"Slowly, Slowly, Slowly" said the Sloth has three parts to the story: the day in the life of a sloth, questions for the sloth from other rainforest animals and finally the sloth's answer. They are threatened now by deforestation and Goodall is hoping Carle's book will help teach future generations to appreciate the sloth and all the rainforest enough to want to protect it. They sleep between fifteen and nineteen hours a day. They can rotate their heads 270° degrees. There are two species: two-toed and three-toed. In it she talks about her love for the unusual creatures and gives some basic facts about them. There's Snook from It's a Big, Big, World on PBS and the title character of Eric Carle's "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth.Įric Carle's book has a foreword by Jane Goodall. The strange slow creatures of the rainforest have in recent years become cute characters for children.
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If you like fantasy and adventure with a dash of romance, give Kissing Magic a try. But what hope does she have against mysterious powers when she can’t even control her own heart? When truths are unraveled, Karina will need to stand between an ancient darkness and the kingdom. Once in Whyland, she realizes that risking a broken heart is the smallest of her problems. Karina’s smart enough not to fall in love – or at least to tell herself not to. Why her? No clue, but she’s happy to help, and kissing Sian isn’t torture, even if he isn’t to be trusted. Karina has heard and seen enough weird stuff for this request to sound legit.Īt 16, Karina has a shot at adventure–and an odd first kiss – when she’s called to Whyland, a kingdom in another dimension, to save a guy she barely knows. 14, 2019 Genre: Young Adult Fantasyīreak a spell with a kiss. Author: Day Leitao Narrator: Winona Owen Length: 12 hours and 22 minutes Series: Portals to Whyland, Book 2 Publisher: Sparkly Wave Released: Jun. 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Standard EbooksĨ1,444 words (4 hours 57 minutes) with a reading ease of 67.69 (average difficulty)Īmbrose Bierceâs second major short story collection, Can Such Things Be? collected nearly all of Bierceâs supernatural horror stories.īierce himself was a skeptic of the supernatural, having once written a satirical essay âThe Clothing of Ghosts,â in which he insisted that âThe materialized spook appealing to our senses for recognition of his ghostly character must authenticate himself otherwise than by familiar and remembered habiliments. Can Such Things Be?, by Ambrose Bierce - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. I wanted to share moments from my personal life as well, from a humorous look at my unlikely dinner with polarizing neocon Paul Wolfowitz, to my haunting meeting with a severely burned boy in Afghanistan, to my peculiar obsession with a certain jolly old elf. 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The New York Times bestselling author Mick Foley returns to his fans favorite subject: Mick Foley and wrestling! Internet attitude contributes positively to material access, internet skills, and health outcomes and negatively to health-related internet use. This study aims to reveal to what extent (1) internet access is important for online health outcomes, (2) different health statuses are important for obtaining internet access and outcomes, and (3) age and education moderate the contribution of health statuses to internet access.Ī sequence of 2 online surveys drawing upon a sample collected in the Netherlands was used, and a data set with 1730 respondents over the age of 18 years was obtained. 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These unsettling stories of today's viral grifters have risen to fame and hit the front-page headlines, yet the curious conundrum remains: Why do these scams happen?Drawing from scientific research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem, whether it's from the trusted influencers that peddled Fyre or the consumer reviews that sold Juicero.Ī cultural examination that is as revelatory as it is relevant, Hype pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season-and how we as consumers can stop getting played. Reviewers and celebrities flock to London's top-rated restaurant that's little more than a backyard shed. Gabrielle Bluestone teaches us how to spot social media con artists. Efforts to research and develop quantum computing have advanced far enough in the past decade to allow us to separate hype from reality and truly understand where quantum computing will have the biggest impact. Watch Gabrielle Bluestone on her new book 'Hype' Video Online. Respected investors pour millions into a start-up centered around fake blood tests. 18 hours ago &0183 &32 Quantum Advantage: Hope and Hype. From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age-and why we can't stop falling for them."Scams are hot right now, and Bluestone covers the hottest here." - BooklistWe live in an age where scams are the new normal.Ī charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. The novel hit #8 on The New York Times Best Seller list, and had been optioned for film by David Heyman and DreamWorks. Shadow and Bone was nominated for the Romantic Times Book Award and the South Carolina Children's Book Award, named an Indie Next List Book, and reviewed in The New York Times. Career īardugo's debut novel, Shadow and Bone, the first book in the Grisha trilogy, was published in 2012 by Macmillan. Before publishing her first novel, she worked in copywriting and journalism, as well as makeup and special effects. She was a member of the Wolf's Head secret society. She attended Yale University, graduating with a degree in English in the spring of 1997. She is secular Jewish and of Moroccan Jewish descent on her father's side, and of Ashkenazi Jewish ( Russian-Jewish and Lithuanian-Jewish) descent on her mother's side. where she was raised by her grandparents. The Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows series have been adapted into Shadow and Bone by Netflix and Ninth House will be adapted by Amazon Studios Bardugo is an executive producer on both works.īardugo was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1975 and grew up in Los Angeles, California, U.S. She also received acclaim for her paranormal fantasy adult debut, Ninth House. She is best known for her young adult Grishaverse novels, which include the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, and the King of Scars duology. Leigh Bardugo is an Israeli-American fantasy author. Grisha Trilogy, Six of Crows duology, King of Scars duology In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. However by then they had escaped from Spain and returned to England.īetween 19, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. Orwell and his wife were accused of "rabid Trotskyism" and tried in absentia in Barcelona, along with other leaders of the POUM, in 1938. Later the organization that he had joined when he joined the Republican cause, The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), was painted by the pro-Soviet Communists as a Trotskyist organization (Trotsky was Joseph Stalin's enemy) and disbanded. Orwell was severely wounded when he was shot through his throat. In addition to his literary career Orwell served as a police officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 and fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1937. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism. Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. As their relationship grows between each new letter and she discovers that his confusing iconography can finally be explained through their story, an underlying plot of murder and art forgery is uncovered in the present. Through the mysterious properties of the letter, Emily is raptured to the past where she becomes the muse who influences Manet's greatest works. While x-raying a painting for an upcoming Edouard Manet exhibition at the Art Institute, Emily stumbles upon a hidden letter painted in lead white beneath the layers of oil and varnish. He made her fall in love with art when she was nine years old and yet Emily was the muse of Edouard's greatest artwork 150 years before she was born. Emily Porterfield is a conservator of paintings in 21st century Chicago. Edouard Manet is an infamous painter in 19th century Paris. |