![]() ![]() ![]() Side note – the UK Government’s GDS principles is a fantastic framework worth checking out, too. The series includes six different posters that cater to users from these areas: low vision, deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers. Dos and don’ts on designing for accessibilityĪ series of posters designed by the UK’s Home Office Digital and Karwai Pun to illustrate how to approach accessibility from a design perspective. ![]() Lots of links and additional guidance are provided for those interested in more granular detail. It includes tips for writing, designing and developing for the web. Designing for Web Accessibility: Tips for getting startedįrom W3C, here’s a long list of tips and basic considerations for making your website more accessible to people with disabilities. This really is incredibly helpful for showing what it’s like from each perspective. This video by WC3 Accessibility Initiative shows real-life scenarios of individuals with disabilities accessing the internet. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. ![]() A brilliant tale of resistance, courage and ultimately hope." – Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphanįrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London comes a moving new novel inspired by the true history of America's library spies of World War II.Īva thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. "Readers will be on the edge of their seats. ![]() ![]() THE HOLE OF THE PIT by Adrian Ross (Cut & Paste 978-0900891861 to search) OTHER RARE, CLASSIC HORROR LITERATURE FROM OLEANDER TEDIOUS BRIEF TALES OF GRANTA AND GRAMARYE by Ingulphus (Cut & Paste 9780906672860 to search) "4 Stars - "A tentacle, both slimy and hairy"" "4 Stars - "A good, solid collection of tales for the ghost story connoisseur."" "5 Stars - "Delightful English ghost stories"" ""An excellent Collection and one that is very welcome back into print."" - Black Static ![]() Over 80 years have passed since their original publication and the passage of time has left their thrall undiminished these historic, macabre tales unsettle the modern reader just as effectively as their predecessors. ![]() This collection of deliciously crafted, ghoulish tales are some of the most sought-after by aficionados of the genre and include the superlative 'Celui-la', 'At Simmel Acres Farm' and 'The Twelve Apostles'. Inspired by a series of dreams and nightmares, Helen Leys, writing under the pseudonym Eleanor Scott, crafted these stories of suspense and terror, atmosphere and dread, in 1929 - and never again wrote in this genre Randalls Round has not been available in the UK since that year.Ĭhilling tales of suspense, antiquity and sacrifice spine-tingling stories of possession, ancestry, and evil. Presented within are nine examples of the finest horror and supernatural literature ever written. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing an opportunity to find out what really happened to her friends all those years ago, Emma agrees. When the paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor. Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings-massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The last she-or anyone-saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. ![]() Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. ![]() ![]() Energy and movement are created by repetitions in the opening This is an expression of his feeling that the extraordinary circumstances of Easter require an extraordinary response. Tension is created in the first half of the poem by commands ‘Rise heart’, ‘Awake, my lute’, ‘let thy blessed Spirit bear a part’. The first three stanzas evoke an excited tension which is replaced in the last three stanzas by a simplicity that Herbert believes is the true essence of Easter. ‘Easter’ is Hebert’s personal reworking of Psalm 57 and is an act of emotional confession. The very same reason they have also been a natural choice for writing about religious belief. Because of this, lyrics have always been popular forms for love poetry. It also produces a sense of authenticity. This gives an impression of great intimacy. ![]() Readers are often encouraged to feel as if the poem is addressed directly to them or, in other cases, that they are overhearing the Poems are written as if spoken (or sung) by one voice. ‘Easter’ is from The Temple, a collection of over one hundred and fifty devotional lyrics by George Herbert. ![]() ![]() ![]() My mind keeps on coming back to this novella and its contents. I feel that hollowness you feel after reading an amazing, soul sucking read. How do I feel? Well, I could give you a long list. I always love picking up novellas, but I am rarely left feeling as I do. 'THE DARKEST MINDS was, without a doubt, one of the best books I have read!' - Good. 'HELL TO THE YES, I love this story and these characters so much!!' - Goodreads Bracken creates a gripping and terrifying dystopian world.' - Kirkus Reviews 'The story's quick-paced action leads to a heartbreaking cliffhanger that will have readers eager for the next book. This already almost-impossible task is made all the more difficult by his first 'score', a young girl who won't speak, but who changes his life in ways he could never imagine.ĭon't miss this exciting short story that connects the first two novels in the New York Times bestselling series The Darkest Minds. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skiptracer. ![]() Gabe's life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. Melissa Marr, author of the bestselling Wicked Lovely series, on The Darkest Minds 'A RIVETING EMOTIONAL READ THAT KEPT ME ON THE EDGE!' ![]() ![]() ![]() These interviews are mostly with the “princes,” or the young men at the top tier of the high school social pecking order. The story is told in the form of excerpts from interviews with witnesses and suspects. ![]() The other, Lieutenant Chang, goes undercover as a science teacher. One officer, Callum Pederson, goes undercover as a student. To find the killer, two police offers go undercover at the high school that the victims go to. For example, one girl, referred to as Cinderella throughout the book, was stabbed by a glass slipper. After their murders, their bodies are being arranged into storybook tableaus. The most popular girls in school are being murdered. Since it was full-cast audio, it was a really pleasant listen. It was my third listen from the Faraway collection, and it was only 53 pages long, meaning it took less than 90 minutes to listen to. The first one that I listened to this year was The Princess Game by Soman Chainani. They’re quick and easy listens, and they’re included in my Amazon Prime membership. I’ve started obsessively listening Amazon Originals over the last few weeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair.When the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination, computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game: useful but ultimately expendable. Part thriller, part warning, Neuromancer is a timeless classic of modern SF and one of the 20th century's most potent and compelling visions of the future. Dick Awards, and lit the fuse on the Cyberpunk movement.More than three decades later, Gibson's text is as stylish as ever, his noir narrative still glitters like chrome in the shadows and his depictions of the rise and abuse of corporate power look more prescient every day. The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.William Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tess, thank goodness, isn't behaving badly anymore. Still don't really care for Anden, mostly because of the love triangle, and none of the minor characters held much interest for me. She still experiences a lot of guilt moments, which always got irritating, but compared to Prodigy, her guilt trips were few and far between in this installment. June, too, is back to being strong and rather sensible. Though he did still have a tendency of flying off the handle about things (though his anger was rather understandable I just care so little about him that I didn't sympathize). Still not a favorite character, but I found him tolerable and maybe even a tiny bit likable. A lot of Day's cockiness is gone, as he struggles with his illness, and his description of his "outfits" and long blonde Rapunzel-like hair are less. Out of the three, it might be my favorite.Ĭharacters: Maybe it's because both Day and June have finally grown as characters, but I actually didn't find either of them as aggravating in Champion as I did in the last two book. Cover Blurb: Yes or No? Like with the other cover art, it does catch my attention for some reason or other, but isn't horribly exciting or interesting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Reed Church, who became the largest landowner in Tennessee.Mary Ellen Pleasant, who used her Gold Rush wealth to further the cause of abolitionist John Brown.His achievements were matched by five other unknown black entrepreneurs including: ![]() Between the years of 18, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of smart, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success.īlack Fortunes is an intriguing look at these remarkable individuals, including Napoleon Bonaparte Drew-author Shomari Wills' great-great-great-grandfather-the first black man in Powhatan County (contemporary Richmond) to own property in post-Civil War Virginia. While Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Michael Jordan, and Will Smith are among the estimated 35,000 black millionaires in the nation today, these famous celebrities were not the first blacks to reach the storied one percent. The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires-former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties-self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. ![]() |