5/30/2023 0 Comments Come Look With Me by Randy Osofsky![]() ![]() When he returned to the United States in 1945, he was discharged with a rank of Technical Sergeant.Īll who knew him enjoyed the war stories he would tell at every opportunity - reminding younger generations that army life had been his higher education, and that serving was the great honor of his life. A waist gunner on a B-24 bomber, he flew 31 missions over enemy territory, parachuting into American-controlled Italy after his plane was brought down by engine failure. He played for the school basketball team and worked as a soda jerk (later he fondly recalled his mother reminding him until the end of her life about “the time he was a jerk”).Īfter graduating, he worked as a welder in the Brooklyn Navy Yard until being drafted into the United States Army Air Corps.ĭuring World War II, Mike served as a member of the 451st Bombardment Group. The second-born of eight children, Mike attended James Madison High School, where he charmed his future wife, Aileen, in their radio production class. ![]() His parents, Harry and Jenny (Goldstein) Osofsky were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who arrived in New York City at the turn of the century. Mike was born on July 23, 1924, in Brooklyn. ![]() Meyer “Mike” Osofsky, a resident of Shelter Island for five decades, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Oct. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Maid sama vol 3![]() ![]() Misaki gets involved in her friend Sakura's love life when she's invited along to meet Sakura's favorite band. 3 35.2000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction/comics-graphic-novels-manga /shop/books /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/comics-graphic-novels-manga/manga A 2-in-1 edition of the romantic-comedy series where a student council president secretly works at a maid cafe! But when Sakura's crush is more interested in Misaki, it's up to Usui to intervene! And when the heir to a restaurant conglomerate makes an offer to buy the maid cafe, how far will Misaki go to save it? ![]() A 2-in-1 edition of the romantic-comedy series where a student council president secretly works at a maid cafe! Misaki gets involved in her friend Sakura's l. ![]() ![]() A 2-in-1 edition of the romantic-comedy series where a student council president secretly works at a maid cafe!Īs if being student council president of a predominantly male high school isn't hard enough, Misaki Ayuzawa has a major secret-she works at a maid cafe after school! How is she supposed to keep her image of being ultrasmart, strong and overachieving intact once school heartthrob Takumi Usui discovers her double life?! ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Speak anderson![]() A series of flashbacks reveal that she called the police to a house party during the previous summer. Throughout the day, she is made fun of by several students, repeatedly called a " squealer". She doesn't have any friends to hang out with, and appears awkward and uncomfortable when speaking to others. Plot įourteen-year-old Melinda Sordino begins her first year in high school and struggles on the first day. ![]() It was broadcast on Showtime and Lifetime in 2005 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. ![]() The film’s story is told through Melinda's perspective. ![]() It stars Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman who practically stops talking after a senior student rapes her. Speak is a 2004 American independent coming-of-age teen drama film based on the award-winning 1999 novel of the same name by Laurie Halse Anderson. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Green town ray bradbury![]() He writes in his 1975 introduction to the book, “ Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in the midst of starting to grow up, grow old, and sense darkness waiting under the trees to seed the blood.” This, then, is a glimpse into the childhood and formative years of one of America’s major writers, and a coming-of-age-story for readers of all ages. Bradbury himself frequently comments on the autobiographical qualities of the novel. Dandelion Wine, on the other hand, grows out of Bradbury’s own childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, in the golden years before the Great Depression. Although he rejects the label of science fiction writer, it is true that most of his work could be classified as fantasy or science fiction. This confrontation erupts in a mysterious summer illness that almost costs Douglas his life his awakening from the fever coma signifies Douglas’s mature acceptance and valuing of human life.ĭandelion Wine is different from most of the canon of Bradbury’s work. ![]() Moreover, as Douglas becomes increasingly aware that all life ends in death, he also must confront his own mortality and that fact that he, too, will someday die. As Douglas moves from a childlike state of ignorance toward the full knowledge of his own existence, he learns to value family, friends, and time. ![]() ![]() Dandelion Wine, first published in the United States in 1957, is the story of twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding as he approaches manhood in the mythical city of Green Town, Illinois. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Jade city book 2![]() Painting on a wider canvas than Jade War, this time Lee shows us other nations, especially the US- analogue, the Republic of Espenia, which, of course, shares its name with a continent (I was geekily delighted to see that its capital has a name which abbreviates to "AC".) Espenia is where Anden has gone - Anden who at the end of Jade City, refused to be inducted as a Green Bones, a great insult to the No Peak clan with which he's affiliated. We see the aftermath of the Many Nations War, the struggle between tradition and modernity. In a setting loosely reminiscent of our world and centred on an analogue of Eastern Asia, the Green Bones are crucial to power on Kekon and their clans are key to wider political and cultural tensions. