![]() ![]() ![]() This book invites readers to understand a remarkable way for storing knowledge in memory by adapting song, art, and most importantly, Country, into their lives.Ībout the series: Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and editors the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia.įorthcoming titles include: Design by Alison Page & Paul Memmott (2021) Country by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe (2021) Medicine & Plants (2022) Astronomy (2022) Law (2023). Weaving deeply personal storytelling with extensive research on mnemonics, Songlines: The Power and Promise offers unique insights into Indigenous traditional knowledges, how they apply today and how they could help all peoples thrive into the future. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather than simply recorded in writing. Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. ![]() 'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette Russell It is written with Aboriginal co-author, Margo Neale and through the National Museum of Australia. 'Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 2019 Shaun Gallon was sentenced to life in prison for the murders. The case has received considerable national attention, but the crime remained unsolved, until news given at a press conference on May 5, 2017, suggesting that authorities had solved the crime. The Sonoma County Coroner's Office estimated that the couple was slain on either the night of Augor in the early morning hours of August 15, 2004. 45-caliber Marlin rifle as they slept in their sleeping bags on the beach. Both Cutshall and Allen were killed with a. Allen, 26, were found on Fish Head Beach, between Russian Gulch and the mouth of the Russian River, in the small coastal hamlet of Jenner, California. ![]() The bodies of Lindsay Cutshall, 22, and her fiancé Jason S. The Jenner, California, double murder of 2004 occurred on the night of August 14–15, 2004, in which a young couple was shot to death as they slept on a state beach. 3 life terms w/o parole (consecutive) + 94 years ![]() ![]() ![]() Fairness could be described as giving each individual his or her proportional due. The norm of reciprocity requires that one make fitting and proportional responses to both the benefits and harms one receives - the ultimate goal being to produce stable, productive, fair, and reliable social interactions. Paula (no ads) Guidelines for Philosophical DiscussionĪnansi the Spider raises philosophical questions about the nature of reciprocity and its relationship to fairness: he wants to reward one of his sons with a globe of light for saving his life, but has trouble deciding which son is most deserving. He consults Nyame, the “God of All Things,” for help. When Anansi is rescued and arrives back home safely, he has trouble figuring out which son deserves a reward for saving him. ![]() ![]() One of his six sons can sense trouble and alerts his brothers to come to their father’s rescue. ![]() In this story, Anansi goes on a journey only to find himself in great danger. Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary Anansi the Spider raises philosophical questions about the nature of reciprocity and its relationship to fairness.Īnansi the spider is an African folktale character who is associated with skill and wisdom and often triumphs over foes larger than he. ![]() ![]() ![]() In an ending no one sees coming, will we lose Clementine or will we find her?Ī bold debut from an exciting new voice, Losing Clementine is a wonderfully entertaining and poignant novel about unanticipated self-discovery that features one of the most irresistible, if deeply flawed, characters to grace contemporary fiction in years. ![]() Clementine plans to spend the month she has left in a swirl of art-world parties, manic work sessions, and outrageous acts-but what she doesn't expect is to uncover secrets surrounding the tragedy that befell her mother and sister. After flushing away a medicine cabinet full of prescriptions, she gives herself thirty days to tie up loose ends-finish one last painting, make nice with her ex-husband, and find a home for her cat. World-renowned artist and sharp-tongued wit Clementine Pritchard has decided that she's done. In thirty days Clementine Pritchard will be finished with her last painting and her life. Morrow, 14. Join Book Club Girl as she welcomes Ashley Ream to discuss her new novel, Losing Clementine. Author of two acclaimed novels, Losing Clementine (soon to be a major motion picture) and The 100 Year Miracle. ![]() ![]() In an ordinary town, on a very normal garden path, Katherine Victoria Lundy came to an incredible tree with an impossibly carved door. In an Absent Dream, book four in the Wayward Children series is a magical and utterly imaginative story about a lost child named Lundy. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.” When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she’s found her paradise. ![]() Seanan mcguire, I n and absent dream Aboutįrom the publisher, “This is the story of a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”― “If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. ![]() ![]() Every time I picked up this book, all it did was make me feel like reading Flatland again. ![]() I know I shouldn’t be comparing it to the original, I know, but I just can’t help it. In the tradition of Alice in Wonder-land and The Phantom Toll Booth, this magnificent investigation into the nature of reality is destined to become a modern classic.