![]() ![]() Mina may look a lot better with fangs, but her afterlife isn’t any less complicated! Then Serena shows up on Mina’s doorstep with some news that sends Mina reeling. ![]() Not even the Vampire Council’s shape-shifting classes can cheer her up. Mina has to fake her death, change her name, and leave everything behind, including George and Serena. ![]() And not somewhere cool like New Orleans, but some teeny, tiny town where cheerleaders and jocks rule the school. With vampire boyfriend George and best friend Serena by her side, Mina thought she had her whole life-or rather afterlife-ahead of her. (or, better yet, from your local bookstore) Can a girl from California survive in backwoods Louisiana?īuy Now: | Amazon UK | Indiebound Just when Mina thought the worst was behind her and it was time to get on with her life, her parents drop a bombshell. ![]()
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With the quizzical grimace of long neglected astigmatism she adjusted the steel bowed spectacles that had been her mother’s, had of a notion peddler for two dozen eggs and a pound of butter. The new laid harvest straw beneath the faded red carpet rustled crisply under Martha’s shapeless felt slippers as she padded across the living room to the cluttered mantel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gypsies, too, have arrived to work the land. ![]() It s hop-picking time and Londoners, including Maisie s assistant Billy Beale, wanting to escape the Smoke for the summer, set up camp in nearby fields. ![]() With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie is relieved to accept an assignment from an old friend who wants her to uncover the truth behind these crimes, before he can buy part of the magnificent Sandermere estate at the heart of the village. Maisie Dobbs new case takes her investigation into the pastoral beauty of the Kent Weald where acts of arson, theft and vandelism around the village of Heronsdene have gone suspiciously unreported for more than a decade. But outsiders are not welcome and the locals will go to extreme lengths to prevent their long-buried secret from coming to light.ġ931. A Zepplin raid in a sleepy Kent village An innocent family killed Unsolved crimes hang over Heronsdene and Maisie Dobbs is hired to uncover the truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Complete with an introduction from Chelsea Clinton, black-and-white illustrations throughout, and a list of ways that readers can follow in Nellie Bly's footsteps and make a difference! A perfect choice for kids who love learning and teachers who want to bring inspiring women into their curriculum. But Nellie never gave up, no matter how many obstacles she faced-and she helped others along the way. She went undercover to expose wrongdoing and famously raced around the world so she could write about the experience for her newspaper. Nellie Bly was a journalist and one of the first investigative reporters ever. About the Book "Inspired by She persisted by Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger."īook Synopsis Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds! In this chapter book biography by New York Times bestselling author Michelle Knudsen, readers learn about the amazing life of Nellie Bly-and how she persisted. ![]() ![]() While a law school student – the only woman in her school – Pauli suggested that the way to overturn the “separate but equal” doctrine enshrined in Plessy v. ![]() decades before the demonstrations at that Woolworth’s counter in Greensboror and she anticipated the Freedom Summer of 1964 in urging her white classmates from law school to head south to fight for civil rights, wondering how to “attract young white graduates of the great universities to come down and join with us.” She was a problem child. ![]() She organized sit-ins that successfully desegregated restaurants in Washington, D.C. for women.” (Pauli was one of the original 28 women who founded the National Organization for Women.) 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The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”-Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast “One of the great thinkers of our generation. Download: Amazon | Audiobooks | Nook | Libro.fm ![]() ![]() ![]() The Thirty Years War involved numerous agents within and outside the elaborate system of polities known as the Holy Roman Empire. A full bibliography would list hundreds of thousands of works over four hundred years here are several. Sterile debates that occupied the entire 19th and early 20th centuries are now barely even remembered. Some tenacious misunderstandings about the way early-17th-century strategy and combat worked are being rooted out. This is an excellent time for Thirty Years War research. Compared to the population at the time, it may have been proportionally more deadly than any war in western or central Europe before or since. Although the fighting took place primarily in central Europe, this complex multifaceted struggle eventually sucked in people from Ireland to Muscovy west to east, and from Norway to Italy north to south. This Thirty Years War was one of the most destructive conflicts on earth. Although it is largely accepted that this is “The Thirty Years War,” and indeed some people called it that shortly after it was over, some historians use this phrase to denote other wars, beginning earlier or ending later. Historians still debate what to call the conflict that convulsed Central Europe from 1618 to 1648. ![]() ![]() ![]() It secures the Internet, keeps e-mail private, maintains the integrity of cash machine transactions, and scrambles TV signals on unpaid-for channels. Once a government monopoly, cryptology today touches everybody. ![]() From the XYZ Affair to the Dreyfus Affair, from the Gallic War to the Persian Gulf, from Druidic runes and the kaballah to outer space, from the Zimmermann telegram to Enigma to the Manhattan Project, codebreaking has shaped the course of human events to an extent beyond any easy reckoning. ![]() For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers, and the story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked. Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers - how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage - updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has an awful lot to say or else he might explode. After a while with me, you would hear crickets. ![]() Jim was cool! What else is there to say? I’m glad he can talk up a storm because I wouldn’t be able to get the ball rolling with a crowd like that. It may have been right after I did the White Night cover. I met Jim at Icon in NY several years ago. What was it like, meeting Jim Butcher a couple years ago at NYCC? Had you met him before then? ~ from: Ranting Dragon: Interview Quotes ![]() The image for his first book cover is titled " The King" for Ace Books which he painted in oil. His second Urban Fantasy cover was Nightlife by Rob Thurman from the Cal Leandros series. ~ Beginnings as a Cover Artist Ĭhris McGrath's first Urban Fantasy commission was Dead Beat by Jim Butcher from The Dresden Files. After graduating from The School of Visual Arts in NYC, Chris gave guitar lessons for several years before beginning his career in 2001. Since then he has done covers for the New York Times best selling authors such as: Jim Butcher, Brandon Sanderson, Kat Richardson and Rob Thurman to name a few. ![]() After seeing the art work of Frank Frazetta at age 12, he knew right then that he wanted to be a book cover illustrator for science fiction and fantasy novels. At an early age he quickly became interested in art, especially science fiction and fantasy. Type of Cover Art Ĭhris McGrath was born in the Bronx and has lived in and around NYC his whole life. ![]() ![]() He lives with his wife, Helen, in upstate New York. ![]() Kellogg is a recipient of the David McCord Citation and the Regina Medal for his distinguished contribution to children's literature. David M Schwartz Steven Kellogg - Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion. How Much Is a Million knocks complex numbers down to size in a fun, humorous way, helping children conceptualize a difficult mathematical concept. He is the illustrator of Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Baby Beebee Bird. Kellogg is an award-winning author and illustrator who has created more than 100 children's books, including The Three Little Pigs, Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, and Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett. ![]() Steven Kellogg was "moved by the simplicity, the subtleties, and the poignance of the writing in this story." He welcomed the opportunity to reillustrate it in full color. David also gives keynote presentations and workshops for educators at professional conferences. His presentations lead children on entertaining and educational journeys that combine math, science, reading and writing. David is an accomplished storyteller and a master at getting kids to think and have fun at the same time. ![]() With the same energy, humor and clarity found in his 50 books, David wows audiences at schools around the United States and beyond. ![]() |