![]() ![]() The school uniform was skirts and knee socks – freezing in winter but good preparation for the life that lay ahead.Īlways a lover of uniforms, Dotsy forsook the nun’s habit for a nurse’s cap and apron that set off her dark Italian hair and big blue Irish eyes. An only child with a full-time working mother, she was schooled by the nuns and spent her youth accompanying them after school in an era when nuns were not allowed out in public without an escort. The only daughter of Anne Marie McLaughlin (Annie) and William (Willie) Caraccio, Dotsy was born and raised on the Upper West Side of New York City. She came in like a lion on April 15 (tax day), 1928 and went out like a lamb two weeks shy of her 95th birthday. Dorothy Anne Gray (aka Dotsy) passed away peacefully on Main the Brentwood Nursing Home of Yarmouth, Maine. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The game finally ends when Judy wins and yells the name of the game. Still they continue to play, hoping that if they finish the game everything will go back to normal. Judy rolls on a stampede of rhinos, Peter rolls on a monsoon, and Judy rolls on an explorer-and each appears in real life to wreak havoc in the house. For example, when Peter rolls on a lion, an actual lion appears, which Judy and Peter trap in their mother's bedroom. The pair soon discovers that any dangers encountered in the game spring to life somewhere in the house. Ignoring the warning, they start to play. Taking the game home, they find a warning message stating, "Do not begin unless you intend to finish". There, they find a safari-themed board game called " Jumanji". While their parents are out for the day, Judy and Peter Shepherd, after playing with some toys, become bored and decide to go to the park. ![]() Ī sequel to the book, titled Zathura, was released in 2002. The book was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name and it spawned a franchise that includes three sequels and an animated series.Īccording to Van Allsburg, the name Jumanji is a Zulu word meaning "many effects," referring to “the exciting consequences of the game,” which includes the unleashing of wild monkeys, untamed tigers and huge spiders into the world. The book is about an enchanted board game that implements wild animals and other jungle elements as the game is played in real life. Jumanji is a 1981 fantasy children's picture book written and illustrated by American author Chris Van Allsburg. ![]() ![]() ![]() As dovekeepers for the besieged community, they care for both the birds and each other. Yael, daughter of an assassin, is in search of her brother Revka, a baker's wife, arrives with her grandsons in the wake of her daughter's murder Shira is a sorceress and mother figure to all except her own daughter, Aziza, who has chosen the warrior's path. Through Hoffman's stunning prose, we meet four women as they weave their way to Herod's ancient fortress, believing the mountaintop can withstand any siege. “The deaths of 900 Jews at Masada in 70 CE remains a terrifying tale. Anne Holman, The King's English, Salt Lake City, UT Summer 2012 Reading Group This haunting novel puts an unforgettable human face on a terrible tragedy that will stay with the reader for a long time.” Through Hoffman's stunning prose, we meet four women as they weave their way to Herod's ancient fortress, believing the mountain top can withstand any siege. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator then states that her purpose is to record the weather around her for one year, in an attempt to better understand God. She decides to go for a walk while remembering an incident where she saw a water bug kill a frog by poisoning it and deflating it. The book begins with the narrator waking up on a January morning. Dillard divides the novel into two sections to represent two ways we can know God: via positiva(which affirms that we can know God through positive affirmations of his greatness) and via negativa (which affirms that God is unknowable). ![]() The first and last chapters are an introduction and a conclusion, respectively. ![]() The book is divided into four sections, one for each season of the year. It’s written by Annie Dillard, who describes her observations of nature around her home in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a book about nature and spirituality. 1-Page Summary of Pilgrim At Tinker Creek Overall Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a tour de force that raises countless questions about the nature of political and military power and the legacy of its offspring, from Nazi Germany to the European Union. Wilson explains how the Holy Roman Empire worked, why it was so important, and how it changed over the course of its existence. In this strikingly ambitious book, Peter H. An engine for inventions and ideas, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture, it derived its legitimacy from the ideal of a unified Christian civilization-though this did not prevent emperors from clashing with the pope for supremacy. An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year "Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus." -Tom Holland, The Telegraph "eks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire's reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history.Succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics." - Wall Street Journal Massive, ancient, and powerful, the Holy Roman Empire formed the heart of Europe from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mythology comes across as convincing and researched, while Gaiman’s own creations become even better defined in their reflected light. However, it’s the imagination and coherence behind Gaiman’s vision, bravely creating an environment where every person’s gods can coexist, in an albeit uneasy harmony, that shines through this book. ![]() Considering the varied selection of inkers and colourists working across the title, the art holds together remarkably well, with the artists well