5/23/2023 0 Comments The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi![]() ![]() In confident, heavily stylized prose, Oyeyemi illustrates Jess's cultural dislocation, using both Nigerian and Christian imagery to evoke a sense of her unreality. ![]() In Nigeria with TillyTilly, Jess finds a sense of belonging and intimacy for the first time, but when Jess returns to England, TillyTilly becomes less comforting and more troublesome. At her grandfather's compound, she encounters TillyTilly, a mysterious girl who seems to know everything about Jess and who, Jess realizes, is not visible to anyone else. As an intervention, her parents take her to stay with family in Nigeria for the summer. The sensitive protagonist, Jessamy Harrison, born to a British father and Nigerian mother, writes haikus and reads Shakespeare, but regularly throws tantrums and avoids social interaction both at school and at home. The story of a troubled eight-year-old haunted and ultimately possessed by family secrets, this spooky debut novel from a 20-year-old Nigerian-born Cambridge student is sure to garner attention for its precocity and literary self-consciousness. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred review. ![]() A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Fossil men kermit![]() ![]() ![]() Radiometric dating of nearby rocks indicated the skeleton, classified as Ardipithecus ramidus, was 4.4 million years old, more than a million years older than “Lucy,” then the oldest known human ancestor. ![]() In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White-”the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology”-uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia’s Afar region. "A rip-roaring tale, Fossil Me n is one of those rare books that can be a prism through which to view the world, exposing the fabric of the Earth and illuminating the Tree of Life." - New York Times bestselling author Peter NicholsĪ behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the skeleton of “Ardi,” a human ancestor far older than Lucy - a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Article 5 by Kristen Simmons![]() ![]() She remembers those tender moments and always hopes the best for him, wondering if he still feels the same toward her that she does toward him, wherever he may be.īut a knock on her door changes Embers entire life. ![]() Now, Chase is gone, and Ember misses him. There was no denying Chase and Ember, as teenagers, were meant to be together. They grew up together since childhood but their friendship turned deeper. She has friends, but the person she misses the most is Chase. Their only act of defiance is hiding magazines and books from the old days days Ember vaguely recalls. There are only five articles in the Moral Statutes that citizens need to abide by, but the laws change with the wind. Ember thought they were all rumors until it happened to her. Rumors of mass executions, people disappearing for no reason, prison, deportation….they’re everywhere. Their role? Enforce compliance of the Moral Statutes. The strongest arm of the government is the Military Militia. The War ended three years ago, and the government changed. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the title card means that Star-Lord will remain in the MCU, and Pratt is still open to playing him. Zoe Saldaña has confirmed this is her last outing as Gamora, as did Dave Bautista as Drax. The final title card in the newest Guardians movie reads, “Star-Lord Will Return.” This continues an MCU trend where we see a title card that lets us know whether we’ll be seeing our favorite heroes again or if this will be the end of the line for them. ![]() ![]() 3! What does ‘Star-Lord will return’ mean? But will we be seeing more of Star-Lord in a potential sequel GotG movie for the Marvel Cinematic Universe? This is what we currently know about the likelihood of that.īeware, spoilers lay ahead for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Movie, and he now headlines the sequel to the superhero film that launched his career into movie stardom. 3 arriving in theaters and receiving acclaim from critics and audiences, MCU fans may be wondering if the superhero Peter Quill/Star-Lord will return for a potential Guardians of the Galaxy 4.Ĭhris Pratt has had a wildly successful career, having very recently gotten box office success with The Super Mario Bros. ![]() ![]() ![]() See, ever since seeing this post over on Little Green Notebook and a few cool faux butterfly shadow boxes on Pinterest (like this one) I was ready to try my hand at some faux butterfly taxidermy. It’s actually cut from this information sheet we were given at the exhibit (I asked if I could buy it with this idea in mind and they said that they didn’t sell them but I was welcome to take the one I was given home with me – so nice of them, right?). My little craft isn’t made from real butterflies. And one of our stops was a butterfly exhibit with all sorts of real live butterflies who were doing their thing:Īnd thanks to something that we picked up while there, I was able to make this new framed art for our built-ins as soon as I got home: ![]() On Sunday we took Clara on a little weekend adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reader is provided with the tools for doing qualitative analysis, such as codes, memos, memo sequences, theoretical sampling and comparative analysis, and diagrams, all of which are abundantly illustrated by actual examples drawn from the author's own varied qualitative research and research consultations, as well as from his research seminars. The special emphasis of the book is on how to develop theory through qualitative analysis. This handbook is designed to remedy that and to present students and researchers with a systematic method for interpreting qualitative data', whether derived from interviews, field notes, or documentary materials. Abstract: The teaching of qualitative analysis in the social sciences is rarely undertaken in a structured way. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Summary of apples never fall![]() ![]() Heyday founder David Heyman says he was captivated by Apples Never Fall. ![]() Nicole Kidman, Moriarty, Reese Witherspoon and producer Bruna Papandrea at the after party of HBO’s Big Little Lies in Hollywood in 2017. Remarkably, for much of the time she was writing, Moriarty says she didn’t know if Stan was innocent or guilty. Things are not as rosy for the couple as they seem to the outside world – both seem to be struggling in retirement – and then, out of the blue, Joy goes missing. It tells the story of Stan and Joy Delaney, who have been married for several decades, have four children and run a successful tennis school. Those real-life stories, consumed via true-crime podcasts, inspired her most recent novel, Apples Never Fall. “He is invariably described as a loving father and that just got me thinking about how would I feel if my mother went missing and everyone was saying my father had possibly murdered her.” “Sadly there are multiple cases where a woman goes missing and the husband is the chief suspect in her murder,” she tells The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Walking is a great time for story ideas to percolate, says the 55-year-old best-selling author, and when she was given some new headphones she went on a deep-dive listening to true crime. ![]() Author Liane Moriarty photographed at home in 2016. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Ethersay by Sarah L. King![]() ![]() One that focuses on Miss Ailsa Rose a young tavern worker who also has special physic gifts. ‘The Wax Artist’ is the start of a brand new Edinburgh mystery series set in the early 1800s. Disturbed by the violence of her vision, Ailsa feels compelled to investigate and to thwart Clara’s dreadful fate.īut as Ailsa digs deeper into the young woman’s secrets, she also finds herself unearthing the ghosts of her own past, including those she thought she’d left behind in revolutionary France… When her spiritual abilities cause her to cross paths with the Andrews family, she foresees the death of the eldest daughter, Clara. However, unwanted reminders of bloodshed and strife are the least of Ailsa’s worries. Glimpses which French émigré and psychic Ailsa Rose does not welcome. And on Thistle Street, Marie Tussaud’s waxwork exhibition opens, offering vivid glimpses of French royalty and revolutionaries alike. On Hill Street, the Andrews family arrives from London, reeling from a recent scandal but determined to make a fresh start. In Edinburgh, as speculation grows about the resumption of war, the city’s parlours and taverns find distraction in the intriguing new faces appearing in the affluent New Town. An uneasy peace between Britain and France endures - for now. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 served as an introduction and provided the purpose of the Papers: to ensure the ratification of the new Constitution and, as Publius stated, “the safest course for your liberty, your dignity, and your happiness.” Although he was not shy in promoting his federalist viewpoint, above all, Publius’ arguments were designed to focus on truth and the very real concerns of the average antifederalist. These seventy-seven articles, along with eight additional articles, became The Federalist.įederalist No. Written by Alexander Hamilton under the pseudonym Publius, it was the first of a series of seventy-seven articles appearing in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet. October 27 marks the publication of Federalist 1 in 1787. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Red platoon book![]() ![]() ![]() On October 3, 2009, after years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating. Three years after its construction, the army was finally ready to concede what the men on the ground had known immediately: it was simply too isolated and too dangerous to defend. ![]() In 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost (COP) Keating, the most remote and inaccessible in a string of bases built by the US military in Nuristan and Kunar in the hope of preventing Taliban insurgents from moving freely back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan. “‘It doesn't get better.’ To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential truth, about being stuck at an outpost whose strategic and tactical vulnerabilities were so glaringly obvious to every soldier who had ever set foot in that place that the name itself-Keating-had become a kind of backhanded joke.” The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen-hour firefight at the Battle of Keating in Afghanistan by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. ![]() |