![]() Jean Little's first book, Mine for Keeps, won the Little, Brown Children's Book Award in 1962 and was republished by Viking Penguin in 1995. Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird was the CLA Book of the Year in 1985. Listen for the Singing was the Canada Council Children's Literature Award winner in 1977. Jean's books include From Anna, Listen for the Singing, Stand In The Wind, Mama's Going To Buy You a Mockingbird, Hey World, Here I Am!, Look through My Window, Emma's Yucky Brother, The Belonging Place, and Mine For Keeps. The books, which will appeal to children 10 and older, are both humorous and poignant as Jean describes living with a disability and the ridicule she sometimes experienced as a result, as well as her love for the world of reading and books. The author focuses on her experiences from the time she was a child through young adulthood in her autobiography, Little by Little, and continues her story in Stars Come Out Within. ![]() She has a retired seeing-eye dog named Ritz and a new one named Pippa, with whom she travels. A special "talking" computer assists her with her writing. She was born with a severe eye problem and is severely visually impaired. ![]() Jean grew up in Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto. ![]()
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![]() Humans don’t know that their very survival depends on this alliance: only Aelyx’s people have the technology to fix the deadly contamination in the global water supply that human governments are hiding. Meanwhile, on Earth, Aelyx, finds himself thrown into a full-scale PR campaign to improve human-L’eihr relations. ![]() But with L’eihr leaders balking at granting even the most basic freedoms, Cara begins to wonder if she could ever be happy on this planet, even with Aelyx by her side. A society melding their two cultures is a place where Cara and Aelyx could one day make a life together. Things look up when Cara is appointed as human representative to a panel preparing for a human colony on L’eihr. With Aelyx, her L’eihr boyfriend, back on Earth, working to mend the broken alliance between their two planets, Cara is left to fend for herself at a new school, surrounded by hostile alien clones. ![]() ![]() The romantic sequel to Alienated takes long-distance relationships to a new level as Cara and Aelyx long for each other from opposite ends of the universe.until a threat to both their worlds reunites them.Ĭara always knew life on planet L’eihr would be an adjustment. ![]() ![]() Orders that don't involve destroyer-racing or courting the love of his life, Ela. "Kien Lantec, you will bear witness to my followers in ToronSea." The last thing Kien Lantec expects on his first day of military leave is to receive marching orders from his Creator, the Infinite. 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Still, many countries have an opportunity to redefine their economic policies. Compared to 2021, Latin America’s poverty rate will increase by 0.9 percentage points to 33%, and extreme poverty will rise by 0.7 percentage points to 14.5% in 2022. Growth in the region, which rebounded impressively from COVID-19 to reach an average rate of 6.8% in 2021, will fall to just 1.8% this year, with crippling effects on the most vulnerable people. SANTIAGO – The war in Ukraine and the global cost-of-living crisis are hitting Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) hard. ![]() ![]() You will be moved to places deeper than expected. ![]() “Goodbye, Orchid” is not your ordinary romantic story. Does he burden the woman whose traumatic childhood makes him feel protective of her? Or does true love mean leaving her without explaining why? Review: ![]() Now, he’s faced with the hardest decision of his life. He’s trying not to cross their professional boundary. She’s even divulged the trauma in her past that makes her panic over images of injured vets. They’ve grown close after months working and traveling together. To add to his good fortune, he’s falling for Orchid Paige, the beautiful half-Asian marketer who’s collaborated with him on a winning military campaign. Thirty-two year-old Phoenix Walker is an entrepreneur who has built an agency with a heart almost as big as his own. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What a great ride, I am so sad to see it end! I could read ten more books about their adventures. Relying on nothing more than their wits and the well-honed skills befitting their roles as intrepid gumshoe (Kim) and hired thug (Will), the dynamic duo find themselves engaged in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the kind of stakes to die for.įirst Take: A thrilling end to a fantastic series. It’s nice.