![]() ![]() Kunze’s solution is the Memory of Mankind project, a collaboration between academics, universities, newspapers and libraries to create a modern version of those first ancient Sumerian tablets discovered in the desert. “Unfortunately we live in an age that will leave hardly any written traces,” explained Martin Kunze. We live in a digital world where information is stored as lists of tiny electronic ones and zeros that can be edited or even wiped clean by a few accidental strokes on a keyboard. But there are fears that future archaeologists may not benefit from the same sort of immutable record when they come to search for evidence of our own civilisation. ![]() ![]() The stories and details they contain have stood the test of time, surviving through the millennia to be unearthed and deciphered by modern historians. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dance hall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. Her tone and words transport us." ( San Francisco Chronicle)Ī sweeping historical audiobook about a dance hall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers. ![]() "Choo narrates this richly complex novel herself, her gorgeous writing delivered in a voice that is deep and precise and lovely, both British and not quite. I can’t wait to hear what you think!" (Reese Witherspoon) The two main characters will captivate you as their paths are destined to cross. Set in a tiny Malaysian town in the 1930s, the story is about a mystifying tiger who haunts the villages, followed by a series of mysterious deaths. "You won’t be able to put this down! I’m excited to announce that our April pick is The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo. A Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine on Audible Pick ![]() ![]() ![]() Stating that The Hod King is beautifully written does not actually give the quality showcased here enough justice. ![]() With Marya finally within touching distance will Senlin focus on completing the Sphinx’s strict objectives or go his own way and try to converse with his lost wife again? Bearing in mind that the Sphinx has eyes everywhere. ![]() Marya has also become a major celebrity who is adored by Pelphia’s citizens. It also transpires that Senlin’s missing wife Marya lives in this Ringdom and is married to Duke Wilhelm Horace Pell. Senlin has to find out information regarding wagers and gambling in the Hod fighting pits, and Voletta needing to infiltrate high society under the guise of a highborn lady are two examples of these assigned missions. The narrative is mainly set within the Ringdom of Pelphia where our colourful cast split up in to smaller groups to complete objectives for the Sphinx. As soon as I received this novel all other books failed to exist to me until this was completed. When I concluded my review of Arm of the Sphinx I stated that I would be counting down the days until I could rejoin Senlin and his companions adventures in The Hod King. I would like to thank Josiah Bancroft and Orbit Books for the opportunity. I received an advanced review copy of The Hod King in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Have students work in pairs to edit the text. By preparing the article yourself, you can use all lower case letters, indicating no sentence breaks. It’s best if you type this yourself instead of simply using correction fluid to erase punctuation marks. Hand out copies of the article that have no punctuation. (My all-time favorite for personal and professional use is The Week Magazine.) Be sure to select a topic that is appropriate for your students in terms of age, interests, and language goals. Here are two editing activities to promote good writing skills:Ĭhoose either a very short article or a brief excerpt from a news source. In the writing classroom, frequent practice with authentic texts can develop students’ understanding and use of punctuation. ![]() Authenticity coupled with frequency can make an approach to language instruction very effective. Materials writers strive to include authentic sources in their works, and teachers try to maximize students’ communication for real purposes. A buzz word in language instruction is “authentic practice”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() **A copy of this book was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.**īest work yet! As an avid fan of Lisa Gardner’s work I have very high expectations for her books each time they come out. One who’s determined that this time, Flora Dane will never escape. realizes a far more sinister predator is out there. Is Flora a victim or a vigilante? And with her firsthand knowledge of criminal behavior, could she hold the key to rescuing a missing college student whose abduction has rocked Boston? When Flora herself disappears, D.D. Warren is called to the scene of a crime-a dead man and the bound, naked woman who killed him-she learns that Flora has tangled with three other suspects since her return to society. ![]() She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she’s become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who’ve never made it home. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book plays a complicated shell game with narrative and empathy, leveraging the first to misdirect the second, and vice versa. