![]() ![]() He’d already got Ghost in the Water (1982), The Box of Delights (1984), The Children of Green Knowe (1986) and Aliens in the Family (1987) under his belt and 1988 was shaping up to be a particularly busy year for him with Moondial (1988), the first of the BBC’s hugely ambitious adaptations of C.S. ![]() Which is surprising and disappointing given that it came from producer Paul Stone who at the time was the BBC’s telefantasy specialist. Made by the BBC’s North East region, The Watch House, a three-part adaptation of the novel for children by Robert Westall, isn’t terribly fondly remembered, perhaps because, despite the best of intentions, it isn’t really all that good. ![]()
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![]() Is hot guy Haruki with her of his own free will? Are her feelings for her best friend some sort of side-effect? Will her dog, Sirius, ever stop humping her leg? Laura is the author of fiercely funny feminist comedy The Exact Opposite of Okay and its sequel, A Girl Called Shameless. What happens next will change everything Caro thought she knew about chemistry – in the lab and in love. ![]() ![]() ![]() And when, in a particularly desperate moment, Caro discovers a (definitely questionable) scientific breakthrough that promises to make you irresistible to everyone around you, she wonders if this could be the key. But there’s one test she’s never quite been able to ace: love. With straight As and a college scholarship already in the bag, she’s meeting her two dads’ colossal expectations and then some. Physics genius Caro Kerber-Murphy knows she’s smart. A hilarious love story with bite, for fans of Sex Education, Booksmart, Becky Albertalli's Love, Simon and Jenny Han's To All The Boys I've Loved Before. An LGBT romantic comedy with a twist from the Comedy Women in Print prize winner Laura Steven, author of The Exact Opposite of Okay. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New Zealand is not a state of Australia and rugby is the best sport ever played. She’s a profound work-a-holic, but when she’s not writing, you can find her chilling with her kids & Husband at the nearest beach, with a cocktail in her hand. If you tell me that you’re insecure because of another man, Saskia, I’ll kill him. She likes cake, loves wine, and her religion is magic (Slytherin). The next standalone in the highly anticipated Midnight Mayhem series is set to release March 10th 2020.Īmo Jones is a USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, totally winging this author thing (she’s probably doing it all wrong). ![]() The sound of light breathing came from around the corner. I placed the foot of my cane on the floor and looked to the left. IN FURY LIES MISCHIEF (Midnight Mayhem #2) by Amo Jones This is a story about a love so painful, so rich, that it destroys everything and everyone around it. ExcerptReveal SickFux TillieColeBooks ComingSoon DarkRead TickTock Excerpt: Please note : this is excerpt is unedited and subject to change. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The back cover includes the musical notation for "The Wheels on the Bus," so everyone can sing along. Children who have learned the hand motions to the song will enjoy helping the characters in the book enact their own roles. Zelinsky (Author, Illustrator) 4.8 1,220 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 441.02 3 Used from 441.02 1 Collectible from 100. Zelinsky's warm, inviting illustrations are a perfect match for this classic play rhyme. Zelinsky The Wheels on the Bus Board book Pop up, Octoby Paul O. ![]() Pull one tab to make the "wipers on the bus go swish swish swish," and another to see the "babies on the bus cry Waah! Waah! Waah!" On closer inspection, children will be tickled to discover several subtle and humorous subplots, as well as a full-circle finale: the last stop on the bus is at the Overtown public library, where the day's program includes a folk singer. Fantastic paper engineering with movable parts, flaps, and wheels that spin makes this an interactive book that young readers will love to pieces (maybe literally!). Zelinsky, winner of the Caldecott Medal for his lush version of Rapunzel, and Caldecott honors for Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, and Swamp Angel. All over town." This traditional song, a favorite of children everywhere, is adapted and illustrated by Paul O. "The wheels on the bus go round and round. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A good spirit named Keihtan is said to have cast a spell on Hobbomock that caused him to sleep forever, preventing any further damage to the area.