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Goosebumps the curse of camp cold lake6/25/2023 Due to the time variability of on-demand manufacturing Standard shipping ($4.95+)
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Chris barton whoosh6/24/2023 His desire to solve problems and his curiosity to develop new things have positively impacted his career as an inventor and a scientist. But it is his invention of the Super Soaker water gun that has made his most memorable splash with kids and adults.Īccording to his website, Lonnie Johnson holds 80 patents with over 20 patents pending. Growing up in a house full of brothers and sisters, persistence and a passion for problem-solving became the cornerstone for a career as an engineer and his work with NASA. A love for rockets, robots, inventions, and a mind for creativity began early in Lonnie Johnson’s life. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the iconic toy. And it was invented entirely by accident. It’s one of the top twenty toys of all time. Written by Chris Barton, Illustrated by Don Tate Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
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Wonder woman greg rucka omnibus6/24/2023 Poison is given her first bit of prominence in decades, long before she was featured in the 2017 Wonder Woman film. While the general "skeleton" of the run is evocative of Pérez, references are made to the iconic Lynda Carter Wonder Woman TV series and Diana's Golden and Silver Age roots.Įven some of the missteps of John Byrne's run, namely turning Wonder Woman into a legacy character, are redeemed during Jimenez's run. The writer/artist had long been a huge fan of the character, and it shows in how much his run emulates and homages elements from the past. Both in terms of art and writing, Jimenez's stories were very similar to Pérez’s, due to the latter being a huge inspiration for Jimenez. Phil Jimenez began his run as writer and artist on Wonder Woman in the early 2000s, and it was in many ways the true sequel to the post- Crisis on Infinite Earths run from George Pérez that began almost 15 years prior.
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Cool Water by Dianne Warren6/24/2023 The shirt symbolizes the loss of Astrid, who used to do his laundry. Instead of presenting a full-colour portrait of a character, I might pick out one object of clothing that symbolizes the character, or says something about that character’s life.įor example, when Lee gets out of bed in his first chapter he grabs a wrinkled shirt out of the laundry basket. There’s always an unless.įor the most part, what a character looks like – blond hair, dark hair, short, tall – doesn’t matter to me, unless the character is seen through the eyes of another character, in which case the interpretation has more to do with the looker than the one being looked at. unless of course what is in the drawer is part of the premise. By the time you finish writing a book you might know what your characters keep hidden in their dresser drawers, but you can’t create a character by deciding this before you start. I do none of this and I venture to guess that most fiction writers do not. Certain how-to books tell you to make lists of character traits and what people wear and how they talk and what kind of childhood they had. "When I teach writing, one of the most common questions I get is about character development. The characters in Cool Water stayed with long after turning the last page. I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Dianne Warren as my guest blogger today! If you stopped by yesterday, you read my review of her latest book - Cool Water.
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Lullaby chuck6/24/2023 Her suit is light blue, but it's not a regular robin's-egg blue. Evil Plan: Helen has a sort of ongoing one with her business:.Eco-Terrorist: The boyfriend of the very odd realtor, Helen Hoover Boyle, turns out to be an eco-terrorist who ends up becoming the Token Evil Teammate.Brown Note: The entire book revolves around one (a killing spell).
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The secrets of mary bowser6/23/2023 As illness and hunger ravage the city, Mary's espionage leads her to deceive even those who are closest to her. Together Mary and Bet risk their lives to smuggle invaluable information to the Union commanders. Knowing that slaves are considered incapable of intelligence, she poses as a slave in the Confederate White House to spy on President Jefferson Davis. As the nation edges toward war, Mary defies Virginia law by returning to Richmond, vowing to care for her ailing father - and to fight for emancipation. Carefully keeping the secrets of her own enslaved family, she joins the abolition movement to bring fugitive slaves to freedom. Life in the North offers Mary a different kind of education than she ever expected. When Bet Van Lew, the outspoken daughter of the family that owns Mary, decides to send her to Philadelphia to be educated, Mary must leave her parents to seize her freedom. Mary is a loving daughter, a quick-witted girl, and a slave to one of the wealthiest families in Richmond, Virginia. A powerful novel based on the true story of one daring woman willing to sacrifice her own freedom to change the course of history.
