![]() Christos' modest American earnings make them well-to-do in Lia, while his periodic visits yield four girls and, finally, a son. It's traditional, too, for the local men to emigrate in search of work. ![]() A woman was judged by her sense of duty to her aged parents almost as much as her dedication to her children. ![]() At her mother's insistence, Eleni had remained in Lia, a decision Christos accepted. In 1948, when he was nine, Nicholas Gage's mother Eleni Gatzoyiannis was executed by Greek Communist guerrillas, The book is presented, stagily, as the outcome of his search for her killers: What had her secret feelings been? What did she want me to do? Was I capable of it? So we revert to the village of Lia, in mountainous northern Greece, for the story of Eleni's marriage to Greek-American Christos, her wartime trials, and the greater horror of Communist occupation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Young-sook and Mi-ja form a close friendship as they learn to become divers together, get married, have babies, and both suffer through a particularly difficult period of South Korea’s history right after World War II. ![]() While the diver’s history proceeds in chronological fashion, the narrative of each segment of her life is bracketed by chapters taking place in 2008. The rest of the book consists of Young-sook’s life story told from her first-person perspective. The activity taking place in 2008 is described by an omniscient narrator perceiving Young-sook as an eighty-five-year-old woman. There are two distinct points of view employed in the novel. ![]() The action of the story primarily takes place on Jeju Island off the coast of South Korea, with additional episodes occurring during a diving expedition near Vladivostok, Russia. It follows the friendship between two divers named Young-sook and Mi-ja, spanning episodes in their lives from 1938 through 2008. The Island of Sea Women explores the culture of South Korean female divers known as the haenyeo. ![]() ![]() It was the 27th time that Carmichael had been arrested and on his release on 16th June, he made his famous Black Power speech. When the marchers got to Greenwood, Mississippi, Carmichael and some of the other marchers were arrested by the police. ![]() When they heard the news, other civil rights campaigners, including Carmichael, Martin Luther King and Floyd McKissick, decided to continue the march in Meredith's name. Soon after starting his march he was shot by sniper. On 5th June, 1966, James Meredith started a solitary March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson, to protest against racism. Carmichael also worked on the Freedom Summer project and in 1966 became chairman of SNCC. In Jackson, Mississippi, Carmichael was arrested and jailed for 49 days in Parchman Penitentiary. ![]() Local police were unwilling to protect these passengers and in several places they were beaten up by white mobs. After training in non-violent techniques, black and white volunteers sat next to each other as they travelled through the Deep South. ![]() In 1961 Carmichael became a member of the Freedom Riders. He entered Howard University in 1960 and soon afterwards joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Carmichael moved to the United States in 1952 and attended high school in New York City. Stokely Carmichael was born in the Port of Spain, Trinidad, on 29th June, 1941. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because he is married, they often travel to a remote caravan to have sex. Jodie maintains an affair with one of her teachers, Mr. Hamish, who lives with his girlfriend and young daughter, gives Mungo a knife with which to protect himself. Mo-Maw admits that she has found a new lover and that this has prevented her from coming home. Mungo and Jodie soon find their mother working at a snack bar. He meets James Jamieson, the 16-year-old who operates the doocot. As Mungo wanders the projects, he comes upon a doocot (a structure for housing pigeons). Several days later, Hamish visits Mungo and resolves to turn his brother into a man. The police arrive Hamish injures a policeman to aid Mungo’s escape. Hamish forces Mungo to accompany the group into a builder’s yard, where they steal and destroy equipment. As Mungo searches for Mo-Maw, he encounters his older brother, Hamish, who leads a Protestant gang. In moments of stress, Mungo develops a facial tic. His older sister, Jodie, comforts him when their alcoholic mother, Mo-Maw, disappears (their father died prior to Mungo’s birth). Mungo Hamilton is a 15-year-old boy living in a housing project in Glasgow’s East End. While the story unfolds nonlinearly, this summary presents its events in a linear order. Stuart utilizes the past tense throughout the narrative. Grove Press, 2022.ĭouglas Stuart’s novel Young Mungo is written from the third-person perspective. The following version of this book was used to create this guide: Stuart, Douglas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL13007758W Page_number_confidence 94.89 Pages 374 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210527073820 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 719 Scandate 20210525095036 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9789725643839 Tts_version 4. ![]() Urn:lcp:apologiadahistor0000boni:epub:ce5f6dfe-0209-4661-8dc8-ab886d99dd98 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier apologiadahistor0000boni Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0bw8qs8r Invoice 1652 Isbn 9725643836 Lccn 00333908 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang pt Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9823 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l por Old_pallet IA-NS-0000717 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:03:20 Boxid IA40123820 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Simple enough in theory.