![]() ![]() Mei’s intelligence and curiosity, the same traits that make her an outcast among the other concubines, impress the Emperor. But young Mei knows nothing of these womanly arts, yet she will give the Emperor a gift he can never forget. Some present him with fantastic gifts, such as jade pendants and scrolls of calligraphy, while others rely on their knowledge of seduction to draw his interest. Many paint their faces white and style their hair attractively, hoping to lure in the One Above All with their beauty. A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the Emperor’s attention. There is no easy path for a woman aspiring to power. You can read this before The Moon in the Palace (Empress of Bright Moon, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Moon in the Palace (Empress of Bright Moon, #1) written by Weina Dai Randel which was published in March 1st 2016. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: The Moon in the Palace (Empress of Bright Moon, #1) by Weina Dai Randel ![]()
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![]() ![]() It includes even more well-researched ideas that tell the whole story. Jan also has a link to a white paper entitled Better Reading Instruction. It tells the whole story about Science and Guided Reading. It is a well-documented paper on guided reading and science. Her newest Lit Tip on this website really is special. Here is a link to Jan’s Website- This site has many wonderful resources and information! LINK In case you want to jump to a particular topic, the highlights are time-stamped. Let’s learn a little about Jan’s background and then dive into what Jan said during the interview. Nowhere will you find a better explanation of what Guided Reading is or a better blueprint of how Guided Reading should be implemented than you will find in Jan’s book. Phonics is an important part of guided reading, as is writing and comprehension development. The social media versions of those practices are often in strawman form and bear little or no resemblance to the current models of guided reading. One thing we discussed was the current criticisms of Guided Reading and other balanced literacy practices being made by some on social media. Several literacy leaders were there, and we had an amazing discussion about the current state of affairs in teaching reading (and writing). I had the privilege of having dinner with Jan Richardson while at LitCon a couple of weeks ago. ![]() An interview with Jan Richardson about her book The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading- Jan tells the whole story about Guided Reading. ![]() ![]() Before the town crumbles, Ellsworth must pull himself from the brink of suicide, overcome his demons, and face the truth of who he was born to be by leading the town into the woods to face the evil threatening Bellhaven. The cracks between the natural and supernatural begin to widen, and tensions rise. But as they visit the “healing floor” more frequently, the people begin to turn on one another, and the unusually tolerant town becomes anything but. Upon the discovery of a small chapel deep in the Bellhaven woods, healing seems to fall upon the townspeople, bringing peace after several years of mourning. Until he finally takes notice of the changes in his town. The people of Bellhaven have always looked to Ellsworth Newberry for guidance, but after losing his wife and his future as a professional pitcher, he is moments away from testing his mortality once and for all. ![]() But they soon realize that evil can come in the most beautiful of forms. In the wake of World War I in the small, Southern town of Bellhaven, South Carolina, the town folk believe they’ve found a little slice of heaven in a mysterious chapel in the woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() Park's new novel for middle grade readers (approximately 10 to 12 years old), is her attempt to reconcile her love for Wilder's books with her criticism of their shortcomings. Someone who wasn't white," writes Park, who is Korean American, in the author's note to "Prairie Lotus" (Clarion Books). Someone with black hair and dark eyes and tan skin. ![]() "Ultimately it meant that she would never have allowed Laura to become friends with someone like me. Like countless American girls, Linda Sue Park devoured the "Little House" novels of Wisconsin native Laura Ingalls Wilder, re-reading them and imagining herself in the stories as a friend of young Laura.īut as she grew up, Park was troubled by the way those stories treated people of color, in particular Ma's hatred of Native Americans. ![]() ![]() The Tavistock’s experimentation with puberty blockers: scrutinizing the evidence, Transgender Trend, March 2019 Michele Moore and Heather Brunskell-Evans, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019, ch. ![]() ![]() Inventing Transgender Children and Young People ,Įd. The Tavistock’s experiment with puberty blockers (29 July 2019)īritain’s experiment with puberty blockers, 685-90, 2022 DOI 10.1007/s10507-7Įstrogen is associated with greater suicidality among transgender males, and puberty suppression is not associated with better mental health outcomes for either sex,
