![]() ![]() ![]() The expert consensus is that cholera is spread by “bad air” or “miasma,” but Dr. He’s still looking for more work, though, and local gentlemen pay him for odd jobs here and there. Eel used to make his living as a “mudlark,” scavenging scrap from the banks of the Thames, but these days he is more gainfully employed as the “boy-of-all-work” at the Lion Brewery. On top of that, Eel is paying board for his little brother Henry, to keep him out of Fisheye Bill’s clutches. Eel’s stepfather, the notorious ne’er-do-well Fisheye Bill Taylor, is looking for him, demanding money, and Eel is trying to save up enough to pay Fisheye Bill off for good. The novel is set in 1854, a hot summer in London, “as if the sun were a giant who’d aimed his moist, stinky breath on all of us.” Eel, who narrates the story, is desperate for money. ![]() John Snow to prove that cholera is spread by contaminated water and not, as had previously been believed, “bad air.” As well as an adventure plot and a historical setting, the novel offers an introduction for young readers to the methodology of scientific investigation. The titular Eel is an orphan boy in Victorian London, who becomes involved in the (real, historical) quest of Dr. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel is a 2013 YA novel by American author Deborah Hopkinson. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Expedition by Wayne Barlowe![]() ![]() Garvin and George Lucas.Īlien Planet garnered positive reviews as a thought-provoking programme, though some criticism was raised concerning the strange creatures featured, which some reviewers saw as bordering on implausible.Īlien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun, leaving Earth's orbit. Among the people featured are Michio Kaku, Stephen Hawking, Jack Horner, James B. Although closely following Barlowe's depiction of Darwin IV, Alien Planet features a team of scientists and science fiction figures discussing Darwin IV as if it had actually been discovered. Based on the 1990 book Expedition by the artist and writer Wayne Barlowe, Alien Planet explores the imagined extraterrestrial life of the fictional planet Darwin IV in the style of a nature documentary. ![]() Alien Planet is a 2005 docufiction TV special created for the Discovery Channel. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Stephen king room 1408 book![]() ![]() ![]() Gerald jumps but the vision quickly disappears. He turns around to look at her and catches a brief vision of Mike Enslin in his back seat, hideously burned. As he listens, he sees a young girl in his rear-view mirror waving in his direction. Gerald plays it and hears the same dialog between Mike and his daughter heard at the end of the theatrical release. Gerald returns to his car and opens the box, which contains the nightgown that was sent through the fax machine as well and the burned tape recorder. Lily, in too much grief to listen, cuts him off and refuses to accept the box. He offers it to Lily while also trying to explain, with a sense of hope, that Mike's death of was not in vain and that because of his actions no one else will *ever be able to stay in room 1408. ![]() He says the box contains some of Mike's belongings still left in the room. Gerald introduces himself and gives his condolences. As the procession ends, Lily walks to her car and is met by Gerald Olin who is carrying a box. Lily is there, being consoled by Mike's agent. The next scene is at Mike's funeral where his coffin is lowered into the ground right next to his daughter's just as the visions 1408 prophesied. The camera zooms in on the numbers on the outside door, just as they melt from the heat. Instead, the last we see of him is when he's lying on his back in the burning room and we hear the words of his daughter "everybody dies". Mike Enslin sets fire to 1408 but is not rescued by the fire department. ***Spoiler Alert - Alternate Ending*** The Director's Cut contains a more tragic ending. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Yarn to Go by Betty Hechtman![]() ![]() Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. It is perfect for what I wanted, something with no stress attached. Yarn to Go - Ebook written by Betty Hechtman. I listened to it because it is a quick, cosy mystery. ![]() This wasn't a particularly amusing book, so I didn't laugh or cry. I will definitlely listen to another book by this narrator if the story interests me.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? The narrator did different voices, Not as seemlessly done as some other readings I've heard, but it did not put me off either. ![]() What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike? I know that is not everyone's opinion, but this is mine, and I would choose or not choose a book if this kind of thing was mentioned in a review. It just grates on my ears and makes me flinch. Casey Feldstein has her hands full with preparations at the Vista Del Mar hotel on the scenic Monterey Peninsula as another yarn retre. ![]() I listened to the first of a different series and could not even listen the whole way through because of that. Betty Hechtman knits up murder and mayhem in the latest in the national bestselling Yarn Retreat Mystery series. One thing that grates at me in books is when authors use the name of God in vain, this one didn't, or didn't very often, so I was able to listen to the whole thing. Its crochet theme, Not too many cuss words, not too much sexual content. Would you consider the audio edition of Hooked on Murder to be better than the print version? Good Book, Clean content for the most part. