![]() Regular kids who read it shouldn't be scared. ![]() What I Liked: The fact that Charlie and Jack are brothers. (Um, I don't know Jason Segel personally, but I'll let the publicist who gave us the audiobook know.) The guy who wrote it did a good job reading it too. Awesome.ĭid you the like the audiobook? Yeah. ~ Interview with my 9 almost 10 year old ~ĭescribe Nightmares in five words: Fun. And he’s going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird. Nightmares can ruin a good night’s sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world-that’s a line that should never be crossed.Īnd when your worst nightmares start to come true.well, that’s something only Charlie can face. What Charlie doesn’t know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. He had to move into her purple mansion, which is NOT a place you want to find yourself after dark.ģ.He can’t remember the last time sleeping wasn’t a nightmarish prospect. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch.Ģ. ![]() ![]() Jason Segel, multitalented actor, writer, and musician, teams up with New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Miller for the hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel Nightmares!, the first audiobook in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must face their fears to save their town. A New York Times Bestseller written and narrated by Jason Segel! ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Road to Love Canal Managing Industrial Waste before EPA by Craig E. To discover why disasters like Love Canal have occurred and whether they could have been averted with knowledge available to waste managers of the time, this book examines industrial waste disposal before the formation of the Environmental Protect. Skinner, Bruce Piasecki Hardcover, 231 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-2-2, ISBN: 2-4 "The toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and led to the passage of the Superfund legislation in 1980. The Road to Love Canal (1st Edition) Managing Industrial Waste before EPA by Craig E. ![]() To discover why disasters like Love Canal have occurred and whether they could have been averted with knowledge available to waste managers of the time, this book examines industrial waste disposal before the formation of the Environmental Protec. Skinner, Bruce Piasecki Paperback, 231 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-3-9, ISBN: 3-2 " The toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and led to the passage of the Superfund legislation in 1980. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to the conventional liberal view, emotions are said to have no place in the public sphere, while proceduralist institutions abstract away from citizens’ affective attachments, now cast as private preferences of individuals qua citizens. ![]() This attentiveness to affect is often cast as a break with earlier, Enlightenment-inspired liberal approaches towards politics, approaches that marginalized the emotions, dismissing the passions as potentially dangerous, or neglected them altogether. A host of scholars, coming from a number of distinct traditions, have variously drawn our attention to the importance of the emotions to the tradition of the history of political thought, as well as to normative political theory. ![]() ![]() In recent years, political theorists have come to recognize the central role of affect in social and political life. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has sold over half a million copies and has been translated into 25 languages and is still in print.Ĭontemporary reviews raved about the story. Critics particularly questioned one chapter in the book where the walkers apparently see a pair of yetis.īut The Long Walk was a sensation. The only question is: is it true? From the start, a ferocious controversy has raged about whether anyone really could achieve this superhuman feat. They walked thousands of miles south from Siberia, through Mongolia, Tibet, across the Himalayas, to the safety of British India. In The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz described how, during the Second World War, he and a group of prisoners broke out of a gulag in the Soviet Union in 1941. In 1956, a Polish man living in the English midlands published an extraordinary book that became one of the classic tales of escape and endurance. Did wartime prisoners really walk from Siberia to India? An epic story of human endurance is being challenged. ![]() ![]() Karen Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author " Seduced by a Highlander is sparkling, sexy and seductive! I couldn't put it down!" ![]() Publishers Weekly on The Wicked Ways of Alexander Kidd ![]() "Quinn's steamy and well constructed romance will appeal to fans and newcomers alike." Quinn twists and turns the tale, drawing readers in and holding them with her unforgettable characters' love story."― RT Book Reviews on The Scandalous Secret of Abigail MacGregor "4 1/2 stars! With its quick-moving plot, engaging characters and historic backdrop, the latest installment of The MacGregors: Highland Heirs is a page-turner. ![]() She delves into their deepest thoughts and makes readers truly care about their lives."