![]() ![]() The book went on to become a million copy bestseller. American author Barbara Newhall Follett (1914-c.39), was just thirteen years old when she published 'The House Without Windows' in 1927. ![]() ![]() But she slips away once more, following her wild heart out of the door and far away. Her heartbroken parents follow her at first, bringing her back home to 'safety' and locking her up in the stifling square of the house. ![]() Little Eepersip doesn't want to live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so she runs away to live in the wild, first in the Meadow, then by the Sea, and finally in the Mountain. 207pp, illustrated, illustrated endpapers. In almost 'as new' condition, with 'Signed Copy' sticker to front jacket, not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. SIGNED BY JACKIE MORRIS, ON 'EXCLUSIVE SIGNED EDITION' PAGE, WITHOUT DEDICATION IN BLACK PEN. First published in the USA in 1927, this is a fifth impression of the 'New Exclusive Signed Edition' of 2019, with '005' on copyright page. Jacket and illustrations by Jackie Morris (illustrator). ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Devil on My Back by Monica Hughes![]() ![]() OL20815937W Page_number_confidence 92.45 Pages 214 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210618102944 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 724 Scandate 20210617053241 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0553266985 Tts_version 4. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:01:38 Boxid IA40138211 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Harlan coben gone for good summary![]() ![]() It turns out Brandon had hacked the online dating site his mother used to meet her current boyfriend, and came across Kat's message to Jeff. But what puzzles her more is a message she receives from Brandon Phelps, a teenager who contacts her about his missing mother. Frustrated that she gave in to an urge to even contact him, she's also hurt when he says he wants to move on. ![]() Separately, she responds to Jeff's online profile only to receive a non-committal response. ![]() She's convinced he was just a fall guy, and the real killer is still out there. He refuses to deny killing her father, but strangely doesn't convincingly admit to it either. Kat decides to visit Monte on his deathbed. The man, Monte Leburne, convicted of murdering her father is dying, a man she never believes committed the crime, and a chance sighting of a profile on an online dating site suggests that Jeff, now a widower, may be open to getting back together, in Missing You, a stand-alone thriller by Harlan Coben. Now, both events have re-entered her life. Review: NYPD detective Kat Donovan has never fully gotten over a period in her life, 18 years ago, when her father was murdered and her engagement to Jeff Raynes fell apart. ![]() ![]() Roughly 16 at this time, Douglass was regularly whipped by Covey.Īfter several failed attempts at escape, Douglass finally left Covey’s farm in 1838, first boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. By the time he was hired out to work under William Freeland, he was teaching other enslaved people to read using the Bible.Īs word spread of his efforts to educate fellow enslaved people, Thomas Auld took him back and transferred him to Edward Covey, a farmer who was known for his brutal treatment of the enslaved people in his charge. With that foundation, Douglass then taught himself to read and write. Douglass credits Hugh’s wife Sophia with first teaching him the alphabet. However, at the age of six, he was moved away from her to live and work on the Wye House plantation in Maryland.įrom there, Douglass was “given” to Lucretia Auld, whose husband, Thomas, sent him to work with his brother Hugh in Baltimore. His full name at birth was “Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.”Īfter he was separated from his mother as an infant, Douglass lived for a time with his maternal grandmother, Betty Bailey. He was actually born Frederick Bailey (his mother’s name), and took the name Douglass only after he escaped. His mother was an enslaved Black women and his father was white and of European descent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Douglass himself was never sure of his exact birth date. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in or around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments How to be perfect by michael schur![]() ![]() ![]() With bright wit and deep insight, How to Be Perfect explains concepts like deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism, ubuntu, and more so we can sound cool at parties and become better people. ![]() Fortunately, many smart philosophers have been pondering this conundrum for millennia and they have guidance for us. ![]() Most people think of themselves as “good,” but it’s not always easy to determine what’s “good” or “bad”-especially in a world filled with complicated choices and pitfalls and booby traps and bad advice. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jennifer, and their two kids, William and Ivy.įrom the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,400 years of deep thinking from around the world. Michael Schur is a television writer and producer who has worked on shows like The Office, Master of None, The Comeback, and Hacks, and created or cocreated Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place, and Rutherford Falls. Join in a virtual event with Michael Schur, author of “How to Be Perfect.” ![]() ![]() ![]() about how easily a mousy, domesticated man can get lost and how joyously he can be refound.”- Janet Maslin, New York Times And take your time, just as Harold does.”