5/24/2023 0 Comments Sunflower sisters book review![]() ![]() Putting face cream on to make their skin bright and fair. Suggesting that they do not sit in the sun so that they do not get a tan before the wedding. ![]() ![]() As family members start to arrive for the wedding preparations they make unwanted and outdated comments about the girls’ skin colour. For Amrita, it is her sister’s special day. Loving one another for who we are is a great way to change the world.”īest friends Amrita and Kiki are preparing for the weddings of their siblings. The most important message from this stunning picture book is a beautiful one At the back of this book there is a brilliant page explaining what colourism is, why it is bad and what we can to change this. Sunflower Sisters offers a window into the lived experiences of those affected by colourism, when people are treated differently because of the shade, tone and colour of their skin. Have you heard of colourism? I had not until I read this beautiful new book from Owlet Press. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Edenbrooke philip![]() She sounded like someone for whom English wasn't her first language, mimicking a British accent while speaking very slowly and deliberately in a fake falsetto. Will definitely read this again someday!!!! Audiobook review: From the start, that woman's voice annoyed me. Not that it wasn't still frustrating, but it was believable. ![]() So, for me, a lot of her confusion about Phillip and his intentions and the way she took absolutely everything everyone said at face value made sense. ![]() There she learned absolutely nothing about men or the outside world, preferring to seek out nature instead of being a elegant young lady in search of a husband. Her twin sister embraced London and life in the city, but Marianne longed to go back to the country as she stayed in Bath with her curmudgeonly grandmother. Her mother died a little over a year before and her father abruptly left in his grief, sending his twin daughters to stay with different relatives. At only 17, she had been completely sheltered her entire life. ![]() I was on the verge of being annoyed with Marianne at times, but I could never hold onto it. I loved Phillip and Marianne and all of their teasing. This book isn't perfect, but I found myself smiling so much when I was listening to it, I just fell in love with it. Maybe 4.5, but I'm rounding it up because I still feel all warm and fuzzy after finishing it. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Collide by gail mchugh![]() ![]() In late October of her senior year in college, she received the call. ![]() ![]() She rested her head against the window and let her mind drift over the past several months. Her heart sank further as she inwardly said goodbye to the only true home she had ever known. She forced a smile and then hesitantly turned, watching the snowcapped mountains disappear beneath the clouds. "Before you know it, we'll be on the ground again." "Everything's going to be alright, Em," he whispered. She could tell he noticed the look on her face was filled with the uncertainty of what lay ahead.Īs he held her hand, Dillon leaned over and stroked a piece of hair away from her face. Looking at her was one of the reasons she still woke up every day - her boyfriend, Dillon. However, this trip included none of those enjoyments - it only held feelings of loss and grief. Though she did remember times where the torture of being 30,000 feet in the air was actually worthwhile - the first time she left home for college, an escape to a tropical island, or a visit to see her beloved family. She had never been fond of flying in fact, it scared the living shit out of her. Gripping the sides of the seat, palms sweaty, Emily Cooper closed her eyes as the engines prepared for takeoff. She calculated the flight from Colorado to New York at three hours and forty-five minutes, after which, she knew her life would be forever changed - more so than it already had. ![]() ![]() By continuing to create new, woman-centered content every day, his nursery was ever present in the ears of people who made the household buying decisions. ![]() He asked listeners to write in with their addresses for a free flower bulb - and quickly expanded his catalogue mailing list. In 1925, the early days of radio, May saw the new medium as way to build an audience for his products. The station was the brainchild of Earl May, owner of the May Seed and Nursery Company. "We shared what we were doing with our families, what we were cooking, what we were eating." Birkby began hostingĭown a Country Lane out of Shenandoah, Iowa, 65 years ago on KMA radio. "We were just women who shared our lives," says. ![]() And just like podcasts today, their shows were often personal, off-the-cuff and straight from the kitchen table. These early 20th-century women offered recipes, life hacks and insights for the modern farmer's wife. Long before the homemade vibes of food podcasts, there were folksy radio homemakers. