scientist” chapter book series by Jim Benton, it manages to combine a really quirky main character and the scientific method. I didn’t expect “ Lunch Walks Among Us” to be such a fun story! Being the first book in the “Franny K. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Few books can be called both delightful and eerie - this novel is one. Booklist (starred review) Two orphans, a witch and a girl who laughs at death: Each shares the lens of protagonist in Newbery-winner Schlitz's fully satisfying gothic novel.Schlitz's prose is perfect in every stitch, and readers will savor each word. Schlitz weaves them into an intricate tapestry that is as mysterious and timeless as a fairy tale. ![]() ![]() Vividly portrayed and complex, the characters are well defined individuals whose separate strands of story are colorful and compelling. Publishers Weekly (starred review) A brooding Dickensian novel with a touch of fantasy and a glimmer of hope. A highly original tale about children caught in a harrowing world of magic and misdeeds. Newbery Medalist Schlitz delivers many pleasures-fully dimensional children, period details so ripe one can nearly smell them, and droll humor that leavens a few scenes of true horror. ![]() ![]() Within the Icon's reach, Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas discover that their uncontrollable emotions - which they've always thought to be their greatest weaknesses - may actually be their greatest strengths. But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. ![]() While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son. ![]() When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid. Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside - safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting. " Your heart beats only with their permission.Įverything changed on The Day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before being picked up by a publisher, several of her works were self-published. She released Hopeless in December 2012, which shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. ![]() She published her debut book Slammed in January 2012. To create a future based on healing and optimism, Kenna must discover a way to put her past transgressions behind her.Ībout The Author About The AuthorYoung adult and romance author Colleen Hoover (Margaret Colleen Fennell) was born on December 11, 1979. Ledger is steadily taking over Kenna’s life, but if anyone found out, both would run the risk of losing the respect of those who matter to them.ĭespite the pressure they are under, the two connect, but as their romance develops, the risk increases. ![]() Ledger Ward is the only person who hasn’t shut the door on her, the owner of a neighbourhood bar and one of the only people remaining connected to Kenna’s child. No matter how hard Kenna attempts to establish herself, everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to keep her out. To reconcile with her 4-year-old daughter, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where everything went wrong after serving five years in jail for a catastrophic error.īut it doesn’t seem easy to repair the bridges Kenna burned. Reminders of Him PDF Free Download : In Colleen Hoover’s tragic yet upbeat novel, which is the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a disturbed young mother longs for a chance at atonement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lee are principal characters, and Shaara is careful to hew closely to the historical record in describing their moods, thoughts, and actions. ![]() Both focus largely on the experiences and reflections of a group of officers, Union and Confederate, at the center of the fighting. While The Killer Angels used the war to probe basic issues of human nature, the more recent works in the series are more focused on catching the war’s day-to-day reality, which they do quite successfully. This new story traces the war’s sad progress from a few days after Lee’s retreat from Gettysburg until his surrender, in 1865, at Appomattox Courthouse. In 1996, Shaara’s son issued Gods and Generals, a fictional treatment of the war’s early years. Michael Shaara (who died in 1998) wrote the Pulitzer-winning The Killer Angels (1974), a novel that dealt with the pivotal three-day battle of Gettysburg, and matched a shrewd reading of character to careful research. Concluding volume of the Shaara family’s lightly fictionalized chronicle of the Civil War, one of the more unusual (and successful) recent projects in publishing. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2001, the novel ranked 53rd on Publishers Weekly's list of the all-time best-selling hardcover children's books in English, having sold about 2.7 million copies. In early editions, she is depicted as a mere servant later in the series, she becomes more of a family member. The Drews reside in River Heights and employ a housekeeper, Hannah Gruen. ![]() ![]() Her father, Carson Drew, is a well-known criminal defense lawyer. Nancy Drew is a sixteen-year-old high school graduate (her age was changed to eighteen in the 1959 rewrite). It was first published on April 28, 1930, and rewritten in 1959 by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. The Secret of the Old Clock is the first volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such a superintelligence would be very difficult to control or restrain. Regardless of the initial timescale, once human-level machine intelligence is developed, a "superintelligent" system that "greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest" would, most likely, follow surprisingly quickly. It is unknown whether human-level artificial intelligence will arrive in a matter of years, later this century, or not until future centuries. Sufficiently intelligent machines could improve their own capabilities faster than human computer scientists, and the outcome could be an existential catastrophe for humans. It argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom from the University of Oxford. ![]() ![]() The clean, contemporary style lines built to sculpt each body with a tightly controlled color palette, aim for poetic simplicity. Those of lower status were muted in a gray wash, much like the white and gray of statues in classical art. ![]() ![]() The opposed and irreconcilable voices of family and the state enact an ancient but perennial conflict, where the morality of private allegiance is pitched against that of public service. Harking back to clothing shown in classical art, the royal-presidential family imitates colors of Greek “Red-Figure” pottery: red, black, and orange. The Burial at Thebes honours explores the dangers of pride and absolute belief regardless of personal, political and moral consequences. Color is the distinguishing factor to visually delineate class and position within the dress of a contemporary world. ![]() ![]() Set in a mythic land halfway between ancient Thebes and Washington D.C., this contemporary adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone asks which is more important, the laws of man or the laws of the gods? This theis production focus on the politcal and the personal investigation of American culture.Įach character’s silhouette is built around the images we see so frequently on the news, in papers and in social media. presents The Burial at Thebes The conflicts between individual freedom and the security of the state, as well as the limits of divine and civil law, get a theatrical examination in Lawrence University’s production of The Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles Antigone. Forum Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego CA Casting 'The Burial at Thebes,' a version of Sophocles, 'Antigone,' adapted by Irish Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, based on the fifth century, B.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() And they should know: the two have had moments of charmed bliss and deep frustration, of profound connection and gut-wrenching alienation. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship-its joys and its pitfalls.Īminatou and Ann define Big Friendship as a strong, significant bond that transcends life phases, geographical locations, and emotional shifts. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they’ve become known for frank and intimate conversations. Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another’s lives. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series)Ī close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. ![]() |