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JLEA 038: 12days | 11nights
Aberdares | Lake Nakuru | Maasai Mara | Amboseli | NgoroNgoro | Serengeti | Lake Manyara
Day 1. Nairobi-Aberdares.
Depart Nairobi for a journey to the shoulders of the Mt. Kenya arriving at Aberdare country club/Outspan Hotel for lunch. Afternoon embark on half hour drive to the Ark/treetops lodge. Enjoy game viewing at the floodlit waterhole and saltlick. Dinner and overnight onboard the Ark/Treetops lodge.
Day 2. Lake Nakuru National Park.
Leave Treetops lodge for breakfast at the Outspan Golf & Country Club. After breakfast depart for Lake Nakuru via Thomson falls arriving Nakuru in time for lunch, afternoon game drive at the Pink lake referred so for it's thousands of pink flamingos and other birdlife-it's a bird watchers paradise. It has a surprisingly number of animals, all the "big five" except the elephant can be seen here, Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru Lodge/Sarova lion Hill.
Day 3. Lake Nakuru - Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Breakfast at the lodge and depart with enroute game viewing as you leave the Park, look for warthogs and water bucks at the edges of the Lake as you proceed for Maasai Mara crossing the Loita plains, see red clad maasai warriors tend their multi-colored herds amongst plains game. Arrive Mara in time for lunch at lodge. Afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at Mara sopa lodge/Keekerok lodge.
Day 4. Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Breakfast at lodge and leave with picnic lunches for a full day of game viewing inside the Park. Search for wildgame black manned lion for which Mara is famous for, cheetah, buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, leopard, grants gazelle are quite common, even the rare rhino might come out of the thicket for you, hyenas are plentiful, Extend your drive to the hippo point where schools of hippo submerge on the approach of vehicles only to surface seconds later to shot and gamble their displeasure as the crocodiles sunbathe on the river banks mouths agape. Between meals there is optional visit to the maasai villages for an insight to their culture if clients so wish. Meals and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge/Keekerok lodge.
Day 5. Maasai Mara-Nairobi.-Amboseli
Breakfast at lodge and depart for Nairobi with game viewing enroute as you leave the park. Enroute Lunch in Nairobi and proceed to Amboseli at the foot of the mighty snow-capped Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, Game viewing enroute to Sopa lodge/Amboseli Serena lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 6. Amboseli
Morning and afternoon game viewing inside the park. Amboseli is a photogenic Park and hosts great number of game including the lion, elephant and the splendid cheetah. Meals and overnight at Sopa lodge/Amboseli Serena lodge..
Day 7.NgoroNgoro
Early morning game viewing drive in Amboseli. Breakfast at lodge and depart for Namanga border town, Clear with Customs office and our Tanzania representative will pick you crossing the border to arrive Arusha for Lunch, Afternoon proceed to NgoroNgoro, Game viewing enroute to the lodge for dinner and overnight at NgoroNgoro Sopa Lodge/similar.
Day 8 . NgoroNgoro Crater.
Depart in the morning after breakfast with picnic lunch descending 2000ft by 4WD vehicles to the crater floor for a full day crater tour. Search for the magnificent black-manned lion, elephant ,buffalo, rhino and plenty of other wildgame exist in great concentration. Lunch at the crater. Ascend back to NgoroNgoro Sopa/Similar for dinner and overnight.
Day 9. Serengeti National Park
Breakfast at Ngorongoro Sopa lodge and depart for the vast Serengeti plains National Reserve via Olduvai Gorge ,site of the famous archeologist Dr. Leakey where fossils of human and animal believed to be over 2 million years are seen. Lunch enroute arriving Serengeti in the afternoon. Afternoon game viewing inside the Park known to host great herds of plains game. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Sopa/Similar.
Day 10. Serengeti National Park.
Morning and afternoon game inside the Park taking you to different parts of the park famous for the annual migration when millions of wildebeest (gnus) and zebra set off for maasai Mara in search of better grazing grounds and water, search for numerous plains game. Meals and overnight at Serengeti Sopa lodge/Similar.
Day 11. Lake Manyara National Park
Morning game viewing drive in Serengeti. Breakfast at lodge and depart for Lake Manyara National Park arriving in time for lunch at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge. Afternoon game viewing drive inside the park, cape buffaloeslook for a variety of wildgame .Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Day 12.Arusha-Nairobi
Early morning game viewing at Lake Manyara National Park. Return to lodge for breakfast afterwards you depart for Arusha arriving for lunch at Arusha Impala Hotel. You will be assisted by our representative to board theafternoon(1400hrs) shuttle bus for Nairobi arriving Nairobi early evening(1830hrs).Transfer to the airport for your flight out.
Price per person USD
Daily departures,minimum in 2 persons.
Transportation in tourist minibuses with HF Radio communication and pop-up roof for easy viewing and photographing,4WD vehicle at Ngorongoro, English speaking driver/guide, fullboard accommodation on safari, park entrance fees, game drives, airport transfers, shuttle bus Arusha to Nairobi.
Any Nairobi overnights, personal and baggage insurance, Beverages, tips, visas, optional activities, Rescue fee (available at US$25 per person), or any items of personal expenditure.
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Readers have called the author of this novel "America's Maeve Binchy" and this novel makes clear why. With The Mill River Recluse, Darcie Chan (The Mill River Redemption) invites us into an idyllic Vermont town to reveal the women and men behind its pristine white painted doors. Their stories reflect long-hidden secrets and the hard-won victories of recovery. A word-of-mouth hit in hardcover; now in trade paperback.
