![]() ![]() Woodiwiss book and it prompted her to take up the pen soon after. She took to the business of homemaking and might have given the rest of her life to her family if it wasn’t for ‘The Wolf and the Dove’. In fact, after she was married and living in Grimsby, Ontario, Virginia Henley spent a long while as a housewife. Writing was not always in the cards for Virginia. Virginia counts her History degree and her marriage to Arthur Henley in 1956 among her greatest achievements.Īrthur died in 2013, leaving behind two sons and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Virginia Henley was born in 1935 in Bolton England to a mother from whom she inherited her love for history. ![]() However, Virginia has said on numerous occasions that it was the romantic aspects that drew her to historical fiction and that is all she cares to write. Virginia’s novels are so detailed and thoroughly researched that some of her readers have wondered whether she will ever produce straightforward historical fiction. Virginia Henley is a bestselling English author that writes historical romance. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Sandra brown mean streak series![]() Here you will find 10 of the best novels written by Sandra Brown as per reader reviews. Her books will undoubtedly leave you breathless in many ways with her excellent storytelling and memorable characters. However, they are forced to unite under deadly situations and are attracted to each other towards the end. Most of her characters are opposite to each other. Brown started writing in 1981 her first love novel was published in the same year. ![]() Some of her stories have been made into television shows and movies, and she has also appeared in some TV series. Her books have received several awards and have sold over 80 million copies worldwide.īrown has featured on the New York Times Bestseller list more than 50 times. ![]() ![]() She has written more than 70 bestselling books, including drama, romance, crime, and action. Sandra Brown writes thrilling and chilling suspense novels available in 33 languages. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer? Tales of How Cunning Clien... by Portia Porter![]() Talk to the fellow-sufferers on Facebook (but do be careful not to give out too many personal details). Facebook is full of “supporting each other in divorce” groups. Your best friend may be a good choice-unless your spouse is sleeping with your best friend. Your mother is often a good choice, and always free. Most of them work cheaper or even free: therapists, clergy, primary care physicians. ![]() But let me ask you: are you ready to pay a divorce lawyer’s hourly rate for emotional support? Why not use lawyers for legal work and reach for emotional support elsewhere? Many people are much better suited to comfort you. Attorneys are ready and able to provide you with emotional alliance. Divorce lawyers are the professional adepts at proxying for the kind of emotional support often given by best friends. ![]() A good divorce lawyer will have no trouble agreeing that an errant husband’s adultery killed the marriage and that he is, consequently, tyrannical for holding against his wife her own tiny indiscretion, which was a mere meaningless one-time fling with a friend. Divorce lawyers are professionally adept at persuasively taking your side. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Frederick by Leo Lionni![]() ![]() ![]() interactive lesson plan for Frederick by Leo Lionni ![]() ![]() Simply print the sticky note template, cover with sticky notes, and reprint the interactive question sticky notes. The interactive questions are also formatted for sticky notes so that you can place them throughout the book for your read aloud. It has a story synopsis to read as you introduce the book, interactive questions to read before, during, and after the story, the theme of the story, vocabulary words, reading/writing/think aloud extensions to work on after the read aloud, and a craftivity. The interactive read aloud lesson plan is a one-page formatted lesson plan. Get all January interactive read alouds at a major discount! This interactive read aloud resource is included in the January Interactive Read Alouds Bundle. Please note that the book is not included in this resource. Get all current interactive read alouds H A L F off with the Interactive Read Aloud ENDLESS Bundle!įrederick Interactive Read Aloud and Activities is a lesson plan for an interactive read aloud and writing activities for Frederick by Leo Lionni. Students will love the read aloud and be able to apply their knowledge in the extension activities and writing prompts centered around the book's theme of the power of words. Engage your students in a rigorous interactive read aloud with the book Frederick by Leo Lionni. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Taliesin stephen r lawhead![]() ![]() The few survivors settle in western Britain, where Charis soon becomes attracted to the now handsome and angelic Taliesin. Amid ominous portents and dark murmurings, and a meaningless civil war, Charis becomes the greatest of all bull-dancers before an earthquake destroys Atlantis. The other strand features Charis, a willful and beautiful princess of Atlantis. He's adopted by his rescuer, prince Elphin, and schooled by the wise old druid Hafgan, at a time when the Roman occupation of Britain is faltering as barbarians from the North and East threaten to invade. ![]() One concerns the mysterious appearance-baby Taliesin is found sewn inside a sealskin sack in a weir-and childhood of Wales' greatest bard. The two narrative threads here eventually intertwine. Styled ""Book One in the Pendragon Cycle,"" apparently the first of a series retelling-yet again-the Arthurian sagas, to which Lawhead (the Dragon King trilogy Empyrion II: The Siege of Dome) has added a few curious embellishments of his own. