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![]() Frizzle is as well developed and intriguing as ever. Clearly written and well organized, this new title presents accurate scientific information leavened with a touch of humor that is never condescending. ![]() Degen's colorful and amusing cartoons heighten the adventures. A plethora of pseudo school reports provide additional information on the topic. The field trip ends with a bit of drama when a bear tries to raid the hive. They also have the opportunity to observe typical honeybee behavior. Garbed in bee costumes complete with antennae, and sprayed with the proper pheromones, the students are accepted by the workers and allowed to perform such chores as foraging for nectar and pollen, building honeycombs, making honey, and feeding larvae. Frizzle! This time out she introduces her class to the insect kingdom via an excursion through a honeybee hive. Grade 1-4?Nobody can organize a field trip like the indomitable Ms. ![]()
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Jerome k jerome dog5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog". ![]() Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. ![]() The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In "Forgetful-ness," memories of the contents of a novel "retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones." In "Osso Buco," a poem about gustatory pleasure, the "lion of content-ment" places a warm heavy paw on the poet's chest. From four earlier collections, which have secured for him a national reputation, Collins offers the lyric equivalent of an album of Greatest Hits. ![]() The same phrase applies, just as joyfully, to the arrival of Sailing Alone Around the Room, a landmark collection of new and selected poems by this Guggenheim Fellow, NPR contributor, New York Public Library "Literary Lion," and incomparably popular performer of his own good works. "High, most encouraging tidings"-that is how Billy Collins, the widely read and widely acclaimed poet, describes the music in his poem about the gospel singing group The Sensational Nightingales. ![]()
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Morning glory milking farm español5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Violet is resolved to make a dent in her student loans and afford name-brand orange juice, and a one-sided crush on an out-of-her-league minotaur is not a part of her plan-unless her feelings aren't so one-sided after all. When a stern, deep-voiced client begins to specially request her for his milking sessions, maintaining her professionalism and keeping him out of her dreams is easier said than done. ![]() Milking minotaurs isn't something Violet ever considered as a career option, but she's determined to turn the opportunity into a reversal of fortune. The clientele is Grade A certified prime beef, with the manly, meaty endowments to match. Morning Glory Milking Farm offers full-time hours, full benefits, and generous pay with no experience needed. When a lifeline appears in the form of a very unconventional job in neighboring Cambric Creek, she has no choice but to grab at it with both hands. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Violet is a typical, down-on-her-luck millennial: mid-twenties, over-educated and drowning in debt, on the verge of moving into her parent's basement. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Surprisingly, in France, where the strongest scientific branch of feminism is a materialist one, NM is almost unknown. This approach reached its peak in the early 2010s and then gradually lost influence, although it should be said that it was a rather marginal phenomenon from the start. It grapples with the idea of the existence and potential agency of a material world beyond human perception. This approach is among other fields mostly rooted in science and technology studies (STS) and in philosophy. Under the label of new materialism (NM), a number of scholars, who mostly come from the United States - specifically, from the University of Chicago - as well as from several Northern and Central European countries, have published and defended a scientific approach that they characterize as new and materialist. ![]()
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Vera by stacy schiff5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() She was a lover of the arts and literature a woman who spoke four languages and taught and translated modern langauages. This is how Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife, Véra. She lives in New York City.įor you are the only person I can talk to-about the hue of a cloud, about the singing of a thought, and about the fact that when I went out to work today and looked each sunflower in the face, they all smiled back at me with their seeds. ![]() Schiff has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. She was awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director’s Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions. All three were New York Times Notable Books the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. ![]() Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d'Amérique. ![]()
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The Spanish Bride by Georgette Heyer5/21/2023 ![]() She brings alive military life during the Regency period, how the armies marched and fought, as well as how the nobility provided for its own comfort with servants, horses, dogs and furniture. ![]() Heyer's research encompassed every available diary from that time period, including Harry Smith's, and all of the Duke of Wellington's writings and dispatches. But at the Seige of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his career. In spite of the danger, Juana thrived on military life and her passionate, if somewhat stormy, relationship with Harry. The Spanish Bride Georgette Heyer 3.48 2,765 ratings214 reviews Shot-proof, fever-proof and a veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellington's army. Juana became a camp favorite, charming all with her youthful enthusiasm. ![]() "My favourite historical novelist." â? Margaret DrabbleĪ tale of love at first sight, based on the true story of Brigade-Major Harry Smith and the very young Spanish noblewoman he met and married during the Peninsular Wars, when the Duke of Wellington's forces fought Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal.Īfter marrying Harry Smith when she was 14 years old, Juana Smith "followed the drum," marching at the back of the troops along with the other wives and the officers' servants. ![]()
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Frances mayes latest book5/20/2023 ![]() Fisher and Peter Mayle did for Provence, Mayes writes about the tastes and pleasures of a foreign country with gusto and passion. ![]() Mayes also creates dozens of delicious seasonal recipes from her traditional kitchen and simple garden, all of which she includes in the book. In evocative language, she brings the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. Book Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A TIMELESS CLASSIC FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA Frances Mayes-widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer-opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. About the Book In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun andBella Tuscany, Mayes lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-longlove affair with Tuscanys people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. ![]()
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The Kybalion by Three Initiates5/20/2023 ![]() These divisions are more or less artificial and arbitrary, for the truth is that all of the three divisions are but ascending degrees of the great scale of Life, the lowest point of which is undifferentiated Matter, and the highest point that of Spirit. This truth is a truth because all that is included in the Universe emanates from the same source, and the same laws, principles, and characteristics apply to each unit, or combination of units, of activity, as each manifests its own phenomena upon its own plane.įor the purpose of convenience of thought and study, the Hermetic Philosophy considers that the Universe may be divided into three great classes of phenomena, known as the Three Great Planes, namely: The great Second Hermetic Principle embodies the truth that there is a harmony, agreement, and correspondence between the several planes of Manifestation, Life and Being. ![]() "As above, so below as below, so above."-The Kybalion. ![]() Sacred Texts Esoteric Index Previous Next ![]()
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Inappropriate by Vi Keeland5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Sort of like the video that got me into trouble to begin with. ![]() 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. 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. 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.Īll because of a video taken when I was on vacation with my friends-a private video made on my private time. I couldn't believe the letter in my hands. AS RECOMMENDED IN COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE, OPRAH MAGAZINE & INSIDERĪ new, sexy standalone novel from #1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland. ![]() |