![]() ![]() ![]() Īfter teaching English for a year at Bountiful High School, Wilson completed an MA in English from BYU. They studied at BYU together and were married in the Salt Lake Temple on May 31, 1957. As a missionary, he met Hannele Blomqvist who was serving as a sister missionary. While in Finland, he gained an appreciation for Finnish culture, especially the collection of epic poetry, The Kalevala. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Finland in 1953. He became the first of his family to attend university when he enrolled at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1951. He grew up in Downey, Idaho, a small, close-knit community. William Albert Wilson was born in Tremonton, Utah, to Bill Wilson, who worked as a railroad foreman for Union Pacific, and Lucile Wilson. He and his students collected jokes, legends, stories, songs, and other information to add to the Mormon folklore archives. He directed the folklore archive at USU from 1978 to 1985, and chaired the English department at BYU from 1985 to 1991. : 2 The "father of Mormon folklore" helped found and organize folklore archives at both Utah State University (USU) and Brigham Young University (BYU). William Albert "Bert" Wilson (Septem– April 25, 2016) was a scholar of Mormon folklore. ![]() The Aimo Turunen Medal from the Kalevala Society of Finland įolklore and Nationalism in Modern Finland (1974) Arrington Award, Mormon History Association, 2002 Īmérico Paredes Award, American Folklore Society ![]()
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![]() ![]() After working in many small-town banks in Saskatchewan, he transferred to a bank in Winnipeg in 1933. ![]() He dropped out of school after grade eleven to work in a bank. ![]() About the Author: Sinclair Ross was born on a homestead near Shelbrooke in northern Saskatchewan in 1908. It is one of Canada's great novels and a landmark in modern fiction. Atmospheric, intimate, and richly observed, As For Me and My House is a moving meditation on the bittersweet nature of human relationships, on the bonds that tie people together and the undercurrents of feeling that can tear them apart. In the windswept town of Horizon, an unamed diarist paints a vivid and enthralling picture of prairie life in the Depression era. As For Me and My House is an essential Canadian work-a precise and compelling portrait of our culture, our psyche, and the nature of contemporary art itself, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm going to do my best to mark spoilers but I might miss some, so here's a general spoiler warning for the rest of this review.įirst off, why do all these high schools in YA books have gossip sites and apps dedicated to the students at their school? Like, not just a school gossip Snapchat or something but a literal app or website that some student built specifically to ~expose~ their peers and I just. My problems with this book are more in the realm of suspension of disbelief and the convenience of the plot. The characters aren't awful, the pacing wasn't weird, and the mystery has a second layer that doesn't come out of nowhere. And, for the most part, Deepfake does a decent job with the concept. This is TERRIFYING, so it's perfect fodder for a YA mystery. ![]() ![]() With the proliferation of deepfake apps, this is a very timely story most of the apps are limited to entertainment purposes (i.e., putting yourself in the lead role in your favorite movie or TV show), but the fact is that you can fabricate realistic video of anyone saying anything as long as you have a picture and an audio clip of their voice. Now he's being investigated by the College Board, and she needs to clear her name in order to clear his. The basic idea for this book is solid: at a high school where everyone cares about academics, a video spreads of the school's top student saying that her boyfriend, who's also her biggest competition for valedictorian, paid someone else to take the SAT for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Silent Letters Loud and Clear would be great to teach students about the differnt things authors and illustrators do to make the important aspects of the book. There are many occasions where silent letters occur and it is hard for some students to understand. Silent Letters Loud and Clear would be great to teach students about silent letters in the English Language. The letters that are used as illustrations have dialogue which makes it the pictures connect to the text in a great manner. For the letters that are silent, the author and illustrator decided to make them pop-out from the other letters letter the students know that those are the silent letters to watch out for. There are bold and bright colors that draws attention to each page. In the pages, the illustrations are letters of the words on the pages. Review by Kim Beers: The illustrations of the book really wrap