![]() "A sinister story that slowly builds to a heart-pounding climax." - Kirkus Reviews "You're going to want to read this one with all the lights on." -Cat Winters, author of In the Shadow of Blackbirds "Atmospheric and chilling." -Mindy McGinnis, author of The Female of the Species And if she can't find a way out of Harrow Lake, they might just be the death of her. The more Lola discovers about the town, the more terrifying it becomes. ![]() The locals are weirdly obsessed with the film that put their town on the map-and there are strange disappearances, which the police seem determined to explain away.Īnd there's someone-or some thing-stalking her every move. ![]() Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker-she thinks nothing can scare her.īut when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she's quickly packed off to live with a grandmother she's never met in Harrow Lake, the eerie town where her father's most iconic horror movie was shot. ![]() You will race through this chilling, thrilling book." -Holly Jackson, bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder "A captivating and creeping mystery full of brilliantly twisting turns and dark secrets. ![]() A must-have thriller that will keep you gripped, keep you guessing, and keep you up all night. ![]()
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The Good Parts of JavaScript and the Web Topics: JavaScript Douglas Crockford Paypal 10 hours, 54 minutes CC In this course, you will learn the history of JavaScript, the details of the language, with particular attention to functions, which is where the power of the JavaScript language is hidden. “Names A name is a letter optionally followed by one or more letters, digits, or underbars. ![]() ![]() ![]() He devoted his whole life to athletic training and performance, but will likely never play, coach nor commentate for the game again. Turnbull also acknowledged that Hayne had lost more than his liberty. “The absence of his father and presence of any male figure has meant he places a great store in fatherhood,” said Turnbull, who acknowledged the distress Hayne, a hands-on father, felt at being separated from his children while in jail, even if it was due to his own crime. He bore a heavy responsibility as a kid, the court heard he helped raise his sisters, changing nappies, filling bottles, walking them to school. Over the years, Hayne has struggled with alcohol. At one point, his grandfather threw him out. That was a volatile, on and off relationship. ![]() His mother re-partnered with an alcoholic. ![]() “He’s had very limited contact with his father,” who apparently seemed to show up again “when the offender became a notorious footballer”, said Turnbull. His parents separated when he was a few months old. On Friday, however, the court heard the details of a childhood that was far from blessed. Jarryd Hayne took a chance mere mortals may have thought twice about. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this event, historian and independent researcher David Alston and multi-disciplinary visual artist and researcher Ashanti Harris are in conversation with Peggy Brunache, Lecturer in the History of Atlantic Slavery and Director of the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies at the University of Glasgow.ĭavid’s new book Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean focuses on the Scottish Highlanders who engaged in or benefitted from these crimes against humanity in the Caribbean Islands and Guyana.Īshanti Harris’s work focuses on recontextualising historical narratives, in particular surrounding the movement of people, ideas and things, and the wider social implications of these movements.Īs Scots recover and grapple with their past, this legacy, entwined with so many of our contemporary institutions, must be reckoned with. ![]() Scots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: from captaining slaving ships to auctioning captured Africans in the colonies and hunting down those who escaped from bondage. a connection identified by David Alston, Slaves and Highlanders William and Charles Lamont Robertson. ![]() David Alston gives voice not only to these Scots but to enslaved Africans and. 2478 has been inferred to be the estate known as Maryville in the Slave Registers based on the presence of John and Mary Ann Noble as claimants and the broadly comparable number of enslaved people. ![]() Listed Under Talks and Lectures Events / Books Events This book focuses on the Scottish Highlanders who engaged in or benefitted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life" ( The New Yorker).