5/13/2023 0 Comments Undergrounders by David Skuy![]() Meanwhile, Lewis tells Jonathan that he has something planned for him.įor days, Jonathan continued to practice at the hockey rink, until he is invited to join Rasheed's hockey team. ![]() There, he met Rasheed, Collin and Derrick. After that, Jonathan went back to the rink, to practice his skills. From there, he stole a pair of Grafs ( Ice hockey skates), a Maple Leafs jersey, an ice hockey puck, an Easton ice hockey stick, two pairs of gloves, one pair of winter mittens and a roll of stick tape, as well as five dollars, a sandwich and a Coca-Cola. One day, while Jonathan was begging for money, he entered a hockey store (Baxter's) through an alleyway. He survived in the forest on berries, but soon, it became cold, and another homeless boy named Lewis took him to the "Underground", a basement of an abandoned shopping mall, that was apparently never built past the underground portion. After his mom died from cancer, her boyfriend, Ron, left Jonathon and the landlord kicked him out. The story is narrated by Jonathon, a 12-year-old boy. ![]() ![]() The plot is about a young boy named Jonathon (nicknamed Mouse) that lives in the "Underground" as his mother died of cancer. Undergrounders is a novel written by Canadian author David Skuy, published by Scholastic Canada in 2011 and winner of the 2012 Silver Birch award. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The prelude by william wordsworth![]() ![]() At the time, his imagination ran wild with images of London's neighborhoods, the Thames river, and landmarks like St. ![]() Most of all, he was baffled by how urban neighbors could live so close to each other but never know each other. The speaker pushed him to describe London's wonders and was met with noncommittal answers. When he was a child, a schoolmate visited London, and the speaker remembers feeling surprised and disappointed when his classmate came home looking unchanged by the metropolis. There was a time when every fantastical setting described in stories or history paled beside the speaker's imaginary version of London. ![]() He decided, he explains, to move to London-a place he had previously visited but never settled in. Now, in the morning, he prepares to launch back into the story of his life beginning with the period just after he left Cambridge and finished his time in the Alps. But, one night ago, a group of singing birds inspired him to take up the story again. He explains that he began five years ago, but has worked in fits and starts, only recently stopping work on the Prelude for several years. The speaker begins by reflecting on his writing process so far. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Wild Man by Timothy B. Husband![]() The case is also made for a kind of societal blind spot on abortion at the time of both the Evans and Christie trials in particular, a reluctance to come to terms with the concept of the male abortionist, which distorted the criminal investigations and the trials themselves. ![]() Exploring the language of abortion used in these different contexts, the article reveals changes in the gendering of abortionists, the increasing power and presence of abortion activists and other social reformers, the changing representation of working-class women and men, and the increasing critique of the practice of backstreet abortion. It shows how the commonplace connection of John Christie to abortion and Beryl Evan's death was not a given in the wider public, legal, political, and forensic imagination of the time, reflecting the multi-layered and shifting meanings of abortion from the date of the original trials in the late 1940s and 1950s, through the subsequent judicial and literary reinvestigations of the case in the 1960s, to its cinematic interpretation in the 1970s. ![]() This article addresses the social, cultural, and political history of backstreet abortion in post-war Britain, focusing on the murders of Beryl Evans and her daughter Geraldine, at Ten Rillington Place in 1949. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The farm stand by amy clipston![]() ![]() Salina has been dating Josiah for almost a year now, but he feels more like a friend than a boyfriend. ![]() She also feels the pressure of having to be the perfect daughter for her mother and father, who is a bishop. Her family is very close, yet sometimes she tires of being compared to her older brother, Neil, a deacon who is married with two children. Salina Petersheim runs her own booth at the Amish market, where she's known for having the freshest and most delicious produce in the area. In this second installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Marketplace series, love begins to grow between Salina and Will, a Mennonite chef-and both must decide if it's a love worth fighting for. Salina is engaged to the "perfect" man-except for the fact that Josiah feels more like a friend than a fiancé. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are undoubtedly of another age – and yet I wondered how much had really changed. It made me think (because that's the peculiar way my mind works) of the only children's books I know set in rural Northumberland – those by Lorna Hill. So many things I take for granted don't seem to have impinged upon this corner of rural England. Other aspects of time travel feel a little strange. (I mean, who doesn't want to munch mushrooms while reading an Ancient Greek Epic with their dog sitting on their feet?)