The Mill River Recluse (Mill River Series #1)by Darcie Chan
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From the outside, Mill River looks like any sleepy little Vermont town where everyone knows everyone and people never need to lock their doors. There are newcomers for whom this appeals, from police officer Kyle Hansen and his daughter Rowen, who are starting over after heartache, to Claudia Simon, the schoolteacher who is determined to reinvent herself.
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"[Darcie] Chan's sweet novel displays her talent. . . . A comforting book about the random acts of kindness that hold communities together."—Kirkus Reviews
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Chapter 1
As she gazed out the bay window in her bedroom, Mary McAllister knew this night would be her last.
Outside, the February darkness was suffused with light from the town. Thick snowflakes floated past the window. Only the Mill River itself, for which the small Vermont village was named, escaped the snow covering. Its center flowed, black and snakelike, along the edge of the sleeping town.
With her left hand, Mary stroked a large Siamese cat curled next to her on the adjustable bed. With her right, she tucked a few strands of fine white hair behind her ear. Mary's eyes, one clear and blue, the other gray and cloudy, were fixed on the storm outside.
She wondered what they would think of her when they discovered what she had done.
The bedroom was dark, but the few lights from the town shone upward, enough to support a faint reflection of her face on the window glass. Mary looked at the reflection through her good eye. Pale and thin, she was the face of death superimposed on the darkness.
She drifted in and out of sleep, awakened every few minutes by the excruciating pain in her abdomen. Finally, her hand shaking, she reached for the bottle of pills and the cup of water at her bedside.
Mary poured the pills into her hand and then swallowed them all, a few at a time, with the water. She would leave this world in peaceful solitude. She would do so before her pain was so great—before her mental faculties were so diminished—that she couldn't leave on her own terms.
She thought of Michael. The priest had left, as he had promised, but she wondered if he was still awake in the parish house. He would find her tomorrow. She knew it would be difficult for him, but he was prepared for the inevitable. They both were.
Still, she feared what death might bring.
Would she see her husband again? In her dim bedroom, Mary's gaze focused on the outline of a figurine that stood on her bureau. It was a horse, carved elegantly from black marble. She thought of Patrick, of the first time she had seen him when he had come to her father's farm, of the horror that followed.
Mary shuddered and forced her mind to focus on memories of her father instead. She remembered him standing in the round ring, his hat pushed back off his forehead, teaching young horses to be gentle. His belly laugh still rang in her ears.
Even now, having been a widow for more than seventy years, she still feared Patrick, but she longed to see her father again, and Grandpop, too. Perhaps soon she would.
Mary touched Sham's furry head beside her, and the cat mewed and curled his paws in his sleep. Michael had promised to find a good home for him. She had no doubt that he would, and that fact comforted her. Tears ran down her cheeks as she whispered a loving goodbye to her faithful feline companion. Silently, she wished him the happiest of lives, however many he had left, and waited for the final, heavy sleepiness to surround her.
In Mill River, a handful of others were also awake. Officers Kyle Hansen and Leroy Underwood had been on patrol for more than an hour. The police department's old Jeep Cherokee churned through the new snow as they made their way along the country roads surrounding the town. They had been looking for stranded motorists, but the roads were deserted. Most folks had been sensible enough to stay at home during the storm. Even with the snowfall, the evening, like most evenings in Mill River, had been uneventful.
Leroy was bored. He fidgeted in the passenger seat, squinting out the window. His hair was sandy brown and straight—and a little too long for a man in uniform, in Kyle's opinion. His default expression was one of openmouthed confusion, and his shoulders were rounded forward. Hell, anyone unfortunate enough to see Leroy peering out the Jeep's window might easily mistake him for an orangutan, Kyle thought.
Leroy turned from the window and held up an almost empty box of chocolate doughnuts.
"You care if I eat the last one?"
"Nah," Kyle replied. "They're stale, you know."
This fact was lost on Leroy. "You think we should drive through town again?" he asked, with his mouth full.
Kyle glanced at Leroy and shrugged.
Leroy crammed the last of the doughnut into his mouth and struggled to open the thermos. As they started down the hill back into town, Leroy tried to pour the remaining coffee into the thermos cup, but most of it sloshed into his lap.
"Aw, shit. Take it easy with the potholes, would you?" he complained.
Kyle rolled his eyes. What Leroy lacked in intelligence and compassion, he made up for in appetite.
Their route took them over the covered bridge spanning the river and onto Main Street. Through the snow, Kyle could just make out the faint white glow of the McAllister mansion high on a hill past the other end of town.
"You ever seen her?" Leroy asked, following Kyle's gaze.
"The Widow McAllister," Leroy half whispered, as if he were speaking of a ghost.
"No," Kyle said.
"I have," Leroy said. "Once. Back when I was in high school, outside the bakery. She was all wrinkled and hunched over, with a patch over one eye, like a pirate."
Kyle stared straight ahead, trying to focus on driving through the storm.
"I heard that some folks in town's convinced she's a witch or something," Leroy said. "Creeps me out, thinking of her up there watching everybody." Leroy flashed a taunting grin at Kyle. "Maybe someone should make her walk the plank."
Kyle clenched his jaw. Leroy was trying to irritate him, he knew, and he wasn't going to give him any satisfaction.
It was easier for Kyle to tolerate Leroy's crudeness when he thought of how difficult it must have been for the junior officer growing up. According to the police chief, who knew almost everyone in town, Leroy was the son of an absentee father and an alcoholic mother. He had an older sister who lived in Rutland. That sister, apparently, was unique in the Underwood family, having finished college and taken a job as an accountant with the city government.
