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Evermore everless7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Jules must piece together the stories of her past lives to save the person who has captured her heart in this one. And Caro is intent on destroying Jules, who stole her heart twelve lifetimes ago. The whole kingdom believes that Jules is responsible for the murders, and a hefty bounty has been placed on her head. ![]() But she has just learned the truth: She is the Alchemist, and Caro - a woman who single-handedly murdered the Queen and Jules's first love, Roan, in cold blood - is the Sorceress. Jules Ember was raised hearing legends of the ancient magic of the wicked Alchemist and the good Sorceress. Description - Everless: Evermore: Book 2 by Sara Holland Jules confronts the girl who is both her oldest friend and greatest enemy in the highly anticipated sequel to the Top Ten Bestseller Everless. ![]()
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![]() ![]() and will expand to additional countries in the coming weeks,” said a blog post announcing the new app, which is described in the App Store as the “official app” by OpenAI. ![]() The company that makes it, OpenAI, said it will remain ad-free but “syncs your history across devices.” Unlike the desktop web version, the mobile version on Apple’s iOS operating system also enables users to speak to it using their voice. on Thursday and will later be coming to Android devices. ![]() The free app became available on iPhones and iPads in the U.S. ChatGPT is now a smartphone app, which could be good news for people who like to use the artificial intelligence chatbot and bad news for all the clone apps that have tried to profit off the technology. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners. Now in a new edition for the first time in a decade, All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants-both two- and four-legged. Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world. The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series The reader falls totally under his spell." ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. He describes the competition from railroads, and the new, large cities, and adds his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. Louis to New Orleans, shortly followed by a steamboat journey from New Orleans to St Paul (with a stop at his boyhood home town of Hannibal, MO). In the second half, Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Although Twain was actually 21 when he began his training, he uses artistic license to make himself seem somewhat younger, referring to himself as a "fledgling" and a "boy" who "ran away from home" to seek his fortune on the river, and playing up his own callowness and naïveté. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876, entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi". It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' (apprentice) of an experienced pilot, Horace E. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul many years after the war. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River from St. Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. ![]()
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Peter rabbit nutkin on the run7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Squirrel Nutkin The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends Īlthough his story never appeared in the anthology series, Nutkin did make a cameo appearance in The Tale of Mr. Nutkin and the other squirrels also appear in the finale of the ballet. FILM AND TELEVISION APADTIONS Tales of Beatrix Potter (ballet) Īn abridged version of The Tale of Squirrel Nutkinappears in Frederick Asthon's ballet, Tales of Beatrix Potter. The ballet starred the dancers of The Royal Ballet wearing large lifelike animal costumes and masks. After this he becomes furious when he is asked riddles. Nutkin escapes, but not without losing most of his tail. The owl seizes Nutkin and tries to skin him alive. Eventually, Nutkin annoys Old Brown once too often. ![]() Every day for six days, the squirrels offer gifts to Old Brown, and every day as well, Nutkin taunts the owl with another sing-song riddle. Old Brown pays no attention to Nutkin, but permits the squirrels to go about their work. ![]() Nutkin however dances about impertinently singing a silly riddle. ![]() They offer resident owl Old Brown a gift and ask his permission to do their nut-collecting on his island. Squirrel Nutkin, his brother Twinkleberry, and their many cousins sail to Owl Island on little rafts they have constructed of twigs. IN THE BOOKS BY BEATRIX POTTER The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 2.2 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends. ![]()
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Untamed ann maxwell7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() The uses of fur to announce not only the wearer's wealth and power but also that of a nation are revealed in an early eighteenth-century portrait of Louis XIV in an ermine robe. A vintage photograph of Sitting Bull wearing the Native American feathered war bonnet appears alongside a similar-looking headdress of 1987 by Bob Mackie. A Minoan Snake Goddess proves a suitable companion to John Galliano's reptilian-patterned leather gown from his 2002–2003 Dior collection. A prehistoric cave painting, for example, finds a striking corollary in an image showing a 1999–2000 Jean Paul Gaultier ensemble. Examples from the history of art portraying the fashions and symbolisms of their time are discussed in concert with creations by contemporary designers. In this volume's five chapters, deer, tigers, zebras, leopards, spiders, serpents, crocodiles, and the plumage of a variety of birds are referenced in examples that vividly convey how artists and designers have found inspiration from sources in prehistory, ancient mythology, and native cultures and have quoted the physical and sexual characteristics of the animal kingdom to evoke ideals of femininity. Skins, furs, feathers, and animals prints have played a major role in the history of fashion. ![]() ![]() Wild: Fashion Untamed examines the practical, spiritual, psychosexual, and socioeconomic underpinnings of fashion's fascination with animals and birds. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Wild as in the way nature is, meaning free and untampered with, meaning a place that functions in a holistic way that is entirely nonhuman. Recently though, I’ve come to grasp “wild” in the way I think Rich meant it, but since she is gone, it’s too late for me to ask her. I understood “wild” in the frenetic human way of a party, like many I’d attended, with too-loud music and many dancers kicking up their feet. Yes, that’s what it was going to take, I thought, if I were to do all I hoped to with this given life. The line “A wild patience has taken me this far,” from her poem “Integrity,” written when she was 49, resonated with me. Many years ago, when I was a young writer, I was introduced to the poet Adrienne Rich.Īs I was finding my way in life and literature, her poems were like lanterns in the dark. ![]()
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Holes book online for free7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment-and redemption. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But there are an awful lot of holes.It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. ![]() A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. from the New York Times bestselling author who has been recognized with the Newberry Award as well as the National Book Award!Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. ![]()
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Books by elizabeth gilbert7/3/2023 ![]() And it's not because I am a sort of zen creature who doesn't care about outcomes - it's because I do care that I try to stay away from the outcome. You've done this seven times - do you obsessively check your numbers to see how you're doing? ![]() A lot of authors (myself included) obsess over their sales and Amazon ranking. The process of writing a book is very stressful. I spoke to her about her best creative ideas, the mistakes she made in her 20s, and why she's not afraid to credit some of her success to pure luck. Though many read Eat, Pray, Loveas a panacea for any emotional hardship one needs inspiration to overcome, in Big Magic, Gilbert wades more officially into the self help genre, as she encourages readers to figure out how to live their most creative - and therefore, most fulfilling and happiest - lives. ![]() ![]() Gilbert went on to be played by Julia Roberts in the feature film. The book spent three years on the New York Times best seller list. Elizabeth Gilbert is the phenomenally successful author of Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir of the year she spent traveling following an emotionally gut-wrenching divorce. ![]()
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Futures and Frosting by Tara Sivec7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() They are related to several other large white European livestock guardian dogs (LGD), including the Italian Maremma Sheepdog, Kuvasz (Hungary), Akbash Dog (Turkey) and Polish Tatra or Polski Owczarek Podhalański, and somewhat less closely to the Newfoundland and St. Īs late as 1874 the breed was not completely standardized in appearance, with two major sub-types recorded, the Western and the Eastern. ![]() It was developed to be agile in order to guard sheep on steep, mountainous slopes. ![]() By the early nineteenth century there was a thriving market for the dogs in mountain towns, from where they would be taken to other parts of France. One of the first descriptions of the breed dates from 1407, and from 1675 the breed was a favorite of The Grand Dauphin and other members of the French aristocracy. The Great Pyrenees is a very old breed that has been used for hundreds of years by shepherds, including those of the Basque people, who inhabit parts of the region in and around the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France and northern Spain. It should not be confused with the Pyrenean Mastiff. The Pyrenean Mountain Dog, known as the Great Pyrenees in North America, is a large breed of dog used as a livestock guardian dog. ![]() |