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![]() ![]() ![]() They are offered sparrows for lunch and horse-spit as medicine, but that is only the beginning! When they ricochet forward to their own time again, Felix and Zoe discover they have accidentally brought a high-class Roman girl with them… Can they navigate the strange Roman world – from opulent city to distant sacred spring – and return the 12-year-old girl to her family before time runs out? Suddenly he is flung back 1700 years to Ancient Roman times, dragging his very unwilling 15-year-old stepsister, Zoe, with him. When 11-year-old Felix finds a message in a bottle during a trip to France, he is in for the surprise of a lifetime. Synopsis: A pacey and action-packed time-slip adventure that carries step-siblings Felix and Zoe back to Ancient Roman times – and also, accidentally, drags a Roman girl into the present. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who do you think would most appreciate this book? Taken from her family, she is forced to be a spy for a secret agency, until she is kidnapped by three boys who are seeking revenge on the agency. That was when I first really began to enjoy reading because I saw it as something “dangerous.” I also coach youth sports, basketball and volleyball, when I’m not reading and writing.ĭescribe the plot of your new book, “Stratagem,” in a few sentences.īorn a shapeshifter, Meda is a young girl in an unfortunate situation. My mom told me not to read the Stephen King book that she brought along, so of course I did. In fifth grade, while on a family vacation, I got in a bike accident and couldn’t leave the couch. I’ve loved reading and writing my whole life which is why I became an English teacher. I grew up in rural Wisconsin, running through the woods and climbing trees. ![]() ![]() Today we are interviewing Christina Hagmann, author of “Stratagem,” a young adult suspense/fantasy novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By contrast, freemen, known as ceorls, had freedom in principle but often were too poor to exercise it. In the late medieval period, one in twenty owned fifty acres or more-substantial holdings for the time. The principal effect of serfdom was to remove the holder’s freedom to move elsewhere or marry outside the estate. ![]() Only much later did husband come to signify a marriage partner. The head of the household was the husband-a compound term meaning literally “householder” or “house owner.” His role as manager and provider was so central that the practice of land management became known as husbandry. Through the whole of the medieval period, till well into the fifteenth century, the hall effectively was the house, so much so that it became the convention to give its name to the entire dwelling, as in Hardwick Hall or Toad Hall.Įvery member of the household, including servants, retainers, dowager widows, and anyone else with a continuing attachment, was considered family-they were literally familiar, to use the word in its original sense. We don’t know anything at all about these people-where they came from, what language they spoke, what led them to settle on such a lonesome outpost on the treeless edge of Europe-but from all the evidence it appears that Skara Brae enjoyed six hundred years of uninterrupted comfort and tranquillity. ![]() ![]() ![]() But no, she is very real - and his duty to the Crown means he's stuck with her.Ĭan two wrongs make the most perfect right? Surely, his imagination is getting the better of him. Setting sail on a time-sensitive voyage to Portugal, he's stunned to find a woman waiting for him in his cabin. Known to society as a rascal and reckless privateer, Captain Andrew James Rokesby actually transports essential goods and documents for the British government. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain's bed. ![]() While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers' hideaway tucked inside a cave. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. ![]() Return to the world of the Bridgertons.įiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Ashaunt is not entirely removed from events unfolding beyond its borders. And youngest daughter Janie is entangled in an incident that cuts the season short and haunts the family for years to come.Īs the decades pass, Helen and then her son Charlie return to the Point, seeking refuge from the chaos of rapidly changing times. The children’s Scottish nurse, Bea, falls in love. That summer, the two older Porter girls-teenagers Helen and Dossie-run wild. Army arrives on the Point, bringing havoc and change. This session discusses Elizabeth Graver’s new novel The End of the Point, a multi-generational story about the trials and tribulations of a family that takes place between 19 in Ashaunt Point, a fictional beach community on Massachusetts’ seacoast.Įlizabeth Graver‘s novel takes place at a place out of time, Ashaunt Point-a tiny finger of land jutting into Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts-that has provided sanctuary and anchored life for generations of the Porter family, who summer along its remote, rocky shore. What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. ![]() ![]() This is a novel of full spectrum literary dominance. Praise for Light“Uproarious, breath-taking, exhilarating. Once crazy for life, he’s now just a twink on New Venusport, addicted to the bizarre alternate realities found in the tanks-and in debt to all the wrong people.Haunting them all through this maze of menace and mystery is the shadowy presence of the Shrander-and three enigmatic clues left on the barren surface of an asteroid under an ocean of light known as the Kefahuchi Tract: a deserted spaceship, a pair of bone dice, and a human skeleton. He “went deep”-and lived to tell about it. In this future, Ed Chianese, a drifter and adventurer, has ridden dynaflow ships, run old alien mazes, surfed stellar envelopes. But the “inhuman” K-ship captain has gone rogue, pirating the galaxy while playing cat and mouse with the authorities who made her what she is. ![]() ![]() In this future, Seria Mau Genlicher has already sacrificed her body to merge into the systems of her starship, the White Cat. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn’t yet exist-a quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to access through a breach of time and space itself. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. ![]() ![]() ![]() Author Eric Blehm, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the father of young children himself, creates a magical account that documents the moment Molly flew into the Royals’ backyard, and follows through until Molly and McGee’s owlets fledge and head out into the great wide-open. Molly the Owl is a fun and informative E-book for children and the young at heart, who have been captivated by Molly and her growing family. Written by New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm and illustrated by Chris Adams. The true story of a common barn owl, who ends up being not so common after all. ![]() ![]() The Twelfth Edition features such enhancements as more color photographs, a stunning new design, and the most current research and scholarship. ![]() The Twelfth Edition maintains and exceeds the richness of the Gardner legacy with updated research and scholarship and an even more beautiful art program featuring more color images than any other art history book available. It is the first art history book to win either award and the only title ever to win both prizes in one year. So much so, that in 2001, the Text and Academic Authors Association awarded both the McGuffey and the "Texty" Book Prizes to the Eleventh Edition of the text. By virtue of its comprehensive coverage, strong emphasis on context, and rich, accurate art reproductions, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has earned and sustained a reputation of excellence and authority. ![]() With this book in hand, thousands of students have watched the story of art unfold in its full historical, social, religious, economic, and cultural context, and thus deepened their understanding of art, architecture, painting, and sculpture. ![]() ![]() The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. ![]() ![]() This year Martha is decked out in pink tulle as the Fairy GrandMartha. She’s had some superb past costumes like the time she dressed as Medusa. One fun feature I look forward to in each Halloween issue is Martha’s own Halloween costume. So I was super excited when we were contacted by Martha’s company offering a sneak peek at what’s inside. It’s a Fall tradition for me to curl up on the sofa (after the kiddo’s bedtime of course) and devour the annual Halloween issue. Have you seen it? I spotted it on a recent shopping trip, but with my littles in tow, I didn’t have a chance to snag a copy. Martha Stewart’s Fall 2013 Halloween Special Issue just hit newsstands. Today’s post combines two of our favorite things - Halloween and Martha Stewart. ![]() |