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In this fantasy adventure, Fletcher and Scoop are Apprentice
Adventurers from the ancient establishment of Blotting's Academy on
Fullstop Island. This is the place where all story characters are
trained. The trouble is, they can't remember how they got there.
It's the first day of term, but the two apprentices soon realise
something is wrong. Things are going missing, including their own
memories, and Scoop has the unsettling feeling that something is
creeping in the shadows. As the children search for answers, they
become entangled with the life of the Storyteller, the islands
creator and king. They journey to his wedding banquet and find
themselves uncovering a hidden past. What is their connection to
this mysterious man? And is there more to him than meets the eye?
Would it be possible to fade to black at the bottom and keep the
same angle on the fade as for the Firebird Chronicles, just to keep
it consistent? And perhaps have the ship just a little bigger? They
say only the dead can cross a Threshold, the dead and those who
have faced a Nemesis Charm. When Apprentice Adventurers, Fletcher
and Scoop, discover their mother has fallen under the curse of a
strange sickness, they prepare to sail for its source, a Threshold,
a doorway to the world beyond the Un-Crossable Boundary. But they
are not the only ones seeking to cross the Threshold. Their old
enemy, Grizelda, has heard that beyond the Boundary lives a woman
with the same power as the Storyteller. With the help of a monster
made with an undead heart, she plans to cross the Boundary and
steal that power for herself. If she succeeds, the Academy, the
island and everything in Fletcher and Scoop's world will be hers.
"Offers readers interesting snapshots of life at these five
frontier forts, all of them hotly contested places in the
mid-eighteenth century... Ingram makes a powerful case for the
local nature of the British frontier."--"Journal of American Ethnic
History"""" ""Provides uncommon depth and detail in demonstrating
Indian influence at these five forts within the localized world of
each community."--"Journal of American History"" ""Ingram
demonstrates the importance of forts not only for military and
imperial history but also for shaping the history and culture of
the societies in their regions. His well-written, thoroughly
researched book adds considerably to our knowledge of the North
American frontier."--"Journal of Interdisciplinary History" "The
uneasy symbiosis of military and native communities at these sites,
the ways in which they cooperated in trade and survival, and the
reasons why they fought and grew apart are expertly reconstructed
in these pages."--"Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"
"By showing the influence of Indians on places that were often
designed to impose military and diplomatic power, Ingram
complicates the early American experience. If they shaped British
policy there, perhaps they shaped it everywhere."--Andrew K. Frank,
coauthor of "Selling War in a Media Age"
A moving remembrance of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
using photographs, first-hand accounts, and
augmented-reality-accessible video portraits that are at once
universal and deeply personal. Courage wears many faces. On March
14, 2020, at the outset of a global pandemic, artist Adad Hannah
took to the streets of Vancouver to record this pivotal moment in
time. Over the span of a year he created 237 tableaux-vivants of
everyday people that capture our heart, our solidarity, and our
resilience. Between Us presents our shared experiences during the
COVID-19 pandemic through a series of photographs, first-hand
accounts, and augmented-reality-accessible video portraits.
Hannah’s series captures the trajectories of our experiences,
from the first weeks of uncertainty in our homes, to the societal
ruptures brought to the fore by the Black Lives Matter movement, to
our hesitant and choreographed returns to and retreats from work
and school, to vaccine rollouts. With unique sound compositions
that can be uplifting, unsettling, or serene, alongside personal
narratives from his sitters, Hannah’s series personifies our
varied emotional journeys.
This fascinating look at the cultural and military importance of
British forts in the colonial era explains how these forts served
as communities in Indian country more than as bastions of British
imperial power. Their security depended on maintaining good
relations with the local Native Americans, who incorporated the
forts into their economic and social life as well as into their
strategies.
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