Ī recent edition - published by Girls Gone By ![]() There are some other wonderful aspects of going back in time - like bookshops! How is it that while most British cities (including Leeds) struggle to support independents bookshops, the market town of Alnwick can offer the stupendous Barter Books: an enormous secondhand bookshop where you can take your dog, eat superb creamed mushrooms, and pick up a copy of Robert Fagles' translation of the Illiad, all in one happy trip. ![]() ![]() ![]() Revised by the Committee of publication." Knowles, Pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Boston. Prepared for the American Sunday School Union by James D. Judson, late Missionary to Burmah with an account of the American Baptist Mission to that Empire. ![]() ![]() 1830, Paul Beck, jun., Treasurer, in trust for the American Sunday-School Union, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: , That on the twenty-sixth day of November, in the fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Robert louis stevenson donkey walk![]() ![]() And when the present is so exacting who can annoy himself about the future?” To hold a pack upon a pack-saddle against a gale out of the freezing north is no high industry, but it is one that serves to occupy and compose the mind. ![]() Alas, as we get up in life, and are more preoccupied with our affairs, even a holiday is a thing that must be worked for. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more clearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. ![]() ![]() Stevenson also articulates a credo that would become central to the writing of Robert Byron, Redmond O’Hanlon and many other later travel writers: “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. Stevenson is a master of technique he knows instinctively how to animate the most mundane moments However, from a short list, Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes remains Stevenson’s masterpiece, a “little book” that describes a wayward, inconsequential journey and a strange love affair (with a donkey) in which, as in all the best journeys, the author finds himself renewed, refreshed and, returning from his travels, once more ready for the fray. Graham Greene, Robert Byron and Bruce Chatwin (among many) all owe a debt to An Inland Voyage and The Amateur Emigrant. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Empty world by john christopher![]() ![]() The religion was allowed, but it is still a small minority religion. It is revealed that the Emperor Julian survived instead of dying on the Persian Campaign, Christianity never became the state religion. Brad is able to make use of his knowledge of Latin to persuade a Roman Christian to purchase his freedom. The boys are separated to be sold as slaves. The victory led stability under Pax Romana, and in turn led to general stagnation of the civilised world, a subsequent absence of major technological development, as there was no motivation for change. After some time they realise that they have travelled not to the past but to an alternative Earth also in the year 1981, but one with a different history - the Roman Empire under Flavius Claudius Julianus Augustus, aka Julian the Apostate or Julian the Philosopher, was successful in his AD 363 Persian Campaign. The two boys are drawn towards a mysterious glowing ball, which instantly transports them to what appears to be more than a thousand years back in history. ![]() ![]() In the year AD 1981, British boy Simon meets his visiting American cousin Brad, but they do not get along, Simon finding Brad to be conceited, but knowledgeable enough to justify his conceit. Fireball is the first book in a trilogy by John Christopher, published in 1981, exploring the adventures of two cousins when they are suddenly transported into an alternative history Earth through a mysterious fireball. ![]() ![]() Gordeeva's grandmother read Grimm's fairytales to her, not knowing that's how Gordeeva would later describe her life - like a fairytale. Gordeeva's parents both worked hard and traveled so much that Gordeeva and her sister, Maria, often stayed with their grandparents. Her mother, Elena Levovna, was a teletype operator for the Soviet newsagent Tass. Her father, Alexander Alexeyevich Gordeev, a folk dancer for the Moiseev Dance Company, wanted Gordeeva to become a ballet dancer. Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Russia, on May 28, 1971. In 1995, at age 28, her partner and husband Grinkov died of a heart attack. ![]() In their 13 years of skating together, Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov were first co-workers, became friends, then fell in love, married, became parents and won four world championships and two Olympic gold medals. Ekaterina Gordeeva is a Russian champion ice skater. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Dust kay scarpetta 21![]() ![]() ![]() Pete Marino, who like her has relocated from Virginia, about a body found on the MIT campus. Kay Scarpetta (after 2012's The Bond Bed), Scarpetta, now the director of the Cambridge Forensic Center and chief medical examiner of Massachusetts, receives a call from Det. In Dust, Scarpetta and her colleagues are up against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator who fits the criminal classification of a “spectacle killer.” The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels.Īt the start of bestseller Cornwell's 21st novel starring Dr. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. ![]() With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surprise-and to thrill-in this electrifying Kay Scarpetta novel.Ī body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. ![]() |