![]() Oh, I’m glad that I was alone when I read this. Whether the first clap of thunder finds you buried under the bedcovers or happily anticipating the coming storm, Thunder Cake is a story that will bring new meaning and possibility to the excitement of a thunderstorm. Polacco's vivid memories of her grandmother's endearing answer to a child's fear, accompanied by her bright folk-art illustrations, turn a frightening thunderstorm into an adventure and ultimately. Reaching once again into her rich childhood experience, Patricia Polacco tells the memorable story of how her grandma-her Babushka-helped her overcome her fear of thunder when she was a little girl. and the storm is coming closer all the time! But the list of ingredients is long and not easy to find. A real Thunder Cake must reach the oven before the storm arrives. ![]() "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaughter hurry to gather the ingredients around the farm. A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The UN environment agency’s report found there was “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place” and that “woefully inadequate” progress on cutting carbon emissions means the only way to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies”.Ĭurrent pledges for action by 2030, even if delivered in full, would mean a rise in global heating of about 2.5C, a level that would condemn the world to catastrophic climate breakdown, according to the UN’s climate agency. The sector is expected to amass $4tn in 2022, strengthening calls for heavy windfall taxes to address the cost of living crisis and fund the clean energy transition.Īll three of the key UN agencies have produced damning reports in the last two days. Oil and gas giants have enjoyed soaring profits as post-Covid demand jumps and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On Thursday, Shell and TotalEnergies both doubled their quarterly profits to about $10bn. He said the world was coming “very, very close to irreversible changes … time is really running out very, very fast”.Įmissions must fall by about half by 2030 to meet the internationally agreed target of 1.5C of heating but are still rising, the reports showed – at a time when oil giants are making astronomical amounts of money. ![]() ![]() Kingfisher effortlessly entwines an atmospheric and spooky “deep dark woods” tale with ancient folklore and pulls off more than a few very effective scares. And Mouse isn’t going anywhere without Bongo. Something is lurking just outside Mouse's house, and that effigy isn't of this world, but just when she’s ready to leave, Bongo disappears. After discovering a gruesome deer effigy hanging in the woods, Mouse confides in Foxy, who tells a few strange tales of her own. While walking Bongo in the woods, Mouse stumbles on a strange gathering of stones on top of a hill that shouldn’t exist. The prose sounds like the ravings of a man unhappy in his marriage to a woman who wasn’t a very nice person, but the mention of something called the Green Book is intriguing, and the line “ I twisted myself about like the twisted ones” gives Mouse the chills. When she finds a journal belonging to her stepgrandfather Frederick Cotgrave, things get creepy. ![]() One day bleeds into another as she hauls junk to the nearby dump and makes friends with her kind and quirky neighbors, Foxy, Tomas, and Skip. Unfortunately, the house, which has been locked up for two years, is a hoarder’s paradise, but Mouse digs in with her beloved coonhound, Bongo, at her side. ![]() ![]() A woman realizes she’s not alone while cleaning out her late grandmother’s remote North Carolina home.įreelance book editor Melissa, aka “Mouse,” can’t say no to her father when he asks her to clear out her grandmother’s house. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her debut novel, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and subsequently her work was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Locus Award and the Otherwise Award. She was the author of over 30 published novels and non-fiction books (often examining issues of sex and gender ), plus numerous other publications, including magical grimoires. Storm Constantine (12 October 1956 – 14 January 2021) was a British science fiction and fantasy author, primarily known for her Wraeththu series, which began as one trilogy but has spawned many subsequent works.īeginning in the 1980s, Constantine's short stories appeared in dozens of genre fiction magazines and anthologies. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Book portnoy's complaint![]() ![]() ![]() The tone is at once nostalgic and embittered, rollicking and sad, and the juxtaposition of domestic conventions with the wild masturbatory fantasies of young Alex Portnoy, achingly accurate in every respect, including the highly colored one of the "castrating" Jewish mama, often equals the pathetic brilliance of some of the short stories of Gogol and Babel, besides being, in its rather idiosyncratic way, a closer look at the "generation gap" than anything that has yet appeared in print. The truer one is best represented by the remarkable section called "Jewish Blues." Here the theme is adolescent rage, middle class New Jersey misery, and filial ambivalence ("a Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy, and will remain a 15-year-old boy till they die!"). There are two voices in Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth's quasi-autobiographical tour de force, though both voices are the voices of the hero. ![]() ![]() ![]() Independent and small publishers are like rare plants that pop up among the larger growth but add something different, perhaps they feed the soil, bring colour or scent into the world. A way of engagement