![]() ![]() The leading role in the book belongs to sweetgrass, one of the sacred plants of Native Americans. This way, the book contains major instructive ideas regarding treating the environment, and they are supposed to be observed in this paper. Robin Kimmerer provides readers with a deep insight into the plant microworld and transmits a conscious attitude to nature and the planet. In the book, the author observes the flora through the perspective of Native American and Western Scientific traditions. ![]() A Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer wrote a book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants. The reason for all of them is humanity’s attitude to nature, which may be characterized as unappreciative, egoistic, and consumerist. Nowadays, ecological issues are acquiring more importance, and people all around the world are aware of global warming, endangered animal and plant species, ocean and air pollution, deforestation, and other environmental problems. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even if it requires giving carnal lessons to a serious-minded spinster who has an in with the chef. and she’s just met the perfect rogue to help teach her.Ĭhristopher “Kit” Ward plans to open a not-so-reputable supper club in New York City, and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to hire the best chef in the city to guarantee its success. She needs to become a siren, a woman who causes a man’s blood to run hot. Something has to change, else she’ll be forced to marry a man whose only desire is her fortune. Shy heiress Alice Lusk is tired of being overlooked by every bachelor. ![]() ![]() Following the book called “an alluring blend of love and playfulness ” ( PW) The Heiress Hunt, beloved author Joanna Shupe continues her new Fifth Avenue Rebels series with a scandalous romance about a good girl desperate to rebel and the rebel desperate to corrupt her. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Snowballs by lois ehlert![]() ![]() ![]() Her faultless sense of design immediately engages the reader: tidy white circles dot the gray backgrounds of her collages cut-paper birds show off their hand-painted wings and an offscreen narrator exhibits a sackful of ``good stuff''-birdseed, peanuts, corn kernels, etc.-accumulated in anticipation of the ``perfect snowball day.'' Soon the narrator and invisible colleagues have constructed a whole family of snow people and their pets. Only an artist as gifted as Ehlert (Nuts to You!) could take so well-worn a topic as building a snowman and make it as fresh as-well, new-fallen snow. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Normal people the scripts![]() OpenAI has limited DALL-E 2’s ability to create “violent, hate, or adult images,” by removing explicit content from training data. It’s integrated into Bing Chat, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, and called the Bing Image Creator. The Microsoft-backed OpenAI has integrated DALL-E 2 into several platforms, including search engine Bing. Users enter text descriptions into the system, and the software spits out realistic, original images. ![]() The original DALL-E was released in 2021, and DALL-E 2, the updated version, was released in November 2022. Dall-E 2ĭALL-E 2 is an AI-powered image generator created by OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT. People have also used AI image generators to create realistic images of people, like a user of Midjourney who created viral images of Trump’s fake arrest that spread on social media like wildfire, fooling people into believing the images were real. ![]() ![]() ![]() The judges are: Toby Lichtig (Chair), Maya Jaggi, Arkady Ostrovsky and Natasha Randall. It also celebrates the role of translators as “bridges” between cultures. It celebrates the diversity of cultures and the rich literary expression from regions ranging from central and eastern Europe to Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the southern and eastern Mediterranean. This unique international prize, established in 2017 by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), awards both authors from countries where the EBRD operates and their English translators. Ten shortlisted books from the EBRD regions announced todayĪn independent group of judges announced today the shortlist of the 10 best works of translated literature put forward for the EBRD Literature Prize 2023.EBRD Literature Prize 2023’s independent judges select shortlist of translated literary fiction.Mister N, The Lake, Mothers and Truckers, Invisible Woman and Other Stories, Time Shelter, According to Her, Body Kintsugi, Nights of Plague, Mondegreen and The Books of Jacob ![]() ![]() ![]() Did you know that I try on your mask from time to time? I become a reader, too, reading over what I have just written. The contract of writing and reading requires that we know each other. Let me assure you and tell you that I know you, even something of your pain and joy, for you are much like me. (But do you know me? Una? You have shipped long with me in the boat that is this book. ![]() Words need not be that kind of mask, but a mask such as the ancient Greek actors wore, a mask that expresses rather than conceals the inner drama. Not the mask that conceals, not a mask that I would have you strike through as mere appearance, or, worse, deceitful appearance. My heart is beating fast I am in pursuit I want my victory-that you should see and hear and above all feel the reality behind these words. I can swear it, having done both, and I will tell YOU though other writers may not. “How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation-as it does, indeed, during the chase itself of whales. ![]() ![]() and a heady romance at its heart' Sunday Express'A deliciously dark confection of a novel' Ruth Hogan 352 pp. As she finds herself dragged into the blackest heart of the city, little does she know that something more depraved than she could ever imagine is lurking.'Carlin can tell a good story' Observer'Contains lovely, lyrical writing. But whispers from her past slowly begin to poison her new existence, and lure her into the most sinister of investigations. When a chance encounter thrusts Hester into the beguiling world of the aristocratic Brock family, she leaps at the chance to improve her station in life. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape these slums by any means possible. Down murky alleyways, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and London's vulnerable poor are disappearing from the streets. ![]() Neuware - 'We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sort because WE are the bad sort. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Goodnight moon brown![]() ![]() Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. ![]() She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. ![]() Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well. Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. ![]() ![]() ![]() The audio editions of the series are narrated by Gerard Doyle, who also performs all character voices. Fox 2000, a division of 20th Century Fox, purchased film rights to the first three books, and a film version of Eragon, directed by Stefen Fangmeier, was released on December 15, 2006. Originally planned as a trilogy of books, the story evolved into a four-book series. The third book in the series, Brisingr, was released in 2008 and the final title in the series, Inheritance, was released on November 8, 2011. Knopf, and went on to become a New York Times bestseller, as did its sequel, Eldest. ![]() The first book in the series, Eragon, was originally self-published by Paolini International LLC, the Paolini family's publishing business later it was picked up by Alfred A. The Inheritance Cycle (previously known as the Inheritance Trilogy) is a four-book series of high-fantasy novels by homeschooled author Christopher Paolini. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The happy-ever-after may seem very fortunate, if not improbable, in that social context, but the message that facing challenges with courage and kindness to others can lead to hard-won happiness is encouraging in any age. She does, moreover, teach Alice to value herself and stand up for her rights against a bullying father and false accuser. A Little Light Mischief: A Turner Novella. Despite her disreputable background, Molly is good-hearted and quite willing to enter into a physical relationship. Sebastian With A Cat, The Queer Principles Of Kit Webb: A Novel: (London Highwaymen), Wonderful Cat Tigi. Wraxhall, but it is not her employer’s male guests who attract her, rather Molly Wilkins, the lady’s maid with the voluptuous bosom. Secondly, though one is the daughter of a vicar, they are really members of the working class, struggling amidst economic and physical hardship to survive.Īlice Stapleton is the lady’s companion to the kindly Mrs. For a start, the romantic relationship is between two women. A Little Light Mischief: A Turner NovellaĪs one might suspect from this author, this is not your typical Regency romance. ![]() |