![]() ![]() These thirteen colonies joined together as the United States of America in July 1776. The American Revolutionary War was the period in history in which thirteen American colonies rebelled against Great Britain. I find Avi’s “The Fighting Ground” and “Sophia’s War” fitting for our current theme on Scarred Souls & Bloodstained Memories: Tales of War & Poetry, Refuge & Peace. I was able to find two of those books, and both were written by Avi. Fortunately, there are a number of children’s books that help readers gain an understanding of the American Revolutionary War. I was not born in the United States and I know very little about the American history. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress. ![]() #DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress. ![]()
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The system was made official in 1947, and now it's one of the nation's best-kept secrets. Others were carved through fields and woods by medieval farmers, herdsmen and pilgrims. Some trails are left over from Roman times. Three books recently published detail just how you can narrow in on your chosen path, from Elvis to hiking in Normandy.įrance on Foot by Bruce LeFavour (Attis Press, $24.95) is a large-format volume offering colour photos, good maps, excellent directions and fine writing on France's 110,000 miles of off-road footpaths, les sentiers de grande randonne. ![]() Travel these days is all about focus - pick your topic and follow it to the ends of the earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Living with his best friend should have been easy. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can’t deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. Armed with a few tips from Westport’s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye… yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. In fact, she’s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. She knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. ![]() ![]() Now, Hannah’s in town for work, crashing in Fox’s spare bedroom. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his… personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time-in bed and out-and that’s exactly how he prefers it. King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Hook Line and Sinker In the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another deliciously fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Does that mean it lacks intelligence? Or could it be that Physarum and other fungi do possess intelligence – just a completely different kind of intelligence from humans? Physarum is able to navigate its surroundings and make decisions despite having no brain or central nervous system. Remarkably, its network resembled Tokyo’s existing rail system almost identically. After just one day, the slime mold figured out the quickest route among the oat flakes. Oat flakes, which the fungus could use as food, were used to mark out major urban hubs, while harmful bright lights signified obstacles like mountains. ![]() In one experiment, Japanese researchers placed Physarum in petri dishes modeled on the Greater Tokyo area. When faced with a labyrinth, it’s able to compare different courses of action and determine the most efficient way out. The slime mold Physarum polycephalum is a deft problem-solver. ![]() ![]() It is extremely insensitive that a person would try and find loopholes in my story just to attack me." " tells a story that is meant to raise awareness, not to help people personally attack me about my rape. Jackie said the aim of her book was to create awareness about rape and she would not let it be torn apart. ![]() but most of them have ulterior motives for attacking me." Instead of just asking me, okay can you share your personal story about rape then. "People want to harass me on social media and attack me personally. ![]() I get people have different opinions about things written in my book, but for some guy to decide to say to me, 'No, you were not raped.' Was he there? Does he want medical records? Some of the parts are true and some of the events were adapted to form part of the story. ![]() "This book is a novel based on a true story. Jackie has a love-hate relationship with followers and told TshisaLIVE the most offending thing she's had to go through is people poking holes in her rape ordeal. ![]() Author of the controversial book Bare: The Blesser's Game, Jackie Phamotse has expected to receive hate and criticism for her book, but she's not willing to allow people to "discredit" her rape story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Often we the public have expectations of police that are both contradictory and in some ways impossible. “Is there systemic corruption? No question. I think most of the cops are trying to do a good job,” Winslow says. “I have a great deal of admiration for NYPD. Hollywood has already snapped up the rights. They’re smart and brave but also flawed and wounded souls you root for even as they go astray. The boys in blue of The Force are not villains, they’re heroes. Cops will love this book, and love Winslow. Winslow could probably double-park a Hummer and not get a ticket. Which makes it sound like the author should beware next time he visits New York. “There are guys out there who are just overt racists.” ![]() “Are there racist cops? Absolutely,” says Winslow, settling into an interview at a beachside diner near Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Be ready to emerge into LA's glitz, Palm Spring's glam and Hip Hop's underworld rap bosses, crooked cops, jealousy, mayhem and madames. ![]() Not only was he the last one seen with Afrodite but there is also an incriminating business card found with her dead body which belongs to him. Tennyson's interest in the murder investigation is not only because Afrodite was a client and personal friend of his but, to this handsome reformed escort's horror he has become the number one suspect to the LAPD and with good reason. Afrodite, a successful young female rapper gone actress/entrepreneur is well on her way to superstardom but later is found murdered in an alley. A gritty colorful drama begins to unfold when Tennyson Hardwick assigns himself as a private investigator in a high profile homicide. It is a page turner and complete work that stands on its own while setting up readers to search out the other tales of the Tennyson Hardwick novels in the Blair Underwood titles. is a novel filled with twists until the very end. Buy the eBook Casanegra, A Tennyson Hardwick Story by Blair Underwood online from Australias leading online eBook store. Heart-Pounding! Underworld Slime! CASANEGRA. ![]() ![]() ![]() Misha’s sudden death sends Jaryk on a journey halfway across the globe that will plunge him into an increasingly complicated political drama. But Jaryk, who has finally met a woman he might trust with a glimpse of his past, lets him fly to Calcutta alone. Invited to participate, Misha eagerly accepts. ![]() Jaryk and his older friend, Misha, first met in a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw and now they’re the only two of its former residents able to testify to the heroism of its director, a historical figure named Janusz Korczak, who spurned an opportunity to save himself and accompanied his young charges to the gas chamber.Ĭhakrabarti writes that his title refers to a play by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, “about a dying child living through his imagination,” that Korczak staged at the orphanage in 1942 - an attempt to comfort his beloved boys and girls, to “prepare them for what was to come.” Chakrabarti uses this historical footnote to envision a whole new fictional production, organized 30 years later by an Indian academic trying to save an endangered village whose inhabitants have fled the violent birth of the new nation of Bangladesh. ![]() The haunted man at the heart of Jai Chakrabarti’s A PLAY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (Knopf, 304 pp., $27) is one of the few survivors of a generation, a Polish immigrant in New York who can’t forget the makeshift family that was transported to Treblinka without him. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also uses illogical arguments to support his beliefs. Pangloss ignores any evidence that contradicts his initial opinion. Voltaire illustrates this by showing us that he keeps his optimistic thought even when he is imprisoned. Voltaire satirically shows the reader that Pangloss is not a believable character. When creatures of the world, see something as wrong or evil, it is because they do not understand the ultimate good that will come out of it. Pangloss believes that a powerful God had created the world and that, therefore, the world must be perfect. Pangloss’s philosophy is against the ideas of the Enlightenment period. ” This optimistic philosophy actually is the key element of Voltaire’s satire. Pangloss’s philosophy of life is that all is for the best in the “best of all possible worlds. ![]() Influence of Pangloss’s and Martin’s Characters on Candide ![]() |