Įuropean settlers set aside the area, which they initially called Blue Hills, as a permanent commons in 1721. ![]() In his rage, Hobbomock stamped his foot near the current location of Middletown, which caused the course of the Connecticut River to change. The giant rock formation embodied Hobbomock, an evil spirit who became angry at the neglect of his people. Sleeping Giant received its name thanks to local Native American creation stories, which are part of a complex belief system about the beginnings of the cosmos and human beings. Geologists estimate that the trap rock ridges in Connecticut formed from volcanic eruptions more than 170 million years ago. ![]() The unique ridge that runs east-west just six miles north of New Haven is known as “Sleeping Giant” for its resemblance (from a distance) to a recumbent person. While East Rock is well-known to local residents as the towering hills viewable to the south, Hamden’s most famous geological landmark lies to its north. The town of Hamden lies between two trap rock formations that constitute its northern and southern borders. ![]() ![]() ![]() So wild and imaginative that it challenges the very meaning of the word “farce,” which, for me is usually something light-weight, silly, and easily forgotten, Swedish author Jonas Jonasson expands this “farce” beyond the customary local or domestic focus and uses the whole world as his stage. Right next door to a three-megaton atomic bomb.” ![]() All of these people found themselves in nuclear-weapons-free Sweden. So one could say it was noteworthy that a single condemned building in Gnesta, now housed the following: one American potter, two very similar and dissimilar brothers, one angry young woman, one escaped South African refugee, and three Chinese girls with poor judgment. “Only in exceptional cases do people reside in condemned buildings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Americans, for my money, are just too damned sophisticated!’ What is wrong with this country, for God’s sake?’ he said, pulling off the red clip earrings. Our brother just cut off three toes in the lawn mower, after defaulting on a bank loan, our other sister has hepatitis and will have to finish school in Richmond, Mother is drinking, Father refuses to see anyone, and the woman across the street went into her garage yesterday and turned on the automobile and asphyxiated herself. ‘I simply must get off,’ he said into the phone, ‘the bank beneath us is on fire and we’re being evacuated.’ He hung the telephone up and said, as he shook Malone’s hand gravely: ‘My sister, in Boston. He squirmed, like a Laocoon trapped by snakes, and made an anguished face at Malone. When he did return to New York he found Sutherland standing in the middle of the room with a mudpack on his face, round earrings and a red dress pulled down to his waist-all that remained of the costume in which he had gone to a dinner dance as La Lupe-and the twenty-five-foot foot telephone cord wrapped around his body. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though these tough guardrails make it harder for our scientists, we feel it is the right long run decision for Beyond Meat and our consumers.” “And we believe the best way to serve the family is through a commitment to all-natural, non-GMO ingredients when building meat directly from plants. ![]() “Our goal is to be on the center of the plate for the entire family,” said Ethan Brown, Founder and CEO of Beyond Meat. ![]() ![]() Though these tough guardrails make it harder for our scientists, we feel it is the right long run decision for Beyond Meat and our consumers.” Tweet this EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Furthering Beyond Meat’s commitment to transparency and simple ingredients, the plant-based category leader has announced the completion of a rigorous 1-year review process to secure non-GMO verification from The Non-GMO Project’s Product Verification Program- North America’s only third-party verification for non-GMO food and products. ![]() ![]() Amos Decker, former football player, former police detective, who lost his family and dropped out in last year's "Memory Man," has been recruited by the FBI for a special team that would reopen and solve cold cases in "The Last Mile." A big man, "six-five, and about halfway between three and four hundred pounds - the exact number depended on how much he ate at a particular meal," Decker, because of a football injury, has a perfect memory - "It sounded cool. ![]() Two new characters that could well end up on the all-time list are Decker and Black.ĭecker is best-selling writer David Baldacci's latest serial character. Holmes, Poirot, Spade, Hammer, Marlowe, McGee, Spenser, Rawlins, Robicheaux, Milhone, Bosch … the list goes on ad infinitum and continues to grow. ![]() Character development has always been a mainstay of good detective fiction, with the fame of the made-up gumshoes long outliving their authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carrie Simon, Mathilde Schechter, and Rebecca Goldstein are the "pioneer" rabbis' wives of the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements of the late nineteenth century. Rubin provides biographical sketches of the lives of some of the key women who were married to (mostly) prominent rabbis. ![]() ![]() ![]() In telling the story of rabbis' wives in the United States in the twentieth century, Shuly Rubin Schwartz brings a new awareness to this group of women whose notable accomplishments have been neglected by scholars of American Jewish history. I was curious about whether they would rather have been me, or if in another era I would have been one of them instead. I wondered what they thought about women rabbis, whether they saw me as a potential friend and colleague, or envied me for all the time I spent learning and working with their husbands. As a rabbinical student who was married to one of my classmates in the 1970s, I thought often about the other women who were married to men in my class and those who served as rebbetzins in the congregations where I went to shul or served as a rabbinic intern. ![]() |