OL8077692W Page_number_confidence 89.62 Pages 214 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200804220002 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1135 Scandate 20200722184928 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780399534607 Tts_version 4. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists. Both daring and meditative, How to Be an Explorer of the World is part Maira Kalman, part Wendy MacNaughton, part its very own kind of whimsy, delivering beautifully exactly what it says on the tin, with an invitation to be just a little bit more alive each day. Urn:lcp:howtobeexplorero0000smit:epub:5638e077-6cdd-4892-8c61-0580e153b342 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier howtobeexplorero0000smit Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5dc72h3b Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780399534607Ġ399534601 Lccn 2008015966 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.3753 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18411 Openlibrary_edition Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:59:14 Boxid IA1896208 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
0 Comments
“There certainly were whites and lots of free African Americans who helped people escape from slavery,” he says, “but there was also a network of people who were trying to catch them.” This is the work that pushes the question of slavery onto the national stage.”īaptist says that we may not fully appreciate how self-emancipation itself was an act of resistance in the face of the broad effort to squelch it. “These communities not only provided havens for individuals and families but-what we’ve learned is-these were the bases from which slavery is fought. “By the 1830s and ‘40s, a big proportion of the free black population in the North were runaways or the children or spouses of runaways,” Baptist says. Baptist, History, Jackson and other runaways don’t receive the full credit they deserve. After the Civil War, he brought his mother north as well-a happy ending to a heroic, harrowing journey. In a cemetery just south of Cornell University’s campus, you can find the grave of “Faithful” Daniel Jackson, a man who settled in Ithaca after escaping slavery in the 1840s. 2022 Research Stats & Faculty Distinctions.
5/11/2023 0 Comments Bitter spirits by jenn bennettThe novel takes place in 1927 and its heroine, Aida Palmer, is a spirit medium. More on why in a moment, but first, a plot summary. I started out distracted and occasionally even annoyed in the first third, was absorbed and entertained in the middle, but in the last quarter, some of my enjoyment waned. Some aspects of it were excellent, others weak, and still others somewhat discomfiting. Reading your first foray into the romance genre, Bitter Spirits, was an interesting experience because I wasn’t sure what to think of the book. Janine C Reviews Category / C+ Reviews 1920s / bootlegging / ghosts / Historical / medium / paranormal romance / San-Francisco 22 Comments JanuREVIEW: Bitter Spirits by Jenn Bennett 5/10/2023 0 Comments Dav pilkey big dog little dogHe has published more than seventy books for children, including the bestselling Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club graphic novels.ĭav's stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, empathy, and the triumph of the good-hearted. It was both a USA Today and New York Times bestseller. In 2002, Dav published his first full-length graphic novel for kids, called The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby. Dav made many other books before being awarded the California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath (1994) and the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy (1996). He took her advice and created his first book, World War Won, which won a national competition in 1986. In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to write and illustrate for kids. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books - the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th The chapter ends with Lowen finding her baby gone from the crib and Crew casually saying that he took her out of the house because she was too loud. Jeremy solves the problem by (surprise surprise!) drowning her and after they go home, Lowen contemplates their relationship and she solves her predicament by having (surprise surprise!) sex in the shower. The four (now with their new baby) go to the beach and it's revealed that Jeremy and Lowen kept their affair a secret and nobody knows about their marriage/new baby to discredit any suspicion over Verity's death they run into a woman that Jeremy knows, who's rightfully instantly suspicious. Tldr of the new chapter: the book starts with a detailed amount of pure smut with Lowen in a mental monologue of constantly comparing herself to Verity. I know we collectively all hate CoHo and Verity on this sub, but I've seen a few buzz around here so I thought it'd be interesting to post thisįor background, Colleen Hoover just released another edition of Verity with an extra chapter/epilogue that singlehandedly made me change my 4 star of the book to 1 star. