![]() ![]() Dionne, world's most famous mother, declares she is one of the unhappiest - The private life of the Dionne quints - Quints lose stage fright, 2500 gawkers a day - Quintuplet frolics play to "standing room only" - The threat to the quints' happiness - Dionne endorsements, incorporated - Dr. |a Quintuplets born to farm wife - Canadian woman gives birth to five girls all are doing well - Country doctor struggles to save lives of Canadian mother and quintuplet girls - Progress of quintuplets amazes medical world - Star sends assistance to mother and five babes - Quintuplets may go on exhibit at Chicago fair - Quintuplets' father to get $100 a week while all live - Home turned into hospital - Parents of quintuplets dazed by sudden fame, offers, gifts - Too many showmen after quintuplets - Dionnes now have to guard quintuplets from tourist horde - Quintuplet hospital started near home of parents - Parents of babies plan for future - Parents' wishes to be ignored - Ontario adopts five world-famous little girls - Mrs. |a Includes bibliographical references and index. |a 309 pages, 32 pages of plates : |b illustrations |c 25 cm ![]() ![]() |a New York : |b Schwartz & Wade Books, |c |a Miracle and tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets |a The miracle & tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets / |c by Sarah Miller. ![]()
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The mirror and the light trilogy5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to the breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, no private army. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. ![]() ![]() She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. About the Book "With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. ![]() Fear you by bb reid5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() She doesn’t stand up for herself and submits to him, something that irritated me sometimes. ![]() He want’s her to submit to him completely and Lake doesn’t have a choice. ![]() He thinks she framed him and took a year of his life so it’s only fair to take a year of her life. When he comes back to town after a year in juvie, he wants nothing more than to let her pay for it. ![]() Lake doesn’t understand why he hates her so much, but she does know that’s she’s afraid of him. What ever she does and goes, he’s there to humiliate and hurt her. Keiran has been tormenting Lake for ten years. It leaves you gasping for air, literally! This book is five hearts worth, hell I will even give it ten hearts! But I need to warn that some scenes in this book are a little bit extreme, it’s not suitable for people under eighteen. This book is the dark and sinister version of Bully from Penelope Douglas. Once you begin reading, you wont be able to stop. I’ve never been so addicted to a story before. You see…he thinks I sent him away so now he wants revenge…and he knows just how to get it. Now he’s back and wants more than just my tears. But then he went away and yet I was still afraid. For ten years he’s been my tormentor and I’ve been his forbidden. It was the first time he hurt me and it wasn’t the last. We first met on a playground during a wonderful summer day. I don’t believe in Fairy-tales and Prince Charming. ![]() Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy5/24/2023 ![]() Must face a reckoning between her dreams of making a difference in the ![]() She soon finds herself caught up in theĭangerous work of politics, and abolition-jeopardizing all sheĬherishes, including her bond with her dearest John Blythe. Her a possibility of future happiness-Marilla is in no rush to trade Herīudding romance with John Blythe, the charming son of a neighbor, offers Secretly serves as a way station for runaway slaves from America. Joining the Ladies Aid Society, she raises funds forĪn orphanage run by the Sisters of Charity in nearby Nova Scotia that Venture beyond the safety of Green Gables and discovers new friends and Seamstress has allowed her to build a thriving business and make her An opinionated spinster, Aunt Izzy’s talent as a Her mother’s sister, who managed to escape from Avonlea to the bustlingĬity of St. Her one connection to the wider world is Aunt Elizabeth “Izzy” Johnson, ![]() House, and overseeing the day-to-day life of Green Gables with herįarming town on a remote island-life holds few options for farm girls. Must bear the responsibilities of a farm wife: cooking, sewing, keeping Her beloved mother has dies in childbirth, and Marilla suddenly Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upsideĭown. Nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster MarillaĬuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of ![]() before Anne: A marvelously entertainingĪnd moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the ![]() ![]() When I picked up this tome, never having heard of Smith before, I was expecting a darker paranormal than Twilight, and while initially I was disappointed it didn’t last for long. And even if they get through it all, who’s to say that that will be the end? ![]() Jenny and her friends have a paper house to create and a game of nightmares to play, one that will literally imprison them in their dreams. But when the guy says he will see her “at nine” he means it. ![]() She takes the one he suggests, discovering she’s powerless to resist. It’s a game shop, a creepy place, and the gorgeous but strange teenage owner is selling ancient and niche board games. But “appears” is the word, for on closer inspection the painted door handle is an actual handle, the door a real door, and she sneaks inside. Upon finding herself chased she comes across what appears to be a mural of a shop drawn on the front of a store that has shut down. When Jenny runs out of planning time for her boyfriend Tom’s birthday she rushes around trying to find a board game that would interest her sixteen-year-old friends. ![]() Please note that I will be reviewing all three at once and as such will only be providing a bare basic synopsis. The Forbidden Game is a bind-up of three books that form a trilogy: The Hunter, The Chase, and The