![]() ![]() ![]() The author and illustrator examine spirals as coiled and protective (fiddlehead ferns, a curled hedgehog) as well as bold and releasing (curls on ocean waves, a spiral galaxy). Krommes’ dense and richly colored scratchboard illustrations, with their closely packed and neatly labeled creatures, plants and natural phenomena, create a feeling of abundance and profusion, with so many parts of the world nestled together in swirls and spirals-effectively demonstrating its fundamental nature. “A spiral is a snuggling shape” is the somewhat homely observation that begins Sidman’s brief and graceful poem-she goes on to catalog and celebrate the ways that spirals manifest themselves in the physical and natural world in a way that will draw in the youngest listeners. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Putin will stop at nothing to protect his money. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discover that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.Īs law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. ![]() The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. When Bill Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy by exposing Putin’s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way. ![]() ![]() This could be a fantasy surname or a fantasy-inspired first name. If you want to give your characters a little magical touch, try combining normal names, with fantasy-sounding names. ![]() In the first instance, you could take inspiration from your own name, or the names of people you know. They sound so normal! And that’s exactly what makes the Harry Potter franchise so relatable to so many readers (or viewers, if watching the movies). These names don’t really stick out as typical fantasy names or even wizard or witch names you might come across. Lily Evans (Gryffindor Student & Harry Potter’s Mother).In most cases, you’ll notice that everyday names you come across (even your own name) could be a great name to use. ![]() Creating your own Harry Potter name isn’t as hard as you think. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Denny, obviously dragged at her heels, ate in morose silence, looking suspiciously at the food, for all the world as if he thought it might be poisoned. Naturally, then, he had refused to let him see Chatford this morning. Lydston would have been in the confidence of the police. And that was why Lydston had changed his mind. That their suspicions had been unfounded, beastly, lying. What would they be thinking now, then? Obviously, that the illnesses had been due to natural causes. Well, then, they had suspected him of administering arsenic, but they couldn’t do so any longer because by now they must have got the analyst’s report that there was no arsenic in the eliminations. The Chief Inspector would not have questioned him like that if he had not been suspected as the administrator. They had suspected arsenical poisoning, but they might not have suspected himself as its administrator. Bickleigh leaned forward over the table, his head on his hands. And the analyst’s report would have been negative. But how could they suspect such a thing? Chatford’s symptoms were not unlike those of arsenical poisoning, it was true but the presence or absence of arsenic in the body could be ascertained in a moment by any competent analyst. The man had been trying to trap him into an admission of possessing arsenic. ![]() |