![]() ![]() It was a role she handled with charm, dignity, and the necessary elements of both humor and cunning. It was a role she was accustomed to because Jane Cox was married to Dan Cox, also known as "Wolfman," which made her the First Lady of the United States. The chief chaperone and planner of the event was Jane Cox. They were all understandably excited about being on hallowed ground where the likes of Kennedy and Reagan had trod. A dozen kids were in attendance along with appropriate chaperones. The birthday party was in the bowling center. The hundred-and-thirty-acre property was rustic and had many outdoor pursuits, including tennis courts, hiking trails, and exactly one practice hole for presidential golfers. ![]() It had acquired its current and far less exotic moniker from Dwight Eisenhower, who named it after his grandson. Shangri-La by FDR, because it was essentially replacing the presidential yacht. A former recreation camp built by the WPA during the Great Depression, it was turned into the presidential retreat and named the U.S.S. Under either name, it was not a typical venue for a preteen's birthday party. The facility was officially designated by the Defense Department as Naval Support Facility Thurmont, yet most Americans knew it as Camp David. ![]() ![]() Gleeful laughter as gifts were unwrapped floated into the air alongside the menacing thump-thump of an arriving chopper's downward prop wash. Elegant forks digging into creamy goodies while toughened fingers coiled around curved metal trigger guards. ![]()
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Blackmailed into spying on her kindly employers, she’s soon juggling a dizzying tangle of plots, betrayals and lies, desperate to preserve the most dangerous secret of all…her own. ![]() Digger knows the rules-Stay Alive, Don’t Get Caught, Don’t Get Involved-but they’re tricky to follow when a job gone sour lands her with a dead partner, brutal Greenmen on her trail and a cushy hideout as an aristocratic lady’s maid. ![]() Kirkus: “An adolescent thief threads a treacherous labyrinth of politics and sorcery in this fine series opener. ![]() ![]() ![]() The primary antagonist and motivator within this story is that, in the background of every encounter, there is the beginning, spreading, and devastation of an epidemic occurring across the U.S. Real Women Have Bodies, on the other hand, is about a pandemic that only affects women, dissolving their bodies from the outside in until they are completely transparent. 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"We just choose a club that's so boring, nobody in their right mind would ever in a million years join it. He’s since published twelve more novels and had eight of his screenplays optioned by producers. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. Based on Brent Hartingers best-selling critically acclaimed novel, Geography Club is a smart, fast, and funny account of contemporary teenagers as they discover their own sexual identities, dreams, and values. Brent Hartinger (brenthartinger) wrote the YA classic Geography Club (2003), which was a Lambda Award finalist, was adapted as a 2013 feature film, and is now being developed as a television series. My intellectual aim is to extend work on the. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. In this paper I offer a geographers reading of Brent Hartingers American teen novel Geography Club. ![]() Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. ![]() Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School. A modern classic about a group of teens discovering sexuality and identity, perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera, and David Levithan.īrent Hartinger's debut novel is a fast-paced, funny, and trenchant portrait of contemporary teenagers who may not learn any actual geography, but who learn plenty about the treacherous social terrain of high school and the even more dangerous landscape of the human heart. ![]() ![]() Posted By nancy drew girl on Thu, 22:08:00 +0530 Thank you for putting the nancy drew files. Posted By akitha riyoni on Tue, 12:46:28 +0530 Thanks u so much 4 the above books.I am very happy but please try to upload more books! 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Like, sometime around puberty most of the people get a connection to an element (earth, water, fire, air) but they vary in their powers. ![]() Especially those elemental thingies that (almost) everyone seemed to have. I liked it a lot! I mean, sure there were a whole bunch of things about the world itself that I could have used more explanation on. There's not really an overwhelming Yes! This! Read this! vibe happening, so I never felt any pressure to pick it up.Īfter all that worrying, it turns out that I liked it. Plus, this book has a lot of mixed reviews among my friends. Some of us don't do well with that sort of thing, you know?! Even the name Codex Alera is just.?