![]() ![]() Overall, the book was good, and I enjoyed delving deeply into Carl’s time in Vietnam, but I wish Eskens would have kept the same tone and story line for the last 100 pages as he did for the first 200 pages. I loved this book! But then, the last 100 pages got a bit unrealistic, in my opinion, and I liked it less. The Life We Bury is 300 pages long, and the first 200 pages were phenomenal. But if he’s not the culprit, who is? My Thoughts on This Book Still, Joe and Lila dig deep into Carl’s case, and they discover, quite coincidentally, that Carl may not be guilty. ![]() Then there is Lila, the next door neighbor that Joe would love to date.Īnd he’s also preoccupied with his other classes and his job as a bouncer at the local bar. Throughout the semester, Joe has to rescue his brother from his mother or her abusive boyfriend several times. His mother is an alcoholic who is constantly running off and leaving for days despite having an 18 year old autistic son, Jeremy, at home. Joe can’t put all of his time into this project though, because he’s busy juggling so many other things in his life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Botanical records and early diaries give us mere glimpses of the richness that once was. ![]() The opening pages of my favorite gardening book, Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes, by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, offers this description of what I might see if I could emerge from a time machine in the Carolinas around 1670:īy all accounts, the landscape encountered was a place teeming with diversity… Hundreds of species of birds flew over the coastline tens of thousands of different plants covered the forests…. ![]() But as I have been exploring the world of native plants in my garden, I can’t help but wish I could return to an age when North America was new to the European settlers, and they could observe this continent in its fully evolved state, with flora and fauna living nearly undisturbed by Homo sapiens. If you could go back in time, to what age and country would you wish to be transported? There are so many choices, and mine change regularly. Native plants in the garden of the author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Flory sees the arrival, via Paris, of Elizabeth Lackersteen – an English woman – as his chance for companionship, despite their incompatible views and personalities. When local villain and manipulator U Po Kyin decides to make trouble for both Flory and Veraswami in an attempt to gain entrance to the European club, troubles escalate and Kyauktada sees a small riot. Dr Veraswami is one such example, and Flory badly lets his doctor friend down when tested, despite the Burman’s protestations that the English are a civilising force and whatever they say or do must be correct. ![]() ![]() Forced by social pressure to remain silent on the matter, Flory is friendly with ‘natives’ but fails to defend them in front of his English peers. ![]() Far from being part of his jingoistic set, Flory sees the Empire as nothing more than a means to steal resources and maintain Britain’s financial superiority in the global marketplace. Despite spending his time in the European club with his fellow English ex-pats, he feels an affinity with the Burmese and their country. John Flory is a timber merchant who has lived in Kyauktada, Burma for well over a decade. Burmese Days (1934) is George Orwell’s first novel and draws heavily on his experiences as an Imperial policeman in Burma (now Myanmar) to criticise imperialism and the British Empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "A first-rate account-strongly and ardently written." - The New Yorker on Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages." - The Washington Post on Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee "A wrenching account of the injustices the Sioux endured from white men and the battles that ensued, based on Dee Brown's classic Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." - Kirkus Reviews "A powerful work, this book will serve as a discussion starter and as an educational tool." - School Library Journal ![]() This is a must-have addition to any United States history collection serving teens." - VOYA "History classes and others interested in this period will welcome this offering." - Booklist "A cogent, heartbreaking narration." - BCCB ![]() ![]() ![]() The patrol has been the subject of several books. According to Chris Ryan's account, the patrol was given the task of gathering intelligence, finding a good lying-up position (LUP), setting up an observation post (OP), and monitoring enemy movements, especially Scud missile launchers : 15 on the Iraqi Main Supply Route (MSR) between Baghdad and North-Western Iraq however, according to Andy McNab's account, the task was to find and destroy Iraqi Scud missile launchers along a 250 km (160 mi) stretch of the MSR. For the film, see Bravo Two Zero (film).īravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British Army Special Air Service (SAS) patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf War in January 1991. ![]() ![]() For the book by Andy McNab, see Bravo Two Zero (novel). ![]() ![]() ![]() All of them make for a fun, mini, mental vacation as summer comes to its finish. The novel also explores whether dinosaurs still live on the Mysterious Island/Lemuria, a place lost to time and whether the dinosaurs gave birth to dragons, the mythical fire-breathing creatures seen in the Harry Potter movies and novels. Some are deserted, and others are full of fairies (or dinosaurs, or mermaids, or wrong-sized animals). That treasure turns out to Odin's Heart, a spectacular ruby worth 100 miliion bucks. Some islands are tropical paradises, while others are chilly, rocky outposts in the cold northern sea. ![]() The "mysterious island" genre is weird and wide-ranging. So if you're looking for a last minute getaway before summer comes to a close, here are some of the greatest books set on mysterious islands that are almost as good as the real thing. I can't speak for the rest of you, but I've gone the whole summer without discovering a single uncharted continent or getting shipwrecked with a majestic wild stallion even once. I mean, yet another summer has come and gone without a single deserted island romance, swashbuckling adventure, or horrific, island-based mystery. I know that this happens very nearly every year, but I still can't help feeling just a tad disappointed. In a shocking turn of events, it's already August and summer is more than halfway over. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With five amazing kids, The Pioneer Woman herself knows a thing or two about graduations. They are entering the world, after all! So, if you don't know what to write in a graduation card, we have you covered with these funny and sweet graduation wishes! But no matter what you choose, everyone wants to offer a few words of encouragement to their new graduate. That might look different for each family-giving graduation gifts, going out to a special meal, or throwing a graduation party (remember to make Ree Drummond's cute graduation brownie bites). Whether it's high school, college, or beyond, graduation is a major milestone in a person's life, and it's always worth celebrating. It's hard to believe it's time to celebrate the achievements of all the bright young minds out there. ![]() ![]() No one really understood how Outerbike worked-people just didn’t realize they would be able to take the demo bikes out for real rides on real trails. The first year of Outerbike in 2010 we had way too many bikes and not enough people. I thought, why don’t we host a consumer bike demo event right here in Moab! Let’s make it possible for the people to ride bikes! I saw an opportunity to fill up Moab with mountain bikers just as Jeep Safari does with off-roaders. It was hard work to pull together a demo fleet to take to Interbike but then afterward, the bikes would have nowhere to go. Question: Can you give us a general history of Outerbike?Īnswer (Ashley): Before coming to Western Spirit, I served as the President of Merlin Metalworks and I experienced first hand the challenges of pulling together a demo fleet. ![]() If you’ve had the pleasure of meeting Mark or Ashley at a past Outerbike, I’m sure you can attest to just how passionate this power couple is and can also appreciate their vision for Outerbike as it evolves. ![]() Now that Outerbike (Moab) has hit its 10th year, we thought it might be a good opportunity to sit down with its founders, Ashley and Mark, to hear about the history of the event, how they got started and how it’s changed over the years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The poet Carl Phillips combines beauty and insight in syntactically surprising lines that always reward careful study. Then the War is luminous testimony to the power of self-reckoning and to Carl Phillips as an ever-changing, necessary voice in contemporary poetry. Ultimately, Phillips refuses pessimism, arguing for tenderness and human connection as profound forces for revolution and conjuring a spell against indifference and the easy escapes of nostalgia. Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures. ![]() The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the WarĬarl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing quest” Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recognizing that scholarship often "finds a limited reading market, while wild theories. She relates what has become the "official" account of the boy-king, "the whole" of which, she says, "is completely untrue." And, finally, in a remarkable employment of archaeological evidence to support historical inference she constructs a convincing biography of the mysterious Tutankhamen who was crowned as a 7-year-old 3,500 years ago but ruled only about 9 years. She tells the riveting story of the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb and the subsequent political struggles for control of the excavation and the artifacts. She acquaints general readers with the foundations of ancient Egyptian civilization (including geography, religion, family, government, communications, nomenclature, and chronology). ![]() Noted Egyptologist El Mahdy ( Exploring the World of the Pharaohs, not reviewed) separates legend from history in the story of the king whose short life has long captivated the public.Įl Mahdy (whose interest in Egypt began when she was seven years old) declares that she finds the "private face" of the boy-king "far more intriguing than the alluring glitter of the gold he was buried with." In her complex though always engaging narrative El Mahdy accomplishes a number of tasks. ![]() |