5/13/2023 0 Comments The goal by elle kennedy![]() ![]() ![]() The author says that sometimes God doesn’t bless you with something to make you realize that you are made for something better so, don’t be afraid of your fate and accept what it plans for you. She never allows anyone to be a hurdle on her way to success and she wanted to make her own identity and was afraid of her horrible past which was shameful for her. Here the author makes us understand the importance of hard work and determination by giving the example of a college student Sabrina who has a planned future and does future-oriented studies. The book guides us for achieving our high aims and goals in life. In this book, the author tells us how to be successful in life. He has written many famous novels and series. She is the bestselling author in the New York Times and is the most wanted author both nationally and internationally. This formidable and fabulous book is written by Elle Kennedy. “The Goal (Off-Campus Book 4)” is an inspiring and motivating book in which the author discusses the success story of a young girl and wanted to make us understand the importance of hard work, determination, and fate in life. The book is about a young girl who was very determined and ambitious for what she wanted to do. ![]() “The Goal (Off-Campus Book 4)” is an interesting, thrilling, and suspense-filled novel in which the author discusses the journey of Sabrina to success and then falls. Download The Goal by Elle Kennedy PDF eBook free. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With excerpts from diaries, letters, and telegrams historic photos a map source notes and a bibliography, this is an indispensible resource for any young adventure lover, classroom, or library. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. After she was finally rescued in August 1923, after two years total on the island, Ada became a celebrity, with newspapers calling her a real "female Robinson Crusoe." The first young adult book about Blackjack's remarkable story, Marooned in the Arctic includes sidebars on relevant topics of interest to teens, including the use cats on ships, the phenomenon known as Arctic hysteria, and aspects of Inuit culture and beliefs. ![]() ![]() Determined to be reunited with her son, Ada learned to survive alone in the icy world by trapping foxes, catching seals, and avoiding polar bears. Three of the men tried to cross the frozen Chukchi Sea for help but were never seen again, leaving Ada with one remaining team member who soon died of scurvy. Conditions soon turned dire for the team when they were unable to kill enough game to survive. With the men was a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son. ![]() In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Great Britain. A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017 ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments City dog and country frog![]() ![]() Winter comes, the dog bounds out into the snow, but the frog is nowhere to be found. Frog is finally able to admit to the rambunctious dog that he is exhausted by all the running around and suggests that “maybe we can play remember-ing games.” So they sit on a rock and remember “jumping and splashing and croaking” and “sniffing and fetching and barking,” a lovely way of evoking two very different creatures. City Dog visits the country in summer and fall, and each time the friendship deepens. ![]() Their friendship blossoms as they play doggy and froggy games, including one where the frog learns how to throw a stick so the dog can fetch it. ![]() ![]() The dog asks, “What are you doing?” “Waiting for a friend,” the frog replies. Off the leash at last, the excited animal runs out into the woods and meets a frog sitting on a rock. ” series, begins the story as City Dog is liberated in the country on a springtime visit. In “City Dog, Country Frog,” Mo Willems, the author and illustrator of the much-loved “Don’t Let the Pigeon. Friends come into your life from unexpected directions, friendships go through hard times, friendships sometimes end - these themes are explored in two new books using stories of a dog befriending a frog and a rabbit befriending a bird. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The cellar by natasha preston![]() ![]() Do I look okay?Īpparently the most attractive thing was confidence. No matter how easy the steps to the perfect bedhead look were in a magazine, I never could make it work. My hair was boring, flat, and never looked right. ![]() I shrugged and studied my reflection in the mirror. ![]() You’re supposed to accept someone you love for who they were, so I accepted his messiness. My mum was right: the longer you were with a man, the grosser they became. Sometimes I missed the time when Lewis didn’t tell me he was getting off the phone because he needed to pee or when he would pick up his dirty underwear before I came over. We’d been together over a year, so we were more than comfortable with each other now. He let himself into my room-as usual-and sat down on the bed. Hey, what time are you leaving? Lewis asked. Tonight I was going to celebrate the end of the school year at a gig by a school band, and I was determined to have some fun. The heavy clouds made it look way too dark for July, but not even that was going to faze me. Looking out my bedroom window, I’m faced with yet another dull English summer day. ![]() ![]() "THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS is a wild, exciting and thoroughly satisfying collision of otherworldly horror and deductive reasoning. "THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS held me spellbound and kept me guessing.until 3 AM on a work day! The Great Detective has met his literary match, and The Woman is author Lois Gresh. "An irresistible eldritch mystery! Baker Street and the Great Old Ones are made for each other." - Christopher Golden Just how the literary establishment missed engineering a dream collaboration between H.P Lovecraft and Arthur Conan Doyle before now is a mystery but if it was waiting for Lois Gresh to do the thing justice, this one is all the justification necessary." - Loren D Estleman However, it is my privilege to recommend her latest tour-de-force. "The name Lois Gresh is as much advertising as her work needs. