![]() ![]() Passed away 10th August, 2022 aged 97 at Opal Gardens, Paynesville after a 3-year battle with cancer. (formerly Rawlings nee Reeves) born 23rd January, 1925 in Belgrave, Victoria. Beverley's funeral service will be live streamed here: At the conclusion of Mass the cortege will proceed to the Bairnsdale Cemetery. Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs Beverley Seehusen of Sarsfield will be offered at St Mary's Catholic Church, Bairnsdale on Friday 23rd December 2022 at 11:00am. We have wonderful memories to remember her by. ![]() An incredibly special Nana to four grandchildren, Tracie, Shaun, Cristil and Tiffini and a precious great nana of 8. We would like to thank the kind nurses that looked after Bev daily in her final few weeks and a very heartfelt thank you to her long time doctor, Daryl Smith for caring for her all these years. She will be missed by several people and was loved by many. Bev was a dearly loved mother of two children, Kerrie (dec) and Charlie. Very sadly passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her loved ones on Saturday 17th December 2022. Bev is now with her husband Robert 'Bob' (dec). ![]()
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(If you don’t know, those guys created Apple, Star Wars and Fox Corporation, respectively.) Glimpses into Iger’s conversations with those men reveal how business at the highest levels is done. Personally, I really enjoyed hearing about Iger’s negotiations with iconic leaders like Steve Jobs, George Lucas and Rupert Murdoch. Iger is truly taking us along for the ride and describing the relationships that shaped him most. (Believe it or not, he actually began his career as a local TV weatherman!) This isn’t a book of business lectures. ![]() In The Ride of a Lifetime, Iger shares the story behind how he became the CEO of Disney. Robert Iger brought it into the global digital era in the 2000’s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book really delves into the underground world that is BDSM and actually portrays it really well. 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In SHRILL, Lindy recounts how she went from being the butt of people's jokes, to telling her own brand of jokes - ones that carry with them with a serious message and aren't at someone else's expense. Fortunately for women everywhere, along the road she found her voice - and how she found it! That cripplingly shy girl who refused to make a sound, somehow grew up to be one of the loudest, shrillest, most fearless feminazis on the internet, making a living standing up for what's right instead of what's cool. It's difficult to believe she was once a nerdy, overweight teen who wanted nothing more than to be invisible. Guardian columnist Lindy West wasn't always loud. We're supposed to spend our lives passive, quiet and hungry. 'Women are told, from birth, that it's our job to be small: physically small, small in our presence, and small in our impact on the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Timmy Hudson, who had beaten him up just about every day in fifth grade, passed by, not giving Rex a second glance. One more layer between him and Bixby High School. Rex squinted in the brightness and pushed up his glasses with one finger, wishing he could wear dark shades over their thick frames. For Rex summer vacation was a place to hide, and every year this day gave him the sinking feeling of having just been discovered, caught, pinned like an escaping prisoner in a searchlight. His every step was a struggle, a fight against the grating radiance of Bixby High, against being trapped here for another year. Rex Greene walked slowly, wondering how the students jostling past him could run into this place. The freshly shined floors dazzled, glinting in the hard September sunlight that streamed in through the school's open front doors. ![]() Fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, their white honeycombed plastic shields newly cleaned of dead insect shapes. The halls of Bixby High School were always hideously bright on the first day of school. ![]() ![]() Like Ally McBeal in the classroom, the miniskirted and idealistic Codell sometimes fantasizes her career is a musical. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Įsmé Raji Codell has written a funny, hip diary filled with one-liners and unadorned thoughts that speak volumes about the raw, emotional life of a first-year teacher. ![]() As relevant and iconoclastic as when it was first published, Educating Esmé is a classic, as is Madame Esmé herself. Heroine to thousands of parents and educators, Esmé now shares more of her ingenious and yet down-to-earth approaches to the classroom in a supplementary guide to help new teachers hit the ground running. While battling bureaucrats, gang members, abusive parents, and her own insecurities, this gifted young woman reveals what it takes to be an exceptional teacher. ![]() ![]() Her diary opens a window into a real-life classroom from a teacher's perspective. Fresh-mouthed and free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esmé-as she prefers to be called-does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk students in the library. ![]() A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans, Educating Esmé is the exuberant diary of Esmé Raji Codell's first year teaching in a Chicago public school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jess Kidd’s familiarity with the landscape and dialect is evident in her writing.Įlevating the troupe is the ancient former actress, Mrs Cauley, a self-styled "Miss Marple with balls" whose love of mysteries niftily results in a whodunnit escapade that will centre on a production of Synge's play. ![]() The Erris peninsula near Belmullet in Co Mayo. ![]() Loquacious publican Tadgh, the puritan Widow Farelly, upstanding sergeant Jack Brophy, and weasel-like parish priest Fr Quinn make up a colourful if somewhat cliched cast. All he has to go on is a photo of himself as a baby – and a note warning him not to trust anybody in Mulderrig.Ī tongue-in-cheek tone initially brings a lightness to proceedings, with characters introduced as speedily and vividly as an Agatha Christie mystery. The novel then alternates between beautiful Orla’s murder and the adult orphan, Mahony, journeying to Mulderrig 20 years later. 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With its coloring (probably going for a warm, autumnal quality but which instead brought to mind a too-rich honey - and I’m still not sure why the pictures are cropped the way they are, as if the whole setting is overlaid with saccharine), its cursive title, and its lead quote from The Oprah Magazine when there are quotes from The New York Times and The New Yorker inside, I still was not quite sure I would get on with this book. Perhaps the marketing was genius and drew in far more money than, say, a Gilead-, Home-, or A Mercy-esque cover would have, but I’m convinced there are still many readers in a non-bookclubby audience who are hesitating before reading. ![]() |