Kill. Publisher: Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster)įirst Published: 1994 (as three separate books) 2010 (as one volume) ![]() Seven teenagers battle against evil to free their friend from her abominable fate. ![]() The stolen letter edgar allan poe5/24/2023 ![]() If you like horror stories, read this one. This is a really creepy story with a gruesome ending. ![]() Although it looked like a real story, it was completely ficticious, created entirely from Poe's imagination. This story appeared in the New York Sun in 1844 and claimed to have details about a group of men that successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a new type of balloon. The Balloon Hoax Newspaper story about balloon travel When reading the broken dialog in this story, it helps if you pretend to read it like a drunk person. In this story, the narrator meets a strange little character and they go off to have adventures. Of course, he had a weird sense of humor. The Angel of the Odd Comedy about being drunk Summaries are listed in alphabetical order: ![]() ![]() Something of interest then take a trip into Poe's imagination. The following brief summaries are designed to quickly give readers an idea of what each story is about. ![]() You know me well by nina lacour5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() I’ve stuck to the halls of our high school, living my out-to-everyone life pretty much the same as before everyone (including me) knew. It was my idea to come here, but I never would have been able to do it without Ryan at my side. I don’t know what I want, so mostly I go along. We don’t talk about these moments, and I think Ryan believes if we don’t talk about them, then they haven’t been happening. In the context of our relationship, this counts as logic: We are just friends except for the moments when, oops, we’re more than just friends. ![]() If someone he doesn’t like approaches us, he’ll hold my hand to make himself seem taken, but otherwise it’s hands-off. Ryan looks a little bit scared, but he’s trying to hide it under an arched brow and a smoke screen of sarcasm. Ryan and I are underage, underexperienced, underdressed, and completely under the spell of the scene pressing up against us. The whole spectrum is in attendance tonight, breathing in the rainbow air and dancing to the rainbow sounds. ![]() ![]() In reality, we’re in the Castro, at a club called Happy Happy, kicking it up at the gaygantuan kickoff party for San Francisco’s very own Pride Week. At the same time, Ryan’s parents think he’s in the top bunk in my bedroom, slumbering peacefully after a slow night of video games and TV. Right now, my parents think I’m sleeping on the couch at my best friend Ryan’s house, safely tucked into a suburban silence. ![]() Otherlands by thomas halliday5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in the fossil record. We visit the birthplace of humanity we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. ![]() Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday TimesThis is the past as we've never seen it before. A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland'Epically cinematic. ![]() Book by peter strzok5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The other two passports reportedly were expired. One of the passports taken in the raid was Trump’s active diplomatic passport, according to an email from the Justice Department made public by the Trump team. The seizure of Trump’s passports has raised more doubts about the seemingly unlimited scope of the search. He has been in the news lashing out at Trump and trolling his objections to the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Now, Strzok appears liberated in showing precisely the bias and unhinged hostility alleged by his critics. (Strzok’s colleague and former paramour, Lisa Page, was given a contract as a legal analyst with NBC and MSNBC). ![]() It was an extraordinary recovery from a scandal where he showed flagrant bias, engaged in an affair with another married colleague at the FBI, and fought to continue to investigate Russian collusion claims despite early warnings over the questionable basis of the allegations pushed by the Clinton campaign. After he was fired, the former special agent was given a lucrative book deal, lionized on the left, featured prominently as an expert by CNN, and given a teaching job at Georgetown. However, Strzok was immediately embraced by many in the media and establishment for his anti-Trump sentiments. Career colleagues at the Justice Department previously referred Strzok for possible criminal charges and he was fired for his bias and unprofessional conduct. Peter Strzok is back in the news this week. ![]() The rise of theodore roosevelt book5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But I won’t let myself think of it I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it, I’ll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so-I’ll beat myself. I, for instance, I am going to do great things here, hard things that require all the courage, ability, work that I am capable of … But if I get to thinking of what it might lead to-” He stopped, held us off, and looked into our faces with his face screwed up into a knot, as with lowered voice he said slowly: “I must be wanting to be President. He loses his nerve he can’t do his work he gives up the very traits that are making him a possibility. “Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President. Then he beckoned me close and in an awed tone of voice explained. He backed away, came up again to Riis, and put his arm over his shoulder. ![]() No friend of mine would ever say a thing like that, you-you-” Riis’s shocked face or TR’s recollection that he had few friends as devoted as Jake Riis halted him. “Don’t you dare ask me that,” TR yelled at Riis. Was he working to be President? The effect, wrote Steffens, “was frightening.” TR leaped to his feet, ran around his desk, and fists clenched, teeth bared, he seemed about to throttle Riis, who cowered away, amazed. The two men dashed across to headquarters and burst into Roosevelt’s office. “Let’s ask him,” Lincoln Steffens suggested. ![]() |