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Unraveled by Courtney Milan![]() ![]() The realistic, loving, and often painful sibling relationships between Ash, Mark, and Smite kept me coming back for book after book, and they concluded so perfectly in Unraveled. The Turners each overcome their insane mother’s abuse in different ways, but the full background unfolds throughout the trilogy, finally resolving by the end of Smite’s tale. ![]() As common as “brothers” series are, I’ve never read a romance novel that connects separate stories so well. Speaking of the Turners, Milan elevates the “brothers” trope to new heights-both in the overall series and Unraveled specifically. I’m a huge sucker for well-timed context for old characters in a new setting, and Milan delivered. He values justice over everything because he wants to prevent the starvation and abuse he experienced himself. He fears intimacy because of his trauma-filled past, not because he’s too proud to hang out with Ash. Viewed from a new perspective, Smite’s odd reticence and black-and-white view of morality just make sense. Smite’s not the emotionless automaton that he seems in the first two Turner books, but his character hasn’t dramatically changed since his scenes in Ash and Mark’s stories, either. No flat caricatures for Milan-each main and secondary character breathed new life in Unraveled, regardless of their past appearances. The characters in this novel surprised me with their depth. Unraveled = delicious hot cocoa, if hot cocoa also made me cry. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Book turn of the key![]() ![]() It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the home’s cameras, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare-one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten-by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss-a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. Westaway comes this thrilling novel that explores the dark side of technology. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lying Game and The Death of Mrs. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell![]() ![]() With the same meticulous research and attention to detail that distinguishes the rest of the bestselling series of Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell has recreated the 1799 campaign against Seringapatam which made the British masters of southern India, a campaign that pitted brutalized soldiers against an ancient and splendid civilization. But in fleeing Hakeswill he enters the confusing, exotic and dangerous world of the Tippoo and Sharpe will need all his wits just to stay alive, let alone save the British army from catastrophe. When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo's forces Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue, a chance he snatched in order to escape from the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. And always he is surrounded by tigers, both living and ornamental…any prisoner of the Tippoo can expect a savage end. The British must remove this potentate from his tiger throne, but he has gone to extraordinary lengths to defend his city from attack. Sharpe and the rest of his battalion, along with the rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are about to embark upon the siege of Seringapatam, island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore. ![]() ![]() Sharpe’s Tiger describes the adventures of the raw young private soldier Richard Sharpe in India, before the Peninsular War. The prequel to the series, describing Sharpe's experiences in India. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Happy birthday to you by dr seuss![]() ![]() If your order contains items that are ineligible for "Free Shipping", you will be charged for those items. On some products, special handling fees may still apply. In these instances, the standard delivery charge will be visible during the checkout process. The shipment of orders to certain remote locations is excluded from these offers. Toysrus.ca offers "Free Shipping" on select items throughout the site. Free Shipping offer excludes all large SHIP ALONE items, such as Strollers, Car Seats, Gym sets, houses, large play sets and bikes, all large furniture items and other select items. Free Shipping applies only to orders with qualifying merchandise greater than $49 and does not apply to gift cards. Any shipping expense over this $20 per order maximum amount will be charged to your order. 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A frequent lecturer in the United States and throughout the world, he has held visiting professorships in France, Israel, Japan, China, and New Zealand. His texts are market leaders around the globe. Peter Atkins is a fellow of Lincoln College in the University of Oxford and the author of more than sixty books for students and a general audience. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Stage dreams by melanie gillman![]() ![]() The plot races with fascinating glimpse of life in the Thirties as the children all search for love and stability.Ĭall Me Floy by Joanna Cooke. In 1939, Lucy, an elective mute, flees the Home for Friendless Children with Bald Doris, her big brother Eugene, and clever Nico the four find their way to the circus, where Lucy bonds with the elephants. ![]() ![]() Told from both girls’ perspectives, with a third perspective from a Jewish girl in 1941 fleeing Kiev and the advancing German army, these tales intersect, presenting a deeply affecting testament to the power of unlikely friendship in the face of bias, tragedy, and distance. In 1986 Ukraine, Valentina and Oksana are sworn enemies who find themselves thrown together when the Chernobyl power plant where their fathers work explodes. Featuring vivid settings, relatable characters, and absorbing narratives, these moving titles will inspire readers to learn more about these eras-and to question whose stories still go untold. The Challenger explosion, the Chernobyl disaster, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Civil War are among the historical backdrops for these middle grade novels. ![]() |