- USA Today, four out of four stars review ![]() ![]() I can’t think of a better recommendation for summer reading. In this bravely unpretentious and unsentimental tale, she’s cleared space where miracles are still possible.” - Washington Post Released from the cage of his own passivity, Harold feels transformed, though he keeps his tie on. Alfred Prufrock not just eating that peach, but throwing the pit out the window, rolling up his trousers and whistling to those hot mermaids. “For all of us perfectly responsible, stoop-shouldered suburbanites wearing a path in the living-room carpet, Harold’s ridiculous journey is a cause for celebration. It will stick with you, this story of faith, fidelity and redemption.”- Minneapolis Star Tribune Harold’s journey, which parallels Christian’s nicely but not overly neatly, takes him to the edge of death and back again. Like Christian in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Harold becomes Everyman in the eyes of those who encounter him. “You have to love Harold Fry, a man who set out one morning to mail a letter and then just kept going. “ gorgeously poignant novel of hope and transformation.”- O: The Oprah Magazine Praise for The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ![]() ![]() ![]() Part three, about half of the book, is Sensei’s story told in a long testament written to the young man. It’s the end of Old Japan and the start of the new. The last Meiji emperor died (1912) and his right-hand military man General Nogi Maresuke commits ritual suicide. Meanwhile traumatic events have happened in Japan. He turns down his family’s urgings to settle down and marry a cousin. Despite his mother’s urgings and dying father’s pleas for him to get a job, the young man seems to want to emulate his sensei and do nothing. Years go by as the young man graduates from college. ![]() The second part of the story focuses on the young man’s home life. He warns the young man that when he hears his story his admiration of the old man will turn to disdain and disillusionment. But he promises the young man that he will tell him the story when the time is right. Who that deceased person is becomes the key to the story. His only activity is making a monthly visit a grave at a local cemetery. Sensei has no real friends other than the young man. He seems to be a scholar but doesn’t read or write, he just “hangs out.” The interesting thing about the “wise” old man is that he does nothing. ![]() Over time he develops a strong admiration for him, visiting at his home and calling him Sensei. The main character is a young man, a college student, who meets an older man at a beach resort. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Gnomon harkaway![]() ![]() The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world. ![]() Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isnt Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunters psyche.Įmbedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to find out what went wrong. However, I just finished Gnomon, after reading the three Terra Ignota books which are also quite dense, and felt an urge to see other peoples thoughts on it, as my brain feels full afterwards. I prefer to let them tell me a story and Ill take what I want from them. When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. I dont usually like to overthink books I read. Every action is seen, every word is recorded and the System has access to thoughts and memories. Near-future Britain is a state in which citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of transparency. An amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction. ![]() ![]() story of near-future mass surveillance, artificial intelligence and human identity. Nick Harkaway’s most ambitious novel yet. It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read. Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can’t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isnt Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunters psyche.Embedd. ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet, when it comes to geo-politics, much of what we are told is generated by analysts and other experts who have neglected to refer to a map of the place in question.All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location or where we are going but about the world in general. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this New York Times bestseller, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers-"fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled" ( Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). ![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t get me wrong – Bukowski was a good writer and innovative with his poetry: but as I get older I find his misogyny harder to justify, especially in this collection where the scenes of abuse and rape put me off ever reading him again (and I say this as someone who, when I was younger, used to admire his writing style).īy contrast, you have Lucia Berlin, whose writing is even tighter than Bukowski’s and yet also more poetic, precise and evocative. I won’t even review The Bell Tolls for No One because, even by Bukowski’s haphazard standards, this isn’t worth reading much less writing about. And yet in terms of style, heart, intelligence and maturity there is a world of difference between them. On a superficial level there ought to be similarities: both authors were alcoholic underground writers who wrote about the low life with thinly-veiled versions of themselves as narrators. ![]() ![]() I’ve recently read two collections of short stories by authors championed by Black Sparrow Press: A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin and The Bell Tolls for No One by Charles Bukowski. One sentence review: the most beautifully written, moving and yet sweetly humorous collection of short stories I can remember reading. ![]() |