![]() ![]() ![]() I didn't read the text to them, but showed some of the pictures and talked about them. ![]() This book also shows some of the things that frogs eat, as well as what eats them! Though I generally prefer photographs for non-fiction, the illustrations in this book are very realistic. It also shows a few of the brightly colored poison dart frogs, which I supplemented with a number of photograghs of poison dart frogs I had copied and printed onto a single piece of paper as I find them truly amazing (there are also a couple of books just on poison dart frogs, one by Julie Murray, and another by Carmen Bredeson). I really like this book a lot, as it covers many things about frogs, including how they differ from toads, pictures of many different North American frogs, including tree frogs, showing how they vary in size, coloring, and markings. First, students pretended they met a creature from outer space and answered some interview questions about their alien. As usual, we started with our welcome song, but then I did a longer introduction than usual, expanding it into a bit of a lesson about frogs using the wonderful non-fiction book All About Frogs by Jim Arnosky. Green Wilma- Frog in Space by Tedd Arnold (affiliate link) and Arthur’s First Sleepover We used the alien encounter from this book as a launching point for some expository writings on introducing an alien. ![]()
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![]() With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadowhunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.Īs Clary uncovers more about her family’s past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadowhunter Sebastian. ![]() To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters-never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. Plunge into the third installment in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” ( Entertainment Weekly). ![]() Love is a mortal sin, and the secrets of the past are deadly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was Sherlock Holmes' first reappearance since he was apparently killed off in 'The Final Problem', a short story in the collection, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Since then, this hound has been haunting the manor. Legend has it that during the time of the English Civil War, Hugo Baskerville abducted a young girl and caused her death on the moor, and was in return, killed by a huge demonic dog. Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead near his manor - his face frozen in an expression of horror and the footprints of a massive dog nearby. The novel is set on Dartmoor in the West Country of Devon and tells the story of a murder. Furthermore, Devon has folklore that includes a supernatural dog (the Yeth hound), which may also have inspired Doyle. It is one of the most famous books ever written and was inspired by the legend of Brook Hall (situated in a parish in Devon) and Squire Richard Cabell, a man who, it is rumoured, sold his soul to the devil. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, it is the fifth book of the Sherlock Holmes canon, and the third of the four full length novels (the rest being short story collections). The Hound of the Baskervilles is a novel by English author Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1902. The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan DoyleĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle (mobi and AZW3) ebook formats. Home Ebooks Articles Buy Collections Donate F.A.Q About Contact Search ☰ ![]() ![]() ![]() The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin. Tharp leads you through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves. In "Build a Bridge to the Next Day," she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight. ![]() In "Do a Verb," she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In "Coins and Chaos," she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. ![]() In "Where's Your Pencil?" Tharp reminds you to observe the world - and get it down on paper. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career. In 2019, her fourth book was published, KEEP IT MOVING: LESSONS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. She went on to write THE CREATIVE HABIT: Learn it and Use it for Life, followed by THE COLLABORATIVE HABIT: Life Lessons for Working Together. One of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents-at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist’s Way and Bird by Bird.Īll it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. ![]() ![]() This is something, as his debate established, wildly popular in India. An indignant Tharoor even demands a token restitution and public apology from the British for all the harm they had caused India. In short, British rule was, according to Tharoor, an era of darkness for India, throughout which it suffered several manmade famines, wars, racism, maladministration, deportation of its people to distant lands and economic exploitation on an unprecedented scale. ![]() What India had to endure under them was outrageous humiliation on a humongous scale and sustained violence of a kind it had never experienced before. His book is, in fact, an expanded take on British exploitation of India that famously carried the day for Tharoor in an Oxford debate not too long ago.Īccording to Tharoor, there was nothing redeeming in British rule of our country. In it, he aggregates all the arguments required to establish that British colonial rule was an awful experience for Indians and he does so with a consummate debater’s skill. ![]() An Era of Darkness, is one breathless read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Large sized 16 oz jar with a burn time of approximately 55+ hours perfect for larger spaces like kitchens, family rooms and entryways.ĬE Craft is a small business based in Pennsylvania, USA, that takes pride in creating candles you’ll feel good burning. Standard sized 8 oz jar with a burn time of approximately 35+ hours, perfect for bathrooms, dressers, countertops, and nightstands A staple scent that leaves every room smelling fresh and homey. This candle smells like the perfect mix of creamy vanilla intertwined with smoky, woody notes and topped off with clean lavender. Charlie is a unique blend of growing up in a small town, witty late night emails, and skinny dipping at midnight. Our Charlie candle is the perfect way to bring your favorite book boyfriend into your home. This candle is themed after Book Lovers, but it works as a perfect book themed gift for your favorite Bookworm. The perfect Book Lovers inspired book merchandise/gift! It's the perfect gift for a bookworm, and it will remind her of her favorite books every time she lights it up. If you've got a girl in your life who loves Emily Henry and romance, she's going to love this Charlie scented candle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties, which have influenced societies since antiquity, have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence’, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. ![]() It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works… ![]() ![]() This is the most common reason we hear when people resist self-compassion. And so we think the whipping is why we achieved things and we’ll never achieve anything without the whipping. ![]() And that tall straight tree wouldn't stand a chance if it was transplanted to the cliffside.”īurnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle The gnarled, wind-blown tree from an oceanside cliff might not conform with our ideas of what a tree should look like, but it works well in the context where it grew. A tree that's fought wind and gravity and erosion to grow strong and green on a steep cliff is going to look strange and out of place when moved to the level playing field. ![]() It's because that is what it took to survive in the place where she grew. So if we transplant a survivor of the steep hill and cliff to the level field, natives of the field may look at that survivor and wonder why she has so much trouble trusting people, systems, and even her own bodily sensations. If you find yourself on an ocean-battered cliff, your only choice is to grow there, or fall into the ocean. None of us chooses the landscape in which we're planted. Women of color grow not just on a hill, but on a cliffside over the ocean, battered by wind and waves. ![]() ![]() White women grow on far steeper and rougher terrain because the field wasn't made for them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Being that her mother plans on announcing the inheritance at Christmas, the next day, time seems to run short for her. While she was debating going, Dylan had hired an actress to fool his wife by thinking the girl was her heir.Katherine, unsure of what to do, takes a position as a maid at the household and hopes to get close to her mother. She finds what she thinks is her mother only to encounter a rough time with her husband, Dylan Bennet who is waiting for his wife to die so he can inherit her wealth.Katherine leaves her relatives and goes to her mother's house, only to find that another Katie Lapp has appeared there and has been welcomed as her mothers daughter. ![]() It seemed like it was a very rushed novel, yet, despite this, not much was done in it.It takes off where the last book left it, Katie (now known as Katherine) is staying with some Mennonite relatives and is searching for her birth mother. I greatly enjoyed the first of this series "The Shunning" by Beverly Lewis. ![]() |