īut just as Will is beginning to think he might be meant to live the boring old life of a shopkeeper after all, a shocking murder at the gentleman’s club Kim used to frequent brings them back into the crime-solving fold. ![]() Even better, having the time to live like normal people has given Will and Kim the opportunity to actually be together for the first time. Amazingly, three months after their most recent encounter with Zodiac finds Will and his partner (in more ways than one), Kim Secretan, living a comparatively boring existence, where excitement now means successfully selling off a book collection for ten whole pounds over asking price– a real win for the practical-minded Will. ![]() After all, being on the run from a murderous criminal gang forces one to take life day by day. Plot: Despite his fortunate inheritance, ex-soldier Will Darling never really expected to be able to live the quiet and idyllic life of a respectable, secondhand bookseller. Subtle Blood (Will Darling Adventures Book 3) ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the brilliantly detailed descriptions of these characters and the locations through which they uneasily pass, this is not conventionally naturalistic fiction conversations reveal unrecorded lapses of time within the narrative, and people examine their experiences in highly abstract language not intended to reproduce vernacular speech. Cusk also paints a sardonic portrait of the literary life via the monologues of a philistine salesman-turned-publisher, a first novelist disenchanted by a pretentious writers’ retreat, and an arrogant journalist who’s supposed to be interviewing Faye but barely lets her get a word in. Even pets become the source of power struggles with spouses and children in some of the seething personal narratives people share with Faye. ![]() Narrator Faye has married again since her excursions in Transit (2017), but almost everyone she meets at a literary festival in an unnamed European country is either bitterly divorced or painfully ambivalent about family life. ![]() ![]() Brexit provides the sociopolitical background for Cusk’s existential investigation into the nature of freedom and the construction of identity, the concluding volume to her brooding trilogy begun with Outline (2015). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As if dating Justin was just a part of testing out this new life she has. There wasn't really much substance to their relationship at all. I thought there would be more of a love triangle, but it was clear that Justin was never a contender. I would have bought her happy medium if she had found herself becoming obsessed with her riches, but that didn't ever seem to be a concern. ![]() ![]() And I felt like the book was claiming that it's wrong to be rich or to enjoy nice things. Katherine is perfectly happy living in the mansion and using her wealth to help others until she suddenly turns around and decides she's NOT happy living that way, so she ditches the mansion and becomes Mennonite instead. I also was very unsatisfied with the ending. Why would he assume Daniel was referring to the impostor? It was too obviously just a way for Daniel to come frustratingly close to Katherine without a reunion actually taking place. I don't know why the butler wouldn't have any concept of the possibility that someone from Katherine's old life might try to contact her. For one thing, I hated how there was so much confusion over Daniel calling Katherine "Katie". I will say I was disappointed by this one. I was so confident I had read this book years ago, but nothing from it seemed at all familiar, so, for whatever reason, I must have stopped at the second book. ![]() ![]() ![]() The results were, to say the least, quite spectacular!Working through several different subjects, Dolores was able to establish communication with the living Michel De Notredame, better known as the prophet, Nostradamus. ![]() ![]() She has been specializing in past-life therapy since 1979.Dolores has become, perhaps, the world's most unlikely expert on the prophecies of Nostradamus.Ī retired Navy wife from Huntsville, AR, USA, Dolores was nearly fifty years old when she began experimenting with hypnosis and past-life regression. Her roots in hypnosis go back to the 1960s. Dolores Cannon is a past-life regressionist and hypnotherapist who specializes in the recovery and cataloging of "Lost Knowledge". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recent years have seen the original series and its two feature-length follow-ups reach new audiences on Netflix and Blu-ray, as well as the completion of creator Hideaki Anno’s third telling of Shinji’s story, “Rebuild of Evangelion.” After topping the 2021 box office in its native country, the fourth and final “Rebuild” film, “Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time,” screens across the United States this week - at the end of a year when “Evangelion” entered the cultural conversation once more thanks to its influence on the mysterious entity at the center of Jordan Peele’s “Nope.” “Neon Genesis Evangelion” completed its run on Japanese television in 1996 a quarter century later, the franchise it launched is more popular than ever. On top of all that, he has to deal with all the typical stresses of being a teenager while regularly hopping into a giant biomechanical robot in order to defend humanity from the threat of monstrous beings tellingly referred to as “Angels.” And with each new iteration of the pioneering anime “ Neon Genesis Evangelion,” Shinji relives this cycle of death, depression, and rebirth all over again. ![]() He’s actually kind of a mess, but not without damn good reason: His mother died when he was 3 years old, his father abandoned him, and his entire world view has been shaped by the people around him, who try to maneuver Shinji any which way they’d like. ![]() |