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"A wonderful book describes the delights and challenges of having a sibling with an intellectual disability. ![]() "Everything about this title is well done: the artistically rendered colorful pictures are almost photographic in their detail, and the narrative, which portrays Alicia May in positive terms, never surrenders to the usual banality of many books on the topic. Ling's book surpasses Jennifer Moore-Mallinos's My Brother Is Autistic and My Friend Has Down Syndrome (both Barron's, 2008)." - School Library Journal ![]() Shennen Bersani is a well-known illustrator whose work appeared in Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers Sharks: Big, Bigger, Biggest and Snakes: Long, Longer, Longest. Nancy Tupper Ling is the author of Laughter in My Tent: A Woman's Search for Family. She won the prestigious Writer's Digest Grand Prize and the Pat Parnell Poetry Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() These paintings nevertheless feel contemporary due to the situations depicted and the effect of the artist's personality. Kersting's most lasting works are his figures in interiors that borrow from seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting. Goethe was impressed and recommended that the Grand Duke Charles Augustus purchase his work The Embroiderer. In 1813 Seidler helped Kersting send a number of his works to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ![]() He was also a friend of the painter Louise Seidler, who described him as "an altogether splendid and comical fellow" and often served as his model. He may have painted the staffage in some of Friedrich's early work?such as Morning in the Riesengebirge (1810?C11), a result of their walking tour. During his many hikes with Friedrich, the two painted numerous sketches and observations from nature. The two friends went on a walking tour of the Riesengebirge in 1810. Kersting was a friend of Caspar David Friedrich, the leading German Romantic painter his style was influenced by Friedrich, and he shared that artist's romantic attitude, although in a more subjective manner. ![]() ![]() There were a couple of moments in the story that required a heavy dose of willing-suspension-of-disbelief. He definitely has that quiet, wounded-warrior thing going on, but as he and Penryn get to know each other, he also consistently acts honorably toward her, and uses his strength to compliment hers. I liked Raffe, the angel with whom she forms an alliance, too. Her determination keeps her going even when the odds stack steeply against her. ![]() I liked Penryn’s fierceness and her intelligence. Penryn not only battles outside evil, but also struggles to cope with her mother’s mental illness and the voices she hears which tell her to do things that sometimes put Penryn and her sister in danger. When angels carry Penryn’s sister away, she’ll do anything to get her back, even form an alliance with one of the enemy.Īngelfall is dark and twisty. ![]() With their supplies running low, Penryn and her small family risk their lives to scavenge for food and find themselves in the middle of an angel battle. Since angels of the apocalypse swarmed the skies, humanity has been on the run. ![]() Published (Originally published 2011) Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads Angelfall (Penryn and the End of Days #1) ![]() ![]() “Well, long story short, on October 28, 2010, on his 42nd birthday, the planets aligned, and with the help of his sister Louisa (another amazing story unto itself) the three of us met together for the very 1st time since his birth, and what a wonderful, glorious, emotional and incredibly happy reunion it was!īoth Fleetwood and Louisa were raised by wonderful, loving families, and the fact that they both grew into great Americans is testimony to the love of adopted families.” ![]() ![]() The rocker stated that his children were raised by great families who turned them into amazing Americans. On Theodore’s 42nd birthday, they got together for the first time, which was a heartfelt and incredibly happy reunion, according to Nugent. The two siblings reached out to Ted Nugent, who also penned this emotional experience in his article. Thus, one day, Theodore Fleetwood Nugent got an unexpected phone call from a sister he never knew he had. When Nugent’s daughter found out about him through the adoption agency, she also found his brother and wanted to see her biological family. Ted Nugent Met His Son After 42 YearsĪ New York restaurant owner who was adopted as an infant was shocked when he discovered that his biological father is Ted Nugent. The following story is incredibly touching as both