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Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Marc Humbard about his former employment with SunRay Farm.ĭr. The narrator includes excerpts of testimony from the inquiry. ![]() A year ago, the United States Senate Committee on Energy and the Environment held secret hearings about SunRay Farm and Biolene. Giant storage tanks are connected to an underground laboratory that makes Biolene. Unlike a typical farm, it is secured by armed guards, barbed electric fences, alarms, and cameras. Thirty-three miles northwest of the school is SunRay Farm. Meanwhile, Marshall sits across the lunchroom, eating silently and alone between two loud groups. The comment prompts her friends to tease her for being a “goody two-shoes.” Tamaya wonders when the rules changed and it became bad to be good. She reminds the boy that they aren’t really allowed to enter the woods. One shows a rip in his pant leg-supposedly proof of a wolf’s bite-but Tamaya still doesn’t believe him. The boys speak of wolves in the woods and Tamaya doesn’t know if they are making it up to impress the girls. ![]() Tamaya walks to school every morning with Marshall Walsh, a seventh-grade boy who lives on the same block. Miles of woods and rocky hills surround Woodridge Academy. Once an opulent private home, the brown and black stone building has been converted to host three hundred elementary school students. The novel’s protagonist, Tamaya Dhilwaddi, is in the fifth grade at Woodridge Academy, a private school in Health Cliff, Pennsylvania. ![]() Narrated in the third person by an omniscient narrator, Fuzzy Mudopens on Tuesday, November 2 at 11:55 a.m. ![]()
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Enchantress of numbers5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() She also theorized a method for the engine to repeat a series of instructions, a process known as looping that computer programs use today. ![]() Ada got a chance to look at the machine before it was finished and was captivated by it.Īda described how codes could be created for the device to handle letters and symbols along with numbers. Known as the father of the computer, he invented the difference engine, which was meant to perform mathematical calculations. ![]() Through Babbage, Ada began studying advanced mathematics with University of London professor Augustus de Morgan.Īda was fascinated by Babbage's ideas. The pair became friends, and the much older Babbage served as a mentor to Ada. Such challenging subjects were not standard fare for women at the time, but her mother believed that engaging in rigorous studies would prevent Lovelace from developing her father's moody and unpredictable temperament.Īround the age of 17, Ada met Charles Babbage, a mathematician and inventor. At her mother's insistence, tutors taught her mathematics and science. He died in Greece when Ada was 8 years old.Īda had an unusual upbringing for an aristocratic girl in the mid-1800s. ![]() A few months later, Lord Byron left England, and Ada never saw her father again. Lady Byron separated from her husband only weeks after their daughter was born. Lord Byron's marriage to Ada's mother, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, was not a happy one. Ada Lovelace, born as Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron. ![]()
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Wake by rebecca hall5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I have mixed feelings about Hugo Martínez’s illustrations. In short, she shares and imagines the unimaginable. ![]() She imagines what life was like as an enslaved woman and what would finally drive them to revolt. She shares notes from captain’s logs about deaths, revolts, and the brutal way they treated their captives. Slave ships that contained more women than men were more likely to have insurrections. She faced discrimination over and over.īut the history she pieces together is powerful. Even public records were hard for her to access when they were stored in courthouses, behind security screening. They refused to give her access when they learned what her research topic was. Some records that she wanted to investigate are held by private companies (Lloyd’s of London used to insure slave ships against insurrection). ![]() That’s fair enough, especially since she’s very clear about what she found in the historical record and what she imagined. So she decided to make “measured use of historical imagination” and fill in the gaps. Even when she found records of revolts led by women, they rarely contained more than a first name. I honestly expected to find more hard facts in the book than I did. In this graphic memoir, she shares her struggle to find records and the history she was able to piece together. She knew they happened but the historical record is incomplete and difficult to navigate. Rebecca Hall decided to write her thesis on women-led slave revolts. ![]()
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Miller a view from the bridge5/28/2023 ![]() Catherine begins to be fascinated by Rodolpho, who says that he wants to stay in the United States and become a rich American. They can find no jobs in their hometown in Italy, and have come to America to work and send money back to their families. They thank Eddie for allowing them to stay at his home, and are excited at the prospect of work. Beatrice’s cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, arrive at the apartment. He says that she will eventually move out and see him less and less often, and jokes that he “never figured on” Catherine growing up. Beatrice chides him, and he relents and lets her accept the job. (They are sneaking into the country as illegal immigrants and will stay at Eddie’s apartment.) At dinner, Catherine tells Eddie that she has gotten a job as a typist, but Eddie is reluctant to let her go to the job. He tells his wife Beatrice that her cousins from Italy have arrived. Eddie is returning home from work, and sees his niece Catherine, whom he looks after like a daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alfieri says that the people of the neighborhood are “quite American,” and that “justice is very important here.” Alfieri points out Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman who works on the docks. A middle-aged lawyer named Alfieri introduces the audience to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook in the 1950s, populated mostly by Italian-American immigrants. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Attorney Lilly Atkins has survived the long, hot summer in Oklahoma after running home from a cheating fianc? and discovering a former flame had become a career criminal. ![]() I get it from my mama." Unfinished business. "You know you're a little crazy, right Lil?" "I know. That infamous ne'er-do-well, Cash Stetson, is on the tail end of a stint in rehab and with a near-death experience skirted, life-altering epiphany under her belt, and cowgirl boots in place, Lilly is ready to kick butt. ![]()
