![]() ![]() The baby sea turtle on the cover looks as though she might crawl right off the cover and into your hand, and it’s hard to imagine a more appealing sea creature. Chapman’s ( One Duck Stuck, not reviewed, etc.) exquisite paintings bring Loggerhead’s world to life, with full-bleed spreads of the big, blue ocean and groups of smaller illustrations framed in soft green. Through this device, an adult reader can focus on just Loggerhead’s individual story (saving the additional facts for later), or pause during the story to include the deeper explanations of sea turtle biology and behavior. In an inspired design device, the main story is told with large type set against the turquoise blue of the ocean or the soft beige of the beach, and additional relevant facts are included in a smaller typeface set in blocks of wavy lines that are smoothly incorporated into many spreads. ![]() 1120, etc.) focuses on one female turtle called Loggerhead, recounting her life from infancy through her own eggs hatching 30 years later on the same beach where Loggerhead was born. ![]() This beautifully designed story of a loggerhead sea turtle uses an oversized format and glorious acrylic paintings for a work that is both entertaining and informative. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() If you read Big Girls Do It Running and participated in the Wilder Way eight-week challenge along with thousands of other health-seekers, then you went from couch to 5k, went from the on-again/off-again diet cycle to living a lifestyle of positive, delicious nutrition and fun, consistent movement. Including all new recipes, beginner and advanced workout routines, and eating plans, Wilder Way 2.0 is designed to help you continue shedding pounds and inches while increasing your muscles mass.Ĭan’t do a single pushup? Think working out is for muscle-bound macho men and stick-thin fitness models? Think you have to hire an expensive personal trainer and spend hours in the gym every single day just to get fit? Think again! In this book, Jasinda expands on the life-changing WIlder Way, showing you how to take the lessons and tactics learned in the first book and create a life of strength. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Jasinda Wilder is back with the highly-anticipated sequel to Big Girls Do It Running. Genre: Non Fiction (health, fitness or self-help.) ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me. I want to sit on my porch and drink foul-smelling tea and yell at passersby. I want to live to grow old, Alex thought as she pulled the curtains closed. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. ![]() Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. ![]() ![]() Her later novel, All My Puny Sorrows, published in 2014, also concerns a suicide in the family, this time that of her sister. Her 2001 work Swing Low is a memoir of her father, told in Toews’ imagined version of his voice. Twelve years later, her elder sister did the same. When she was thirty-four her father killed himself. ![]() Toews grew up in a remote Canadian Mennonite (an Amish-like Christian religion) community in a loving family of four. ![]() But while Louis’ writing extends into broader areas of the political, Toews’ has been focused more intensely on the personal: on grief, humour, sex, and mental health. Both writers have created work at once inspired and confined by intense, real-life family experiences. The work of Miriam Toews is, like that of Louis’, marked by a desire for unaffected honesty, and a discomfort with literary fabrication. ‘I wanted my father to exist, and not someone as a metaphor.’ ‘Who talks about us?’ he remembers thinking. He couldn’t comprehend why these concerns might be considered important when the deprivation in his own home was so stark. Teenage Édouard was baffled to hear this man describing creation of character and structure. ![]() Le Clézio won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008, he saw the acceptance speech on television. ![]() Growing up in a brutally poor household in Northern France, there had never been any books in his home, but when J.M.G. Édouard Louis, speaking recently at the London Review Bookshop, described why he writes auto-fiction. ![]() ![]() People are able to talk through their Feeds and chose who can be let into their conversations. The main source of communication in this society is through their feeds. Titus then goes on to tell her instead of being depressed reading about it to go out and do something about it. Violet is living and learning a different way, she is referred to as smart because she reads about events that are happening and how people are destroying the earth. On page 109 Titus says “Back then, it was meg null, because they didn’t learn anything useful.” When Titus says this it shows that they aren’t learning about history, science and math anymore, they are learning how to live their lives through their feeds. The children learn how to be a good consumer, how to get a job, how to use the feed, and how to get good bargains. The education that the children receive in this future society is formed on their feeds. ![]() ![]() ![]() The court ruled that Ray had received a constitutionally deficient defense, and he was given a new trial to review the ballistics evidence. He subsequently spent almost 30 years on death row fighting his conviction until he and his lawyer Bryan Stevenson brought an appeal to the U.S. When Ray was 29 years old, he was wrongfully convicted of two murders and sentenced to death by the state of Alabama, despite the fact that he had a strong alibi and little evidence connected him to the murders. Ray graduated high school and worked in the coal mines for several years before working for Manpower, a labor company in Birmingham, Alabama. During Ray’s childhood, his father received a severe head injury in a mining accident and was sent to live in an institution for the rest of his life, leaving Ray to be raised solely by his mother, Buhlar. ![]() Anthony Ray Hinton, who goes by the name Ray, was born in Praco, Alabama, in 1956 and was the youngest of 10 siblings. ![]() |