5/30/2023 0 Comments Oathbound by victoria mccombs![]() I love her writing style, the world building, and her characters. This is the first book I’ve read by Victoria. It’s because of books like this that I will continue reading them. I’ve become a fan of pirate stories over the past year or so. I thoroughly enjoyed this pirate adventure! ![]() Thank you to all for inviting me along and for the gifted books. It is hosted by the author, Enclave Publishing, and Book of Matches Media. ![]() ![]() I read Oathbound, by Victoria McCombs, as part of a review tour for The Royal Rose Chronicles. To ignore it is to invite peril of unimaginable destruction.Īs the adventure unfolds, the sea takes more than she expects and the sea gives more than he wants.īeware the waters. His obligations are tinged with betrayal, for his oathbind must be fulfilled. The pirate captain’s secrets are darker than the deep and threaten to kill them all. But the Fates are cruel, and now a hidden sickness leads her to partner with pirates for the one thing that can save her–a cure on an island no one is certain exists. Trigger/Content Warnings: Fantasy violenceĮmme has spent her life avoiding anything to do with pirates. Series Title: The Royal Rose Chronicles, Book 1 ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The andromeda strain 1969![]() ![]() Ruth Leavitt, who join them at a top-secret Nevada underground facility, code named Wildfire. ![]() Stone and Hall retrieve the satellite and find two survivors, 69-year-old alcoholic Peter Jackson and six-month-old crying infant Manuel Rios. They discover the town's doctor opened the satellite in his office and that all of his blood has crystallized into a powder, the same death befalling nearly all of the town. Mark Hall, a surgeon, are dropped in by helicopter. Suspecting that the satellite has brought back an alien organism, the military activates an elite team of scientists.ĭr. A military recovery team from Vandenberg Air Force Base tries to recover the satellite but is unsuccessful. government satellite crashes near the small rural town of Piedmont, New Mexico, on February 5, nearly all the residents are dead. ![]() Jeremy Stone recounts the events before the United States Senate Committee on Space Sciences in 1971:Īfter a U.S. ![]() The film is notable for its use of split screen in certain scenes.ĭr. The special effects were designed by Douglas Trumbull. With a few exceptions, the film follows the book closely. Based on Michael Crichton's 1969 novel of the same name and adapted by Nelson Gidding, the film stars Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne as a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin. The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction thriller film produced and directed by Robert Wise. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Fingerprints of the gods![]() ![]() AD to about 4000 BC, or Tiahuanaco from AD 500 to as early as 15,000-10,000 BC!). in the case of Machu Picchu from the 15th c. Intriguing monuments of South and Central America are examined and often daringly re-dated to periods much earlier than is generally believed (e.g. The book starts with a discussion of the remarkably detailed old maps of Antarctica (the continent which was only discovered in 1818), in particular the map drawn by Admiral Piri Reis in 1513. 256 onwards, and I shall summarize the preceding pages only briefly. Egyptian evidence is used extensively from p. ![]() 487-505) in order to find out where he or she is being taken. The reader may be well advised to turn first to Chapter 52 (pp. Who saw that something was badly wrong with the history of mankind, who had the courage to speak out against intellectual adversity, and who pioneered the momentous paradigm shift that is now irrevocably under way.įine words, but are they justified and should they be taken seriously? Schwaller de Lubicz, Charles Hapgood and Giorgio de Santillana: Discussions in Egyptology 34, 1996, pp135 – 142Įven before we have a chance to read the first sentence of his new block-buster, Graham Hancock declares his opposition to traditional scholarship when he pays tribute to Ignatius Donnelly, Arthur Posnansky, R.A. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Visible learning feedback![]() ![]() Visible Learning: Feedback brings together two internationally known educators and merges Hattie's world-famous research expertise with Clarke's vast experience of classroom practice and application, making this book an essential resource for teachers in any setting, phase or country. ![]() With numerous case-studies, examples and engaging anecdotes woven throughout, the authors also shed light on what creates an effective feedback culture and provide the teaching and learning structures which give the best possible framework for feedback. The variability of feedback, the importance of surface, deep and transfer contexts, student to teacher feedback, peer to peer feedback, the power of within lesson feedback and manageable post-lesson feedback. Visible Learning Building the capacity of learners to learn, teachers to teach, leaders to lead and systems to improve x MAKE LEARNING VISIBLE Shift the focus from what teachers are teaching to what students are learning. Yet, there remains a paradox: why is feedback so powerful and why is it so variable? It is this paradox which Visible Learning: Feedback aims to unravel and resolve.Ĭombining research excellence, theory and vast teaching expertise, this book covers the principles and practicalities of feedback, including: Feedback is arguably the most critical and powerful aspect of teaching and learning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Setting off on their trail, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun, they find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species. When he takes off with Kimberly, heading south, Jean feels the pull to follow her kin. