![]() ![]() Shout out to this fabulous book, it made a guest appearance in my latest YouTube Video (all about making fun nature things out of felt). Gathering Moss will appeal to a wide range of readers, from bryologists to those interested in natural history and the environment, Native Americans, and contemporary nature and science writing. ![]() In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world. ![]() Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.ĭrawing on her diverse experiences as a scientist, mother, teacher, and writer of Native American heritage, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings, from salmon and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. ![]() Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But two other evils, a ruthless witch and her sidekick, seek the carpet for their own gain and will do whatever it takes to find it. Here, a race of magical beings have hidden themselves from the normal world to escape human persecution and an evil known as the Scourge. ![]() Together they find themselves accidently drawn into the strange world that lies beneath the mysterious rug. Cal Mooney is on the run from an escaped homing pigeon. Suzanna Parish is called to Liverpool after her grandmother has a stroke. ![]() In a home of an elderly woman in Liverpool lies a carpet. A horrifying and spellbinding tale by the “great imaginer of our time” (Quentin Tarantino) and New York Times bestselling author Clive Barker about the magical world lying right beneath our feet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Interment, Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 at 1:30P.M. ![]() Warden, 4315 North Main Street Jacksonville, FL 32206. The visitation will be 6-8P.M., Monday, May 8th, 2023 at the Funerals by T.S. The funeral service for Lillian Smith Wells will be held 11:00A.M Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 at the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1118 West Beaver Street Jacksonville, FL 32204. ![]() (Cornelia), Gwendolyn Graham (Ronald) Mildred (Willie) Sapp Oliver (Pat) Smith, and Joyce (Douglas) White sisters in law Clara Smith, Juanita Smith, Carolyn Wells Simmons, Patricia (Carl) Jenkins, and brothers in law Larry (Sandra) Wells, and Robert Wells A host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and good friends especially Gloria Herring, Gwen Washington, Jeanine Allen, and Minnie Hand. She leaves to mourn her memory her sons Adrian of Brooklyn, Andre(Robyn)Sanders of Washington, DC, and grandson Christopher Robin “Mister” siblings Benjamin Jefferson Smith, Jr. Lillian graduated with honors from Northwestern Senior High School (1960) and Grady Memorial Nursing College (Atlanta, Ga.) 1963. ![]() Lillian Smith Wells, age 80, passed away on April 27, 2023, A native of Jacksonville, Florida, The eighth of twelve children born to the late Mildred Bradley Smith and Benjamin Jefferson Smith, Sr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among others, she is the author of Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain, and the Great War (1996), An Intimate History of Killing (1999), Fear: A Cultural History (2005) and Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present (2007). She is the prize-winning author of eleven books, including histories on modern warfare, military medicine, psychology and psychiatry, the emotions, and rape. Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. 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Finch doesn’t know why she woke up after her heart stopped, but since dying she’s felt a constant pull from the school and the surrounding town of Rainwater, like something on the island is calling to her. But something monstrous, and ancient, and terrifying, wouldn’t let her drown. Months before school started, Finch and her parents got into an accident that should have left her dead at the bottom of a river. And a town on the verge of being devoured. My Dearest Darkest is a sharp, feminist horror debut about girls claiming their power and the price we sometimes pay for wanting.įinch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academy… but she’s also not what she seems. The book will be released on April 5, 2022, by Sourcebooks Fire. The cover art was designed by Kerri Resnick and the book was designed by Nicole Hower. Today we are thrilled to reveal the cover for My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to a hundred-foot drop and an unfortunate placement of rebar, I had another image to add to my things-I-can-never-unsee collection. In my own defense, the first dead guy I saw had fallen to his death at a construction site in Kalamazoo. P would scream like a twelve-year-old girl and lock himself in a bathroom. He was a tough-as-nails, real-life superhero, and I couldn’t picture any situation in which Mr. ![]() More depravity and desperation and degradation. ![]() I admired the rascally old man, a decorated war veteran and retired NYPD detective. I screamed like a twelve-year-old girl and locked myself in the bathroom. He could react the way I did the first time I saw a walking corpse a little over a month ago. It wasn’t every day a dead stripper accosted one of my regulars, but telling Mr. Pettigrew, about the dead stripper sitting next to him. I stood beside the booth and poured coffee into a beige cup that had the words FIRELIGHT GRILL written across it, wondering if I should tell my customer, Mr. Remember, it’s never too late to give LSD a shot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Tuchman takes the reader on a narrative of Dutch history that provides a background of European politics leading up to the American Revolution. The history of the Dutch republic is a cautionary tale of what Hamilton warned in the early Federalist Papers. 1 This marked the first time a foreign official formally acknowledged the sovereignty of the United States of America. That’s when the harbor’s Fort Orange fired it’s guns in salute of the Andrew Doria, an American brig flying the stripes, if not stars of the incipient nation. Eustatius, a Dutch possession in the West Indies, raised a tremendous hubbub on the world stage.  On November 16th, 1776, the seemingly innocuous island of St. ![]() The title of the book, The First Salute, refers to the first official diplomatic recognition of the United States as a distinct, separate, sovereign entity. Barbara Tuchman’s First Salute: A View of The American Revolution is a look at the American War of Independence from an external perspective. The coverage of events in America is almost tangential to the story Tuchman has to tell. Much of what she relates has a refreshingly different focus from other histories and biographies covered thus far at WWTFT. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written for beginners and scholars, for students and teachers, for philosophers and engineers, What is Mathematics?, Second Edition is a sparkling collection of mathematical gems that offers an entertaining and accessible portrait of the mathematical world. Its goal is to put the meaning back into mathematics. This new edition of Richard Courant's and Herbert Robbins's classic work seeks to address this problem. The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but does not lead to real understanding or to greater intellectual independence. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country. ![]() isOwnedB圜ollections True title Dancing at the Rascal Fair fullDescription The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. PublishDate T05:00:00+01:00 publishDateText otherFormatIdentifiers Doig lived in Seattle with his wife, Carol. He was a National Book Award finalist and received the Wallace Stegner Award, among many other honors. bioText: Ivan Doig (1939-2015) was a third-generation Montanan and the author of sixteen books, including the classic memoir This House of Sky and most recently Last Bus to Wisdom. ![]() StarRating 3.4 title Dancing at the Rascal Fair crossRefId 1371488 sortTitle Dancing at the Rascal Fair images OverDrive Product Record id 3894c6ce-9c89-4ed0-bd6c-f79dc838aa7a primar圜reator ![]() ![]() The SWAT team and Smoothville residents work around the clock to salvage Smoothville’s Christmas celebration. Is the community right? Is Luke the undercover Scrooge? Luke is excluded from the team and doesn’t seem to care. Angelica convinces Luke and Jocelyn they need a special SWAT team to identify the Grinch in their midst. Smoothville residents’ tempers flare when rumors circulate that the mayor never planned to deliver on his promise. What better way to mend the ill will caused by the recent election? As Luke and his team begin to plan for the massive event one expected to be larger than NYC’s celebration at Rockefeller Center, Smoothville City Manager, Angelica Mason discovers someone’s out to sabotage Smoothville’s Christmas Extravaganza. ![]() Mayor Luke Evans and Deputy Mayor Jocelyn Lopez promise Smoothville, Georgia residents a Christmas celebration like none other in order to heal their broken city torn apart by the recent mayoral election. ![]() |