Then there was Leroy. Nearly a high school dropout, he had somehow received his diploma and bungled his way through training at the police academy. He had an ego the size of Texas, and Kyle had yet to see him show real kindness toward anyone. Why Leroy had been hired, Kyle didn't know. Maybe the town had been desperate for another officer, but by Kyle's standards, Leroy was hardly good officer material.
The old Jeep churned through the snow as they drove back into Mill River. Small, older houses and assorted trailer homes lined this end of Main Street. Most of the residences were dark. One mobile home, though, was brightly lit. In contrast to most of the other trailers, this one was shiny and new. The front yard was filled with ceramic ornaments protruding from the snow—a pair of deer, several rabbits, some gnomes, and a large birdbath.
"I guess Crazy Daisy's still awake," Leroy said. "Probably up fixing a new potion."
At that moment, the front door of the trailer opened and a dumpling of a woman skipped out into the yard. Kyle slowed the Jeep. Daisy was spinning around, face upturned and tongue stuck out.
Leroy hooted with laughter. "Lookit that fat cow!" he shouted, oblivious to Kyle's frown. "She keeps that up, and she'll trip over one of them rabbits an' bite off her tongue!"
"Shut up, Leroy," Kyle said. He rolled down the driver's side window.
"Ms. Delaine, you know it's late, almost one in the morning, and you shouldn't be outside in this storm," he called to her.
Flushed and breathless, Daisy stopped her twirling and looked at them. A dark port-wine birthmark curled up from her jaw to her cheek, and her gray curls fell over her eyes. She teetered dizzily and brushed her hair from her face. "You should try the snow, Officer! I've been working on a spell for it all evening, and it's delicious!" she shouted. "It'll be perfect in my potions too, but I'm in an awful hurry. I'm cooking up a new one tonight!" Smiling, she scooped up a handful of snow, flung it into the air, waved at Officers Hansen and Underwood, and went inside.
Kyle sat shaking his head, but Leroy roared even louder.
"Aw, c'mon, Kyle. You know she's nuts. What's the harm in enjoying the entertainment?"
"She can't help it, Leroy, and you don't have the good sense to keep your mouth shut when you should," Kyle snapped. He was watching the door of the trailer, making sure Daisy stayed inside.
"Ooh, touch-y," Leroy replied. "Hell," he said, chuckling again, "that show alone makes me sorta happy that she survived that fire. When I heard her trailer'd burned, I thought we'd finally be rid of the old bat."
Kyle said nothing, despite his disgust, because it would have been useless. He had eight years on Leroy, but given Leroy's level of maturity, it seemed more like eighty. During his time on the force in Boston, he'd seen more than a few young officers like Leroy. They were all arrogant and stupid and attracted to the position because they liked the power the uniform and the gun gave them. Most of those guys ended up dead or behind bars themselves, victims of their own bad intentions.
In Mill River, there were four police officers—himself, Leroy, Ron Wykowski, and Joe Fitzgerald, the chief. The problem was that in a town where nothing ever happened, three decent cops were more than enough. Leroy, lacking opportunities to jeopardize his career in a town that had trouble finding officers willing to work for what it could offer in salary, had great job security.
They continued down Main Street, through the quaint business district, past the white town hall building, and followed the bend in the road past St. John's Catholic Church. One window was lit in the parish house.
"Preachie's up," Leroy chirped. This was nothing unusual, though, as Father O'Brien's light was often on late into the night.
At the next house, there was another bright window.
"Teachie's up, too," Leroy said in a different tone. "Maybe we should stop by and read her a bedtime story." He raised his eyebrows and slowly ran his tongue across his upper lip.
"Teachie" was Claudia Simon, the pretty new fourth-grade teacher at Mill River Elementary.
"You can read? That's news to me," Kyle said.
Leroy scowled but kept quiet until Kyle pulled up to the police station. As they got out, Leroy stared back down Main Street.
"Damn," he said. "Snow like this makes even those shitty trailers look good."
Again, Kyle didn't respond. All he wanted was a hot shower and a warm bed. It had been a long night.
Claudia Simon was reading bedtime stories of a sort. Each of her students had written a short composition titled, "What I Want to Be When I Grow Up." Of the twenty-three fourth-graders, ten wanted to be President of the United States. Six wanted to be movie stars or singers. Four wanted to be doctors or nurses. One a policeman. One a fireman. And one a counselor.
Rowen Hansen was the little girl who wanted to be a counselor. Her father, Kyle Hansen, was a police officer in town. Claudia had learned from the principal that he was a widower. His little girl had written that she wanted to be a counselor, as her mother had been, because she liked to "listen to people and help fix their problems." That simple. From a fourth-grader. But, Claudia thought, Rowen is an exceptional kid.
Claudia stood up and stretched. It was after one. But this was Saturday night—no, now Sunday morning—and if she lost herself grading papers, she could sleep late. Dressed in a jogging suit and socks, she padded down the hall to the bathroom to brush her teeth. She examined her reflection in the full-length mirror on the back of the bathroom door. Only a few months ago, her reflection wouldn't have fit in the mirror.
Single, obese, and lonely, Claudia had resolved, on her thirtieth birthday, to get herself into shape. She had made that resolution many times before. She had been overweight all her life, or as much of it as she could remember. She had never had a boyfriend, a prom date, or even so much as a man with a romantic interest in her. After that long, most people would have resigned themselves to a lifetime of solitary cheesecake. Instead, Claudia threw out the cheesecake, chips, ice cream, and pizza. She purchased a treadmill and Reeboks. Then, over the next year and a half, Claudia literally ran her ass off.
