![]() ![]() The lieutenant promised he would catch him for sure. In the police station the lieutenant and police captain were talking about some priest who still was at liberty. When the stranger was following the boy he hated him and his mother, as he had to leave this place today with the ship, which has already left. Tench reminded that he had to receive nitrogen and quickly went to the landing stage, but there was no nitrogen left for him. Tench said he was just a dentist, and assumed that the stranger was a doctor, but the stranger did not want to go, and when the boy said he would not leave until the doctor went with him the doctor had to subdue as his behavior became suspicious. Tench’s there was a knock at the door and a boy asked for a doctor as his mother was very sick. Tench had something to drink, meaning alcohol the dentist answered that he had at home and invited the stranger to have a drink. There he met a stranger who asked whether Mr. ![]() Tench came to the landing stage, as there he had to receive from the captain some nitrogen for his cabinet. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Ī local dentist Mr. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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The Magus by John Fowles has been on my to-read list for some time. ![]() I found myself rereading sentences just to soak in their power and clarity.” ![]() ![]() ![]() The poker table is her domain and the one and only place she yields to no one's rules but her own. It's time to win his bride.ĭahlia Lenox is tired of ranch life, rules and restrictions. He's a man who gets what he wants.and he wants Hyacinth. ![]() Guild from a tragic childhood incident follows her everywhere and she feels undeserving of Jackson's love. She notices him as well but why is she doing everything she can to avoid him? Hyacinth Lenox can't stop thinking about Jackson Reed, she wants him but she can't have him. When handsome soldier Jackson Reed returns home from the Army, one woman catches his eye. She's determined to strike out on her own and find freedom from her unorthodox family. For years, she's been content working on the family ranch, but lately she's finding herself wanting more. 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The skill behind their creation is an interesting one, as Kelly Mellings, illustrator of The Outside Circle, ( Link to my review ) has documented in his answers below. And when they deal with social issues, their impact can be truly effective and enlightening. ![]() Graphic novels have a certain immediacy to them. ![]() ![]() ![]() These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.īy imagining computing as an interactive commons, the early denizens of the digital realm seeded today's debate about whether the internet should be a public utility and laid the groundwork for the concept of net neutrality. ![]() Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. Their networks were centered in New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Illinois, but they connected far-flung users. 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In 2022, Dangarembga was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence, by displaying, on a public road, a placard asking for reform. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She has won other literary honours, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. ![]() Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression, 2021 German Film and Television Academy Berlin Ĭommonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa section, 1989 ![]() ![]() Established by David and his wife, Michelle, the Wish You Well Foundation supports family and adult literacy programs in the United States.Ī lifelong Virginian, David is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia School of Law.Īs all readers, I’ve seen “David Baldacci” in every bookstore and library I’ve entered since 1996. In addition to being a prolific writer, David is a devoted philanthropist, and his greatest efforts are dedicated to his family’s Wish You Well Foundation®. ![]() David has also published seven novels for younger readers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with 150 million copies sold worldwide. 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As Enne unearths an impossible secret about her past, Levi's enemies catch up to them, ensnaring him in a vicious execution game where the players always lose. Their search for clues leads them through glamorous casinos and illicit cabarets and into the clutches of a ruthless Mafia donna. Enne's offer of compensation, however, could be the solution to all his problems. ![]() ![]() Levi is also only one payment away from cleaning up a rapidly unraveling investment scam, so he doesn't have time to investigate a woman leading a dangerous double life. Unfortunately, Levi is not the gentleman she expected - he's a street lord and con man. ![]() But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school - and her reputation - behind to follow her mother's trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.įrightened and alone, her only lead is a name: Levi Glaisyer. Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets.and secrets hide in every shadowĮnne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. ![]() ![]() As the tension mounts between the two adversaries, a newcomer arrives who gives Beartown hockey a surprising new coach and a chance at a comeback.Soon a team starts to take shape around Amat, the fastest player you'll ever see Benji, the intense lone wolf always dutiful and eager-to-please Bobo and Vidar, a born-to-be-bad troublemaker. ![]() ![]() What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring town of Hed, take in that fact. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. ![]() Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown returns with an unforgettable novel "about people-about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men" (Jojo Moyes). ![]() ![]() ![]() Highschool through to the end of first year undergraduate level preferably, or alternatively multiple textbooks by the same author of successive difficulty. One note: I am not interested in doing experimentation at all, and would just like to learn theory, as I have (sometimes) embarrassingly bad knowledge of the field as I didn't take chemistry in highschool(which I greatly regret). I am a third year Mathematics student, so I am not worried about it being too concise, I am willing to reread areas one hundred times if need be. What are some of the better textbooks for starting to learn chemistry? I don't know any specific fields, so I would like to get some exposure to a number of different topics. I am looking for a textbook for someone(me) who has done no chemistry, but isn't too basic as it progresses. ![]() Rigorous - Professional formatting - Not a casual textbook. ![]() General - Giving a good introduction to all or most areas of Chemistry.Theory based(Experimentation not wanted).Highschool to first year undergraduate level. ![]() |