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![]() ![]() ![]() ( A great fine motor exercise.) When they are satisfied with the arrangement of their faux spaghetti, help them place a sheet of paper on top of the noodles and press down to make a print. Let them manipulate the “noodles” using their forks. Now have the children “dish” up some spaghetti onto an art tray. I used real ones, but I’m just crazy like that sometimes.) ![]() You’ll need plenty of paint to cover the yarn – much more sauce than I usually put on my spaghetti! (You probably want to use plastic forks. Now it’s time to add the sauce (red tempera paint) and toss the spaghetti. Talk to the children about how this does and doesn’t resemble spaghetti. With the children, cut up some tan-colored yarn and place it in an old Cool Whip container, or other disposable bowl. If you’re in the mood for a more creative activity, and feeling a bit brave, I’ve got spaghetti prints for you! She not only eats it (and pairs it with almost any other food) but plays in it, and even skis down it! As Minnie, and eventually Freddie, say, “I love it, I love it, I love it, I do!” This book is just classic! A fantastic, simple read that children love!Īfter reading More Spaghetti I Say, you could do a whole language activity, asking the children what their favorite foods are. There’s a wonderful mix of rhyme, rhythm and hilarity as Minnie explains to Freddie, just how much she loves her spaghetti. ![]() In More Spaghetti I Say, author Rita Golden Gelman weaves a silly tale of a monkey named Minnie who is so in love with her spaghetti she can’t possibly play with her brother. ![]()
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Tender with a Twist by Annabeth Albert5/28/2023 ![]() Exploring long-held desires brings them closer with each steamy night, and the idea of parting gets harder.But Levi’s only in town temporarily, and the end of summer is approaching.īoth are reluctant to disclose their feelings, but pushing past their fears may be the only way to keep this special thing going. But bantering with Joe feels so good, and when their tentative friendship takes a turn for the sexy, a summer fling seems fun. ![]() But an innocent flirtation with the fresh-faced barista is exactly what his ego needs.Levi doesn’t need a boyfriend. ![]() As he gets older, he remains unsure about what he wants from a relationship. The one bright spot? The charming blue-collar customer with the simple order and reassuring voice.Įlectrician Joe Simmons can make anything light up-except his love life. He’s trying to figure out post-graduation life, and a recent breakup hasn’t helped. Sometimes an ordinary Joe is all you need… Newbie barista Levi Miles is having a bad day in the middle of a bad month. ![]()
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Things you save in a fire5/28/2023 ![]() The follow-up to Center’s breakout hit, How to Walk Away (2018), in which Cassie had a brief cameo, has all the hallmarks that made readers fall in love with the previous book: an appealing (if guarded, in this case) heroine, a compelling love story, a tear-jerking twist, and a thoroughly absorbing story. Cassie, who has spent her adult life avoiding romantic attachments, falls head over heels for the handsome rookie at the station. And then the worst thing in the world happens. ![]() Cassie reluctantly moves in with Diana and is forced to start over with a new fire department, one more sexist and backward-thinking than the one she came from. Ten years ago, Cassie was raped by Heath Thompson a fellow student at her high school. ![]() Now a firefighter in Austin, Cassie loves her job and her team until a run-in with the man who assaulted her on the night her mother left costs her both. Cassie Hanwell is a 26-year-old firefighter and a rising star of the Austin Fire Department. ![]() Martin’s, follows Cassie, an Austin, Texas, firefighter who moves to Boston to care for her. Missy Peregrym, the actor known for her roles in Van Helsing and FBI, is producing the adaptation of Center’s 2019 book. ![]() So, a decade later, when Diana calls to tell Cassie that she’s lost her vision in one eye and asks Cassie to move across the country to take care of her, Cassie is anything but eager. Katherine Center’s Things You Save in a Fire is headed to the big screen, Deadline reports. Cassie Hanwell has never forgiven her mother, Diana, for leaving her and her father on Cassie’s sixteenth birthday. ![]()
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The da vinci code book price5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows VMsīuild and deploy Spring Boot applications with a fully managed service from Microsoft and VMwareĪ dedicated physical server to host your Azure VMs for Windows and LinuxĬloud-scale job scheduling and compute management Remove data silos and deliver business insights from massive datasetsĪccess cloud compute capacity and scale on demand-and only pay for the resources you use Secure, develop, and operate infrastructure, apps, and Azure services anywhere Jump in and explore a diverse selection of today's quantum hardware, software, and solutions Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobileĮverything you need to build and operate a live game on one platformĮxecute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience Migrate, modernize, and innovate on the modern SQL family of cloud databasesīuild or modernize scalable, high-performance appsĭeploy and scale containers on managed KubernetesĪdd cognitive capabilities to apps with APIs and AI services Provision Windows and Linux VMs in secondsĮnable a secure, remote desktop experience from anywhere Explore some of the most popular Azure products ![]()
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![]() His first breakthrough was with his book, Ayuamarca, written under his full name instead of his pen name. He thought writing children's books would be a nice idea for the future but adult books were his main focus. Mute Pursuit was never published, but Shan loved the writing experience, so he started focusing on novels more and not on short stories.Īll of Shan's first books were oriented to adults. ![]() He finished his first novel at age seventeen. His first success came to him at age fifteen, when he was a runner-up in a TV script-writing competition for Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland, with a dark comedy story entitled A Day in the Morgue. He bought his first typewriter when he was fourteen and wrote several short stories, comic scripts, and books that he never finished. He then travelled back to London to study Sociology and English at Roehampton University.ĭarren worked for a cable television company in Limerick for a few years and then decided to become a full-time writer. He received his primary education in Askeaton, and went to secondary school at Copsewood College in Pallaskenry. When he was six, he moved, with his parents and younger brother, to Limerick, Ireland, were he had been living ever since. ![]() ![]() At the age of three he started school at English Martyr's in London. He lives in Pallaskenry, County Limerick, in Ireland. Darren OShaughnessy was born on July 2, 1972, in St Thomas' Hospital, London, England. ![]()
