5/24/2023 0 Comments The only and only ivan book![]() ![]() Ivan knew that there was going to be a huge change in his life and he let go of his old one, although Tag wasn’t the same. Ivan and Tag were both captured by humans. Ivan was born in Central Africa, Ivan always play tag with his twin sister, who was later named “Tag,” Ivan and Tag loved to play together. Ivan draws all sorts of things but mostly bananas. A girl named Julia comes and gives him art supplies everyday. ![]() Ivan is a true artiste, when he lived with his gorilla family, he always took mud and drew on the rocks, he was named “Mud.” Even at the “Big Top mall” Ivan is an artiste. 7 lamps, one couch, three shower curtains, three shower curtain rods, one blender, one radio, and three of his own toes” (130-131) While living with Mack and Helen, Ivan was treated like a human child. ![]() For example, when Ivan was staying with the Big Top Mall Circuses owner Mack, “Ivan broke a tv, one crib, 46 glasses. While with the humans Ivan learned how to get in trouble. ![]() Written by Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan, is about a gorilla who has been living with humans for almost all of his life. Curious about the outside world, Ivan the silverback gorilla, has been trapped in the “Big Top Mall” sense he was still a young gorilla. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Tiny habits book review![]() Celebration is incredibly important in Tiny Habits. And for an Anchor, you could decide to do your tiny habit right after you’ve put the kids to bed.Ħ. They’re called Anchors.įor example, a person-based prompt for the lavender bath might be “when I feel tired at night.” For a context-based prompt, you could leave the lavender oil bottle in the bathroom where you can see it. Action-based prompts are special in Tiny Habits. You can tie this prompt to yourself (some kind of internal emotional or physical cue), your context, or an action in a pre-existing routine. Once you’ve identified which tiny behavior you want to introduce into your life, you need to find a good prompt to remind you to do it. Remember, no behavior happens without a prompt. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie![]() Murder in the Mews: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot ( 1937)Īka A Holiday for Murder / Murder for ChristmasĪka An Overdose of Death / The Patriotic Murdersģ3. The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920)ġ8. As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan.ġ. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies.Īgatha Christie also wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. I was entranced by the seemingly incongruous details: a fortune in. ![]() Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. One day she began Agatha Christie’s Cat Among the Pigeons, a murder mystery set at an English girls’ boarding school. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. ![]() She set the standard for the genre in over 60 novels and dozens of. Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer. Agatha Christie is nearly synonymous with upper-class British mysteries, for good reason. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Unmumsy Mum by Sarah Turner![]() ![]() ![]() With entries including D is for Desperation, F is for Fish Fingers, S is for Supermum and V is for Vagina, it is safe to say this is not your average A-Z. Her words have made mums, dads and grandparents everywhere laugh and cry in equal measure.įrom bestselling author and massively popular blogger The Unmumsy Mum comes this hilarious, irreverent and searingly candid compendium of parenting experiences. She is back The Unmumsy Mum has put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard!) once more to bring you the next instalment of her life as mum to two young boys, documenting motherhood exactly as she finds it. The lessons she is learnt while grappling with two small boys – from birth to teething, 3am night feeds to toddler tantrums, soft play to toilet training – will have you roaring with laughter and taking great comfort in the fact that it is definitely not just you. ![]() The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the messy, maddening, hilarious reality, how there is no one size fits all’ approach and how it is sometimes absolutely fine to not know what you are doing. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments One night promised series![]() Delving into his world and breaking down his defenses becomes her obsession - an obsession that could shatter her heart beyond repair.įor all future readers, I will try not to give a lot of spoilers and let the book reveal the characters and plot.