![]() ![]() I was more selective thereafter." At the age of 17, dallying with a boy called Peter, who purported to be a poet, she became pregnant. She already had a hunger for serious reading, and spent part of her first week's wages on a book of poems by Edith Sitwell. ![]() Her first job was as a shorthand typist with a small firm of accountants, where she was paid £1 a week. She chose "commercial", but left after only a year. She went on to win a scholarship to Thoresby high school, in Hull, and found, at the age of 14, that she had to choose one of the three vocational courses offered. In the early months of the second world war, Jean was briefly evacuated to North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Her father, Billy Holland, was a foundry worker. She was born in the heart of Hull's fishing community. It did work, and Jean herself was a remarkable woman. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Reverberate(s) with the power of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are” School Library Journal (starred review) ![]() By the turn of the last page, children will immediately begin imagining the next adventure.” “The strong visual narrative makes this an appealing choice for a wide range of ages. ![]() Readers will be both dazzled and spurred on imagined travels of their own.” “Wonder mixes with longing as the myriad possibilities offered by Becker’s stunning settings dwarf what actually happens in the story. “An imaginative adventure story whose elaborate illustrations inspire wonder, careful examination and multiple reads.” Can it also lead her home and to her heart’s desire? With supple line, luminous color, and nimble flights of fancy, author-illustrator Aaron Becker launches an ordinary child on an extraordinary journey toward her greatest and most exciting adventure of all. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. ![]() ![]() Each chapter concludes with a writing exercise. For any qualitative researchers who want to uses literary strategies in their writing, there are lots of useful ideas to consider and practice. ![]() ![]() These include the sound of your writing, punctuation, sentence length and complex syntax, repetition, adjective and adverb, pronoun and verb, point of view and voice, changing point of view, indirect narration, and “crowding and leaping” (which refers to “focus” – what details are included, and what are left out). Steering the craft is organized in 10 short chapters that deal with specific elements of writing. For qualitative researchers, Le Guin’s writing on writing - along with her other work - provides a source of inspiration. ![]() As one might expect from the title, this book provides ideas to writers, whether one wants to improve one’s craft as a writer individually, or with the assistance of a writing group. Her contribution to this genre is a book called Steering the craft: Exercises and discussion on story: Writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew (Le Guin, 1998). Like many other writers (e.g., Stephen King, Annie Dillard), she has written about the craft of writing. ![]() Like many, I discovered Le Guin’s book as a child, although she wrote numerous novels, essays, short stories, and poetry in her long career. Le Guin is known for writing fantasy fiction, among other diverse works. Ursula le Guin, one of my favorite writers, died this week at the age of 88. ![]() ![]() If you don't want to spend big money repairing your image files then the freeware File Repair should have obvious appeal, especially as it also claims to repair Office documents, archives, videos, PDF files and MP3 files.īut while this sounds great, the program does suffer from a fairly significant problem. But a relatively unobtrusive text watermark means it's quite easy to see how well the program's recovery efforts have worked.Īnd perhaps best of all, Stellar Phoenix JPEG Repair can be yours for a very reasonable $39 - that could be money well spent. ![]() The program was able to make 2 out of 14 images look good, even after we zeroed 8KB in the middle of each file, and even deleting the first 8KB from each file couldn't prevent it from restoring half of our images. The 'corrupt header' set was more difficult, but Stellar Phoenix still restored 12 out of 14. ![]() Our zeroed signature images were recovered immediately, for instance. The program's repair tools were mostly very successful, too. Add a few files, click the 'Repair' button, and wait a while for the results to appear - it's all very straightforward. ![]() Of course the program can also try to repair your JPEGs, though, and here it works more or less exactly as you'd expect. ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. AudioFile magazine says, "Marguerite Gavin.has a sonorous voice, rich and full of emotion." With over four hundred titles to her credit, her narration spans nearly every genre, from nonfiction to mystery, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and children's fiction. Series: Heritage of Lancaster County (3), Das Schicksal der Katie Lapp (3) 51951 In this concluding book of the trilogy, Katherine has embraced her English. ![]() Marguerite has been an actor, director, and audiobook narrator for her entire professional career. Marguerite Gavin is a seasoned theater veteran, a five-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award, and the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones and Publishers Weekly awards. She currently lives in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains with her husband, David. Since then, her Amish-inspired novels have garnered numerous awards, including the ECPA Platinum Book Award and Library Journal's Best Book of 2009. Her inaugural novel, The Shunning, was the first in her blockbuster fiction series, The Heritage of Lancaster County. ![]() Beverly Lewis is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than seventy books for adults and children. ![]() ![]() But capturing Jaime is both an opportunity and a danger. Joining a crew of smugglers is one way to do it. Rylan Slate is looking to leave his past behind. Jaime has no reason to trust him, but nowhere else to turn. Even more intriguing is Rylan, the muscled guard watching his every move. On the run, he finds himself among a starship crew, one transporting a mysterious cargo. ![]() Humanity survives, but always fearful of the technology that allows them travel among the stars, never knowing when it may turn against them once more.