![]() Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives, who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. ![]() A courageous, heart-wrenching account.”-Jon Krakauer “ Escape provides an astonishing look behind the tightly drawn curtains of the FLDS church, one of the most secretive religious groups in the United States. ![]()
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Now, attending her twin’s wedding as the party’s undesirable number one seems like more than she can handle. Summer Knowles used to have a life-friends, family, a sister who’d do anything for her-until she blew it all away with a terrible mistake. After all, everyone knows weddings are the perfect setting to get lucky. ![]() Archibald Hill is handsome, single, and he’s going to his best friend’s wedding ready to make a conquest or two. ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, Rosa was in a seat for black people, but white people's seats were full. This meant people of different skin colours had different schools, restaurants, even toilets. Racism is when someone thinks you’re not as good as them because the colour of your skin or your race is different to theirs, so they treat you differently.Īt that time, southern states in America, had something called ‘segregation’. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. ![]() It's not unusual, but this story is about a bus journey that changed millions of lives. We use buses every day to go to school or into town. ![]() ![]() ![]() And he has less than 24 hours to do so-in the latest audiobook thriller from Ben Coes. Now, to survive, Dewey must get into North Korea and access the antidote and, while there, thwart the nuclear ambitions of both North Korea and Iran. But it goes awry when Dewey manages to inject a small amount of the poison into himself. The plan is to inject a singular designer poison into the head of the North Korean military and in exchange for the nuclear plans, provide him with the one existing dose of the antidote. But he's the only available agent with the skills to carry out the CIA's plan to stop North Korea. An exchange, if it goes through, that will create two new nuclear powers, both with dangerous plans.ĭewey Andreas, still reeling from recent revelations about his own past, is ready to retire from the CIA. In exchange for effective missiles from Iran, they will trade nuclear triggers and fissionable material. doesn't know is that North Korea has made a deal with Iran. But their missiles are improving, reaching a point where the U.S. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal-he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. Bloody Sunday is the latest in Ben Coes's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Dewey Andreas series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He used his position to redirect the world's focus on faith in an era of secularization. The first German pope in a thousand years, Benedict – born Joseph Ratzinger – was a theologian and writer devoted to history and tradition, who was elected to succeed Pope John Paul II. The then-85-year-old thus became the first pope in 600 years to resign. ![]() Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (April 16, 1927-December 31, 2022) stunned the world in 2013 when he announced, after eight years in office, that he lacked the strength to continue as head of the Catholic Church. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery. | Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis via Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. Pope Benedict XVI is greeted by the faithful in Les Combes in 2005. ![]() ![]() ![]() As for Juanita McMahon narrating this fantastic book she lends even more talent to a already talented author and brings even more depth to the story! I will definitely be checking out more of Michelle Paver's books in the future. This touches into the supernatural on other levels and shows you the slow and dark descent into the human mind. This is a gothic ghost story which is a different type of scary, but it is also more than that. ![]() ![]() If you are looking for an in your face and make you jump ghost story this isn't it. The character's of Wakenhyrst are vivid and you really connect to them. Michelle Paver does a fantastic job with world building and weaving suspense. I usually don't like slow burn books as they tend to sometimes drag and one loses interest, but Wakenhyrst sucks you in and holds you tight. A slow burn with so many twists and turns! ![]() ![]() ![]() Now in his late teens, Frank has always lived on the island with his father. ![]() If A Clockwork Orange and Lord of the Flies had an ultraviolent psychopathic younger brother they didn’t want anyone to know about, The Wasp Factory is that brother. Oh, you’re thinking grimark? I think Frank Cauldhame could give even Jorg a run for his money. This is a novel in which a child commits premeditated murder three times before the age of eleven, and doesn’t feel the slightest remorse. The Wasp Factory is solid violence, nastiness, sociopathic tendencies, animal abuse, and cold blooded murder. It’s easy to read, the vocabulary isn’t difficult, and I have no complaints on the pacing. Yup, this is definitely a Banks novel!Īt less than two hundred pages, you’d think this book would be a fast read. He throws you in the deep end on page one, leaves you on your own to figure out the local slang terms, populates the book with characters who are as confident in their actions as they are secretive about their motives, and then flips everything inside out for the climactic reveal. The Wasp Factory may not be science fiction (or anything even approaching a Culture novel), but oh is it so very Iain Banks. Without that middle initial, you’re holding a contemporary fiction novel in your hands. ![]() Banks then? Some Culture novels? The “.M” means you’re reading his science fiction. ![]() ![]() In the story, the animals are stacking apples ON their heads. ![]() With this story, you can introduce or reinforce position words. Or, have them create a stack of apple erasers or apple cutouts to match the apple stack on the page. Have your child open the book to a random page and count the apples. Then, have them repeat the number back to you. Start by counting out loud as you look at the animal pictures in the book. One simple way to do this is by having kids count the apples on each animal’s head. ![]() Ten Apples Up on Top! is the perfect book for teaching kids to count to ten. Here are ten engaging lesson you can teach from this fun children’s book. It’s a great book for preschool and kindergarten age kids, and it’s a perfect way to teach them about counting.ĭon’t let the apples drop! Three animal friends practice balancing apples on their heads in this hilarious introduction to counting. ![]() |