5/30/2023 0 Comments When to trap a tiger![]() We can see the importance of the tiger in its selection as Korea’s mascot whenever they showcase the country on a worldwide scale. Some people even comment that the Korean peninsula itself resembles a tiger waiting to pounce! Tigers are often featured in many Korean folktales and stories. Tigers in Korea are a symbol of strength and power and often seen as the guardian spirit and protector of the Korean people. The tiger is strongly associated with Korean culture and is seen as representative to the identity of Koreans. Historically, the tiger has been linked with Korea from the beginning. The tiger (호랑이, horang-i) plays a significant part in Korean culture. ![]() But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal - return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni's health - Lily is tempted to agree. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Grade Level: 5th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) ![]() ![]() ![]() Volunteers needed in June! Click here to sign up. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Wilson as thinkers who gave reason a relatively low estimation, as opposed to more popular thinkers who give reason a central place in moral cognition, such as Lawrence Kohlberg and his stages of moral reasoning. In the first part of the book, Jonathan Haidt uses cross-sectional research to demonstrate social intuitionism, how people's beliefs come primarily from their intuitions, and rational thought often comes after to justify initial beliefs. In the last section, Haidt proposes that humans have an innate capacity to sometimes be "groupish" rather than "selfish". In the second section, he lays out his theory that the human brain is organized to respond to several distinct types of moral violations, much like a tongue is organized to respond to different sorts of foods. In the first section, Haidt demonstrates that people's beliefs are driven primarily by intuition, with reason operating mostly to justify beliefs that are intuitively obvious. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion is a 2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt, in which the author describes human morality as it relates to politics and religion. A simple graphic depicting survey data from the United States intended to support moral foundations theory ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The sleeper and the spindle book![]() ![]() Riddell draws in pen and ink, eschewing color-save for select gold accents-and pouring his energy into myriad, spidery lines and delicate cross-hatching that recall Aubrey Beardsley’s eerie set pieces. Something new is going on, and readers will be carried to the end by the whirlwind force of Gaiman’s imagination. Sioned Jacques, chair of the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals judging panel for 2016, said: We were blown away by Chris Riddell’s work in The Sleeper and the Spindle he is surely at. It isn’t until the travelers penetrate the castle that things tilt sideways. Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. And then you woke again, none the worse for it.” Traveling to the cursed kingdom, the queen and dwarves encounter threatening zombie sleepers and more, but the storyline is still recognizable underneath the new details. Alert readers won’t miss the hint to the queen’s identity: “Would I sleep, as they did?” she asks one of the dwarfs, who replies, “You slept for a year. ![]() ![]() Three dwarves discover a realm in which everyone has fallen asleep, and they cross into the next country to warn its queen of the great plague that threatens her people. Always a superb spinner of tales, Gaiman presents a filigreed elaboration of Sleeping Beauty that, before long, reveals itself as something more. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Three hearts and three lions![]() ![]() Seeking to return to his own world, Holger is joined by Alianora, a swan maiden, and Hugi, a dwarf. He finds the clothes and armor fit him perfectly, and he knows how to use the weapons and ride the horse as well as speak fluently the local language, a very archaic form of French. The shield is emblazoned with three hearts and three lions. He finds the equipment and horse of a medieval knight waiting for him. This world is divided between the forces of Chaos, inhabiting the "Middle World" (which includes Faerie), and the forces of Law based in the human world, which is in turn divided between the Holy Roman Empire and the Saracens. With a German force closing in, Carlsen is shot – and suddenly finds himself transported to a parallel universe, a world where northern European legend concerning Charlemagne ("The Matter of France") is real. ![]() At the shore near Elsinore, he is among the group of resistance fighters trying to cover the escape to Sweden of an important scientist (evidently the nuclear physicist Niels Bohr). Holger Carlsen is an American-trained Danish engineer who joins the Danish resistance to the Nazis in World War II. Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The duke gets even by joanna shupe![]() ![]() ![]() Lucien refuses to sleep with her but wants to give her the money to help her out even more so when he realizes her and her sister were thrown out of their home 5 years ago after the death of their brother, Robert. He happens to be at the auction and recognizes the heroine and buys her for fifty thousand pounds to save her from a disgusting Earl who is about to buy her. The hero Lucien, The Duke of Blackwood, is Eliza's childhood crush and her late brother's best friend. For someone so supposedly smart and pragmatic she made a lot of dumb choices here. So much so you put yourself on an auctioning block to sell your virginity for 7 nights to the highest bidder but refuse to take the money when you find out the man who bought you is your childhood friend who refuses to sleep with you but wants to give you the money? The non-logic was not computing for me. You are living in squalor for 5 years, trying to get money to help your very sick sister. Pride and stubbornness made this character TSTL and so selfish. ![]() ![]() In 1988, it sold to Walker, and was published as "Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed". The same year, she completed a regency romance, but it was promptly rejected by a number of publishers, and she settled more earnestly to learning the craft. