![]() ![]() Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh’s chrome yellow sunflowers or punk’s fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” -NPR, Best Books of 2017 ![]() One of USA Today's “100 Books to Read While Stuck at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis ”Ī dazzling gift, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume. ![]()
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Lirael lost one of her hands in the binding of Orannis, but now she has a new hand, one of gilded steel and Charter Magic. ![]() She’s also a Remembrancer, wielder of the Dark Mirror. She is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, with Dead creatures to battle and Free Magic entities to bind. Lirael is no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. ![]() But since this weekend is a long weekend I’ve got some time for some ‘reckless’ reading and I’ve finally cracked the cover (that’s a metaphor – I have the Kindle edition) of Goldenhand.įor everyone and everything there is a time to die. Hello Humans! I know it’s been a while since we’ve had a readalong and I’m sorry, I’ve been focussed on whittling down my ARCs and my owned TBR has suffered as a result. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Media outlet trademarks are owned by the respective media outlets and are not affiliated with Varsity Tutors.Īward-Winning claim based on CBS Local and Houston Press awards. Names of standardized tests are owned by the trademark holders and are not affiliated with Varsity Tutors LLC.Ĥ.9/5.0 Satisfaction Rating based upon cumulative historical session ratings through 12/31/20. Students will learn to recognize when it is appropriate to weave an elaborate tale and when it is not. This story provides a springboard for discussing the concepts of honesty, imagination, and creativity and for exploring the difference between dishonesty and creativity. Seuss on the Loose: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street Students listen to the story and use the same format to write a class book.ĭr. 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He’s excited by the whole thing – even though he doesn’t exactly feel like he has the right skill set since he’s offense rather than defense and Bel needs protecting. And what he gets? Well let’s just say Nico is unexpected. ![]() Because of his power, he needs a human familiar and the first one lasted three weeks. But he’s been damaged by the loss of his first familiar. Plus one familiar: Garen Dallarosa–Secret Service, part gargoyle, needs his ex-lover Nico back.īel is a powerful Mage. One familiar: Nico di Rossi–Army Ranger, needs a change of pace and a new purpose in life, is a golden retriever in human form (though not literally). One mage: Bel Adams–part demon, gun shy about being rejected by one again, needs a familiar. NARRATORS: Tim Paige, Greg Boudreaux, Michael Ferraiuolo ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet, novelist, and critic. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and looks at his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. ![]() ![]() In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics. ![]() ![]() ![]() The work, welding tankers 30 feet underwater while encased in 200 pounds of suffocating equipment, is tough for a claustrophobe to even read about. However, still thwarted by entrenched sexism, it takes several tons of grit and talent for 19-year-old Anna Kerrigan to break into the macho world of deep-sea diving at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Her sixth book revolves around a strong, remarkably fearless female protagonist, at once classic and modern, who benefits from one of the results of that shakeup - the opening of typically male jobs to women. “The war had shaken people loose,” Egan writes. And while her new novel may be less technically innovative, it is an unusually well written, well researched, emotionally satisfying page-turner - which demonstrates that the power of her work lies beyond virtuosic literary stunts. ![]() ![]() Given the expectations, you could say it’s daring of Egan to go more traditional and plunge deep into the wartime history of her home borough. ![]() ![]() ![]() This all-new story set in the character's earliest days welcomes Venom co-creator DAVID MICHELINIE back into the symbiote hive with open arms, as he and rising star IVAN FIORELLI unite to tell a new, horrifying tale that not only revisits the wicked web-slinger's past, but hints at what's to come in his future!ĪN EPIC RETURN! Before Carnage and space gods, clones and toxins, and the revelation that he was a father, Eddie Brock was a down-on-his-luck reporter who had tried to take his own life and been saved by an extraterrestrial alien. 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