![]() OL24162135W Page_number_confidence 90.62 Pages 98 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210119045456 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 820 Scandate 20210115131543 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781420930672 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 4. ![]() This community is free from war, disease, poverty, jealousy, crime, punishment and repression. It follows three men who discover a utopian community in the Amazon that is made up entirely of women. Urn:lcp:herland0000char:lcpdf:27cf3e25-1bfc-4a11-b646-48fb04a0d226 Herland was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1915. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:07:54 Boxid IA40041413 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments The great mrs elias![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hannah quietly invests in the stock market, growing her fortune with the help of businessmen. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a new identity before relocating to New York City to become as rich as a robber baron. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall.īorn in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she's not proud of to survive. The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history.Ī murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias' glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. 15+ Hours: Long Audiobooks for Long Car Rides.Bookception! Books about books, libraries, writing.Natalie Feld Memorial Library Donations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A similar obsession with red hair as a marker of difference appeared in early expressions of anti-Semitism. Red hair was a first step to what would later become the professional clown’s red nose. ![]() As early as Aristophanes, the Thracians were being mocked for their red hair, and on stage it appeared in the form of wigs worn by slaves who were viewed as comically lazy and inept. So-called “gingerism” has become one of the last socially acceptable forms of prejudice.Īs Jacky Colliss Harvey points out in this bright and breezy cultural history, such discrimination runs like a scarlet thread through civilisation. I would do a ginger.” Presumably the audience’s reaction would have been rather different if she had replaced “ginger” with “Jew”. Ginger Nuts.Įven attempts to encourage acceptance can carry a faint whiff of condescension, as Taylor Swift demonstrated in 2012 when she told TV interviewer Alan Carr: “I like people with red hair. ![]() Enter any school playground or workplace, and the insults quickly start to flow. (“What do you call 10 blondes standing ear to ear? A wind tunnel.”) If there are comparatively few jokes about redheads, that is probably because people rarely feel the need to hide their hostility behind a smile. Some years ago, there was a vogue for “dumb blonde” jokes, which played on the popular suspicion that people with blonde hair were far more likely to be vain or vacuous than their mousy friends. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Kulti book review![]() ![]() ![]() Sal and Kulti have a much better slow burn build up, from enemies to friends, and it’s so heartwarming seeing them become best friends before anything romantic happens. Out of all of Mariana Zapata’s novels that I’ve read- The Wall of Winnipeg and Me and Wait For It– this one has my favourite romance. Until a quiet, reserved Kulti appears, going against everything she’s ever thought about him. When Sal Casillas, star soccer player, finds out her team is being coached by the player she worshipped as a kid, she has certain ideas of what’s going to play out. Although I have my issues that seem to reappear throughout, I have been enjoying myself, so I figured I would review some of the stand out books I’ve come across! Since February, I’ve been reading lots of adult romance, a genre I don’t usually read a lot of. ![]() ![]() ![]() They had to push me out of the way, and the same nurse who had been at the front desk, stood in my place, all the while chuckling about “men and pain.” I had a feeling I would never live it down. I stepped forward to do so, caught sight of the needle, and froze. I had wanted to be involved, and they showed me how to hold Katy’s shoulders to help with the procedure. She did change her mind about the epidural, and although I was grateful it took away the pain, I lost it when I saw the size of the needle they used. ![]() I let her hold my hand, not caring that she might break it with her death grip, as the contractions became stronger and closer together. I blinked away tears when I saw the amount of pain she was experiencing. I had walked with her until she couldn’t walk anymore, fed her ice chips, rubbed her back and shoulders, and reassured her even as worry ate its way into my stomach. ![]() Things progressed to the point it was time to move to the delivery room. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Superman morrison![]() ![]() His biological make up includes a number of organs which lack analogues in humans and whose functions are unknown. Solar Energy Absorption: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of Superman 2's super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system.Kryptonian Physiology: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Superman 2 possesses the same potential powers as an average Kryptonian.In time, the boy would grow to become the new Superman, eventually working alongside his father and descendants in the Superman Squad. Providing these to scientist Leo Quintum-who had long struggled to produce a viable clone of Superman, only succeeding in creating damaged Bizarro replicas-along with genetic samples from both himself and Lois Lane, Quintum would be able to grow the child in the wake of the original Superman's apparent passing. Nearing death due to overexposure from solar radiation, Superman-his physical and mental capabilities having been enhanced due to his solar overcharge-scanned his genetic code with his microscopic vision and copied the 8 billion letter sequence into a book, along with instructions on how to combine human and Kryptonian strands of DNA. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick![]() ![]() ![]() Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings to life what it means to be an average Korean citizen, living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today-an Orwellian world in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, a country that is by choice not connected to the Internet, a society in which outward displays of affection are punished, and a police state that rewards informants and where an offhanded remark can send a citizen to the gulag for life.ĭemick's subjects-a middle-aged party loyalist and her rebellious daughter, an idealistic female doctor, an orphan, and two young lovers-all hail from the same provincial city in the farthest-flung northern reaches of the country. Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years-a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Ravishing Camille by Cerise DeLand![]() ![]() ![]() If you love swoon-worthy historical romance, starring endearing heroes, sassy heroines and a family of irresistible charmers, this book is for you! Buy RAVISHING CAMILLE to begin your journey! RAVISHING CAMILLE is the fifth book in THOSE NOTORIOUS AMERICANS series but can also be read as a standalone novel. Yet Camille excites him as no woman ever has and he must have her, no matter the cost.īut should she take an older, experienced rogue as her lover.and should she claim him forever as her only love? Funny that none of her candidates seems good enough. He's her step-brother, famous, restless, a savvy Shanghai taipan and a menace.to her heart. And definitely not for love.Ĭamille Bereston decided years ago that Pierce was not for her. Pierce Hanniford returns to England after tripling his fortune in China. She'd wanted him for years.and denied she cared.īut she's older now and even more delectable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep. ![]() ![]() ![]() National Book Award and Newberry Honor winner Polly Horvath has written her richest, most spirited book yet, filled with characters that readers will never forget. There's the thrilling solo ride in a hijacked hot-air balloon the out-of-the-blue appearances of a slew of possible fathers a weird new friendship with Nellie Phipps, preacher and wannabe psychic the accidental crime Jane may have committed involving a Bible and a baby named Gourd and, finally, her discovery of the truth that lies at the heart of all great adventures: that it's not what happens to you that matters, but what you learn about yourself. She yearns to move beyond the world of her younger siblings and single mother and their cozy house by the sea, and to step into the "know-not-what"-the place where your heart buzzes with excitement and things happen.Īnd over the summer, whether she looks for them or not, adventures keep finding Jane. A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre. This book was a good book but it had some things that I really didn't like. 'My One Hundred Adventures' by Polly Horvath shows readers that anything can be an adventure in your own eyes. ![]() ![]() Jane is twelve years old, and she is ready for them. Series list: My One Hundred Adventures (2 Books) by Polly Horvath. She meets power wielding pastors, fruit hat wearing old women, clothes hanger men, and many other strange people. ![]() |