5/11/2023 0 Comments The Wife by Sigrid Undset![]() With her reputation as a writer well-established, Undset had the freedom to explore the world that had first fired her imagination, and in Gunnar's Daughter (1909) she drew upon her knowledge of Norway's history and legends, including the Icelandic Sagas, to recreate medieval life with compelling immediacy. Marta Oulie (1907) and a short-story collection, The Happy Age (1908)-were set in contemporary times and achieved both critical and popular success. Undset's first published works-the novel Mrs. She was particularly entranced by the dramatic Old Norse sagas she read as a child, later declaring that her exposure to them marked "the most important turning point in my life." Her father's interest in the past had a tremendous influence on Undset. ![]() Two years after her birth, the family moved to Oslo, where her father, a distinguished archaeologist, taught at the university. Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was born in Denmark, the eldest daughter of a Norwegian father and a Danish mother. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments The pearl book john steinbeck![]() News of Kino’s pearl spreads rapidly through the town, inspiring desire and envy in everyone who hears of it. ![]() ![]() Upon returning to the canoe, Kino opens this oyster last and finds within it the most perfect pearl in the world. Kino dives down to the seafloor and finds one oyster lying alone, gleaming from within. Kino and Juana set off in their canoe to search for pearls. The servant informs Kino that the doctor will not be able to see them and Kino punches the gate, infuriated by the doctor’s evident discrimination. When the servant reports their arrival at his gate, the doctor, lounging indulgently in bed, is insulted by the mere notion that he would “cure insect bites for ‘little Indians’” without compensation. Kino, Juana, Coyotito, and their neighbors proceed together to the city. In the midst of Kino and Juana’s morning routine, Coyotito is stung by a scorpion that has fallen into his hanging box.Īware of how poisonous the scorpion’s sting is, Juana orders that the doctor be gotten and when the doctor refuses to come to them, insists they go to the doctor themselves. ![]() It begins in the brush house of Kino, Juana, and their baby, Coyotito, a family of Mexican Native Americans. The Pearl takes place in a small village on the outskirts of La Paz, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later he also studied neo-Pythagoreanism. He was trained in rhetoric, and was introduced to Stoic philosophy by Attalos and Sotion. Tradition relates that he was a sickly child, and that he was taken to Rome by his aunt, who was married to the prefect Gaius Galerius, to be educated in the school of the Sextii. Seneca's older brother, Gallio, became proconsul at Achaea (where he encountered the apostle Paul about 52 C.E.), and Seneca was uncle to the poet Lucan, by his younger brother, Annaeus Mela. ![]() Seneca’s works were read by Medieval scholars and his tragedies-with their gloominess, ghosts, and witches-had a powerful influence on Elizabethan drama.īorn in Córdoba, Spain in 4 B.C.E., Seneca was the second of three sons of Helvia and Marcus (Lucius) Annaeus Seneca, a wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder. The early Christian church believed that he had known Saint Paul and therefore granted his works legitimacy and preserved them. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The paris library novel![]() ![]() Montana, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. When the Nazis march into the city, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. ![]() Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. ![]() An instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA TODAY bestseller-based on the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II- The Paris Library is a moving and unforgettable “ ode to the importance of libraries, books, and the human connections we find within both” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author). ![]() ![]() OL17737655W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.17 Pages 412 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:8373014411 Audiobook Download Unabridged Trade Paperback Regular Price 9.99 Regular Price 12.99 CAD. Audiobook Download Unabridged Trade Paperback ebook. Book magazine calls her one of the new writers to watch. ![]() ![]() The Dogs of Babel was the first book that Parkhurst wrote it was not the first novel that Parkhurst envisioned. The Dogs of Babel is Parkhursts first novel, and getting quite a lot of attention. It was one of The New York Times Notable Fiction & Poetry books of 2003. Regular Price 9.99 Regular Price 12.99 CAD ebook. The Dogs of Babel (also known as Lorelei's Secret in the UK) is the debut novel of Carolyn Parkhurst. 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He’s surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him―but he can’t admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. It’s incendiary stuff―and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. ![]() ![]() In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco―an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state.Ī few years later, California’s economy collapses, but Marcus’s hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. ![]() Big Themes: Technology, Freedom, Elections, Protest, Corruption ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments My name is mina![]() ![]() My Name is Mina has been longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2011. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award. In this stunning book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in what is a thought-provoking and extraordinary prequel to his best-selling debut novel, Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. Our customer service team will review your report and. Report this resource to let us know if it violates our terms and conditions. This is aimed at a year 8 mid to high ability. Additional collections will be added as I work further through the book. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and through her stories, thoughts, lessons and dreams, Mina's journal and mind grow into something extraordinary. Series of lessons based on My Name Is Mina by David Almond, along with supporting resources. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. ![]() I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. ![]() ![]() Zoroastrianism spread throughout Iranian lands, into Central Asia along trade routes, and further into East Asia. This dualism is often regarded as having been influential in the formulation of Jewish theology, and through Judaism, that of Christianity. ![]() ![]() The rest of the pantheon of deities was reduced to the status of demons and lesser spiritual creatures, with Angra Mainyu, or Ahriman, posited as the incarnation of evil standing in contrast to the goodness and light of Ahura Mazda. At the age of 30, Zoroaster experienced a vision in which the supremacy of the god of wisdom, Ahura Mazda, was revealed to him. Some of the practices he disapproved of included the sacrifice of animals (particularly bulls), as well as the ritualized consumption of the intoxicating beverage haoma. ![]() Zoroaster (also known as Zarathushtra) was a priest who sought to reform aspects of the pre-Islamic pantheistic religion practiced in his community. For this reason, the religion as practiced in India is alternatively known as Parsiism. ![]() The religion survived into the 20th century in isolated areas of Iran, and is also practiced in parts of India (particularly Bombay) by descendants of Iranian immigrants known as Parsis. Zoroastrianism, the dominant pre-Islamic religious tradition of the Iranian peoples, was founded by the prophetic reformer Zoroaster in the 6th or 7th century BCE (if not earlier). ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Grist by Heather Waldorf![]() Follow Author Heather Waldorf > Quotes () Showing 1-3 of 3 A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. Be the first to learn about new releases Start by following Heather Waldorf. ![]() She returned to the Waldorf community as a mother when her son, who is now an adult and Woodwork assistant at WSSD, began his first school experience in Parent-Tot classes at Acorn Hill Waldorf School. Grist by Heather Waldorf Sixteen year old Charlie spends the summer up in the north woods where she finds a new boyfriend and discovers new things about herself and her family. Heather Waldorf Quotes (Author of Grist) Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. Stussi’s relationship to Waldorf education reaches back to her grade school years as a student at the Washington Waldorf School. Stussi worked as an English Teacher and Educational Support teacher in a small community Waldorf School in Brazil, her paternal country of Origin. Stussi worked as an Educational Support teacher at WSSD conducting Extra Lesson classes. ![]() Prior to becoming a class teacher in 2009, Ms. She received her Waldorf teacher training both in Brazil and in Washington, DC, at the Nova Institute. She has her certification in Educational Support from the Association for Healing Education. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Education from George Washington University with a specialization in teaching English Language Learners. Stussi has 19 years of experience as a Waldorf teacher and over 21 years of teaching. ![]() |