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![]() A coming of age comic centered around Rose, an ordinary teenage girl, whose summer trip with her family to the beach is strange and and different from the years previous, not because of anything external, but because the age at which she is and the feelings she’s processing. Graphic novel This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki has been the source of a lot of attention since its release in 2014. Graphic Novels: Suggestions for Librarians.Working With Libraries! A Handbook For Comics Creators. ![]()
![]() ![]() Despite a stutter that has plagued her since childhood, she thrives filling orders from a steady stream of customers. Their friendship grows, but Kevin is convinced that the difference in their ages makes a relationship between them impossible. Amidst summer outings, Kevin and Phoebe must decide if taking a chance on love is worth the risk.Įsther Marie Shrock loves her job at Valley Grocery Store where she’s worked for four years. Phoebe Kurtz is helping her sister with her booth at the marketplace when she notices Kevin, her father’s employee. Freeman Kurtz owns a successful brick mason business, and Kevin takes the job as Freeman’s apprentice to pursue his own financial freedom. ![]() Kevin Weaver has lived with his brother’s family since his parents passed away when he was young, but he craves a home and family to call his own. From bestselling authors in the Amish genre come four sweet stories about picnics and romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ""A Random House hardcover (reviews, Apr. Still, listeners will enjoy the way both Preston and Lurie uncover the humanity of great researchers, whether they are attempting to save hemlock and chestnut trees from fast-encroaching diseases or help those suffering from Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, a rare condition that causes its victims to compulsively consume their own flesh. But he is inconsistent and strained when attempting a genetics researchers British accent. ![]() Lurie conjures an engaging and credible Russian accent when speaking for two immigrant mathematicians who are racing to determine all the digits of pi. The first chapter is an overly self-referential account of Prestons own laboratory encounter with the Ebola virus he made famous in ""The Hot Zone"" the other essays are more traditional portraits of scientists on the frontier of discovery. Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer""'s James Lurie brings his rich, honeyed baritone to Prestons book of essays on radical science. Read 420 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones-and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. The "highly entertaining" New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information ( Chicago Tribune ). ![]() ![]() ![]() He was interesting because of his political importance but still more interesting because of himself. And yet he was drawn to Nehru’s intellect and to his politics sufficiently to go beyond the call of diplomatic duty to analyse Nehru’s impact on his times, with disinterested interest." Ĭrocker himself wrote in his introduction that "had my job in Delhi been anything else I would still have watched him, out of interest, almost helpless interest. In fact, he rather admired some of Nehru’s democratic opponents more - like, for instance, C. Historian Madhavan Palat, the series editor of Oxford University Press's Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, notes that Crocker "was no blind admirer of the Prime Minister of the country he was accredited to. ![]() This gave him a privileged opportunity to study Nehru, according to Arnold Toynbee, who declares in his foreword that this book will continue to be of interest to posterity because of Crocker's "first hand knowledge" which makes the book "priceless" and "irreplaceable". It has been reprinted in 2009 by Random House India with a new foreword by Ramachandra Guha.Ĭrocker had served as the Australian High Commissioner to India between 19 and again from 1958 to 1962. The book was originally published with a foreword by Arnold Toynbee. Nehru: A Contemporary's Estimate is a 1966 book written by Walter Crocker and published by Oxford University Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ You’ll get only one shot at this,” Halina thinks, enacting a plan to save her husband. It’s less precise in its language, however, which frequently relies on cliché. The research shows: her novel is thorough and precise in its details. Hunter conducted extensive research after learning that her grandfather (Addy in the book) survived the Holocaust. Then, too, there are Mila and Felicia, Jakob and Bella, each with their own share of struggles-pain endured, horrors witnessed. Addy, middle child, a composer and engineer before the war breaks out, leaves Europe on one of the last passenger ships, ending up thousands of miles away. Halina, youngest of all the children, works to protect her family alongside her resistance-fighter husband. Genek, the oldest son, is exiled with his wife to a Siberian gulag. ![]() ![]() But that lifestyle is no protection against the onslaught of the Holocaust, which eventually scatters the members of the Kurc family among several continents. Sol and Nechuma Kurc, wealthy, cultured Jews in Radom, Poland, are successful shop owners they and their grown children live a comfortable lifestyle. Hunter’s debut novel tracks the experiences of her family members during the Holocaust. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re ready to take your baking to the next level, follow Forkish’s step-by-step guide to making a levain starter with only flour and water, and be amazed by the delicious complexity of your naturally leavened bread. ![]() Whether you’re a total beginner or a serious baker, Flour Water Salt Yeast has a recipe that suits your skill level and time constraints: Start with a straight dough and have fresh bread ready by supper time, or explore pre-ferments with a bread that uses biga or poolish. ![]() Forkish developed and tested all of the recipes in his home oven, and his impeccable formulas and clear instructions result in top-quality artisan breads and pizzas that stand up against those sold in the best bakeries anywhere. In Flour Water Salt Yeast, Forkish translates his obsessively honed craft into scores of recipes for rustic boules and Neapolitan-style pizzas, all suited for the home baker. For Portland-based baker Ken Forkish, well-made bread is more than just a pleasure - it is a passion that has led him to create some of the best and most critically lauded breads and pizzas in the country. There are few things more satisfying than biting into a freshly made, crispy-on-the-outside, soft-and-supple-on-the-inside slice of perfectly baked bread. ![]() ![]() Wesley's conception of primitive Christianity was rooted in his embrace of patristic scholarship at Oxford. ![]() Understanding the centrality of primitive Christianity to Wesley's thinking and pastoral methods is essential to comprehending his experience in America. ![]() A laboratory for implementing his views of primitive Christianity, the mission served to restore the doctrine, discipline, and practice of the early church in the pristine Georgia wilderness. In order to re-evaluate this period of Wesley's life, Hammond carefully considers Wesley's writings and those of his contemporaries. John Wesley in America addresses Wesley's Georgia mission in fresh perspective by interpreting it in its immediate context. Geordan Hammond presents the first book-length study of Wesley's experience in America, providing an innovative contribution to debates about the significance of a formative period of Wesley's life. Why did John Wesley leave the halls of academia at Oxford to become a Church of England missionary in the newly established colony of Georgia? Was his ministry in America a success or failure? These questions-which have engaged numerous biographers of Wesley-have often been approached from the vantage point of later developments in Methodism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm definitely guilty of this as I'm sure all of us are. But the crucial thing that we do need to learn about shopping is how to avoid buyer's remorse and impulse purchases. The one thing that we don't need a lesson from is how to shop. Once you have this foundation you will have the basic staples of building a versatile, fool-proof wardrobe. Check out Lauren's Go-To pieces below! What's more is that you're suppose to love each and everyone of these pieces so that you can come back to them over and over again. These so called 'key pieces,' as seen above, like a little black dress, jeans, a collared button down, a skirt, tailored blazer, and basic black pump are going to be " the foundation around which you'll build your wardrobe." The great thing about these basic essentials that every woman should have in her wardrobe is that each piece should suit your personal style in that it naturally varies for every woman. I love how her first chapter is dedicated to the key pieces that you should have in your closet. Lauren used the photographer Matt Jones who also shoots her LC Lauren Conrad Collection for Kohls. The first thing that will catch your attention about this book is how organized the chapters are and the beautiful images that appropriately corresponds with each chapter. ![]() |