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moved to Ottawa, in 1985 she became a founding member of the Ottawa Romance Writers’ Association, that her “nurturing community” for the next twelve years. When her professional qualifications proved not to be usable in the Canadian labour market, and she grew up their two sons and started to write her first romances. In 1976, her scientist husband was invited to do post-doctoral research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She quickly attained a position as a youth employment officer until 1976, working first in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, and then in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. After graduation, they married on June 24, 1971. From 1966 to 1970, she obtained a degree in English history from Keele University in Staffordshire, where she met her future husband, Ken Beverley. At sixteen, she wrote her first romance, with a medieval setting, completed in installments in an exercise book. ![]() At the age of eleven she went to an all-girls boarding school, Layton Hill Convent, Blackpool. Mary Josephine Dunn was born 22 September 1947 in Lancashire, England, UK. ![]() ![]() With him at her side, Cece sets out to reunite her family-and maybe even change what it means to be a bruja along the way. Thankfully, the legendary criatura Coyote has a soft spot for humans and agrees to help her on her journey. ![]() To get into Devil's Alley, though, she'll have to become a bruja herself-while hiding her quest from her parents, her town, and the other brujas. When her older sister, Juana, is kidnapped by El Sombrerón, a powerful dark criatura, Cece is determined to bring Juana back. ![]() After all, only brujas-humans who capture and control criaturas-consort with the spirits, and brujeria is a terrible crime. But Cecelia Rios has always believed there was more to the criaturas, much to her family's disapproval. Kaela Rivera 4.50 123 ratings29 reviews In this thrilling sequel to the spellbinding (ALA Booklist starred review) and mesmerizing (Publishers Weekly starred review) Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls, Cece and her sister, Juana, must journey into the stronghold of Devil’s Alley to discover the hidden origin of the dark criaturas. Living in the remote town of Tierra del Sol is dangerous, especially in the criatura months, when powerful spirits roam the desert and threaten humankind. When a powerful desert spirit kidnaps her sister, Cece Rios must learn forbidden magic to get her back, in this own voices middle grade fantasy perfect for fans of The Storm Runner and Aru Shah and the End of Time. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks![]() ![]() There's no warning attached not even a young adult specification, which is normally used to flag up books that have adult content. "There's nothing on its cover to alert readers – or parents – to the nastiness of its subject matter. Saying that the novel "makes versions of the imprisonment narrative for adult readers, such as Emma Donoghue's Room, based on the case of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who locked up his daughter for 24 years, look tame", Bradbury questioned whether books like Brooks's were "good for our teenagers". She called the book "much nastier" than other dystopian fictions such as The Hunger Games and Divergent, writing: "Here we have attempted rape, suicide and death by various means, all of it presided over by our anonymous captor, the 'dirty old man' upstairs who it's difficult not to imagine masturbating as he surveys the nubile young bodies (including a girl of nine)." ![]() ![]() But writing in the Telegraph, in a piece headlined "why wish this book on a child?" and describing The Bunker Diary as "a vile and dangerous story", literary critic Lorna Bradbury vigorously disagreed. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments No country for old men novel![]() ![]() Signed by McCarthy and numbered 25 to edition page. Original half burgundy leather with marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. This deluxe edition is highly sought for its beauty, a highlight for any McCarthy collection. A MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, and National Book Award-winner, McCarthy's reputation has been extended further with the success of the Coen brothers' Hollywood adaptation of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a major work of the McCarthy canon, exploring fate and futility in the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong in rural west Texas. Known for his "brutal and spare" narratives, Cormac McCarthy has been called "one of the greatest living novelists" (Cowley, THE GUARDIAN). ![]() Deluxe signed limited edition of this neo-Western thriller, one of McCarthy's best-known works and the basis for an Oscar-winning film. ![]() ![]() ![]() I LOVED Heated Rivalry where I first met Shane and Ilya, and found them to be such a compelling couple with a whirlwind romance. ![]() It’s time for them to decide what’s most important-hockey or love. The closeness, the intimacy, even the risk that would come with being open about their relationship…Ilya wants it all. ![]() Shane has gotten so good at hiding his feelings, sometimes Ilya questions if they even exist. He loves Ilya, but what if going public ruins everything? If Shane wants to stay at the top of his game, what he and Ilya share has to remain secret. From friends, from family, from the league. How long they’ve been keeping their relationship a secret. That’s how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. Tags: MM, Gay, Hockey, Opposites Attract, Mental Health, Depression Category: Contemporary Romance, Sports Romance, Gay Romance ![]() |