![]() ![]() Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America ![]() elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” – NPR “A classic that we will read for years to come.” - Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club Amor Towles ' new Great American Road Novel tails four boys three 18-year-olds who met in a juvenile reformatory, plus a brainy 8-year-old as they set. permeated with light, wit, youth.” - The New York Times Book Review A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick ![]()
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![]() ![]() She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. ![]() According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. ![]() ![]() The Genius of Birds, a book written by science writer Jennifer Ackerman that explores different kinds of bird intelligence. Ackerman explores classic examples of the exceptional intelligence of parrots, as well as lesser known instances of aviary acumen found in less exotic birds such as chickadees and sparrows. The book features research by experts focusing on social, vocal, and even spatial aspects of cognition. Ackerman shares her refreshing insight into the different varieties of bird intelligence. ![]() ![]() Arising from expressions like “bird brain” and “dumb as a dodo,” the opinion that birds are unintelligent animals is a common myth, one that Yale alum Jennifer Ackerman (YC ‘80) seeks to debunk in her new book, The Genius of Birds. ![]() ![]() Ecology Ĭastilleja species are eaten by the larvae of some lepidopteran species, including Schinia cupes (which has been recorded on C. The generic name honors Spanish botanist Domingo Castillejo. They are hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs. These plants are classified in the broomrape family Orobanchaceae (following major rearrangements of the order Lamiales starting around 2001 sources which do not follow these reclassifications may place them in the Scrophulariaceae). For other uses, see Prairie Fire (disambiguation).Ĭastilleja, commonly known as paintbrush, Indian paintbrush, or prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia. ![]() ![]() ![]() * Students exclaim: “Hooray! Ten apples up on top!” * Children lay their animal down, and point to each number as you count the apples to ten. * Save the number 10 for last, then count all of the apples together one more time. ![]() ![]() You can see at a glance who is having difficulty. To play this whole-group game, call out a number.Ĭhildren gently pull on their slider, counting out 6 apples, then hold their animal pet in the air. ![]() So that the "slider" is not pulled out, have children fold and glue the end. The apples are numbered as well as blank, so that students can write them in. They color their animal, then trim around the edges. Simply run the patterns off on white construction paper or card stock and give children a choice. Two of each animal, plus I’ve included full-color templates so you can quickly & easily make a sample to share, helping explain what you want your students to do. Seuss’s story “Ten Apples Up On Top” are a dog, lion & tiger, so I thought it would be fun for children to practice number recognition and counting to 10 with an animal "slider".Īfter reading the story, have students transition to this whole-group craftivity. 1-2-3 Come Do Some Apple Activities With Me ![]() ![]() Rose’s mother is Sarah Troughton, a close friend of the Queen, second cousin to the King, and the first female Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. He has two sisters, Aurelia and Beatrice. Nicholas is the son of solicitor Piers Barclay and Rose Troughton, a scion of the Colman mustard dynasty, goddaughter to King Charles as well as a descendant of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. ![]() An ivory silk satin waistcoat trimmed in gold braid, wool trousers and boots completed the outfit. It comprised a scarlet tunic, decorated with gold lace trim and blue velvet cuffs, with an open-fronted design. ![]() Grandson to the King, second in line to the Throne after his father, like his three fellow pages, the Prince wore a uniform first seen at the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902. ![]() ![]() And, finally, the devastating secret she has kept from Harold for all these years. ![]() Setting pen to paper, Queenie makes a journey of her own, a journey that is even bigger than Harold's one word after another, she promises to confess long-buried truths-about her modest childhood, her studies at Oxford, the heartbreak that brought her to Kingsbridge and to loving Harold, her friendship with his son, the solace she has found in a garden by the sea. In this poignant parallel story to Harold's saga, acclaimed author Rachel Joyce brings Queenie Hennessy's voice into sharp focus. How could she wait? What would she say? Forced to confront the past, Queenie realizes she must write again. What he didn't know was that his decision to walk had caused her both alarm and fear. Harold believed that as long as he kept walking, Queenie would live. ![]() ![]() Much more than the story of a woman's enduring love for an ordinary, flawed man, it's an ode to messy, imperfect, glorious, unsung humanity."- The Washington Post A runaway international bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry followed its unassuming hero on an incredible journey as he traveled the length of England on foot-a journey spurred by a simple letter from his old friend Queenie Hennessy, writing from a hospice to say goodbye. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold's cross-country journey. ![]() ![]() ![]() Released from service he worked for a newspaper, and wrote in his spare time. While recuperating from malaria in San Francisco, he met Betty Beck, a Marine sergeant they married in 1945. ![]() He was sent to the US after suffering from dengue fever, malaria and a recurrence of asthma that made him miss the devastation of his battalion at the Battle of Saipan, which was featured in Battle Cry. He served in the South Pacific with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines Regiment, where he was stationed in New Zealand, and fought as a radioman in combat on Guadalcanal and Tarawa from 1942 through 1944. When he was 17 and in his senior year of high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He attended schools in Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore, but never graduated from high school, and failed English three times. At age six, Uris reportedly wrote an operetta inspired by the death of his dog. ![]() |