Now, ninety-two pounds lighter, Claudia examined her reflection with approval and headed to bed. She had a new wardrobe in a size ten. She had a teaching job in a school in a new town where people didn't know her former fat self. She was alive. A single ready to mingle. She would get over her social awkwardness. She wouldn't get flustered when she saw an attractive man. She wouldn't avert her eyes. She was no longer ashamed of herself.
That night, Claudia fell asleep smiling.
It was well after midnight, but Jean Wykowski couldn't sleep. Her husband, Ron, lay snoring beside her. His shift at the police station would begin at seven, and he was oblivious to her tossing and turning. But Ron's snoring rarely bothered her, and it was not the reason that she experienced insomnia. Finally, she slipped from under the covers and tiptoed out of the bedroom.
On her way to the kitchen, she paused at her sons' room. Jimmy and Johnny, ages nine and eleven, took after their father where sleep was concerned. Both were out cold, their breathing slow and rhythmic. Jimmy looked just as she had left him at bedtime. He lay on his back with the covers pulled up to his chin. Johnny, though, was turned around with his feet on his pillow and his head very close to falling off one side. How he had managed that Jean didn't know, but she was able to coax him back under the covers in the proper direction without fully waking him.
Jean continued to the darkened kitchen, wincing every time the floor creaked. She poured a cup of milk and put it in the microwave. While the microwave hummed, she smiled to herself as she remembered how the boys had done the dishes that night, Johnny washing and Jimmy rinsing, each using the pull-out spray nozzle as a microphone to impersonate his favorite singer.
The microwave, too, was special, having been Ron's Christmas present to her. It wasn't the most romantic gift, of course, but it was functional and something the whole family could enjoy. She stopped the microwave, before its final loud beep, and removed her cup of milk.
She was lucky to have such great kids. They were stout little buggers and full of life, not like most of the unfortunate people she saw each day. Her husband of thirteen years was loving and loyal. He and the boys were the reasons she continued her emotionally draining work as a home health nurse for Rutland County.
Her patients were paraplegics, people recovering from surgery or major accidents, and the terminally ill. She watched them struggle and suffer, day after day. With her help, and that of doctors and therapists, some got better or at least learned to live with their impairments. But many didn't, and it was the face of Mary McAllister, the patient to whom she was currently assigned, that kept sleep from her tonight.
She spent most of each shift with the old woman. Mrs. McAllister had only days left, maybe a week. Yesterday, Jean had hardly been able to look at her. The cancer had left Mrs. McAllister withered and jaundiced, and pain medication ensured that she slept most of the time. Jean had given her a sponge bath, changed her garments, and tried her best to make her comfortable. It wasn't much, but it was all she could do. Today, Sunday, there would be no visit because she had the day off, but she knew the relief nurse who would cover her shift was gentle and caring. Attempting to console herself with those thoughts, Jean set her empty cup in the sink and walked back down the dark hallway to her bedroom.
In the parish house next to his church, Father Michael O'Brien was in his office, packing. Not books or files, only spoons. Father O'Brien was obsessed with spoons. He had accumulated close to seven hundred spoons during his lifetime. No two were alike. Tenderly, he lifted each one from a tattered cardboard box, examining it before placing it in a sturdy shipping box on his desk.
He collected the spoons in violation of his vow of poverty, and for this he felt guilty. When he thought about how he had obtained the spoons, he felt even worse. Still, there was something about a spoon—silver or stainless, elegant, frilly, or plain—that comforted him. He needed them. He had never been able to part with them.
Until now.
From his top desk drawer, he retrieved one final spoon. He placed it, a shiny silver teaspoon, in the shipping box. For a moment, he looked at it resting on top of its box-mates, and then retrieved it. He would not part with this one. On the back of the spoon an inscription read, "To my dear friend, love, MEHM."
The one person who knew of his collection, who had been his closest friend for more than seventy years, had given this spoon to him. It would not be a sin to keep just this one.
He eased himself into the chair at his desk. It was late, and his arthritis was acting up. He set the spoon on the desk and put on his reading glasses. There was a small package wrapped in brown paper on his desk, accompanied by a sealed envelope. He didn't know what was in the package. As for the envelope, he knew that there was a letter inside, written on fine linen stationery. He longed to read the letter, but it was not for him to read . . . yet. With a sigh, he picked up the envelope and pressed it to his chest.
He looked out the window toward Mary's mansion on the hill. The darkness and the whirling snow prevented him from seeing the big marble home, but he knew it was there, overlooking Mill River as it had for decades. He closed his eyes. He knew the history of that house, the joy and the suffering, especially the suffering, that had taken place—and still took place—within it. He knew Mary was there, and wondered if she was sleeping, as he had left her, or awake looking down upon him. Maybe her soul had already departed.
"Dear girl, may you finally be at peace," he whispered, and looked once more into the storm covering the mansion on the hill.
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Darcie Chan is the New York Times bestselling author of the eBook sensation The Mill River Recluse and the upcoming novel The Mill River Redemption. She has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. For fourteen years, Chan worked as an attorney drafting environmental and natural resource legislation for the U.S. Senate. She now writes fiction full-time and lives north of New York City with her husband and son.
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This story had me hooked from the moment I read the overview and kept me hooked through the last page. Chan's portrayal of the small town atmosphere and its citizens is dead-on...from the gossiping and nosy neighbors to the sense of community when something goes wrong. She draws you into Mill River from page one, and you will quickly "recognize" your own neighbors throughout the pages. The story is so good that my 15-year-old daughter started reading The Mill River Recluse the day I purchased it, and I didn't get the Nook back until she had finished. She couldn't put it down! I can't wait to see what Chan has in store for us next!
