![]() ![]() electricity, gasoline, automobiles, artificial textiles, organic chemistry). It is characterized by an international economic recovery following the Long Depression (1873-1896) and by the beginning of strong economic growth during the Belle Époque (1896-1914), driven by the innovations of the Second Industrial Revolution (i.e. The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. pays $20 billion to annex the Philippines from Spain in the Treaty of Paris activism spearheaded by Kate Sheppard leads to New Zealand being the first country to give women the right to vote Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch master of modern art, dies, likely by suicide Menelik II leads Ethiopia to a sweeping victory over Italy at the Battle of Adwa, First Italo-Ethiopian War. Ferguson establishes the American doctrine of racial segregation, leading to the Jim Crow laws nearly three hundred ethnic Lakota people are massacred by the United States Army at Wounded Knee the U.S. ![]() ![]() From top to bottom, left to right: Alfred Dreyfus in captivity at the height of the Dreyfus Affair Boer commandos during the Second Boer War Plessy v. ![]()
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6/23/2023 0 Comments Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar![]() Its presence in folklore and superstition has long been seen as something with immense power and presence. The Evil Eye has a mysterious and fascinating history, and its power and influence have been depicted in many cultures. This Evil Eye did not make it into the rankings of the New York Times Bestsellers list. The novel is a mix of fantasy, romance, and horror, and has been praised for its richly detailed setting and characters. As Nalini is drawn deeper into this world, she must confront her own demons and make choices that will determine her destiny. ![]() ![]() Once there, she discovers a secret world of dark magic and the power of the Evil Eye, a force that has been used for centuries to ward off evil spirits and bad luck. It tells the story of a young Indian American woman, Nalini, who is sent to India to escape a dark past. ![]() The Evil Eye is a novel by Madhuri Shekar, first published in 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is propelled by action and dialogue and some surprising twists in events. Short sentences are scattered sparingly amongst black and white cartoon style illustrations which serve well to describe the characters and support the story.īut it is also high interest due to the original, fast paced plot and its witty humour. ![]() This is a low reading level book because the story is quick and easy to read. This is an excellent hi-lo (high interest, low reading level) book which is fun for anyone aged 7+, whilst being especially well suited for beginner young readers or struggling older readers. In episode two of The Bad Guys he displays a talent also for writing a humorous and action-packed graphic novels. Aaron Blabey, Mission Unpluckable (The Bad Guys #2), Scholastic Australia,, 144pp., $12.99 (pbk), ISBN: 9781760154127Īaron Blabey is best known for his award winning picture books which amuse and engage both young children and adults. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Born of fire by sherrilyn kenyon![]() A connected sequence, the Chronicles of Nick series beginning with Infinity ( 2010), Equipoisally introduces characters and plot elements from the future of the planet. ![]() Some further volumes in the series suggest hints of explanations of the SF Megatext, but normally fall short of sustaining arguments. ![]() (1965- ) US author of romance fiction, who has also written as by Kinley MacGregor and Sherrilyn McQueen much of her work can be categorized as paranormal romance, including the extensive Dark-Hunter sequence beginning with Fantasy Lover ( 2002), about a Spartan hero, son of Aphrodite, who is imprisoned in a bottle till he is allowed out in 2003 to service a Sex therapist. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Jd and the great barber battle![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Henry Jr., the owner of the only official local barbershop, realizes he’s losing clients to J.D., he tries to shut him down for good. His work makes him the talk of the town and brings him enough hair business to open a barbershop from his bedroom. When the steady stream of insults from the entire student body of Douglass Elementary becomes too much for J.D., he takes matters into his own hands and discovers that, unlike his mom, he’s a genius with the clippers. has a big problem–it’s the night before the start of third grade and his mom has just given him his first and worst home haircut. This is his first book series for children.”Īnd just to catch you up to speed, here’s the plot of the book: ![]() He travels the country with his clients as a personal barber and calls Atlanta home. After many trials and tribulations, he began cutting hair professionally in 1999 and became a shop owner while attending college at Tuskegee University in Alabama. He is a master barber, a certified consultant, and an industry leader who started cutting his own hair at the age of ten. Dillard (known as the “Barberpreneur”) is a former managing partner for ConAllegiance, a consulting firm based out of Atlanta, Georgia. Funny and fast, I take a deep dive into it with Mr. For the first time, I’m gonna say ever, we’re seeing a publishing uptick in fun middle grade books starring Black boys. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments The Small Hand by Susan Hill![]() In 1975 she married Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells and they moved to Stratford upon Avon. This was followed in quick succession by A Change for the Better, I'm the King of the Castle, The Albatross and other stories, Strange Meeting, The Bird of Night, A Bit of Singing and Dancing and In the Springtime of Year, all written and published between 19. Her next novel Gentleman and Ladies was published in 1968. The novel was criticised by The Daily Mail for its sexual content, with the suggestion that writing in this style was unsuitable for a "schoolgirl". By this time she had already written her first novel, The Enclosure which was published by Hutchinson in her first year at university. At Barrs Hill she took A levels in English, French, History and Latin, proceeding to an English degree at King's College London. Her fellow pupils included Jennifer Page, the first Chief Executive of the Millennium Dome. Hill states that she attended a girls’ grammar school, Barr's Hill. Her family left Scarborough in 1958 and moved to Coventry where her father worked in car and aircraft factories. She attended Scarborough Convent School, where she became interested in theatre and literature. Her hometown was later referred to in her novel A Change for the Better (1969) and some short stories especially "Cockles and Mussels". ![]() Susan Hill was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1942. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Reality Boy by A.S. 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6/21/2023 0 Comments A Beautiful Mess by T.K. Leigh![]() It's a race against the clock for Alexander to put the pieces together and find out who has taken his daughter and what they want from him. Until he walks into her bedroom one morning to find it empty. And the most beautiful daughter a father could ask for. The perfect woman who he's loved his entire life. A job he enjoys where he can actually make a difference in the world. ![]() She wants him to lose the one person who means the world to him, too, and she won't stop until he does. When footage of his gruesome murder by a Muslim extremist group is shown across the country and around the globe, she wants the person responsible for the disappearance of the man she loves to pay. Until he never returns from a humanitarian mission. And a man she loves and is about to marry. ![]() A job she's dreamed of since a little girl. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Otherlands halliday review![]() Otherlands also offers us a vast perspective on the current state of the planet. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python chase a group of australopithecines into an acacia tree to a cliff overlooking the salt pans of the empty basin of what will be the Mediterranean Sea just as water from the Miocene Atlantic Ocean spills in into the tropical forests of Eocene Antarctica and under the shallow pools of Ediacaran Australia, where we glimpse the first microbial life. This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page. The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Prospect (UK) “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”-Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky. ![]() LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ![]() ![]() ![]() rewinds the story of life on Earth-from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”- The Economist ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens![]() ![]() Bear, angered, demands the bottoms in the next crop-and gets them-the bottoms of lettuce, broccoli, and celery. At harvest time, the hares dig up the carrots, radishes, and beets that they have planted, and they give all the useless tops to Bear. ![]() When he has made his choice, the hares go about planting and watering and weeding. Bear has only to choose whether he will take tops or bottoms. Hare and his family have lost their land and now offer the bear a partnership, with all the work on their side. The victim here is the lazy bear who has land but no energy. One of the exceptional things about this book is that it positions itself so that the book opens from the bottom to the top, not from side to side. Here is a delightful presentation of the age-old story of outwitting a partner by offering-at the right time-tops or bottoms or both. ![]() |