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments A burnable book![]() ![]() As the intrigue deepens, it becomes clear that John Gower, a man with secrets of his own, may hold the key to saving the king, and England itself. Gower discovers that the book and incriminating evidence about its author have fallen into the unwitting hands of innocents, who will be drawn into a conspiracy that reaches from the king's court to London's slums and stews - and potentially implicates Gower's own son. ![]() To find the manuscript, wily bureaucrat Geoffrey Chaucer turns to fellow poet John Gower, a professional trader in information with connections high and low. Only a few powerful men know that the cryptic lines derive from a "burnable book", a seditious work that threatens the stability of the realm. Songs are heard across London - catchy verses said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the ends of England's kings - and among the book's predictions is Richard's assassination. London, 1385: Surrounded by ruthless courtiers - including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's artful mistress, Katherine Swynford - England's young king, Richard II, is in mortal peril. ![]() ![]() In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, and intrigue swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading Shards of Honour, I have to reluctantly adopt the traditional British stance of not seeing what all the fuss is about. Repeated attempts to publish the series here have failed, usually due to low sales and indifferent reviews. The series has sold more than two million copies for Baen Books in the States, but is almost unknown in the UK. ![]() ![]() Comprising (so far) fifteen novels and numerous short stories and novellas, the series has won four Hugos (including three for Best Novel), been nominated for another six and has won an additional two Locus Awards and two Nebulas. The Vorkosigan Saga is one of the most famous ongoing works of science fiction in the United States. However, Vorkosigan himself is facing a prospective mutiny led by an ambitious junior officer and both Beta and Barrayar are about to find themselves on opposing sides of a bloody war. Naismith is captured by Captain Aral Vorkosigan, the infamous Butcher of Komarr, and taken on a gruelling cross-country journey to his base camp. Cordelia Naismith, commander of a survery ship from Beta Colony, is marooned on an uncharted planet when her vessel is attacked by Barryarans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's what I loved most about this book. If book one was an tale of empowerment for girls to be daringly imaginative, inventive, creators and makers, this second book is an oh-so-precious "necessity is the mother of invention” tale of encouragement for those girls already embarked in a creative journey experiencing that creative block all creators eventually experience. Or, should I say toolbox? Because this in one magnificent STEM toolbox for girl power! ![]() How do I write a review that does justice to this 5-star-jewelry box adorned with amazing emotional imagery in the form of superbly aesthetic and whimsical illustrations? I was so looking forward to the second book in this series because I totally adored the first one, "The Most Magnificent Thing" !Īnd, I'm happy to announce that it exceeded every expectation I had! ![]() ![]() You can find arrest records for Vernon Howard in our background checks if they exist. Does Vernon Howard have a criminal record? We have marriage records for 231 people named Vernon Howard. 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While Gayle Forman states the book is fictional, inspired by a tragedy, it is difficult to conclude that ‘If I Stay’ is a fictional book. Though ‘If I Stay’ was published in 2009, the novel’s ability to give a nearly perfect definition of pain from a young adult’s perspective is something that makes the book exceptional. ![]() Pain also defined the emotions of everyone around Mia, from her grandmother to her grandfather, her best friend Kim, her extended family, and Adam. Gayle Forman’s use of the first perspective gave the book a much more realistic tone as it gave Mia a sense of existence in the real world. Mia’s world crashed, and in an instant, the pain became her world. ![]() ‘If I Stay’ is a book that gives a firsthand experience of what it means to feel pain. With the inspiration for the book based on actual events, ‘ If I Stay‘ conjures emotions from the reader, making the reader feel like a part of the story. ‘If I Stay’ was published in 2009 and was the book that catapulted Gayle Forman into the limelight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. ![]() Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. ![]() |