![]() The text is very brief, this is a picture book, after all, but the important information about the why and what is included. Some very delightful examples, including bower birds, trapdoor spiders, and meerkats. ![]() They do so to raise their young, to attract mates, and to take shelter. This is a very impressive, informative, colorful picture book about the different types of homes that birds, insects, arachnids, and mammals build for themselves. ![]() ![]() From big beaver dams to tiny caddisfly cases, this beautifully illustrated picture book explores each animal’s incredible home and uncovers the reasons why they build.įeaturing 26 creatures from around the world, each amazing animal architect tells its own "micro story" about its impressive architectural skills in this delightfully unique wildlife book.Īmong the amazing builders you’ll meet:Ovenbirds, who carry clumps of mud up into the trees to make their nestDarwin’s bark spiders, who build webs stretching out as far as three buses, end-to-endMoles, who use their spade-like paws to dig extensive networks of tunnels with nesting spaces and storerooms where they keep earthworms to snack on laterPolar bear mothers, who make their dens under the snow to stay in for five long months, nursing their cubs and eating nothing themselvesThrough lyrical text and entrancing edge-to-edge illustrations, admire the spectacular ingenuity of these animal architects. It’s not only humans who can build incredible structures: around the world, mammals, birds, and insects can be found building incredible things. ![]()
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![]() “Her tortured soul called to his dark one, whispering for him to save her.” He also challenged her and pushed her out her comfort zone but never overstepped her boundaries. I loved it how he showed Chloe just what kind of man he truly is. Lucca is definitely a specific character. This story follows Lucca and Chloe and the way how they fell in love. ![]() The world as she knows it will come crashing down.Īs you can probably guess by my other reviews of this book series, Lucca is definitely my favorite character and I couldn’t wait for him to tell us his story. The only way to save her from her past is to delve into his. Her soul might have been better off claimed by the devil. He has waited long enough to claim her soul, but he must take it from the devil first. ![]() ![]() Lucca was made the underboss, being what nightmares are made of.Ĭhloe was scarred by her past, learning too young that nightmares are real. Genre: Mafia romance, contemporary romance ![]() ![]() ![]() An instant classic, Perfect confirms Rachel Joyce as a major new British literary voice." ( Daily Express) Not least a twist that few will see coming and will leave you reeling and a redemptive ending that is perhaps the sweeter given all the pain that goes before. This is a darker, more complex novel than Joyce's first but readers will find other points of comparison. "Joyce's faith in the essential goodness of humanity and her observation of the comedy in the everyday shine through. readers who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will not be disappointed." ( Sunday Times) subtle touches give the book an intense, slightly mesmeric feel. ![]() "The power of Joyce's prose lies in small, astute observations. It is her clever did-I-read-that-right twist at the end that really got to me and had me scrabbling back through the chapters, open-mouthed." ( Evening Standard) Its unputdownable factor lies in its exploration of so many multilayered emotions. Joyce executes this story with precision and flair. " A near-flawless novel of emotional truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. And still haven’t told their best friends. Except, now-for reasons they’re still not discussing-they don’t. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins. Materials originally published alongside Herland in 1915, many of which have never before been republished, are also included, as is an excerpt from the sequel, With Her in Ourland. Download the free PDF, epub, or Kindle ebook of Herland. ![]() Stories, poetry, and nonfiction writing by Gilman on topics such as birth control, capital punishment, and eugenics provide a rich context for the novel. This edition reproduces the text originally published in The Forerunner in 1915, including several passages omitted from other editions. As the explorers study Herland culture, they also rethink their own. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a satirical utopian novel about a world in which women wield absolute power, demonstrating their own personal and cultural identities without fear of reprieve. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via asexual reproduction. Initially skeptical, the explorers come to realize that Herland has evolved into an ideal, cooperative, matriarchal society-fertile, peaceful, and clean-by selectively reproducing the women's best attributes. Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's provocative utopian novel Herland, first published in 1915, tells its story through the observations of three male explorers who discover a land inhabited solely by women the women reproduce through parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). ![]() ![]() "These Men are like thoughtless young ones-stupid and easily amused. ![]() ![]() And the monkeys were very shocked and said to one another, Then Chee-Chee explained to them that menageries were places in the Land of the White Men, where animals were put in cages for people to come and look at. Give him some rare animal they have not got in the menageries."