“It was the biggest bang in the world, and the most monstrous firework there ever has been. The mischief of a magical family unsettles Nature herself: His servants misbehave, his North Polar Bear must be nursed through whooping cough, and there are Elves to entertain and Goblins to vanquish. “If John can't read my old shaky writing (1925 years old) he must get his father to.” Fortunately age does not prevent the writer from sending richly detailed paintings of his house, his sleigh gliding over Oxford (“Your house is just about where the three little black points stick up out of the shadows at the right”), and the misadventures that make these letters such lively reading.įather Christmas plays den father to an extended family of elves, snow boys and polar bears, but his magic fails to protect him from the crises that plague large families. The facsimiles included show a handwriting that is shaky but elegant. In “The Father Christmas Letters” Tolkien's daughterin‐law, Bane Tolkien, collects and edits them for our enjoyment. The first arrived in 1920 when Tolkien's oldest son was 3, and they continued to arrive for 20 years thereafter. They received a letter from Father Christmas every year. But what I really wanted, and sever got, was an answer from the mysterious giver. As foretold by my parents, the presents I asked for arrived. The first letter I ever wrote went not to a friend but to a stranger who, I was told, dropped down people's chimneys on Christmas eve and left presents like an eccentric millionaire.
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With strange and sinister happenings occurring around the casino, Anna starts to suspect that not all the horrors on the reservation are old. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation’s casino…and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step-an ancient tribal myth come-to-life, one that’s intent on devouring her whole. A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, i n this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut.Īnna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. She is a James Beard Book Award winner and has appeared as a guest judge on Bravo’s Top Chef. Toni Tipton-Martin is an award-winning food and nutrition journalist who is busy building a healthier community through her books, classes, and foundation. With more than 100 recipes, from classics such as Sweet Potato Biscuits, Seafood Gumbo, Buttermilk Fried Chicken, and Pecan Pie with Bourbon to lesser-known but even more decadent dishes like Bourbon & Apple Hot Toddies, Spoon Bread, and Baked Ham Glazed with Champagne, Jubilee presents techniques, ingredients, and dishes that show the roots of African American cooking-deeply beautiful, culturally diverse, fit for celebration. Through recipes and stories, we cook along with these pioneering figures, from enslaved chefs to middle- and upper-class writers and entrepreneurs. In Jubilee, Tipton-Martin brings these masters into our kitchens. After all, if Thomas Jefferson introduced French haute cuisine to this country, who do you think actually cooked it? She’s introduced us to black cooks, some long forgotten, who established much of what’s considered to be our national cuisine. Throughout her career, Toni Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history, breadth, and depth of African American cuisine. This is about skimming the canvases, burning the subjects, making them immaterial ghosts due to an abrasion or shredding them as wax. Samorì's theme starts from a strong postmodernist base, where the legacy of Baroque and late sixteenth century art, a strongly rooted inheritance in every Italian and Western citizen, is reproposed in a crude and vandalous way, giving birth to very different purposes and reactions. The only one to stand out for the complexity of the meanings and the strong visual impact of the works he proposed was Nicola Samorì. The choice was partly disappointing: in some cases for the choice of artists who, even if still active, being quite old did not have much to say about the novelties of the Italian art scene but sometimes because of the smallness of the message and of the works selected and exposed. In the Italian Pavilion of the last Venice Bienniale, only twelve artists were invited, each of whom had a reserved separate room all for him/herself and the set up of his/her works. These powerful mindframes, which should underpin every action in schools, are founded on the principle that teachers are evaluators, change agents, learning experts, and seekers of feedback who are constantly engaged with dialogue and challenge. conveying the success criteria to learners.engaging in dialogue and the correct balance between talking and listening.the notion that learning needs to be challenging.working collaboratively and the sense of community.the importance of assessment and feedback for teachers.thinking of and evaluating your impact on students’ learning. In Ten Mindframes for Visible Learning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer define the 10 behaviors or mindframes that teachers need to adopt in order to maximize student success. The original Visible Learning research concluded that one of the most important influencers of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role. Michael DeForge’s Leaving Richard’s Valley expands from a bizarre hero’s quest into something more. Caroline Frog rats them out to Richard and they are immediately exiled from the only world they’ve ever known. When Lyle the Raccoon becomes sick, his friends-Omar the Spider, Neville the Dog, and Ellie Squirrel-take matters into their own hands, breaking Richard’s strict rules. He oversees everything that happens in the valley, and everyone loves him for it. Richard is a benevolent but tough leader. When a group of outcasts have to leave the valley, how will they survive the toxicity of the big city? What unfolds is an entertaining meditation on the meaning of community and the many forms it takes. Leaving Richard’s Valley documents a group of forest creatures attempting to survive in the big city after being forced out of their cultish community. Join Michael DeForge for a reading and book signing to launch Leaving Richard’s Valley, his new graphic novel. Leaving Richard’s Valley (Drawn + Quarterly) A single touch from her is enough to suck the life out of anybody and she also taps energy from organisms around her. The story revolves around 17-year-old Juliette Ferrars who has a fatal touch among other abilities. What’s The Shatter Me Series About?Īlso known as The Juliette Chronicles, Shatter Me is a young adult dystopian suspense series packed with paranormal elements and in case you are wondering, there is a titillating touch of romance in the books. However, following the right order to read the book is quite easy and the trick is discussed in this piece. While Divergent and Hunger Games, as well as many other similar books, were completed as a trilogy, Shatter Me has continued to get more additions since the first one was released in 2011. This is part of the reason why readers need to know the particular order to follow while reading the Shatter Me series. Originally planned as a trilogy, Mafi ended up with more books after the series became popular following the publication of the first three. Mafi split the series into six novels and five novellas, making it easy for readers to follow up. Written by Tahereh Mafi, the book series is a young adult dystopian hexalogy with a storyline that revolves around a teenage girl who has to live with a lethal touch. Fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games book series will easily fall in love with the Shatter Me series. But after a while I got engrossed in writing new things. What will you miss the most about writing such a familiar world? Did you plan each novel as you wrote it or the series as a whole?įunnily enough, to start with, when it was first over, I really did miss the characters, and my mind kept returning to the possibility of doing one more book with them. Since 2016, you have been immersed in the world of Cogheart and everything that came along with it. Maybe one day I will, but in retrospect Shadowsea was a natural place to finish or pause the series in terms of where the characters were by the end of it. I thought I might do one more adventure after Shadowsea, but it doesn’t look that way anytime soon. Was there a bittersweet feeling that Shadowsea would be the last adventure or was it a natural finish to the series? Lily, Robert & Malkin have now flown the Bunzl nest. Copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)īegins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. Or you've devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you.īy tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space If you've ever wondered what it would it be like to free yourself from limitations, soar beyond your boundaries, and discover true inner peace and serenity,Ĭan show you the way. This special deluxe edition makes the perfect gift for any occasion. This beautiful hardcover gift edition with satin ribbon bookmark features a new preface by author and spiritual teacher Michael A. Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on "validated learning," rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Įric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. But many of those failures are preventable. |