![]() There's a special section on pre-determined estimation - a devastating principle. Or what about "A Million to One" in which the spectator shuffles the deck and then cuts it into two piles, one contains all the red cards, the second contains all the black cards! Or if you really want to fry brains, try "The Backward Card Trick" - it looks very weird. The book opens with "Fetch", an animated card discovery which you will use as soon as you read it. If you haven't read any of Jerry's material before, this book will convince you why Jerry is regarded as one of the most creative cardicians. ![]() New plots, new methods, all with the distinctive Sadowitz flair for ingenuity. This was Jerry's first hardbound collection and it contains some wonderful card magic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Being the outsider allows her access to different experiences at times, and she still acknowledges her privilege. Interwoven with these stories of horses owned and visited – and it’s amazing just how many horses one can be given, gratis I also loved her tales of leasing out horses to pay for their own old age/the upkeep of other horses – is her own story of survivor guilt and feeling out of place in the fancy horse world as the daughter of a man who escaped the Holocaust for a new life in the US in childhood, an over-achiever married to another one, his first crop of sons ignoring their little sister for much of her life. This is how she has been able to include horses from around the US and the world as well as her own stories of her own horses in this fascinating and absorbing (but I’ll quickly say: not upsetting) book.Įach chapter is named after a horse that has been in her life, but they are all celebrated, the stories about them concentrate on their lives and, where they are no longer with us, the fact is smoothed over and not dwelled upon (I know there are other animal lovers out there who worry about such things). ![]() Sarah Maslin Nir is a staff reporter for the New York Times who, by her own admission, has sought out horses wherever she’s travelled to write a story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meisner, Nadine (2019) Marius Petipa, The Emperor’s Ballet Master. New York City, US: Oxford University Press.Sergei Legat and Marie Petipa in the dance “La Fricassée” (1900) Les Ruses d’amour was notated in the Stepanov notation method and is part of the Sergeyev Collection. Les Ruses d’amour premièred on the 30th January 1900 at the Hermitage Theatre, with the whole Imperial Court attending the performance. The first ballet in this new trilogy was Les Ruses d’amour, or The Trial of Damis, which was inspired by the French rococo and composed by Glazunov. ![]() Petipa began crafting scenarios for these ballets, drawing on a variety of differing subjects that were to be composed by Alexander Glazunov and Riccardo Drigo. When Ivan Vsevolozhsky took up the directorship of the Imperial Theatre of the Hermitage in 1899, he commissioned Petipa to create three short ballets to be given for performance at the Hermitage Theatre that were to be attended by the Imperial Russian Court for the 1900-1901 season. ![]() Olga Preobrazhenskaya as Countess Isabella and Pavel Gerdt as Damis (1900) Damis honourably passes the test that Isabella has devised and receives her hand as his reward. Isabella, Damis’s fiancée, puts the young man to the test by swapping clothes with her servant. Imperial Theatre of the Hermitage, Saint Petersburgĭamis comes to the home of Countess Lucinda, to whose daughter he is engaged, though he has never met her. ![]() ![]() I got confused by the storyline with the boss. To protect her husband, Amber set fire to Clare’s house while Amber was watching her kids.Īmber and Paul got custody of Clare’s kids, so the reader assumes she died, but at the very end of the book their childhood bracelet is left in Amber’s hotel room, implying Clare is still alive and watching her. Amber’s husband read Clare’s diaries, so Amber thought Clare would try to kill him to protect her secret. She crashed it to end Amber’s pregnancy to keep being the most important person in her life. The last diary entry after Clare killed her parents in the fire was “Taylor made me do it” so we don’t know which one was crazy.Įdward was stalking Amber and kept her in the coma, but Clare had been driving the car when Amber was hurt. Clare wrote the diaries (Amber’s maiden name was Taylor). ![]() This book was very well written and the twists were very twisty. ![]() She is married to Paul and works as a radio presenter. ![]() The novel is told from the perspective of Amber Reynolds, who is in a coma but can hear everything that is going on around her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Saved by love and responsibility, Cunnell charts his journey from anger to compassion, as his daughter Jay realizes he is a boy, and a son. Still he felt compelled to destroy the relationships that mattered to him. Starting with his own childhood in the Sussex beachlands, Howard tells the story of the years of self-destruction that defined his young adulthood and the escape he found in reading and the natural world. Now, years later, he is a father, and his daughter is becoming his son. ![]() Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is?Īs a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his father's absence. Behold, and rejoice.' - Tim Winton, author of Cloudstreet There is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But all of the Lambs' stories-with their clear, supple, and rhythmic prose-reward any reader, whether encountering Shakespeare for the first time or revisiting his work.