King of Shadows by Susan Cooper6/29/2023 She is equally adept at evoking the boy's respect and awe for his ""new"" director, the bard himself. Cooper meticulously conveys Nat's impressions of the sights, sounds, smells and textures of Elizabethan England. When Nat is suddenly stricken with a serious illness, he awakens to find himself once again cast as Puck at the Globe Theatre, but the year is 1599. He has been chosen, along with a group of other boys from America, to travel to England for the performance. The first segment of the novel, set in the present, details Nathan Field's rehearsals for the part of Puck in an upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, to be mounted in the newly renovated Globe. Cooper (The Dark Is Rising) brilliantly weaves past and present together, using London's Globe Theatre as backdrop, to demonstrate the timelessness of Shakespeare's works and the theater at large.
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Skirts At War by Jenna Korf6/29/2023 Skirts at War is a reassuring and playful hands-on guide to thriving as a stepparent, remarried mom or single parent, even if the other side won't meet you halfway. Many divorced moms and stepmoms feel doomed to a lifetime of power struggles when the other household is indifferent or openly hostile. 1958 graham greene novel6/29/2023 Wormold thinks of his daughter’s Country Club fees – and accepts. Wormold is in the middle of spluttering his opposition when Hawthorne mentions the £150 per month pay, plus expenses, plus extra money if he runs sub-agents. Out of the blue, a shifty Brit named Hawthorne comes sidling round the vacuum cleaner shop, takes Wormold for a few drinks, manhandles him into the loos (‘for security, old man’) and bamboozles him into becoming an agent for British Intelligence. She is hanging round with unsuitable company who encourage her to borrow a lot of money to buy a horse along with all the extras and to join the expensive, high society Country Club. His wife has left, leaving him in charge of their flighty and spoilt, St Trinians-y teenage daughter. He lives in Havana where he works as a vacuum cleaner salesman. Jim Wormold (worm + old, geddit?) is rather a failure in life. Because of the dated way people speak it’s difficult not to see it as a black-and-white Ealing comedy and the book was in fact made into a movie in 1959, starring Alec Guinness as the hapless hero. A fine comic novel which, like Loser Takes All, keeps a good-humoured smile on your face as it leads you through a succession of humorous or farcical episodes. Thomas Rogers Kimball by Joan M. Fogarty6/29/2023 The slightly projecting entrance portal, also executed in decorative terra-cotta, consists of an arched opening framed by pilasters and cornice. The elevation of the main floor elevation features tall, paired, unadorned windows. The front (north) facade is symmetrical with a different architectural treatment on each story, executed in buff-colored brick and terra-cotta detailing. Perimeter masonry bearing walls and iron columns, beams, and joists provide fire-retardant construction. The building, which is rectangular in plan, rests on a sloping urban block that showcases the three stories rising up over a raised basement. Like its Boston counterpart, the Omaha building is reminiscent of the palazzos of the Italian Renaissance and is one of Nebraska’s outstanding examples of the Renaissance Revival style. The Omaha library building was made possible in part by the generosity of Byron Reed, a local civic leader who donated the site near the downtown core along with his valuable collection of books, manuscripts, and coins. The building bears a resemblance to McKim, Mead and White’s Boston Public Library, which is not surprising since Kimball was living in Boston at the time of its construction. Kimball’s first major commission, the library was featured at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Designed by Thomas Rogers Kimball, then one of Nebraska’s premier architects, the old Omaha Public Library is a prominent local landmark. A study in charlotte series6/29/2023 Convinced they’re being framed, they must race against the police to conduct their own investigation. Then a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Holmes stories, and Jamie and Charlotte become the prime suspects. Charlotte has been the object of his fascination for as long as he can remember–but from the moment they meet, there’s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else. But that’s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective’s enigmatic, fiercely independent great-great-granddaughter, who’s inherited not just his genius but also his vices, volatile temperament, and expertly hidden vulnerability. The last thing sixteen-year-old Jamie Watson–writer and great-great-grandson of the John Watson–wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. Genres: Contemporary, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Mystery, Young Adult Published by Katherine Tegen Books on March 1st 2016 A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro Seeking persephone series6/29/2023 Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesĪmerica's borrowing is its superpower. The US Treasury building in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 13, 2023. Tokyo now holds $1.1 trillion, to China’s $870 billion, and that heavy exposure means both countries are vulnerable to a potential crash in the value of US Treasuries if the doomsday scenario for Washington were to unfold. But an escalation of tensions with the Trump administration in 2019 saw Beijing pare back its holdings, and Japan surpassed China as the top creditor that year. US Treasury bonds are widely regarded as one of the safest investments on Earth, and China’s holdings of US government debt ballooned from $101 billion to peak at $1.3 trillion in 2013.