Īnd the monkeys asked him, "What are MENAGERIES?" But that all changes when an crocodile moves in and his parrot, Polynesia, takes it upon herself to teach the Good Doctor how to speak to animals. He lives a boring life in the sleepy little town, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. "If you want to please him," he said, "give him an animal. Here is the first adventure of everyone’s favorite doctor, Doctor Doolittle. And one said, "Fifty bags of cocoanuts!" And another-"A hundred bunches of bananas!- At least he shall not have to buy his fruit in the Land Where You Pay to Eat!"īut Chee-Chee told them that all these things would be too heavy to carry so far and would go bad before half was eaten. ![]() Now they began to wonder and ask one another what would be the best thing to give him. Let us give him the finest present a White Man ever had!" And then they all cried out, making a great noise, "Yes, yes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I went on a Ps圜op binge, but sadly, after plowing through the nine currently available Audible books, I have a serious case of book hangover. "Tumultuous" mainly because Vic has serous trust issues, as well as a self-medication habit he developed to help him tune out the chattering dead, and "repeaters", those spirits fated to relive their final moments, over and over.įast-forward a few years, and though I still don't have time to read, an awful commute leaves me with a lot of time for audiobooks. He meets "stiff" Jacob at a retirement party, the beginning of a hot, but tumultuous relationship. His talent? He communicates with the dead, as in, he can see them, sometimes initially mistake them for the living, and provides valuable testimony from the victims themselves as a homicide detective. Talents range from a human lie detector to a woman who can accurately answer yes/no questions and empaths strong enough to both read other's emotions and change them. Psychics are ranked on a scale, with 2 and higher certified for their talents, the highest known example being an 8. What a concept! The world has discovered that psychic talents are real, and law enforcement has found a way to utilize those skills by teaming up a psychic and a "stiff", someone with no psychic talent. I grew so busy that I only was able to read two of them, but I loved the stories and the characters. ![]() ![]() Several years ago I began reading the Ps圜op series by Jordan Castillo Price. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He grows a handlebar mustache, ditches his signature gray suit, and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hat costume of a true “Unitedstatesian”. Less roves across the “Mild Mild West,” through the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace, with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duo – a human-like black pug, Dolly, and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US. “Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”įor Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. In the follow-up to the “bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful” ( New York Times) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America. ![]() ![]() The massive herbivore snorts, making some unseen mammal chitter and scramble in alarm somewhere in the shaded depths of the woods. ![]() The dinosaur is a massive quadruped, seemingly a big, tough-skinned platform meant to support a massive head decorated with a shield-like frill jutting from the back of the skull, a long horn over each eye, a short nose horn, and a parrot-like beak great for snipping vegetation that is ground to messy pulp by the plant-eater’s cheek teeth. But a familiar face soon reminds you that this is a different time.Ī Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest, three-foot-long brow horns slightly swaying to and fro as the pudgy dinosaur shuffles its scaly, ten-ton bulk over the damp earth. Magnolias and dogwoods shoulder their way into stands of conifers, ferns, and other low-lying plants gently waving in the light breeze drifting over the open ground you now stand upon. If you didn’t know any better, you might think you were wading on the edge of a Gulf Coast swamp on a midsummer day. The ground is a bit mushy, a fetid muck saturated from recent rains that caused a nearby floodplain stream to overrun its banks. It’s a day like most any other, a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana about 66 million years ago. ![]() Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. ![]() ![]() But the mission doesn’t go as planned, and Meira soon finds herself thrust into a world of evil magic and dangerous politics – and ultimately comes to realize that her destiny is not, never has been, her own. Finally, she’s scaling towers,fighting enemy soilders and serving her kingdom just as she’s always dreamed she would. So when scouts discover the location of the ancient locket that can restore Winter’s protection, Meira decides to go after it herself. Orphaned as an infant during Winter’s defeat, Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee, raised by the winterian general,Sir, and training to be a warrior-and desperately in love with her best friend, and future king - she would do anything to help her kingdom rise to power again. Snow Like Ashes Snow Like Ashes (Book 1) Court of Fives Court of Fives (Book 1) Frostblood Frostblood Saga (Book 1) Gates of Thread and Stone Gates of. Now, the Winterians’ only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter’s magic protection and rebuilt the kingdom ever since. Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without protection or a monarch. ![]() ![]() Snow Like Ashes is a YA fantasy book by Sara Raasch, ![]() |