This was a fantastic read. Very hard to put down. Highly recommended
The Mill River Recluse is a well-written and compelling love story about human compassion set in a charming New England village, in the 1940's. The storyline is a lot of flashback in nature but smartly begins at the end to bring questions to mind that are answered in an exciting and anxious way. I connected with the flawed and realistic and interesting characters, especially Mary McAllister. This feel-good storyline is built around Mary who has spent almost six decades secluded in a white mansion overlooking Mill River. She suffered dreadfully her entire life with an anxiety disorder that pretty much limited her socially to mail and an elderly priest, Father O'Brien. Few have seen the reclusive Mary as she upholds a reputation of being peculiar to the town. Only Father O'Brien knows the secret she keeps, that if revealed will change lives forever. This is a wonderful novel of tragedy and triumph, human values and all facets of love. Terrific for the human spirit!
I can't put it down! I am writing a reveiw to say buy it and be prepared to read. You just get attached to the characters and feel concern for them. You want to know happens next and then realize it is three hours later. Buy this book today. The characters have true depth and keep evolving. This is a wonderful escape into fascinating book.
I do not normally write a review on books that I have read. I read on average 15 books a week. This time however I must. As this book has made me laugh, cheer, feel their pain and sorrow and well let's just say the last 45 pages I cried like a baby, using 2 boxes of tissues. Big Kudos to Darcie Chan for writing an amazing story. I fell in love with all of these characters; they came alive and leapt of the page and became real. I would defiantly recommend this book to any avid reader. I paid $0.99 for this amazing book, I would have gladly paid a lot more for it. This book has become my favorite. I will reread it again and again if for nothing more than to make me feel better.
This book was FABULOUS, it had me in tears!! I hope this author writes more, more, more! I cannot believe that this one was .99, it was the best book I have EVER read that was that cheap!! A must read.
I was immediately drawn into the town of Mill River, and captivated by the story of the widow McAllister. This is an excellent read... I couldn't put it down!
I bought this book because it was .99 and i figured i had nothing to lose. I was not expecting to enjoy the story and charachtets so much. The storyline is predictable, but one that kept my interest until the last sentence. If you are looking for an easy read with compelling characters, this will fit the bill.
Wonderfully fleshed out characters in a small town you will come to love. A must read.
Bought on a whim and couldn't put it down!
How great it is to read a captivating story that is clean and well written. The characters came alive on the pages as I grew to admire, or dislike, each one. I have paid much more for books that turned out to be awful, so I am amazed that this delightful book was only .99. I hope Ms Chan writes many more.
very good, without all the sex.
Not in unnecessary words. Some books I find have way too much description in unnecessary info. For example: it had none of the: Tablecloth was green with purple flowers and green wispy leaves, that gently swayed in the wind on a warm summer day while the blue sky started to cloud over with dark grey clouds...bla bla bla...In my opinion that kind of over description is just filler to make the book longer. This book is under 300 pages and very well written! Rich in story line and characters! I wish I had a better way to describe the style. Darcie is a writer to watch for!! Hope she writes more soon! Loved this style and hope to find more like it!
Great story of doing the best we can with what we're given. I hope this author will write more soon!
This is a very good read for $.99, I could hardly put it down. It has love, mystery and sadness but the ending is really good. READ IT!
What an unexpected treasure and gift I was given in the reading of this! The characters were friends whose lives I was allowed to be a part of, to watch through the window of my imagination through a heartwarming tale.
I heard of this book in an article about how it was self-published. Read it out of curiosity and I can see why it was rejected by publishing houses. The characters never came to life for me, and I found the plot predictable and not too interesting. However, I've read books by established authors that weren't any better. I think Darcie Chan could be very successful in this genre, especially with help from a good editor.
At first i thought i wouldnt like it but it started moving along and i ended up really enjoying the charachters! Makes u think of the kind of person u want to be.
This was an excellent read about how the experiences of a young girl made her become a social recluse. Even so, how her generosity affected the entire town. Several enjoyable sideline stories as well.
Great read for a weekend. It was a nice story that made you feel as if you knew the people from the small town personally.
Great story i enjoyed it so much. Has many lessons of compassion and forgivness. The story helps one to think about how one treats people who are different than you. Please read this book you will not be dissppointed
I will never look at a spoon the same way again. Love her writing.
This was a great book! Could not put it down. It had me in tears at the end. Author did well in going back and forth from the past to the present.
It is something I would easily recomend to someone. This is a very satisfying and wonderful book that may cause you to lose track of time.
I enjoyed the way this book was written. I cried at the end ; )


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ESOP 36 will be held in Freiberg (Saxonia), Germany from the 15th to 17th of September 2017. Block the date in your calender! The date is later than usual, because of the solar eclipse in the USA. Have a look!!
ESOP XXXVI in Freiberg, Germany.
On the 8th of October an inauguration party has been held at the Archenhold observatory in Berlin. Members of IOTA-ES including the board of directors celebrated the inauguration with champagne and sausages.
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The first real observation with the instrument had been the successful observation of the occultation by Pluto on the 19th of July 2016. It will still take some more time, to finish some minor work and to write the operation instructions. But in the near future it can be booked by IOTA members for observation projects. Read more!!
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Advance notice: Calculated with OCCULT and a GAIA position from the GAIA14 cataloge, a subset of the GAIA DR1 catalog assembled by Dave Herald, Australia. Its a rare opportunity, to monitor Triton's atmosphere. The track passes one of the most "telescope"-populated areas. The separation between Neptune and Triton is about 11.4 arcsec.
