Tea Party by Tracy Stern7/5/2023 ![]() Start with an appealing palette of soft pink and blue. #1 Decorations – When planning the look for your tea party, consider what’s simple and what’s available. 5) Don’t forget the sweet treats! Sugar-glazed pastries, tea biscuits, and petite bundt cakes can take the place of traditional English scones. 4) The star of the party-aromatic tea-is best served in floral-patterned porcelain cups. 3) Dainty lace purses holding sweet treats are another lovely favor idea. ![]() 2) A sweet posy of pink roses makes a perfect place card holder for this setting then goes home with each guest as a thank-you favor. 5 Simple Ideas to Get the Party Startedġ) A palette of pastel hues, with accents of silver and gold, sets the tone of refined elegance for your tea party. Here are some of our own ideas to help you plan a wonderful bridal shower, English tea party style. Then, come the party, simply relax and enjoy the company, while sipping a warm cup of tea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set out a “proper” English tea service with your own personal (and practical) flair-from the shower invitations, to the table decor, to the favors, food, and drinks. In the dead of winter with snow and sleet everywhere, what could be cozier than an intimate bridal shower tea party with close family and friends? It’s just the thing to calm those pre-wedding jitters.īring to life a nostalgic theme setting inspired by a quaint English cottage. ![]()
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Skunks Dance by St. John Karp7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Unless otherwise noted content on this website by St John Karp is licensed under aĬreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. “I was getting myself into a truly addicting story … I had so much fun with this one.” ![]() ![]() “Karp imaginatively combines absurdism and adventure with snarky teenage sleuthing and a sense of the macabre in this ambitious sophomore effort … A colorful, exuberant romp with an appealing fortune-hunting duo.” She may have had a hand in winning the Revolutionary War, but even she never met the likes of Alabama Sam. “rollicking from the first, driven by quips and ostentatious characters … Skunks Dance is solid, sarcastic, and bombastic young adult fare” SKUNKS DANCESpivey Spillane’s grandmammy always said there were only two good reasons to kill a man for cheating on a woman, and for serving drinks to a Yankee. In other news, the reviews have started to come in. Marrying goats: all the rage in funkytown. My lawyers have assured me that funkytown, not being an actual town, can’t sue me for libel, so I can say anything I like is the rage there. One, there’s a book trailer, which is apparently all the rage in funkytown. We’re just about a month away from the launch date of Skunks Dance, so I wanted to post a wee update. You crazy kids with yer book trailers and yer Game Boys. ![]() Odd and the frost giants book7/4/2023 ![]() That simple question, one that is never asked enough, proves to be a mighty blow. It’s no surprise that the underdog will find a way to best the mighty Frost Giant, but the moment when Odd begins to strip away the bellowing bravado, the intimidating brute strength to lay bare a lovely truth is breathtaking. And Odd has run away from home, even though he can barely walk and has to use a crutch. But they readily empathize with him as he seeks the comforting presence of his late father, strikes out on his own, and matter-of-factly sets out to clean up the mess when the gods have thrown up their hands. Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman 3.95 avg. No one quite knows what goes on in Odd’s head, and readers don’t get too close to him either. Might rules and the less strong are bullied and cast aside. This is a good one to read together, curled up on the sofa, on a wintry day. The storytelling is focused and tight, and the climactic scene between Odd and the giant offers plenty for kids - and adults - to think about. ![]() This satisfying, compact adventure invites kids to wrestle with some morally ambiguous material, and is a good introduction to the many shades of gray in mythology. ![]() The yield june winch7/4/2023 ![]() The land itself aids him he finds the words on the wind.Īfter his passing, Poppy’s granddaughter, August, returns home from Europe, where she has lived the past ten years, to attend his burial. ![]() Before he takes his last breath, Poppy is determined to pass on the language of his people, the traditions of his ancestors, and everything that was ever remembered by those who came before him. A member of the indigenous Wiradjuri tribe, he has spent his adult life in Prosperous House and the town of Massacre Plains, a small enclave on the banks of the Murrumby River. ![]() Knowing that he will soon die, Albert “Poppy” Gondiwindi has one final task he must fulfill. "A beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present."-Kate Morton ![]() A young Australian woman searches for her grandfather's dictionary, the key to halting a mining company from destroying her family's home and ancestral land in this exquisitely written, heartbreaking, yet hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, suffering, and empowerment in the tradition of Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, and Amy Harmon. ![]() Intro to quantum mechanics griffiths7/3/2023 ![]() The second chapter-especially when you include all the exercises at the end of the chapter-is an essential reference for one-dimensional quantum mechanics, a topic that's growing in relevance with increasing experimental capacity to engineer effectively one-dimensional systems such as solid state quantum wires or tight optical waveguides for ultracold atoms. ![]() I've taught the second edition several times and found that the impedance matching between the content and previous student knowledge allows clear signal transmission. This process was first reported in Streptococcus pneumonia by Griffith. I would argue that if you want to teach a waves-first course, there is no better starting place than the first two chapters of the book, lightly revised and improved from the previous edition. The Griffiths and Schroeter (G&S) text falls squarely in the waves-first camp. ![]() ![]() Roughly speaking, there are two main approaches to teaching undergraduate quantum mechanics: waves-first or spins-first (other approaches include historical (an especially good fit for sophomore-level modern physics classes) and formalism-first (perhaps better for graduate quantum