![]() She has worked in schools across Canada through The Writers' Union of Canada and the Ontario Arts Council programs for writers in the schools and has, as well, participated in numerous Canada Council Readings programs. In 1999 she worked with students in the Taipei American School in Taiwan. Department of Defense Schools throughout the country. During a posting in Germany she also taught creative writing classes and did writing workshops with children in U.S.A. Karleen has taught Creative Writing and Writing for Children at Algonquin College, the Adult High School, and various community centres in Ottawa. Three children, four grandchildren, and assorted granddogs live nearby. ![]() She now lives back in Canada in Owen Sound, Ontario. Settings for many of her books have come from these countries. Until 1992, Karleen and her family travelled and lived in Colombia, the United States, England, the Philippines, Brazil, Germany and Puerto Rico, with two home postings in Canada. ![]() at the University of Toronto in 1959, and married James Bradford, a Foreign Service Officer with the Canadian Government. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, but spent most of her childhood years in Argentina. Her books include historical novels, fantasy and contemporary stories, as well as picture books and chapter books. Karleen Bradford is the award-winning author of twenty-two works of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Yep, here at team GLAMOUR we're constantly on the lookout for more ways to make life exciting and genuinely enjoyable and, aside from making lists of fun day trips when we want to escape the city, following all the best wellness tips and treating ourselves to some new sex toys and bargain beauty bits in the name of self care, we've been becoming experts on all things streaming sticks, smart home security and all the categories between. ![]() ![]() Her fraternal twin, Cecily, has been enjoying life in London and plans to snag the estate's heir, while Marianne is looking forward to seeing her sister again and enjoying the countryside. ![]() When 17-year-old Marianne Daventry is invited by her sister to spend the summer at Edenbrooke, the country estate of a family friend, she is ecstatic to leave the boredom of Bath, England, with its unwanted suitor with a penchant for bad poetry and her grandmother's critical eye. ![]() Labeled "A Proper Romance," "Edenbrooke" is the first of a new brand of romance novel by publisher Shadow Mountain, an imprint of Deseret Book, that includes clean love stories - without unnecessary bedroom scenes, sexual themes or bursting bodices. "Edenbrooke" is a Regency-era love story for those who like a well-crafted yet clean romance novel. " EDENBROOKE ," by Julianne Donaldson, Shadow Mountain, $15.99, 272 pages (f) ![]() ![]() ![]() Eldest daughter Caddy is now engaged to darling Michael, and she’s not altogether sure she likes it. Saffy and Sarah are on a mission to find Saffys biological father (while cultivating hearts of stone). Eldest daughter Caddy is now engaged to darling Michael, and shes not altogether sure she likes it. ![]() hugely entertaining story effortlessly recreates a tightly knit world, imbued with a strong sense of belonging - a slice of childhood so multi-layered, touching and real that there's something for every child reader to identify with and savour. Permanent Rose Written by: Hilary McKay Read by: Sophie Aldred Synopsis Feisty Rose takes center stage as the highly original Casson family faces a long, hot summer. Feisty Rose takes center stage as the highly original Casson family faces a long, hot summer. At times, it's also incredibly touching and insightful, particularly when dealing with the complexities of family life. Sunday Times Stylishly written, acutely observed, light-headed and often very funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() The solution for the last remaining number – 42 – has finally been found. Mathematicians have long worked on the problem of expressing all numbers up to 100 as the sum of three cubes.