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The Pluto mission "New Horizons" is just a little more than 1/2 year away from Pluto, an occultation of a 14m2 star visible from Europe will occur in the late evening of the 19th of July according to predictions by the RIO team and B. Sicardy. And on the 14th of July, a 16mag star will be occulted by Pluto. This occultation may help us to find the path of the Central Flash for the occultation on the 19th...Read more
Minor Planet Occultations of Bright StarsOccultations by stars brighter than about 9th mag will be presented in this blog.http://call4obs.iota-es.de
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Once a year, every year, on a Wednesday afternoon, to coincide with Scottish Question Time, there appears in the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons a gentleman accoutred in knee breeches and immaculate fluffy white muffler. A fuddy-duddy out of Victorian England? Not so. He is the year's Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in London for his annual visitation, which usually includes tea in 10 Downing Street, and a welcome in the Speaker's Apartments. Far from being fuddy-duddies, Moderators alternate biannually between being distinguished parish ministers and eminent academic theologians. Not one of us who was there on that autumn Wednesday in 1986 will erase the scene from memory. Conservative MPs were pointing up to the Gallery with an accusing finger, muttering ``That's him!''
"Him" was the Very Reverend Professor Robert Craig - and the reason for the flurry on the floor of the House was that he had preached the customary sermon at the customary service in the Crypt of the House, the Chapel of St Stephen, the Martyrs and St Mary Undercroft, that morning; only the content had been far from customary, and had consisted of an eloquent demand for stronger action on unemployment, and a scorching attack on Margaret Thatcher's creation of two nations. When Craig finished, we Scottish Labour MPs could hardly restrain ourselves in rising to give him the ecclesiastical equivalent of a standing ovation. Craig had struck a chord by saying: ``We are in serious danger of becoming again two nations - a few rich and many poor. We mobilised the best in human nature for justice and peace during the war. We are challenged to do now the same for justice and peace today.''
Some Conservatives (e.g. Sir Nicholas Fairbairn) were incandescent with anger; others (such as the late Alick Buchanan-Smith) were not. Certainly Craig's rebuke to Parliament was ill received by Bernard Ingham, who made it only too clear to the Lobby that Professor Craig confirmed (yet again) the Prime Minister's ill-regard for the Scots - a feeling which was mutual among Scottish divines.
Anyone who was in the least surprised by the Moderator's outburst could have known little about the gentleman in the white muffler. He was the author of Social Concern in the Thought of William Temple (1963), a book which enjoyed a considerable impact among my senior colleagues when I was first elected to the House of Commons. Craig wrote: Temple was striking at the very heart of the accepted economy, and both he and his opponents recognised this. ``We are challenged,'' Temple said, ``to find a social order which provides employment, steadily and generally, and our conscience should be restive until we succeed. Christian sympathy demands this.
Robert Craig's father, John Craig, was a stone-mason, specialising in gravestones; Craig himself was much concerned about how cemeteries should be maintained in an age when families had become more mobile, and when memory of the family of the deceased had probably vanished in a community where generation previously had succeeded generation. His mother, Annie Peggie, was a weaver of linen from flax.
St Andrews University was the making of Robert Craig. He graduated MA in 1938, and in 1941 completed a Bachelor of Divinity with Distinction in Systematic Theology. At St Andrews, ecclesiastical scholarship mattered.
After a brief spell awaiting call-up in St John's Kirk, Perth, as an assistant minister, Craig became an Army Chaplain (4th Class, as he ruefully put it, meaning most junior and designated for the sharp end of battle). His experience with the Scottish infantry battalions gave him a perspective about comradeship and personal behaviour which prompted him years later to say to Scottish MPs that they should have better regard for opinions different from their own. ``For a generation that fought in battle together, it is natural to offer respect to political opponents.'' He was an admirer of Harold Macmillan, who expressed his public regard for the miners, who had been with him on the Somme, and outrage at Mrs Thatcher's ``the enemy within''.
In 1944, Craig was mentioned in despatches for his courage during the Normandy landings - when 40 years later he became Moderator, one of his commanding officers opined, ``That fella should have got an MC or VC!'' Soldiers who were in Normandy say that Craig was impervious to his own safety in ministering to the mortally wounded in the front line.
Craig always led his life as if he were living on borrowed time. No less than 13 chaplains to Scottish regiments had been killed in Normandy in the course of military actions. ``I am just lucky to have been a survivor.''
So well was Craig thought of by the Scottish Lowland Division powers-that-were that he was invited to be Chaplain of the King's Own Scottish Borderers in Palestine, from 1945 to1947. This was to be a seminal experience. It enabled Craig to get to know the biblical places - Jerusalem, Nazareth, Capernaum, Bethlehem, the Sea of Galilee. A better posting for a young theological scholar could hardly be imagined.
Returning, as it turned out briefly, to Scotland, Craig combined finishing his PhD at St Andrews with the deputy leadership of the Iona Community, run by the redoubtable Dr George MacLeod, later Lord MacLeod of Fuinary.
In 1950, he married Olga Strzelec, who from 1942 had served as a nurse with the Polish Forces in the Middle East under the command of General Andrews, and whom Craig met in Palestine. Olga Craig, owing to the circumstances of the war years, preferred on health grounds to live in a warmer climate than Scotland; Craig himself said, "There are too many theologians after the available jobs in Britain, and I'm one for export.'' He decided to accept a post in Natal, as Professor of Divinity at the university.Among Craig's sponsors was Reinhold Niebuhr, William Bennett, Jan van Huzen, and Paul Tillich, who had taught Craig when he was Hugh Black Fellow at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, and the American Institute for Biblical Studies.
