![]() ![]() Fed up with her attitude, Mia’s brothers and sisters will not let her play with them anymore. That is, until she has trouble scoring a goal when her team is about to lose. She shares this lesson, paired with energetic illustrations by Carol Thompson, in this motivational story. Soccer superstar Mia Hamm knows the value of teamwork and perseverance. A strong choice for the young athlete in your family or classroom. Winners Never Quit! can help with the emotional side of playing sports-how to deal with a loss without getting angry or quitting, and how to be a good teammate. ![]() Mia Hamm, American soccer champion and bestselling author of Go for the Goal, tells a true-life-inspired story in this picture book. Mia Hamm, American soccer champion and bestselling author of Go for the Goal, tells a truelifeinspired story of learning that winning and losing arent. Parents MagazineMia Hamm, American soccer champion and bestselling author of Go for the Goal. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nor were they an excuse to connect with Dot, Liddy, and Marjorie, since best friends didn’t need excuses. IF GLORIA GOLDEN were being honest, she’d say that Potluck Fridays weren’t really about making the most of her newly renovated kitchen. As they bond over naughty bestsellers and the shocking letters they inherited from the original club members, the four strangers start to divulge the intimate details of their own lives.and as they open up, they learn that friendship might just be the key to rewriting their own stories: all they needed was to find each other first. accepts and meets the three other hand-selected club members. And in lieu of a goodbye, she's left a mysterious invitation to a secret club-one that only reads erotic books. ![]() discovers that Gloria has suddenly moved to Paris with her friends to honor a fifty-year-old pact. is left to fend for herself in a small beach town, with only the company of her elderly neighbor Gloria and an ocean that won't shut up. So when her boss betrays her and her boyfriend offers her a completely new life in California, she trades her cashmere for caftans and gives it a try. But behind her success, there is a debilitating sense of loneliness. Stark’s life is picture-perfect-she has her dream job as a magazine editor, a sexy doctor boyfriend, and a glamorous life in New York City. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Clique series comes a novel about the importance of friendship, and, of course, the pleasure of a dirty book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of Sam Sharpe’s rebellion had stayed alive, thanks to an underground oral tradition in the island as well as the British legal apparatus and its obsessively kept court records. Two other posts were given to contemporary prime ministers.īut what of Jamaica’s period of enslavement under Europeans, from the time when Christopher Columbus first spotted it in 1494 to the British emancipation in 1832? Was there nobody from that time who might have qualified? The independent government established a category called the Order of National Heroes, and included three historical figures: the separatist advocate Marcus Garvey (who had spent considerable time in Harlem), and two martyrs of an attempted coup d’état in 1865. ![]() The first was said to represent the beauty of the island, the second its natural wealth, and the last the dark chapters of its past.Īnother important part of building the national identity was to do away with the traditional British lions of the past-mainly sovereigns and governors-whose names were honored on public monuments and replace them with Afro-Caribbean figures. Some of the ambivalence can be seen in its flag, vaguely mimicking the saltire of the Union Jack but colored green, gold and black. ![]() ![]() She all but loses contact with her family in America. The Shuttle is about American heiresses marrying English aristocrats by extension it is about the effect of American energy and dynamism rejuvenating a somewhat decadent English aristocracy: Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. The Shuttle (1907) It was begun in 1900 but frequently abandoned while its author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, wrote several other books, including, most famously, The Making of a Marchioness. The second, originally titled The Methods of Lady Walderhurst, is a down-to-earth portrayal of the realities of Victorian marriage, with a bit of a Victorian sensation vibe to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Making of a Marchioness (1901) It was originally published in two parts: the first tells the fairy tale-like story of how our heroine, Emily Fox-Seton, became the Marchioness of Walderhurst. it is about the rejuvenating effects of Americans and American money on a somewhat decadent English aristocracy. ![]() Frances Hodgson Burnett worked on two books simultaneously: The Shuttle, a longer and more complicated book and The Making of a Marchioness, which she wrote in a few weeks and published to good reviews. This carefully crafted ebook: "The Making of a Marchioness + The Shuttle (2 Unabridged Classic