with society and methods that reflect something important about the locale or the niche they inhabit. Independent publishers are seeking another way. ![]() It means that books which take off slowly but have long lives, the books that change social norms, are less likely to be published. Each book is expected to pay for itself and all the externalities of publishing such as offices and CEO salaries. In a globalised world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, about sameness, about following a formula based on the latest megasuccess. North Melbourne, Victoria : Spinifex Press, 2014Īnnotation. Bibliodiversity : a manifesto for independent publishing / Susan Hawthorne Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Books ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Books by peter spier![]() The book begins with how we all start small despite being different shapes, sizes, and colors. Try this: 15 Ways to Encourage Your Child to Read Photos of 人 (People) by Peter Spier People by Peter Spier: We come in various dimensions and colors! ![]() There is so much to discuss on each page, and each read brings about a new discovery. We are similar in many ways, and we are also uniquely different in the way we look, eat, play, speak, and worship.īoth of my children (2.5-year-old son and 5.5-year-old daughter) were captivated by the detailed illustrations. In the 人 (People) picture book, Spier celebrates human-kind and our wonderful diversity. ![]() We only have the hardcover English version, and I have been translating the words to Mandarin Chinese while reading some parts in English with my children.Īlthough the content contains many encyclopedic facts, the text of the English version is largely written in a conversation manner. Captain America Spider-Man Avengers Tony Stark Peter Parker Steve Rogers Tobey Maguire Adventure Fantasy Iron Man Spier Man Black Widow Andrew Garfield. ![]() ![]() 人 (People) is a picture book that was originally published in English and has been translated to simplified and traditional Chinese. Review of 人 (People) picture book by Peter Spier ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing this simply as a tragic story of a selfish, oppressed woman, it is wonderful. I don't agree with her ways of escaping them, especially what she did to her children! Is that what feminists want to use as an example? I don't want to give too much away for someone who hasn't read this, but her actions in this book are too extreme. This stuff was never for her and she tries to escape them. The Awakening is a story of a woman who feels bound and oppressed by her marriage and by motherhood. The feminist themes are there, no doubt, but I don't think that Chopin intended it to be used as an example of what a woman in a similar situation should do. I saw this as a tragic story, not as the example that feminists having been using it as for decades. I loved this story for the beautiful writing and the intricate way of exploring the life of a tragic woman. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The no rules rules![]() ![]() On the Predefined Rules page, the list of rules defined in the group is displayed. ![]() On the Rule Type page of the New Inbound Rule Wizard, click Predefined, select the rule category from the list, and then click Next. In the navigation pane, click Outbound Rules. Open the Group Policy Management Console to Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security. To deploy predefined firewall rules that block outbound network traffic for common network functions To complete these procedures, you must be a member of the Domain Administrators group, or otherwise be delegated permissions to modify the GPOs. Using this advantage helps to ensure consistency and accuracy, because the rules have been thoroughly tested and are ready for use. ![]() ![]() When deploying firewall rules to the computers on the network, you can take advantage of these predefined rules instead of creating new ones. When you install a new server role on a computer or enable a network feature on a client computer, the installer can install, but typically doesn't enable, outbound block rules for that role. Windows Defender Firewall includes many predefined outbound rules that can be used to block network traffic for common networking roles and functions. By default, Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security allows all outbound network traffic unless it matches a rule that prohibits the traffic. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The Physician by Noah Gordon![]() ![]() "Gordon's compelling novel recreates the 11th century so powerfully that the reader is propelled through its several hundred pages by a tidal wave of imagination and authentic detail." -Publishers Weekly "Populated by engaging characters, rich in incident and vivid in historical detail, The Physician] is a pleasure." -The New York Times " The Physician] has the flavor of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, but with a deeper character development and story arc. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival-medicine-makes a riveting modern classic. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world's most renowned physician, Avicenna. ![]() Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. ![]() But as he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. ![]() Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. Read by millions in thirty-two countries, soon to be a major motion picture, and voted "one of the ten most-beloved books of all time," here is the first English-language digital edition of Noah Gordon's masterwork In eleventh-century London, a child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. ![]() |