Bedtime for frances book5/30/2023 Williams worked as a portrait sculptor, art director, and magazine artist before doing his first book Stuart Little, thus beginning a long and lustrous career illustrating some of the best known children's books. He founded an art school near London and served with the British Red Cross Civilian Defense during World War II. He was born in 1912 in New York City but raised in England. White, Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban, and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Garth Williams is the renowned illustrator of almost one hundred books for children, including the beloved Stuart Little by E. He also wrote Bedtime for Frances, illustrated by Garth Williams. Russell Hoban was the author of A Bargain for Frances, A Baby Sister for Frances, Best Friends for Frances, A Birthday for Frances, and Bread and Jam for Frances, all illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
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Gene star trek5/30/2023 The show went outside television to win science fiction's coveted Hugo Award and then spawned an animated spin-off, as well as a series of feature films. Spock, Roddenberry unwittingly unleashed a phenomenon in which Star Trek enthusiasts became a veritable cult, numbering physicists, aerospace engineers, housewives, senators, children, teachers and intellectuals among its devotees (affectionately known as "Trekkies," and later, "Trekkers"). He spoke on the subject at NASA meetings, the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress gatherings, and top universities.Īs creator of the beloved Starship Enterprise and its crew, which included the heroic Captain Kirk and the logical Vulcan, Mr. His papers and lectures earned him high professional regard as a visionary. While making Star Trek, Roddenberry's reputation as a futurist began to grow. As creator and producer of the original Star Trek television series, he launched a phenomenon without precedent in show business and attained a celebrity status unique among his peers.Īlthough Gene Roddenberry passed away October 24, 1991, his legacy remains as Star Trek: The Next Generation continues to flourish and grow in movie theaters, and three television series based upon Star Trek - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and now Enterprise - maintain his vision of the future. In September 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation continued the legend that Gene Roddenberry began 25 years prior. Giovanni boccaccio il decamerone5/30/2023 So please join us in this inspiring and light-hearted adventure as we discover how Boccaccio, his " lieta compagnia" and others confronted the Great Mortality of the Middle Ages with their focus on survival and rebirth. It remained on the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum until the 20th Century! Il Decameron was revolutionary for its times in so many ways. Das Buch besteht aus 100 Novellen, die in eine Rahmenerzählung eingebettet sind. Giovanni Boccaccio gilt neben Dante Alighieri und Francesco Petrarca als einer der Väter der italienischen Literatur. Not only are these novelle a healthy distraction from the inevitable suffering and probable death left behind in the city, many of them also shine an early light on the upcoming socio-cultural changes of the Renaissance. Das Dekameron ist die wohl berühmteste Novellensammlung der Weltliteratur. His entertaining masterpiece detailing the adventures of 10 young Florentines – 7 women and 3 men - seeking safety from the pandemic is framed within a collection of 100 short stories. The brigade includes seven women: Pampinea, Filomena, Neifile, Fiammetta. In response to the horror, ten young people abandon Florence for the countryside. The disease causes intense suffering and almost certain death. In 1348, faced with the unrelenting advances of the Bubonic Plague, which was ravaging Europe, Giovanni Boccaccio, a member of the great Italian literary triumvirate which included Dante and Petrarca, devised the ultimate plan for surviving the plague. In the year 1348, a great plague sweeps through Florence, Italy. In a sense it shares an account of the birth of mestizo plant spirit medicine practice. Where singing to the plants is the encyclopedia, wizard of the Upper Amazon is a first hand telling of one key instance of indigenous plant medicine tradition being passed to the river and town dwelling mestizos in the Amazon. Steve Beyer’s book Signing To The Plants is an encyclopedia of knowledge describing the Mestizo (mixed blood Spanish speaking) plant medicine tradition that has emerged over the past century. The level of detail indicates that there is an enormous reservoir of real memory that could be drawn on at any moment for even more detail at any time. Unlike the takes of Carlos Castenada the story of Manuel Cordova in Wizard Of The Upper Amazon rings with authenticity from end to end. Essential reading on Ayahuasca & Indigenous Amazonian Life Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney5/30/2023 Buffeted by the forces of fate, hate, luck, and passion, our hero struggles to build a life–just to stay alive–in a country that at first held so much promise for him.Įpic in sweep, Metropolis follows our hero from his arrival in New York harbor through his experiences in Barnum’s circus, the criminal underground, and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, and on to a life in Brooklyn that is at once unique and poignantly emblematic of the American experience. Barnum’s stable, where he works and sleeps, and soon finds himself at the center of a citywide arson investigation.