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Saga graphic novel![]() Basically, I think if you’re getting a Saga trade paperback every so often from your local independent bookshop, you will absolutely love Wic + Div, too. Why It’s Cool: So, I wanted to start the list with Wic + Div, which I think is the ideal comic for someone who has maybe not read too many other comics other than Saga, or who maybe read comics as a kid but does so sporadically as an adult. ![]() But remember: just because you're immortal, doesn't mean you're going to live forever.īuy It Digitally: Wicked + Divine on comiXology Welcome to THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, where gods are the ultimate pop stars. The team behind critically thermonuclear floor-fillers Young Avengers and PHONOGRAM reunite to start a new ongoing superhero fantasy with a beautiful oversized issue. Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Borges and me by jay parini![]() ![]() ![]() It's also a magical tour of an era - like our own - in which uncertainties abound, and when - as ever - it's the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams. As Borges's world of labyrinths, mirrors and doubles shimmered into being, their escapades took a surreal turn.īorges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. When Borges heard that Parini owned a 1957 Morris Minor, he declared a long-held wish to visit the Scottish Highlands, where he hoped to meet a man in Inverness who was interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles.Īs they travelled, the charmingly garrulous Borges took Parini on a grand tour of western literature and ideas while promising to teach him about love and poetry. Parini was asked to look after him while his translator was unexpectedly called away. It’s also a magical mystery tour of an era, like our own, in which uncertainties abound, and whenas everit’s the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams. There, through unlikely circumstances, he met famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.īorges was blind, in his seventies and frail. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. He was in frantic flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. In this evocative work of what the author in his Afterword calls 'autofiction' or 'a kind of novelised memoir', Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland. ![]() An intimate and magical memoir about embarking on a road trip with Borges through Scotland and the famed writer's thoughts on literature, love and poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story takes on urgency as one tribe on their way home after the ritual is swallowed by the sea in a tsunami. ![]() One has to read the first few chapters carefully to understand the world set during the Bronze age. Not only that, the red-haired man, the mother named Tersh and the boy named Kareth were sent on a mission to communicate with the goddess of rebirth, goddess of death and goddess of life, respectively. This time they were warned of punishing floods from the oceans and three people were tapped as gods' messengers to warn other people in their civilization about the impending doom. It starts with a ritual by the Rhagepe, the priestesses from tribes who have the ability to communicate with the gods of their civilization and divine what's in store for them, whether famine, flood, war or good harvests. Guenevere Lee's Orope The White Snake is growing on me as I read it. ![]() ![]() Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research.Ī unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. ![]() ![]() Thus began a singular adventure into the experience of various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs-and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences ![]() ![]() ![]() It is not that the reader is afraid, but he is made to feel the fear of the characters, and it must be justified. Edmund Wilson, who wrote a couple of essays about these stories, did not really appreciate or understand them, and he recommended works like Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener,” psychologically interesting but quite without scariness, which is the essential attractive element in the best of ghost stories. When ghost stories (to give them a generic name, though ghosts may not be involved) are occasionally considered by critics they always begin by asking what the attractions are, and then they offer various silly answers. ![]() ![]() Before we’re done, however, I think we’ll find that there’s more of literary interest in the subject than is immediately obvious. My readers will recognize that once again, as when I wrote about Westerns and detective stories, I am writing about a subject beneath the notice of high-minded lovers of literary culture. I could wish for a different selection here and there, but no single anthology can please all tastes. The above title is a title within Modern Library Giant, edited by Herbert Wise and Phyllis Fraser, published in 1944, still in print, and which I, something of a connoisseur in such matters, can recommend as the best such anthology I know. Jigs Gardner writes on literature from the Adirondacks, where he may be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. Jigs Gardner is an associate editor of The St. Writers for Conservatives, 61: Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural ![]() |