īased on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson "deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo" ( San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. ![]() ![]() Work your way straight down the list from top to bottom. ![]() Having said that, my suggestion is to use the sidebar on the right-hand side of this screen as a general guide and begin with either Raconteur’s or Bluecrowne. If you haven’t read any of the others yet, The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book is a great place to start, but you can also read it at any point, fitting it in anywhere you like among the others. It connects to every other one of the books, but isn’t dependent on any of them. However, here’s a short(ish) answer to get you started: If you’ve read zero of my books:įirst things first: The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book, being a piece of lore that exists independently within the Roaming World (the shared world of all my books so far), you can read it at absolutely at any time. ![]() (I tried to make a chart, but…well, it’s complicated. I’m often asked, “Where should I start?” This page is an attempt to answer that. All of the books share a world, and you will find connections between them all if you care to look. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael CartCopyright © American Library Association. ![]() For more about skywalkers, recommend Deborah Hopkinson's Sky Boys (2006), about workers who built the Empire State Building. Distinguished by its lovely, understated text and Payne's lavish and affectionate mixed-media pictures, this picture book does a quietly successful job of humanizing one of the most important feats of civil engineering in American history. Then an accident forces him to rethink things. Pop is a high-iron worker, what folks called a "skywalker." And, in the year 1937, he is one of more than a thousand men who are engaged in constructing the "impossible bridge." Robert's friend Charlie Shu's father, a painter, is also involved, but Robert secretly feels Pop's job is more important than Mr. The bridge is San Francisco's fabled Golden Gate, and Robert's father is helping to build it. ![]() ![]() She began her career as a sculptor on the set of The Muppet Show, and went on to work on such feature films as The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and The Empire Strikes Back (for which she sculpted and fabricated Yoda). Wendy Froud born in Detroit, Michigan, where she studied art and design at the Center for Creative Studies. His paintings have been exhibited around the world, won numerous awards, and have influenced a whole generation of artists and folklorists. His internationally best-selling books include Faeries (with Alan Lee), the “Lady Cottington Pressed Fairies” series, Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, The Runes of Elfland, and Brian Froud's World of Faerie. He began his career as an illustrator, worked in film (designing two cult classics: The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth), and now creates paintings, books, and other projects from his studio in the Devon countryside. Brian Froud was born in Winchester, UK, raised in Kent, and studied at Maidstone College of Art. ![]() ![]() Treasure is a gentle dystopian, frightening only is the possibility that we may not be far from the future it paints. Will they succeed in their quest to find a place of food freedom? And can they, only children, help change the world? ![]() Clare has heard of a place called The Garden State and with their bikes, a little money, and backpacks, the children begin a lonely cross-country journey that tests them both physically and spiritually. When the authorities discover the children's forbidden tomato plant and arrest their mother, Clare and her brother flee. With Ana's guidance, Clare and her friends learn about seeds and gardening despite suspicions that such actions are illegal. Ana tempts Clare with the notion that food exists other than the square, packaged food she has always known. Then one day Clare meets Ana, an older woman who teaches her about seeds and real food. In 12-year-old Clare's world, blueberry is just a flavor and apples are found only in fairy tales. ![]() Things like the weather, the Internet, and food. There's no apocalypse, but some things are different. Two kids, two bikes, and an idea they can change their world. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the UK and the USA most books are a collaboration between a writer and an artist. In Japan I estimate that about 70% of manga is made by one key person who both writes and draws. SEAN: Well that would take a whole article in itself! The process of making comic books is more subtle and complex than most realize. ![]() The quality of art and printing is also very high, with excellent illustrators involved.īOA: What is the process of putting together a graphic novel like this? They try to stay close to the original, and stay authentic to the time and language rather than ‘jazzing’ it up or putting it into a modern setting. The stand out features of these books is their dignified approach. ![]() So they asked me to do Wuthering Heights. I wrote 4 adaptations for them of classic 19th Century books: Wuthering Heights, A Centerville Ghost, A Christmas Carol and Sweeney Todd. SEAN: Classical Comics has a well-received line of Shakespeare in comic book format that are geared towards teachers and students in the UK and USA education systems. BOA: How did the idea for a graphic novel of Wuthering Heights come about? ![]() |