![]() If you've ever wished for your very own magi GMGR brings together parents, teachers, librarians, writers and readers, who all love middle grade books. GMGR brings together parents, teachers, librarians, writers and readers, who all love middle grade books. Discussions in this group may provide authors/readers with some clues or kinds of pictures that closely represent descriptive ideas of a book.more On a more practical level, contents of this group could give writers(authors) some ideas or alternatives when designing front-covers for their books. The knowledge itself should have a wisdom word, a certain values which explains the picture itself. When a scene captured by our eyes is truly matched with something searched by our mind, a new knowledge is born. Our senses search for things instructed by mind. We are all in learning process, from asking some questions to knowing something, if possible to knowing more and further.Įxperiences in life have formed someone's perception towards the world and universe itself. ![]() We are It says a picture's worth a thousand words. ![]() "Tabula rasa" is about lifetime learning process. It says a picture's worth a thousand words.īut imagine if we could synergize them both. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even when the guns are turned their direction, he’s just as sure that it’s all a horrible mistake, and if he can only talk to someone, things can be straightened out. Even when the rebels start killing people, Jim is sure they’re fighting for justice. The most intriguing might be Jim Nolan, a 16-year-old intellectual who has read the biography and op-ed articles of the country’s rebel leader…and who believes everything he’s read. What makes this something special is the characters in it. So now these church kids, along with an unexpected helper, are on the run, barely staying ahead of these murderous bandits. The rebels have taken over the government and are executing anyone for any reason, and they don’t want to let any American witnesses get out of the country alive. ![]() What happens next is a not-so unusual chase-type adventure. They’ve finished the work and are waiting in the cantina for the bus to take them back home when the room is suddenly filled with rebel soldiers and the pot-bellied, smiling waiter, who had been joking with them only moments before, is now on the floor, shot dead by the rebel leader. Will Peterson is a 16-year-old visiting a small Central American village with his church’s mission team, there to help rebuild the local cinder-block school. I just wish I could tell you that all of us made it out alive.” “We came to Costa Verdes to build a wall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Redeeming Love was nominated for the GMA Dove Award for Inspirational Film/Series of the Year at the 2022 GMA Dove Awards. It was theatrically released by Universal Pictures on January 21, 2022, and received generally negative reviews from critics, though it was received better by audiences. The film was co-produced by Pinnacle Peak Pictures, Mission Pictures International, and Nthibah Pictures, and was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis and Logan Marshall-Green. The film is based on Rivers' 1991 novel of the same name, which was based on the Biblical story of Hosea, and is set in the American Old West during the California Gold Rush. Caruso, who co-wrote the screenplay with Francine Rivers. Redeeming Love is a 2022 American Christian Western romance film directed by D.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Her mother died in a car crash when Blue was 5.) Dad, a perpetually visiting professor, insists on traipsing from one podunk college to another, where his hands-on specialty in civil and guerrilla wars and frequent publications in small-run journals with titles like Federal Forum and the New Seattle Journal of Foreign Policy lend him a rakish mystique. "Special Topics" is narrated by Blue van Meer, the 16-year-old daughter of Gareth, a sort of itinerant policy wonk. "Special Topics," for all its overeager freshman infelicities, is a real novel, one of substance and breadth, with an arresting story and that rarest of delights, a great ending. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Beneath the foam of this exuberant debut," he writes, "is a dark, strong drink." There's certainly plenty of foam covering the surface of "Special Topics" - in the form of a strenuously antic style and the pretty thin device of titling each chapter after some famous literary work ("Othello," "Madam Bovary," etc.) and proclaiming that the whole book is a "syllabus." But get past the froth, sip a bit deeper, and he's right: The brew is surprisingly potent. The pre-publication blurb isn't one of the higher forms of literature, but Jonathan Franzen's one-sentence endorsement, printed on the back cover of Marisha Pessl's first novel, "Special Topics in Calamity Physics," is a masterpiece of sorts. ![]() ![]() ![]() With his father often absent, he finds the love he seeks from his younger brother. ![]() The eldest son of a wealthy man, he is left motherless at a young age. Harry Crane is born into a life of privilege. I received a copy of this book from the publisher and this is my honest opinion of the book. It is a novel of secrets, sexuality and, ultimately, of great love.” ![]() In this exquisite journey of self-discovery, loosely based on a real life family mystery, Patrick Gale has created an epic, intimate human drama, both brutal and breathtaking. And yet it is here, isolated in a seemingly harsh landscape, under the threat of war, madness and an evil man of undeniable magnetism that the fight for survival will reveal in Harry an inner strength and capacity for love beyond anything he has ever known before. Remote and unforgiving, his allotted homestead in a place called Winter is a world away from the golden suburbs of turn-of-the-century Edwardian England. