![]() ![]() ![]() Source: Quinn Publishing/Kenneth Fagg/Wikimedia Commons 2001: A Space Odyssey Harry Wexler, who was then the chief of the Scientific Services Division of the US Weather Bureau, asking him about the possible use of satellites in weather forecasting. ![]() Source: Wings Publishing/Allen Anderson/Wikimedia Commons In 1948, Clarke obtained a first-class degree in Physics and Mathematics from King's College, London. In March 1945, Clarke sold his first professional science fiction story, "Rescue Party", and it appeared in the May 1946 issue of Astounding Science. Source: USAF/Wikimedia Commons "The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine." - J. Today, at 36,000 kilometers (22,000 mi) above the earth, the geostationary orbit is named The Clarke Orbit by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Following the war, Clarke returned to London, and in 1945, he published the technical paper, "Extra-terrestrial Relays," which laid down the principles for satellites in geostationary orbits. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s very poetic, dreamy and beautiful, though often fragmented and edging towards stream-of-consciousness in parts. It took me a while to settle into the rhythm of Mailhot's writing in Heart Berries. You should have thought before you made a crazy Indian woman your lover. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners a story of reconciliation with her father―an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist―who was murdered under mysterious circumstances and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the grind of Montreal service jobs, to isolated French Ontario countryside childhoods, to the tenuous cooperation of Bay Area punk squats, the three young women navigate everyday losses and fears against the backdrop of a tumultuous twenty-first century. But when their friend dies by suicide in the abandoned city lot where they once gathered, they must carry on in the world that left him behind-one they once dreamed they would change for the better. I will go through the hole in the fence and I’ll dive into the icy water.įriends since grade school, Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and drifting apart as their lives pull them in different directions. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know where there’s a hole in the fence. Finalist for the 2023 French-American Translation Prize ![]() ![]() ![]() Terrific pianist and great selection of types of tunes. I recommend the CD's of James Oneil Miner. If you are interested in good background music while you read. Chris has imagined a tale that bridges modern. However, he is the best known as the author of the popular Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites Adventure series as well as Passage to Zarahemla. Also add to you lists Gerald Lund's "The coming of the Lord" CHRIS HEIMERDINGER is the writer/director of the movie Passage to Zarahemla and the songwriter/producer of the album Whispered Visions. She knows how to keep the suspense going. "Twilight," "New oon", "Eclipes", and "Breaking Dawn" I had a harder time getting through the "Jacob" part of the " Breaking Dawn" but was compelled to finish the book and series anyway. I couldn't put them down til they were finished 4 volumes in the series. ![]() On the best seller list and is a run-a-way hit here in Utah. The Twilight series is sold at Deseret Book but although she is an LDS writer it is not consider LDS Fiction. Also "Please Pass the Scriptures is excellent. Its about 3 kids that are caving and end up back in historical book of mormon times. ![]() Jack West's 'The trial of the stick od Joseph" both the book and the slides. Tennis Shoes Among the Nephies is a wonderful, easy to read, historical fiction. Here are some others you might want to add. ![]() But the whole series of the Work and the Glory and the other series from Dean Hughes etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is one survivor - a knight who swears vengeance.ĭevon, 1316. The Knights Templar have been destroyed by Pope Clement, having been persuaded by a jealous king that they are corrupt devil worshippers. ![]() The first thrilling instalment in a legendary historical adventure series.Paris, 1307. Until the new master of the local manor, Sir Baldwin Furn. A charred body is discovered in a burned-out cottage, and newly appointed Bailiff, Simon Puttock, believes it to be accidental. ![]() ![]() Add 6 cups of broth, 2 cups of red lentils, a 16 oz can of chopped tomatoes with juice, 1/2 teaspoon of cumin, and 1/2 cup of ground coriander. In a large pot, heat 1 1/2 teaspoons of olive oil and saute 1 chopped medium red onion, 2 cloves of minced garlic, 1 grated carrot, and 1/2 cup of finely chopped red pepper until soft.Ģ. ![]() The red is supposed to symbolize the returning of the sun and coming spring.