![]() She worked tirelessly for the rights of people who are blind to have full access to education, employment, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. In 1924, Helen Keller began her lifelong association with the American Foundation for the Blind. She lobbied for measures to aid the blind, including reading services and Social Security acceptance. Her autobiography, The Story of My Life, was the first of 14 books she wrote in her lifetime. She was a living testimony to the capabilities of a group once assumed to be dependent and vulnerable, and she spent the rest of her life as the most prominent advocate for the needs and rights of people with disabilities. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1920s, the newly established American Foundation for the Blind asked Helen Keller to help raise funds. She also supported groups like the Industrial Workers of the World, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Margaret Sanger’s birth control crusade. Helen became a member of the Socialist Party. Keller wrote poetry, toured on the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and published an autobiography, The Story of My Life. ![]() Helen earned a bachelor’s degree from Radcliffe College, where Anne Sullivan accompanied her to every class and spelled the lectures into her hand. The child loved to learn, and her remarkable achievements in reading, writing and speaking soon made her internationally famous. The teacher, young Anne Sullivan, herself formerly blind, managed to break through to communicate with Helen. When she was nineteen months old, an illness left Helen deaf, blind, and mute.Īn excitable, energetic child, she showed such signs of great intelligence that her mother sent for a private teacher. ![]()
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![]() She meets an itinerant phony fortune teller, Professor Marvel ( Frank Morgan), who immediately guesses that Dorothy has run away. Fearing that Miss Gulch, who does not know that Toto has escaped, will return, Dorothy takes the dog and runs away from home. Miss Gulch shows up with an order to take Toto to the sheriff to be euthanized, but Toto jumps out of the basket on the back of Miss Gulch's bicycle and runs back to Dorothy. She daydreams about going "over the rainbow" after Miss Gulch ( Margaret Hamilton), a nasty neighbor, hits Dorothy's dog Toto ( Terry) on the back with a rake, causing Toto to bite her. ![]() ![]() Dorothy Gale ( Judy Garland) is an orphaned teenager who lives with her Auntie Em ( Clara Blandick) and Uncle Henry ( Charley Grapewin) on a Kansas farm in the early 1900s. ![]() ![]() Sydney’s unhappy because Sydney is convinced that he should be unhappy. Perhaps part of the reason that Sydney remains so impenetrable is that Dickens just doesn’t give us much to work with. Believe it or not, no one has come up with any good answers. In fact, it’s the question that’s troubled readers of A Tale of Two Cities for, well, centuries. So why does he settle for living other people’s lives? Ah, that’s a good question. (Okay, Stryver’s not exactly brawny, but you get the picture.) Strangely enough, Sydney doesn’t exactly seem like the sort of scrawny kid who got his lunch money stolen every day. He spends his adult years being the brains behind Stryver’s brawn. Orphaned at a young age, Sydney spent most of his youth writing homework for his classmates. So, with looks and brains, Sydney should have the world at his feet… right? Well, not exactly. Which means Sydney can’t be all that hard on the eyes, right? See, he looks exactly like Charles Darnay. He’s also rather good-looking… at least, we’re pretty sure he is. ![]() Stryver, into one of the most prominent lawyers of his time. ![]() At twenty-five, he’s obviously brilliant: he manages to make one of the stupidest men in London, Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The merged stories reach a predictable conclusion. Seagraves and the Camel Club are engaged in a cat-and-mouse game, and Annabelle Conroy is the special guest star. Annabelle arrives in D.C., thanks to an awkward development, along with a new piece of unfinished business. There’s little drama Players act out their part marks fall. ![]() After a series of capers out west to build their bankroll, the team heads back east. She’s assembling her team, eager to settle an old score by taking down Atlantic City’s most notorious and ruthless casino owner. Things are slightly more exciting in Conroy’s world. In the other, the Camel Club investigates the mysterious death of a close friend. In one, Conroy and her team work their way up to their major score. The mysterious death of a rare-books expert at the Library of Congress launches the story, which splits off at first into two different plotlines. Seagraves is killing high-level government officials, and Conroy is putting together the con of the century, with Bagger as the target. Helped by a beautiful grifter, the “Camel Club”-the four-man band of conspiracy theorists-returns to battle a threat to national security.