![]() What is so special about Natasha, the tiger? A kayak What did Grace spot from the airplane in the water surrounding the island? Ghosts What did Grace mention as one of the only things that spooked Marty and used it to try to scare him before going in to meet their uncle? Snake What did Uncle Travis say to the dog to get it to jump into his pocket? Pocket Dog The dog's name, PD, is short for what? Hidden Their uncle's island is called "Cryptos Island". ![]() Why did Marty give Grace a dollar at the airport? 212 How many bets had Grace won over the years? Cooking What did Marty and Bertha find that they had in common? She is a caspian tiger, thought to have gone extinct a half a century earlier. Beasel tell the twins to wear to the airport so that their uncle would recognize them? She had won a bet that the man picking them up was not their uncle. Travis Wolfe? Their school uniforms What did Dr. ![]() ![]() 3 - snake in her bed, peeked in her moleskin and cow manure in her closet How many times had Marty seen Grace lose her temper previous to being upset about the thought of leaving school to live with an uncle she had never met before? A veterinarian What kind of doctor was Dr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Holmes was using it as a cover for his sinister activities. He oversaw the construction of the fair's many buildings, including the iconic White City, and worked with a team of other architects to create a vision of the future that was both grand and practical.īut while Burnham was building the fair, H.H. It was a celebration of the nation's industrial might, and a chance for the city of Chicago to prove itself on the world stage.īurnham, the fair's chief architect, was a brilliant and driven man who worked tirelessly to ensure that the fair would be a success. ![]() The fair was a massive undertaking, designed to showcase the best of American innovation and progress. One of the most interesting aspects of "The Devil in the White City" is the way it portrays the World's Fair itself. Larson's research is impeccable and he weaves together a compelling narrative that draws the reader in from the very first page. ![]() The novel is a masterpiece of historical writing that brings to life the people and events of the time period. ![]() Holmes, a serial killer who used the fair to lure victims to their deaths. Burnham, the fair's brilliant architect and leader, and H.H. Erik Larson's "The Devil in the White City" is a historical thriller that tells the story of two men whose lives intersect during the planning and execution of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago: Daniel H. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an old-fashioned adventure story - with a dark fairy-tale element. Throughout the novel, Adamson's keen eye for detail and mastery of language are much in evidence in her descriptions of the natural surroundings. The Outlander is also suspenseful to a degree that you are often in a state of physical unrest, a condition only occasioned by first-rate fiction. The frayed material of the North American west is rendered in astonishingly fresh light. ![]() Gil Adamson's The Outlander is, simply enough, a superb novel and one senses in the fine writing the potential, or perhaps the eventuality, of a major writer. The Outlander deserves to be read twice, first for the plot and the complex characters which make this a page-turner of the highest order, and then a second time, slowly, to savor the marvel of Gil Adamson's writing. compelling debut.lean prose, full-bodied characterization, memorable settings and scenes of hardship all lift this book above the pack. ![]() It should age well.Īs novels go, The Outlander should qualify for Great Canadian status.Described by author Gil Adamson herself as 'literary gothic western,' The Outlander is perhaps the only book of this genre, but it seems at home among such Canadian classics as Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. In the tradition of Guy Vanderhaeghe, this is a dark novel with a long finish. One of those books so gorgeous in the writing that you simultaneously can't wait to read what happens next and want to savour the beauty of the writing. ![]() ![]() He laughed, and some of the women around us laughed too. ![]() It was a man with no legs, swinging through the carriage on his hands to beg from the passengers. Minutes later, a hand grabbed me hard between the legs, at what felt like an impossible angle. On the journey between our meeting place and the metro station we had run a familiar gauntlet of leers, obscene gestures and comments, and I hustled into the crowded women-only carriage – one of the two per train introduced in 2007 as a measure against rising sexual harassment – feeling a familiar mix of anger and humiliation. It was hard for them to speak openly about the attacks for fear of shaming their families and destroying their own chances of marriage. I was on the way home from interviewing female students – all of them devout, veiled Muslims – who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime. ![]() ![]() O ne afternoon earlier this year, I stepped into the carriage of a Cairo metro train. ![]() ![]() ![]() In relating his history and that of Leopolda, whose wonder working is documented but inspired, he believes, by a capacity for evil rather than the love of good, Father Damien is forced to choose: Should he reveal all he knows and risk everything? Or should he manufacture a protective history? In spinning out the tale of his life, Father Damien in fact does both. