6/26/2023 0 Comments The arctic grail pierre berton![]() ![]() ![]() When Eskimos finally revealed the truth-that Franklin and his men had perished in a tragedy involving starvation, even cannibalism-Charles Dickens huffily damned the Eskimos as ""treacherous and cruel."" Berton tells these stories with tremendous flare, and shows rare sense among Polar writers by describing in detail the women left behind by these driven men. The subsequent hunt for Franklin became the prod to all further polar expeditions. Their amazing adventures serve as prelude to the story of Sir John Franklin, a dour, courageous man whose expedition disappeared in 1845. The Englishmen were William Parry, first white man to winter in the Arctic, and John Ross, plagued by a terrible ego and by accusations of cowardice and plagiarism. ![]() He begins with a scene of mind-boggling surrealism: two British sailors in cocked hats and tailcoats confronting a group of fur-clad Eskimos on the Greenland coast, the first encounter between these two alien cultures. ![]() Berton (Starting Out, The Invasion of Canada, etc.) spins one extraordinary tale after another, concentrating on the bizarre personalities of the great Arctic explorers as well as on their stunning exploits. This magnificent history is the first comprehensive account of Arctic conquest from the earliest British expeditions to Robert Peary's disputed achievement of 90 degrees north latitude. ![]()
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6/25/2023 0 Comments Dr seuss hop on pop vhs![]() ![]() Please contact me if you have any questions. I will ship immediately upon receipt of payment. Your little angel will love this adorable collection! The Cat in the Hat VHS has been replaced by a DVD. The inside cover and first two pages of one book has scribbles and a dent on back of cover. The words of the first few pages of another book has been highlighted and the first page of another book has a scissor tear. Three books have the prior owners' name written inside the cover/page and two books have a dedication inside. The books are in great condition and measure about 9-1/4" x 6-3/4". Green Eggs and Ham Plus Other Seuss Stories! The videos have been rewound and are ready for immediate viewing. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! 4. ![]() Eastman Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? By Eleanor Hudson Put Me in the Zoo By Robert Lopshire A Fly Went By Mike McClintock Come Down Now, Flying Cow! By Timothy Roland 2 VHS Video Tapes & 1 DVD 1. LeSieg The Best Nest By Eastman Are You My Mother? By P.D. Seuss's ABC Hop On Pop The Foot Book Green Eggs and Ham The Cat in the Hat Comes Back One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish The Shape of Me and Other Stuff Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!- I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! The Cat's Quizzer Fox in Socks I Wish That I Had Duck Freet By Theo. Seuss Lot of 20 Hard Cover Books and 2 VHS Video Tapes & 1 DVD 19 Books Great Day for Up Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() He emerged from law school in 1875 but did not practice, as, by this point, he felt that his calling was to be a writer. His spirit of adventure truly began to appear at this stage, and during his summer vacations, he traveled to France to be around young artists, both writers and painters. Lighthouse design never appealed to Stevenson, though, and he began studying law instead. Lighthouse design was his father's and his family's profession, and so at the age 17, Stevenson enrolled at Edinburgh University to study engineering, with the goal of following his father in the family business. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850, to Thomas and Margaret Stevenson. Publishing his first volume at the age of 28, Stevenson became a literary celebrity during his life when works such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr. He was often abroad, usually for health reasons, and his journeys led to some of his early literary works. Stevenson developed a desire to write early in life, having no interest in the family business of lighthouse engineering. Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson traveled often, and his global wanderings lent themselves well to his brand of fiction. (1850-1894) Who Was Robert Louis Stevenson? ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Savages by don winslow![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Which makes me wonder what was the actual bigger message to killing them. I figure things out as I type and what I'm trying to say here is that.the end was wrong for me because the author could have reasonably ended things by killing Lado, Elena backing off, and Ben, Chon, and O leaving the country for a different life. And yes she had a thing against men but that's overpowered by the fact that she wanted out of the drug trade. My issue with Elena shooting all them goes even deeper than just wanting my favorite characters to live. But honestly.with that ending I think that it should have at least been mentioned that Chon and O got hurt somehow in the shoot out, didn't have to be fatal but they honestly couldn't have not gotten hit AT ALL, this is just me being nit picky about details. I thought it was sweet for how it had to end. I have no issue with them choosing to die with Ben. ![]() Honestly what seems even more unrealistic to me is that only Ben is fatally wounded, honestly only Ben seemed to be wounded at all in the end and that O goes and shoots Elena? And then she and Chon choose to die with Ben. It would have even been plausible for Elena to let them go safely after killing Lado and getting her daughter back. While yes it was realistic in some ways.I still would have been happy with an unrealistic ending. It's nice to see that I wasn't the only one a little iffy on the ending. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments City of saints & thieves![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a job with the Goondas that finally brings Tina back to the Greyhill estate, giving a long-awaited chance for vengeance. With revenge on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving the streets on her own, working as a master thief with the Goondas, Sangui City’s local gang. Greyhill’s private study, she knows he pulled the trigger. But there’s a dark secret lurking behind the family’s immense fortune, and when Tina discovers her mother shot dead in Mr. Trading the peril of their besieged village for the busy metropolis of Sangui, they can barely believe their luck when Tina’s mother finds work as a maid for the Greyhills, one of the city’s most illustrious families. Tina and her mother first arrived in Kenya as refugees from Congo desperately searching for a better life. ![]() In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who does not exist. Where I Got It: I borrowed the hardcover from the library Putnam’s Sons Books For Young Readers|401 pages Book: City Of Saints & Thieves by Natalie Anderson ![]() ![]() ![]() provided she can resist his seductive charms. ![]() But she’s a practical sort, and a year with the devil might buy her freedom. Charlotte wants her independence, not a husband, and certainly not a disreputable devil who renders her weak and wobbly with a single scorching glance. While she dreams of leaving England for a life of trade in America, her father schemes to trade her dowry for a title-and Marchioness of Rutherford will do nicely. Deeply in debt and down to his last farthing, he must marry nothing short of an absolute fortune, or risk utter ruin.