5/27/2023 0 Comments The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constit... by Founding Fathers![]() ![]() Beginning in 1607, British colonization led to the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies in what is now the Eastern United States. Indigenous peoples have inhabited the Americas for thousands of years. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C., and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. ![]() It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. The United States is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. or USA), commonly known as the United States ( U.S. ![]()
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5/27/2023 0 Comments Code name hélène by ariel lawhon![]() When she enters training with the Special Operations Executives in Britain, her new comrades are instructed to call her HÉLÈNE. With a five million franc bounty on her head, Nancy is forced to escape France and leave Henri behind. Her success and her remarkable ability to evade capture earns her the nickname THE WHITE MOUSE from the Gestapo. Fiocca than the Germans invade France and she takes yet another name: a code name.Īs LUCIENNE CARLIER Nancy smuggles people and documents across the border. No sooner does Henri sweep Nancy off her feet and convince her to become Mrs. It is 1936 and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca. ![]() Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code Name Hélène is a spellbinding and moving story of enduring love, remarkable sacrifice and unfaltering resolve that chronicles the true exploits of a woman who deserves to be a household name. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Big lies in a small town book![]() ![]() Alone in the world and desperate for work, she accepts. North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to leave prison, she accepts. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Ten tiny breaths series![]() ![]() Author of the best-selling Causal Enchantment series, Tucker ( Allegiance, 2012, etc.) parlays her success with YA paranormal fantasy into this adult romance series. Soon, Kacey snags a job bartending at Storm’s bar, and Livie is enrolled at school, babysitting Storm’s 5-year-old daughter and getting her feet back under her. ![]() There’s also the very hot boy next door: Trent Emerson, who instantaneously pushes every one of Kacey’s buttons, chipping away at the shell protecting her from ever feeling anything. Storm, however, turns out to be a struggling single mom, running from an abusive ex-husband and trying to make ends meet by working as a rather acrobatic stripper. They end up in a funky apartment community, complete with Storm, the Barbie–look-alike neighbor. When Uncle Raymond begins to cross the line with Livie, she grabs her sister and heads for Miami to start a new life. ![]() Kickboxing helps ease Kacey’s anger, but life at home is tough with Aunt Darla’s Christian fanaticism. She turns to drugs and sex until Livie begs her to stop, afraid that an overdose will kill her older sister. ![]() After a drunk driver kills her parents, her best friend and her boyfriend, Kacey Cleary is left with her younger sister, a phobia of holding hands and a deep-seated hatred for the man who survived the car wreck. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually Alma, who studies moss, enters into the most important scientific discussions of the time. Characters crisscross the world to make money, to learn, and, in Alma’s case, to understand not just science but herself and her complicated relationship with Ambrose. Resigned to spinsterhood, ashamed and tormented by her erotic desires, Alma finds a late-in-life soul mate in Ambrose Pike, a talented botanical illustrator and spiritualist. Despite her wealth and education, Alma is a woman, and a plain one at that, two facts that circumscribe her opportunities. ![]() Born in 1800, Alma learns Latin and Greek, understands the natural world, and reads everything in sight. In more detail, the story follows Henry’s daughter, Alma. The story begins with Henry Whittaker, at first poor on the fringes of England’s Kew Gardens, but in the end the richest man in Philadelphia. It has an omniscient narrator who can deploy (never heavy-handedly) a significant amount of research into the interconnected fields of late 18th- and early 19th-century botany, botanical drawing, spiritual inquiry, exploration, and, eventually, the development of the theory of evolution. The Signature of All Things is a big, old-fashioned story that spans continents and a century. After 13 years as a memoirist, Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) has returned to fiction, and clearly she’s reveling in all its pleasures and possibilities. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Jennie allen get out of your head![]() ![]() Discover what kind of life is on the other side of "getting out of your head" through teachings and conversations with Jennie only available through this Online Bible Study.Understand your God-given power to stop the spiral of toxic thinking.Overcome the battle going on in your mind by getting into community with other women who have fought similar thoughts and will be a safe place for you. ![]() ![]() Other people have better lives than I do.
5/26/2023 0 Comments Born standing up a comic's life![]() ![]() His early jobs were short routines or magic tricks of a few minutes. It is fascinating how he slowly expanded his shoe length with each gig.Eventually, he stayed on the bus long enough to transform what he learned into his own routine. So many of his acts started as something learned from a friend or adapted from a coworker. He is the definition of The Helsinki Bus Station Theory.It was by performing his routines in public five or six times per day and by constantly adapting material from friends that he developed stage confidence and a unique routine. The early years of Martin’s career were poor and unsexy, but they were filled with tons of practice. Perseverance is a great substitute for talent.All entertainment is, or is about to be, old fashioned.Audiences don’t laugh when they are in the light. Darkness is essential for stand up success.In his words, “10 years spent learning, 4 years spent refining, and 4 years spent in wild success.” This summary also includes key lessons and important passages from the book. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This is my book summary of Born Standing Up by Steve Martin. Steve Martin was one of the most successful comedians of his generation. In his words, his career involved “10 years spent learning, 4 years spent refining, and 4 years spent in wild success.” This fantastic book provided beautiful insights not only into the details of his comedy act, but also into his early life and career development. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Sacrifice by Brigid Kemmerer![]() For example, while the very first novella, Elemental (#0.5), does setup the story and provide some background context, but I think I would have gotten more out of it and saved myself from some minor spoilers if I had read it after Storm. This is one of those series were reading the novellas is key to understanding what is going on in the book–but you don’t have to necessarily read them before you read the next full length book. I loved the TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender (and Legend of Korra is AMAZING) so I’m always excited to read series that focus on the elements. I found these series online at my local library and was intrigued enough to pick up the first book. ![]() ![]() Genre: Young Adult, Supernatural, Romance, Action There are novellas: #0.5 Elemental, #1.5 Fearless, #2.5 Breathless ![]() # of Books: 5 (Storm, Spark, Spirit, Secret, Sacrifice) SERIESous’ Top Book Series: Favourite Young Adult Series, Sad to See Go Series 2014 ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments The heart and the bottle book![]() ![]() The story is about what many of us do with emotional pain at some point in time or another, how we sometimes attempt to find relief from the pain by doing our best to seal the pain-or even our whole hearts that contain the pain-into something akin to a glass bottle. The story is also about the girl’s experience of loss when the older person is no longer there, of the emotional pain she feels, and of how she copes with that pain, of what follows.Īfter the loss, “(f)eeling unsure, the girl thought the best thing was to put her heart in a safe place….So, she put it in a bottle and hung it around her neck… and that seemed to fix things… at first” (Oliver Jeffers). The story is about a young girl who is curious about her world, engaged, creative, dreamy, joyful, and who has a loving bond with an older person (someone who appears to be akin to a grandparent based on the book’s illustrations). ![]() The story is about someone and something common-someone and something understandable, relatable. ![]() ![]() The book, The Heart and the Bottle, written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers (2010), wisely begins, “Once there was a girl much like any other…”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: ‘Marvellously exciting… Alan Garner is at his best writing of night and dark water… the story is ferocious and deeply felt.’ New Statesman Praise for The Moon of Gomrath: ‘Not only powerful but full of wild and whirling adventure… the reader is drawn right into the midst of it all.’ Guardian But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood?īook one in the Weirdstone trilogy, followed by THE MOON OF GOMRATH. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power.Ĭolin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone’s return. ![]() ![]() He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights.īut the heart of the magic that binds them – Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen – has been lost. When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. The much-loved classic, finally in ebook.įirst published over 50 years ago, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time. ![]() From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service ![]() |