įirst of, this book is nothing like This Man series (spoilers coming) and from what I understood this was the author's intention. To have him, body and soul, she'll have to brave his dark secrets. But she senses that behind the fast cars, fancy suits, and posh apartment, he's aching inside. M awakens something in Livy, something deep and addicting that she never knew existed-and that she fears only he can satisfy. Yet the fascination is so powerful, Livy can't deny him.or herself. ![]() Every defense mechanism Livy has adopted during her solitary life is at risk of being obliterated by this confounding man. No feelings, no commitment - nothing but pleasure. All he wants is one night to worship her. Then she finds the note he left on his napkin. When he walks out the door, she thinks she'll never see him again. He's heart-stoppingly stunning, with a blue-eyed gaze so piercing she's almost too distracted to take his order. Livy notices him the moment he walks into the coffee shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first book, The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir, shared the stories of her midwifery patients, who came from all walks of life, to sit in her office, offering their intimate stories of challenge, laced with her own personal struggles with her health, the task of running a business and the stress it placed on relationships with those she loves. The Harmans stopped catching babies in 2003, and Patricia decided that she would use some of her 'free' time to do some writing. Patricia Harman is a certified nurse midwife who lives in Morgantown, West Virginia where she works with her OB/Gyn husband, Tom Harman to provide woman centered care at all stages of a woman's life as well as prenatal care to women in the early stages of pregnancy. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Alien archie goodwin![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Occasionally we’ve seen different cultural paths in a more or less equivalent vein– Japanese manga like Nausicaa, Ghost in the Shell or Appleseed finding themselves converted to all manner of animated iterations, hand-drawn or otherwise, sometimes with varying levels of direct involvement from the original illustrators who created the initial works in the first place. Over the course of this column, I’ve largely been covering the by now standardized track of comics-to-movies adaptations, usually centering on sequential stories both mainstream and niche that find themselves treated with big budgeted, high-profile motion picture productions, the likes of which audiences have grown increasingly accustomed to since the special-effects assisted advents of the Superman, Batman and Spider-Man features (all three of them by now in some manner of franchise reboot or another). ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Colleen hoover cinderella series![]() ![]() Unfortunately for Daniel, finding true love doesn’t guarantee a happily ever after. One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in love-at-first-sight is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. ![]() Moments like that happen only in fairy tales. When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them seemed perfect only because they were pretending it was. But this love has conditions: they agree it will last only one hour, and it will be only make-believe. ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us, a novella about the search for happily ever after.Ī chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. Colleen Hoover is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-three novels, including It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, All Your Perfects, Ugly Love, and Verity. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Winterling book series![]() ![]() A dangerous test.Īn action-packed adventure through a land of wonder, mystery and danger. 9780857388582 Winterling Series: Summerkin 25.2000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/childrens-books /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction/science-fiction-fantasy A land of summer. And if she loses, she risks plunging her beloved lands back into a terrible darkness.Īn action-pac. To prove herself, Fer must face the toughest contest of her life against leaders with powers far greater than her own. ![]() Winterling (Winterling Series) This book is in very good condition and will. There are many in the lands who think she should return to her own world. Winterling (Winterling Series) by Sarah Prineas at .uk - ISBN 10. ![]() A dangerous test.įer is the Lady of the Summerlands - a magical realm on the other side of the Way.īut Fer is also just a girl. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Foner second founding![]() The way he conceives of the second founding is the expansion of what it means to be a citizen and who is allowed to be citizens so that the promises of liberty and freedom that are implicit in the founding of the US expand gradually, starting in reconstruction to include more and more people. There is a theme throughout Foner’s work of the reconstruction being a second founding, and he views that broadly. The real difference is the greater space given to the historical context in Foner’s Second Founding. ![]() The Second Founding, in some ways, is a book-length exploration of what Akhil Reed Amar did in a single chapter in his America’s Constitution: A Biography. ![]() The Second Founding is mainly looking at the history around the Reconstruction Constitutional Amendments, the 13th, 14th, and 15th. I am a big fan of Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 by Eric Foner. I have yet to read his biography of Lincoln or his book on the Underground Railroad, but those are both on my list to get to eventually. Summary: A historical look at the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments in the context of reconstruction history. ![]() |