Today, these educator facing support opportunities continue to focus on the areas of Curriculum and Instruction, Special Education, English Learners, Trauma-Informed Equity Solutions, Literacy Development, and School Level Accountability Data Analytics and Decision Making. Alexander’s team worked to provide leadership, high-quality resource funding for students, thought partnership, and strategic planning support. Through the launch of a citywide professional development initiative that was specifically designed for school leaders and teachers, Dr. Jawan Brown-Alexander is a local educator and the former Chief of Schools for NSNO, a nonprofit organization that serves as a strategic partner and is committed to delivering on the promise of excellent public schools for every child in the New Orleans area.
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Rachel frequently appears as a media commentator, and she or her work has appeared on outlets like NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, and more. To ruin Nan and take revenge on this her grandfather, Kit was pay to reduce Nan. In the court of queen Elizabeth plot runs a muck. Please take place in the Elizabethian time. A voracious reader and lover of books, Rachel also hosts I’d Rather Be Reading, which spotlights the best current nonfiction books hitting the market and interviews the authors of them. Lady in Waiting (The Lady Series Book 1) The love story of Ana (Nan) and Christopher (Kit). She is the cohost of Podcast Royal, a show that was named a top five royal podcast by The New York Times. Before taking on her current role with Marie Claire, Rachel served as its Weekend Editor and later Royals Editor. Following the death of her former Mistress of the Robes, Ann Fortune FitzRoy, the Duchess of Grafton, on December 3, the queen’s Lady of the Bedchamber since 1987, Diana Maxwell, Lady Farnham, died aged 90 last Wednesday, after 34 years as a lady-in-waiting. She serves as Marie Claire’s Senior Celebrity and Royals Editor and has also contributed to publications like Allure, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, People, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and W, among others. Anne was a childhood friend of Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth, served as a maid of honour at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, and spent over 30 years as a. In the same year that her husband Prince Philip died, Queen Elizabeth II also lost two of her most loyal aides. Rachel Burchfield is a writer, editor, and podcaster whose primary interests are fashion and beauty, society and culture, and, most especially, the British Royal Family and other royal families around the world. In a room for women whose bodies are broken, Eivør Mínervudottír’s biographer waits her turn. This is a story of resilience, transformation, and hope in tumultuous - even frightening - times. In the vein of Margaret Atwood and Eileen Myles, Leni Zumas fearlessly explores the contours of female experience, evoking The Handmaid’s Tale for a new millennium. Red Clocks is at once a riveting drama, whose mysteries unfold with magnetic energy, and a shattering novel of ideas. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling herbalist, or “mender,” who brings all their fates together when she’s arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro’s best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivv?r, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo.įive women. Golden arcs decorate the entrance all the way to the massive lounge area. Okay, that was lame, but I kind of insert the Vikings in any similes I make. To say the place is huge would be like saying the Vikings are tiny. When Dan and I walked inside, I had to double-check and see if we were somehow trespassing into the queen’s holiday mansion and if I should tell her majesty that I saw the drunk captain of the rugby team piss in her pool. AKA the mother of all freaking parties in Royal Elite. However, the sneaky wanker chose the party. Since Dan is part of the football team, I expected him to take me to their usual thing - not that I know what that is, but I had an idea it’d be in some posh house in London. He’s into drama and all that jazz.īut I promised him I’d attend one party before the summer starts. Spoiler alert, don’t believe anything Dan says. Now, I’m not that much of a fun-ruiner, although my best friend Dan would say otherwise. Not to be dramatic, although I probably am, this place is like my worst nightmare wrapped in super-expensive watered down alcohol. He thinks he broke me, but the new princess will bring the king to his knees.Īlcohol, drunk teenagers, and thumping music. He doesn’t only shred my life to parts, but he’s also coming after my heart. One day I’m Royal Elite School’s small fly, the next I’m hunted and left to die. Bend the knee.įight me all you want, but soon enough, you’ll be chanting long live the king. “So many people I know say they hate reading. Isn't the cover nice? I wonder what the pear signifies/references. The time of the Tudors is one of my favorite time periods (after the English Regency), and this is one of those books that I know I will think is wonderful (the last time that happened was with Graceling, and look how that turned out). This smart, sensual novel drips with intrigue, period detail, and drama and will resonate with anyone who has ever longed to find his or her place in the world. such as how to choose between her childhood love and two handsome men at court vying for her affection. Before long, Kat has become a favorite of Queen Elizabeth herself, and rumors are swirling - could fiery-haired Kat be the secret daughter of the Virgin Queen? Kat's got plenty of other things to figure out, as well. When her adoptive mother dies, Katherine Bab takes the chance she has been waiting for her whole life: she moves from her country village to London, to uncover the secret of who she really is. "Waiting on" Wednesday was created by Jill of Breaking the Spine, and is a way for bloggers to share the upcoming books that they're longing for. Instead, they find Istra herself, alive and well in the valley of the gods. Orual falls sick from despair on the night of the sacrifice, so she is unconscious while Istra is chained to a tree at the edge of the god's country and left for the Shadowbrute.