įor Jaime Bashir, born with the ability to communicate telepathically with computers, his gifts are more of a curse. It’s been over a century since the AIs rose up and attacked, driving humans from Earth and leaving them scattered across the galaxy. QSFer Hanna Dare has a new MM sci fi book out: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Highly recommended.” - Molly McArdle, Library Journal (May 15, 2012) (starred review) Beautifully written and genuinely wise, this book is full of heartache and love. VERDICT: Part advice, part personal essay, these pieces grapple with life’s biggest questions. She answers queries on subjects ranging from professional jealousy to leaving a loved partner to coping with the death of a child. First appearing on the Rumpus in 2010, her column ‘Dear Sugar’ quickly attracted a large and devoted following with its cut-to-the-quick aphorisms like ‘Write like a motherf*cker’ and ‘Be brave enough to break your own heart.’ This collection gathers up the best of Sugar, whose trademark is deeply felt and frank responses grounded in her own personal experience in many ways, it is a portrait of Strayed herself. “This beloved Internet advice columnist, using the pseudonym Sugar, revealed herself in early 2012 to be the acclaimed novelist and memoirist Strayed. ![]() ![]() Reassured, the archbishop let out a of cry of God Save the King and the congregation erupted to echo him in a hearty unison. King Charles III is crowned with St Edward’s Crown (Jonathan Brady/PA) Justin Welby, conscious of the momentous task at hand, settled it carefully in place, adjusting it and placing his own face level with the concentrating and composed monarch’s to ensure it was straight and steady. The King and his Queen Camilla – freshly crowned – sat in their thrones at a modern-day coronation still saturated in ancient rituals of old.įor Charles, the moment of his crowning marked a lifetime’s journey towards kingship, cementing him as sovereign in the nation’s psyche.Īs the glittering Edward’s Crown was held high for all to see by the Archbishop of Canterbury and brought swiftly down to sit upon the head of Charles III, the abbey was silent and still. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has continued to write in both genres, telling an interviewer that "I think working in one genre replenishes my energy for the other." Her novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list as well as those compiled by USAToday and Publishers Weekly. Īlthough Enoch has had great success writing Regency romances, in 2005 she published her first contemporary romantic suspense novel. She finally quit her full-time job in 2002 to devote herself to writing. Her first novel, The Black Duke's Prize, was published by Avon in 1995. She used to be mad about him High-spirited Rowena MacLawry has come to the Highlands after a spectacularly successful debut season in London and has made it painfully clear that shes outgrown her girlhood obsession with Lachlan MacTier. Her first attempts at writing were in the romantic fantasy genre, but she soon began writing Regency romances. That's just fine with him, as he never had any. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in English. In Mad, Bad, and Dangerous in Plaid by New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Enoch, high-spirited Rowena MacLawry has come to the Highlands after a spectacularly successful debut Season in London, and has made it painfully clear that she's outgrown her girlhood obsession with Lachlan MacTier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suzanne Enoch (born California) is an American author of best-selling contemporary and historical Regency romance novels.Įnoch began writing down her own stories when she was a child. High-spirited Rowena MacLawry has come to the Highlands after a spectacularly successful debut season in London and has made it painfully clear that she's outgrown her girlhood obsession with Lachlan MacTier. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, all readers should be over the age of 18 and refrain from reading in public places.Trigger warning: This book contains swearing, violence, and scenes that some readers may find uncomfortable. The fates hadn’t always been kind to Sunshine.Abandoned as a baby with nothing more than a blanket and a nameKatia ‘Sunshine’ Jones knows what it feels like to be alone.With her childhood spent navigating the foster system,She finally finds a home in the arms of a boy who becomes her entire world.But six years later, a devastating tragedy rips her fairy tale to shreds,And plunges Sunshine’s life into darkness.Falling in love had been easy.But trying to live without him is like trying to breathe without air.Until they walk into her life and change everything,Now the woman who clawed her way out of the darkMight just get a second chance at finding her happily ever afterBut with a war heading for Carnage It seems fate hasn’t finished with her yet … Please be advised that this book may cause shallow breathing, exploding ovaries, and spontaneous disintegration of panties. ![]() |