![]() “It was high on a hill with a beautiful view / of Mount Adams, Mount Lincoln, and Jefferson too.” But the prettiest sight of all was the stream that ended in a whooshing waterfall. ![]() It’s quiet and peaceful and “aside from the wildlife, there’s no one around.” In a few hours they found the perfect spot to pitch their tent. ![]() They left their seaside home for the mountains, where they plan to camp for two nights or “possibly three.” Mr. Magee and his little dog Dee packed up their car and headed out on an adventure. Magee By Chris Van DusenĪs the sun came up Mr. Magee and his dog, Dee, are enjoying a peaceful camping trip when along comes a lumbering. Magee and his trusty dog, Dee Chris Van Dusen books are always a delight, combining playful rhyming text with bright, comical artwork thats alive with color and detail. So whether you camp with an RV, pack up the car with tents and other gear, or just enjoy a different vista at home, enjoy camping this summer – and don’t forget the marshmallows! A Camping Spree with Mr. The second book in the much-loved series about Mr. Of course, there’s giddy excitement for kids in just setting up a tent in the backyard too. This month’s holiday celebrates that love of adventure and encourages people to explore some of the gorgeous national parks, campsites, and trails all across the country. ![]() ![]() For some, camping is the best way to spend a vacation. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments The Trinity Game by Sean Chercover![]() ![]() On the run from assassins, Trinity flees with Daniel's help through the back roads of the Bible Belt to New Orleans, where Trinity plans to deliver a final prophecy so shattering his enemies will do anything to keep him silent. Now the mob wants him dead for ruining their gambling business, and the Vatican wants him debunked as a false messiah. After years of scams, he suddenly has the ability to predict everything from natural disasters to sports scores. The evangelist himself is baffled by his newfound power-and the violent reaction it provokes. Daniel knows Reverend Tim Trinity is a con man. ![]() But case #722 is different Daniel's estranged uncle, a crooked TV evangelist, has started speaking in tongues-and accurately predicting the future. He is the author of the novels THE DEVILS GAME, THE TRINITY GAME, TRIGGER CITY, and BIG CITY BAD BLOOD, as well as short stories that have appeared in a number. Over ten years and 721 cases, not one miracle he tested has proved true. 2013 International Thriller Award Nomineeĭaniel Byrne is an investigator for the Vatican's secretive Office of the Devil's Advocate-the department that scrutinizes miracle claims. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Teatro grottesco![]() ![]() ![]() The 'northern border town' is reminiscent of Lovecraft's Innsmouth, recalled and told from the perspective of both temporary lodgers and residents it goes from mishaps and odd events in the town to the point of other dimensional demon towns bleeding into existence through tempting doors and gateways appearing inconveniently. Note: This text is available in the tribute to Current 93, Mighty In SorrowĪ brilliant unsettling novella themed around the "northern border town" prompted by the Current 93 'Fields of Rape' lyric "In a foreign town, in a foreign land, reaping time has come" and the four stories were subsequently accompanied with sound collage/drone pieces on CD, presumably to be listened to while reading. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Shadow series christine feehan![]() Threading through this sexual montage is a story line that reaches back to a time in Japan when Rico was a teenager and Mariko Majo was just a toddler. In typical Feehan fashion, she constructs the plot around the romance, with the first two-thirds of the book featuring scene after scene of simmering foreplay and the final third culminating in a lengthy consummation scene followed by more graphic bedroom athletics. In Ricco’s embrace, she finds one.īut the darkness in which they so often find sanctuary can also consume them. She’s someone looking for a safe haven from the danger that has Ricco has given up hope, he meets her-a mysterious woman whose shadow connects ![]() To save them all, he must find a woman who can meet his every desire Recklessness puts not only his life at risk, but also the future of his entireįamily. ![]() Haunting desperation stemming from the secrets of his dark past. ![]() Being a shadow rider is in his blood-but so is a ![]() ![]() ![]() Children’s literary scholar Leonard Marcus ponders the amazing shelf life of nursery rhymes himself and comes up with some answers. Culturally relevant but often of unknown origins. What's up with that? (I feel like a stand up comedian when I put it that way). We've now moved on to revisiting the companion volume, Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists, which isn't quite as delightful, but still well worth perusing. ![]() For my part, I've become somewhat more well read in graphic novels in the intervening years, so it was fun to recognize more of the contributors' names and drawing styles this time around than I had in the past. And as we still read together every night, it was a really refreshing change of pace from our usual picture book fare. What was I waiting for? It made a great birthday present for my son with autism who just turned 16. Once again edited to add: Many years after writing the above, I've at last acquired a copy for my family. Keen scrutiny of Craig Thompson's "The Owl and the Pussycat" reveals that the runcible spoon is in fact a spork that explains so much. My hands down favorite rendition is Cyril Pedrosa's "This little Piggy." A few of the entries are a shade ho-hum, but that just makes one appreciate the quirky ones more. ![]() A year after posting my succinct review, I've picked up this nursery rhyme cartoon anthology again at the library and still think it's wonderful, as do my children - we definitely need our own copy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a devastatingly simple story, but it captures the essence of the complex moral equations that Hosseini spends the rest of the novel teasing out. As a gesture of kindness, the giant gives the farmer a potion that makes him forget he ever had this son. ![]() The farmer, unable to summon the will to take the child from this place of plenty back to his own arid, desperate land, leaves without him. Eventually, the farmer, half mad with grief, tracks down the giant and finds his son in a lush garden full of happy children, with no memory of his birth family. He and his wife decide to choose randomly, and the unlucky one happens to be their favorite son. Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed begins with a fable that a father tells his two children: A farmer who works hard to eke out a living for his family is forced to give up one of his five children to an evil giant. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title And The Mountains Echoed Author Khaled Hosseini ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Barefoot by hildebrand![]() ![]() The limb excursion angles resulted proportional to the square-root of the Froude number, and significantly higher in rotary galloper. Large size and longer proximal limb segments resulted associated to transverse gallop, while rotary and speed dependent species showed higher metacarpus/humerus and metatarsus/femur length ratio and faster relative speeds. The second PC was correlated to the ratio between distal and proximal limb segments. ![]() In a factorial analysis the first principal component (PC), which accounted for 40% of the total variance, was positively correlated to the relative speed and negatively correlated to size and body mass. Most of the species showed only one kind of gallop: transverse (42%) or rotary (39%), while some species performed rotary gallop only at high speed (19%). 23 biometrical, ecological and physiological parameters have been collected for each species both from literature data and from animal specimens. 351-filmed sequences have been analysed to assess the gallop type of 89 investigated mammal species belonging to Carnivora, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla orders. Transverse and rotary gallop differ for the placement of the hind and fore leading feet: ipsilateral in the former, contralateral in the latter gait. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Warriors the new prophecy set![]() However, a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews criticized the characters' confusing names and the writing style. The book received mostly positive comments from reviews published in Booklist and Horn Book Review, which praised the plot and cliffhanger ending. Moonrise has been released in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats, and has been translated into French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, German and Polish. Series editor Victoria Holmes drew inspiration from locations such as the New Forest and the Scottish Highlands. The Clan cats eventually agree to help the Tribe get rid of Sharptooth. The Tribe cats are being attacked by a savage mountain lion called Sharptooth. They travel through the mountains, where they meet the Tribe of Rushing Water, a new group of cats first introduced in this novel. Moonrise follows six cats, Brambleclaw, Squirrelpaw, Crowpaw, Feathertail, Stormfur, and Tawnypelt, as they return to their forest home from a journey to the ocean. Sutherland), with cover art by Wayne McLoughlin. The book, which illustrates the adventures of four groups of wild cats (called Clans), was written by Erin Hunter (a pseudonym used by Victoria Holmes, Cherith Baldry, Kate Cary, and Tui T. Moonrise is a children's fantasy novel, the second book in the Warriors: The New Prophecy series. ![]() Print (hardback & paperback)/On-line ( E-book) ![]() ![]() 2 August 2005 (United States and United Kingdom) ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments It Gets Better by Dan Savage![]() ![]() It was all hardened with rocks from being plowed and it scraped the skin off my face." "At one point I had a pretty bad bullying incident where I was thrown down on some sort of hardened snow in the school parking lot and they shoved my face into it. ![]() "I couldn't walk down the hall without getting spit at, shoved or pushed around," he says. ![]() He was teased for how he dressed, how his voice sounded and how he expressed his feelings. But when he was growing up in Spokane, Wash., he says, high school was rough - really rough. ![]() Terry Miller is now a stay-at-home father and event promoter living in Seattle. Terry Miller's And Dan Savage's Own High School Experiences In an interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Savage and Miller talk about their marriage, the adoption of their son D.J., the impact their movement has had on teenage bullying, and their own coming out experiences. This month, Savage and Miller published a companion book, It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying and Creating a Life Worth Living, featuring essays from more than 100 of the video contributors. President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Silverman, Tim Gunn, Ellen DeGeneres, Vice President Biden, Ke$ha and the staffs of Google, Facebook and Pixar all have contributed to the project. The "It Gets Better" movement, as it's now called, has since received over 10,000 video submissions, including entries from both gay and straight people. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1938, inspired by John W Campbell Jr's editorial policy at Astounding Science-Fiction, Simak began to produce such stories as "Rule 18" (July 1938 Astounding) and "Reunion on Ganymede" (November 1938 Astounding). Other early work of interest included "The Voice in the Void" (Spring 1932 Wonder Stories Quarterly), about the desecration of a sacred tomb on Mars which possibly contains the relics of a Messiah from Earth "Hellhounds of the Cosmos" (June 1932 Astounding), in which defenders of Earth who, in order to fight a Monster in another Dimension, combine into a gestalt and The Creator (March/April 1935 Marvel Tales 1946 chap exp with critical commentaries 1981 chap), in which humans and other races travel by Time Machine in order to combat the creator of the universe, who has become bored with his/her handiwork. His first published stories, beginning with "The World of the Red Sun" in Wonder Stories for December 1931, were less individual than his later work significantly, however, that first tale deals with Time Travel, which became his favourite sf device for the importation of Aliens into rural Wisconsin, always his favourite venue. (1904-1988) US author whose primary occupation 1929-1976 was newspaper work, and who worked full-time for the Minneapolis Star from 1939 until his retirement, when he became a full-time writer of sf, some years past his early prime. ![]() |