Īs soon as she is back on her feet, Orual steals away with the soldier Bardia to give her sister a proper burial. The King agrees, over Orual and the Fox's objections (Istra herself is at peace with this decision). The high priest of the goddess Ungit declares that these calamities are divine punishment for blasphemy, and that they will end when Istra is sacrificed to Ungit's son, the god of the mountain, the Shadowbrute. Her happiness, such as it is, ends abruptly: after the people of Glome begin worshiping Istra's beauty, Glome is stricken by famine and plague. Her only friends in the palace are her beautiful half-sister Istra and her tutor, a Greek slave who she only knows as "the Fox". Her father, hot-tempered and prone to violence, has little love for his three daughters, least of all for ugly Orual. It is presented as the record - and the formal complaint against the gods - of Orual, daughter of the King of Glome, a pagan kingdom to the north of ancient Greece. It relates the myth of Cupid And Psyche (found in Apuleius' Latin novel The Golden Ass) from a very different perspective than the original. Lewis's last novel, and the one he considered his best and most mature. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) is C. His impulse, his wild and terrible impulse, was to babble the whole story to Kemp. Witch's weed is supposed to make the entry easier. It seems when each successive body gets old, they choose a young woman's body, attune themselves to it by living with the victim, and take possession any time after midnight of the first full moon period following the 21st of June. I'm not talking about the special witches of our Christian lore, with their childish attributes, but the old tribe of devil's creatures that came out of prehistory, regular full-blooded sea witches. 'According to 'Die Geschichte der Zauberinnen' by the Austrian, Karl Gloeck, Hydrodendon Barelia is the modem name for the sinister witch's weed of antiquity. He fought hard to hide the tremendousness of that shock. 'Eh!' The exclamation almost burned Marson's lips. 'You haven't got a witch around your place by any chance?' You know how in Europe they make you study a lot of stuff about the old alchemists and all that kind of stuff, to give you an historical grounding.' “I looked up its history, and, surprisingly, it has quite a history. Jim Jensen informally named Ultrasaurus machintoshi (type species).However, Ultrasaurus may have been comprised of several dinosaurs found in the same quarry ( Supersaurus and Brachiosaurus) When Ultrasaurus was first described, it was supposedly 90 feet long and 180 tons, and the biggest dinosaur ever.The holotype fossils of Ultrasaurus are incomplete (based only on a partial humerus), so not everyone sees Ultrasaurus as its own genus (or species).The dinosaur of the day: Ultrasaurus/Ultrasauros.You can listen to our free podcast, with all our episodes, on iTunes at: We also have the honor of being able to feature MYU Museum’s The Great Dinosaur Discovery, a 1976 film that features the museum’s founder, Dr. See his Camptosaurus digital sculpt time lapse for an excellent example. You can see his work on his website,, as well as the BYU Museum of Paleontology Youtube channel and the BYU Facebook page. In our 21st episode of I Know Dino, we had the pleasure of speaking with Josh Cotton, a paleo-artist currently working at the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology updating illustrations and videos for exhibits. I do recommend this book to history-lovers young and old, but I warn you, it’s not for the faint-hearted. This and other gruesome information is offered in stomach-churning chunks, but is softened quite nicely by the quaintly entertaining artwork of artist Kevin O’Malley. You’ll learn how Beethoven’s doctors drilled a hole in his stomach and stuck a hose in it why Charles Dickens walked in circles and threw raging fits and why King Tut’s embalmers didn’t preserve his brain. I love this book! It’s well-organized, meticulously-detailed, and full of tidbits and asides that teach you a thing or two (or three) about the medical ignorance of yester-year, even as you double over in side-splitting laughter. It begins with details about each person’s early life and finishes by outlining each knife-riddled, maggot-infested or bacteria-festered demise. How They Croaked examines the lives (and putrid deaths) of famous figures from yester-year: Columbus, King Tut, Beethoven, Charles Darwin, and Edgar Allan Poe, just to name a few. If you’re looking for one of those stale, moth-eaten, run-of-the-mill history books to fill your idle hours, How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous, by Georgia Bragg, isn’t the book for you. But with tensions brewing on deck and the sea swirling below, Tessa and Corrick must decide who they can trust-including each other. When an emissary from a neighboring kingdom arrives with an intriguing offer, Tessa and Corrick set out on an uncertain journey to find a new source of the lifesaving elixir. Prince Corrick is trying to find a new way to lead, but it isn't easy to repair the rift between the royals and the people-or the one growing between himself and Tessa. And the kingdom's supply of Moonflower elixir dwindles all the while. Tessa Cade has gone from masked outlaw to palace advisor, but even with her newfound power, she can't stop the sickness still raging. What will they sacrifice to save their kingdom? In the eagerly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller Defy The Night author Brigid Kemmerer continues her electrifying series with more royal intrigue, more sizzling romance, and shocking twists that will leave readers breathless. |