![]() ![]() I was ready to leave when I decided to browse through the picture book section one more time. Thus, it wasn’t surprising at all that the nonfiction books were no longer where they were at the last time I was there. ![]() Borders store has been in disarray for the last few weeks, trying to get rid of their books for their storewide closing sale. Rey, written by Louise Borden and illustrated by Allan DrummondĪ Serendipitous Moment. The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. Ha! Because the library closes early on Fridays, I decided to go to Borders to find out if there was any children’s nonfiction left in-stock. ![]() Unfortunately, I haven’t paid my library fines yet so I couldn’t borrow the books. ![]() Luckily, most of them were available in our library. I found several interesting children’s nonfiction through Borders online. I initially planned to feature a memoir written by a boy soldier, but the story kind of dragged and I never made it halfway through the book. When I think of nonfiction, I think along the lines of adult-related works, biographies, compilations, essays, and so on and so forth. This is my first official contribution to Nonfiction Monday, hosted this week by Capstone Connect.
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![]() ![]() In addition to the dark history of Northern Europe, the album also sees tribute being paid to the legendary Finnish novel “Sudenmorsian” by Aino Kallas. Weaving a tale of great sorrow and death, the band ambitiously goes bigger than ever before, with great power and tremendous story telling. “Anno 1696” sees everything the band is known for, but also sees the band going out of their way to go darker than ever before, and understandably so. ![]() ![]() With their upcoming release “Anno 1696”, Insomnium expertly weaves a tale of the incredibly dark history in Northern Europe, where the blood-shedding, gruesome witch trials that were responsible for much death found their way to Finland, with 30% of their population being killed between 1696-1697. Insomnium, Finland’s melodic death metal melancholists, have once again opened the gate into a world of incredible darkness and despair. ![]() ![]() ![]() The "Other Ocean" has many maps of a single world: the Pak Homeworld. One of the large oceans, known as the "Great Ocean", contains one-to-one maps of all of the inhabited worlds of known space. On opposite sides of the ring are two large deep saltwater oceans, placed in counterbalance to one another. The majority of the surface is land interspersed with shallow, freshwater seas. Ringworld has a habitable flat inner surface equivalent in area to approximately three million Earth-sized planets. It rotates, providing an artificial gravity equivalent to 99.2% of Earth's gravity by way of Centrifugal force. The Ringworld is an artificial ring about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit (which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference), encircling a Sol-type star. On Ringworld, time longer than a day is measured in falans, with 1 falan being 10 turns or 75 Ringworld days (93.75 Earth days), so 4 falans is slightly longer than 1 Earth year. ![]() G3 verging on G2 "barely smaller and cooler than Sol".ħ.5 Ringworld days (225 hours, 9.375 Earth days) ![]() ![]() Ringworld engineering Ringworld parameters RadiusĢ×10 27 kg (1.8×10 24 short tons) (1,250,000 kg/m², e.g. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was born in Montgomery, Alabama on July 24, 1900. The daughter of a prominent judge, Anthony Dickinson Sayre (1858–1931), who served on the Supreme Court of Alabama, and Minnie Buckner Machen Sayre, she was the youngest of five children and lived a youthful life of privilege. As an adult, Frances would have her own career as a writer and become an active member of the Democratic Party. ![]() ![]() Scott had one child, a daughter they named Frances Scott Fitzgerald in 1921. She was working on her second unfinished novel, Caesar's Things, at the time of her death. She is buried with her husband in Old Saint Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo: Bettman via Getty Images)ĭue to Zelda’s failing health, she was unable to attend her daughter’s wedding in 1943, but after the birth of her grandson, Zelda was reinvigorated and began to paint again in the last years of her life in Montgomery at her family’s homestead. Ultimately, however, her mental health began to fail and, on March 10, 1948, she died tragically in a fire at Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. ![]() ![]() ![]() We need more books that use ‘mam’ instead of ‘mum’ or that replace embarrassed with the much more descriptive ‘scarlet’. As good as similar books set in Britain, America or Australia are, they are just not our own. Unfortunately there is a dearth of books matching these specifications which are aimed at Irish readers. Joe Kelly JCSP Librarian told us, “’In Pieces’ is aimed at young people who want stories they can get through in a single sitting of about hour. ![]() ![]() ‘In Pieces’ has been created as part of an innovative writer-in-residence project which is part of the JCSP Demonstration Library Project 10 th anniversary celebrations and is set in the Natural History Museum and Glasnevin Cemetery. Although these have been available in the UK for some time via publisher Barrington Stoke, to date, there have been very few books like this aimed at young Irish readers. ![]() The group of eight second year students from Trinity Comprehensive School in Ballymun have teamed-up with author Kevin Mc Dermott ( Valentina, Little Island, 2012) to write their own novel, a ground-breaking book aimed at young people who prefer their books to be short and snappy. In an innovative move that is exactly the type of entrepreneurship we need to be fostering in Ireland, a group of Ballymun secondary school students have published a new novel ‘In Pieces’ for reluctant teen readers. ![]() She and her husband are owners of the JBJ Soul Kitchen chain of restaurants, which are known as a place where you can pay for food in advance so that the homeless could later take that food. Dorothea’s careerĭorothea is currently working as a karate instructor in New Jersey, while she is also a restaurateur. She studied at the Sayreville War Memorial High School located in Parlin in New Jersey, where she met Jon Bon Jovi after he tried cheating using answers on her test – but the two became best friends, and spent time together during all four years of high school.