Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The skepticism displayed by the Times towards the missions sent to rescue Franklin's lost expedition, was, she reveals, abnormal. ![]() Cavell demonstrates, however, that a much more varied and widespread press response occurred, turning the captains into heroes and, especially, turning John Franklin into a national martyr. ![]() We have also tended to judge the popularity of the exploration project by the sales of the narratives produced by the captains when they returned. She shows that our received picture of the place that voyages of Arctic exploration occupied in Victorian culture is flawed: we have tended to follow the line that these voyages were promoted in the Tory Quarterly Review by John Barrow and, as a result, were criticized by its Whig opponents in the Edinburgh and later in the Times. Cavell has dug deeper in the newspaper archives than any previous historian of the subject, and the results are illuminating. Janice Cavell's study investigates familiar material then, but approaches it from a new perspective - that of the popular press. The British obsession with polar exploration - only nominally a search for the Northwest passage, in fact a route to imperial glory and a stage on which to demonstrate the supposed strengths of the national character - has received much attention in scholarly and popular books over the last twenty years. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And, indeed, there does seem to be a plot underfoot to replace the reigning Royals with the recently abdicated, Nazi admiring Edward VIII and his wife, Wallis Simpson, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, once the Nazis have invaded England. In reality, she is to be on the lookout for any unusual activity that might put the future Queen of England in danger. ![]() Her new assignment is to go undercover at Windsor Castle as the maths tutor to the 14 year old Princess Elizabeth. Unfortunately for Maggie, spy school doesn't work out quite as well as she had hoped and now MI-5 is going to reassign her. Maggie, after all, is a gifted mathematician with a degree from Wellesley College and was on her way to graduate school at MIT when the war broke out while she was visiting England. Churchill's Secretary, she was leaving her post as a typist for Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain to begin espionage training for MI-5 (Military Intelligence Section 5). When last we left our WWII heroine, Maggie Hope in Mr. ![]() Princess Elizabeth's Spy is the second mystery in the Maggie Hope series by Susan Elia MacNeal. ![]() Pleasing Tree by Brooke Larson5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() If we’re going to live the rest of our lives together, what can I do to make us both comfortable in this body? Yeast-he once said, giving a batch of brew a careful ice bath-wants what we want. What do you want?-I would pray to the so-called virus of the so-called degenerative neurological disorder. It likes to eat what it likes, stay comfortably cool, and excrete to do it all again. And now, we see: a sort of magic, in so-called controlled conditions. Before that, we saw: a sort of magic, in certain conditions. ![]() Takes a million of these hungry lives clumped together to become visible. We’ve been brewing for millennia and didn’t see yeast’s role until less than two-hundred years ago. So-called water under the so-called bridge. Have you ever been roommates with a yeast infection for two years? If yes, you may have been misdiagnosed for one of those years with a degenerative neurological disorder, in a foreign country, where you crossed the border to buy medicine, aggressive medicine, to treat the wrong damn thing, incurable anyway. So I learned about yeast, and yeast learned me-at the very least intimately. ![]() The organism was eating me, and I was drinking the organism, and we both couldn’t seem to stop. At the time, as is often the case, I had a complex relationship to a single-celled organism. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Berenstain Bears and the Papa’s Day Surprise: Papa Bear makes it clear to his family that he does not believe in celebrating Father’s Day, then changes his opinion but fears it may be too late for any special treatment.The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Honey: Sister Bear, Brother Bear, Cousin Fred, and his hound Snuff search for the thief who stole Papa Bear’s blackberry honey.The Berenstain Bears Blaze a Trail: Bumbling Papa Bear tries to help the Bear Scouts earn their merit badges in hiking.This 96-page hardcover Berenstain Bears storybook, created by Stan and Jan Berenstain, includes three classic stories about Papa Bear and his curious cubs! Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love the hilarious stories in this hardcover collection: ![]() ![]() Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic storybook from Stan and Jan Berenstain. A Berenstain Bears hardcover storybook from Stan and Jan Berenstain which celebrates the bond shared between a father and his children! Its Fathers Day, and Papa thinks that Mama and the cubs have for. ![]() Dream warrior by sherrilyn kenyon5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Please remember that the Hunter sagas have been in print since 1984 and have been published in hundreds of formats. Likewise, as some of the short stories and anthologies have become unavailable, they’ve been removed from the list to keep from frustrating readers who are unable to find them. To try and keep up with the whims of the publishers, we’ve updated the titles and cover art. The reason why the list has appeared to “change” at times in the past is that in the course of the last thirty-plus years while the Dark-Hunter stories have been in print, some of the short stories have been published in a large number of anthologies and the titles of those anthologies have changed as the anthologies have gone in and out of print, and changed format. ![]() This includes all the stories that are currently widely available and their current titles. ![]() This is the order they were published in. Original Publication Date: October 12, 1984įor those who are fanatical about reading the Dark-Hunter series in the the CORRECT reading order of publication from the first story that includes all the short stories, along with the novels. ![]() The invited by jennifer mcmahon5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() While their homesteading adventure - being surrounded by nature, and living “off of the grid” and off of the land as much as possible - initially seems idyllic, this is no ordinary piece of land, with no ordinary bog. The plan is to build their dream home with their own hands in a clearing surrounded by pine forest, with a narrow path leading down to a bog. Happily married, yet both questioning their lives, they decide to shift gears, give up their teaching jobs, sell their suburban, Connecticut condo, and purchase forty-four acres of land in rural, Hartsboro, Vermont. ![]() The Invited opens with a gripping and viscerally-felt description of the fate, in 1924, of Hattie Breckenridge, an opening that grabs hold tightly, and immediately pulls the reader into this paranormal and horror-influenced tale.Ĭut to 2015, when we meet Helen and Nate Wetherell, a history teacher, and a science teacher, respectively, at a private, residential, middle school. ![]() Onyx jennifer5/12/2023 ![]() Daemon has decided he wants to be with Katy but she beleives it to be on a weird alien connection the two now share. Onyx takes place a week after Obsidian has ended. Katy is overwhelmed. Even my second time reading Onyx my obsession for a fictional character continues. ![]() Where can I find me a a super hot Luxen? Or better yet a Daemon Black? Sigh, Jennifer Armentrout created the beautiful, moody, and dangerous alien that all Lux fans are dying to get a piece of including myself. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them-from me? And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. Against all common sense, I'm falling for Daemon. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. ![]() And there's this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. ![]() If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we're linked, I’m a goner. Something worse than the Arum has come to town… ![]() So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. ![]() Permanent record audio book5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() He has received numerous awards for his public service, including the Right Livelihood Award. A systems engineer by training, he served as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, and worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency. ![]() Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic. Edward Snowden was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and grew up in the shadow of Fort Meade. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online-a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. ![]() The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Title details for Permanent Record by Edward Snowden - Wait list. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. ![]() The accidental billionaires5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order.Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university's computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus-and subsequently crashing the university's servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. ![]() They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women.Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance-and sexual success-was getting invited to join one of the university's Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends-outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Manga cover is required something wrong Modify successfully Old password is wrong The size or type of profile is not right Follower Remove The blacklist is empty like my comment: Post You haven't follow anybody yet You have no follower yet You've no message. ![]() Delete successfully! At least one picture Your haven't followed any club Follow Club * Manga name can't be empty. ![]() Are you sure to cancel publishing? Publish * Manga name has existed. Rate isn't right Size isn't right Please upload 1000*600px banner image We have sent a new password to your registered Email successfully! Please check your Email, Or send again after 60 seconds! 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