Did you know John Thompson Prior? I have been reading about the siege of Bastogne, Christmas 1944. The many enormous sacrifices strike me with awe. There was love and humanity even for enemies. Most heroes never intended to be one. … Continued
by Salina B Baker, Stephanie Churchill (Foreword), Sharon Bennett Connolly, Elizabeth Corbett, Virginia Crow, Cathie Dunn, Karen Heenan, Michael Ross, and Samantha Wilcoxson We all know the past is the past, but what if you could change history? We asked … Continued
English history changes in an instant. Wandering alone after a battle, enemies all around, a Danish Jarl (noble) stumbles out of the forest, and finds a teenage Saxon boy. This encounter between Ulf of Denmark and Godwine of Wessex, … Continued
“Fake news”, “yellow journalism”, “propaganda” – whatever you like to call it – the practice of distorting and embellishing facts to suit a political agenda and inflaming sentiment- is not new.
Today is my birthday, commemorating sixty-nine years of circling the sun. I thought it would be fun to look back at the way things were when I was born, and what happened that year. Ten events from 1954: Cost of … Continued
IS SHE NOT PASSING FAIR?
Is she not passing fair,
She whom I love so well ?
Young adult fiction featuring gambling, bandits, swordplay, probability and Bayes’ Theorem. An English teacher hopes to engage students with colorful STEM adventures. “In this outstanding collection, Tom addresses the chronic problem of our young women dropping out of STEM studies. … Continued
‘A Rip in the Veil’ is the first book in The Graham Saga, Anna Belfrage’s time slip series featuring time traveller Alexandra Lind and her seventeenth-century husband, Matthew Graham. On a muggy August day in 2002, Alexandra Lind is inexplicably … Continued
Today we join the Coffee Pot Book Club tour for Tom Durwood’s “Ruby Pi and the Math Girls”. A collection of adventure stories. Resourceful girls coming of age and changing history — using mathematics. Rupa plays Sherlock Holmes when she … Continued
Small towns have their ups and downs – and their secrets. Maggie thought she’d escaped her growing-up trauma – a drug addict mother, an abusive stepfather, a boyfriend who dumped her for another girl, and football. But somehow, the problems … Continued