5/29/2023 0 Comments Jf cooper the last of the mohicans![]() Temple founded the town due to his connections with Edward Effingham, the son of the wealthy Major Oliver Effingham of the British Army. ![]() ![]() The story begins on Christmas Eve, 1793 as the widowed Temple is bringing his young daughter, Elizabeth, home to Templeton in a sleigh after completing her schooling in New York. Much of the plot is devoted to the conflict between Leatherstocking and Templeton over law, as well as unravelling Oliver’s mysterious past. Oliver Edwards, who lives with Leatherstocking, is a brooding young man with a mysterious past and a grudge against Judge Temple. Judge Marmaduke Temple is the wealthy landowner, founder of Templeton, and its de facto leader, who attempts to grow civilization while respecting the environment. ![]() The protagonist is Nathaniel “Natty” Bumpo (or Leatherstocking), an elderly but extremely skilled woodsman who resents the encroachment of civilization on his home in nature. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Ladybird hansel and gretel![]() ![]() Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools. ![]() Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading.Įach book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. ![]() Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. ![]() How will they ever escape?Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series.įor over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read, develop and improve their reading skills. When Hansel and Gretel get left in the woods, they are captured by a witch who lives in a house made from gingerbread and sweets. About the Hansel and Gretel - Read it yourself with Ladybirdīased on the classic fairy tale. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Wild by Jill Barnett![]() ![]() “People would dismiss them, saying, ‘Oh, audiobooks are for the blind,’” says Willow Nash, who has recorded hundreds of audiobooks in her career, including by authors such as Jill Mansell, M. There was even a certain snobbery around the format. Cassette tapes holding abridged versions of literary classics, children’s stories or the latest crime novel sat in corners of bookshops, rarely generating much publicity. Aside from outliers like Harry Potter, audiobooks were largely ignored by much of the books trade for many years. Louis Theroux recorded his audiobook for one week While Audible, owned by Amazon, remains the biggest audiobook platform, Spotify launched its own service last year, offering more than 300,000 titles, and calling it a “massive opportunity” for the company. That demand is leading many of the world’s tech giants to invest heavily in the industry. Around 27 million audiobooks were purchased in the UK last year, according to the retail sales monitoring service Nielsen – more than four times as many as were sold just a decade ago. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Pegasus bridge stephen e ambrose![]() Vion, director of the maternity hospital, who passed it along to the Resistance in Caen on her trips to the city for medical supplies. Thérèsa got information by listening to the chitter-chatter of the NCOs in the café she passed along to Georges, who passed it to Mme. In their case, the most valuable thing they could do for the Allies was to provide information on conditions at the bridge. The Gondrées hated the Germans for what they had done to France, hated the life they led under the occupation, feared for the future of their daughters, and were consequently active in trying to bring German rule to an end. Georges, before acquiring the café, had been for twelve years a clerk in Lloyd’s Bank in Paris and understood English. Madame came from Alsace and spoke German, a fact she successfully hid from the garrison. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the Gondrées were not as simple as they pretended to be. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Blood sisters by sarah gristwood![]() Vergil too wrote that Marguerite exceeded others of her time ‘as well in beauty as wisdom’ and though it is not easy to guess real looks from the conventions of medieval portraiture, it is hard not to read determination and self-will in the swelling brow and prominent nose that are evident in images of Marguerite of Anjou – in particular the medallion by Pietro di Milano. The beauty conventionally attributed to queens features in the scene where Shakespeare’s Marguerite first meets Henry VI: it was the lofty spirit that, in the years ahead, was to prove the difficulty. At the French court Marguerite had already acquitted herself well enough to win an admirer in the courtly tradition, Pierre de Brezé, to carry her colours at the joust and to allow the Burgundian chronicler Barante to write that she ‘was already renowned in France for her beauty and wit and her lofty spirit of courage’. ![]() Henry VI, if the Milanese correspondent is to be believed, saw ‘a most handsome woman, though somewhat dark’ – and not, the Milanese tactfully assured his duchess, ‘so beautiful as your Serenity’. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Rabbie burns auld lang syne![]() It also means “long long ago”, “days gone by”, or “old times”. The title of the poem, ‘Auld Lang Syne’ in standard English means “old long since”. At last, the speaker tells his friend to take a “good-will draught” remembering the old memories. They spent time together in the past by running about the hills, picking the fine daisies, and paddling in the stream. For the bond of friendship and togetherness, it is tough for the speaker to forget the relationship he has with his companion. Thereafter, he says they can’t forget the past days. He asks whether the old days should be forgotten. ![]() They are drinking together while the speaker reminds the other about the old days. ![]() ![]() One is the speaker of the poem and another accompanies him while he sings the song. ‘Auld Lang Syne’ by Robert Burns cherishes the old acquaintances and the memories associated with them at the end of a year. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Falling kingdoms 1![]() ![]() And while hard-won peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest now simmers below the surface.Īs the rules of each kingdom grapple for power, the lives of their subjects are brutally transformed… and four key players, royals and rebels alike, find their fates forever intertwined. In the three kingdoms of Mytica, magic has long been forgotten. ![]() Heir: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, firstborn son Magnus begins to realise that the heart can be more lethal than the sword. Sorceress: Lucia, adopted at birth into a royal family, discovers the truth about her past – and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield. To his shock, he finds himself the leader of a people’s revolution centuries in the making. Rebel: Jonas, enraged at injustice, lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country cruelly impoverished. Princess: Raised in pampered luxury, Cleo must now embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of magic long thought extinct. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Keeper of the lost cities exile![]() ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give. ![]() By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+).BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments A Shot in the Bark by C.A. Newsome![]() ![]() ![]() San Martin is working on ways to sustainably grow these Chilean soapbark trees. “I am working as fast as I can to develop this new method from small trees because I would not be happy to be part of this development of industry if suddenly I wipe out all the trees from Chile,” San Martin said. Previously, research involved cutting down approximately 30-year-old trees for their bark. With his team in Chile, San Martin said he recently discovered that the leaves of some 2- to 3-year-old trees, which grow back, have high concentrations of the compounds needed for vaccines. Recently, saponins received Food and Drug Administration approval to be used as adjuvants in vaccines, and they act as “an amplifier of whatever you inject,” San Martin said.Īdjuvants increase the impact of compounds in vaccines on the immune system, which means smaller amounts of a compound can still be effective, he added. San Martin said he is studying saponins found in these trees, which are compounds that act as a natural foaming agent when put in water, for use in a COVID-19 vaccine. ![]() Ricardo San Martin, the Sutardja Center’s Alt: Meat Lab Director and Industry Fellow, is working on cultivating Quillaja saponaria - the Chilean soapbark tree - so it can be used in an upcoming COVID-19 vaccine candidate. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments The Great Divide by Thomas Fleming![]() ![]() Washington preferred to avoid “entangling alliances,” and so he did not take sides in Britain’s long war with (first) revolutionary France and then Napoleonic France. Jefferson’s affection for the French nation and its bloody revolution was another issue that separated him from Washington. Accordingly, he was instrumental in leading the country to adopt the Constitution to replace the feckless Articles of Confederation. Under such circumstances, Washington recognized the need for a relatively powerful central government with the power to tax and a strong executive to lead it. However, in the early days of the republic, both Great Britain and France posed significant threats to American interests and even to the country’s very continued existence. Jefferson distrusted central power-he was pretty much content to live in an autonomous Virginia, and let the other states go their own ways. In Thomas Fleming’s retelling of the early days of the American republic, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson not only held widely disparate views of the proper role of the president, but they also grew to despise one another. ![]() |