![]() Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Slowly add milk and whisk over low heat until thickened. ![]() Add flour to pan dripping and whisk until golden. Using a slotted spoon, transfer cooked sausage to bowl. To make gravy: pan fry breakfast sausage until fully cooked, breaking up large pieces. Bake for 15 minutes, or until lightly browned on top. Using a biscuit cutter, cut out biscuits, place on a baking sheet. To celebrate the end of the school year, I usually go by pieceofcakeinc for a cake slice, but I was the lucky recipient of an ENTIRE key lime cake from there on. ![]() ![]() On a lightly floured surface, roll or pat dough ¾-inch thick. Add milk and mix into a dough, adding flour as needed until dough pulls away from side of bowl. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt cut in shortening until mixture has a crumbly texture. “Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Serves: 6 Ingredients BISCUITS 2 cups flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup shortening (butter, lard or vegetable shortening) 3/4 cup milk or buttermilk SAUSAGE GRAVY 1-pound breakfast pork sausage 1/3 cup flour 3 cups milk salt and black pepper, as needed Preparation Preheat oven to 450☏. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Keith Vient, Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC This searing and ultimately uplifting story explores the constructs of family, real or artificial, and the power of memory to bind people together from afar.” In the much-anticipated first novel from Coates, Hiram’s talent is used by agents of the Underground Railroad to bring runaway slaves north, and also to help make families whole once again. But it is the strength of his memories that kindles a special inner gift: the magic of conduction. “Hiram Walker, the son of a Black woman and her white master, is born into slavery in this rendering of life in antebellum Virginia. Norris Rettiger, Lemuria Bookstore, Jackson, MS Winter 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List ![]() Written with poignancy and humanity, The Water Dancer left me stunned but clear-headed, like I had just been woken up from a deep, dream-filled sleep.” Coates writes with an honesty that can only come from a sublime, even spiritual, understanding of the souls of the white man and the black man in America. Over 400 pages I have cried, I have laughed, I have been educated, and I have been enlightened. The Water Dancer led me on a journey up and down the landscape of American slavery with a narrative that feels like The Book of Exodus meets, well, Ta-Nehisi Coates. “Ta-Nehisi Coates understands something big and he understands it better than anyone else right now. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is against this backdrop that Rutherfurd tells a tale of woodsmen, monks, sailors, craftswomen and families. ![]() On its eastern side is the ancient Saxon capital of Winchester, the great port of Southampton from which the Titanic set out, and the QE2 sails to this day, and beyond that Portsmouth, home of the British Navy. The river Avon runs down the forest's western edge. Jane Austen and her family lived just 25 miles northeast of the forest. ![]() Edward Rutherfurd's new audiobook covers four centuries of British history, with the New Forest as background, culminating in a five-family saga set in the days of Jane Austen.įew places in England are more resonant, more mysterious yet more friendly than the huge forest that lies by England's southern coast, that provided hunting for England's Saxon and Norman kings, and whose ancient oaks were used to build Nelson's navy. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this slim volume, the reader is treated to essays and poems, as well as Carver's trademark: taut short stories that, in remarkably few words, paint a vivid tableau of so much of American life. Raymond Carver's "Fires" is a quick introduction to the author who personifies literary minimalism. This edition is the only hardcover edition of this title. This volume features seven short stories, fifty poems, and four essays.įirst Printing of the First UK Edition. For students of the writer's trade, Carver offers a valuable lesson in how to use minimal syllables for maximum impact. The characters' souls are bared, the torment of their lives is revealed, the desperation of their economic situations is rendered so masterfully, and in so little space, that the reader marvels at how Carver manages to accomplish the feat. ![]() But Carver's magic lies in his ability to fascinate the reader with seemingly unfascinating topics. Carver's subjects are ones that other writers shy away from: working-class stiffs and the mundane lives they lead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During her second year in high school, Roberts transferred to a local public school, Montgomery Blair High School, where she met her first husband, Ronald Aufdem-Brinke. Really good ones-some of which my mother still believes." She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. Although she had always made up stories in her head, Roberts did not write as a child, other than essays for school. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. Both of her parents have Irish ancestors, and she has described herself as "an Irishwoman through and through". Roberts was born on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children. Life and career Personal life Early years ![]() ![]() As of 2011, her novels had spent a combined 861 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, including 176 weeks in the number-one spot. Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. Robb for the in Death series and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of more than 225 romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Matters worsen when, days latter, Kips drowned body is discovered behind the Frio Saloon. Disaster strikes when talented young photographer Shelby Johnson is found dead one early morningmurder or accident? Ranch-hand Kip Waterman and hard-drinking Wade Harper, brother of Bennis late husband, had come to blows over Shelby the night before. Her elegant southern cousin Emory Littleton (with a mega-crush on Bennis best friend Elvia Aragon) is staying with her, and at her fathers ranch, presided over by Grandmother Dove, a huge family gathering is in progress. ![]() San Celica is having a Heritage Days celebration, and Benni, as curator of the Folk Arts Museum and Artists Co-op, is in the thick of it. A fifth go-around for Benni Harper (Goose in the Pond, 1997, not reviewed, etc.), the ranch-bred widow of Jack Harper, whos now married to San Celica, California, Police Chief Gabe Ortiz. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To survive, she transformed herself from hippodrome rider to courtesan, from empress' maid to debut singer, all the while weaving a complicated web of romance, obligation, and political intrigue.įeaturing a cast of characters drawn from history, The Queen of the Night follows Lilliet as she moves closer to the truth behind the mysterious opera and the role that could secure her reputation - or destroy her with the secrets it reveals. As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls her life as an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept up into the glitzy, gritty world of Second Empire Paris. ![]() And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all. Hanya Yanagihara 'Alexander Chee packs his extraordinary second novel, The Queen of the Night, to the seams with music, love, misery, and secrets. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer's chance at immortality. And the light" by Junot Diaz, comes a blazing portrait of one woman's rise from courtesan to world-renowned diva. From a ferociously talented writer, praised as "the fire, in my opinion. ![]() ![]() ![]() #4 The students’ strike was successful, and the school board ended separate education. ![]() They were eventually joined by the local NAACP, who took on the case. #3 The students went on strike, and marched into town to protest their lack of a new school facility. But she knew that a strike could put her own and perhaps others’ jobs at risk, so she insisted on absolute secrecy and orderly conduct. #2 The seed was planted by Miss Davenport, who wanted to build a better black high school. , Barbara never consulted her Montgomery uncle about the strike. The niece of the Reverend Vernon Johns, the radical minister who later mentored the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. #1 In 1950, a teenager named Barbara Johns led a strike by her fellow high school students in Prince Edward County to demand a better school. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. ![]() ![]() We can easily ask questions like, “what if the Rabbit did not steal the hat?” and discuss what might change if this were the case. The ambiguity this creates frames hypothetical discussion nicely. Because these characters feel the need to deny actions even though no one has accused them of committing the actions, they paint themselves suspiciously. They are mentioned only in statements of denial, from which we may infer that they actually happen. While the common reading of the text is that the Rabbit has stolen the Bear’s hat, and the Bear has eaten the Rabbit to take its hat back, none of these are stated outright. This book lends itself to discussion with its ambiguous nature. Read aloud video by Shon’s Stories Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion The bear jumps up and runs back until he meets the thief and recovers the hat. As soon as the bear starts describing the hat, he remembers where it has seen the hat: on the head of a rabbit. He wanders around and asks all the animals he encounters whether they’ve seen it. One lies.Ī bear has lost his hat and wants it back. ![]() ![]() Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary When a bear loses his hat, he asks all the animals about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Allow people to complete the task their own way.Offer a rationale for why the task is necessary.For routine tasks, rewards can provide a small motivational booster shot.Ensure that baseline compensation is adequate and fair.and the Special Circumstances When They Do ![]() They can encourage cheating, shortcuts, and unethical behavior.Ĭhapter 2A.They can extinguish intrinsic motivation.Rewards narrow our focus, which is good for tasks that have a clear path to completion (algorithmic tasks), but bad for tasks that require problem solving and creativity.Ĭarrots and Sticks: The Seven Deadly Flaws.Part One - A New Operating System Chapter 2 - Seven Reasons Carrots and Sticks (Often) Don’t Work… Monetary rewards an deliver short-term boosts in productivity when tasks are clear, but decrease long-term motivation. ![]() |