ĭorothea began taking karate lessons at high school, and went on to become junior champion several times – she was named the fourth best holder of the green belt in karate in 1999, and then the fourth best holder of the black belt in 2002. Childhood and early lifeĭorothea spent her early years in New Jersey, growing-up with her parents Donald Hurley and Dorothy Pawlyk. She is a karate instructor who became somewhat popular after marrying Jon Bon Jovi, a famous singer. Who is Jon Bon Jovi’s wife? Dorothea Hurley Wiki Bioĭorothea Hurley was born in New Jersey USA, on 29 September 1962 – she is holding American nationality and her sun sign is Libra. ![]() 1 Who is Jon Bon Jovi’s wife? Dorothea Hurley Wiki Bio. ![]() ![]() ![]() Something about the cover and the size of the book and my previous positive experiences with Heinlein, and an ever-growing urge to immerse myself in science fiction, made me want to get right to this novel. I picked up a used copy, pictured above, on a birthday celebration/Christmas gift visit to Half Price Books last week for a whopping two dollars. According to Wiki, “both books were written for a publisher expecting to market a juvenile science fiction novel, and both raised serious objections from the publisher.” More on that later. The two books that seem to fit in between these two styles were Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars. His later works took on more decidedly adult themes and were definitely not for a younger audience. ![]() Although Heinlein wrote a number of short stories for various magazines on any variety of themes, his first published work in novel form, and several of his novels thereafter, were classified as “juveniles”, what would be defined as YA (Young Adult) today. Robert Heinlein was and remains one of America’s most celebrated science fiction authors. –originally published in novel form in 1963, my version 1970 ![]() ![]() Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation White, Randy Wayne. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his guard down. Sanibel Flats (Book) APA Citation White, R. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him.Īfter ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. The Sanibel Flats Study Guide contains a. Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Read Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White Summary & Study Guide by BookRags available from Rakuten Kobo. Front cover for the book Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White. ![]() ![]() This is #84 of the special edition of Sanibel Flats that is limited to three hundred numbered copies signed by the author, the author of the introduction, and the illustrator. We found 20 books set in Sanibel Island and 18 others set nearby. Also SIGNED by Ace Atkins and Greg Fleming. A limited special edition hardcover book SIGNED by author in Fine condition with Fine slipcase. ![]() ![]() Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Houston, Texas: Busted Flush Press, 2005. Read 628 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]() ![]() Once the two get to know each other better and understand each other, they become friends. Diana just thinks that Dallas isn’t the friendliest and he thinks she’s nuts. They don’t exactly get along at first, but they’re not enemies. He’s older, very good looking, but also more quiet, reserved, and grumpy in comparison to Diana’s louder, friendlier personality. He also happens to be the cousin of her friend and boss. Her older nephew, Josh, loves baseball and the coach for a local competitive baseball team for his age group (he is 10, almost 11) just so happens to be her neighbor across the street, Dallas Walker. She is Diana’s cousin.ĭiana has recently moved to Austin for a fresh start for her and the boys. And if you read Kulti, you may remember that Sal’s last name is Casillas. ![]() If you read The Wall of Winnipeg & Me then you may remember Diana as Vanessa’s best friend. ![]() The novel follows Diana Casillas, who has been the guardian for her two young nephews for the past 2 years after her brother died. I honestly could’ve finished it faster, but I kept rereading parts or whole chapters even because I loved it so much and didn’t want it to end! I finished another Mariana Zapata book, Wait For It, yesterday and it was so good. ![]() ![]() ![]() The identity of the Krulls, and their relationship to the town of Barlow, are revealed gradually over the course of the novel.Ĭemetery Dance Publications will release two different versions of their 2008 restored and uncut edition of The Woods are Dark. ![]() The plot concerns two groups of people, a family and a pair of college students, who are kidnapped after stopping in a small California town and taken into the forest to be sacrificed to a group of mysterious creatures, called "Krulls", who roam the surrounding wilderness. This creative interference, together with the original publication's disastrous cover artwork, is what Laymon often credited with having ruined his first promising U.S. ![]() It includes fifty pages of material that was cut from the original Warner Books release, and was later found by Kelly Laymon among some of her father's old papers, along with the full original manuscript (which was extensively edited by Warner for its initial publication). It was one of his earliest published works, and one he credited with having all but destroyed his publishing career in the United States.Īn uncut version of the novel was released by Cemetery Dance Publications in July 2008. The Woods Are Dark is a 1981 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon. ![]() |