Romances)" contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maurice Blanche, her mentor, discusses her studies and their detective work. Her first employer, Lady Rowan Compton, recounts finding a young Maisie studying late one night in her library. Her father, Francis Dobbs looks back on her childhood and proclaims the pride she instills in him. ![]() But just who exactly is Miss Maisie Dobbs? In this profile, four characters very close to Maisie shed light on the beloved psychologist and investigator. Jacqueline Winspear’s debut won her the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and led to a New York Times –bestselling series. The historical mystery Maisie Dobbs was first published in 2003, introducing readers to an inquisitive, young, English, working-class woman as she opens her own London detective agency following World War I. Four fictional characters are interviewed in this profile of the adventurous sleuth, by the New York Times –bestselling author of A Sunlit Weapon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Michael’s ghost has imprinted on Darcy, meaning that they’re bonded until she can untangle the thicket surrounding his murder-and what exactly it has to do with the Witching Hour rose…. But when cake delivery boy Michael Healey-a former employee at Harriette’s greenhouse-is found dead, the celebration takes a turn. But turning eighty isn’t all Harriette is celebrating-the Floracrafter has recently created the midnight black Witching Hour rose, the first all-natural rose of that color.ĭarcy works hard on planning an extravagant celebration that will make Harriette feel like the belle of the ball. When magical florist Harriette Harkette decides to throw a lavish eightieth birthday party for herself, she hires Darcy’s Aunt Ve’s personal concierge service, As You Wish, to plan the soiree. But as Darcy prepares a celebration for a magical florist, she discovers that every rose has its thorns… Darcy Merriweather is Enchanted Village’s newest resident Wishcrafter-a witch who can grant wishes for others. ![]() ![]() ![]() With every mile she traveled, she distanced herself from her past: from her best friend Celine, mocked by their town as the only white girl with black friends from her old neighborhood from the eerie Woodsman plantation rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves from the terrifying memory of a ghost she saw that terrible day when a dare-gone-wrong almost got Jesse-the boy she secretly loved-arrested for murder.īut now Mira is back in Kipsen to attend Celine’s wedding at the plantation, which has been transformed into a lush vacation resort. ![]() More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. ![]() "A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind. ![]() ![]() Yes, as depicted in The Crown, Diana worked with Andrew Morton - albeit not directly. ![]() However, as Morton explained on ITV's Richard & Judy in 1997: "I've got a responsibility to people out there who want to understand Diana." Did Diana work with Andrew Morton? Morton received some criticism at the time for confirming Diana's involvement in the project after her death - especially as she denied any collaboration taking place in life. The reissued book contains edited transcripts of Diana's tapes alongside Morton's written questions. It became known as Diana: Her True Story - in Her Own Words from October 1997 onwards and is regarded as the closest thing to an autobiography by Diana. "This biography is unique in that the story contained in its pages would never have appeared had it not been for the wholehearted co-operation of Diana, the late Princess of Wales," reads the acknowledgement section of the book written by Morton.įollowing Princess Death's tragic passing, the book was re-issued to reflect Diana's involvement in the Andrew Morton book. See all weight loss and exercise features. ![]() ![]() Child development stages: Ages 0-16 years.See all conception & fertility features. ![]() ![]() ![]() But you know how unfair people often are. It is said, of course, that she ran away twice before she was married. I am not sure, Miss Worsley, that foreigners like yourself should cultivate likes or dislikes about the people they are invited to meet. Allonby is hardly a very suitable person. One has never heard his name before in the whole course of one's life, which speaks volumes for a man, nowadays. Lord Illingworth, of course, is a man of high distinction. Well, you couldn't come to a more charming place than this, Miss Worsley, though the house is excessively damp, quite unpardonably damp, and dear Lady Hunstanton is sometimes a little lax about the people she asks down here. What is the use of my always knitting mufflers for you if you won't wear them? They used to tell us at school that some of our states are as big as France and England put together.Īh! you must find it very draughty, I should fancy. We have the largest country in the world, Lady Caroline. Have you any country? What we should call country? ![]() You have no country houses, I am told, in America? I believe this is the first English country house you have stayed at, Miss Worsley? 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