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The old-fashioned, sepia-toned endpapers fill in more of the story: a very satisfying before-and-after progression, a la Virginia Lee Burton. The story begins on the title page (packing up their city house) by the next spread (which also incorporates the copyright page), the family has left the city behind, well out into the country. The use of the full run of the book’s real estate.And each individual illustration is tightly composed and carefully planned. Each picture connects to the one before and the one after, whether it’s one of six separate vignettes or a full page, or something in between. The book is about solid, carefully planned and -executed construction, and the line and watercolor wash art - while in a loose, relaxed style - is equally purposive, with the illustrations taking us step-by-step from the day the family moves out of their house in the city to the day they move into their new home. The integration of subject and treatment. ![]() Appropriately, it’s larger than average (after all, they are building a HOUSE). Here are things I appreciate about the book, some of which I saw right away and some of which ( thanks, Robin) I noticed only after repeated viewings/readings (it’s hard work pretending to be on the Caldecott committee!): Jonathan Bean’s Building Our House came out way back in January, so everyone probably knows by now that the book is based on a true story: the author’s parents (the ultimate DIYers) built the Bean family homestead from scratch while living in a trailer and raising three small children (!). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other miraculous structures that von Däniken considers to be artifacts of evidence to support his theory include England's Stonehenge, the Moai statues of Easter Island and the numerous Nazca Lines of Peru. That's right, humans could never have thought of using slaves and ramps to haul big stone blocks without a few courteous E.T.s. ![]() Such achievements we were apparently too stupid to hack by ourselves include the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza, which he suggests would have taken centuries to build with the technology Egyptians had at the time. Much of the book's hypothesis is based around the assumption that earlier eras of man did not possess the capacity to accomplish the wonders they did, with alien intervention being the only probable explanation. Coincidentally arriving the same year as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted a mysterious alien monolith influencing early cave-dwelling hominoid monkey men, author Erich von Däniken's 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? (the question mark was removed in some later editions) sought to impart daring new revelations of how extraterrestrial life had a sphere of influence on man's development at crucial stages of civilization. ![]() ![]() ![]() This quest sends them on all-night monitoring missions in freezing tents, mad dashes across thawing rivers, and free-climbs up rotting trees to check nests for precious eggs. ![]() ![]() And so, as Slaght and his devoted team set out to locate the owls, they aim to craft a conservation plan that helps ensure the species' survival. They are easiest to find in winter, when their tracks mark the snowy banks of the rivers where they feed. That first sighting set his calling as a scientist.ĭespite a wingspan of six feet and a height of more than two feet, the Blakiston's fish owl is highly elusive. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of Eastern Russia. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. ![]() A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's fish owl in the forbidding reaches of Eastern Russia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And that reminds me, reading Shopaholic conjures up images of Bridget Jone’s Diary, which in turn, and remotely, suggests certain Austen-esque styling. But why not, Jane Austen did that too, plus the other gender along the way. Kinsella’s Shopaholic series just might have extended that axiom to include her own gender. ![]() I learned a long time ago that the best kind of humor is the self-deprecating kind. How many books have you read that can elicit that facial response? Not that I looked at the mirror while I read, but I just noticed. I’d many LOL moments, and several times I caught myself reading with a smile on my face. (To my copy-writer friend: Nothing personal, it’s just the genre.) The book Confessions of a Shopaholic is like a commercial break: it gives you a chance to relax in between tense moments, a filler, but unlike most commercials, it’s entertaining, very funny, and not as dismissible as it looks. Ok, after reading Thomas Hardy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Philip Roth, not to mention the very hard-to-get-through Amy Bloom, all in a month’s time, I needed a break. (Didn’t he know it was for his CD that I had to make this purchase in the first place?) ![]() ‘It’s just a filler to make up the amount for free shipping,’ I said. ‘Are you serious?’ my son exclaimed as he pried open my Amazon package. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a graduate of the noted Clarion Writers Workshop (1989).Īlthough not a prolific author, having published only eleven short stories as of 2009, Chiang has to date won a string of prestigious speculative fiction awards for his works: a Nebula Award for "Tower of Babylon" (1990), the John W. ![]() He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington. He graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. ![]() Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. ![]() |