about the text. Each of the silent letters has a personality all its own, while her cartoon stick figures convey all the emotion and energy needed to carry the story. Within the text itself, silent letters are highlighted whenever they appear. They express their opinion in a perfectly typed letter to the editor, but just before they hit send, the silent letters sneak out and hide. ![]() ![]() The students have had it with silent letters and the difficulty they cause in spelling lessons. ![]() Wright's class still does not like silent letters. Summary: The students of a class hate silent letters and the fact that you cannot hear them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the game of kings and armies, I’m the gilded pawn. I may be out of my cage, but I’m not free, not even close. When he turns those black eyes on me, I feel captive for an entirely different reason. But his eyes-his eyes are the most compelling of all. Rip has power sizzling beneath this skin and glinting spikes down his spine. She has since gone on to write in a range of genres, including the adult dark fantasy: The Plated Prisoner Series, which has become an Amazon. Her debut series was a romcom fantasy about a cupid looking for love. 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Simple in its execution, but brilliant in its reveal, The Body Snatchers builds up an inherent distrust of the people surrounding the main characters as they investigate why everyone seems “off” in this small, California town. While the source material is inherently pulpy, a result of the genre and the era in which it was published, there is an entertaining quality to the story that has allowed it to survive for so long. ![]() In fact, I like to think that many facets of this story have become a part of popular culture, including the replication “pods” and Donald Sutherland’s scream in the 1978 film version. ![]() Most people know this book by its numerous film adaptations, including Invasion of the Body Snatchers (19), Body Snatchers (1993), and The Invasion (2007). ![]() ![]() She is a hugely influential figure in the Parisian artistic and literary community. ![]() Stein serves as a mentor to Hemingway, advising him on writing, buying art, and other matters. He often goes to visit Gertrude Stein at her home at 27 rue de Fleurus, where she lives with her partner, Alice B. He sometimes struggles with writer’s block, but when this happens reassures himself that all he needs to do is “write one true sentence” and the rest will follow. When they return, the weather in Paris is beautiful, but still cold, and Hemingway is always hungry. Later, he goes home and makes plans to go on a trip with his wife, Hadley. ![]() He stares at the woman, and the sight of her inspires his writing. He goes to work in a café, where he sees a beautiful woman. Hemingway begins by describing the “bad weather” during the winter in Paris and the cafés filled with alcoholics. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last Angélique book was published in 1985. ![]() Some of the recent editions have been illustrated by the couple's daughter, Nadja Golon. Serge Golon died in 1972, but Anne continued to write. ![]() The saga of Angélique has sold over 100 million books, has had 320 publishers and over 45 translations. The books were published by Bantam in 1958 in the United States and by Pan Books and other publishers in the United Kingdom. The books are not technically romances, more historic fiction with the continuing story of Angélique (and her husband, Joffrey de Peyrac) spanning the ages beginning in France during the time of Louis XIV and continuing to the "New World" and in fact around the world. Bantam published the books in one volume, titled "Angélique" in 1958. The first Angélique book, at over 900 pages, was published in 1957 in France (and in 1956 in Germany) in two volumes to make it "easier" to read, entitled Angélique, Marquise of the Angels and Angélique, the Road to Versailles. He was a Russian aristocrat who had fled Russia during the revolution, and they met during World War II. The books were first released in English under the name of Sergeanne Golon and later some under the name Anne et Serge Golon. Anne Golon is the pseudonym of Simone Goloubinoff, who together with her husband, Vsevolod Sergeïvich Goloubinoff, known as Serge Golon, wrote the Angélique books. ![]() ![]() ![]() From Neanderthals to murder, from redheads to race, dead kings to plague, evolution to epigenetics, this is a demystifying and illuminating new portrait of who we are and how we came to be. ![]() A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived will upend your thinking on Neanderthals, evolution, royalty, race, and even redheads. In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history, and what history can now tell us about our genes. 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