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Deadly Election by Lindsey Davis6/23/2023 A murder reminds Flavia of the danger she has placed herself in. His wife's absence seems to intensify the rumors. There's no dearth of other candidates, but Flavia begins to question the ethics of her work when she learns that Sextus is commonly known as a wife beater. Caesar favors one Volusius Firmus, an oar-making magnate with a sterling reputation, so it's particularly puzzling when he drops out of the race. Faustus hires Flavia to dig up dirt on the slate of candidates competing against his friend Sextus Vibius Marinus in the upcoming election for Plebian Aedile. This potential slog takes a back seat when Flavia is buttonholed by rugged Manlius Faustus, a magistrate who's as attracted to her as she is to him, so far to little effect. Because it's too badly decomposed to identify, determining the body's killer, not to mention its identity, falls to Flavia despite the fact that Callistus suggests she simply dispose of it like rubbish. While preparing a sale of items from the household of wealthy Callistus Valens, who has gone to his country estate with his family, her workmen find a corpse inside a huge armored chest. Upon the retirement of her father, Marcus Didius Falco, Flavia Albia has inherited both his auction house and his clients as a private informer and sometime-sleuth. In ancient Rome, elections can be murder.
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1984 brave new world6/23/2023 People are kept in a passive state through their consumption of a soothing drug called soma, and trouble-makers are exiled to various islands. Emotions and individuality are conditioned out of children, and citizens are socially engineered into an intelligence-based hierarchy. The novel takes place in a futuristic society called The World State, where life revolves around science and efficiency. Set in 2540 CE, Brave New World is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley that was published in 1932. The term dystopia refers to a society characterized by misery, squalor, or oppression, and the theme is most commonly used in science-fiction and speculative-fiction genres.ĭystopian Science Fiction Classics Collection:īook one: Brave New World. Dystopian literature is a genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in a nightmarish world.
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Sara donati books in order6/23/2023 It is on characters introduced in The Last of the Mohicans that Sara Donati has based her ambitious first novel. Such, it seems, is Into The Wilderness, and I don’t mean that as an insult. They were lengthy, flowery in their verbiage, slow-moving in their action, and filled with protracted descriptions intended to decorate the reader/listener’s head with images. Books of this ilk were often meant to be read aloud, before the hearth, for the benefit of the entire family. An audience where its readers lived in isolation, far apart from neighbors, who had long evenings to fill with some kind of entertaining distraction. It was written for a different readership, one without television, movies, radio, often without newspapers or access to many books. Have you read James Fenimore Cooper’s, The Last of the Mohicans? Voluntarily? Or did you study only parts of it in the tenth grade, as I did? This classic piece of American literature is from a far different era, one we today would not recognize. But, if you’re willing to stay with me here, I’m willing to take a stab at it. I frankly don’t know what to say about this book.
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Įven after a year, the title of “duke” still sits strangely on Edward Russell’s shoulders. While Jo decidedly does not have marriage on the mind, the duke’s handsome looks and charming words are enough to make the lovely widow a little reckless. Guests at the party include her friends and former partners Pen and Caro-and Edward Russell, Duke of Grainger, the Home’s generous benefactor and the man she’s been writing to for months. But when those same women conspire to accept an invitation on her behalf, she finds herself suddenly on the way to the christening party of the Earl of Darrow’s baby. In USA Today bestselling author Sally MacKenzie's intoxicatingly romantic series, the "fallen" ladies of Puddledon Manor's Benevolent Home are restoring their reputations-and their future prospects-by operating their very own brewery and alehouse.Īs the founder of the Home, Josephine Smyth-Waters is determined to be there for the women who need her. |