5/24/2023 0 Comments Horace Kephart by George Frizzell![]() ![]() Edited by Mae Miller Claxton and George Frizzell, Horace Kephart: Writings extends past Kephart's two well-read works of the early 1900s and dives into his correspondence with friends across the globe, articles and columns in national magazines, unpublished manuscripts, journal entries, and fiction in order to shed some deserved light on Kephart's classic image as a storyteller and practical guide to the Smokies. Best known for Our Southern Highlanders (1913) and Camping and Woodcraft (1916), Horace Kephart's keen interest in exploring and documenting the great outdoors would lead him not only to settle in Bryson City, North Carolina, but also to become the most significant writer about the Great Smoky Mountains in the early twentieth century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The elements of the Colombian national dish, bandeja paisa, were listed out and the on-the-road classics of salami and crackers gave us inspiration for a full charcuterie on our last night together. Unlike the first club, this book didn’t have any recipes included in the text, so we had lots of fun finding recipes that might have coordinated with what Jedidiah experienced along his route. After the fabulous success of our first book club experience (we read and ate our way through The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious – and Perplexing – City, by David Lebovitz), we were thrilled to kick off our second club in January.įor seven weeks we traveled through To Shake the Sleeping Self with Jedidiah Jenkins as he (and some occasional companions) spent 16 months biking from the Pacific Northwest of North America down to Patagonia at the tip of South America. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Heart in Hand by salifiable![]() ![]() Both are absolutely enjoyable to watch but they have very different styles of play so it’s hard to really compare them and call one the better player (unless, of course, you are a Capitals or Penguins fan). The other is a dynamic, passionate, hard playing, fun loving player from Russia who has not yet achieved the Cup or a gold medal. One is a traditional, hard working, dedicated and driven player from Canada who has a Stanley Cup and an Olympic gold medal. If you are unfamiliar with hockey, both players came into the league at the same time, on separate teams, and both are a joy to watch. I think I was hooked by the idea of the two “rivals” falling for one another. As I finished I almost wished it was a story I hadn’t read yet so I could have the joy of rediscovering it all over again. Once I started reading, I found that I couldn’t put this story down in fact I stayed up until 4 AM just to finish it in one go. This is the first hockey RPF I ever read, and I fear I’ve been spoiled as this will be the story by which all others will be judged. But he never expected anything like this. ![]() Sid had realized very early on that for better or worse, he would be linked to Alexander Ovechkin for the rest of his life. Warnings: Dub-con (Sex as result of a lost bet) Pairing: Sidney Crosby/Alexander Ovechkin ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Mud sweat tears bear grylls![]() ![]() On returning home, he embarked upon the notoriously gruelling selection course for the British Special Forces to join 21 SAS - a journey that was to push him to the very limits of physical and mental endurance. As a teenager he found identity and purpose through both mountaineering and martial arts, which led the young adventurer to the foothills of the mighty Himalaya and a grandmaster's karate training camp in Japan. Growing up on the Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. 'Well told, personable, fast-paced, and undoubtedly a fascinating read' Daily Telegraph Gripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike. Independent Bookshop Editions and Autographed Books ![]() ![]() ![]() The story revolves around Juliet Cavendish who is fascinated with Ancient Egypt and spends. Her books A Lady of Distinction and The Gentleman Thief. ![]() OL2454032W Page_number_confidence 95.99 Pages 326 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201218111555 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 897 Scandate 20201216115538 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780425196564 Tts_version 4. The author, Deborrah Simmons, is a known romantic novel writer. Shes published twenty-eight romances with Avon, Harlequin, and Berkley, as well as a romantic comedy. 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Dick![]() ![]() Copyright Office, and even ‘adjust' history so as to hoard any and all monies rightfully earned by the estate of the man whose genius inspired what is indisputably a highly successful film.” “Using heavy-handed means, they seek to ‘adjust' agreements entered into long-ago agreed, ‘adjust' determinations made long ago by the U.S. ![]() "otivated solely by greed, defendants seek to establish themselves as a de facto ‘Adjustment Bureau' of Hollywood,” the suit reads. The suit contended that the defendants initially agreed to purchase the rights to the story for between $1 million and $2 million, depending on the film's budget, plus another $100,000 once the film broke even - and then stopped payment when they found that the story's copyright may have expired. ![]() ![]() ![]() Augusta has rather audaciously elected to call herself Mrs. Having decided that London is probably not the best place to carry out her current scheme, Augusta has retreated to Bath with her friend, Lady Tallant, who has recently miscarried a baby and has gone there to take the waters and restore her health. In Secrets of a Scandalous Heiress readers are reacquainted with Miss Augusta Meredith, the “soap factory” heiress who appeared briefly in the previous book in the series ( To Charm a Naughty Countess, review here). Romain – someone whose books I’ve always enjoyed – into an auto-buy author. ![]() All three have made it to my keeper shelf and the series has turned Ms. Theresa Romain’s Matchmaker trilogy has been one of the most consistently good series of books I can remember reading in recent months. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Where Thule, located on an island, is presented as an ideal society, where the people live in harmony with each other and nature, is het Badense Rijk presented as a conflict driven empire where the biggest part of the population lives in poverty. It tells the story about two imaginary nations, Thule and het Badense Rijk, that are in constant conflict with each other. At the end of the nineteen eighties the female Dutch writer Thea Beckman writes children’s novel about a future world, consisting of three parts, named Kinderen van Moeder Aarde. Sometimes utopia takes the form of a dystopia: a society with merely negative elements. ![]() The word utopia first appeared in the eponymous book of Thomas More in 1516 where it got its definition: a social planning, a design for a future ideal world or social order radically different from the criticised present world, casted in a literary form. ![]() ![]() In the process, this fascinating book uncovers the reality behind the myths and legends to reveal the dynamic, diverse lives of Viking women. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, Valkyrie introduces readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland, a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of roles carrying power, not just in this world, but pulling the strings in the other-world, too. The women in these stories take full part in the power struggles and upheavals in their communities, for better or worse. Rather than their death being futile, it is their destiny and good fortune, determined by divine beings. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war – to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless bodies of young men, glorious and worthwhile. Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World is a significant book. ![]() They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. ![]() LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. But Valkyrie's emphasis on women's lives, based on an excellent collection of high quality data collected over the past century, offers a far more complex and ultimately compelling vision of the world of the Viking Era, roughly 800-1200 CE, when the climate of the North Atlantic was warmer than it is today (though this is, of course, changing. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Nnedi okorafor binti trilogy![]() ![]() If Binti is to survive this voyage and save the inhabitants of the unsuspecting planet that houses Oomza Uni, it will take all of her knowledge and talents to broker the peace.īut even if Binti achieves this remarkable feat, it's not the end of her story. There is more to the history of the Medusae-and their war with the Khoush-than first meets the eye. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered her crew, with five days until she reaches her destination. ![]() Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey.īut everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Collected for the first time in a trade paperback omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl's journey from her home to distant Oomza University. ![]() |