īlame it on the sun or the blazing desert heat, but as tensions flare and inhibitions melt, the most disciplined of women and the most reckless of men are about to clash in the most impossibly irresistible way. Their partnership is strictly business: She'll provide the brains, he, the brawn. Scholar Daphne Pembroke wants him to rescue her brother, who's been kidnapped by a rival seeking a fabled treasure. Now he's in Egypt, stranded in the depths of Cairo's most infamous prison, and his only way out is accepting a beautiful widow's dangerous proposal. ![]() Still, Rupert's never met an entanglement-emotional or other-he couldn't escape. He is irresistibly handsome, shockingly masculine, and irretrievably reckless, and wherever he goes, trouble follows. Rupert Carsington, fourth son of the Earl of Hargate, is his aristocratic family's favorite disaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s come to Cedar Cove to meet Tom, a man she’s been corresponding with for months, and with whom she might even be falling in love. Twenty-three-year-old Ellie Reynolds is taking a leap of faith. ![]() She’s determined to learn more about his past, but first she must face her own-and welcome three visitors who, like her, are setting out on new paths. Jo Marie knows surprisingly little about Mark’s life, due in no small part to his refusal to discuss it. ![]() However, she seems to be thinking about this particular friend a great deal lately. Despite some folks’ good-natured claims to the contrary, Jo Marie insists that Mark is only a friend. Summer is a busy season at the inn, so proprietor Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor have spent a lot of time together keeping the property running. In this enchanting novel set at Cedar Cove’s cozy Rose Harbor Inn, Debbie Macomber celebrates the power of love-and a well-timed love letter-to inspire hope and mend a broken heart. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, she’s wreaking havoc on the school play, stealing someone else’s brownies to pass off as her own, and that’s just the beginning. When she discovers the last batch of perfection potion in an abandoned laboratory, Jaclyn decides that being almost perfect isn’t perfect enough anymore.īut Jaclyn quickly discovers that the potion turns her into Jackie, a goblin-like monster who’ll do anything to make sure Jaclyn comes out on top. Vesuvius for the science fair, or practicing her lines for Fog Island: The Musical, she almost never makes mistakes. ![]() Whether she’s baking cookies for her classmates, building a replica Mt. Hyde, a secret potion accidentally turns eager-to-please eighth grader Jaclyn into Jackie, a goblin-like monster who’ll do anything to win at everything she does - no matter how much chaos she creates along the way. In this heartwarming and hilarious reimagining of The Strange Case of Dr. ![]() ![]() Excerpts from Song of the Water Boatman, and Other Pond Poems, by Joyce Sidman, text copyright © 2005 by Joyce Sidman, reprinted with permission of Houghton Mifflin Company all rights reserved. Excerpt from Wild Dogs: Past and Present, by Kelly Milner Halls, copyright © 2005 by Kelly Milner Halls, reprinted with permission of Darby Creek Publishing. Excerpt from The Important Book, by Margaret Wise Brown, copyright © 1949 by Margaret Wise Brown, reprinted with permission of HarperCollins. ![]() Excerpt from The Wise Woman and Her Secret, by Eve Merriam, text copyright © 1999 by Eve Merriam, reprinted with permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. ![]() ![]() Excerpts from See the Ocean, by Estelle Condra, copyright © 1994 by Estelle Condra, reprinted with permission of Inclusive Books, LLC all rights reserved. JUDI MOREILLON Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension MAXIMIZING YOUR IMPACT Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension M a x i m i z i n g Y o u r Im p a ct J U D I M OR E I L L ON AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Chicago 2007 While extensive effort has gone into ensuring the reliability of information appearing in this book, the publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, on the accuracy or reliability of the information, and does not assume and hereby disclaims any liability to any person for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions in this publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to these three preferments, you may also encounter pâtés fermentées (originally, this was made by breaking off a bit of the mixed dough, then keeping it overnight and incorporating it into the next batch), sponges (which typically only ferment for a couple hours), and soakers (these are made by soaking non-yeasted ingredients, like cornmeal or cracked wheat, overnight in order to release some of the starches’ sugars). (If all of this sounds very confusing to you, you are not alone! I recommend Bryan’s book, New World Sourdough, or any of the others referred to in this article, which lay it out in more detail.) Sometimes that is simply a portion of the starter, bubbly, and alive other times, the starter is a starting point for a levain with a different hydration level (as in, it might be stiffer or looser than the starter itself) or a different ratio of white to whole wheat (or rye!) flour. The difference between starter and levain is confusing (especially because levain is the French word for sourdough), but oftentimes bakers refer to the levain as the portion of the starter that is active and ready to be incorporated into the rest of the ingredients. ![]() |