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Bittersweet Deceit by Blakely Bennett5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Stay shot pictures of it from different angles, a few with my smiling face in them. A black and yellow tiger butterfly lit on my arm and we watched it flap its wings. Two paths diverged in either direction and we went to the right. I’ve been inspired to pick up again.” He winked at me. “I didn’t know you were into photography.” The same feeling I had at the concert re-emerged. ![]() “I feel like a little kid on a new adventure,” I said. He moved the camera from between us and hugged me back. Classical music mixed with the sound of cascading waterfalls and streams provided the backdrop. Trees filled the space and a vast variety of butterflies flew about. When we accessed the next section, I gasped, “Wow!” The butterfly wonderland lay out before me. Stay shot pictures of me as I perused all the information. ![]() I found it fascinating that butterflies had such a short life-mere days. ![]()
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Slippery creatures kj charles5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() But, because English is not my native sometimes he spoke too fast for me especially when doing the voices of Will and Phoebe, and it was kind of annoying to have to adjust the speed of reproduction all the time. ![]() The mystery part is solved by the end of the book, but the romance was left in a cliffhanger.Ĭornell Collins is a new to me narrator and I really enjoyed all his voices and accents. Charles' writing is excellent, the characters likable even while I was actively wanting to strangle them (Kim for being a bastard, Will for his pigheadedness - but if they weren't that way where would be the fun?), the setting was a period in history I don't think I ever read about in romance (shortly after WWI ended) so it was new and fun, and the plot was a very engaging mystery/thriller. ![]() This was a book I didn't know I was in the mood for right now. This time around I had less trouble with Cornell Collins' voice too.Īfter reading a few reviews, I waited for the final book to come out before starting this series - and I'm glad I did. ![]() Charles' writing is superb as always and the fact I already read the book once did nothing to lessen my enjoyment of it - I think I even enjoyed it more because the characters were already familiar. ![]()
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Let it be me by becky wade5/27/2023 ![]() The more powerfully they're drawn to each other, the more strongly Sebastian must resist, and the more Leah must admit that some things in life-like love-can't be explained with numbers. Becky Wade Let It Be Me (Misty River Romance, A Book 2) Kindle Edition by Becky Wade (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 443 ratings Book 2 of 3: Misty River Romance, A See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Together, they comb through hospital records to uncover the secrets of her history. When Leah receives surprising results from the DNA test she submitted to a genealogy site, she solicits Sebastian's help. which is far less dependable than algebra. Now that her brother will soon be college bound, she's not going to let anything stand in her way. Raising her little brother put that dream on hold. Leah's a math prodigy who's only ever had one big dream-to earn her PhD. He falls hard, only to make a devastating discovery-Leah is the woman his best friend set his heart on months before. Becky Wade Baker Books, Fiction - 416 pages 4 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified His promise will cost him far. Then he meets high school teacher Leah Montgomery and his fast-spinning world comes to a sudden stop. ![]() But not even his career success can erase the void he's tried so hard to fill. Former foster kid Sebastian Grant has leveraged his intelligence and hard work to become a pediatric heart surgeon. The one woman he wants is the one he cannot have. The plot of Let It Be Me revolves around Leah's discovery that she was switched at birth. ![]()
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J elle ashes of gold5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() When a betrayal sends her into a tailspin, Rue must decide who to trust and how to be the leader that her people deserve, because if she doesn’t, it isn’t just Yiyo that will be destroyed-it will be Rue herself. Yet even on Yiyo Peak, Rue is a misfit with half a foot back in Houston and a heart that is half human, half god, she’s not sure she’s the right person to lead the fight to reclaim a glorious past. Rue vows that when she reunites with them, she will find a way to return the magic that the Chancellor has stolen from her father’s people. Girls from East Row break themselves out.īut getting free and finding her friends is only half the battle. Girls from East Row pick themselves back up when they fall. Rue has no memory of how she ended up locked in a basement prison without her magic or her allies. In the “thrilling…masterful” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicole Yoon calls “bold, inventive, big-hearted, and deeply perceptive,” Rue makes her final stand to reclaim her people’s stolen magic. ![]()
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Cloudstreet author5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1944 to 1964, the shared experiences of the two overpopulated clans - running the gamut from drunkenness, adultery, and death to resurrection, marriage, and birth - bond them to each other and to the bustling, haunted house in ways no one could have anticipated. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Wintons sprawling, comic epic about. The Lambs have suffered their own catastrophes, and determined to survive, they open up a grocery on the ground floor. Struggling to rebuild their lives after being touched by disaster, the Pickle family, who've inherited a big house called Cloudstreet in a suburb of Perth, take in the God-fearing Lambs as tenants. An award-winning work, Cloudstreet exemplifies the brilliant ability of fiction to captivate and inspire. Summary : Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart's capacity for sorrow, joy, and endless gradations in between.This copy has been taken to a new level with beautiful colour onlay bound by the Chelsea Bindery ![]() Comments : Nationally loved novel, First edition was only available as paperback.It was filmed in 2010 in Perth with Matthew Saville as the director. Binding : Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery It is an adaptation of Cloudstreet, an award-winning novel by Australian author Tim Winton. ![]() |