![]() Adjusting for inflation, this is NASA's best budget since 2009, when it received a temporary $1 billion boost from the economic stimulus bill.Īnd it wasn't just NASA. This is a far better outcome than the White House's original proposal, which would have cut NASA by 1 percent to $19.1 billion. Should this legislation pass, NASA would receive a $1.1 billion increase to $20.7 billion in fiscal year 2018. This is arguably the best budget for national science investment in a decade. Congress thoroughly rejected every major cut proposed to NASA and other science agencies by the Trump Administration, often providing them with funding increases instead. NASA-and science in general-did very well in this legislation. ![]() Yesterday, we saw the fruit of that deal with the release of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, a bill that would fund nearly all government agencies through the remainder of this fiscal year (which ends September 30). Last month, Congress reached a broad budget deal that lifted self-imposed spending caps-the "sequester"-for the next two years. Update 3/22/18: The House of Representatives just passed the omnibus, 256-to-167. It now goes to the White House for the President's signature. ![]() Update 3/23/18 12:39am ET: The Senate votes in favor of the omnibus, 65-32. NASA's funding for fiscal year 2018 is officially wrapped up. ![]() Update 3/23/18 2:24pm ET: After an initial veto threat, the President signed the bill into law. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But there’s one ingredient they haven’t considered: the chemistry between them is red hot, and the urge to take things to the next level is more tempting than Layla’s double fudge mocha brownies. All the benefits of dating, without the added pressure of feelings and unmet expectations. He’ll do his best to renew her faith in men, while she rates his dating game. After saving Layla from another date gone bad, he has a simple proposition: one month of no-strings dating. Good thing Caleb Alvarez has the perfect solution. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the check. Apparently owning the bakery at Inglewild’s most romantic destination does not help one’s love life-despite her best efforts. She’s waded through all of the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. ![]() ![]() Like Oliver Twist, Dickens suffered a wretched childhood, then grew up to become not only a respectable gentleman but an artist of prodigious popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’s fiction drew from his life-a fact he acknowledged. In doing so, he seeks to understand Dickens’ creative genius and enduring popularity. Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. ![]() Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit through whom some of the most beloved characters in literature came into the world. ![]() Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died-an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death.Ĭharles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s always a justification for killing that can be good for a group involved in a conflict, even for the people who are not warmongers, even for the people who otherwise appear to be very good. Her remarks about conflict where the enemies are accusing each other of various alleged crimes justifying their revenge are dramatically true around the world. In a series I appreciated intellectually for its contents but generally didn’t spark my emotions, some moments of Binti’s attempt to stop the war between Khoush and Meduse stimulated me emotionally. In this series, the conflict is between the Earth’s Khoush people and the alien species of the Meduse but the allegory is quite transparent. After exploring the protagonist’s changes in her attempts to find her identity that seems to become increasingly complex and difficult to define, Nnedi Okorafor dedicates the third novella of the trilogy to inter-ethnic conflicts. “Binti: The Night Masquerade” takes up Binti’s story where “Binti: Home” ended. ![]() Binti appeals to her village elders to try to prevent a tragedy from happening. The clash between the Khoush and the Medusae risks leading to open warfare with the Himba village caught between two fires. The alarming news she received, brings Binti back to her village in hopes that her family is well. It’s the third work in the Binti series and follows “ Binti: Home“. The novella “Binti: The Night Masquerade” by Nnedi Okorafor was published for the first time in 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has an amazing story to tell, and she tells it well here, without a coauthor, in prose that's bumpy at times, smooth at others, but always seemingly honest and courageous. Lords's career didn't end in 1986 she's gone on to star and costar in several films and TV shows, including John Waters's Cry BabyĪnd Married with Children, and has enjoyed serious success as a singer. ![]() By her early teens, Lords was hanging out with the wild crowd at school and was preyed upon by her mother's boyfriend, who arranged for her first modeling sessions, which led to her posing as a PenthouseĬenterfold at age 15 (she had false ID) and then to her meteoric career in porn, which crashed when the FBI stepped in and turned her into a poster child for sex abuse. Born Nora Kuzma in 1968 in Ohio, she writes, she was raised in poverty and abused emotionally by an alcoholic father and raped at age 10 by a 16-year-old. Lords is notorious because when she ruled porn, in the mid-1980s, she was under the age of 18. Both responses should change during the media frenzy over this book, because readers of both sexes will learn that the story of Lords, the most notorious graduate of the porn industry, is one deserving of compassion, admiration and attention. Mention the author of this notable memoir to a group of men and many will grin mention her to a group of women and many will look blank. ![]() |