The Best/Worst Christmas Present Ever, Toronto: Scholastic, 1984. Da questo romanzo è stato tratto l'anime Konnichiwa Anne prodotto dalla Nippon Animation nel 2009 ed ha in parte ispirato la serie canadese Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning del 2008. Nel 2008, con il consenso degli eredi di Lucy Maud Montgomery, si è dedicata a Before Green Gables, prequel di Anna dai capelli rossi scritto in occasione del centenario dall'uscita dell'opera originale. Dal 1984, data del suo primo libro, ha scritto e pubblicato oltre 32 libri, prevalentemente romanzi dedicati all'infanzia, con traduzioni in 10 lingue e in 13 paesi. Ha iniziato a scrivere piuttosto tardi, dopo aver fatto l'insegnante, la fotografa e, per oltre 20 anni, l'istruttrice di fitness. ) è una scrittrice canadese, autrice di numerosi libri per ragazzi.Ha trascorso gli anni dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza in Nuova Scozia e dopo la laurea in Filosofia e Psicologia conseguita presso la Dalhousie University ed una lunga parentesi di oltre venti anni in Ontario, nel 1989 è ritornata a vivere in Nuova Scozia, in un piccolo villaggio di pescatori lungo la costa meridionale del Canada.
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6/9/2023 0 Comments Stormlight 3.5Therese Poletti's Tech Tales Opinion: After a $2 trillion stock rebound, Big Tech wades into sea of uncertainty Last Updated: Apat 7:54 a.m. How is this number expressed in grams? 19.25 g Which of the following is true regarding ocean salinity at 30 degrees North and South of the Equator? Therese Poletti's Tech Tales Opinion: After a $2 trillion stock rebound, Big Tech wades into sea of uncertainty Last Updated: Apat 7:54 a.m. Cl- represents 55% of the dissolved component in seawater. It has three classes: economy, with a capacity for 559 passengers VIP, with 56 seats and Royal Class, with 16 seats.Since seawater salinity is 35‰, or 3.5%, 1000 grams of seawater contains 35 grams of salt. Salim claims that it is a contemporary ship with a 631 passenger capacity. Cl sea CLion runs its code analysis, Data Flow Analysis, other Clangd-based checks, and Clang-Tidy to detect unused and unreachable code, dangling pointers, missing type casts, no matching function overload, and many other issues. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Inferno by Steven HatchA physician s memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it, Inferno is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola: how it is transmitted and spreads with such ferocity. With little help from the international community and a population ravaged by disease and fear, the war-torn African nation was simply unprepared to deal with the catastrophe. Hundreds of victims perished each week whole families were destroyed in a matter of days so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose of the bodies. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Walter isaacson einstein bookHis failure to be a good husband, father, and a teacher, the book explores how an ordinary man becomes the extraordinary who decoded the mysteries of the universe with the theory of relativity. The biography offers glimpses into then society and people and other unknown facts about the great physics prodigy that resided in dark for so many decades. The book revolves around letters written by Einstein. NOW A MAJOR SERIES GENIUS ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, PRODUCED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING GEOFFREY RUSH Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly. It also reveals his role in the development of the atomic bomb and how he contributed to the civil rights groups in the United States. From early years of life to thoughts, experiments to his later life, the book has it all. It reveals Einstein as the man behind the science. The book delves deep into his life and verifies the connection between creativity and freedom. Isaacson’s biography is an excellent exhibition of Einstein’s personality, aura, rebellious nature and scientific approach for things that seemed mundane to others. Best known for his book ‘Benjamin Franklin: An American Life,’ Walter Isaacson has successfully tried to interpret Einstein’s mind and reasons behind his prowess. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Misery stephenOutside of the Miseryankle scene, the final major difference is the nature of Annie's death. In turn, the novel ends up being a global bestseller. Since Paul escapes with his manuscript in the book, he is actually able to have it published in the end of the Stephen King novel. Related: Misery: Why Paul Is A Perfect Protagonist (& Annie Is A Perfect Villain)Ī key difference between the book and the movie is the aforementioned burned manuscript. In the movie, the Sheriff is merely shot in the chest with a shotgun by Annie, whereas in the book, he is brutally killed by being stabbed and then run over with a lawnmower. The Sheriff's death in the Misery movie is another difference. After Annie is unhappy with Paul's ending, in the novel, he's able to get away with burning a stack of papers rather than his creation. Another major difference between the Misery movie and the book is the fire that burns Paul's work. But the character just had dimension after dimension that I found fascinating. Q: Is the ending of the Odd Thomas series a sad occasion for you?