![]() ![]() ![]() So when I finished the book and thought it was cute, but not AMAZING, I wasn’t sure what the problem was. I felt like this book had killer reviews (on Amazon, it’s sitting at a 4.7 stars with 567 reviews, while on Goodreads, it has 4.1 stars with 16,000 reviews), but when I finished it, I felt like “oh, that was fine.” Other times, I feel like I need to read a ton of reviews to help me sort out exactly what I think of the book. Sometimes, I avoid reading reviews of books after I’ve finished a book because I don’t want to be swayed before I write a post. I’ve actually been done with it for a few weeks, but I’ve procrastinated writing about it because I still wasn’t quite sure how I felt about it. Lemoncello’s Library was the February book for Tell Me What to Read (what’s that, you say? It’s April? La-la-la, I hear nothing). ![]()
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Whether she's a leading lady, loyal spouse, or lightning rod for scandal, the First Lady of the United States has always been in the spotlight-and in 2017 that was truer than ever. 2: Secret Lives of the First Ladies: Strange Stories and Shocking Trivia From. ![]() A selection of the Quality Paperback, The Literary Guild, Book of the Month, History, and. This is book number 1 in the Secret Lives series. ![]() ![]() Description These collected biographies on the wacky secrets and scandals of the first ladies of the United States casts American history in a whole new light Secret Lives Pres/First Lady 8pk (Paperback). ![]() ![]() ![]() His pedagogical principles still have a lot to offer to modern educators. Whether you agree on his ideas or not, it is obvious that what he saw 250 years ago hasn’t changed much. For many of us, it’s thought-provoking to see our own childhood and upbringing through Rousseau’s eyes. Rousseau wrote mile, or On Education, 250 years ago but the pedagogical principles described in this novel still have much to offer modern educators. ![]() It was a completely different era then … or was it? This was during the times of the Enlightenment when rationality, the human mind and formal teaching were prevailing ideas. The book was burned, and Rousseau had to flee from his home in France to avoid being arrested and thrown into jail. But when the Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau submitted them in his educational novel “Émile” in 1762 people took serious offence. Today, these considerations don’t seem so strange or surprising. He forces one soil to yield the products of another. In this way, they gain become confident and self-reliant. God makes all things good man meddles with them and they become evil. Therefore, according to Rousseau, the best we can offer our children is an upbringing full of freedom, possibilities to follow their curiosity and opportunities to explore and make their own experiences. In Rousseau’s view, humankind is good by nature – opposing other thinkers like Thomas Hobbes who believed that humans are inherently competitive and violent by nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am really the type of person who likes happy endings. Review: This novel is burning a hole inside of me. Will Bryon and Mark stay brothers? Will Cathy and Bryon last? ![]() He gets in trouble with a powerful drug after running away and Mark has to do partly with some of that. M&M is Cathy’s brother and Mark and Bryon’s friend. Bryon starts to drift from Mark because he is starting to grow up as a result of his first love, Cathy. ![]() Cathy doesn’t really like Mark and Mark doesn’t really like Cathy. Mark is very sneaky and likes fighting, and Bryon had always liked it until… Bryon and Mark hustle to get by and they do other illegal things. Bryon and Mark have always been like brothers after Bryon’s mom took Mark under her wing. Bryon’s best friend and basically brother is Mark. Here tensions between blacks and whites are still high during the Civil Rights Movement. He lives in a low-income white neighborhood. The narrator is Bryon Douglas, a 16 year old who’s smart and smart-aleck. Summary: This book was set in the Hippie-era of the 60’s when people were getting drafted for the Vietnam War. Contains: Relationships, Drama, Coming-of-age, Romance. ![]() ![]() Their journey takes them to the far corners of the globe and into the secrets of their pasts. Together, Kate and David must race to unravel a global conspiracy and learn the truth about the Atlantis Gene. But when David receives a coded message related to the Immari attack, he risks everything to save the one person that can help him solve it: Dr. Agent David Vale has spent ten years trying to stop the Immari. In the hands of the Immari, it would mean the end of humanity as we know it. ![]() Her work could be the key to the next stage of human evolution. What she has found is far more dangerous-for her and the entire human race. ![]() She hasn't recovered from what happened to her, but she has made an incredible breakthrough: a cure for autism. Kate Warner moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to escape her past. As the Immari rush to execute their plan, a brilliant geneticist makes a discovery that could change everything. ![]() It has been there for thousands of years, and something is guarding it. Off the coast of Antarctica, a research vessel discovers a mysterious structure buried deep in an iceberg. They've also searched for an ancient enemy-a threat that could wipe out the human race. ![]() For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. _ The Immari are good at keeping secrets. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. _ 70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. ![]() |