― RT Book Reviews on The Taming of Malcolm Grant Quinn understands and motivates her characters carefully. "4 stars! Quinn and her Highlanders are a perfect match, and Malcolm Grant is the ideal Scotsman for a tale that's humorous, poignant and highly romantic. "What could be better than being wrapped up in a cozy plaid in front of a fire? Reading Paula Quinn's historical romance featuring wounded but hunky Highlander Cailean Grant, that's what."― Omnivoracious, The Amazon Book Review on A Highlander's Christmas Kiss ![]() ![]() The bad news: Jedao once massacred two armies, one of them his own, and if Cheris isn’t careful, she may be next. The good news: Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one capable of cracking the fortress’s defenses. Ninefox Gambit is about a disgraced captain, Kel Cheris, who allies with a brilliant undead tactician, Shuos Jedao, to defend one of her nation’s star fortresses. It looks rather fascinating: How would you introduce it to a potential reader? Is it part of a series? ![]() ![]() Solaris are publishing your new novel, Ninefox Gambit, in June. Maybe I had better set her up with some computer games or a book and get her away from me… She also wants to let you know that I write genocidal science fiction. Her term, not mine. My twelve-year-old daughter would like you to know that I have a twelve-year-old daughter. ![]() I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with my family and a cat with the personality of an unusually submissive marshmallow. Let’s start with an introduction: Who is Yoon Ha Lee? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These two overlapping arrangements (2+2+2 and 3+3) both support the overall argument of the poem by stressing its clarity and orderly progression, and by giving discursive form to the interrelationship between its several parts. ![]() At the same time, on a slightly higher plane of abstraction, the poem can be understood as falling into halves, the first three books dealing with the basic principles of atomic theory and the latter three with the ethical implications of the theory. Broadly speaking, these stages concern the existence and behavior of atoms and void individually and in combination (books 1–2), the material nature of the soul (books 3–4), and the origin and development of human societies (books 5–6). This linear structure involves three distinct stages comprising two books each. In general, that argument proceeds in linear fashion from discussion of the simplest components of the universe to analysis of complex and unusual phenomena. For most critics, poetic structure is the servant of Lucretius’ philosophical argument. 1 For detailed analysis of these aspects of the poem’s structure see Farrell 2007, with further refer (.)ġThe structure of Lucretius’ De rerum natura is generally considered one of the poem’s better-understood aspects. ![]() ![]() ![]() I guess we see what the history books want us to remember! We knew about the testing in New Mexico but had no idea that there were people in Tennessee refining the uranium. This was a topic none of us knew much about before reading it. One member thought she needed an editor to cut out some of the passages that seemed repetitive (mud mud mud). I love when a non-fiction book reads like fiction and I think we found that in this novel. ![]() One member thought she needed an editor to cut out some of the passages that seemed repetitive (mud We used the LitLovers questions to guide our discussion.I love when a non-fiction book reads like fiction and I think we found that in this novel. We met the day before my birthday this year to talk about The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan. It feels like an extra present from the universe when it happens. My book club always seems to meet around my birthday. ![]() ![]() ![]() The country's difficulties are inextricably rooted in its founding revolution-the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers surrounding the island nation and the intense struggle within Haiti itself to define its newfound freedom and realize its promise.ĭubois vividly depicts the isolation and impoverishment that followed the 1804 uprising. But as acclaimed historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, Haiti's troubled present can only be understood by examining its complex past. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. ![]() A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic historyĮven before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 4 As Johnson points out, ‘Somewhat surprisingly, little systematic attention has been paid to the Historical Sketch in the literature, as far as I can tell.’ 5 Even the most careful biographies ‘say little about the genesis and various transformations of and motivations for the Sketch’. ![]() 3 Such an overview could not only greatly help scholars in their research of classic topics in the study of Darwin, but might also allow them to identify topics that have not yet received much systematic attention, such as the ‘Historical sketch’ that was added to the third English edition of The Origin (1861). 2 However, whereas there exist excellent online resources about Darwin's work, an encyclopaedic and systematic online overview of the huge literature that the Darwin industry has produced and still is producing on Darwin's life, background, work and influence is sorely lacking. Since the emergence of a Darwin industry, in the wake of the 1959 commemoration of the centennial of the publication of On the Origin of Species, analyses and reviews of this flourishing field of study have been published on a regular basis. ![]() |