![]() From that moment on, Ant just can't get the idea of finding enough things to 'make a million' out of his head, much to Bee's frustration! Ant and Bee teach children to read via word recognition and encourage story sharing with siblings and parents. Ant thinks they will need a million paintbrushes, but Bee says they only have 100. A brand new, previously unpublished Ant and Bee story by original creator Angela Banner! When Ant and Bee find some old wooden paintbrushes they decide to make some rafts and go sailing. These were the books that taught me how to read' Anthony Horowitz. ![]() From that moment on, Ant just can't get the idea of finding enough things to 'make a million' out of his head, much to Bee's frustration! Ant and Bee teach. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() ” -Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights Six Crimson Cranes is the perfect blend of whimsy and ferociousness, with twists and turns that will tug at your heartstrings. Weaving together elements of The Wild Swans, Cinderella, the legend of Chang E, and the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Elizabeth Lim has crafted a fantasy like no other, and one that will stay with readers long after they’ve turned the last page. And she must embrace the magic she’s been taught all her life to forswear–no matter what the cost. ![]() ![]() Only Shiori can set the kingdom to rights, but to do so she must place her trust in a paper bird, a mercurial dragon, and the very boy she fought so hard not to marry. Penniless, voiceless, and alone, Shiori searches for her brothers, and uncovers a dark conspiracy to seize the throne. She warns Shiori that she must speak of it to no one: for with every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die. But it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother.Ī sorceress in her own right, Raikama banishes the young princess, turning her brothers into cranes. ![]() At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. Shiori’anma, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() May finds a complex set of practices that varied widely and illustrate conflicts at the heart of master-slave relationship.įor slaves, Christmas afforded opportunities for a few days’ reprieve from labor travel passes to visit family members and delicacies such as beef, eggnog, and gingerbread. May reaches past stereotypes to examine the history and mythology of Christmas celebrations in the slaveholding South. In Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory, Robert E. After the Civil War, they became common in nostalgic remembrances of southern plantation life. Stories of this kind first appeared in the writings of proslavery authors, who used them to illustrate slaves’ supposed contentment and the apparently superior condition of their lives as compared to wage laborers in the North. ![]() Tales of slaves feasting, singing, and dancing at Christmas on southern plantations are well-known to historians of the American South. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And when the feedback is about an employee’s personal style, the task is even harder. “It always difficult to give someone serious performance or behavioral feedback in a way that doesn’t put that person on the defensive,” says Caroline Webb, author of How to Have a Good Day and CEO of the coaching firm Sevenshift. What should you say? How do you broach the topic? As the manager, you know it’s your job to address the issue, but you’re not sure how to start the conversation. No matter the specific behavior, your employee is clearly rubbing people the wrong way. Or being condescending, or even combative. Maybe the person is interrupting colleagues too often. If you’ve ever cringed in a meeting when your direct report was talking, you know how tough it can be to watch a team member undermine themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() The novel closely follows another book, La Q di Qomplotto (2021), in which a member of the Wu Ming collective developed an anticapitalist take on conspiratorial thinking, taking Qanon as his case study. In it, the kidnapping of former prime minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades is intertwined with the great wave of UFO sightings that occurred in Italy that year. ![]() The Italian writing collective Wu Ming recently published UFO 78, a novel whose principal plot is set between March and May 1978. Then, in February 2023, the concept of “Unidentified aerial phenomena” became central to the dispute between the US and China over alleged spy-balloons. During the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 there was an exponential increase in UFO sightings throughout the West. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he’ll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close…Ī modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that’s as sinful as it is sweet. But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he’s spent years craving, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her-for a price. Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed. With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth. ![]() ![]() But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade. Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. When Demeter forces Persephone's betrothal to Zeus, Persephone escapes from the upper city of Olympus and crosses the River Styx to the lower city, where Hades rules. Olympus is a modern city that is ruled by the Thirteen and Zeus is the most powerful member of the Thirteen. But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell. Neon Gods is a contemporary romance retelling of Hades and Persephone. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was a time not too long ago when a book like Infinite Jest would have been tastefully marketed as serious literary fiction or perhaps an eccentric cult book, and The Deep End of the Ocean as a minor women’s suspense novel. ![]() ![]() Infinite Jest was published in 1996, the same year as Jacquelyn Mitchard’s The Deep End of the Ocean, the novel that became the inaugural selection of Oprah Winfrey’s outrageously successful talk-show book club. What are we to make of the curious literary career of David Foster Wallace? The success of his 1,079-page doorstop of a novel, Infinite Jest, has been variously ascribed to the marketing muscle of its publisher (Little, Brown and Company) and a rapacious mainstream media waking up to the realization that literature has acquired the same blockbuster potential as Hollywood movies and the O.J. Handmade in Japan.Ī limited production noren for the serious noren enthusiast ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dante Di Loreto, president of FremantleMedia North America ĭark One is a dramatic adventure about a young man who sees visions of a fantastical world with "interesting creatures, sporadic electrical currents, and a darkening landscape". A second graphic novel as well as a prose novel are in active development by Brandon and Dan "lots of fun things" are planned for the project. Dark One: Forgotten, an audio original collaboration with Dan Wells, was released in 2023. ![]() The first book of the graphic novels was published in 2020. Due to Brandon's other priorities, the project was stuck in development for several years until it was reimagined as a series of graphic novels to be published by Vault Comics, a television series by FremantleMedia North America and Random House Studio, supplementary novels, and a podcast. Though the protagonist, Paul Tanasin, is from Earth, there are prophecies of him in Mirandus - prophecies claiming that he will be their destroyer, the Dark One.īrandon first wrote the outline for Dark One before being selected to finish the Wheel of Time series, circa 2007 or earlier. The story takes places both on Earth and in an alternate world called Mirandus, with the two worlds influencing each other, even though only some in each are aware of the other. Dark One is a multimedia storytelling enterprise based on an outline written by Brandon Sanderson. ![]() ![]() His name derives from the Greek word for form (μορφή), and his function was apparently to appear in dreams in human guise. Ovid makes Morpheus one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep). In Ovid's account Juno (via the messenger goddess Iris) send Morpheus to appear to Alcyone in a dream, as her husband Ceyx, to tell her of his death. The only mention of Morpheus occurs in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where Ovid tells of the story of Ceyx and his wife Alcyone who were transformed into birds. From the Middle Ages, the name began to stand more generally for the god of dreams, or of sleep. In Ovid's Metamorphoses he is the son of Somnus and appears in dreams in human form. Morpheus ('Fashioner', derived from the Ancient Greek: μορφή meaning 'form, shape') is a god associated with sleep and dreams. ![]() Morpheus, painted by Jean-Bernard Restout ![]() |