Īnnabelle Conroy is con-artist extraordinaire Jerry Bagger, mobster and mark and Roger Seagraves, master assassin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Queen Tera ruled thousands of years ago, and not only was she a woman ruling as pharaoh in a traditionally male-dominated society, but she was a powerful sorcerer who held sway over the material and unseen worlds. Margaret is the precocious daughter of the Egyptologist Abel Trelawny, and she is no shrinking violet, even though the men around her try to pull the usual stunt of treating her like a delicate bloom. And yet, as I've observed in Dracula, there's a subtle current of feminism at work – this time expressed in the characters Margaret Trelawny and the fictional ancient Egyptian queen Tera. ![]() The Jewel of Seven Stars is also very much a product of its time, deeply embedded in the culture of British Imperialism and Victorian sensibilities (hah). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. ![]() Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. 253-264) and indexįallibility: Education of a knife - Computer and the hernia factory - When doctors make mistakes - Nine thousand surgeons - When good doctors go bad - Mystery: Full moon Friday the thirteenth - Pain perplex - Queasy feeling - Crimson tide - Man who couldn't stop eating - Uncertainty: Final cut - Dead baby mystery - Whose body is it anyway? - Case of the red legĪ brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. "Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"-T.p. ![]() ![]() ![]() At least there’s one bonus-her first love, sexy cowboy neighbour, Garth Mackenzie, is there and the attraction between them is still explosive. The last thing advertising art director Lucy Bellamy wants is to go home to the Outback, but duty to family calls. If Jenni can't trust him, what is there to keep Jake in Second Chance Bay?īut can he leave the woman he loves a second time? Every time he tries to help her family business, she sees an ulterior motive. Jake knows that Jenni will always see him as a playboy, and can’t trust him, and his self confidence disappears when the town judges him on his past. When he blows into town after making his fortune and expects to pick up where they left off, Jenni fights every move he makes. Jake Jones, her childhood sweetheart, was once the poor boy from the wrong side of town. ![]() Jenni McDougal’s family have worked hard to build their fishing and charter business in the remote coastal outback town of Second Chance Bay. ![]() The following books are $17.50 plus $2.50 postage within Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, a young PhD student has gained access to a bioweapon thought to be confined to a classified military laboratory known only to a select number of officials. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on earth. ![]() Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the United States and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. ![]() He’s a young, popular, self-made visionary…but he’s also a man with a secret. And the enemy is ready to strike again.Ī new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. In the shadows, the enemy has been patient-learning, and adapting. It’s been twenty years since 9/11, two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and set out to make the guilty pay with their lives. The fourth thriller in the “so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Terminal List series follows former Navy SEAL James Reece as he is entrusted with a top-secret CIA mission of retribution twenty years in the making. They’re gripping.” -Joe Rogan, on the Terminal List series Get ready!” -Chris Pratt, star of The Terminal List, coming to Amazon Prime “Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER ![]() ![]() He gets up late almost every day, sits by the phone in anticipation that someone will call him to ask to dinner. Since then nobody has been able to find him a place. After graduating Oxford, until the crisis began, John worked in an advertising agency. He lives in London in a house of his mother, who is engaged in renting apartments. ![]() John Beaver is a young man of twenty-five years. Written by Aleksei Marchyn, Isabel Bishop ![]() ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Lord of the Rings began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. An exceptional set, most rare and desirable signed, with noted provenance. ![]() XII 1967." Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by The Harcourt Bindery. ![]() TheÂtwo men remained friends and correspondents for muchÂofÂtheir lives with Burchfield later crediting Tolkien as "the puckish fisherman who drew me into his glittering philological net." Near fine in near fine dust jackets, with "E. Burchfield would go on to develop a Tolkien-like fascination with linguistics and would become theÂeditorÂofÂtheÂSupplement toÂthe Oxford English Dictionary. Burchfield studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was tutored by Tolkien and C.S. The recipient, Ethel Burchfield was theÂwifeÂof Robert Burchfield, a lexicographer and scholar who was mentored by Tolkien. Tolkien." Volumes two and three are signed by J.R.R. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Signed for Ethel May with love J. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth, folding maps. Second editions of the author's classic trilogy, signed by Tolkien in each volume. ![]() |