![]() ![]() Native title research and access service The Native Title Research and Access Service is your first stop for information about the native title resources in the AIATSIS collection.Indigenous Research Exchange We improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by ensuring there is more involvement and agency in research projects. ![]() Ethical research We provide leadership in ethics and protocols for research related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and collections.Current projects Our research contributes to the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and has a direct benefit to the communities we work with.AIATSIS holds the worlds largest collection dedicated to AustralianĪboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() La Côte Basque was a NYC restaurant with a French cuisine that opened in the late 1950s and didn’t close its doors till 2004. Pearls are always a must in a woman’s closet…Įven the flowers were dripping with jewels… How cool is this vintage “Couple Dancing” pin! Headwear played an important role in a socialite’s wardrobe…. Yikes, this pack of cigarettes cost our host (who doesn’t smoke) $10.25!! –Ī stack of books for our Book Club lunch ‘written by’ Truman Capote – our host actually mocked-up her own covers and put them on existing books of hers. Unlike today, smoking cigarettes was part of everyday life back then (think Mad Men, Marlboro Man, Virginia Slims…) You know I love details, and my friend did not disappoint! Let’s take a closer look: Her table really captured the essence of The Swans’ lifestyle back then. Truman Capote met “his Swans” in the mid-1950’s, and they continued their ‘unique friendship’ for the next 20 years. ![]() We were greeted at the door with her witty sense of humor – getting us into the spirit of the book. Her fabulous tablescape was truly Theatre of the Table. She (like me:) loves to entertain, and said she “had a ball” putting together her tablescape for our lunch. ![]() “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ~ Truman CapoteĪnother gal hosted my Book Club a few weeks ago for our very lively discussion of the book, The Swans of Fifth Avenue. ![]() ![]()
![]() Kylie and Russ have more in common than they or anyone else would ever expect. But his bigger challenge is getting Kylie to let loose a little…like the adventurous characters she depicts in her work. Her opposition to converting part of the old hat factory into a theater is a challenge. Keeping tabs on Daphne while she considers starting a small children’s theater in town doesn’t seem like a tough job until he runs into Kylie. Russ is in Knights Bridge to keep his client and friend, eccentric Hollywood costume designer Daphne Stewart, out of trouble. And then California private investigator Russ Colton moves in. She carefully guards her privacy in the refurbished nineteenth-century hat factory where she has a loft. No one seems to know her here-and she likes it that way. New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers returns to charming Swift River Valley, where spring is the time for fresh starts and new beginnings… Kylie Shaw has found a home and a quiet place to work as an illustrator of children’s books in little Knights Bridge, Massachusetts. ![]() You can read this before The Spring at Moss Hill (Swift River Valley, #6) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Spring at Moss Hill (Swift River Valley, #6) written by Carla Neggers which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Spring at Moss Hill (Swift River Valley, #6) by Carla Neggers ![]() ![]() ![]() "Picking up where Ragweed (1999), chronologically the first book in the series, left off, the footloose golden mouse with the single earring again finds himself on a train-though not for long, as Lotar, a large but very young and “double-down dumb” raccoon, climbs into the boxcar and is separated from his mother when it begins moving. A must-read choice for Poppy fans." -Carolyn Phelan. In telling how Ragweed and Poppy become friends, this seventh volume in the Tales of Dimwood Forest series serves as a bridge between Ragweed (1999), a prequel, and Poppy (1995), the first-published book in the series. ![]() Floca's pencil drawings illustrate the story. Avi handles the large cast of familiar and new characters with ease, while pacing the narrative for maximum enjoyment. ![]() In the story’s climax, Ragweed, Poppy and her family, Lotar and his mother, the child and her parents, three men, and an excitable dog converge for an amusing, chaotic scene. After he leaves to seek help from her family, a girl finds Poppy and decides to keep her as a pet. Near a “human house,” he hears a cry for help and finds Poppy, a deer mouse, caught in a metal box trap. Tough-talking but soft-hearted, Ragweed helps reunite Lotar with his mother and then sets off happily on his own. "Ragweed, a golden mouse, is riding the rails when Lotar, a frightened little raccoon, climbs into his boxcar. Purchase: IndieBound | Amazon | Barnes & NobleĪ Kirkus Reviews 10 Top Middle-Grade Summer Reads ![]() ![]() The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather-and the hot, grumpy local-that she’s more than a pretty face.Įxcept it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. ![]() Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Adrianne Lobel told The New Yorker's Colin Stokes, "I think ‘Frog and Toad’ really was the beginning of him coming out."Īlthough the news will undoubtedly shock some readers, the response to Adrianne's reveal has been largely positive - or at least accepting. The late author came out to his family in 1974, four years after he published the first of his four Frog and Toad books. More than 45 years after we first learned that Frog and Toad Are Friends, Arnold Lobel's daughter, Adrianne, has suggested that Frog and Toad are gay. ![]() ![]() ![]() A disease, responsible for suicides, the appearance of ghosts, the arrival of disembodied voices. Nostalgia is no longer considered a sickness, not technically, but it was once-the seventeenth-century Swiss physician Johannes Hofer gave the affliction its name, from the Greek words nostos (home, or even, return home) and algos (pain). Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try to forgive herself and move on, even as the memory of Marlena keeps her tangled in the past.Īlive with an urgent, unshakable tenderness, Julie Buntin’s Marlena is an unforgettable look at the people who shape us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back from the brink. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts-first drink, first cigarette, first kiss-while Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. ![]() ![]() Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena’s orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Too-Clever Fox, 2013 (included in The Language of Thorns anthology).The Witch of Duva, 2012 (included in The Language of Thorns anthology).The Lives of Saints, (Grishaverse short stories), 2020 To get into the Grishaverse, you should start with the initial prequel short stories, followed by the original Grisha trilogy. Do note that all the books by the author – except for the latest adult series – take place in the Grisha universe (also called the Grishaverse). Here are the Leigh Bardugo books in order of reading and publication order. Her initial trilogy based on the debut novel has sold so far in over 22 countries, translated into 38 languages. Her debut novel, Shadow and Bone, was picked up by Macmillan Publishing and was turned into a trilogy ordered by the publisher. Last Updated on SeptemLeigh Bardugo is a bestselling author of several young-adult fantasy series, including the Grisha trilogy, Six of Crowns duology, and her newer Nikolai and Alex Stern series. ![]() ![]() The constant challenge of staying alive keeps the excitement sharp. The adventure occurs amid the beauty and spectac ular dangers of the harsh environment, inspiring and frightening to behold. The delicate balance of good and evil in the world serves as the major theme. Members of the team begin to die mysteriously, and when a flash flood hits the canyon, the body count rises. In this novel, Nora Kelly is an archeologist who finds a letter from her father to her mother, sixteen years after her father disappeared and six months after her mother died. And once the s kinwalkers reappear, the eerie power of evil seems to take over. Thunderhead is a novel by bestselling writers Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The group encounters monumental natural obstacles and deep personality conflicts. Nora finds a financial backer and puts together an expedition staf fed with experts to help her find the site once more. On her frantic flight toward safety, she accidentally stumbles across the last letter her father wrote, describing t he route he had taken in finding the lost legendary Anasazi city of gold, Q uivivra. ![]() ![]() Checking on disturbing noises at her family's abandoned ranch house, Nora K elly experiences a frightening encounter with two entities that resemble ex tremely large and ferocious wolves (in reality men disguised as skinwalkers ), barely escaping with her life. ![]() |