ġ. ![]() We always read Brigid’s Cloak: An Ancient Irish Story by Bryce Milligan. There are a couple things we traditionally do on St. No wonder I like her so much– I have lots of little ones and I love cheese. boatmen, chicken farmers, children, dairymaids, dairy workers, infants Ireland, midwives, nuns, poets, the poor, scholars and travelers. Brigid is the patron saint of (among other things): babies, blacksmiths. For another, it has some great feasts and festivals in it, especially in the first half. Does that sound crazy? Perhaps it is, but I love it nonetheless. I would like to be watching Heaven’s family drinking it through all eternity.” ~St. I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I would like myself to be a rent payer to the Lord that I should suffer distress, that he would bestow a good blessing upon me. ![]() ![]() I would like the friends of Heaven to be gathered around us from all parts. I would like the three Marys of illustrious renown to be with us. I would like cheerfulness to preside over all. “I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the Village of the Pure, and though Alice and Hatcher would do anything to avoid it, it lies directly in their path. The Mercy Seat There is a place hidden in the mountains, where all the people hate and fear magic and Magicians. Then his boss tells him he's going to battle the fearsome Grinder, a man who never leaves his opponents alive. Once, he was a boy called Nicholas, and Nicholas fancied himself the best fighter in the Old City. Each of the novellas are must-reads for fans of the duology (which features the fantastical horrors Alice, and Red Queen). When I First Came to Town Hatcher wasn't always Hatcher. Looking Glass comprises 4 novellas set in the dangerous and distinctly grown-up world of Alice a childs story turned on its head by talented author Christina Henry. Christina Henry Henry (The Ghost Tree) pits the characters in this lumpy thriller against two formidable menaces: a gun-toting religious zealot and a rampaging cryptid. ![]() Alice has been dreaming of a cottage by a lake and a field of wildflowers, but while walking blind in a snowstorm she stumbles into a house that only seems empty and abandoned. Girl in Amber Alice and Hatcher are just looking for a place to rest. That secret is a butterfly that lives in a jar, a butterfly that was supposed to be gone forever, a butterfly that used to be called the Jabberwock. But someone knows her secret-someone who has a secret of his own. Lovely Creature In the New City lives a girl with a secret: Elizabeth can do magic. In four new novellas, Christina Henry returns to the world of Alice and Red Queen, where magic runs as freely as secrets and blood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrée Barguet, Gallimard collection Folio, Paris » Introduction of: HERODOTE, (1985), L’enquête (Histories), Livres I à IV, transl. “By presenting his research to the public, Herodotus of Halicarnassus intends to preserve from oblivion the actions of men, to celebrate the great and wonderful deeds of the Greeks and Barbarians, and, regardless of all these things, to develop the motives which led them to make war against each other. As early as Herodotus and Thucydides, the “fathers” of history, the main announced subject of this discipline in the making was undoubtedly war, whether it be Herodotus’ Greco-Persian Wars: ![]() Just as for a long time the infantry was the “queen” of battles, military history was the “queen” of history as a science. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only chance for salvation lies in a desperate quest that may take more from Aelin than she has to give, a quest that forces her to choose what-and who-she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of peace. But as monsters emerge from the horrors of the past, dark forces stand poised to claim her world. With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side and her fealty pledged to the people she is determined to save, Aelin will delve into the depths of her power to protect those she loves. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves increasingly at odds with those who don't. The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. War is brewing in the fifth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Only the greatest sacrifice can turn the tide of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved Scarlet’s fiery attitude from the start and the fact that she’s a redhead made me like her even more. Picking up immediately where Cinder left off, Scarlet was told from multiple POVs, mainly Scarlet and Cinder. ![]() Though not lacking any emotion in all that flurry. Scarlet was simply captivating, suspenseful and action-packed. Reading, that is, not sobbing and squealing (though I did have a fair share of minor sniffling and cooing episodes with JZ who was sitting beside me reading The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, which she was also sniffling and cooing over). įinishing Scarlet while in my school hall was the one of the hardest things I’ve done – praying to God I won’t start sobbing then squealing like an idiot infront of my schoolmates. Together they must challenge the evil queen, who will stop at nothing to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner. Meanwhile, in New Beijing, Cinder will become the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive – when she breaks out of prison to stay one step ahead of vicious Queen Levana.Īs Scarlet and Wolf expose one mystery, they encounter Cinder and a new one unravels. The only person Scarlet can turn to is Wolf, a street fighter she does not trust, but they are drawn to each other. ![]() |