courses)). ![]() Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() You can read an interview with Amy on Authors Answer. Amy’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, LitHub, Working Mother, Points In Case, and The Belladonna. Her friends don’t know what to do other than pass tissues and hope for a comeback, while. ![]() After being dumped by her handsome, French almost fiance, she abandons her grad school plans and spends her days lolling on the couch, leaving her apartment only when a dog-walking gig demands it. Amy is the author of The Sweet Spot, Musical Chairs, Limelight, and Small Admissions. Despite her innate ambition and Summa Cum Laude smarts, Kate Pearson has turned into a major slacker. She attended sessions at the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit and wrote the theatrical version of Small Admissions, which was performed there as a staged reading in 2011. Amy taught high school English in the Washington, DC suburbs, and after moving to New York, she worked as an assistant director of admissions at an independent school where she had the fulfilling experience of meeting and getting to know hundreds of applicant families. For the past thirty years, they have lived in many cities, including San Francisco, Berlin, and New York, and had three sons along the way. She is married to David Poeppel, a neuroscientist at NYU and Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt. She graduated from Wellesley College and worked as an actress in the Boston area, appearing in a corporate industrial for Polaroid, a commercial for Brooks Pharmacy, and a truly terrible episode of America’s Most Wanted, along with other TV spots and several plays. ![]() Nancy drew mysteries author7/3/2023 ![]() Nancy has blond hair and drives a smart blue roadster. The early Nancy Drew is smart, adventurous, flippant, and daring. The first 34 Nancy Drew books in the original texts published from 1930 to 1956 contain 25 chapters and around 210 to 225 pages each. List of Nancy Drew titles and publication dates However, Walter Karig is also considered important because the three volumes he wrote are favorites with many readers. Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Adams are considered the two most important Nancy Drew authors, and both women had a profound effect on the Nancy Drew series. ![]() The writers were hired by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and followed outlines that were provided by the Syndicate. #1-7,11-25, and 30 by Mildred Wirt Benson ![]() The original 56 stories were written by various people under the pseudonym of Carolyn Keene: ![]() The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories were first published in 1930 by Grosset and Dunlap. ![]() Unwanted by kristina ohlsson7/2/2023 ![]() Now on the trail of a ruthless murderer with a terrifying agenda, will Alex and Fredrika manage to put aside their differences and work together to find the killer, before it's too late?Ī true Scandinavian page-turner, Unwanted is packed with suspense, authentic police procedure and psychological depth Read more So when the missing child is found dead in the far north of Sweden, with the word UNWANTED scribbled on her forehead, the rule book is finally thrown out of the window. But none of the evidence adds up and young Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman is convinced the case is far more complex than her boss is prepared to admit. To Inspector Alex Recht of the Stockholm police, this looks like a classic custody row. ![]() But as the train pulled into Stockholm Central Station, the girl was nowhere to be seen. ![]() Her mother, left behind at the previous station, alerted the crew immediately. In the middle of a rainy Swedish summer, a little girl is abducted from a crowded train.ĭespite hundreds of potential witnesses, no one noticed when the girl was taken. ![]() Maya banks highlander7/2/2023 ![]() The first book of the Sweet series is called “Sweet Surrender”. The Sweet Series is made up of six books. In this series, Caelen and Rionna get married and she returns as wife to the laird of the McDonald clan. ![]() The McCabe trilogy began with the book “In Bed With A Highlander”, the second book “Seduction Of A Highland Lass”, and the third book, “Never Love A Highlander”. She followed up this series with the McCabe trilogy. ![]() Sexy and historical, the series follows a woman who falls for a Scottish highlander man. It’s the erotic story of a clandestine love affair between members of two different clans. The series is a romantic historical novel set in Scotland. The Mongomerys & Armstrongs series was Maya Banks’ first published work. She frequently makes appearances at writer’s conferences and does public speaking events. She has been on the New York Times #1 Bestseller List and is a bestselling author of romance novels in USA Today. Maya loves to hunt and go outdoors and fish with her family when she’s not writing. Maya Banks has a husband and three children and lives in Texas with their pet dog. ![]() She has written a number of books and series, including the Montgomerys and Armstrongs series, the McCabe trilogy, the Sweet Suspense series, the KGI series, Colters’ Legacy, and more. ![]() Maya Banks is an American author of contemporary romance, Scottish historical fiction, erotic romance, and romantic suspense. ![]() ![]() At GWU, she received an associate in arts degree in 1944 and a bachelor’s degree in history in 1946. In 1943, while attending the university, she christened the battleship USS Missouri at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Truman graduated from Gunston Hall in 1942 and enrolled at George Washington University (GWU). Interested in singing, she began voice lessons at the age of sixteen. ![]() Due to her love of the theater, she performed in many Shakespeare plays during her school years. Margaret began making many friends in Washington and became a member of DOTS (Daughters of the Senators). As a result, she was able to greatly impress her classmates with her knowledge of the museum. Margaret spent a great deal of time sightseeing around Washington, DC and in the Smithsonian Museum. Known as Margaret, she attended a number of public schools in Missouri, and Gunston Hall, a private school for girls in Washington, DC, from 1934 to 1942. ![]() Mary Margaret Truman was born on February 17, 1924, in a house on Delaware Street in Independence, Missouri. She was best known for her series of murder mysteries set in Washington, DC. Truman and Bess Wallace Truman, trained as a singer before becoming a writer. Margaret Truman, the only child of President Harry S. ![]() |