5/28/2023 0 Comments Unseen university books![]() ![]() 'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Īnd the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. To do this, they recruit an unlikely group of players: Trev, a street urchin with a talent for kicking a tin can Glenda, the night chef who makes a mean pie Juliet, the kitchen hand turned world's greatest fashion model and the mysterious Mr Nutt, who has something powerful, and dark, locked away inside him. so they're in the mood for trying everything else. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic. 'We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.'įootball has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]() ![]() Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest.Politics & Government: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Dead wake larson![]() It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more-all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. ![]() ![]() He knew, moreover, that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. ![]() Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Bedtime bonnet book![]() ![]() Perfect for fans of The Pirate Cruncher and Aliens Love Underpants. Bedtimes will never be boring again with this fantastic first picture book from Caroline Crowe. Beautifully illustrated by Tom Knight, this book is packed full of piratey humour, jazzy jim-jams and a cosy-dozy ending. Pirates in Pyjamas is a hilarious rhyming romp – perfect for bedtimes and little pirates everywhere. With so many sweet, detailed pictures, your little one will see something new each time you hug and snuggle up to read Tucked in the barn. Sleepy little farm babies are going to beds in beautiful illustrations that tell an endearing and funny bedtime story and create a truly engaging experience. Sweet and restful lullaby story on the little girl and her charming baby-animals friends will make your way to dreamland full of joy and happiness. She will stay here and check whose bed is the coziest, the warmest and the most comfortable? When there is a beautiful barn full of furry and feathered friends around and a cozy clump of hay, going to back to her bedroom for bedtime doesn’t seem like that much fun to a little girl. But sweet little girl doesn’t want to go home. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Killing You Softly by Lucy Carver![]() ![]() Interspersed with the murder mystery, are scenes between Alyssa and her boyfriend Jack, who is still as adorable as ever. I always try to pay careful attention to these because I’m desperate to spot the clues that are vitally important. There are several passages throughout the book where Alyssa has to think back on things that have happened or conversations that she has had with people. ![]() This is a trait which Alyssa shares and makes each mystery even more interesting because you know that even the smallest detail could be the one that breaks the puzzle and solves the case. This series reminds me so much of the TV show ‘Unforgettable’ which is about a female detective with perfect memory recall. She’s unable to resist investigating the death, when she starts to receive taunting clues and messages, indicating that someone is playing a taunting game of cat and mouse with her. Alyssa’s photographic memory comes in handy when a local girl dies and she begins to find unusual links between the two of them. This is the second book in the series about main character Alyssa and the girls of St Jude’s Academy. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Star Healer by James White![]() ![]() The two were married in 1955, eventually having two sons and a daughter. Margaret was also a fan of science fiction. Heinlein’s work compelling because it looked at science fiction tales from the perspective of an ordinary person. James’ love for the genre grew in 1941 as he encountered stories of good and evil aliens from the likes of E.E. Several things connected James to his future wife, and science fiction was one of them. So James instead found work with a couple of tailoring firms around Belfast before finally marrying Margaret Sarah Martin. However, studying medicine was not in the cards, not with this foster parents’ financial situation. Joseph’s technical Secondary school in Northern Ireland, it was James White’s dream to become a doctor. James wrote science fiction and gained fame for his short stories and novels. James White is an Irish author that passed away in 1999 at the age of 71. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Mary jane jessica blau![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane’s mother to know, which she does not): the doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job - helping a famous rock star dry out. The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. In 1970s Baltimore, 14-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. ![]() If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm." (Nick Hornby)Īlmost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this "delightful" ( New York Times Book Review ) novel about a 14-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for - who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer. "The best book of the summer." ( InStyle ) ![]() ![]() Global history is here to stay, but its place in the educational system, particularly school curricula, remains heavily contested. Yet the nation-state is not dead, and national governments are vigorously promoting a return to national histories in the service of patriotic education. The globalization processes of the late twentieth century have brought these into sharper focus and powered an approach that places Europe’s history in a broader global context of mutual interaction. And yet there were demonstrable global influences on many key developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, from the liberalism of the Latin American revolutions of the 1820s to the economic impact of the cotton-growing slave economies of the American south. Global aspects of European history were covered mainly in terms of Europe’s impact on other parts of the world, as in Hobsbawm’s “dual revolution” (the worldwide repercussions of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution), or the history of Europe’s colonial possessions overseas. Historians of the modern period in particular focused above all on the political history of nation-states and the diplomatic history of relations between them. The historical profession emerged in Europe in the nineteenth century in tandem with the rise of the nation-state. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Henry huggins and ribsy![]() ![]() Henry convinced his mother that Ribsy was a good dog and if she allowed him to bring Ribsy home he would feed and wash Ribsy. ![]() Before Henry could take Ribsy home, he needed his mother’s permission, so he took Ribsy to the phone booth to call his mom. Henry started to think that it might be nice if he could take the dog home, since he always wanted a dog of his own.Henry decided to name the dog Ribsy because he was so skinny. Then Henry told the dog to go away but the dog sat at his feet. ![]() Henry felt sorry for the dog and gave him the ice cream cone. The dog seemed to be a stray, and it also seemed hungry as he wagged his tail, and watched Henry eat the ice cream cone. However, on one particular Wednesday afternoon in March, something happen as Henry was returning home from his one hour swim at the YMCA.Henry had stopped to buy a chocolate ice cream cone, and as he stood at the bus stop licking his ice cream cone while waiting for his bus to go home, he heard a thump, thump, thump, so he looked around, and there was a dog behind him scratching itself. Henry always thought that nothing cool ever happened to him, except for having his tonsils removed when he was six, and breaking his arm falling out of a cherry tree when he as seven. He had hair that looked like a scrubbing brush, and most of his grown-up front teeth were in. There was a third grade boy named Henry Huggins. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The longing by sue monk kidd![]() Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. ![]() We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty-five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement, and the uneasy ways of love.Īs the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sue Monk Kidd’s sweeping new novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday in 1803, when she is given ownership of ten-year-old Handful, who is to be her waiting maid. The Grimkes’ daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. ![]() Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. ![]() ![]() Buy the Book: Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, IndieBound,, Google Playįrom the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees: a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. ![]() ![]() The initial few months were seen by Robbe-Grillet as something of a holiday, since in between the very rudimentary training he was given to operate the machinery he had free time to go to the theatre and the opera. In the years 1943-44 Robbe-Grillet participated in service du travail obligatoire in Nuremberg where he worked as a machinist. ![]() ![]() He was trained as an agricultural engineer. He was married to Catherine Robbe-Grillet (née Rstakian).Īlain Robbe-Grillet was born in Brest (Finistère, France) into a family of engineers and scientists. ![]() Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on March 25, 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat #32. He was along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon one of the figures most associated with the trend of the Nouveau Roman. ![]() Screenplays and novels, such as The Erasers (1953), of French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet, affiliated with the New Wave movement in cinema, subordinate plot to the treatment of space and time directors, such as Jean Luc Godard and François Truffaut, led this movement, which in French cinema in the 1960s abandoned traditional narrative techniques in favor of greater use of symbolism and abstraction and dealt with themes of social alienation, psychopathology, and sexual love.Īlain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. ![]() |