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Shatter me book freeThe finishing was impressive and also probably one of the most reliable component of the book, there’s no cliffhanger at the end, yet by the end I was so invested, I truly did not call for one to mean to review the following book so bad. The tale is solid, with a constant pacing, and also I liked every secondly of it. We locate factors as she does, as well as additionally I believed that was done properly. I believed it would certainly concentrate a great deal a lot more on the world structure of the dystopian elements like many initial magazines in a collection do, yet instead it concentrates far more on the individualities, and also especially simply exactly how the main individuality discovers what has really happened and also what it needs to reside in this world. There is a remarkable composing style, sort of inconsistent I assume is the absolute best suggests to explain it, when the story begins the significant individuality has actually spent almost a year in a crazy asylum, so she questions whatever, including her really own ideas, along with this definitely makes it unique. This was not what I was expecting in all. I had actually seen this around a great deal and also a great deal of people had really recommended it, yet it had not been truly high up on my TBR listing, and also I just maintained placing if off. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Make Your Move by J. BreeAsh, Harley, and Blaise don't care about the game, all they care about is destroying me. But can I survive the game the Juniors have started with me as the goal? Now every boy at Hannaford wants to have me. After attracting the wrong sort of attention from the richest boy in the country, pissing off the hottest guy in school and being humiliated in front of my favorite rock idol I am now the target of the most popular, and cruelest, group in the freshman class. Wake up J ason's voice was concerned, but not frantic. more After surviving foster care and a high school that breeds gang members and drug dealers I've finally found my path to freedom: emancipation and a full ride scholarship at the ultra-exclusive Hannaford Prep. The tiny terror continued to move toward the bed until Bree could no. Where Vines renounce the tank, and commence a retrograde move - of which. After attracting the wrong sort of attention from the richest boy in the country, pissing off the hottest guy in school and being humiliated in front of my favorite rock idol I am now the target of the most popular, and cruelest, group in the freshman class. I hope, in making these thatched hurdles and loose straw, so that the Vines. They are, Rite Aid Pilot Travel Centers (Pilot Flying J) Circle K Stores. After surviving foster care and a high school that breeds gang members and drug dealers I've finally found my path to freedom: emancipation and a full ride scholarship at the ultra-exclusive Hannaford Prep. Fire their imagination and create a fall leaf crown fit for a little king or. The book is heavy on religion and metaphysics and I found it dark and hard to get through. Pushed as an urban fiction novel, Life After Death actually reads like a paranormal story. Urban Fiction? Paranormal? Sci-Fi? Magical Realism? It also didn’t help that I predicted the twist from the beginning so I didn’t even have the satisfaction of that to help how I would rate it. There is a bit of a twist at the end, but unfortunately for me, it was not enough to save the book. What in the American Horror Story is going on here? Neither heaven nor hell, she floats around in a kind of purgatory. The rest of the book are the details of Winter’s experience in the after-world. But before Winter could make her grand debut, she gets shot.Īnd this is where the story goes to a place I did not want to go. Winter Santiaga is still in prison and negotiating a deal with her brother-in-law, Elisha, for a reality TV show on her release. The first thing I noticed is the plot is in the title. Life After Death is the much anticipated second sequel to Sister Souljah’s explosive bestseller, The Coldest Winter Ever. That was nine months ago, and I want to deliver on my word. I purchased this book when it dropped in March and promised to share my thoughts. I remember not only being pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed the first book in this series, but also my surprise that it ended on a bit of a cliffhanger. The story that began with The Law of Attraction concludes with lots of love and laughter in The Home Court Advantage. When the gavel falls will the verdict be happily ever after? Come join the fun as the sexiest couple in the Philadelphia Criminal Court System shares more witty banter and red hot lovin’ with a dash of mystery thrown in. Gabrielle and Braden have fallen in love and face a bright future together if they can just survive all of the crazy people they encounter, like anonymous napkin droppers, UFO enthusiasts, crooked businessmen, nude drunk drivers, and a woman who tries to break into jail. Nothing quite spices up a courtroom like sex between opposing counsels in the jury holding room! 5/10/2023 0 Comments Puzzle Me This by Eli EastonAnd it's so hard to enliven common entries like DOE and ATM, but made me laugh, and misdirects so well toward congress. Even this baseball non-enthusiast enjoyed as THIRD. Would UNLUCKY BREAKS create a stronger a-ha? VLADI MIR / RORSCHACH, MO CHA / INLET / TERSE, etc.Ī couple of great cluing touches helped liven the solve. It's a shame that they split mundanely along syllabic lines. RAIN / BOW and SHAM / ROCK fill out the concept. It'd be fun to brainstorm, trying for similarly wild splits like SHOO / TIN / GST / AR. I loved how wildly HORSESHOE broke across AB HOR / SESH / OEUF, so much so that I hardly minded OEUF, also called out on specs sheets everywhere. Being Taiwanese-American, I go both ways with lucky numbers, but I draw the line at lucky bird poop. them's the breaks for those of us from different cultures. I might have pushed to flaunt symmetry (the horror!) for this purpose. A shame that symmetry didn't allow for NUMB / ERS / EVENED. NUMB / ERSE / VENOM works, although ERSE is called out on many editors' spec sheets since dictionaries list this word as "dated." Scottish/Irish fiction fascinates me (Read The Scorpio Races!) so I'm fine with it, but it's not the best to highlight. |