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Huxley brave new world![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mond gives a history lesson of the wars and strife leading up to the formation of the World State and implementation of its systems.Īfter the society has been introduced and explained, Huxley shifts gears into the main plot of the novel, revolving around the characters Lenina Crowne, who works as a nurse at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, and her coworker, Bernard Marx, who works in the Psychology Bureau. These roles and their necessity are decided by the ten “World Controllers” who run the world, one of whom, Mustapha Mond, we meet early in the novel. Alphas are at the top, followed by Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and finally Epsilons. People in the World State are literally factory-made they are then brainwashed into relishing whatever lot in life they are assigned: one of five main castes determined largely by predestined and scientifically-controlled intelligence levels. The novel opens with a tour of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, in which the Director explains the foundational ideas of society’s “stability,” which stems from the production-line uniformity of its citizens. Brave New World, a dystopian novel published in 1932, is perhaps Aldous Huxley’s most famous and enduring work, consistently ranked among the top-100 English-language novels by entities such as the Modern Library, BBC, and The Observer. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Book 5 little indians![]() ![]() Something in them was taken at Arrowhead Bay that can never be replaced, something broken that can never be repaired. Except they don’t always feel like survivors sometimes they feel like the walking dead. Maisie, Clara, Lucy, Kenny, and Howie are all survivors of the Arrowhead Bay Indian School. Back to who she was before Sister Mary, before the school, before they tried to beat her into a little brown white girl.”įive Little Indians follows five former residential school students as they try to make new lives for themselves in 1960s Vancouver, while being haunted by the demons of their past. ![]() Back to the birch grove and the angel songs. All Clara knew was that it took her back. ![]() “There are no English words to describe how one woman walked into that lodge, and another walked out. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Out of the silent planet![]() When Ransom wakes, he finds himself in a spaceship with Weston and Devine travelling to the planet of Malacandra (which we later learn is Mars). Feigning hospitality, Devine offers Ransom a drugged glass of water. After breaking up the disagreement, he realizes he knows one of the two men (Devine) from his days at school (though he does not have fond memories of him). Upon arriving Ransom finds the men harassing her son. Ransom, hoping to find a place to stay, agrees to help her. Stopping off at a farmhouse, he is asked by the woman living there if can check on her son, who works for a scientist at a nearby residence. Ransom, a college professor in philology, is on a walking tour in England when he is unable to find a hotel for the night. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “People think I am wild and queer.”Īn outdoorsy, athletic child, Alcott made fast friendships with boys and delighted in their rough-and-tumble games - long past the point where such play was considered appropriate. “I don’t care much for girls’ things,” Alcott wrote in a childhood journal entry. Wild and QueerĮven as a child, Alcott didn’t identify with girlhood. She also published under the androgynous pseudonym A.M. Alcott.” On the cover of the first edition of Little Women, Alcott is credited as L.M. The Alcotts, who were big on nicknames, generally opted to call her “Lu” or “Louy” (pronounced “Louis”), and Alcott usually signed letters as “Lou” or “L.M. Much like Jo, Alcott almost never went by her full name, preferring more masculine alternatives. Was Alcott a trans man? That vocabulary didn’t exist in Alcott’s time, but, as the Louisa May Alcott Society says, “ so important to acknowledge that never fit a binary sex/gender/sexuality system.” Read on to learn more about Lou, and how her gender non-conformity influenced her beloved writing.Īnd yes, Alcott preferred “Lou” to “Louisa.”Įarly in Little Women, Alcott’s avatar Jo March complains, “I can’t get over my disappointment in not being a boy.” Sister Beth soothes her, saying, “ou must be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls.” ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Living history hillary clinton![]() Like Michelle Obama read her own book, Hillary Clinton also reads this one. I own a copy of the Dutch edition of this book, but I found the audiobook version of is, so I've switched to that one. Hugh Rodham explained that Nazis had tattooed his acquaintance when he was a prisoner of war, and told her how the Nazis also tattooed Jews, whom they murdered en masse. Interesting times were Hillary's years in the White House, but the description of these times felt like as told from a distance, without really tangible passion, awe and a touch of humility. In her first autobiography, Living History, Hillary Clinton recalls, when she was 10, noticing numbers tattooed on the arm of an acquaintance of her father. This life in public feels much further away from my life than Becoming, although they describe the same things: being a first lady, raising a child in the White House, being married to a president, living in the public eye. Living history by Clinton, Hillary Rodham. senator (200109) and secretary of state (200913) in the administration of Pres. This book was more politics, meetings, strategy, than the memoirs of a mother, a wife. Hillary Clinton, in full Hillary Rodham Clinton, ne Hillary Diane Rodham, (born October 26, 1947, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. I can't help comparing the two, 'reading' them one after the other. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was not a bad book, but it didn't interest or touch me nearly as the book by Michelle Obama did. ![]() Well, the abriged version (still 5 hours of audio) is done. ![]() |