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence – until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything.įorced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. “To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.Ī privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Publication Day – 24 March 2015 (Hardback) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Hakluyt the elder (1530-1591), one of Elizabethan England’s chief colonial enthusiasts, referred to those he thought transportable overseas in indentured servitude as the “offals of our people.” Such commonplace imagery resonated for decades as much as any dream of avarice. Racial slavery was the obvious and eventual answer for commercial agriculture, but from the beginning, those in England promoting colonial schemes universally presented them as win-win projects-not only would investors reap the wealth, they would rid the realm of its human garbage. ![]() Even in purely economic terms, early colonial settlement was bedevilled by the question of labour: where to get the workforce to perform the brutal task of turning North America into a replica of Europe, and how to bend the workers to the task. One of the central factors in American history has always been one of the least mentioned: class. ![]() ![]() ![]() "One of the bright new voices in historical fiction. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship, and survival. As she and Luke make a life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he left behind and finds love where she least expects it. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As eccentric as a book about bats may seem, I think Silverwing and its companion books are some of the most compelling, suspenseful, and well-written animal fiction books I have read! This entire series by Kenneth Oppel has been one of the best reads and I have recommended it to friends, classmates, and family. Review: I have read and reread this book many times and each time I read it, it is as exciting as when I first picked it up. This book is an exciting novel that is impossible to put down! Along the way, he meets bats who cross his path, both for and against him. The book is an animal fiction book that narrates the story of a young bat, Shade, who is separated from his colony in a storm and from there sets on a quest to return to them and solve the mystery of his missing father. Synopsis: Silverwing is the first book of the Silverwing series by Kenneth Oppel. ![]() ![]() You have to remember that this show is shown to a UK wide audience and the accents have been toned down for this and I thinks that it works. ![]() The characters are for the most part convincing,and the criminality portrayed in some of the dodgier areas of Belfast does actually occur and I commend the producers of Blue Lights for portraying these activities fairly accurately. ![]() I have to say, initially I was sceptical about watching Blue Lights, generally I find Northern Irish productions can be quite irritating, I'm from here so I can indeed confirm that when I seen this advertised I thought here we go again.Īlas I was pleasantly surprised, contrary to some of the user reviews on here that have picked this show apart, there is no maximum age for recruits into the PSNI, so a 41 year old joining is not some kind of dramatic oversight, it does occur more than you would think. ![]() ![]() ![]() With dramatic twists and redolent of the mood of the Southern Gothic, The Spirit Photographer conjures the Reconstruction era South, replete with fugitive hunters, voodoo healers, and other dangers lurking in the swamp. But more than one person is out to stop him. Is it possible that the spirit photographer caught a real ghost? When Moody recognizes the woman in the photograph as the daughter of an escaped slave he knew long ago, he is compelled to travel from Boston to the Louisiana bayous to resolve their unfinished business―and perhaps save his soul. Instead of the staged image of the boy he was expecting, the camera has seemingly captured the spirit of a beautiful young woman. ![]() ![]() One day, while developing the negative from a sitting to capture the spirit of the young son of an abolitionist senator, Moody is shocked to see a different spectral figure develop before his eyes. Despite the whispers around town that Moody is a fraud of the basest kind, no one has been able to expose him, and word of his gift has spread, earning him money, fame, and a growing list of illustrious clients. He lures grieving widows and mourning mothers into his studio with promises of catching the ghosts of their deceased loved ones with his camera. Photographer Edward Moody runs a booming business capturing the images of the spirits of the departed in his portraits. ![]() |