Įhhhhh? Seemed like there would be too much funky Lord of the Rings y world-building for a fantasy-lite reader like myself. I've been reading Butcher's urban fantasy series, Dresden Files for a long time now, but I've avoided reading his Codex Alera stuff because it sounded too weird for me. ![]() In fact, I'm not even sure what makes something high fantasy. ![]() I don't really read a lot of high fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() He realizes that he doesn’t want this to be the last thing he does in his life so he goes back to his foster home with his friends and throughout the day he grows as a character, and Rufus’ and Peck’s roles reverse. Rufus on the other hand is a 17-year-old boy who gets his call while he’s beating up Peck, his ex-girlfriend’s current boyfriend. He spends his last day with Rufus living each of their lives to the max, saying goodbye to the people they love, and doing things they never thought they wanted to do. ![]() Now he has to catch up on everything he’s missed in the outside world in such a short time. Mateo, an anxious 18-year-old, has rarely left his room before today. The title mentions that they both die, but the best part of this book is the characters living the day fully. This book is not about death, however important to the story it is. Soon after, they meet on an app and decide to spend their last day together and live as much as they can in one day. Two boys who now have to come to terms with the fact that they are going to die at some point this very day. ![]() On September 5 after midnight Death-Cast, the organization in charge of calling people and informing them that they’re going to die sometime in the next 24 hours, calls Mateo and Rufus. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also document a growing abuse of sales distribution or 12b-1 fees among funds that are closed to new investors, almost all of which are load funds. We show evidence of this widening cost disparity since the early 1990s among new and existing equity, bond, and index funds. ![]() For example, over 2000–2004 the average annual expense ratio of load equity funds was 50 basis points higher than no-load equity funds. No-load fund companies, which tend to attract the more sophisticated investor, offer lower expenses. As the industry becomes more adept at segmenting customers by level of investment sophistication, we claim that load mutual fund companies take advantage of this ability and charge higher expenses to their target customer: the less-knowledgeable investor. This study documents the historical trend and recent abuse of annual mutual fund expenses. Prior research shows that mutual fund investors are often aware of up-front charges like sales loads, but they are less mindful of annual operating expenses, even though both types of fees lower overall performance. ![]() ![]() The late Dominica-born writer Jean Rhys, best known for her novel “ Wide Sargasso Sea” - a creatively daring, strongly feminist, and brazenly anti-colonial counter to Charlotte Brontë's “ Jane Eyre” - is considered an integral part of the literary canon, but what makes her so great? Screenshot taken from the livestream of the event. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moderator Shahidha Bari (top left) discusses the impact of the late writer Jean Rhys on Caribbean literature with United States’ writer, translator and academic Lauren Elkin (top right), British novelist and journalist Linda Grant (bottom left), and Trinidadian poet and book blogger Shivanee Ramlochan (bottom right) during an online event on Novemfacilitated by the Royal Society of Literature, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest and the British Library. ![]() ![]() When you think about climate change, do you feel hope? On this episode of our special series, Climate, Hope and Science, we examine what it means to feel hopeful for the future of our planet. ![]() Plus, we’ll share climate-focused Happiness Breaks in the weeks following those episodes. Look for new episodes April 27 and March 11. What does it take to be aware of what’s really happening, without falling into despair? How do we find hope? Do small, individual actions really matter? What happens to our minds and hearts when we connect with nature, and how can that actually protect the climate? We find the links between crisis, hope, happiness, and action. We explore the intersection of environmental well-being and our own well-being, where taking care of ourselves and the planet are one in the same and feeling good is not only possible, it’s helpful. ![]() This is the first episode of our special series, Climate, Hope & Science. ![]() In the first episode in our series Climate, Hope and Science, we explore how embracing uncertainty enables us to move beyond climate anxiety and despair to hope and action, with author and activist Rebecca Solnit. Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. ![]() |