7/8/2023 0 Comments Carson spring![]() ![]() Though the scientific community already knew of the dangers, Carson was the first to make the information accessible and palatable to a mass audience in her groundbreaking book. She focused mainly on the insecticide DDT, which had been dubbed “one of the greatest discoveries of World War II” by Time magazine for its ability to kill insects that spread malaria and typhus and was routinely sprayed in homes and on crops.Ĭarson called for much greater caution against these “elixirs of death” and wrote, “If we are living so intimately with chemicals-eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones-we had better know something about their power.” ![]() In what she referred to as her “poison book,” Carson revealed the damaging effects of the indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides on the environment. But rather than introducing readers to more of the natural world, the mild-mannered 55-year-old’s latest book warned they could be destroying it. When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in September 1962, she was already a celebrated American biologist and author best known for her trilogy of lyrical books on the ocean. ![]()
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Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. Pretty Little Liars meets Medium in this fast-paced thriller and fantastic YA debut from a New York Times bestselling author. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The rules do not apply book![]() ![]() “Unflinching and intimate, wrenching and revelatory, Ariel Levy’s powerful memoir about love, loss, and finding one’s way shimmers with truth and heart on every page.” -Cheryl Strayed In telling her story, Levy has captured a portrait of our time, of the shifting forces in American culture, of what has changed and what has remained. She would be a professional explorer-“the kind of woman who is free to do whatever she chooses.” Levy moved to Manhattan to pursue her dream, and spent years of adventure, traveling all over the world writing stories about unconventional heroines, following their fearless examples in her own life.īut when she experiences unthinkable heartbreak, Levy is forced to surrender her illusion of control. As a young woman, she decided that becoming a writer would perfectly channel her strength and desire. ![]() NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYĪll her life, Ariel Levy was told that she was too fervent, too forceful, too much. ![]() “This Year’s Must-Read Memoir” ( W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and love. ![]() ![]() Like Christopher Boone, the 15-year-old narrator of Mark Haddon's 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, he's appealing not just despite his eccentricities but because of them. But Simsion's hyper-efficient, fastidious 39-year-old narrator endears us from the moment he starts explaining his Wife Problem, which of course is directly related to his People Problem. The book wouldn't work, of course, if we couldn't see the sweetness and charm beneath Don Tillman's geekiness. If you're looking for sparkling entertainment along the lines of Where'd You Go Bernadette and When Harry Met Sally, The Rosie Project is this season's fix. It's an utterly winning screwball comedy about a brilliant, emotionally challenged geneticist who's determined to find a suitable wife with the help of a carefully designed questionnaire, and the patently unsuitable woman who keeps distracting him from his search. Put them together, and hilarity ensues in Australian IT consultant Graeme Simsion's first novel, The Rosie Project. She's an edgy young woman whose fallback mode is sarcasm. 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But donning the Lincoln greens of the Merry Men won’t fix everything. ![]() Thanks to old grudges and politics, she was born with a target on her back, and all she can do now is to put on a brave front, as her mother always advises her, and find a way to save them all. Each step on Isabelle’s path to Sherwood Forest reveals to readers a bit more of her history, painting a clearer picture of where she came from and what she is up against. But in defense of her village she shot a soldier, and now she needs the help of a man she has never met: her father, Robin Hood. ![]() Up until now, her life as the daughter of the prioress, Marien, has been relatively quiet. Isabelle knows little of life outside the priory of Kirklees. With one loosed arrow, Isabelle finds herself fleeing the only life she has ever known to search for the one person who can help her and save her mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Frank Dobie asked him to contribute a tale, "The Devil's Grotto," to the next publication of the Texas Folklore Society. Boatright began his career as a folklorist in 1925, when J. ![]() Except for one year, 1934–35, when he was at the College of Mines and Metallurgy (now the University of Texas at El Paso), he remained at the University of Texas until he retired in 1968, rising through the ranks from junior instructor to full professor and chairman of the English department. He taught at Sul Ross State Teachers College from 1923 until 1926, when he joined the staff of the University of Texas. He received his master's degree at the University of Texas in 1923 and his Ph.D. He finished his high school education at West Texas State Teachers College (now West Texas A&M University), where he earned a delayed bachelor's degree in 1922, after serving two years in the army in 1917–19. In early years he was educated alternately by a governess on the ranch and at school in town. ![]() He was the youngest of ten children in a ranching family and the grandnephew of pioneer cattlemen and merchants Mody and Sam Coggin of Brownwood. Mody Boatright, folklorist and educator, the son of Eldon and Frances Ann (McAuley) Boatright, was born in Mitchell County, Texas, on October 16, 1896. ![]() ![]() ![]() Red is a optimist, a silent observer of all that goes on around him. He produces oxygen for the humans and provides shade when it is hot. He (or she, since Red is bi) provides home to little critters. ![]() Why do rules exist? Why do people feel a certain way about people who look different from them? Red has lived all his life following the rules. But when he notices the sadness in the new little girl who just moved in the same house, he wants to fulfill her wish of having a friend. He can only communicate with his animal and plant friends. Like with all other things in nature, Red is not allowed to speak to humans. ![]() He wasn’t always a wishing tree but the custom of people tying wishes to his branches started when a kind Irish lady moved in the house on whose property he was. Red has seen the world change around him. We meet Red, a red oak tree, who is over two centuries old. Wishtree is a quick read reaches the heart. ![]() Not everyone is welcoming, and Red’s experiences as a wishtree are more important than ever.Ĭontent Notes: Portrayal of hate towards minorities Along with her crow friend Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red’s hollows, this “wishtree” watches over the neighborhood. Red is the neighborhood “wishtree”-people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red’s branches. Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Trees can’t tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Penpal jt![]() ![]() 5 Favorite Type of Shoe: My cowboy boots…they're Justins, and I bought them in 2001. Video shows girl held down, paddled in school JACKSONVILLE, Fla. When I was a kid I used to mess around with a quiche board. Amazon's Choice Winning Moves Games Classic Ouija, Brown 8,096 $2164 List: $39. Few lists are this uplifting! Welcome to WatchMojo. com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 movie wedgies. Dem0n1x Hello, AGAaaaaaaaaaaaAIN !!! pixelseph Song-a-Month Jams. Top 10 Movie Wedgies VOICE OVER: Rebecca Brayton Script written by Nick Spake Few lists are this uplifting! Welcome to WatchMojo. Happy birthday to my beautiful, amazing, outgoing, intelligent, caring sister. The film is a prequel to the 2014 film Ouija and stars Elizabeth Reaser, Annalise Basso, and Henry Thomas. Funny girls fail Compilation Skirts Down 2016. I was raised Jehovah’s Witness, and in my disbelief of their teachings, I sort of decided that they were wrong about everything spiritually and otherwise. Why the Ouija board became so famous Vox 11. ![]() ![]() ![]() Watch Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester”. Watch “Storytelling: A Way to Know Ourselves”. ![]() Watch “The Jewish Americans - Julius Lester”. Learn more about Julius Lester on Wikipedia. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, ‘I’m going to tell you something I’ve never told anyone.’ Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.” The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. ![]() We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. Quotes: “Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we’ve never met. In 1982, Lester - whose maternal great-grandfather was a Jew - converted to Judaism. In addition to teaching at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for 32 years, he was a civil rights activist, photographer, and musician who recorded two albums of folk music and original songs. 18, 2018) was an author of books for both children and adults. ![]() |