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Dune messiah sparknotes5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Site design / logo 2023 Stack Exchange Inc user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. "I've been instructed to tell you that your wife Frieth has given birth to a strong young son who is sure to be the pride of his sietch one day." See it on the biggest screen possible. ![]() Chani's father Liet is the son of Frieth and Pardot Kynes: Others knew about his place in Plaster Basin, of course, but he wanted to be the Dune:Spice Opera (1992 video game soundtrack), Children of Dune (2003 miniseries soundtrack), Inama Nushif (song from Children of Dune). With the Emperor, she mothered Leto Atreides II the Elder, God-Emperor Leto Atreides II the Younger, and Ghanima Atreides. Paul and his mother, Lady Jessica, encounter Arakkis's native people, the Fremen, as they're escaping the Harkonnens plot to kill them and seize control of Arrakis. However, Irulan's attempts to terminate Chani's pregnancy through drugs failed. For now, though, their imperfect relationship is at least advantageous for their Great House. However, their first born was murdered by a House Corrino raiding party while Paul, Chani and Jessica were away visiting another sietch. A number of instances of this are demonstrated in the film, including his encounter with Chani. ![]() Chani was born on Arrakis, the daughter of the half-Fremen planetologist Liet Kynes and his full-Fremen wife. ![]()
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Suddenly Royal by Nichole Chase5/27/2023 ![]() Chapter 4: PlayboyĪfter days of wondering about Alex's motivations, you've decided to take matters into your own hands. ![]() You find yourself in the midst of a tabloid frenzy as news of Lilaria's long-lost duchess hits front-page news. That doesn't mean you can drop your life on a dime for some caper with a sizzling-hot Lilarian prince. ![]() So you're the long-lost duchess of Whatchamacallit. Your lives collide when you discover you're the long-lost heiress to a duchy in the distant country of Lilaria - and everyone's front-page news. When you discover you’re the long-lost heiress to a duchy in the distant country of Lilaria, you’re forced to admit that maybe fairy tales do come true. ![]() 2.11 Chapter 11: Till the Stroke of MidnightĪs a struggling grad student, you don’t believe in fairytales- until your life becomes one.2.10 Chapter 10: Lessons in Self-Restraint.2.9 Chapter 9: The Prince and the Pauper. ![]()
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Pony Play by Sean Michael5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The story is less than 50 pages but was full on the kink. Luckily, groom/Master Daniel fit the criteria and was as unattached as Jack. All Jack wants is someone to call his own who will accept him kinks and all. ![]() Harnesses and nipple piercing and reins.Jack learned he was a true pony boy/sub in this 24/7 lifestyle. While suspending reality with my treats of apples and carrot sticks (a true pony boy diet), Jack and Daniel played in some yummy scenes. Why? A grown man is sort of kidnapped and left with a stranger to participate in an act that he did not consent to? There were minor quibbles but he just went along with it.I neighed with disbelief during those moments. (Side note: The MC's names are Jack and Daniel.LOL) I had to suspend reality and take a trip off the reality trail for a moment of two. His ex leaves him with groom/Master Daniel at a BDSM/pony play training stable. ![]() ![]() Jack is sort of kidnapped onto a kinky two week vacation by his ex-lover. However there was great equipment detail that I looked into deeper on a pony play fetish helps visualize the bits, harnesses, etc. This story is filled will pony play, penis piercings and enemas, oh my! I will admit this is not my first prance around the pony play paddock. And what a kinky little filly this was (I have so many bad horse jokes, it's not even funny.okay maybe a little) Sean Michael's "Pony Play" is book #3 from the standalone series Sealed with a Kink. 3.75 STARS- "I'm going to let you come, colt. ![]()
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Sakurazaka hiroshi5/27/2023 ![]() I’ll give you the money in the register, I said to him in my mind, just hurry on out of here. But annoyance came to me first, when I pictured all the extra work I’d have to do after he’d gone. Naturally, I was irritated that he was going to stroll out of here with the money I’d earned over hours of scooping out beef bowls. The drowsiness lifted from my mind in an instant, but my very first thought was: This is gonna be a pain in the ass. I had finished wiping a table, about to prepare it for the next customer, when he arrived. For me, the beef bowls I was permitted to eat during my shift were even more they were my primary diet, my lifeline. But even cows and horses-and chickens only able to stick out their heads from their cages- ate because they liked the taste, and people were no different. Situated away from the city’s center, the place was like a feeding trough for humans to come shovel down their food in a matter of minutes. ![]() I was working alone late at night in a beef bowl joint when it all happened. ![]()
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Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() One of them, Ben Brantley of the New York Times, observes with only minor exaggeration that “ Angels brought theater back into the national conversation.” So it did, if only for a time. The inception and reception of Angels have been chronicled in The World Only Spins Forward, a book-length oral history compiled by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois.* Based on interviews with 250 people who took part in or saw its early productions, it documents the impact that Angels had on its first viewers. Now it has returned to Broadway in a production from the National Theatre in London, where it was greeted with near-universal acclaim, much of it from critics who were not yet born when the real-life events depicted by Kushner took place. Taken together, the two parts of Angels in America-running seven-and-a-half hours in all-were widely thought to constitute the most important American play of the late 20th century. ![]() It brought Kushner a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony, and that Tony was followed by another when its second half, Angels in America: Perestroika, opened six months later. When Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches opened on Broadway a quarter-century ago, it became the most talked-about theatrical event of its day. ![]() |