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is in fact a complicated trick, though not in quite the way the younger, baffled me thought. The murderer couldn’t be … that suspect! Why, that suspect wasn’t even a suspect! I was sure that master detective Hercule Poirot was playing some sort of complicated trick and that the last pages of the novel would reassure me that, no, in fact, it was the butler all along. ![]() I still vividly recall the reveal because I didn’t believe it. I FIRST READ Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit The Murder of Roger Ackroyd some 35 years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Torn between his need for the truth and his quest to find his perfect mate before a horrific transformation claims him forever, Eidolon will dare the unthinkable-and let Tayla possess him, body and soul. Not only is she his avowed enemy, but she could very well be the hunter who has been preying upon his people. Two lovers will dare to risk all.Įidolon cannot resist this fiery, dangerous woman who fills him with both rage and passion. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life. PLEASURE UNBOUND by Larissa Ione (Unabridged Audiobook)Narrated by Cassandra Campbell Length: 11 hours and 54 minutes This is book 1 of 'Demonica' Series Tayla Mancuso is a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure - but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. She's a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure-but fears it will always be denied her. ![]() In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life. In this dark and intriguing paranormal romance from New York Times bestselling author Larissa Ione, a forbidden romance turns deadly when a slayer is tasked with killing the demon who saved her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() government has sent its most ruthless covert spy agency to track and capture them. Their new world is dying, and a clan of powerful time benders believes that killing them is the only way to stop it. Now, after six months in this alt-America and a tumultuous cross-country journey that landed them in New York City, the Silvers find themselves in more trouble than ever. Saved from apocalypse by three mysterious beings, the sisters, along with four other refugees from their world, were each marked with a silver bracelet and transported to an entirely different Earth: a place where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances, as well as by their very own hands-and a place where terrifying new adversaries seem to be around every corner. "item_description" : "The thrilling second novel in the category-defying Silvers trilogy-melding X-Men and the novels of Blake Crouch-about six extraordinary people who become unwitting refugees on an unfamiliar Earth, and their epic quest to find out why.The end of the world was just the beginning for Hannah and Amanda Given. "item_title" : "The Song of the Orphans", ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Note "Lies beneath" series Antecedent source unknown Capture and storage technique unknown Color not applicable Configuration of playback channels unknown DimensionsĮdition Unabridged. Label Lies beneath, Anne Greenwood Brown, (electronic resource) Link Instantiates And just as his sisters are losing patience with him Cataloging source TEFOD Characteristic sound Brown, Anne Greenwood Dewey number Intended audience 012-017 PerformerNote Read by MacLeod Andrews Andrews, MacLeod Series statement Overdrive Only this time Calder screws everything up: he falls for Lily-just as Lily starts to suspect that there's more to the monsters-in-the-lake legends than she ever imagined. Easy enough-especially as Calder has lots of practice using his irresistable good looks and charm on ususpecting girls. Hancock has a fear of water, so to lure him in, Calder sets out to seduce Hancock's daughter, Lily. They blame Hancock for their mother's death and have been waiting a long time for him to return to his family's homestead on the lake. But this summer the underwater clan targets Jason Hancock out of pure revenge. To survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans, killing them to absorb their energy. Language eng Summary Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. ![]() Brothers and sisters - Juvenile fiction. ![]() Label Lies beneath Title Lies beneath Statement of responsibility Anne Greenwood Brown Creator ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Creative Evolution" was very popular in the first half of the twentieth century and held a significant influence on modern writers and philosophers. Bergson uses concepts of time, human intelligence and intuition to illustrate his ideas on the true goal of life. Bergson focuses on four key steps in evolution: that there must be a vital or creative impulse which explains the creation of all living things that there must also be an impulse accounting for diversity and differentiation that these tendencies can be defined as instinct and intelligence and that intuition allows us to connect ourselves back to the original, creative, vital impulse. First published in French in 1907 and translated into English in 1911, the work proposes an orthogenesis or progressive theory of evolution in which Bergson argues that organisms innately evolve towards an end goal. Henri Bergson was a French-Jewish philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose third major work, "Creative Evolution", provided an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution. ![]() |