![]() ![]() Roy tries to find out who the boy is later at school, but no one seems to know anything about him. While forced to look out, Roy sees a barefoot boy running away from the bus stop. ![]() ![]() Roy Eberhardt is on the school bus when Dana Matherson, the school bully, forces his face against the window. Hoot is a story of childhood that includes Hiaasen's trademark wit and takes a whole new group of readers on a ride through Hiaasen's Florida. Roy has no way of knowing that befriending this running boy will set him on a course that will end with a demonstration against one of the country's largest pancake houses. Roy becomes fascinated with this boy, determined to find out who he is. While under attack on the school bus by Dana, Roy sees a barefoot boy running away from the bus stop. In Hoot, Roy Eberhardt is the new kid in school and as such he is the current target of school bully, Dana Matherson. Hoot is the first novel for young readers by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. ![]()
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![]() Watching these two try again was equal parts entertaining & charming. If I were to give a star for every time that Jensen made me swoon, this would be a 10+ star book. It took me a few days because of work and life but I put aside the book I was reading so I could focus solely on this book. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? Those Jensen Talks chapters were highly anticipated as the story progressed. I thought Misty was fabulous at conveying the spitfire that was Mia and Vikas was perfect as Jensen. What about Misty Stone and Vikas Adam ’s performance did you like? What was one of the most memorable moments of Paper Hearts? Would you listen to Paper Hearts again? Why?Ībsolutely! I love the narrators and I thought they did a fantastic job with this story. A must read for fans of second chance romance!! ![]() ![]() Oliver Bowden is a British writer of historical fiction and nonfiction, who published over 40 books since 1984. So begins an epic story of power, revenge, and conspiracy. ![]() To his enemies, he will become a threat dedicated to the destruction of the tyrants abusing the people of Italy. To his allies, he will become a force for change in his fight for freedom and justice. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honor, he will learn the art of the Assassins.Īlong the way, Ezio will call upon the wisdom of such great minds as Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli, knowing that survival is bound to the skills by which he must live. ![]() ![]() Rediscover the story of Ezio Auditore in this novelization of the game Assassin's Creed IIīetrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio Auditore embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. ![]() ![]() This break and celebration should be a perfect opportunity to relax and unwind, or so Will keeps telling her. Little does she know what she’s walking in to.Īlready on leave from work as a detective Elin has had a rough time, work wise and with the loss of her younger brother. I don’t think it’s somewhere she would choose to go either, but Will is fascinated by the architecture of the place. ![]() His fiancée is one of the managers of the resort. ![]() When we first meet Elin, she is travelling with her partner, Will, to this very hotel to celebrate the engagement of her brother. I’m not sure it would be somewhere I would want to stay but I can understand the curiosity it might arouse in others. The fact that an abandoned Sanatorium has been renovated into a luxury hotel is creepy enough. ![]() What an immensely creepy story The Sanatorium is! Everyone’s in danger – and anyone could be next. With access to the hotel cut off, the guests begin to panic.īut this is only the first disappearance. And things only get worse when they wake the next morning to find her brother’s fiancée is missing. ![]() But her estranged brother has invited her there for his engagement party, and she feels she has no choice but to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. A beautiful, eerie hotel in the Swiss Alps, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, is the last place Detective Elin Warner wants to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The principle of equity acknowledges that there are historically underserved and underrepresented populations and that fairness regarding these unbalanced conditions is needed to assist equality in the provision of effective opportunities to all groups. (Achugbue, 2003) Equity The guarantee of fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement while at the same time striving to identify and eliminate barriers that have prevented the full participation of some groups. A diverse group, community, or organization is one in which a variety of social and cultural characteristics exist. Diversity Psychological, physical, and social differences that occur among any and all individuals including but not limited to race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, socioeconomic status, education, marital status, language, age, gender, sexual orientation, mental or physical ability, and learning styles. Cultural Competence The capability to shift cultural perspective and adapt behavior to cultural commonality and difference. Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee Terms to Know Cultural Awareness A person's comprehension of the differences between themselves and people from other countries or other backgrounds, especially differences in attitudes and values. ![]() ![]() (Cycle? Alone? To India? From Ireland?) Dervla would probably be horrified to think of her bicycle Roz as anything other than a co-star in this extraordinary story, and the attachment which Dervla has towards the machine which propels her half way around the world is apparent throughout the book.Ī frozen Europe and bitterly cold, infinitely challenging cycling conditions did not deter Dervla from starting her trip in early 1963 - she has written and said many times that the 'Full Tilt' journey on her beloved bicycle Roz came after the death of her much loved mother, following long long period during which she nursed her through illness and invalidity. ![]() ![]() More than a few eyebrows must have been raised when she announced that she planned to cycle, alone, to Delhi. The apparent improbability of the main characters immediately attaches a certain intrigue to the book - the heroine of course, is the 31 year old Dervla, then a single young woman from Lismore in rural Ireland. Published by John Murray in 1965, Dervla's journey 'From Ireland to India' by bike is famously the coming alive of a childhood dream, born when Dervla was given a bike and an atlas for her tenth birthday. ![]() Dervla Murphy's first book, Full Tilt, has become a classic, and is the title with which she is most often associated. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eve is no stranger to the dark side of life, having been raised by a hard-edged mother whose lessons Eve tried not to pass on to her own daughter. Eve Taggert, desperate with grief over losing her daughter, takes it upon herself to find out the truth about what happened. Set in the poorest part of the Missouri Ozarks, in a small town with big secrets, The Familiar Dark opens with a murder. ![]() ![]() Sometimes the answers are worse than the questions. "From its gripping beginning to its sobering finale, Amy Engel's The Familiar Dark never fails to enthrall with surprising twists."– Associated PressĪ spellbinding story of a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an all-consuming quest for justice after her daughter is murdered on the town playground. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2020 (Mystery/Thriller) ![]() ![]() The woman, was dead on the stairs outside of her apartment and…she had no tongue.Ī few days later, a man from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation: Special Criminal Apprehension Team (CAT) came to talk with Michael, this man…. When he got there, he found the forensics team and his supervisor already at the scene of the grisly murder. As with all convicts, John says he was innocent.ĭetective Michael Ormewood was watching the Super Bowl with the Atlanta Falcons when a call came in about a murdered woman in the Grady Homes complex. ![]() Her killer, John Shelley, was apprehended, put on trial, and sent to jail for a long long time. Among her other injuries……she had no tongue. Mary Alice Finney, 15 years old was brutally murdered and mutilated. I had a choice….watch the TV show or read the books. “TripTych” is book #1 in the Will Trent series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sounds we make with our mouths to form words are a code intelligible to anyone who can hear our voices and understands the language that we speak. A code is useful if it performs a task that other codes fail to do. Best FriendsĪ code is a system for exchanging information between humans and machines, that is, a means of communication. At the end of the first part of the outline we will build a circuit that will be able to count from 0 to 256 □ Chapter 1. Starting from chapter 4 we will start building electrical circuits with light bulbs, and starting from chapter 10 we will start building logical circuits. ![]() We will learn what exactly Petzold means by a code and why binary codes are special. In Part I of this summary, we will look at Chapters 1-14. He writes bluntly that “the computer is a hierarchy with transistors at the base and information displayed on the monitor at the top”-and this is what the book is about. Petzold tries to avoid “elaborate metaphors and comparisons”. In other languages: ru Code by Charles PetzoldĪs the author says in the introduction, this is a book about how computers work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You always do stuff wrong.” Well that is his opinion. When the story was over he looked at me and said, ‘you’re kinda like Papa bear. He caught on quick and everytime Papa bear suggested something, he would say, No, don’t do it. He laughed and laughed at all the silly things Papa bear did. The nephew thought this story was hysterical. I like the ending line “Dad has shown us quite a lot about what’s smart and what’s not.” The scouts have a guide book that keeps them all safe and Papa bear doesn’t do any of those things, so of course the bears have to rescue him. This is a tongue in cheek little comedy about father bear trying to show the bear scouts what to do and everything he says is completely wrong. The stories seem better to me when they rhyme and they roll off the tongue as well. I forgot that these old stories of the Bears used to rhyme. ![]() |