Ĭhina was the largest foreign creditor to the United States for more than a decade. That generated vast amounts of dollars for China and it needed a safe place to stash them. Together they own $2 trillion - more than a quarter - of the $7.6 trillion in US Treasury securities held by foreign countries.īeijing started to ramp up buying of US Treasuries in 2000, when the United States effectively endorsed China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, triggering an export boom. As the clock ticks down toward an unprecedented US debt default, the world’s second- and third-biggest economies are watching in fear.Ĭhina and Japan are the largest foreign investors in American government debt. Interlocuțiuni by Alexandru Paleologu6/29/2023 In 1944, after the Royal Coup that overthrew Ion Antonescu's dictatorship and took Romania out of the Axis, Paleologu took part in the Romanian committee of the armistice with the Allies and, between 19, worked for the Romanian Royal Ministry of External Affairs. He graduated from the Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest and then he studied Law at the University of Bucharest. Alexandru Paleologu's father, Mihail Paleologu was a lawyer and National Liberal Member of Parliament, later general secretary in the Ministries of Justice and of Finance, who was known for his association with Grigore Iunian. Paleologu was also, through various marriages, a descendant of the Wallachian Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu. They had moved from Lesbos Island to the Danubian Principalities at the beginning of the 18th century. Paleologu was born in Bucharest, into an ancient Romanian boyar family that claimed its origins in the last dynasty (Palaiologos) that ruled the Byzantine Empire. Unbroken by paula morris6/29/2023 PZ7.M82845Un 2013 - dc23 2012013461 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 13 14 15 16 17/0 Printed in the U.S.A. Welcome back to New Orleans.Where the streets swirl with jazz and beauty.Where the houses breathe with ghosts.A year ago, Rebecca Brown escaped death in a. Summary: Return ing to New Orleans for spring break, six teen- year-o ld Rebecca finds herself embroiled in another murder mystery from more than a century ago, when she meets t he ghost of a troubled boy. Unbroken : a Ruined novel / Paula Morris. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Morris, Paula. F or information rega rdin g permis sion, write to Schola stic Inc., Attention: Permissions Depa rtment, 557 Broadway, New Y ork, NY 10012. No part of this publication may be reproduced o r stored in a retrieval sy stem, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, wit hout written perm ission of the publisher. , and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. Jane gloriana villanueva snow falling6/29/2023 Snow Falling is a sweeping historical romance set in 1902 Miami-a time of railroad tycoons, hotel booms, and exciting expansion for the Magic City. With these tumultuous events as inspiration, Jane’s breathtaking first novel adapts her story for a truly epic romance that captures the hope and the heartbreak that have made the television drama so beloved. NARRATED BY IVONNE COLL AND ANTHONY MENDEZ FROM TV’S JANE THE VIRGIN! It’s been a lifetime (and three seasons) in the making, but Jane Gloriana Villanueva is finally ready to make her much-anticipated literary debut!Jane the Virgin, the Golden Globe, AFI, and Peabody Award–winning The CW dramedy, has followed Jane’s telenovela-esque life-from her accidental artificial insemination and virgin birth to the infant kidnapping and murderous games of the villainous Sin Rostro to an enthralling who-will-she-choose love triangle. Maximum Canada by Doug Saunders6/29/2023 Canada’s growth has faltered and left us underpopulated ever since.Īt Canada’s 150th anniversary, a more open, pluralist and international vision has largely overturned that colonial mindset and become consensus across the country and its major political parties. In fact, during most years before 1967, a greater number of people fled Canada than immigrated to it. For centuries before Confederation and a century after, colonial economic policies and an inward-facing world view isolated this country, attracting few of the people and building few of the institutions needed to sustain a sovereign nation. But why and how many?Ĭanada’s population has always grown slowly, when it has grown at all. To face the future, Canada needs more Canadians. |