Įnter Miss Charlotte Lancaster, unfashionably tall heiress to just such a fortune and a clumsy, redheaded disaster in her five London seasons. A walking scandal surviving on little more than wits, whisky, and wicked skills in the bedchamber, Benedict Chatham, the new Marquess of Rutherford, is at the end of his rope. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Angle of repose novel![]() ![]() ![]() And also, there are those who know Stegner as a “damned environmentalist.” During the Kennedy Administration, Stegner became a special assistant to former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. There are those who know him only as a novelist for Angle of Repose (1971), a transcontinental novel that earned Stegner a Pulitzer Prize. His first novella, Remembering Laughter, won a Little, Brown Prize in 1937, and in 1990 Random House published Stegner’s collected stories.Īs early as 1944, Sinclair Lewis hailed Stegner as “one of the most important novelists in America.” There are those who know him only as a prize winning- historian or only as the biographer of John Wesley Powell ( Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954) and Bernard DeVoto ( The Uneasy Chair, 1974). Wallace Stegner has published thirteen novels, three short-story collections, sixteen nonfiction titles, and has edited eighteen works in the fifty-three years he has been publishing books. I go through that with an editing pencil and retype it to make a relatively clear second draft.” It takes me many rewritings to get a first draft, and all the chapters that went into it have been thrown away successively until I get something that will read consecutively. Stegner apologized that his markings are not more revealing: “My methods are prelapsarian and prewordprocessarian. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then my vision fell upon the seven tall candles upon the table. I saw, too, for a few moments of delirious horror, the soft and nearly imperceptible waving of the sable draperies which enwrapped the walls of the apartment. I saw them fashion the syllables of my name and I shuddered because no sound succeeded. I saw them writhe with a deadly locution. ![]() I saw that the decrees of what to me was Fate, were still issuing from those lips. They appeared to me white - whiter than the sheet upon which I trace these words, - and thin even to grotesqueness thin with the intensity of their expression of firmness - of immoveable resolution - of stern contempt of human torture. Yet, for a while, I saw but with how terrible an exaggeration! I saw the lips of the black-robed judges. This only for a brief period for presently I heard no more. It conveyed to my soul the idea of revolution, - perhaps from its association in fancy with the burr of a mill-wheel. After that, the sound of the inquisitorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy indeterminate hum. The sentence - the dread sentence of death - was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears. I was sick - sick unto death with that long agony and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. ![]() ![]() It takes two children from another land to point out to the rulers of both kingdoms the benefits to getting along and how we're really all the same inside. So they set out on an adventure to bring peace to the warring kingdoms-and maybe along the way they just might find a king for the queen.Without being preachy, The Magic Paintbrush addresses the issue of differences, in this case, a kingdom that is all pink at war with a kingdom that is all blue for longer than anyone can remember-so long that no one even knows what started the feud. to Making Perfect Wishes The Magic Paintbrush Thief of Hearts The Imp That Ate My Homework Dragonwings by Laurence Yep. Jack and Zoe decide Vermilion and Cobalt need a Kitchen Table Mediation to settle their differences. Jack and Zoe suggest she looks for a king in Cobalt, but Vermilion and Cobalt have been at war since long before anyone can remember. ![]() When nine-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister Zoe are snowed in for days with nothing to do, their complaints land them in every guy’s worst nightmare-the kingdom of Vermilion, a land where everything is totally pink! At first Jack is mistaken for a spy from the neighboring kingdom of Cobalt, but Zoe convinces Queen Fuchsia that they’re from New Jersey and arrived by magic.Queen Fuchsia needs a king, but all the available princes in Vermilion are either too short, too fat, too old, or too stupid. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments The deep end diary![]() ![]() If I had a lot of friends I would recommend this book to every single one of them. The main thing I like about this book is that it’s basically all an adventure and the familly is trying to go on a vacation but they just don’t realize that they’re spending a lot of time together, they just don’t realize it yet. I would recommend this book for you and your friends, you shour recommend this book for all your friends because why not it’s so good, couldn’t you tell by just listening or reading my paragraph. My second favorite scene is when theis guy takes the family’s locker keys and puts him in his house, so they sneak in and try to and find them, it was really good. ![]() Greg is cool and funny, but Manny is really funny. Greg is my favorite character or Manny is. One of my favorite scenes is where there are teenagers firing watermelons with a slingshot at Greg and some of his friends, so he goes with the gang and gets some water guns and gets the teenagers all wet with the water and they run away. DiaryofaWimpyKid is not just another middle-grade fiction book series, but the whole series has become an incredible. But it seems like the family gets a lot of family time and it seems like an adventure. I like this book because it’s a family just trying to go on a nice family vacation, but every time they go to a new place, something goes wrong. ![]() Reviewed by Reston Pruitt, grade 6, Whitefish Middle School. ![]() |