![]() ![]() Rumors swirl in the village about the abbey's previous owners, about ghosts and curses, and an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all. And she senses something else in the library too, a presence that seems to have a will of its own. Despite cryptic warnings from the staff, Ivy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves, where familiar works mingle with strange, esoteric texts. But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors: a magnificent library. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. In post – World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets. "Weaves a spell of darkness that's mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." - New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The hare and the tortoise decided to have a raceĢ. Put full stop, question marks and exclamation marks accordingly.ġ. State whether the following sentences are Assertive, interrogative exclamatory or imperative. Add garlic sauce to the mixture to make it tasty. Sentences are groups of words that make sense. The trees sang lullabies for the children Who sang lullabies for the sleepy children?Īns. The trees sway softly and create a very soothing sound that helps children to fall asleep.ī. ![]() ![]() Why do you think the lullaby is drowsy?Īns. Yes, trees are the kindest things because they provide home to birds, they provide shelter to man and animals, they provide fruits to eat, wood to build homes.Īnswer the following with reference to contextĪ. Do you agree with the line? Trees are the kindest things I know. At night, trees hum a sweet lullaby to help children fall asleep.ģ. Then comes spring, the season when new buds appear and life begins.Īns. Why are there new buds of green in Spring?Īns. When the moon floats on the sky, the treesĪns. The line And gather birds among their boughs meanģ. Understanding the Text | Questions Answersġ. The poet believes that trees are the kindest things is reinforced through various images used in the poem and this again re-affirmed (state again strongly) in the last line of the poem. ![]() ![]() A ducky tale indeed, as sublimely simple and endearing as the playthings it portrays. 10 Little Rubber Ducks is one of our favorite Eric Carle books, partially due to the colorful, perky illustrations and partially due to the fact that the story is based on an actual cargo ship accident that set 29,000 plastic ducks, turtles and frogs adrift in the ocean. While mother and babies "Quack" goodnight to the moon, the new addition chimes in with a chipper "Squeak!" (a sound chip allows readers to hear it for themselves). ![]() Full-page collage images give way to full-spread compositions as the 10th rubber duck meets with the most satisfying fate (it encounters a real Carle's jaunty renderings of these creatures and use of crisp verbs make this a lively journey: a dolphin jumps over the first duck, a pelican chatters at the fifth, a whale sings to the ninth. As the ducks drift in different directions, the counting and ecological aspects of the tale emerge one by one the toys encounter a critter from various ocean habitats. ![]() ![]() When a wave washes one box into the sea, its contents fall out ("10 ducks overboard!" the ship's captain theatrically announces). After little yellow rubber ducks pop out of "the rubber duck machine," their beaks and eyes receive dabs of paint, and the toys are packed 10 to a box and loaded onto a cargo ship. ) characteristically jewel-toned collage art with a breezy text whose intermittent repetition lends it a song-like cadence. ![]() Inspired by a 2003 newspaper story about a shipment of yellow rubber ducks that fell overboard from a container ship, this winsome story pairs Carle's ( Mister Seahorse ![]() ![]() ![]() SWALLOWED BY A SECRET takes readers on a mysterious grand adventure while addressing serious issues with sensitivity and heart. ""A contemporary and realistic tale with a little dash of magical realism thrown in, this is a somewhat serious and emotive story that deals with grief, betrayal, secrets and other social issues for young people who have lost a parent."" Sensational tween characters propel this lighthearted but sentimental tale."" With Rocky's goal established early, the story moves at a steady clip. ![]() ""Nyman's engaging tale features two immensely likable characters in Rocky and Olive. """Invoking an air of secrecy along with a young boy's potential first love as he moves towards becoming a man, SWALLOWED BY A SECRET written by Risa Nyman is an appealing page-turner that takes a look at worthy issues."" ![]() ![]() Weatherford touches on this in passing, but for the most part he takes The Secret History of the Mongols as fact, especially given the thorough detail that’s given about certain places in Mongolia. On the one hand, it’s interesting to see where Genghis came from … but on the other, The Secret History of the Mongols is really the only source Weatherford has for Genghis’ early life, so I’m honestly not sure how accurate the account could be. Weatherford starts the book detailing Genghis’ early life, based on a document known as The Secret History of the Mongols. I mean, he went from a poor, illiterate peasant to to the greatest conqueror in history– just add some dragons and wizards, and you’ve got yourself a fantasy novel. While the “great man” theory of history has a lot of unfortunate implications, there’s no arguing that Genghis Khan left an indellible mark on history. It is, as one would expect, about the life and empire of Genghis Khan. I heard about Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in passing, and