5/13/2023 0 Comments The life of trees bookOver the course of their evolution, trees have developed sophisticated communication and cooperation systems that are similar to human ones. Most of his observations are also backed up by scientific research. Having worked as a forester for over 30 years, he has accumulated plenty of observations that the life of the trees is much more elaborate than we can perceive at a first glance. In The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World, Peter Wohlleben shows us that these are all but appearances. You may sometimes even forget the fact that they are living beings! Their growth is invisible to a naked eye. As you walk through the woods, you may get an impression that the surrounding trees are all very individual, passive entities. There is so much more to the forest life than what meets the human eye. 1-Sentence-Summary: The Hidden Life of Trees describes how trees can communicate, support each other, learn from experience, and form alliances with other inhabitants of the forest.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The Last Fallen Star by Graci KimBut what even is the star, and how can she find it?Īs Riley embarks on her search, she finds herself meeting fantastic creatures and collaborating with her worst enemies. When the sisters attempt to violate the laws of the Godrealm, Hattie’s life ends up hanging in the balance, and to save her Riley has to fulfill an impossible task: find the last fallen star. If it works, no one will ever treat Riley as an outsider again. Then Hattie gets an idea: what if the two of them could cast a spell that would allow Riley to share Hattie’s magic? Their sleuthing reveals a promising incantation in the family’s old spell book, and the sisters decide to perform it at Hattie’s initiation ceremony. Riley was adopted, and despite having memorized every healing spell she’s ever heard, she often feels like the odd one out in her family and the gifted community. Although Riley is desperate to follow in her sister’s footsteps when she herself turns thirteen, she’s a saram–a person without magic. Her sister, Hattie, will earn her Gi bracelet and finally be able to cast spells without adult supervision. Riley Oh can’t wait to see her sister get initiated into the Gom clan, a powerful lineage of Korean healing witches their family has belonged to for generations. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Graci Kim’s thrilling debut about an adopted Korean-American girl who discovers her heritage and her magic on a perilous journey to save her witch clan family. This particular cult offers transcendence into a better future. She is an lost, standing on the roof and reaching for the stars. Meanwhile, a typically charismatic-type has founded the Children of the Next Level. She writes as if this is hard-boiled noir. Something strange happened and they need to work out what. He is to meet Immacolata who has information for him. We begin with the Signalman, a special agent getting off a train in the blistering heat of a 2015 Arizona. Kiernan is best known for her lyrical dark fantasy and extraordinarily weird short stories. It begins with a meeting between two people who are apparently government agents, takes a journey into the mindset of cult members and reaches out into space as a NASA probe falls silent beyond the orbit of Pluto. Take our universe and turn it a few degrees to strange and this is the world of Agents of Dreamland. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis"Dream a Little Dream" (2013) is a holiday novella set in Lucky Harbor (found in the A Christmas to Remember anthology).Under the Mistletoe (2012) is a holiday novella set in Lucky Harbor.Christmas in Lucky Harbor (2011) is a 2-in-1 reissue of Simply Irresistible and The Sweetest Thing."Kissing Santa Claus" (2011) is a holiday novella set in Lucky Harbor (found in the Small Town Christmas anthology).
