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Witchlight jessi zabarsky6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() For me, it’s the right balance of fun, achievable, and still a little challenging! I kept making small adjustments, and now I use a set template (three square panels), draw digitally, and present myself as a small cartoon rabbit, approximately a foot tall. I also switched to drawing straight to ink instead of trying to both pencil and ink. ![]() For the first few years they really stressed me out and I didn’t like my results at all! They started getting better when I began drawing myself as a rabbit, at first just kind of a bunny head on a human body. I started doing Hourly Comics Day in college, when we had a small comics club. How did you start doing those? And what's that day like for you? You recently participated in Hourly Comics Day, an annual event started by cartoonist John Campbell in 2005 in which participants draw a short comic for each hour they're awake on February 1st. ![]()
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Einstein biography isaacson6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Chapter 6: Chapter Two: Childhood, 1879–1896. ![]() Chapter 5: Chapter One: The Light-Beam Rider.These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher. ![]() ![]() This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.īased on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate-became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. ![]()
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Out of the silent planet book cover6/25/2023 ![]() There's even one of those old-fashioned framing devices where "Lewis" claims he received the story directly from Dr Ransom and they agreed to publish it as fiction because no one would would be expected to belive it (I love the nostalgia of that sort of wraparound.) On the other hand, there was much in the premise that irritated me this is one of those books that filled me a strong urge to argue with it. The story is imaginative and compelling, and I went straight the entire book in almost a single sitting. The quality of the writing itself is excellent, with that careful choice of just the exact word and the attention to detail that older British authors seemed to excel in. ![]() That's the sort of mixed reaction I had to it. This book was like receiving a neat present from an unpleasant relative. ![]() ![]() SOME SPOILERS AHEAD (But hopefully not enough to ruin a reading of this minor classic) ![]()
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A is for alibi6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() But as the power of television has transformed over time, so too has the quality from writing and acting to the production values and viewing experience,” Humphrey said in a statement issued through A+E and also posted on Grafton’s Facebook page. From her experience then, she was concerned that her stories and characters would be diminished when they were adapted. “Television has greatly evolved since Sue was writing in Hollywood in the 1980s. Grafton’s daughter Jamie Clark reaffirmed her mother’s vow when announcing her death four years ago, but the author’s husband and executive producer of the series, Steve Humphrey, says he and the family have agreed that the times - and the medium - have changed. “They’re going to have to pass the word on to my grandchildren: we do not sell out our grandma.” We’ve taken a blood oath, and if they do so I will come back from the grave: which they know I can do,” she told January Magazine. And, I have made my children promise not to sell her. “I will never sell (Kinsey) to Hollywood. They might also remember a vow she made back in 1997, recalling her unhappy experiences writing for television movies before she caught on as a novelist. Grafton’s many fans might celebrate the chance to see her work on the screen, and wonder who might play the famed sleuth Millhone. Lucy Liu to Narrate Audiobook of Celeste Ng's 'Our Missing Hearts' Novel ![]()
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Morrie from tuesdays with morrie6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() A belief that work - like this column at this newspaper - always came first, and everything else could wait. Every day, week, month and year - for 16 years. Promise me you’ll stay in touch.”Īnd then I broke that promise. “Mitch,” he said, “you’re one of the good ones. He listened patiently to my silly collegiate complaints I majored in sociology, his field, mostly so I could study with him all four years. He spoke to me about life, values, love, community. ![]() He was closer to a favorite old uncle, a smiling, gentle mentor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts who saw in me a flawed but salvageable young man. An old professor of mine, Morrie Schwartz, was on the “Nightline” program, talking to Ted Koppel. Twenty-two years ago, I flipped on the TV and my life changed forever. ![]()
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Overbite meg cabot6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Meg Cabot married financial writer and poet, Benjamin D. However, she soon quit this job and started working as an assistant manager of the freshman dormitory at New York University. After she graduated from Indiana University, Cabot moved to New York City, with the original aim of pursuing a career as an illustrator. Meggin Patricia Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington, Indiana. ![]() She has also had number-one New York Times bestsellers, and more than 25 million copies of her books are in print across the world. ![]() Cabot has been the recipient of numerous book awards, including the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice, and many others. She has written and published over 50 novels of young adult and adult fiction and is best known for her young adult series Princess Diaries, which was later adapted by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films. Meggin Patricia Cabot (born February 1, 1967) is an American novelist. ![]()
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Ja andrews the keeper chronicles6/24/2023 ![]() They take place in the same world, but are standalone series. A Keeper of Royal Secrets : Being the Private and Political Life of Mme. The Keeper Origins Trilogy, and the Keeper Chronicles Trilogy can be read in any order. A Waiting Woman's Court Chronicles in the Eighteenth Century. They take place in the same world but are stand-alone books. Pick up the first book of the Keeper Origins Trilogy today, and begin the tale of how an orphaned thief escaped the slums, united a nation, and brought a mighty Empire to its knees. The Keeper Origins trilogy and the Keeper Chronicles trilogy can be listened to in any order. Except the Kalesh web of lies has ensnared everyone.With her land, her people, and everything she loves hanging in the balance, Sable is the only one standing between freedom, and certain death. ![]() Now, she must return to the city she fled, and along with her companions, attempt an impossible task-convince everyone, including the powerful Dragon Prioress, of the truth. On the edges of civilization, they discover hidden, terrifying lies in the offers of peace from the brutal Kalesh Empire. ![]() Escape comes in the form of an odd set of companions: -a dwarf running from the past, -an actor with a magical, glowing tree -a too-helpful kobold, -a playwright with a knack for getting stories out of people, and -a man and woman with suspicious, magical powers. ![]() For years she’s been using that skill to try to break free from the vicious gang boss she's indebted to. Sable, a reluctant thief from the slums, can feel truth when people speak. ![]()
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Mythology tales of gods and heroes6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() These Terms shall govern your use of the Atome website, including any subdomains thereof, and any other websites through which Atome makes its services available, our mobile, tablet and other smart device applications, and application program interfaces (collectively, the “Platform”) and the services provided through the Platform in the manner described in Clause 2.1. These Terms are a legally binding agreement between you ( “you”, “your” or the “Customer”) and APaylater Financials Pte Ltd doing business as Atome ( “we”, “us”, “our”, “Atome”) (collectively, the “Parties” and each a “Party”). You should print a copy of these Terms for your records. The headings contained in this document are for reference purposes only. ![]() By using the Platform and the Atome Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms and are deemed to have executed these Terms electronically. Please read these Terms of Service (“Terms”) carefully. ![]()
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Purnell a woman of no importance6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. "A meticiulous history that reads like a thriller." (Ben Macintyre)Ī never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine "A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people - and a little resistance." (NPR) This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.” ( The New York Times Book Review ) Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London ![]()
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Beyond Uhura by Nichelle Nichols6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() |