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Green Bones can assume vast Strength, walk Lightly, Perceive others at a distance, Channel the jade power to hurt or heal, and use various other skills. We are back on the island of Kekon, dominated by the clans of Green Bones, warriors able to enhance their strength and other abilities with the special jade found only there. I honestly don't think I'd ever read anything like Jade City, so I was eager for the followup and it didn't disappoint. I'm grateful to Orbit and especially to Nazia for a free advance copy of Jade War, the sequel to super Jade City, to consider for review. ![]() Jade War (The Green Green Bone Saga: Book 2) ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The blood guard book 2![]() ![]() ![]() But then again, maybe Ronan’s not ordinary at all. That’s a lot for an ordinary kid to deal with. Falling in with two unlikely companions, Greta, a scrappy, strong-willed girl he’s never much liked and Jack, a devil-may-care teenage pickpocket, Ronan is left with only his wits and his mom’s last words of advice: Trust no one. ![]() ![]() For suddenly Ronan is swept up in a sometimes funny, sometimes scary, but always thrilling adventure-dashing from one danger to the next, using his wits to escape the Bend Sinister, a posse of evil doers with strange powers. Now all those after-school activities-gymnastics, judo, survival training-she made him take, make sense. In fact, she’s a member of an ancient order of knights, the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect the Pure-thirty-six noble souls whose safety is crucial if the world as we know it is to survive. His mom, he quickly learns, is anything but ordinary. His quiet, nerdy dad has been kidnapped? And the kidnappers are after him, too? When thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove’s seemingly ordinary mom snatches him from school, then sets off on a high speed car chase, Ronan is shocked. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Andrew roberts king george![]() Having abandoned his PhD in Quantum Physics, his comedy partnership with Alexander Armstrong landed him series on BBC Radio 4 and Channel 4. He is an accomplished broadcaster, in particular as a television commentator for major royal and state occasions.īen Miller is an actor, comedian and best-selling children’s author. He is currently Visiting Professor Department of War Studies King’s College London, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Andrew Roberts is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society and has held many academic chairs and fellowships. ![]() ![]() Following the publication in 2007 of A History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 1900, he was invited to deliver the highly prestigious White House Lecture. Professor Andrew Roberts is one of Britain’s best-selling historians and his multi-award-winning works include studies of Churchill, Napoleon, and former Prime Minister the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Here is a monarch of intelligence, benevolence, devoted to his country and his family, a great patron of the arts and science who helped steer the country through domestic political and global storms. ![]() Long portrayed by historians and writers across the centuries as one of England’s most disastrous of kings, Andrew Roberts’ new meticulously researched biography presents quite another view. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Zenith alsberg![]() We're introduced to a few different worlds, with different species attributes, though personally I found that there wasn't enough information given, and I wanted to know more about the different species, and the environments they lived in. I had high hopes for this book, which sounded like all-girl space pirates story! Cool, right? I wanted to know what was going to happen as I read, and there were, at times, some really good scenes. Will they be able to face not just their fears but their own personal demons, as they are blackmailed into an impossible rescue mission? One day they are captured, something that just never happens to them, and they find themselves facing up to their past lives, that they have been trying so hard to run away from. On board, however, the bloody baroness is just Andi, the misfit crew's friend and protector. ![]() ![]() The Bloody Baroness is the captain of the starship Maurader, and she and her all-female crew wreak havoc wherever they go across the galaxy. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Pretties uglies series![]() ![]() ![]() I felt that the ending was so necessary because of what she always faces. The idea of betrayal is still in this book, and stronger this time as Tally feels the guilt. A lot happens in the book so it is a bit hard to keep track but the overall journey is still conveyed. Here, Tally now leads a different life-style and meets new people. Pretties - This is the reason why I rated this book 5 stars. I would rate the book a 4/5 because it was well written but the ideas, I felt, kept changing. I feel that the book begins to lose the idea it started with and kind of moves on to this idea of betrayal. Uglies - I liked the idea of uglies and how it kind of starts off with this idea of being beautiful and how everyone looks the same. I would recommed this book to everyone - I really liked it - but you should have both books together if you really want it to wow you. Since it was a 2-in-1 I'll kind of review each book separately. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Smile sisters books![]() ![]() A thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face - and eventually conquer - fear. Raina has tummy trouble, and it seems to coincide with her worries about food, school, family, and changing friendships. gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. When they learn there are ghosts there, Maya wants to meet one, and Cat must put aside her fears for Maya's sake - and her own. Great books for kids who like Raina Telgemeier. can they figure out how to get along?Ĭatrina and her family move to a new town because her sister, Maya, is sick. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years. Amara is cute, but she's also cranky and mostly prefers to play by herself. ![]() The true story of how Raina severely injured her two front teeth when she was in the sixth grade, and the dental drama that followedĬallie is the set designer for her middle school's spring musical, and is determined to create a set worthy of Broadway. A box set of Raina Telgemeier's bestselling, award-winning graphic novels about family, friendship, and the highs and lows of growing up ![]() |