![]() IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languagesĮmmy can't help but think that the society had something to do with her dad's. ![]() OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images ![]() ![]() Pick up the Black Hollow Lane series for your 5th grade and middle school students, kids 9-12, and young readers who love twisty mysteries with: When she arrives at school, she finds the strange symbols from the medallions etched into walls and books, which leads Emmy and her new friends, Jack and Lola, to Wellsworth's secret society: The Order of Black Hollow Lane.Įmmy can't help but think that the society had something to do with her dad's disappearance, and that there may be more than just dark secrets in the halls of Wellsworth. With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in.īut then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home with a note reading: These belonged to your father. Description: With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who’s a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she’s sure she won’t fit in. and it may be the answer to Emmy's questions about her missing father. The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane is a terrific middle-grade mystery adventure debut novel. ![]() But her new home is hiding a secret society. For fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Blackthorn Key series comes an award-winning boarding school mystery about twelve year old Emmy, who's shipped off to a prestigious British school. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The book detailed the advanced camouflage technology discovered by an optical engineer named Richard Schowengerdt and allegedly developed and enhanced by Science Application International Corporation (SAIC). The book was written in the style of a Hunter S Thompson epic and it described multiple surreal incidents of serial harassment of a couple of individuals in San Diego California by a mysterious group that appeared to possess very advanced technology, including advanced camouflage technology. "In 2015, Robert Guffey published a book entitled “Chameleo” (3). Low effort self-posts and image posts are subject to removal at moderator discretion.Īpply to be a Moderator High Strangeness Literature Titles must accurately and informatively explain the content of the submission.Ĥ. Posts and comments must focus on High Strangeness related subjects.ģ. Respect each other and keep discussions civil.Ģ. “People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.” - Charles Fortġ. "Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is." - J. Explorations of the Paranormal, UFOs, Ancient Cultures, Cryptozoology, Consciousness, Futurism, Fringe Science, Anomalies, Animal Mutilations, and instances of High Strangeness. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is no accident that the foundational article, or the afterword of the book, is entitled “Myth Today,” which discusses contemporary mythology. Mythologies, like its content is also part the longer turn towards Structuralism, still in development, and owes much to Lévi-Strauss whose groundbreaking works taught Barthes how to look at cultural forms and analyze them. The period was also one of nationalism with the country being still mired in the throes of late-Empire, struggling with what would be a long and depressing decade of colonialist chaos. The nation was entering into the delirium of consumerism and mass media that was the common property of a European culture, rapidly becoming Americanized. The timing of this volume is an interesting one, coming after the deprivations of a long war and occupation and during the decade in which France tried to recapture its pre-war prestige before surrender and humiliation. In the fifties, Roland Barthes was a semiologist, following Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), in using the sign, the signifier and the signified to study the social condition. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() The morning after Lewis died, Angus Johnston, a historian who teaches at the Hostos Community College in the City University of New York, took to Twitter and broke down the changes made to Lewis' original draft. But while still fiery and poignant, the speech he delivered was considerably less radical than his original draft, which the elders of the civil rights movement encouraged Lewis, 23 at the time, to tone down, according to a historian who spoke with ABC News. John Lewis poured in, many recalled his powerful and moving speech at the March on Washington. As tributes to the late civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His other works include Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Maurice (1971), his posthumously published novel which tells of the coming of age of an explicitly gay male character. He is noted for his use of symbolism as a technique in his novels, and he has been criticised for his attachment to mysticism. ![]() He had five novels published in his lifetime, achieving his greatest success with A Passage to India (1924) which takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj.įorster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal connections in spite of the restrictions of contemporary society. His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect". He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster, was an novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Alpert, devoted the rest of his life to exploring. I watched with delight as we toured Ram Dass' virtual living room, with his voice booming through the dome sharing his life-changing dance through the mind, when he first experienced ego death and got a glimpse of the Divine - an area of study the former Harvard psychology professor, once known as Dr. ![]() The short film utilized his voice from old lectures as well as personal photographs and trippy imagery to immerse hundreds of his admirers in 360-degree virtual reality. TRIPP partnered with the Love Serve Remember Foundation to premiere a VR experience called JOURNEY, inspired by Ram Dass’ first psilocybin trip and his teachings, during the 50th-anniversary celebration of the beloved book. ![]() TRIPP CEO and Co-Founder Nanea Reeves wants everyone who uses the virtual and augmented reality platform to learn how to be here now.Īnd they can even practice with renowned spiritual teacher Ram Dass himself, the man who famously coined that phrase with the 1971 publication of his iconic book Be Here Now, which Reeves and her team helped celebrate the weekend before Halloween at Wisdome LA. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her focus throughout the story (until the last 2 hours) is so vapid, whiny and self-obsessed that I had a hard time cheering for her survival. ![]() The protagonist is supposedly 16 years old, but she sounds very much like she is 12. But a bit more than halfway though, I realized that it was not how the words were read that was the problem - its the words themselves. For a good portion of the book I blamed the narrator - Emily Bauer - for the childish, whiny protagonist. The teen narrator will grate on your last nerve. That was my reason for picking this book - and if you have kids ages 9-14 and a long road trip, this may be a good pick for your family too - sure to lead to some interesting conversations. It is far more family-friendly is every way. ![]() ![]() This was the standard-issue, gold-standard Bible for faithful Christians in my orbit to use, not only because of its premillennial dispensationalist theology but because of its clever inclusion of a running series of notes throughout the text. Growing up in a conservative Southern Baptist church in central Oklahoma, I was given as a teenager my own copy of the Scofield Reference Bible. However, I came under the influence of Scofield long before I ever moved to Dallas. By 1883, Scofield, then age 40, was ordained as a Congregationalist minister and sent to Dallas to lead a small mission church called First Congregational Church.Īn interesting side note: That church, later renamed in his memory as Scofield Memorial Church, now exists within walking distance of my home in Dallas. ![]() ![]() Darby in turn influenced an American lawyer-turned pastor, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, who led quite an interesting and tumultuous life before converting to Christianity somewhere in the late 19th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() I suppose we will have to find something else later on. “It might be a solution,” said the Chief. But we will have solved the problem of his idleness.” There aren’t any dishonest people, so there won’t be anything for him to do. We haven’t had a dishonest person in the State for more than three thousand years.” No one will touch the Treasure without permission. There was a long silence, broken at last by one little, old council member. The only things he can do, are already being done much better by robots.” “He’s utterly incapable of running any of the machines. ![]() “We can’t have an idle person in the State. “But we must find something for him to do,” said another. “As bad as that?” observed one of the council members. “Actually, his intelligence seems to be no greater than that which we believe our ancestors had, back in the twentieth century.” “There doesn’t seem to be a thing he can do,” the Chief went on. People always talk about me as if I can’t understand what they mean. “I’ve tried him on a dozen things,” he reported. I remember the day the Chief of Vocation took me before the council. ![]() But, you see, there are so many things I can’t do. It wouldn’t have happened, if they hadn’t sent me way out there to work. Because we aren’t allowed to have pets of any kind. And, if they did, I’d probably be punished for having her. In the first place, they’d never believe me. She was company and one could talk to her. Science Fiction Story: He didn't know how he could have stood the four months there alone. ![]() |