5/13/2023 0 Comments Thirty day boyfriend by whitney gI only made it to one minute… We argued the entire four-hour flight to his hometown, failed to make a convincing impression with the welcoming press, and right when I was about to knock that arrogant look off his face in real life? He purposely dropped his bath towel in front of me, distracting me with his nine-inch c*ck to “show me who the bigger person was” in our relationship. I signed my name and started counting down the seconds to when I would never have to deal with his special brand of ass-holery again. I definitely didn’t need to think twice about this. Just pretend to love each other for the press, even though I’ve secretly wanted to knock that sexy smirk off his face since the first day we met. The rules were pretty simple: No intimate kissing, no actual sex. If I agreed, he would let me out of my employment contract with a “very generous” severance package. Wolf of Wall Street, came to me with an offer I couldn’t refuse: Sign my name on the dotted line and pretend to be his fiancée for one month. I should’ve never agreed to this arrangement… Thirty days ago, my boss-Mr. Role-play and drama is a great way to get the children to innovate their own ideas for how to catch a star and the wackier the better! I like to use ‘Marking Ladders’ to provide steps to success to support children’s learning – they can be easily found if you Google them. This can be written up in a simple format following the key features of writing instructions. The children learn this text map and then innovate it, choosing their own way to catch one. I then like to change things a little by creating an instructional text ‘How to Catch a Star’. The simple illustrations can be used as a sequencing activity on a time line or a washing line as the children retell it independently. I have found that a Talk 4 Writing approach works really well with this story as it has a simple and repetitive structure that is easy to learn orally through use of a simple story map. If you want to be less ethereal then Perry Como’s ‘Catch a Falling Star’ creates a more upbeat feel… 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Long Game by Rachel ReidThey’re now in a committed relationship and living relatively close to one another in Canada but they are still hiding their relationship from most of their friends and the league. You cannot imagine my excitement to hear that Rachel Reid was giving us another book to continue their story in The Long Game.Īnd long game is right for these two! We see them again 10 years after their first hook-up their rookie seasons. I LOVED Heated Rivalry where I first met Shane and Ilya, and found them to be such a compelling couple with a whirlwind romance. It’s time for them to decide what’s most important-hockey or love. The closeness, the intimacy, even the risk that would come with being open about their relationship…Ilya wants it all. Shane has gotten so good at hiding his feelings, sometimes Ilya questions if they even exist. He loves Ilya, but what if going public ruins everything? If Shane wants to stay at the top of his game, what he and Ilya share has to remain secret. From friends, from family, from the league. How long they’ve been keeping their relationship a secret. That’s how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. Tags: MM, Gay, Hockey, Opposites Attract, Mental Health, Depression Category: Contemporary Romance, Sports Romance, Gay Romance 5/13/2023 0 Comments She who is elizabeth johnsonShe concluded that only when the full mystery of the living God who is so complex and powerful as to be beyond gender is understood, can we move past the "idolatrous fixation on one image of God" that has dominated Christian thinking. However, Professor Johnson argues that the Trinity is not a "literal formula," and that the gendered terms were never intended to be the only permissible images of God for Christians. She is careful to acknowledge the dangers of naming God "She." One such danger is the possibility of losing the Christian heritage of the Trinity, which is based on the image of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, all of whom have been imagined as male. The woman, Elizabeth Johnson Jr., who lived in what is now North Andover, Mass. In the Boardman lecture, she argues that "how a group names its God has critical consequences, for the symbol of the divine organizes every other aspect of a religious system." Professor Johnson engages the work of other Christian and Jewish scholars who have addressed this issue to illustrate how far we have come, and perhaps, how far we still have to go. Johnson writes with an ultimate goal in mind, that of a transformation into new community. Elizabeth Johnson probes the theological implications of God symbolism, as well as the effect that symbolism has on conceptions of women's dignity and humanity. Elizabeth Johnson, mother of Baby Gabriel, now pregnant with child, as her son has not been seen since 2009 KNXV - Phoenix Scripps at 1:33 AM A new and unexpected twist involving. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Predator by Richard WhittleThen two crashes killed twenty-three Marines. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival.īy 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid “tiltrotor” called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. A fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the U.S. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Crescent city sky and breathHad he come home five minutes earlier, he would have found me pacing. My husband came home from a friend’s at midnight to find me draped backward across the chaise side of my couch, staring at the ceiling. The last four words blew my brain apart!! I was just so unprepared. In fact, I enjoyed the whole reading experience with this one (I was very hooked into the story’s central mystery and surprised by several reveals), but as others will tell you: THAT ENDING. There are a lot of things I would like to say about Sky and Breath that might hint at something I don’t want you to even suspect, because I read this book without a drop of inkling and want the same for you. Are her books one hell of a ride, an escape, a mental vacation from the world? Hell yes. SJM’s Crescent City books deliver on a lot of what her fans love about her other books: extreme steam (in fact smut is a better word you might even call it faerie porn, lol) between extremely sexy people, a magical world, a compelling plot with a compelling central question, and interesting and lovable characters to root for. But if you HAVE read Earth and Blood and liked it, you won’t be disappointed by this sequel. I am going to do my best to write this without any spoilers, even if you haven’t read House of Earth and Blood yet. |