![]() ![]() Most ships were making their final trips of the season their captains knew that as autumn turned to winter the weather would only get worse, and then the lakes would freeze. Weather Bureau) issued storm warnings on Friday morning, November 7, the warnings contained no hint of anything more than 50-mile-per-hour winds for Friday and Saturday. The storm lasted four days, with sustained winds as high as 75 miles per hour, freezing temperatures, white-out blizzard conditions, and mountainous seas. heartland, and the result was a violent weather bomb and the worst recorded storm in Great Lakes history. Meteorologists now believe that a blast of cold polar air met a warm, moist air mass entrained in a low-pressure cell moving up from the Gulf of Mexico through the U.S. Gales of November - like the one that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald in the 1970s - are a fact of life for Great Lakes mariners, but this one was anything but ordinary. In early November 1913, not quite 19 months after the loss of the Titanic in midatlantic, an autumn gale descended on the Great Lakes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Regeneration describes how an inclusive movement can engage the majority of humanity to save the world from the threat of global warming, with climate solutions that directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world. A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hamlet, who has returned safely to confront the king, agrees to a fencing match with Ophelia’s brother, Laertes, who secretly poisons his own rapier. Claudius sends Hamlet away as part of a deadly plot.After Polonius’s death, Ophelia goes mad and later drowns. Hamlet, now free to act, mistakenly kills Polonius, thinking he is Claudius. When the councilor Polonius learns from his daughter, Ophelia, that Hamlet has visited her in an apparently distracted state, Polonius attributes the prince’s condition to lovesickness, and he sets a trap for Hamlet using Ophelia as bait.To confirm Claudius’s guilt, Hamlet arranges for a play that mimics the murder Claudius’s reaction is that of a guilty man. When the king of Denmark, Prince Hamlet’s father, suddenly dies, Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, marries his uncle Claudius, who becomes the new king.A spirit who claims to be the ghost of Hamlet’s father describes his murder at the hands of Claudius and demands that Hamlet avenge the killing. Entire Play Events before the start of Hamlet set the stage for tragedy. ![]() ![]() I listened to the unabridged audio edition read by Stefan Rudnicki. I hope to read the final novel in the trilogy, Genghis, Bones of the Hills, before year's end. ![]() The story is fascinating and very well done. Despite strong enemies, setbacks, and betrayals, Genghis stayed true to his vision of uniting the Mongol tribes under one leader. Although I finished the first book, Genghis, Birth of an Empire, the day I started my blog, I didn't review it here.Īs I wrote last fall, Birth of an Empire covers the first 30 years of Genghis's life, provides the needed background for understanding his relationships with his family, and presents the key events that shaped his personality and ambitions. ![]() I posted my review of Genghis, Lords of the Bow last November. Iggulden's Genghis trilogy fits the bill. ![]() I love historical fiction, and I'm always happy to find a well-written novel that is set in a time or place that is relatively unfamiliar to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, oddly, the second YA novel I’ve read recently where signing is a main character’s primary means of communicating: Frances Hardinge’s Deeplight was the other. So reading Pet and finding that Jam – a transgender girl – is also bilingual between sign language and voiced language is wonderful and touching. It comes out on some of the words she has trouble pronouncing, or when she is really tired or ill. She is having a lot of support and help and intervention and her spoken language has now caught up, but the sign language is still there. She was almost entirely reliant on sign language – which I had to try to teach myself in order to teach her – when she began school. My daughter – who is now six – has an unidentified speech and communication delay. Now I have to make an admission here: I am biased. Jam and her best friend Redemption go on a hunt through Lucille to find and deal with a monster, aided by the hulking form of Pet. ![]() ![]() The story focuses on the town of Lucille in a unnamed country and, as so many Young Adult novels do, follows a young adult protagonist: Jam – one of the most vivid and alive characters I’ve come across recently. This is one of those books that leave you in absolute awe. ![]() ![]() ![]() He meets an ugly hag who promises to tell him the answer – but