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean’s infected son, Lee. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue.Īs disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals-first mammals, then birds and insects, too. ![]() Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. She’s never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. ![]() ![]() Tania surprises Karl, meeting him on board the train. Though she repulses his first advance, she does spend an idyllic day with him in the countryside, where romance blossoms.īefore Karl can return to duty, his uncle, Colonel Eric von Raden ( Edward Connelly), the chief of the secret police, assigns him an important mission to deliver secret plans to officials in Berlin, but he also warns his nephew that the woman he just met is Tania Fedorova, a top Russian spy. ![]() ![]() In Vienna, Captain Karl von Raden (Conrad Nagel) purchases a returned ticket to a sold-out opera and finds himself sharing a loge with a lovely woman (Greta Garbo). The Mysterious Lady (1928) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer silent film romantic drama, starring Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, and Gustav von Seyffertitz, directed by Fred Niblo, and based on the novel War in the Dark by Ludwig Wolff. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Henry neff impyrium book 2![]() ![]() Cunning exposition of the setting slowly reveals that this is our own world, drastically changed thousands of years ago by a being from another universe, and it’s all spiced with a cool subplot involving assassins who can be triggered by code words. ![]() As the two gradually become friends, drama unfolds around the Faeregines and the large noble class, many of whom are itching to take over. Hob’s one of many servants who help the family, but he’s also a brilliant teen who is spying for what he believes to be a rebellion force dedicated to championing the rights of the commoners. Hazel Faeregine’s the youngest in a set of twelve-year-old triplet princesses, one of whom will replace the Empress and rule over Impyrium. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt![]() ![]() gently beautiful story So tenderly written, with the woods of Vermont and its creatures conjured as the human characters, this is the perfect book for 10-year-olds-plus to curl up with on a winter’s night. Written in alternate voices – one Jules, the other the fox – this searingly beautiful tale tells of one small family’s moment of heartbreak as it unfolds into something epic, mythic, shimmering and, most of all, hopeful. When Jules goes to throw one last wish rock into the river for her lost sister, the human and shadow worlds collide with unexpected consequences. ![]() She, too, is fast, and she senses danger. At that very moment, in another part of the woods, a shadow fox is born: half of the spirit world, half of the animal world. But Sylvie is too fast, and when she runs to the most dangerous part of the river one snowy morning to throw in a wish rock, she is so fast that no one sees what happens when she disappears. Jules’ favourite thing is collecting rocks, and Sylvie’s is running – fast. Better than just sisters, better than best friends. Worlds collide spectacularly when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub … and what happens when one sister disappears. ![]() ![]() ![]() Things are going better than Derek could ever have hoped, so why is Jane so freaked out? Does it have anything to do with Em dating Cam? She's the one who set them up! She should be happy for them, right? But when her boss, Derek, gets wind of Jane's Espressology, he makes it an in-store holiday promotion, promising customers their perfect matches for the price of their favorite coffee. Like her best friend, Em, a medium hot chocolate, and Cam, a toffee nut latte. So it's not a totally crazy idea when Jane starts hooking up some of her friends based on their coffee orders. ![]() She scribbles it all down in a notebook and calls it Espressology. ![]() Seventeen-year-old barista Jane Turner has this theory that you can tell a lot about a person by their regular coffee drink. Or perhaps it's a small decaf soy sugar-free hazelnut caffe latte? Some might call you a yuppie. Or a medium Americano? You prefer simplicity in life. What's your drink of choice? Is it a small pumpkin spice latte? Then you're lots of fun and a bit sassy. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Second foundation book cover![]() ![]() ![]() The Naked Sun Earth’s very existence is at stake when a murder takes place on power hungry Solaria. The Stars, Like Dust A masterpiece of suspense and drama: Biron Farrill sets out on a dangerous quest through the galaxies to find ‘Rebellion World’ and its key to man’s future peace. In Second Foundation a new and even more terrifying threat to the future of humanity arises in the form of a dangerous mutant, capable of manipulating men’s minds and destroying the universe… Foundation and Empire is the story of the mighty conflict for mastery of the stars between these two major powers. ![]() The beginning of the epic, Foundation, describes how one man creates a new force for civilised life as the old Galactic Empire crumbles into barbarism. The Foundation Trilogy In this landmark of imaginative fiction, winner of a special Hugo Award as Best All Time Science Fiction Series, Asimov has brilliantly conceived a whole new world for mankind, set far in the future and spanning a period of more than a thousand years. ![]() |