chosen to cover their own particular strengths. Mike Dringenberg returns to top and tail the book, and Matt Wagner handles the volume’s only side plot with aplomb. Kelley Jones covers off most of the art duties, with a definitive style that is well suited to the bizarre collection of characters and locations we encounter. Volume Four of New York Times best selling author Neil Gaimans acclaimed creation, with updated. If you like this, you’ll probably like his prose novel American Gods, amongst many others. This is book number 4 in the Sandman New Editions series. This is a theme set to run throughout Gaiman’s work, both in comics and beyond. Through the story we meet a smattering of gods from other pantheons – both based in historical belief and conjured up by Gaiman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How did it feel to revisit Discworld while narrating the City Watch audiobooks? It was one of my first jobs and I was in my early 20s at the time, playing a multitude of characters.Īnd then coming to read the books it was as though I was walking through a highly ornate tabernacle door that opens up with a very fulsome, resonant creek – then you step through to be greeted by an entire other universe, which you feel drawn to run into at full pelt. My first intro to Terry was when I worked on a Discworld cartoon series circa 1993. ![]() Narrating all eight of the new volumes is actor, comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw, alongisde Bill Nighy who returns to read Pratchett's famous footnotes and Peter Serafinowicz, who voices Death.Īhead of the series release on the 25th May, we spoke to Culshaw about his experience recording the books, the novel he recommends you read first, and the night he watched the lunar eclipse with the author himself.ĭo you remember your first introduction to Terry Pratchett's novels? With a stellar cast of readers, the Witches, Wizards, and Death series were brought to life, and now it's the turn of Ankh-Morpork's finest police force – the City Watch – a series that follows their adventures (and misadventures) as they fight for survival in the hours of darkness. Last year, Penguin Audio launched its biggest project to date: recording new and unabridged audiobooks of all 40 titles in Sir Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld novels. ![]() ![]() Shortly after this incident, Quantrill’s men began to branch off into groups of their own. Shocked by the Lawrence Massacre, the Confederate Army severed their ties with Quantrill and his band. In 1862, the Confederate Army recognized the group as an official part of the Confederacy, but this affiliation didn’t last long, since Quantrill led his men into the abolitionist town of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863 and massacred roughly 200 civilians, all because the town had imprisoned women associated with the Raiders. In their initial formation, Quantrill’s Raiders were nothing more than a collection of pro-Confederate men who fought Union sympathizers in Missouri and Kansas, both of which were (more or less) under control of the Union at the time. At first, the group remained unrecognized by the Confederate Army. During the Civil War, a group of guerilla soldiers known as “Quantrill’s Raiders” fought on behalf of the Confederacy under William Quantrill’s command. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Tulsa Race Massacre, like so many atrocities against African Americans, had been hidden and voices silenced for so long that it almost disappeared from national consciousness. ![]() Black Lives Matter protesters connected links between past and present trauma, and, for the first time, the Tulsa Race Massacre was widely discussed in the media and protest communities. The murderous tale couldn’t be buried, unwatched, or untold. Video of Floyd’s killing, widely shared around the world, served as a catalyst for others to “bear witness” to racial horror. George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, was a watershed moment for recognizing systemic racism and how, since the dawn of slavery, brutality continues to oppress Black lives. Recent social justice protests have sparked a new awakening to right historical and contemporary wrongs. Will it take another hundred years before our nation has full and complete clarity about what happened? This year-2021-marks the hundredth anniversary of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Alexander Tamahn, What Lies Beneath / Courtesy of the artist ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, if you like fantasy then you have to take a look at this post with books like the Name of the Wind, the popular series by author Patrick Rothfuss. The shuttering of BuzzFeed News reduced 15 of BuzzFeeds total staff. There you have it, a great list with lots of new novels to read. The Pulitzer-winning offshoot of BuzzFeed - BuzzFeed News - was shut down April 20 in an effort to make the troubled media company more profitable. Because of this, if you know any more books similar to the Crossfire series that you believe should be on the list we encourage you to leave a comment with all your suggestions (we’d appreaciate a short blurb so we can easily check if they deserve to be included), or you can use our contact form. ![]() We love you to participate as much as we enjoy making our list as complete as possible. So, are you question Just exercise just what we offer below as well as evaluation Bared To You Crossfire 1 Sylvia Day what you subsequent to to read Thank. Genres include Fantasy Novels, Adventure Novels, Romance Novels and more. Published in 2012, Bared to You explores the impact of trauma as Eva and Gideon navigate their past experiences with childhood sexual abuse. Do you know any more books like Bared to You? tell them to us! Read books online free from your Computer or Mobile. A New York Times bestselling novel, Bared to You by Sylvia Day chronicles the relationship between independent Eva Tramell and successful Gideon Cross. ![]() |