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Sister Leopolda's piety, but these facts are bound up in his own secret. ![]() To complicate his fears, his quiet life changes when a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, difficult, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. He imagines the undoing of all that he has accomplished - sees unions unsundered, baptisms nullified, those who confessed to him once again unforgiven. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. Compelled to his task by a direct mystical experience, Father Damien has made enormous sacrifices, and experienced the joys of commitment as well as deep suffering. ![]() For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. ![]() ![]() ![]() The collection could be tighter (there are over 40 stories, some only minor) and could give readers a better sense of how they’re sequenced, but this collection goes a long way toward putting Berlin, who died in 2004, back in the public eye. Berlin’s offbeat humor, get-on-with-it realism, and ability to layer details that echo across stories and decades give her book a tremendous staying power. Many of the strongest stories here are autobiographical, featuring Berlin’s stand-in (sometimes called Lucille, sometimes Carlotta) and her sons, husbands and lovers a range of jobs, mostly pink collar, but occasionally, as in the title story, blue a complicated backstory across two continents and a problem with booze. ![]() With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in. Imagine a less urban Grace Paley, with a similar talent for turning the net of resentments and affections among family members into stories that carry more weight than their casual, conversational tone might initially suggest. A manual for cleaning women compiles the best work of the legendary shortstory writer Lucia Berlin. Berlin, who may just be the best writer you’ve never heard of, has a gift for creating stories out of anything, often from events as apparently mundane as a trip to the laundromat. ![]() ![]() But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems. ClarkeĪbstracts: Vannemar Morgan's dream of linking Earth with the stars requires a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. ![]() Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. ![]() ![]() He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. ![]() Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. ![]() ![]() The problem, Bartyzel argues, isn't princesses, but the fact that "princess"-and by extension, femininity-has ended up meaning such a limited range of things. In a column last week at The Week, Monika Bartyzel suggested that these are maybe the wrong questions. So how do you hate princesses without hating girls? Or how do you separate princesses and femininity? What if, instead of realizing: Aha! Cinderella is a symbol of the patriarchal oppression of all women, another example of corporate mind control and power-to-the-people! my 3-year-old was thinking, Mommy doesn't want me to be a girl? I may be inadvertently communicating that being female (to the extent that my daughter is able to understand it) is a bad thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So anyway, with things looking dire Olivia’s dad arranges a marriage to Phinneas Cole-a man known as the Mad Baron. Bennet a run for her money, is always hovering around being a helicopter parent and telling her that ladies drink lemonade not punch. This is probably due to the fact that all that “wife grooming” stuff has left her with little more to talk about than watercolors and embroidery. The problem is, Olivia can’t find a husband. They can’t afford another and she’s been groomed for being the perfect wife since childhood. In this book Lady Olivia Archer’s parents have made it very clear that this is her last Season. The series centers around three friends, Emma, Olivia and Prudence, who all are facing spinsterhood despite having graduated from a prestigious finishing school. In the heroine’s case, that label is London’s Least Likely to Cause a Scandal. It’s so good I was willing to ignore that horrible wig the woman on the cover is wearing.īasically this book is about looking past the labels society gives a person. It’s a charming, funny romp and it makes me say things like “charming, funny romp” like I’m an asshole reviewing a Julia Roberts movie. ![]() As has been my experience, the second book in the series Wallflower Gone Wild is so, so much better. I was strictly ‘meh’ on The Wicked Wallflower, the first book in Maya Rodale’s Wallflower series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Albers spent many years of his life teaching, alongside his work as an artist. ![]() ![]() It was a similar approach to that of other great colourists: Georges Seurat restricted his palette to monochrome for two or three years in the 1880s and Henri Matisse focused on using black around 1918. Albers’ self-imposed restriction to monochrome allowed him to approach the full spectrum with remarkable confidence. Albers was one of the first modern artists to explore the psychological effects of colour and space, and to question the nature of perception. Although Albers disavowed style category labels, he is credited with influencing the movements of Geometric Abstraction and Minimalism. Josef Albers interaction of colour would go on to influence Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Kenneth Noland. ![]() |