A Fatal Fondness by Richard Audry Publisher: Conger Road Press Genre: Mystery/Suspense, Historical Length: Full length (268 pages) Rating: 4 Stars Reviewed by Snowdrop It’s September 1902, and Mary MacDougall has fulfilled her greatest dream—opening her own detective agency. But the achievement doesn’t come without complication. Mary’s father insists that an older cousin come to work with her—as both secretary and minder. Jeanette Harrison pledges to keep the plucky sleuth away from danger, as well as from her unsuitable suitor Edmond Roy. This arrangement, embarrassingly, makes Mary the only detective in the state with a chaperone. The new agency’s first cases hardly seem to portend danger or significance. There’s the affair of the nicked napkin rings…the problem of the purloined...
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Associated Press Little has gone as planned over the past three months — especially in the realm of grade school education. The sudden shift to remote learning was, for lack of a better term, unprecedented. We’ve never seen anything like it. And when you add the plight of remote standardized tests, we’ve really never seen anything like it. The College Board, the not-for-profit that oversees Advanced Placement courses, AP tests and the SAT test, have had an especially rough go. After scrapping plans to administer the SAT remotely over the summer, the College Board went ahead with digital AP tests — and now finds itself on the wrong side of a class-action lawsuit for alleged negligence in doing so. Or,...
Many of you know that A is about to complete her Sophomore year {just a day or two to go to finish up last minute things}! I cannot believe how fast time flies. One of the many requirements for high school is two years of a foreign language. She started using Timberdoodle's Fluenz Homeschool Spanish as her foreign language this school year and she says that she enjoyed it and it challenged her to work hard. I like that this is a self-paced course so if you need extra time you have it. I think that is especially important when learning a new language as it will come faster to some and slower to others. I want to share something...
By Omeleto . . Jamison is a young boy living in a world where marbles are as precious as gold. He manages to win the most treasured, precious marble of them all, but it’s stolen away by a villainous bully named Wolf. But Jamison is determined to win back his marble, confronting Wolf on his own turf. He goes into the match of marbles aiming to get back his prize, but he comes out with something much more than he anticipated. This magical fantasy short film — directed by Michael Swingler and co-written by Swingler and co-lead actor Carl Petersen — is a richly imagined children’s tale blending a Victoriana, almost steampunk sensibility with the emotional fears and concerns...
