![]() ![]() Still, he is a man driven by loyalty, and she is a woman with secrets that could jeopardize Bruce’s chance to reclaim his throne. Yet Erik will sweep away Ellie’s resistance with a desire that resonates deep within her heart. Her captor may look every inch a rugged warrior, but Ellie vows that it will take more than a wickedly suggestive caress to impress her. Handpicked by Robert the Bruce to help him in his quest to free Scotland from English rule, the elite warriors of the Highland Guard face their darkest days. Category :'Fiction' THE LEGEND OF THE HIGHLAND GUARD CONTINUES. Worse, this irresistible woman is determined to prove herself immune to Erik’s charms-a challenge he cannot resist. Monica McCarty is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of numerous Scottish historical romance novels, including the Campbell series. By :'Monica McCarty' Published on by Ballantine Books. Covers are in reading order for each series. Ellie’s ordinary appearance belies the truth: She is in fact Lady Elyne de Burgh, the spirited daughter of the most powerful noble in Ireland. From Monica’s most recent release to her debut novel, click on any cover to learn more and read an excerpt. When Bruce is forced to flee, his bid for freedom rests on the shoulders of one extraordinary warrior.Įrik MacSorley is a brilliant seafarer who has never encountered a wind he could not harness or a woman he could not win-until he drags a wet, half-naked “nursemaid” out of the waters off the Irish coast. ![]() THE LEGEND OF THE HIGHLAND GUARD CONTINUES. ![]()
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![]() Tita de la Garza, the protagonist, is 15 years old at the beginning of the novel. Like Water for Chocolate is divided into 12 chapters, one for each month of the year, and each chapter comes with a Mexican recipe that correlates to a specific event in the protagonist's life. The novel won the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award for Adult Trade in 1994. ![]() Tita is only able to express herself when she cooks.Įsquivel employs magical realism to combine the supernatural with the ordinary throughout the novel. The novel follows the story of a young woman named Tita, who longs for her beloved, Pedro, but can never have him because of her mother's upholding of the family tradition: the youngest daughter cannot marry, but instead must take care of her mother until she dies. The English version of the novel was published in 1992. ![]() It was first published in Mexico in 1989. Like Water for Chocolate ( Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, she’s found memorable characters throughout the hospital population, from maverick nurses and emotionally repressed doctors to overly enthusiastic priests and shockingly difficult and self-absorbed relatives.īased on Shalof’s own experiences in various hospitals in Toronto and elsewhere, the book shows her going from a bumbling trainee to a competent, confident ICU nurse, conquering her terror and learning how to connect with patients, their families, and a tight circle of other nurses, many of whom are busy battling their own demons. She could also teach other authors a thing or two about how to recognize and sketch the essence of a character. Miraculously, having spent almost 20 years working in an intensive care unit, Shalof somehow knows more about economy of language and maintaining good pace than does many a professional memoir writer. Which is too bad, because as it turns out, the main reason to open the book is that it’s a cracking good read. ![]() ![]() Given the uninspiring title, and the fact that nursing has become such a politically charged subject, that would be a natural first assumption. The key error that potential readers of A Nurse’s Story could make is to assume that the book is chiefly a worthy, public-interest kind of volume the kind that a good citizen really ought to get around to perusing some day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You will find it is also filled with bright and cheerful illustrations. ![]() In addition, this book has life lessons like teaching the child to not give up and dealing with self esteem issues (explaining that we are all special in our own way). This Fruzzle book is great as a bedtime story or any other time. "Fruzzle's Mystery Talent" is an adorable fantasy children's book, written especially for children 3-10 year old kids. See if you can help Brown figure out what his talent is and find out if he ever discovers it.īonus: After you read the story, go back and see if you can find all the swirls, beginning with the town. Meet "Brown" Fruzzle and follow along as "Wizard" Fruzzle helps him to explore the many different talents. Everyone of us has a special talent to discover and Fruzzles are no different. We see others with great talents and we wonder what ours will be. Fruzzles sure look different than us, but deep down we all have a lot in common. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also plausible to suppose that the prospects of a happy life are better for a normal child than for a hemophiliac. ![]() The burden of caring for that child may make it impossible for her to cope with a third child but if the disabled child were to die, she would have another. Suppose a woman planning to have two children has one normal child, and then gives birth to a hemophiliac child. If one dies while she is of childbearing age, she may conceive another in its place. In that event the effect that the death of the child will have on its parents can be a reason for, rather than against, killing it. ![]() Parents may, with good reason, regret that a disabled child was ever born. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (The fact that it is already available for under $10 new and $5 or so used should also indicate something. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, The Denver Post, and is the author of Woman of the House. ![]() In a biography of one of America's top politicians, AND one who had children running all around when she was sworn in as Speaker, for this book to not have a single picture other than what's on the dust cover is ridiculous.Īnd, for the Washington Post's news editor and/or copy editors to misspell John Dingell's name with one "l" and Charles Rangel's with two is sloppy. But, we don't get nearly enough about her pre-election years in San Francisco, not enough detail about how she juggled this and five children, though we do get a few anecdotes, and we don't get a long-term perspective view of how frustrated she does, or does not, feel, with how little the Democratic Congress has accomplished on Iraq in 2007.Īmong other things that are missing - pictures. In short, this is a typical rush-job first bio, especially a typical first bio of a political figure produced by a journalist rather than a professional historian.īzdek does a decent job on Pelosi the politician, at least as far as Pelosi the political strategist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Besides being a low-key celebration of a father’s love for his daughter, the story has the added benefit of unobtrusively teaching young children about how the moon’s size seems to change through the weeks of the month. The same effect occurs for the almost poster-size display showing how large the imposing moon is, when the father acknowledges it’s now too big to bring home to his daughter. When the girl’s father takes a high ladder to climb up to the moon, the upward-extended flap shows how high the thin, desolate row of steps extends into the limitless sky. But the simple story of a girl whose father brings her the moon is also boosted by a slight gimmick: several of the pages fold up or down or open out to display extensive spreads of the happenings. Bold colors and collage like compositions mark this as distinctively Carle. Monica’s father fulfills her request by bringing the moon down from the sky after it’s small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size. Beautiful illustrations are enhanced by dramatic fold-out pages in this moving and imaginative tale of a father’s love for his daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That joke (and variations on it) are, trust me, the only funny thing that has ever come out of semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism or deconstructionism. When the king of the deconstructionists Jacques Derrida (of whose work ‘abstruse’ would count as a highly charitable description) passed away in 2004, satirical website The Onion ran a single sentence headline: ' Jacques Derrida “dies” '. For obvious reasons, academic texts that deal with semiotics (and structuralism, and post-structuralism, and deconstructivism) tend towards the abstruse. ![]() It was as a semiologist that Barthes (b 1915 - d 1980) was best known, and in simple terms, semiotics is the study of signs, symbols and their meaning. If you’ve never heard of Roland Barthes, congrats - clearly you were never forced to study structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstructionism or semiotics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lavishly illustrated throughout, look no further for your essential guide to the pantheon of world art. ![]() It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and traces how one genre informed another - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, and how Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese prints. It analyses recurring themes such as love and religion, explaining key genres from Romanesque to Conceptual art.Īrt That Changed the World explores each artist's key works and vision, showing details of their technique, such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. Art That Changed the World covers the full sweep of world art, including the Ming era in China, and Japanese, Hindu, and Indigenous Australian art. Utne Reader, 'Aside from being an art lover's muse, Art That Changed the World is a perfect coffee table solution for any home in need of conversation or enlightenment' The Art Mag 'Informative new book on history of art movements makes a loaded subject an easy and enjoyable read. Enjoy iconic must-see works, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Monet's Waterlilies and discover less familiar artists and genres from all parts of the globe. This beautiful book brings you the very best of world art from cave paintings to Neoexpressionism. ![]() Experience the uplifting power of art on this breathtaking visual tour of 2,500 paintings and sculptures created by more than 700 artists from Michelangelo to Damien Hirst. ![]() ![]() (Almost) unique combinations of words can be searched for online, and if they have appeared in a published text, the search will identify where. SIPs with a linguistic density of two or three words, adjective, adjective, noun or adverb, adverb, verb, will signal the author's attitude, premise or conclusions to the reader or express an important idea.Īnother use of SIPs is as a detection tool for plagiarism. ![]() Christian Rudder has also used this concept with data from online dating profiles and Twitter posts to determine the phrases most characteristic of a given race or gender in his book Dataclysm. uses this concept in determining keywords for a given book or chapter, since keywords of a book or chapter are likely to appear disproportionately within that section. ![]() ![]() A statistically improbable phrase ( SIP) is a phrase or set of words that occurs more frequently in a document (or collection of documents) than in some larger corpus. ![]() |