children, who are now grown-ups, found out that their father is a rock star. The entire situation wasn’t made public until 2010 when Nugent’s daughter Louisa found out about her biological father and requested to contact him. ![]() ![]() Catherine and Reg, both devout Christians, believed moreover in trying to heal the whole woman: “We don’t just treat the hole in the bladder,” as Catherine once put it, “we treat the whole patient with love and tender care, literacy and numeracy classes, a brand-new dress and money to travel home.” These days, obstetric fistulae are almost entirely avoidable and usually straightforward to fix, with life-changing effect. She finds herself incontinent, sometimes doubly so, and then, in many countries, shunned women in this state can live alone and rejected for decades. If there is no midwife or hospital, the labour continues for days, until the baby dies, shrinks and can be expelled the pressure of labour tears the woman’s bladder, vagina, uterus, and often rectum as well. Obstetric fistulae occur in women who endure obstructed deliveries, for all the myriad reasons that these occur the world over: because the baby is breech, or too big, or tangled in the umbilical cord, or, if the mother is too young, because her body is unready. ![]() ![]() Of the twelve thousand horses in the Sultan’s stables, Agba had charge of ten. And he had cuffed Agba on the head when the boy showed his disapproval. “ It is the order of the Sultan! ” the Signor had announced to the horseboys. ![]() But when Signor Achmet, Chief of the Grooms, commanded that the horses, too, observe the fast, Agba’s dark eyes smouldered with anger. The boy Agba had not minded the fast for himself. For this was the sacred month of Ramadan when, day after day, all faithful Mohammedans neither eat nor drink from the dawn before sunrise until the moment after sunset. He had tried not to sniff the rich, warm fragrance of ripening pomegranates. He had not even tasted the jujubes tucked in his turban nor the enormous purple grapes that spilled over the palace wall into the stable yard. ![]() He was waiting for dusk to fall.Īll day long he had eaten nothing. ![]() IN THE northwestern slice of Africa known as Morocco, a horseboy stood, with broom in hand, in the vast courtyard of the royal stables of the Sultan. ![]() ![]() As the Civil War looms, Joanna learns that for a slave, nothing-love, family, loyalty-is sacred or certain, and she never ceases plotting her final escape in the patterns of her scrap quilting. ![]() Joanna is recaptured and sent back to the Virginia plantation she thought she had finally escaped, and is eventually dispatched to Charleston to work under her former master's demanding newlywed niece, Miss Evangeline. When Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her staff find a stash of old letters hidden in an antique desk in the manor's attic, the story whips back to 1859 to recount the travails of the formidable Joanna North, an escaped slave who spent a brief respite at Elm Creek Farm. ![]() To spin another tale of adventure, love, perseverance and, of course, quilting. In her 14th series installment, Chiaverini picks up the threads from The Runaway Quilt ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the things that set the Warriors series apart from other young adult novels is its depth and complexity. Meanwhile, Firepaw grows into a skilled warrior and eventually becomes a leader, guiding his clan through numerous challenges and crises. ![]() The ThunderClan and their allies must face off against rival clans, dangerous creatures, and even their own internal struggles. From there, he must navigate the complex social structures of the clan and prove his worth as a warrior.Īs the series progresses, new characters are introduced, and new conflicts arise. ![]() ![]() Rusty is eventually taken in by the ThunderClan, one of the four main clans in the series, and given the name Firepaw. When he leaves his comfortable life behind and ventures into the forest, he discovers a whole new world filled with rival clans of wild cats. The series begins with Into the Wild, which introduces readers to Rusty, a housecat who dreams of adventure. Check out our full collection of Warrior Cats Books too! This collection features six books in series one. With compelling characters, intricate world-building, and action-packed plotlines, the series has captured the hearts of readers of all ages. The books follow the lives and adventures of various groups of feral cats as they navigate the dangers and challenges of the wild. The Warriors series is a popular collection of novels written by a team of authors under the pseudonym Erin Hunter. ![]() |