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![]() ![]() Jacqueline will donate her paperback royalties to Acumen Fund and other organizations fighting for social change. More than just an autobiography or a how-to guide to addressing poverty, The Blue Sweate r is a call to action that challenges us to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink our engagement with the world. She shows how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of philanthropic investing called “patient capital” can help make people self-sufficient and can change millions of lives. ![]() From her first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa to the creation of the trailblazing organization she runs today, Novogratz tells gripping stories with unforgettable characters. Jacqueline Novogratz left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. ![]() “A book of hope written by a practical idealist who won’t take ‘no’ for an answer when it comes to building a better world.”-Former U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jim will no longer be a rebel (which was part of what made the book funny)and there is only so much chessiness (don't think that's a word but oh well) you can take. It just that I know that the other books won't have the same charm as this one. This book is the first of the series and I'm sorry to say that I know I won't be reading any of the others, even though I really did think this book was a real gem. When I finished I wanted to go right away and read the Book of Mormon and see how well the book followed the events that actually happened (well I am really going to do that after I finish this review). ![]() From how he thought all the heroes of the Book of Mormon would have acted to the general feel of the culture at the time. I thought the author did everything almost pitch perfect. Jim with his sense of adventure and Garth with all his knowledge of the Book of Mormon made this team priceless. I absolutely thought that the main characters, Jim and Garth, were the perfect match to go back to the time of the Nephites and Lamanites. A lot of the funny moments wouldn't make sense and it's always a shame not to get a good joke. Of course you can read it if your aren't but I doubt that it would be as entertaining. I should also mention that this is really a book for people who already are LDS members. It's geared towards middle school aged boys, but I can say (at least in my case) it didn't lessen my enjoyment of the book. Granted this book really isn't for everybody. This was the first word that came to my mind when I finished. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Doctors Natalie Lebbreau and Harry Smith are witnesses to this terrifying onset of plagues for which there are no longer cures. ![]() Suddenly people are dying in droves in a major US city, struck down by ailments that were supposedly wiped off the face of the Earth generations ago. But now something has gone terribly wrong. The failure of all previous population control methods has resulted in severe food shortages, rampant unemployment, and violent unrest, which in turn has given rise to the Project, a top secret experiment born in the shadowy corners of America's government. A secret government conspiracy to battle overpopulation in a disease-free dystopian future goes chaotically and terrifyingly awry in this classic science fiction cautionary thriller In a brave new world, the eradication of all disease has brought an unexpected consequence: extreme overpopulation across the globe. ![]() ![]() Fade is an outsider, a young man who was found in the tunnels some years ago. To protect themselves from punishment, they quickly turn the card into the Wordkeeper, as per the rules of the enclave.Ī short time later, Deuce is introduced to her new hunting partner, Fade. Inside they find a card with writing on it. ![]() ![]() They open a can that they found months ago and saved for this happy moment. Enclave is a fascinating look at a post-apocalyptic world with teenagers as the heroes and villains.ĭeuce celebrates her naming ceremony with her good friends, Stone and Thimble. Deuce leaves with Fade, her hunting partner and co-confessor, to discover that the world topside is nothing like the elders always claimed it would be. When her friend, Stone, is accused of a crime Deuce knows he did not commit, she takes responsibility for him and is cast out of the enclave. However, events unravel to make Deuce question the leadership of the elders in the enclave and the blind adherence to the rules of most of her fellow citizens. Deuce has always wanted to be a huntress for the enclave and is overjoyed when she achieves her desire. ![]() This novel tells the story of Deuce and Fade, two teens living in the College Enclave in what were once the underground subway tunnels beneath New York City. Enclave is the first novel in the Razorland Series by Ann Aguirre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Wildwood, Prue and her friend Curtis uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval-a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions. The story is told from multiple points of view, and the book features more than eighty illustrations, including six full-color plates, making this an absolutely gorgeous object. It feels at once firmly steeped in the classics of children's literature and completely fresh. Wildwood captivates readers with the wonder and thrill of a secret world within the landscape of a modern city. For fans of the Chronicles of Narnia comes the first book in the Wildwood Chronicles, the New York Times bestselling fantasy adventure series by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society. ![]() ![]() ![]() The heroine, Alexandra, was such a doormat. **SPOILERS** I've loved Brenda Joyce for years, but her recent books have left me very disappointed. But when passion finally brings them together, a terrible secret threatens to tear them apart?.Īlways been a fan, but this book was "impossible" to like. But Alexandra Bolton inflames him as no woman has ever done, and she also serves him his first rejection! Now Clarewood?who always gets what he wants?will choose which rules to play by. He is the wealthiest, most powerful peer in the realm, and having witnessed the cold horror of marriage as a child, he has vowed never to wed. Yet she cannot accept his shocking proposition! But when she meets the infamous Duke of Clarewood, old dreams?and old passions?are awakened as never before. Now, with the Bolton name in disgrace due to her father's profligate ways, marrying an elderly squire might be the only way to save her family from absolute ruin. ![]() With her mother's passing, Alexandra Bolton gave up on love to take care of her family. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was intrigued, when Nikki Turner contacted me about Tales of a Big Bad Wolf, a “twisted fairy tale” with a steam punk vibe. ![]() Going to the beach and theatre- yeah, how cool is that. ![]() For out -of -towners, the theatre is perched on the beach, situated at the Brass Bell Restaurant. Tales of a Big Bad Wolf, written and directed by Nikki Turner, is on in Cape Town at the Kalk Bay Theatre, in the school holidays, December 11-24, 2021. Who says that Cinderella must take flak from anyone? Chill. When and times: December 11-24, 2021 at 10.30amĭirect booking link: Info: E-mail is afraid of the big bad wolf? Perhaps he is a decent dude. Latest project: Tales of A Big Bad Wolf– children’s theatre at The Kalk Bay Theatre (on the premises of the Brass Bell) In the Limelight: Nikki Turner is thrilled to be back in the ambit of the stage – as writer and director -with Tales of a Big Bad Wolf– at The Kalk Bay Theatre – December 2021 Nikki Turner – Cape Town based actress, writer, director and drama teacher ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem’s inciting event is a quarrel between Agamemnon and his best warrior Achilles. ![]() The war was spurred when Paris of Troy fell in love with and abducted Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, who is the younger brother of the Achaean commander Agamemnon. The Achaeans and Trojans have been fighting the Trojan War for 10 years. ![]() Chapter divisions exist in the source text, but the chapter titles are Fagles’s invention. His is not a line-by-line translation but what he calls a “modern English Homer” (x). Fagles explains in his translator’s note that he sought a middle ground between the oral performance features that characterize Homer (e.g., repetition and formulae) and the modern English reader’s expectations for variety. The Academy of American Poets awarded Fagles the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for this work in 1991. This study guide refers to the 1990 Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition translated by Robert Fagles. ![]() ![]() He’s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother.īut then she meets Ocean James. So she’s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments-even the physical violence-she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. Published by HarperTeen on October 16, 2018 ![]() A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from HarperTeen in exchange for an honest review. Wednesday, OctoAdorable and Emotional: A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi Posted by Rashika ![]() |