ĭetermined to clear his name and realize the dreams that inspired his hazardous voyage across the Atlantic, he will change his identity many times, find himself mixed up with one of the city’s toughest and most enterprising gangs, and fall in love with a smart, headstrong, and beautiful young woman. On a freezing night in the middle of winter, Gaffney’s nameless hero is suddenly awakened by a fire in P. Elizabeth Gaffney’s magnificent, Dickensian Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of America’s greatest city in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream. Smart House by Audrey Lusk5/30/2023 Gen Z expects their sinks to come with faucets that include sensors so that they can wave their hands underneath the faucet and have water disperse. Nothing is worse than when you are cooking and have to touch your sink handles with slimy bacteria hands after preparing chicken. Old intercom systems did not have to accommodate for the world of food delivery, but now that food delivery is almost expected it is useful to have one. A modern reason for needing a video intercom is to view when you are getting your groceries or late night take-out delivered. The value that a video intercom brings to a building is its practicality. Intercom communication from your apartment's lobby can be old and outdated. Here are the top 10 smart home products or features that Gen Z expects to be in their next apartment or home. While there are a multitude of different smart home products available for the average consumer. Now with the advancement of smart home technology and with more apartments and homes adapting the smart products, our Smart House dreams are coming closer to reality. That movie had children of the 90’s day-dreaming of what it would be like to have a smart home. Which featured a fully automated smart home. By Payton Lusk, Marketing Director of SmartzĪs someone who is a part of the Gen Z generation, I can remember a time before smart home devices when we had movies like Smart House. The Story of Us by Deb Caletti5/30/2023 When a teen travels to Hawaii to track down her sperm donor father, she discovers the truth about him, about the sunken shipwreck that’s become his obsession, and most of all about herself. She lives with her family in Seattle.Ībout the Book: The Epic Story of Every Living Thingįrom the award-winning author of A Heart in a Body in The World comes a gorgeous and fiercely feminist young adult novel. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. Printz Honor Book Girl, Unframed and One Great Lie. Read on for more about her, the book, and a giveaway!ĭeb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over sixteen books for adults and young adults, including Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Today we are chatting with Deb Caletti, author of The Epic Story of Every Living Thing! Inappropriate by Vi Keeland5/30/2023 Nine damn years I’d worked my butt off for one of the largest companies in America, and I was fired with a form letter when I returned home from a week in. Sort of like the video that got me into trouble to begin with. A new, sexy standalone novel from 1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland.Terminated for inappropriate behavior.I couldn’t believe the letter in my hands.Nine years. It would be completely wrong, inappropriate even. Even if he was ridiculously gorgeous, confident, and charming. Only…it wasn’t the only thing Grant Lexington wanted to do for me.īut there was no way I was getting involved with my boss’s boss’s boss. I certainly never thought I’d suddenly become pen pals with the rich jerk.Įventually, he realized I’d been wronged and made sure I got my job back. Or so I thought… Pissed off, I cracked open a bottle of wine and wrote my own letter to the gazillionaire CEO telling him what I thought of his company and its practices. All because of a video taken when I was on vacation with my friends-a private video made on my private time. Nine damn years I’d worked my butt off for one of the largest companies in America, and I was fired with a form letter when I returned home from a week in Aruba. I couldn’t believe the letter in my hands. Silent spring author5/30/2023 She next studied at the oceanographic institute at Woods Hole, Massachusetts and at Johns Hopkins University, where she received a master’s degree in zoology in 1932. She attended the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University), graduating magna cum laude in 1929. She developed a love of nature from her mother, and Carson became a published writer for children’s magazines by age 10. Outlining the dangers of chemical pesticides, the book led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides and sparked the movement that ultimately led to the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).īorn on on a farm in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Carson was the youngest of Robert and Maria McLean Carson’s three children. A marine biologist and nature writer, Rachel Carson catalyzed the global environmental movement with her 1962 book Silent Spring. Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard5/29/2023 But Almeida also depicts Stephanie's fierceness when she finds herself in Sierra Leone, coordinating Joe's rescue. Similarly, Stephanie is richly portrayed with a softness that is especially loving and sweet with Joe. Almeida portrays the military side of Green with a gruffness that contrasts well with the gentle, slower-paced tone the character falls into when he's with Stephanie. In the opening scene, danger and high stakes are conveyed by Almeida's breathy, staccato delivery as Joe faces a grim outcome to his personal mission to uncover the truth behind the death of Stephanie's brother. Stephanie Tompkins risks her own life to rescue Joe, who grieved for her brother when he was killed on a previous mission. Joe Green - a privately trained paramilitary operative - is captured in a third-world country. "Narrator Morais Almeida's deft pacing brings out the drama in this romantic suspense. AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |