![]() ![]() ![]() When his mysterious father appears and asks for a favor, Jameson can't resist the challenge. Jameson Hawthorne is a risk-taker, a sensation-seeker, a player of games. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. ![]() When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem-efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #1 bestselling, TikTok sensation Inheritance Games trilogy, and the stakes have never been higher. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She has put together John Hattie’s eight mind frames in a very nice and fun video scribe animation. John Hattie believes “that teachers and school leaders who develop these ways of thinking are more likely to have major impacts on student learning.”ĭuring the summer holidays we stumbled upon a great video made by Cheryl Reynolds, a senior lecturer at the University of Huddersfield. 159 ff) John Hattie claims that “the major argument in this book underlying powerful impacts in our schools relates to how we think! It is a set of mind frames that underpin our every action and decision in a school it is a belief that we are evaluators, change agents, adaptive learning experts, seekers of feedback about our impact, engaged in dialogue and challenge, and developers of trust with all, and that we see opportunity in error, and are keen to spread the message about the power, fun, and impact that we have on learning.” ![]() ![]() A woolly-bear caterpillar hurries across a ledge, going late to some tremendous transformation, but about this he knows as little as I. The seeds remain very quiet and some slip off into the crevices of the rock. We, the seeds and I, climb another wall together and sit down to rest, while I consider the best way to search for the secret of life. After all, who am I to contend against such ingenuity? It is obvious that nature, or some part of it in the shape of these seeds, has intentions beyond this field and has made plans to travel with me. ![]() A bit further I reach an unkempt field full of brown stalks and emptied seed pods.īy the time I get to the wood I am carrying all manner of seeds hooked in my coat or piercing my socks or sticking by ingenious devices to my shoestrings. I go carefully down the apartment steps and climb, instead of jump, over the wall. ![]() On some day when the leaves are red, or fallen, and just after the birds are gone, I put on my hat and an old jacket, and over the protests of my wife that I will catch cold, I start my search. I am middle-aged now, but in the autumn I always seek for it again hopefully. ![]() ![]() ![]() Īnd an ancient demigoddess hellbent on regaining her former status by preying on the blood and sweat (but mostly blood) of every human she encounters. That is, if they can survive the present challenges:Ī new hallucinogenic drug sweeping the country. Yes-the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry which has found a welcome home there. ![]() ![]() The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. In South Africa, the future looks promising. From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2009, Cormac McCarthy won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, a lifetime achievement award given by the PEN American Center.Īll the Pretty Horses isn’t quite as grim as other Cormac McCarthy work that I’ve read but considering that this includes The Road, Blood Meridian, No Country For Old Men and watching the HBO adaptation of his play The Sunset Limited, it's still so bleak that your average person will be depressed enough to be checked into a mental ward and put on suicide watch after finishing it. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner. ![]() ![]() Literary critic Harold Bloom named him one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. His earlier Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 19, and he placed joint runner-up for a similar title in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He has written twelve novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and has also written plays and screenplays. Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Universal Monsters: Silver Screen Queenz scarezone was also announced, and the Terror Tram was confirmed to be returning, though with an at the time unknown theme. August 14th, 2021: More details about the story of the Bride of Frankenstein Lives house are released.The full event dates and times were revealed, and multi-night tickets are confirmed. July 22nd, 2021: The Exorcist and The Curse of Pandora's Box are both confirmed to be returning as haunted houses to this event.July 15th, 2021: Universal Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein Lives and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are both revealed to be coming as haunted houses to the event.There was also confirmation that scarezones would be returning. ![]() ![]() The Haunting of Hill House is announced as the first haunted maze of the event. July 8th, 2021: The event is confirmed to be happening this year.6 Halloween Horror Nights 2021 Merchandise and Collectibles. ![]() ![]() Even when a treatise on medicine or natural science is brought out in verse, the name of poet is by custom given to the author and yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common but the meter, so that it would be right to call the one poet, the other physicist rather than poet. People do, indeed, add the word ‘maker’ or ‘poet’ to the name of the meter, and speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter) poets, as if it were not the imitation that makes the poet, but the verse that entitles them all to the name. ![]() For there is no common term we could apply to the mimes of Sophron and Xenarchus and the Socratic dialogues on the one hand and, on the other, to poetic imitations in iambic, elegiac, or any similar meter. There is another art which imitates by means of language alone, and that either in prose or verse- which verse, again, may either combine different meters or consist of but one kind- but this has hitherto been without a name. ![]() ![]() If you do too, then this book is for you. But honestly, all I could think about was “damn, why didn’t I marry an English teacher?” Overall, I love romance. Obviously, ole boy can’t help but cave when it comes to our sassy heroine. To the point where he insults her and is just a big ole jerk! It’s okay though because Greer takes it all in stride because she’s badass like that. And let’s not forget he has an immediate “dislike” for our girl. Greer is all sunshine and laughs-I loved her immediately! Then we got umpy and snooty. So the story is about Greer and Arlo, who are both English teachers at their high school. So all the characters, like the baseball players from other books (like Jason Orson), yeahhhhh, I’ve moved her up on my TBR. Quinn’s books, I actually haven’t gotten around to reading them. I was left in stitches and I can’t tell you how much I needed that. I may or may not have gotten a bunch of Mr. Zachary Webber, um can one fall in love with a voice? The female narrator, Erin, was superb. For some reason I thought I’d pop my audio romance cherry, so to speak, and wow! I’ve obviously missed out on a bunch. How dare he!! Listen, I’m gonna let you guys in on little secret.I don’t listen to romance audiobooks, only thrillers and horror books and literary fiction. ![]() ![]() I swear Arlo gave me so much whiplash that I spent the majority of the book hating his guts! But then out of no where the grumpy bastard had my heart. Want to know the theme song to this book? Hot and Cold by Katy Perry. ![]() ![]() Contrary to what the litany of enumerated flaws might suggest, the dustjacket looks very nice under its fitted archival mylar protector. There is some fading to part of the spine (brown to grey) but the jacket is fresh and clean, uncreased and unclipped ($2.50). ![]() The fragile, unlaminated dustjacket is very good plus (edging up to near fine) with small/shallow chips at the spine tips and at three corners, a 1" closed tear at the lower rear spine fold, and a 1 & 1/2" closed tear across the spine (this one is next to invisible from the outside) and, finally, a much shorter closed tear on the left edge of the lower front panel (again, barely noticeable). ![]() The blueish- green pastedowns and endsheets are pristine as is the interior. There is a bit of fading to the gold stamping on the spine and a tiny brown spot on the rear cover. A very good plus book: straight and tight with clean covers. First US edition, first printing (matching dates - 1932 - on the title and copyright pages as well as the publisher's "A" on the copyright page). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nietzsche set himself as a destroyer and rebuilder of philosophy and critic of the degradation of the German spirit through nationalism and militarism. Hoelderlin and Kleist consciously opposed the worldly harmoniousness of Goethe's classicism in favor of a visionary inwardness and dramatisation of the subjective psyche. Whereas the nineteenth-century novel is socially capacious in terms of subject and audience, the three figures treated here are prophets or forerunners of modernist ideas of alienation and exile. Each led an unstable life ending in madness and/or suicide and not until the twentieth century did each make their full impact. Zweig's subjects here are respectively a lyric poet, a dramatist and writer of novellas, and a philosopher. In 'Hoelderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche', Zweig concentrates on three giants of German literature to portray the artist and thinker as a figure possessed by a powerful inner vision at odds with the materialism and scientific positivism of his time, in this case, the nineteenth century. This is the second volume in a trilogy in which Stefan Zweig builds a composite picture of the European mind through intellectual portraits selected from among its most representative and influential figures. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references. ![]() |