![]() Blood, Charles L., and Martin Link, recordersġ976 Geraldine, The Goat in the Rug.Finally, the tailor makes a new suit for Pelle. Pelle has a lamb whose coat grows longer and longer, while Pelle’s Sunday suit grows shorter! Pelle shears the lamb, and the wool is carded, spun, dyed and woven. Baskwill, Jane, and Trish Hill 1996 Somewhere.Marcelina’s father comes home from a trip to Manila in the Philippines with beautiful hand-made sleeping mats for each member of the family, including three daughters who died when they were very young. McElderry Books, New York.Īlthough her family thinks she is not big enough to participate in the annual sheep run, Ida proves she is big enough to outwit the smugglers trying to steal her favorite sheep. ![]() ![]() We are grateful to Jacqueline Butler-Diaz, research consultant, for her additions to this bibliography.ġ988 Ida and the Wool Smugglers. Please contribute your suggestions for this list, which is continuously updated. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They say the best lies always start with the truth. They order him to give his name and say that he’s looking for his brother. Homer is already weak from hunger when they send him to Brewster’s house. When they discover how well Homer lies, they decide to use him to find the slaves. ![]() The bounty hunters believe a group of missing slaves is staying on the property of a gemstone miner named Jebediah Brewster. They’ve also seized a free black man named Samuel Reed, who serves as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Harold hasn’t gotten far into the woods when he’s captured by Stink and Smelt, two bounty hunters in search of runaway slaves. Harold is sent to war, and Homer decides he must escape from Squint and find his brother. When Harold rouses Squint’s anger, the uncle lies to the officials that Harold is old enough to enlist in the Civil War. Figg and his 17-year-old brother, Harold, live with mean Uncle Squinton Leach in Maine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By accessing, viewing, and posting any content to any LightSail Education site on the internet, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the follow terms of use as well as the terms of use by the specific company that owns and operates the social media site (i.e. The purposes of our social media pages is to encourage and support parents and children in their pursuit of literacy along with a free exchange of ideas and commentary regarding the topics we choose to post, including print, video, and multimedia images. 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With a black body, blue airbrushed flames, and perfect sloping ape hangers, Lolita is Chloé's last connection to her beloved uncle, Seth, who left her the bike when he died last summer. Chloé Rodriguez values three things above all else-her family her best friend, Rock and Lolita, her Harley-Davidson 1200 Sportster. ![]() ![]() As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao–because she might be his next victim. Ninefox Gambit is solidly and satisfyingly full of battles and political intrigue, in a beautifully built far-future that manages to be human and alien at the same time. Both series are action packed and challenging in a way that requires a reader to be an active participant, but rewards such them generously. The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own. Ninefox Gambit goes above and beyond this. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.Ĭheris’s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. Cheris’s career isn’t the only thing at stake. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.Ĭaptain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who must recapture the formidable Fortress of Scattered Needles in order to redeem herself in front of the Hexarchate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lu's action-packed series is the real deal. , Lu delivers a breathtaking thriller with high stakes and cinematic action. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood-what if the Patriots are wrong? It's their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long.īut as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she's haunted by the choice ahead. They have only one request-June and Day must assassinate the new Elector. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. SparkNotes Plus subscription is 4.99/month or 24.99/year as selected above. ![]() June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. S bestselling LEGEND trilogy-perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and DIVERGENT ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’d like to find out more about the world, Tor.com has a novella that explores the history of Haden’s here. I felt like I identified with the main character a little more than most people because I work remotely and haven’t met many of my coworkers in person. Scalzi takes the premise and runs with it, exploring how a disease like Haden’s would affect society in both big and small ways. This is all just background for the story, though – the actual story begins when rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is assigned to investigate a murder where the prime suspect is an Integrator (a regular human who allows Hadens to rent their body.) It stays a pretty solid mystery/thriller type novel throughout, and usually I don’t care that much about that genre, but the worldbuilding and slowly unfolding plot kept me hooked. It’s been a while since that all happened, and the government benefits that many Hadens relied on is about to be repealed, and it is an uncertain time. High-profile patients spurred the accelerated development of technology to allow these “Hadens” to participate in life again though neural implants, virtual reality, and robot bodies, among other things. ![]() Lock In is a near future novel set after a disease known as Haden’s syndrome left millions of people across the world “locked in” – unable to control their bodies but fully conscious. ![]() After reading The Collapsing Empire, I was in the mood to read more Scalzi, and luckily, I’ve had Lock In on my to-be-read list ever since it came out. ![]() ![]() Ryan thinks he may have finally found a solution to his impossible situation, but he needs Jenny's help. Honor-bound never to reveal where he was during those years, he can't tell Jenny the truth, or it will endanger an ongoing mission and put thousands of lives at risk. Lieutenant Ryan Gallagher is one of the few men in the world qualified to carry out a daring government mission overseas-an assignment that destroyed his reputation and broke the heart of the only woman he ever loved. The unpredictability of her upbringing prepared army nurse Jenny Bennett to face any challenge at the Presidio Army base, but the sudden reappearance in her life of the dashing naval officer who broke her heart six years ago is enough to rattle even her. ![]() But there are a couple authors who write historical fiction not set during the Second World War whose books I always want to get my hands on, and one of them is Elizabeth Camden. If you've followed my blog very long, you know that I read far more contemporary than historical novels, and many of the historical novels I do read are set during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, it was precisely in those years that, in other parts of the world, the rate of change was greater than ever before. That is an extremely short period within the context of universal historical development. The colonization of Africa lasted for just over seventy years in most parts of the continent. In place of that interruption and blockade, nothing of compensatory value was introduced. ![]() In offering the view that colonialism was negative, the aim is to draw attention to the way that previous African development was blunted, halted, and turned back. However, all of that would still not permit the conclusion that colonialism had a negative impact on Africa’s development. Indeed, what was called “the development of Africa” by the colonialists was a cynical shorthand expression for “the intensification of colonial exploitation in Africa to develop capitalist Europe.” The analysis has gone beyond that to demonstrate that numerous false claims are made purporting to show that Europe developed Africa in the sense of bringing about social order, nationalism, and economic modernization. The argument so far has been aimed at showing that benefits from colonialism were small and that they were not gifts from the colonialists, but rather fruits of African labor and resources for the most part. See more works from Walter Rodney and complete your bookshelf! The following is a chapter from Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa- originally published 50 years ago and as relevant as ever! ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. Jack is soon off on the crime beat and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming. The investigation leads him to a serial killer known as The Scarecrow, who has worked completely below the police and FBI radar. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. He is going to go out with a bang: a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honour - a Pulitzer Prize. ![]() His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times, he's got 30 days left on the job. Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. ![]() A standalone crime thriller featuring Jack McEvoy, hero of The Poet, from the global bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and BRASS VERDICT. ![]() |