Bett Devlin, whos fearless, outgoing, and. Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends-and possibly, one day, even sisters.īut things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted. Avery Bloom, whos bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Avery Bloom, whos bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters. A REVERSE PARENT TRAP FOR A NEW GENERATION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS HOLLY GOLDBERG-SLOAN AND MEG WOLITZER. Bett (Dogfish) is fearless, outgoing, and lives in the moment. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads. Avery (Night Owl) is bookish, intense, likes to plan ahead, and is afraid of many things. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.Īvery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City.
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Yet is was mapped in ancient times, free of ice, with mountains and river valleys in locations now verified with technology that can see under the ice cap.Īlong with an analysis of many other ancient maps (such as those from Oronteus Finaeus, Hadji Ahmed, and Buache) which apparently demonstrate cartographic use of spherical trigonometry around the world, these maps also show geographical details the cartographers should not have known in antiquity (at least as conventional history teaches us.) Hapgood also looks into a variety of additional scientific evidence and reaches a conclusion which was startling when he introduced the idea about 60 years ago: that the surface of the Earth is not firmly attached to the core. Hapgood analyzes this map in great detail but the one fact that makes it most noteworthy is the detailed depiction of western Antarctica centuries before anyone in modern times knew the continent existed. The Piri Reis map of 1513 is a fragment of a larger map of the world, based on source maps going back to ancient Alexandria and beyond. Hapgood's "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings" may be known mostly for publicizing the existence of what is commonly called the Piri Reis Map, but as the first word in the title suggests there are many ancient maps evidencing knowledge we once believed was discovered more recently. Here's what stood out from five days of CinemaCon's coming attractions. The location is Las Vegas, not San Diego, and the dress code is much more business casual. This is all about the business of getting cinema fans back into movie theatres.Īfter a few fallow years during the pandemic, the box office is coming back to life. Hits like Super Mario Bros. have audiences returning to theatres. While tickets sales have yet to reach the heady post-pandemic levels of 2019, a cavalcade of studio executives and Hollywood stars came to Vegas to share trailers, exclusive scenes and screenings. In Caesars Palace, past the tourists in flip flops playing black jack under the crystal chandeliers, there's a convention where Hollywood studios and stars come to share exclusive previews with the audience that matters the most - movie theatre owners.ĬinemaCon is not Comic-Con. Grace’s spirit may be seen to travel from the metaphoricity of an interstitial tree where she hangs on the Tramberts’ estate, through the depths of her drunken parents’ subterranean world, eventually to emerge onto a Pine Block that is partly reclaimed, for a tentative collective reuniting with Maori ancestors. Her suicide may be read as a piece of Maori cosmogony revisited, a modern variation on the founding myth of Hine Titama/Hine Nui te Po’s flight from her incestuous father into the night. A close examination of the liminal character of Grace suggests that her pivotal suicide may result from the accretion of these Oceanic memories. Maori collective memory, in the shape of myths and traditions, also weaves a powerful framework to this first part of the narrative. It claims that the first part of the novel, culminating with Grace’s suicide, invokes Oceanic memory by revisiting several key stages in Pakeha-Maori relationships. An exercise in symptomatic reading, this paper studies Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors (1990) from a postcolonial perspective. The way she shapes this narrative is effective and immediately gets What is more important - his family or the life of an ancient friend?Įnjoyed this book! As soon as it began, I was on the edge of my seat waiting toĪnna Ciddor has created a beautiful story of aīoy who finds his way to the past he had been learning about during his When new threats arise and a friend is in danger of a terrible fate, Perry is confronted with an impossible choice. This adventure creates a lot of joy and curiosity as Perry gets entangled in the ancient ways of the Romans at Villa Rubia in a life he could never have envisioned. Now he must blend in as a slave (giving himself the name Peregrinus) to avoid arousing suspicion while he struggles to find his way home. When Perry into a Roman ruin while on a holiday in France, the last thing he expected was to be transported back 1700 years to Villa Rubia. The Old Bear & Friends series has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide! Her illustrations are unique, using layers of colour pencil to build a more full & finely detailed finished image. Her tales of adventure and discovery are both heartwarming and fun, captivating the imaginations of children and adults alike. Inspired by a childhood teddy bear given to her by her grandmother, Jane has written and illustrated more than 20 picture books featuring Old Bear. Jane continued to nurture her passion through adulthood and studied illustration and design, later becoming an Art teacher and settling down with her husband Ivan and their 3 children Owen, Alison & Ralph. When she wasn’t doing this she would spend days at a time sitting in her favorite tree, reading the likes of Arthur Ransome and Enid Blyton. Her holidays were spent wandering fields and lanes, conjuring up fantastical worlds with pencil and sketchbook. First published in 1986, it later became the inspiration for BAFTA award winning TV series Old Bear Stories.Īs a child growing up in Norfolk, Jane developed a love for writing and drawing. Recognized in both publishing and TV, Jane Hissey is best known for her children’s book series Old Bear & Friends. A site where early humans butchered each other across sixty thousand years. Disturbing subterranean noises he recorded prior to vanishing, draw her to Brickburgh's caves. Helene, a disillusioned lone parent, lost her brother, Lincoln, six years ago. But when a vast hoard of human remains and prehistoric artefacts is discovered in nearby Brickburgh, a hideous shadow engulfs her life. Lifestyle journalist Katrine escaped past traumas by moving to a coast renowned for seaside holidays and natural beauty. Ancient rites, old deities and savage ways can reappear in the places you least expect. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civilisation. "One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Lovelight Farms is the first book in a seasonally-inspired quartet of cosy romances following four friends finding love in the small town of Inglewild. He just came home for some hot chocolate, and somehow got a farm and a serious relationship in the process. Only.there is no boyfriend.Įnter best friend Luka Peters. Lovelight Farms is the first book in a seasonally inspired quartet of cosy romances following four friends finding love in the small town of Inglewild. To make the farm seem like a romantic destination for the holidays, she lied on the application and said that she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. With the added publicity and the huge cash prize, she might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she's loved since she was a child, Stella enters a contest with insta-famous influencer, Evelyn St. This sweet and steamy romance is a holiday happily ever after for fans of Tessa Bailey and Hannah Grace from TikTok favourite author, B. Lovelight Farms is a wholesome rom-com featuring a handsome, freckled data analyst, a messy, optimistic Christmas tree farm owner, and a small town with the best hazelnut lattes on the east coast. He described himself as a "High Church" Episcopalian and received communion more than once a week. He was a history buff and enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. After graduating he was employed by the United States Navy as a nuclear engineer. After returning from Vietnam he attended The Citadel where he received an undergraduate degree in physics. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. He served two tours in Vietnam (from 1968 to 1970) with the United States Army as a helicopter gunner. Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He also wrote under the names Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly. Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Once Taibbi began attending Trump’s rageoholic populist rallies in early 2016, though, he sobered up and delivered a darker vision of a country menaced by media manipulation. Early on in the race, he was casually establishing debate drinking-game rules and speculating about (of all things) who’d play John Kasich in the movie version of the campaign. Trump in the field ran the risk of his becoming “the most dangerous person in America.” But even up until Election Day, Taibbi never quite believed Trump had a chance at the White House. In August 2015, he was having a sardonic laugh at the “GOP clown car,” the dire assortment of Republican presidential candidates. This collection of long- and short-form reports by Taibbi ( The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, 2014, etc.) unfolds as a comedy that slowly turns into a horror movie. Looking back in bemusement and (eventually) anger at the 2016 presidential campaign with Rolling Stone’s pugnacious political correspondent. |