Committed philanthropists in their own lives, a portion of proceeds from each Curious George book sold flows to the Curious George Foundation, which funds programs for children that encourage inquisitiveness in learning and exploring. They had many pets-including two marmoset monkeys that joined them on one of their steamship journeys across the Atlantic. Rey created many books during their lives together, including Curious George, one of the most treasured classics of all time, as well as other favorites like Pretzel, Spotty, and Find the Constellations. Curious George has been successfully adapted into a major motion picture and an Emmy-winning television show on PBS and “Pretzel and the Puppies,” based on their picture books, is a streaming series on Apple TV+.
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When dark treachery and vicious power struggles threaten her hard-won freedom, the only thing that might help the girl known as Victrix save herself and her sisters is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors. In this highly anticipated sequel to THE VALIANT, Fallon and her warrior sisters find themselves thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, one that will threaten not only Fallon's heart - and her love for Roman soldier Cai - but the very heart of the ancient Roman Empire. Now she is about to pay the price for winning the love of the Roman people as Caesar's victorious gladiatrix. Once you win Caesar's love, you'll earn his enemies' hate. The darling of the Roman Empire is in for the fight of her life.īe brave, gladiatrix. Gladiator Fallon and her warrior sisters must face off against a rival gladiator academy in this lush sequel to the highly anticipated historical fantasy The Valiant. It allows us to dream of our release from history’s constraints by providing us with provisional images, embedded in easily identifiable and thus more persuasive forms, of what such a utopian realization might feel and look like. The primary focus in comedy is to represent the surrender of the predominant to the possible, the victory of human benevolence over the rigid stratifications of historical actuality.Ĭomedy dramatizes the utopian within the historical. Whereas tragedy is preoccupied with the annihilation of the potential by the actual, comedy is leveled at the (pitifully) remote horizon of what could be, rather than absorbed in the immediate oppression of what is. Comedy affords us the opportunity to explore how the world might look and feel with the dead weight of predominance and probability lifted from its shoulders. They witness not only the huge crabs emerging from the sea, led by a gargantuan of the species whom they dub ‘King Crab’ but the killing and consumption of a deaf and dumb beachcomber. The Professor, and his new love, Pat, decide to check the beach at night as crabs apparently are drawn by the light of the moon. More disappearances are reported along the coast between Barmouth and Rhyl. It isn’t long before the somewhat mature Professor discovers claw marks in the sand that can only have been made by a crab the size of a cow. When a search can find no trace of the pair, the Professor sets off for Wales to investigate. When Professor Cliff Davenport’s nephew takes his girlfriend for a dirty weekend in Barmouth the last thing he expects is for the two of them to get chopped up and eaten by giant crabs. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Oxygen’s hard-hitting true crime investigative series “ Cold Justice,” which returns Sunday, November 6 at 8/7c on Oxygen, has been delving into baffling small-town murder cases that have lingered for years - and sometimes decades - with no new leads.īut veteran prosecutor Kelly Siegler and her rotating team of detectives have been making a big impact, as their tireless work and years of experience have boosted investigative efforts and helped bring suspects to justice. Catch up on Cold Justice on Peacock or the Oxygen App. The plot moves along briskly with romantic tension, sex-positive moments, comedic beats, and Madeline’s determination to save the store. Madeline’s world collapses after her aunt announces that due to financial problems, the store is going to close at the end of the summer-and that her mom is moving back. After an encounter with maddeningly attractive local boy Jasper Hamada leaves Madeline swooning, she discovers that his family owns Prologue, and he works there-which leads to a series of sabotaging pranks between the two. The store’s livelihood is threatened when chain bookstore Prologue opens up across the street, quickly becoming Madeline’s nemesis. Astrid manages the bookstore while the teens’ flaky mother is off trying to become an actress in California. She and Benny, her half brother, have been raised in Pennsylvania by their maternal aunt, Astrid, and Benny’s father, Sterling, who lives in the area. Recent high school graduate Madeline Moore has grown up working at Books & Moore, her family’s bookstore, and she would love nothing more than to take over running it after college. This enemies-to-lovers romance includes a business rivalry, a deadbeat mom, and a last-gasp attempt to save a family store. I can’t not give this five stars, im sorry. I feel like the odd one out with how much everyone didn’t seem to enjoy this□□ So when my dumb-as-bricks frat bro is scoping out the house for a little experimenting fun, I throw out the offer like it isn’t the most nerve-wracking thing I’ve ever considered. When is it my turn to let loose for a moment? Study, frat duties, planning for the future. My brothers get annoyed when I put a damper on their plans, and wrangling drunken frat brothers isn’t how I pictured my Saturday nights of senior year. The problem is, the one guy who’s up for the ride, is the last one I’d expect.īeing risk manager of a frat house is nobody’s idea of a good time. There’s only one way for me to get this obsession out of my head and that’s by jumping in with both feet and putting it into practice. So when one of my brothers hooks up with a dude from another frat house, it catches me off guard when I can’t stop thinking about them … together. It’s what I’m known for, and if it’s not fun, I’m not interested, simple as that. As social chair of Sigma Beta Psi, I’m the life of the party. When someone remarks that Ramona was just like Willa Jean when she was younger, Ramona feels hurt and upset, not believing that she was ever such an exasperating spoiled pest. When Willa Jean strews tissues through the house, the guests decide to take their leave. Not wanting Willa Jean to touch any of her toys, Ramona gives Willa Jean a pop-up box of tissues to play with. Ramona is burdened with the task of keeping her friend Howie Kemp's little sister, Willa Jean, out of everybody's way. "People should not think being seven and a half years old was easy, because it wasn't." At last, Ramona's father, Robert, has a job again, so the Quimbys host a brunch to celebrate. Ramona and Her Mother won the 1981 National Book Award. She is trying to grow up, but sometimes it seems like her family is making it harder. Ramona finds herself caught between being too young to stay home alone and too old to enjoy playing with pesky Willa Jean. Quimby has found another job, though it is one he does not like very much. Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary is the fifth book of the popular Ramona series. Lady Strachey’s liberalism faltered at the sight of him actually cleaning up his plate with pieces of bread. He was five years younger, and the son of a shoemaker from the Jura town of Dole. In 1903, Dorothy (37) married the French painter Simon Bussy (1870–1954), who knew Matisse, and was on the fringes of the Bloomsbury circle. Dorothy Bussy and Marie Souvestre were both strong influences on the young Eleanor. She was later a teacher with Souvestre, and one of her pupils was Eleanor Roosevelt. She was educated at the Marie Souvestre (1830–1905) girls' school at Les Ruches, Fontainebleau, France and later in England when Souvestre removed the school to Allenswood there. Writer and critic Lytton Strachey and the first English translator of Freud, James Strachey, were her brothers. 1923 (©4))ĭorothy Bussy was a member of the Strachey family, one of ten children of Jane Strachey and the British Empire soldier and administrator Lt-Gen Sir Richard Strachey. Elisa_rolle Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (24 July 1865 – ) was an English novelist and translator, close to the Bloomsbury Group. |