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Radioactive by lauren redniss5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() until now, in the pages of this stunning, wildly creative, and uniquely moving visual biography by one of the most creative artistic talents working today. Yet the rich, vivid, and romantic story of Marya Salome Sklodwska-the young Polish national who discovered radioactivity-has been lost to time. The name Marie Curie is enshrined in every schoolchild’s mind as one of the earliest and most inspirational female pioneers in the history of science. “Visually dazzling…a startlingly original graphic style.” -Slate “Lauren Redniss creates an entirely new genre of biography.” -Nylon A visual journey into the life of Marie Curie, as told through the dazzling collage style of acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss ![]()
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Shutterbabe adventures in love and war5/31/2023 ![]() Urn:oclc:48238425 Republisher_date 20120320043807 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120319164238 Scanner . the first in an epic fantasy trilogy, talks to Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of The Red Book and Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War. Shutterbabe Adventures in Love and War Deborah Copaken Paperback List Price: 18.00 Individual store prices may vary. ![]() OL18166270W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.33 Pages 342 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0375503641 Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. ![]() Urn:lcp:isbn_9780375758683:lcpdf:1a983e11-3652-4f60-a823-8696fe9e99bf Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War is written by Deborah Copaken and published by Villard. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:28:42 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA173901 Boxid_2 CH105401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorĭanielsiders Edition 1st trade pbk. Deborah Copaken, bestselling author of Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War and The Red Book Growing up in a comfortable Caracas home, surrounded by joy, gaiety and the birds of paradise - and a father so revered that he had streets named after him in Venezuela - Ariana Neumann willed an adventure to come her way. ![]()
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A wolf called wander 25/31/2023 ![]() ![]() His journey takes him a remarkable one thousand miles across the Pacific Northwest. ![]() Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and his family scatter.Īlone and scared, Swift must flee and find a new home. Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains learning to hunt, competing with his brothers and sisters for hierarchy, and watching over a new litter of cubs. Illustrated throughout, this irresistible tale by award-winning author Rosanne Parry is for fans of Sara Pennypacker’s Pax and Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan. This gripping novel about survival and family is based on the real story of one wolf’s incredible journey to find a safe place to call home. ![]() A New York Times bestseller! “Don’t miss this dazzling tour de force.”-Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal winning author of The One and Only Ivan ![]()
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1949 death of a salesman5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The epiphany is too late in the piece, Willy having devoted a lifetime to contradictions about what he wants from his sons that Biff cannot reconcile. “Isn’t that remarkable?” realises Willy, “Biff, he loves me, he always loved me.” The play’s masculine folklore of the pioneering forefather, the sons vying for their father’s approval, the father allowing pride to get in the way of expressing filial love, still resonate too of course. Today, generations will never own property because their government has purposefully distorted the market, unless they withdraw funds for insanely huge housing deposits from the bank of mum and dad. Willy and Linda bemoan that their appliances break down before they can pay them off, that the achievement of a mortgage being paid rings hollow when the house is emptied of children. ![]() The truth, of course, is that the growing disparity between rich and poor in the US, UK or Australia today marks Death of a Salesman with evergreen relevance. Photograph: Prudence Upton/Sydney Theatre Company Death of a Salesman’s masculine folklore of sons vying for their father’s approval still resonates. ![]()
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Dennis lehane shutter island book5/31/2023 ![]() He pens a thriller framed in a much deeper exploration into the human landscape. Dark and unsettling, this novel’s end arrives abruptly even as readers are still moving at a breakneck speed. While Mary Pat confronts the men who brutally alter her world, she must face the prejudices that thread through her like poisoned veins. At times, the characters and the emotional core of the events are almost obscured by such quick maneuvering through the weighty plot. Characters utter slurs and racial epithets on every page, reflective of a fear, anger and hate that is not even given a second thought because it has been stamped into their souls. Lehane pens an uncompromising look at racism - Boston and 1974 serve as a microcosm of an American travesty throughout the nation's history and how easily people can misplace their loyalties to people and place. No, it's not easy because the material is not easy. Lehane reels readers into this world and story. Mary Pat Fennessy is white, Irish, already questioning events and her place in her life - middle-aged, dead-end job, utilities cut off, widowed by one husband, abandoned by another, a son dead to heroin - now, after a lifetime and generations of sticking close to Southie, her neighborhood, she has a daughter unhappy about the prospect of being bused across town. ![]() The city is boiling in a stew of humidity and a new busing policy to desegregate the city's schools. The book is set in 1974 Boston, summertime. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Critics Opinion: Readers Opinion: First Published: Apr 2003, 336 pages Paperback: Apr 2004, 416 pages Genres Rate this book Write a Review Buy This Book About this Book Summary Excerpt Chapter One Teddy Daniels father had been a fisherman. ![]()
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Lost Solace by Karl Drinkwater5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() But first you’d have to survive whatever else had hitched a ride on the ship. ![]() Some stories said a sentience sometimes came out of the void when the ships returned centuries later.Ī sentience that was able to answer any questions. And one of the myths had caught Opal’s imagination long ago: the Oracle. Enough money to disappear off the grid for good. There were rumours of unbelievable technology, discoveries that could earn the finder enough money to pursue any dream. Legends talked of them returning – and not empty-handed. Opal boards the mystery ship, narrowly missing the skewers of alien weapons that arise mysteriously out of its hull, and we’re off. It’s a tribute to Drinkwater’s writing skill that he keeps you involved in a riveting story even without the essential knowledge of what it is that Opal is really looking for. ![]() We don’t find out Opal’s back story or the real motive or object of this quest until after the action is over, near the very end of the novel. It turns out the Oracle is only a means to an end. ![]() |