finally decided to track down a copy. The Mongol Empire was one of those stretches of history I was vaguely familiar with, in that I knew a bunch of guys on horses conquered a whole bunch of stuff, but I was a little short on details. Well, except for the millions of people they killed and/or conquered, but still. Book Review: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our findings imply that the effectiveness of monetary policy mainly depends on the phase of the economic cycle and the inflation uncertainty. We also provide a novel look at the inflation changes by estimating the conditional density of inflation given different output gap levels, with the numerical results indicating that an increase of the output gap boosts the level of inflation as well as raises the uncertainty of inflation. We find that the shape of the Phillips curve for the United States is nonlinear and asymmetric, and varies considerably across quantiles. ![]() ![]() Empirical results for the United States show that the hybrid Phillips curve model outperforms the other two in terms of goodness of fit and prediction ability. For the empirical illustration, we compare three types of the Phillips curve models in the quantile regression framework. This approach combines the classical quantile regression with a nonlinear analysis technique and presents the advantages of discovering the heterogeneous nonlinearity of the Phillips curve across quantiles of the inflation distribution. ![]() In this paper we investigate the trade-off between the output gap and inflation using a nonlinear quantile regression approach. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This prompts the question of how the experience of the single male, that is the younger male who might yet marry, was essentially different from that of the single female. The singlewoman is consequently conspicuous in the records in a way in which the single male, as opposed to simply the male, is not. 1 In part this is a corollary of the legal conventions of the day that show concern for a woman’s status in relation to fathers, husbands, etc. Whereas, however, there is a specific and valuable scholarship that focuses on single women, even a recent monograph that explores the cultural construction of the singlewoman, with the exception of Ruth Karras medievalists seem not in general to have thought to consider the parallel category of unmarried men. Thus we have studies of bishops, of clergy and members of religious orders, of soldiers and aristocrats, merchants and artisans. Scholars have written about men, single and otherwise, for generations. ![]() There is a certain irony in the neglect of the subject of single males in later medieval English culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences-good and bad. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.’ Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. The root of the word courage is cor-the Latin word for heart. Take it personally because it is personal!” “If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Quotes From I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME (BUT IT ISN’T): MAKING THE JOURNEY FROM “WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK” TO “I AM ENOUGH” (2007) “The ability to hold something we’ve done or failed to do up against who we want to be is incredibly adaptive. I learned about these things from studying shame.” ![]() “ I did not learn about vulnerability and courage and creativity and innovation from studying vulnerability. There’s nothing more vulnerable than that.” ![]() “To create is to make something that has never existed before. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.” ![]() ![]() Not to be confused with a traditional pop-up feature, readers will be able to turn, pull, slide, and open eight paper-engineered pages, such as the first time the reader visits the Weasley’s home and when Harry travels by Floo Network. ![]() It’s very three-dimensional, kind of like a piece of architecture.”Ī surprise and delight element of these new editions is the interactivity. But we have the privilege of thinking of everything from the endpapers to the typography, and how the typography plays with the images. Quite often, an illustrator will be brought in to illustrate someone’s work and then another studio or publisher will design it and put those pictures in. “We have the benefit as a studio of being an illustrator and designer. “The relationship with the book is so physical and so emotional that we’re always thinking about that when we’re designing,” Mina said. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lang a process which resulted in Demian (1919), a novel whose main character is torn between the orderliness of bourgeois existence and the turbulent and enticing world of sensual experience. Herman Hesse (1877 – 1962) suffered from depression and weathered series of personal crises which led him to undergo psychoanalysis with J. This blistering portrayal of a man who feels himself to be half-human and half-wolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture, capturing the mood of a disaffected generation, and remains a haunting story of estrangement and redemption. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters – accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione – the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth, and the possibility of happiness. ![]() In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf is revised by Walter Sorell from the original translation by Basil Creighton.Īt first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable, educated man. ![]() |