Īlas, a decent follow-up to Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, it is not. Along the way, we meet Schröger's Cat, The Charming Construction Entity, The Mandelblot (who lives in Fractalia), and Moobius the one-sided cow. The writings help her to contact the Space Hopper, who becomes her guide and mentor through eleven dimensions. The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. Now, British mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart has written a fascinating, modern sequel to Abbott's book. As both a witty satire of Victorian society and a means by which to explore the fourth dimension, Flatland remains a tour de force. ![]() ![]() Abbott published a brilliant novel about mathematics and philosophy that charmed and fascinated all of England. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reviewers also noted Wilson’s ability to create believable characters. In an interview with Heather Henderson in Theater, Jones stated that “Few writers can capture dialect as dialogue in a manner as interesting and accurate as August’s.” ![]() Jones-and many black audience members-recognized and identified with Wilson’s use of language to define his black characters. James Earl Jones played the role of Troy in the first staging of Fences on Broadway. Because the play had four years of pre-production development before it opened on Broadway, Wilson had a chance to tighten and revise the action, watching his characters mature into lifelike creations. Wilson was also selected as Artist of the Year by the Chicago Tribune.įences was a huge success with both critics and viewers, and it drew black audiences to the theatre in much larger numbers than usual. The work also won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the John Gassner Outer Critics’ Circle Award. ![]() Fences was well-received, winning four Antionette (“Tony”) Perry Awards, including best play. ![]() Wilson’s drama opened at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985 and on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre in 1987. The first staged reading of August Wilson’s play Fences occurred in 1983 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Playwright’s Conference. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now a lecturer in French at Duke University, she is very dedicated to her research into French chocolate. ![]() After a Fulbright year in Tahiti, a semester in Spain, and backpacking everywhere from New Zealand to Greece, she ended up living in Paris, where she met and married her own handsome Frenchman, a story told in her first book Blame It on Paris. Award-winning international bestselling author of the Chocolate, Vie en Roses, and Paris Nights seri Laura Florand. ![]() She was born in Georgia, but the travel bug bit her early. The Chocolate Touch By: Laura Florand Narrated by: Gayle Hendrix Series: Chocolate, Book 4 Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins Release date: 08-05-13 Language: English 41 ratings Regular price: 21. Nominated for Reviewers Choice Best Book of the Year (The Chocolate Kiss), her books have been translated into eight languages, received the RT Seal of Excellence and starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal, and been recommended by USA Today, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Read The Chocolate Touch by Laura Florand available from Rakuten Kobo. Laura Florand is the international bestselling author of the Amour et Chocolat series (The Chocolate Thief, The Chocolate Touch, etc.), where sexy French chocolatiers woo the women they love with what they love best-romance you can taste. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Arden ( The Bear and the Nightingale) shrouds her Halloween-time story in autumnal mists, introducing a sometimes-crowded cast of ominous figures, from ghosts to shapeshifters and scarecrow minions. keep to small.” In its pages, Ollie reads of a long-ago family whose losses led them to make a dreadful pact with a demonic figure known as “the smiling man.” And on a class trip to a dairy farm, Ollie and two classmates-with whom she forms a reluctant connection-learn that the smiling man is very real. When Ollie, drawn to the book, takes it, the woman warns Ollie to “avoid large places at night. ![]() Her circumstances take a supernatural turn when she encounters a frightening woman attempting to throw a book into the river. Eleven-year-old Ollie lives with her big-hearted baking enthusiast father following the tragic death of her mother, and finds respite from her grief through reading. ![]() ![]() " This celebration of geek culture and fandom promotes diversity and being true to oneself. "This fun book about fierce friendships gives voice to a group of diverse female characters who are so defined by so much more than just their mental health and sexuality." - Bustle ![]() "The book deals head on with issues of mental health, body shaming, sexuality, and internet celebrity, handling them with a delicate and skillful touch." - Teen Vogue Jen Wilde, author of Queens of Geek, which Seventeen called, “the geeky, queer book of our dreams” is back with a brand new cast of highly diverse and relatable characters for her fans to fall in love with. Will the inevitable fallout turn her into a clickbait scandal (again)? Or will she find the strength to stand on her own? 2 days ago &0183 &32 Jennifer Lopez paid homage to Karl Lagerfeld as a sexy lady-who-lunches in a halter-top Ralph Lauren gown and veiled cap at her 14th Met Gala. She knows hooking up with a band member is exactly the kind of trouble she should be avoiding, and yet Emmy and Alfie Just. Luckily, Emmy has her friends and bandmates, including the super-swoonworthy Alfie, to help her pick up the pieces of her life. ![]() When a night of partying lands Emmy in hospital, she’s branded the latest tabloid train wreck. But there’s nothing the paparazzi love more than watching a celebrity crash and burn. ![]() A teen rockstar has to navigate family, love, coming out, and life in the spotlight after being labeled the latest celebrity trainwreck in Jen Wilde's quirky and utterly relatable novel.Īs a rock star drummer in the hit band The Brightsiders, Emmy King’s life should be perfect. ![]() |
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