It was the high regard of the American theologians which brought him to the Professorship of Divinity at Smith College, Massachusetts, in 1958-63. But the call of Africa was paramount, and Craig forsook the attractions of the United States to return, becoming Professor of Theology at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, of which he became Vice-Principal in 1966, and Principal in 1969.
Ian Smith declared UDI in 1965. Rhodesia became the epicentre of British politics. Harold Wilson, as Prime Minister, saw it as his Vietnam. There was pressure from politicians and, indeed, from more than one heavyweight of the Church of Scotland for Craig to resign. He refused. He said he opposed Ian Smith's action; he believed in multi-racial education, as steadfastly as ever - but ``because I, rightly or wrongly, consider that the interests of the continuation of the college, and the new Department ofTheology, take priority over my private conscience, I am not offering my resignation''.
Craig was hurt when the Congress of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, meeting of all places in Edinburgh, asked the University of Rhodesia to withdraw from participation, in the face of a threatened boycott from other participating countries.Craig knew that what he regarded as posturing would resolve nothing in the real problems of southern Africa.
Returning to Israel-Palestine in 1980, on his retirement from the University of Zimbabwe, Craig became Minister of St Andrew's Church. Along with many Scots, I have received hospitality from this valued outpost of Scotland. The Craigs enhanced its reputation, and won golden opinions when he was Moderator of the Presbytery of Jerusalem in the early 1980s. He struck up a lasting friendship with the long-serving Mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek, whom he invited to St Andrews on St Andrew's Day 1986.
Uniquely, since the Second World War, the Moderatorship of the General Assembly was offered to a retired minister. But Craig's activity belied any notion of retirement. Unstintingly, Robert and Olga Craig toured the parishes of Scotland. Controversy attended him, not least when he took the opportunity afforded by an official tour of the Dumbarton Presbytery to make a spontaneous visit to the Faslane peace camp, the home of protesters against the Clyde submarine base on the Gareloch.
Criticism was strident to the effect that the Moderator had failed to visit any of the military establishments around Dumbartonshire. Dignified as usual, Craig replied that he had in fact met the wives and families of men working at the base, and had indeed been greeted by the senior naval officer in charge. As criticism persisted, it was pointed out that Craig, with experience of Normandy to the Rhine crossing, was not one to be lectured on pacifism. He made his own position clear: ``There is a place for Christian pacifist witness. It is not a witness which I personally could subscribe to. But Christian pacifism is accepted as a possible interpretation of Christian teaching in the modern situation. Whether you agree with these people or not in their principles or action, that is another matter. It is accepted as a possible Christian witness in the world today.''
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on Apr 25, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Congratulations to Mr. Reilly on a well-deserved move. It's a relief to know that not only will he be staying, but that he will have an opportunity to impact the entire district. We are so very lucky to have such a passionate student-centered educator.
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Most folks in Menlo Park know and respect the job done by Matt Zito at M-A, but David Reilly has been every bit as impressive at Woodside. He has been a positive, dynamic, innovative force of nature who never loses sight of the fact that educating ALL students is the main priority. I hope Woodside can find someone to fill his shoes and continue the progressive programs and standard of excellence developed under David's leadership. Congratulations -- he will be a fantastic resource at the district level.
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This weekend I was lucky enough to catch the aptly titled The Simpsons Movie at my local independent theater. With all the hype—7-11s transformed into Kwik-E-Marts complete with Squishees and Buzz Cola, annoying ads during other Fox shows—I was ready to be wowed. But what wowed me, I didn't expect—the movie took on the thorny issue of environmentalism ... well, sort of, if you count Homer fighting power-crazy environmentalists with motorcycles and dog sleds.
In the film, Lisa crusades door-to-door for the salvation of Springfield's lake and, predictably, gets many of them slammed in her face; Homer's her undoing, dumping a silo of "pig crap" into the lake that turns it into a seething, green, boiling pool of acidic sludge; and there's an interesting twist, wherein, the EPA actually cares about the environment. Humorously, the EPA puts a huge, glass dome over the city to keep the lake's toxins from spreading (they care more about the trees than the people of Springfield).
The Simpsons of course fight back and attempt to free Springfield from its doom in the dome and the EPA v Homer battle is surely amusing, but unfortunately, after 87 minutes of comedy, the sentiment that people should not drop "pig crap" into lakes is pretty much forgotten. Not that I was really expecting (okay, I kind of was) great pearls of wisdom from The Simpsons but I had hoped for more examples of criminal environmental degradation, especially since the mastermind behind everything Simpsons is from my home state of Oregon, a state with a long history of fighting the timber and fishing industries to preserve its unique natural beauty.
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This week, the Top Ten celebrates music from around the world, mostly even outside of, like, California! Also, I manage to restrict myself to only one track that could qualify as French techno (More about Daft Punk's live show later). So come take a round-the-world trip on Riff Airlines, no carbon offset credits necessary.
10. Manu Chao - "Rainin in Paradize" (from La Radiolina, out 9/4 on Virgin)
A perfect track to kick off an internationally-themed top ten, the uptempo beat of "Paradize" contrasts with its darker lyrical themes. Polyglot Chao here gives voice to various "calamities" and "atrocities" from Baghdad to Zaire, with repetitive lyrics that take on the aura of a kind of chant, or a prayer.
9. Mumiy Troll - "Ru.Da" (from Amba on Real) (mp3 via their site)
Vladivostok combo Mumiy Troll (Мумий Тролль) are saddled with greatness: ten years ago, they made Morskaya, a near-masterpiece of an album that perfectly captured the excitement of post-Communist Russia. While their latest effort isn't quite as inspired, single "Ru.Da" leaps from Pixies-reminiscent verses to an epic chorus.
