Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her job, but today is her twenty-eighth birthday and she’d rather not be placating a plane full of passengers unhappy about a long delay. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C desperate not to miss his daughter’s musical. A harried mother ...
The SDG Book Club launched in April 2019, the aim being to develop a reading list of titles for readers aged 6-12 years about the importance of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to encourage young people around the world to set up their own book clubs on this subject (more...
They seemed to know nothing about my real identity except for my cover as a secondary school teacher. They began to call every teacher to come and identify themselves, as if they were getting ready to reopen all the schools. Then at the end of May 1975 they came to my rental lodging, ...
Are we, the digital generation, different from the passengers of that imaginary spaceship95 Pounds of HopeAnna GavaldaReferring to a real person’s experiences, this little poetic story is about the main things in life; choices we make, the power of love and devotion. The story of a ...
Since he is well-known and well-translated he may seem like too obvious a choice, but I find that his work stands out to me every time. The quality of his illustrations are brilliant and the books are beautifully written about topics that make you think, dream, explore and believe in ...
Mayflower Increasings Mrs. Roser’s work provides an accurate and reliable summary of all that is presently known about the passengers of the Mayflower for the first three generations in America—names, dates, places, spouses, children, etc. BUY NOW Kip Sperry Reading Early American Handwriting...
As they went up the steps of the foot-bridge over the railway, and met the train-passengers, she felt herself belonging to another world, she walked past them immune, a whole darkness dividing her from them… This curious separate strength, that existed in darkness and pride of night, ...
Link to Gotthard Baseline rail tunnel: construction of two massive underground emergency stations where passengers can evacuate to rescue trains and travel to the outside. The final line of the programme was that the Gotthard Baseline Tunnel "is currently the biggest until someone builds an even ...
Pie originated as a sort of Tupperware of its time, the dough an inedible wrapper to preserve and transport meat. Mayflower passengers, practical travelers who recognized the hardiness (and heartiness) of the dish, brought pie to America, where recipes evolved and multiplied as quickly as the ...
During the evacuation an engine explodes, and the plane sinks with twelve passengers trapped inside, landing on the edge of an undersea cliff, more than 200-feet below the surface. Will Kent and his 11-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their ...