![]() ![]() ![]() He has won numerous awards for his picture books, including the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the 2001 Children's Book Award. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children's Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children's Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame.Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings.Find out more about Jacqueline and her books at Sharratt (Illustrator) Nick Sharratt has written and illustrated many books for children including Shark in the Park, You Choose and Pants. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. She is now one of Britain's bestselling and most beloved children's authors. Jacqueline Wilson (Author) Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He designed the rescue dinghies for most bomber aircraft used in the war, and studied the strength and behaviour of reinforcement fibres made of glass, carbon, boron and other materials.Īfter the war he worked at Tube Investments (TI) at the Group Research Laboratory, Hinxton Hall, near Cambridge. During World War II he worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) here he studied composite materials, wooden aircraft, plastics and new materials of many types. Gordon graduated in naval architecture at Glasgow University. ![]() James Edward Gordon (UK, 1913–1998) was one of the founders of materials science and biomechanics, and a well-known author of three books on structures and materials, which have been translated in many languages and are still widely used in schools and universities. ![]() ![]() I'm glad I rediscovered this great story. The Pied Piper is one of my favorite audiobooks. The narrator captures that feeling and makes you want to pull your bar stool closer to hear this amazing tale. The author begins the Pied Piper as if a man in a pub was telling others what John Howard had done. The narrator, David Rintoul, did a fine job. Howard's heart grow as the story was told. ![]() I particularly enjoyed how Nevil Shute developed John Howard into a selfless man, a true hero. The author weaves together smaller story lines throughout the book. Though he is not totally thrilled to do so, John Howard agrees to take two young English children back to England when he returns. The story takes place at the beginning of WWII, before Germany invades France. ![]() Oh what a difference a few decades can make! The main character, John Howard, is an elderly Englishman on a fishing holiday in France. I had read Pied Piper over 40 years ago, and though I enjoyed it then, I wouldn't have listed Pied Piper in my all-time top 10 favorite books. I have long been a fan of Nevil Shute's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially her writing tutor, he is the white male who lurks within the pages simultaneously as a figure of the beloved and a symbol of persecution. The resulting account reads as a series of journal entries, later compiled into short essays and addressed to her second husband, Casey. ![]() ![]() The telling of this story opens at a point of crisis, when Mailhot, now living in the US, has had herself committed after a breakdown, and is given a notebook in which to record her feelings, her “grand, regal grief”. ![]() Mailhot succeeds in telling the ugly truth with rich and beautiful words, sumptuous imagery and an unforgettable speech She was eventually taken into care at 19 she married (“I wanted a safe home”) and at 20 she had her first child, of whom she lost custody while giving birth to her second. Her mother, for whom the memoir is written as a kind of elegy, was a social worker, poet and healer, often absent, frequently made unwell by household mould and an alcoholic, abusive husband, a man who also victimised Mailhot. I tried to tell someone my story, but he thought it was a hustle.” The story itself begins on the Seabird Island First Nation Indian reservation in British Columbia, where Mailhot grew up in poverty, “overlooking forty acres of corn … only coyotes in the field, and crows, and wild things”. “The words were too wrong and ugly to speak. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a culture of endless questions, you need solid answers. until God rescued her, helping her to rebuild her faith, one solid brick at a time. After everything she had ever believed about God, Jesus, and the Bible had been picked apart, she found herself at the brink of despair. All that was deeply challenged when she met a progressive pastor, who called himself a hopeful agnostic.Īnother Gospel? describes the intellectual journey Alisa took over several years as she wrestled with a series of questions that struck at the core of the Christian faith. She had witnessed God at work and then had dedicated her own life to leading worship, as part of the popular Christian band ZOEgirl. She was raised in a Christian home, where she had seen her mom and dad feed the hungry, clothe the homeless, and love the outcast. Others Believe that It Is an Attack on Historic Christianity.Alisa Childers never thought she would question her Christian faith. Some Think that It Is a Much-Needed Progressive Reformation. Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity by Alisa ChildersĪ Movement Seeks to Redefine Christianity. ![]() ![]() ![]() They care for one another, respect one another's boundaries when needed and regularly show their compatibility through traditional acts of romance or just casual togetherness. Vamp and Jimmy have a relationship that's not just relatable but also sets goals for what a healthy relationship can look like. It's just a romance between these two characters, and it's so well-written that it's impossible not to love. There's no big overarching narrative or end-of-the-world type stakes. ![]() The rest of the series is just the two in their daily lives in a relationship with one another. The two meet one night at a bar called the Odditorium and immediately hit it off. Related: Kaguya-Sama: Love is War Brings Death Note Intensity to Romanceįangs is a series of non-sequitur comics that follows Vamp, a vampire, and Jimmy, a werewolf. What followed was a work so full of passion and dedication that it's bound to become a classic among romance comics. ![]() However, between October 2019 and July 2020, she took a bit of a break from Scribbles to focus on a new project: Fangs. It's this series that helped her rise to popularity and she continues to publish new entries to this day. She's well known for her semi-autobiographical comics, Sarah's Scribbles, which document her daily life, emotions and struggles in a humorous way that can also reach out and relate to her readers. Sarah Andersen is an artist whom people may be fairly familiar with online. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is also and hour-long interview with the author at the end full of all sorts of interesting stories and thoughts of future plans, many of which didn't come to fruition due to the author's well-publicized personal issues. Additionally, I listened to the 10th anniversary edition of Part-Time Indian which contained some excellent bonus content such as a chapter about best friend Rowdy (real name Randy) which was as emotional, and I thought as good, as anything in the main text of the book. I feel like reading a paper copy of the book would give one only half the experience. ![]() The audio versions were read by the author himself which to me really made the experience as he holds back no emotions, happy or sad, and really makes the stories come to life. He Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is the second Sherman Alexie book I listened to after You Don't Have to Say You Love Me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all been adapted for television, The Little Stranger was adapted as a film by Lenny Abrahamson, and Fingersmith inspired Park Chan-wook's film, The Handmaiden. The Little Stranger was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and The Paying Guests was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize in 2015. The former also won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. Her next novel, Affinity, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while Fingersmith and T he Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Sarah Waters' first novel, Tipping the Velvet, won a Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Sarah Waters, who was born in Wales, has been described as 'one of the best storytellers alive today' (Matt Thorne, Independent), and there can be no doubt that readers and critics alike have been gripped by her extraordinary imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1879 Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School. ![]() ![]() At the age of 16, Chekhov became independent and remained for some time alone in his native town, supporting himself through private tutoring. The family was forced to move to Moscow following his father's bankruptcy. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1867-68) and Taganrog grammar school (1868-79). "When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." His early years were shadowed by his father's tyranny, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, which was open from five in the morning till midnight. Yevgenia Morozova, Chekhov's mother, was the daughter of a cloth merchant. He also taught himself to read and write. Chekhov's grandfather was a serf, who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов) was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia, the son of a grocer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beer and free lunches : what is behavioral economics, and where are the free lunches?Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:11:03 Boxid IA40226116 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The context of our character, part II : why dealing with cash makes us more honest - 13. The context of our character, part I : why we are dishonest, and what we can do about it - 12. The power of price : why a 50-cent aspirin can do what a penny aspirin can't - 11. The effect of expectations : why the mind gets what it expects - 10. Keeping doors open : why options distract us from our main objective - 9. The high price of ownership : why we overvalue what we have - 8. ![]() ![]() The problem of procrastination and self-control : why we can't make ourselves do what we want to do - 7. The influence of arousal : why hot is much hotter than we realize - 6. The cost of social norms : why we are happy to do things, but not when we are paid to do them - 5. The cost of zero cost : why we often pay too much when we pay nothing - 4. The fallacy of supply and demand : why the price of pearls, and everything else, is up in the air - 3. The truth about relativity : why everything is relative, even when it shouldn't be - 2. An evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly ![]() |