Ĭharles Lamb Tales From Shakespeare Deluxe Ed. As the authors point out in their Preface, their versions of the tragedies tend to rely on the language of the original plays, while the comedies are more freely adapted. ![]() Charles took responsibility for such powerful tragedies as Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear, while Mary worked on the comedies: brilliant fantasies like A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, and thought-provoking plays like Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, and The Merchant of Venice. ![]() Together the Lambs distilled the powerful themes and unforgettable characterizations of Shakespeare's plays into elegant narratives-classic tales in their own right. The two selected 20 of Shakespeare's best-known plays and set out both to make them accessible to children and to pay enthusiastic homage to the original works. No better introduction to William Shakespeare's dramatic masterpieces exists than the delightful prose adaptations of Charles and Mary Lamb, first published in 1807. ![]() ![]() So whatever it is we’re doing, instead of working 60 hours or 50 hours a week, we work for half that. “I’m so glad you brought this up because he part-time is doing the same thing, just less of it. Sam also shares tools and quick, powerful exercises in real-time that you can use in planning for the other side of retirement. In Sam’s opinion, semi-retirement may offer the best of both worlds. It’s a way to transition to retirement gradually – and on your own terms. In her view, semi-retirement gives you a path to try out a second career. Is Semi-Retirement the Best Way to Test a Second Career? ![]() She also explains how the option of Half-Retiring is a way to retire smarter. She suggests strategies on how to overcome common obstacles and she previews life hacks you can use to move forward. Sam shares her wisdom (and her great stories) on a range of topics including what gets in the way of people realizing their dreams in retirement. Is semi-retirement the best option for you? What About Half-Retiring? We discuss her new book Someday Is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life. ![]() In this episode of our retirement podcast, we talk with Author, Keynote Speaker and Communications Strategist Sam Horn. Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | Moreĭo you know anyone who’s enjoying semi-retirement? It’s an option worth considering. ![]() Podcast (retirement-wisdom-podcast-feed): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:33 - 46.3MB) ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author who originally published the story of Treasure Island as a serial in a magazine under a pseudonym, however, when it was compiled and published about a year later as a novel, it was Stevenson’s first success. However, not everyone chooses to look so closely at the novel, because it remains a story treasured by many, pardon the pun, and whether or not someone has read it it is highly likely that they’ve come across pieces of Treasure Island’s legacy. ![]() ![]() Over the years, it’s become a favorite of literary scholars for studying the complexities of characters, the themes within children’s literature, and how to apply what we learn from stories to our own lives. At time of publication, it presented new role models for Englishmen and anti-Imperialist themes at a time when Britain was only gaining more and more power. Originally published in 1883, Treasure Island has captivated audiences for over 136 years. ![]() If you’ve ever eaten fried fish from the fast food chain, Long John Silver’s, visited the Las Vegas strip and walked by the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino, sung along with Tim Curry’s Long John Silver while watching Muppet Treasure Island as a kid, or if you can close your eyes and picture a pirate with a peg leg, a parrot on his shoulder, and a map for buried treasure marked by an ‘X’, you’ve experienced the influence of the novel, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With revenue from the sales of her books, Beatrix Potter bought a farm - Hill Top - in the English Lake District, where she later became a farmer and prize-winning sheep breeder. Her humorous, lively tales and beautiful illustrations have become a natural part of childhood. Tiggy-winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mr. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. Lucie spends a lovely day helping her, and it's only right at the end of the day that she realises Mrs Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog! Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. She knocks on the tiny door, and meets Mrs Tiggy-winkle who does all the washing and ironing for the neighbouring animals. ![]() It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. It tells the tale of a hidden home high in the hills. The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle was first published in 1905, and is as charming today as it was then. The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle is an original classic by Beatrix Potter. ![]() ![]() ![]() And it was not until 1996 that Baldacci made the breakthrough that he had so long hoped for, with the book Absolute Power, which had taken him three years to bring complete. While law was Baldacci’s chosen career, writing had always been a passion of his from a young age, and while studying and practicing law, he continued to write stories and screenplays, albeit without the success that his later books and screenplays with achieve. ![]() At was at this point that Baldacci decided to leave his home state of Virginia to practice law in Washington DC, which is where he gained an insight into politics and governance that would prove to be crucial for his literary success later on in his life. He went to Virginia Commonwealth University, before gaining a law degree at the University of Virginia. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and have sold over 110 million print copies in 80 countries.īorn in Richmond, Virginia, 1960, David Baldacci never left his home state to gain his education. Till date, Baldacci has written 31 best-selling thriller novels and 5 books in the Children’s fantasy genre. ![]() ![]() His books are fast-paced action thrillers, some of which have been adapted as feature films and television series. He has written several other standalone books and book series. While practicing law, David Baldacci took three years to complete his first book Absolute Power, published in the year 1996. ![]() |