![]() ![]() ![]() The product range continues to grow today with licences around the world including baby clothing and bedding, nursery decor products and collectables. She launched the now vast merchandise programme by patenting the very first Peter Rabbit doll in 1903. With revenue from the sales of her books, Beatrix Potter bought a farm - Hill Top - in the English Lake District, where she later became a farmer and prize-winning sheep breeder. Her humorous, lively tales and beautiful illustrations have become a natural part of childhood. Tiggy-winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mr. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. See what happens when Old Brown, the terrifying owl guardian of the island decides he has had enough of silly Nutkin's cheekiness! Ouch!! Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. ![]() Join Nutkin, his brother Twinkleberry and all his cousins as they make their way over to Owl Island to gather nuts. Beatrix Potter's famous tale of a naughty squirrel who loses his tail is as popular today as it was when it was first published over 100 years ago. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is an original classic by Beatrix Potter. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Sugar Rush by Donna Kauffman![]() ![]() ![]() With her own little shop.īaxter Dunne, aka Chef Hot Cakes is a UK transplant who worked his way up to being one of the premier pastry chefs in the United States, so much so that not only does he own his own New York shop, but he also has his own television show. Head over heels, hopelessly, completely, stupidly in love. No one had been more surprised than Lani when she discovered that, at some point during the crazy intense time it took her to choose the name of the shop, install the kitchen equipment, line the shelves and cabinets with the tools of her trade, and set up her pastry displays… she’d fallen in love. The shop is still new to her, but she’s happy and setting up with a strong business plan and moving on from her unrequited feelings for her former boss Baxter. A cupcake shop called Cakes by the Cup that was all hers, in a small peaceful town where she sets her own pace and creates treats that the locals will love and enjoy. Lani moved away from her career as a head pastry chef in New York to a small island off the coast of Georgia called Sugarberry Island to open her own shop. “It’s the closest I’ve been to multiple orgasms since February.” And cheesecake.” Charlotte took a moment, hand to chest, sighed. ![]() Favorite Quote: I made cinnamon rolls, then needed something to occupy me until Tyler Florence. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Caught by A.B. Gayle![]() ![]() ![]() Introducing the #RCB Hall of Fame: Match winners, Legends, Superstars, Heroes - you can go on and on about and two individuals who are responsible for taking IPL to where it is today. ![]() Thank you very much for the very special touch." The former South African legend concluded, " The sun has moved on for Chris and I now but we are still very much a family, and we will always be. He also said that he is watching RCB play this season and it has been a special time with the teams over the years. De Villiers thanked Virat, Hesson, Nikhil, and everyone else and got emotional. The franchise gave both legends a gold-plated momento each, with their name and jersey number written on it.īoth legends also shared their feelings. Gayle and De Villiers were inducted into the RCB Hall of Fame for their extraordinary careers with the franchise. #PlayBold #WeAreChallengers #IPL2022 #ನಮ್ಮRCB #RCBHallOfFame /r7VUkxqEzP - Royal Challengers Bangalore May 17, 2022įormer RCB skipper Virat Kohli and RCB Director Mike Hesson started the event with special speeches. ![]() ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Cast in the firelight![]() The film has sub-plots involving marital discord between Karcher and his wife Debbie, and the obsessive quest of Richards to convince the CIA that alien life exists. Among those abducted are a dog, a unit of soldiers and a young girl named Lisa, whose abduction induces a heart attack in her mother. Spielberg returned to its subject matter for his third major film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).įirelight follows a group of scientists - particularly Tony Karcher and UFO believer Howard Richards - as they investigate a series of colored lights in the sky and the subsequent disappearance of people, animals and objects from the fictional American town of Freeport, Arizona. Only three minutes and forty seconds of footage has been made public, about 3% of the original length. Five hundred people came to the movie and I think somebody probably paid two dollars, because we made one dollar profit that night, and that was it." "I counted the receipts that night", Spielberg has recalled, "And we charged a dollar a ticket. Made on a budget of $500, the film was shown at a local cinema and generated a profit of $1. ![]() Firelight is a 1964 American science fiction adventure film written and directed by Steven Spielberg at the age of 17. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quiet Zinnia joins the group largely because her adventurous late brother, over whom she is grieving, would have loved it. Sixth grader Zinnia and her young aunt join the Reality Shifters, a league of Real-Life Superheroes who aim to “help the helpless bring hope to the hopeless” through such missions as delivering blankets and water to people experiencing homelessness, while raising awareness with their conspicuous costumes. But when her teammates lose sight of their goals, Zinnia must find the balance between bravery and recklessness, and learn to be a hero without her cape.Author’s note. Zinnia finally has friends and is on the kind of real-life adventures her little brother, Wally, would have loved. And a change is just what Zinnia is looking for!Īt first, she feels invincible. ![]() The Reality Shifters don’t have superpowers, but they do have the power to make positive change in their neighborhoods. Soon Zinnia finds herself in a secret club for kids who want to be heroes. He’s wearing a black eye mask! And Spandex leggings. Then she spots her new neighbor, Kris, climbing down the fire escape of their apartment building. From author of the commercial hit Maybe A Mermaid comes a middle-grade adventure about heroics in the face of grief.Įven though her family moved across the country for a “fresh start” after her little brother’s death, eleven-year-old Zinnia still feels like she’s stuck waiting for her new life to begin. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Jessie greengrass sight![]() ![]() Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen’s discovery of the X-ray and his production of an image of his wife’s hand Sigmund Freud’s development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna John Hunter’s attempts to set surgery on a scientific footing and his work, as a collaborator with his brother William and the artist Jan van Rymsdyk, on the anatomy of pregnant bodies. ![]() In Sight a woman recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. ![]() It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one – unless the only honest choice would have been to try to become this kinder version of myself without the need to bring another into it. The extraordinary first novel from the author of the prize-winning An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 ![]() ![]() In 1981, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi shows her best friend, Ponneh, an issue of Life Magazine dated January 22, 1971. ![]() And where Saba’s world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister’s experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. ![]() Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. But her parents have taught her that “all fate is written in the blood,” and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. ![]() So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and rock music. Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. ![]() A magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Time's tapestry stephen baxter![]() ![]() ![]() Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Weaver (Times Tapestry Book 4) - Kindle edition by Baxter, Stephen. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Cruelly yours![]() She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings, and worked alongside Phil Hartman and Paul "Pee-wee" Reubens, honing her comedic skills. Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and travelled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra built model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price.ĭue to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. ![]() ![]() Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. But she survived.īurned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. ![]() Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. ![]() On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Camouflage by joe haldeman![]() The first reference he makes to his alien, in the opening sentence of Camouflage, is with the word "monster." However, by then launching into a detailed description of the planet on which this creature evolved, he sets up certain expectations regarding the level of scientific credibility he intends to deliver. Haldeman is actually more honest with his readers than I've just implied. It's a shapeshifter, a changeling, a being that cannot be destroyed, and it does not hesitate to kill in order to survive. But this alien is built from elements drawn from our nightmares rather than from the elements that compose our physical world. ![]() The book contains enough science-fiction trappings to lure unsuspecting readers deep into the plot there's a distant planet and a doomed mission to Earth that traps an alien intelligence on our watery world. Disguising the book as a new piece of science fiction, Haldeman instead springs a horror tale on his audience. With the novel Camouflage, Joe Haldeman is true to his title. ![]() |