Ī: When I finished the first one, Odd Thomas, I thought, "This is liable to be more than one book," but at most I thought it would be a trilogy. In the meantime, we caught up with Koontz, 69, for a phone interview from his home in Newport Coast, Calif. 29, sponsored by USA TODAY and Intercast. Koontz will be the featured guest on a special online video chat with fans from 2 p.m. 4 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list), in which the character returns to his hometown of Pico Mundo, Calif., to fulfill the destiny foretold in the series opener in 2003. Now the series is ending with its seventh installment, Saint Odd (currently No. In recent years, his series featuring Odd Thomas - a young fry cook with paranormal powers, including the ability to see the spirits of the "lingering dead" - has been particularly popular, with 20 million copies sold to date. Dean Koontz is one of the world's most popular novelists, with 450 million books sold worldwide. 6/8/2023 0 Comments The big over easyThe book is satirical, based on many nursery rhymes, fables, and the like. A follow-up, entitled The Fourth Bear, was published in July 2006. It was massively re-written following the success of the Thursday Next novels. The book was the first novel Fforde wrote, however, he failed in its publication. It is set in an alternate reality similar to that of his previous books: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten.Īccording to Fforde, The Big Over Easy is the result of the book Caversham Heights featured in The Well of Lost Plots and includes a possible cameo appearance of the author's heroine Thursday Next, thus verifying this claim. It features Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant, Sergeant Mary Mary. The Big Over Easy is a 2005 novel written by Jasper Fforde. 6/8/2023 0 Comments مذكرات طالب by Jeff KinneyHe and his buddy Rowley also try many schemes to make money that. Jeff lives with his wife and two sons in Massachusetts, where they own a bookstore, An Unlikely Story. As Chrismas approaches, Greg wonders about Santa Claus and if he can really see all the deeds, good and bad, that kids do. He spent his childhood in the Washington, D.C., area and moved to New England in 1995. He is also the creator of Poptropica, which was named one of Time's 50 Best Websites. It is a comedy novel with real life situations. The first book in this best selling series. Jeff has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. The - Family & Kid is manufactured by Jeff Kinney and was added around January 2019. Dairy of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, here translated to Arabic. Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal was published in April 2019, was an instant #1 global bestseller, and has remained at the top of the New York Times bestseller list since publication. Wrecking Ball, book 14, was published in November 2019, and was an instant #1 global bestseller. Jeff Kinney is the #1 USA Today, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and a six-time Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award winner for Favorite Book. 6/8/2023 0 Comments Venous hum suzette mayrYet, this juxtaposition is a "source of anxiety" in horror fiction, while magic realism "normalizes the supernatural" (3, 4). As Christopher Warnes advances, magic realist narratives sometimes resemble works of horror fiction when the latter make "coherent use of codes of the natural and the supernatural" (2). It is true that vampires and cannibals usually intervene as gothic or horror literary figures, but I read their presence in Venous Hum as magic realist because they are not terrifying. Despite Chakraborty's mention that the intervention of these monstrous figures prevents the full development of the satire, I argue that Mayr's use of magic realism is central to the novel because it intensifies her thorough critique of Canadian nationalism. While Venous Hum operates as a high school reunion novel that revisits the impact of homophobia and racism on the protagonist, Lai Fun, Mayr's novel also deploys vampires and cannibals. In a review of Suzette Mayr's Venous Hum, Mridula Chakraborty laments that the Alberta novel, which satirizes a number of assumptions concerning racial, sexual, regional, and national identities, is ruined by Mayr's "unexpected, and completely unnecessary, horror pin" (36). Paul Maier provides a new and welcome translation of the classic history by the first known Christian historian Eusebius (Bishop of Caesarea in Roman Palestine) which is wonderfully enhanced with charts, maps, and color photography. This sparkling new translation includes more than 150 color photographs, maps, and charts. Much of our knowledge of the first three centuries of Christianity-the terrible persecutions, the courageous martyrs, and the theological controversies-come from the writings of this first century historian. Next to Josephus, Eusebius is the most widely-consulted reference work on the early church. |