only if he agrees to grant her a favour in exchange. After he rapes a maiden, a young knight is sent away to undergo his penance, tasked with finding out what it is that women want. The Wife of Bath is more famous as a character in The Canterbury Tales than her tale, which is a brutal tale of rape set in Arthurian England. Yblessed be God that I have wedded fyve … ![]() No man hath swich that in this world alyve is. Which yifte of God hadde he for alle his wyvys! In an attempt to get his own back on the Miller, the Reeve tells this comic tale about a Miller who is duped by a couple of men. The Reeve doesn’t enjoy the Miller’s tale much, not least because the cuckolded husband was a carpenter, and the Reeve himself is a bit of a carpenter himself. Upon the whiche brook ther stant a melle Īnd this is verray sooth that I yow telle: Ther gooth a brook, and over that a brigge, At Trumpyngtoun, nat fer fro Cantebrigge, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A gift like no other for fans of the series, old or new." ![]() With full-color illustrations throughout, a fun new tale from Redwall to tie together all the recipes, and a special note from Brian Jacques himself, The Redwall Cookbook is certain to turn inexperienced Dibbuns into seasoned chefs. Now you can create-and even better, EAT - all the fantastic dishes found only behind the Abbey walls of Redwall, home to the brave creatures of Mossflower Wood. Mole's Favourite Deeper 'n Ever Turnip 'n' Tater 'n' Beetroot Pie washed down with Summmer Strawberry Fizz. Great Hall Gooseberry Fool, Shrimp 'n' Hotroot Soup. Use keywords to find the product you are looking for.įor almost twenty years, devoted gluttons of the Tales of Redwall have craved the most tantalising of dishes. Top » Catalog » Hardback Books » Large glossy paperback Redwall La Dita Book Club Warning: to_start is enabled - please disable this php feature in php.ini and restart the web server. ![]() ![]() The protagonist is Yuko Moriguchi, a victim and vigilante in ravenous search of revenge. Think of “Confessions” as the “Gone Girl” of Japan - a twisted tale about a girl (OK, woman) who is pretty far gone and going further. It was then adapted into a movie, which also won a bunch of awards, and was selected as Japan’s entry for best foreign language film for the 2010 Oscars. It was published in 2008 to immediate acclaim, becoming a runaway hit and winning a slew of awards. “Confessions” is new to most American readers, but it’s already a literary phenomenon in Japan. Somewhere between the laundry and cooking, she wrote her debut, “Confessions,” the most delightfully evil book you will read this year. Before she became a bestselling novelist, Kanae Minato was a Japanese home economics teacher and housewife. ![]() ![]() ![]() The way in which every one of Aza’s unfiltered thoughts was displayed on paper allowed me to understand and, to some extent, even experience overwhelming emotions that I wasn’t familiar with. ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ recounts the story of Aza Holmes, a teenager with OCD, who gets involved in the mystery of the missing millionaire – the father of her forgotten childhood friend, Davis.īut really, even as exciting as the storyline turns out to be, what strikes me about this book is that in only 400 pages, I, as a reader felt as if I’d been allowed to peek into someone’s inner world. In fact, this has easily claimed the role as my personal favourite book. An article written by Ilinca and edited by Danielĭespite my preconceived impression that this would be nothing more than a generic mystery novel, my expectations were quickly subverted. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve read it many times, and it has settled into my brain as history rather than fiction-both real and unreal at once. One of the final stories in the collection, Sur, is among the finest short stories I’ve ever read: it tells of a group of women who ventured to the South pole before anyone else, but who kept the tale of their adventure to themselves. ![]() Among my favorites are The Shobies’ Story, which tells of a ship that travels instantly from one point to another and Solitude, which takes place on a planet where women often live alone. The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands. ![]() I’ll confess I’m drawn to the second half, and especially to the Hainish stories it’s especially satisfying to read so many of them back to back and see how she used the barest scaffolding of a universe to build so many extraordinary tales. The titles of the two parts of this selected edition of Le Guin’s stories are Where on Earth and Outer Space, Inner Lands-Le Guin leaves it to the reader to decide which of these is real and which unreal. Le Guin Publisher Saga Press Copyright 2012 Collection Fiction Buy this book Bookshop ![]() |