![]() ![]() Since Stella’s story broke in 2019, Hunger has inspired dog owners around the world to teach their dogs to talk using the same method, delighting Hunger: “I truly believe that everyone deserves to share their voice.” ![]() Stella can now say more than 45 words, ask and answer questions, express her feelings (“mad,” “happy”), and participate in short conversations. Stella has surpassed all of Hunger’s expectations. She started with just a few recordable buttons that Stella could push to say, “outside,” “play,” and “water.” Hunger would indicate and name the object/action and push the button to say the word. Hunger began teaching Stella after noticing the gestures and vocalizations Stella was already using to express herself. “I’m in constant amazement,” says Hunger of her dog’s capabilities. Stella also pressed the button “Help” when one of the buttons she had pushed failed to elicit a sound. “She definitely says ‘outside’ the most,” Hunger told CNN. ![]() Other Stella phrasings include, “Park love you come outside!” For example, upon hearing a noise outside, an excited Stella put together “Look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look! Come outside!” forming perhaps the most dog-like sentence ever. Using a custom soundboard, Stella pushes buttons to form phrases up to five words in length. Doggone amazing: Speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger taught her dog Stella to communicate using the same method she uses to teach children to learn and speak words. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Lucy barton books![]() ![]() During her stay, her mother comes to visit and the two reconnect after years of not speaking to each other.Ĭritical reception for My Name Is Lucy Barton was positive and the work received praise from the Washington Post and the AV Club. Years later Lucy is hospitalized after she develops an infection following an operation. When she came of age, Lucy quickly fled the family home. As a result Lucy would frequently take solace in reading, which led her to realize that she wanted to become a writer. Her father was abusive and while her mother loved Lucy, she was unable to protect her or her siblings from their father's mercurial mood swings and violent nature. Growing up in a dysfunctional household, Lucy Barton had a difficult childhood. The novel was also adapted for the theatre by Rona Munro as a one-woman show, with an acclaimed 2018 London production starting Laura Linney which transferred to New York in January 2020. The book was also shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. In July 2016, the novel was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. The book details the complicated relationship between the titular Lucy Barton and her mother. The book was first published in the United States on Januthrough Random House. My Name is Lucy Barton is a 2016 New York Times bestselling novel and the fifth novel by the American writer Elizabeth Strout. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Marjane satrapi books![]() ![]() ![]() She returned to Tehrān at age 19, studied art, and, after a short-lived marriage, moved back to Europe in 1993. A failed relationship there exacerbated her sense of alienation and contributed to a downward spiral that left her homeless and using drugs. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, her family’s Western way of life drew the attention of Iranian authorities, and by 1984 her parents had decided to send her to Austria to attend school. She grew up in Tehrān, where she attended the Lycée Français. ![]() Satrapi was the only child of Westernized parents her father was an engineer and her mother a clothing designer. Marjane Satrapi, (born 1969, Rasht, Iran), Iranian artist and writer whose graphic novels explore the gaps and the junctures between East and West. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Things you save in a fire a novel![]() ![]() ![]() And don't forget the advice her old captain gave her: Never date firefighters. ![]() Because love is girly, and it's not her thing. Except for the infatuation-inspiring rookie, who doesn't seem to mind having Cassie around. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren't exactly thrilled to have a "lady" on the crew-even one as competent and smart as Cassie. The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to give up her whole life and move to Boston, Cassie suddenly has an emergency of her own. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's a total pro at other people's tragedies. From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes a stunning new novel about courage, hope, and learning to love against all odds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "No other book so vividly depicts that battle, the campaign that preceded it, and the dramatic political events that followed. Publication date 1983 Topics Antietam, Battle of, Md. Combining brilliant military analysis with narrative history of enormous power, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on this climactic and bitter struggle. Landscape turned red : the Battle of Antietam by Sears, Stephen W. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Sears Author Barrett Whitener Narrator (2006) Gettysburg Stephen W. ![]() A former editor at American Heritage, he lives in Connecticut. the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. SEARS is the author of many award-winning books on the Civil War, including Gettysburg and Landscape Turned Red. Sears and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at . Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. Landscape Turned Red The Battle of Anteitam by Stephen W. "The best account of the Battle of Antietam" from t he award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville ( The New York Times Book Review ). ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Wickedly Good by Anya Breton![]() ![]() To top it all off, the car sprang a leak and stalled out two miles from her destination. ![]() Then the heel of her favorite black-suede pump snapped off when she stepped into the cab. She’d dropped her purse in the middle of the street outside the terminal, spilling everything as far as it could possibly go. The airline had lost her luggage somewhere between London and New Hampshire. Gemma was convinced Murphy’s Law was in full effect on the bright June evening. ![]() And to Carrie, my editor, for turning ho-hum manuscripts into my best work to date. Thank you to all of the people who pushed me to keep writing. ![]() If he could only convince her to see the truth-he may not be his brother, but he loves her more than Drew ever could. And that facial hair that abrades her skin in some seriously naughty places…how did he grow that so fast?īy day, Aston seems dark and frightening. As he makes love to her in the darkness, as he makes her come again and again, she can’t help but think he’s different somehow-taller, more thoughtful. When she gets her chance to spend a steamy night with him, she takes it. Aston intends to warn Gemma, but when he steps into his brother’s room and the lights go out, and she presses herself against him…Īir witch Gemma has lusted after Drew for years. Too bad she likes his brother Drew-his no-good, cheating, engaged brother, who takes what he wants regardless of who gets hurt. But he can’t help his feelings for Gemma. As coven priest, Aston should know better. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Paper towns john green author![]() One of them is the primary focus for the final section of the book. There are a couple of instances of road trips in the novel. John Green delves into the well-trodden ground here. It is fair to say that Margo, certainly in the earlier parts of the novel, lives up to the wild reputation that she has created for herself, but we see as the story progresses that she doesn’t like not being true to herself and that is part of why she runs away. She points to herself as an example as she has created a persona for herself.īeing your own person and not living up to expectations Margo uses the idea of paper towns to suggest that the people that live in these towns are far too easily shaped by their peers. With the very nature of paper being that it can be shaped and changed etc. This is used s a metaphor in various ways throughout the book. What often happened is that people would discover these fictional towns on the maps and then create actual towns in those locations. A paper town is a town that was created by mapmakers so that their work couldn’t be stolen. The idea of a “Paper Town” is used throughout the novel. Green also makes use of numerous symbols and types of figurative language. The novel cleverly uses extended metaphors throughout to explore its central themes. ![]() Like most books, there are themes contained throughout the narrative of ‘ Paper Towns‘. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Leidah![]() ![]() And Maeva’s adoring husband, Pieter, wants nothing more than for his new family to be accepted by all. Maeva tries to hide the girl from the suspicious townsfolk of the austere village of Ørken, just as she conceals her own magical ancestry from her daughter. Upon every turn of season, her mother, Maeva, worries as her daughter’s peculiarities blossom-inside the root of the tiny child, a strange power is taking hold. ![]() In the hinterlands of old Norway, Leidah Pietersdatter is born blue-skinned, with webbed hands and feet. They don’t feel the danger coming, riding in on the wind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() British and American women had just won the right to vote the spirit of liberation was in the air. Lady Chatterley, of course, was far more explicit than previous romantic novels of this kind.īut Lady Chatterley was slightly political, too, and this offended (or perhaps frightened) many conservatives. The novel was not without precedent in erotic literature Fanny Hill had appeared in 1749. Lawrence wrote most of it while in Italy. ![]() Tame by today's standards, the book was unorthodox in 1928. ![]() Lady Chatterley's Lover is the erotic love story of Constance Chatterley, aristocratic wife of a wheelchair-bound husband, who has an affair with a gamekeeper of their country estate. Even in 1960, few countries seemed ready for the idea of a sexually liberated woman. (The book is still banned in China, where it is a black market item.) The first film version, released about the same time, provoked similar censorship in the United States and around the world. Postal Service, attempted to ban Lady Chatterley's Lover from the mails, following similar action taken in Japan several years earlier. As recently as 1959, puritanical Americans, in the guise of the U.S. Completed in 1928, and first published in Florence (to avoid censorship), what was then considered the most erotic novel ever published in English was inspired by the experiences of an Englishwoman in Taormina, an eastern Sicilian resort town which boasted an emigre population of sophisticated and eccentric Brits. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Completely beside ourselves![]() Fowler has noted that some of her novels have achieved enormous critical and commercial success (one of them, The Jane Austen Book Club, was adapted into a Hollywood movie) while others have done “very, very badly.” Fowler has two children and seven grandchildren and lives with her husband in Santa Cruz, California. ![]() Fowler went on to publish several more novels, of which We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is the most recent. The novel plays with the genres of science fiction, historical fiction, and mainstream fiction, and received praise from critics. ![]() Her first novel, Sarah Canary, was published in 1991. Several years later, Fowler enrolled in a creative writing course at UC Davis and began publishing science fiction stories. She studied political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and went on to do a master’s, during which she became pregnant with her first child. At the age of 11 she moved to Palo Alto, California. ![]() Karen Joy Fowler was born in Bloomington, Indiana. ![]() |