8. Various Artists - Optimo - Pitchfork Mix 01
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This set from the Glasgow DJs redefines "eclectic," effortlessly mixing from Brazil to Germany to Norway to, er, Sonic Youth. While the duo are known for favoring "psych-rock," the hour-long set is, at its core, utterly groovy, in the best possible sense.
7. Mexican Institute of Sound - "El Microfono" (from Piñata on Nacional) (listen on his MySpace page)
MIS is basically a one-man band (Mexico City's Camilo Lara); he brings together hip-hop and electronic sounds as well as more traditional Mexican influences on his new album. "Microfono" has a quirky, loping sample and mellow feel, over which Lara delivers a laid-back freestyle rap.
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Belgian DJ Typsy Gypsy (of the Balkan Hot Step Soundsystem) has put together two mixes featuring a fusion of Klezmer and Balkan sounds with electronic beats (which, the blog brags, all come in over 150bpm). Hopa!
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I'm sure that all of the "aggressive, shirtless, white males" that saw Rage Against the Machine perform at the Rock the Bells hip hop concert in New York this weekend were stoked to see the Grammy-winning political metal-rap band back together after a seven-year hiatus.
But were they expecting lead singer Zack de la Rocha to say that members of the Bush Administration should be hung and tried and shot for war crimes? Yikes!
I mean, I'm all for mixing politics with music, but really? After seven years off, you'd think the band would have prepared a better statement.
This is the same band that, 10 years ago, took on social justice issues by making an album cover from a picture of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk protesting the murder of fellow monks by self-immolation in Saigon in 1963. This is also the same band that has spoken out against the death penalty in front of the United Nations, donated concert earnings to social justice organizations, and performed benefit shows for American political prisoners like Leonard Peltier.
I'm not sure what the band was hoping to accomplish, but de la Rocha's comment got author Ann Coulter and rocker Ted Nugent to agree that there's a limit to freedom of speech rights.
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The, ahem, bizarre love triangle (sorry) that British synth-pop band New Order has become got even more bizarre over the weekend, as (former?) bassist Peter Hook threatened to sue the remaining members if they continue under the New Order name, reports NME.com.
Hook had previously announced that the band (a three-piece after Gillian Gilbert left in 2005) had split up for good; this prompted remaining members Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner to issue a statement saying that, in fact, they had every intention of continuing under the New Order name, with or without Hooky.
Hook then posted an angry rant on his MySpace blog, saying, "This group has SPLIT UP! you are no more new order than i am! you may have two thirds but dont assume you have the rights to do anything NEW ordery cos you dont ive still got a third!" He then adds, somewhat cryptically, "But am open to negotiation."
Can people please learn to spell? I know it's just a blog, but still.
Party BenJul. 27, 2007 6:02 PM
M.I.A.'s Kala is out 8/21 on Interscope.
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The LA Times is reporting a body found in the ocean off of New Jersey is presumed to be that of video artist Jeremy Blake. Blake had left his wallet and a suicide note behind in his East Village apartment where his girlfriend had also committed suicide just a month ago, and was reportedly seen walking into the ocean off New York's Rockaway Beach on July 17th.
Blake, who was until recently based in Los Angeles, created hypnotic, abstract video pieces often consisting of slowly-changing washes of bright colors. He was best known for his work on Beck's "Sea Change" video, as well as interlude sequences in the 2002 Adam Sandler-starring film "Punch-Drunk Love." He was 35 years old.
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I would use this book in a fifth grade classroom and up. I would use this boo at these grade levels because of the reding level of the text. I also think students at these grade levels will find this book relatable because they are at the age where they are trying to fit in with their peers like the main character. this is also a great book to use to connect social studies to English. I would use this book as an oprion for an independent reading book.
Summary:The books main character is Shirley Timple Wong, who just recently moved to the united states from china. While trying to adapt to American culture, he Chinese culture and traditions are still being practiced at home. While she is still struggling at the new culture she has been introduced to she meets her American hero Jackie Robinson.
Personal reaction: I was first read this story while i was in the 4th grade. I loved it. It was a story i could relate to because Shirley was very optimistic. I looked at her character as a role model. I know how it feels to try to adapt to a new culture and this book explains it very well.
Classroom extensions:1) trading cards- each student will be presented index cards and on the cards they will put a picture and bios of the characters that were in the story. When you have the end product, they could use the cards to retail the stories.
2) the students will make their own Chinese calendar. while they make their calender, they would be learning what each animal represents on the calendar.
I loved how this story was told through the viewpoint of a young Chinese immigrant. It gave me a better understanding of how someone might feel moving to new country with a completely different language and culture. Shirley's adjustment was often humorous, making this a fun book to read. I also liked that the book explained some of Chinese culture. When Shirley's family learned that she would be moving to America, Shirley desperately wanted to know what was going on but knew she could not ask because it is not appropriate for children to ask questions in China. The message of this book is learning to adjust to new environments.
1947 is the year of the boar in the Chinese calendar, and it's the year when 10 year-old Sixth Cousin and her mother leave Chungking to reunite with her father in their new Brooklyn home. Taking the name of Shirley Temple Wong to better fit in, she doesn't speak English and is smaller than her new classmates. All her attempts to make friends fail until she discovers baseball and the new star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson.
Though it's a children's book, this is a good story about the difficulties of transitioning between cultures. We meet Shirley first in her very traditional extended Chinese home, where every member of the family is aware of the hierarchy, then see her try to figure out a place that has so little structure. It's based on the author's own arrival in America
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Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams.Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America and for Shirley as well, on the ball field and off, America becomes the land of opportunity.
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In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
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