6/12/2023 0 Comments The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi![]() And things that used to seem natural (a buffalo strolling down a newly laid asphalt road, for example) now feel totally chaotic. Everything looks dirtier than she remembered. But after years away, she sweats as if she's never been through an Indian summer before. When she was growing up, summer was all about mangoes-ripe, sweet mangoes, bursting with juices that dripped down your chin, hands, and neck. Returning to India is an overwhelming experience for Priya. She has to return and give her family the news: She's engaged to Nick Collins, a kind, loving American man. Now, seven years later, she's out of excuses. Priya Rao left India when she was twenty to study in the U.S., and she's never been back. ![]() Every young Indian leaving the homeland for the United States is given the following orders by their parents: Don't eat any cow (It's still sacred!), don't go out too much, save (and save, and save) your money, and most important, do not marry a foreigner. Heat, passion, and controversy explode as a woman is forced to decide between romance and tradition. ![]() From the acclaimed author of A Breath of Fresh Air, this beautiful novel takes us to modern India during the height of the summer's mango season. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Funny feelings by tarah dewitt![]() ![]() After all, who else would have the patience to put up with a hot mess like her?Ī former standup star himself, single father Meyer Harrigan left the stage years ago in order to focus on raising his deaf daughter Hazel. ![]() She can’t risk ruining their relationship by telling him how she truly feels. Keeping her feelings hidden from him is agony (a tragedy, even―in lieu of flowers, please send cash.) but Meyer has been Farley’s closest and most treasured friend, not to mention vital to the trajectory of her career. ![]() The only thing she loves more than the rush of telling jokes in front of a revved-up audience is her hot older manager Meyer, though he doesn’t have a clue. Farley Jones is a loud, chaotic, and hilariously clever standup comedian on the way to stardom. ![]() ![]() ![]() The decisions they make will change their lives, and the world, forever. Until she enters the radar of Britain’s secret war organization-the Special Operations Executive-and a new fire is lit in her as she decides just how much she’s willing to risk to enlist.Īs Virginia and Violette navigate resistance, their clandestine deeds come to a staggering halt when they are brought together at Ravensbrück concentration camp. Sisters of Night and Fog by Erika Robuck. ![]() Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Buzzfeed Bookbub BookTrib and more Two women, two countries. But when she meets the man who’ll change her life only for tragedy to strike, Violette’s adrift. Sisters of Night and Fog by Erika Robuck: 9780593102169 : Books Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Buzzfeed Bookbub BookTrib and more Two women, two countries. Nineteen-year-old Violette Szabo has seen the Nazis’ evil up close and is desperate to fight them. ![]() ![]() She’s sure that if they keep their heads down, they’ll survive. Sisters of Night and Fog by Erika Robuck - Reading Guide: 9780593102169 - : Books Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Buzzfeed Bookbub BookTrib and more Two women, two countries. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family’s wishes, Virginia d’Albert-Lake decides to stay in occupied France with her French husband. Nothing in common but a call to fight.Ī heart-stopping new novel based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of World War II.ġ940. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Buzzfeed ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments One life young readers edition![]() ![]() For instance, she provides a list of ways blacks and whites were kept separate under segregation laws and explains that in World War II the Germans "were fighting on the other side of the war." Author Margot Lee Shetterly excels at providing historical context, and since she wrote this version of the book for young readers, she's careful to explain information that might be familiar to adults. ![]() Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition covers much of the same territory of the film Hidden Figures, though it starts earlier than the space race, in 1943, giving readers a sense of the World War II years as well. Chockablock with historical detail, this book celebrating the remarkable accomplishments of four African-American female math whizzes who worked for NASA during segregation inspires mightily. ![]() ![]() ![]() She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music major and a minor in Psychology. She attended college at Lipscomb University in Music City USA-Nashville, Tennese. Despite her teenage hormones and a cross-country move to South Carolina, Anna Lee Huber kept her pen moving as she sharpened and nurtured her writing skills. It was at this age group that she wrote her first story series featuring her small gang of mystery-solving teens. At her a teenage level, the passion for writing never seized as she continued to write several more stories. The story was titled Prom Duty, and it was fascinating since a ten-year old doesn’t really know much about high school prom, but she nailed it as her first success. In fact, when she was in fourth grade, she wrote her first story and requested her teacher to read it before the class. She actually started writing at a young age. Since she was young, her imagination was always boundless. ![]() She is the author of the bestselling Lady Darby Mystery Series. Anna Lee Huber is a prolific award-winning author born and raised in a small town in Ohio. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Mlk birmingham jail![]() King was able to mold a modern manifesto of nonviolent resistance out of the teachings of Jesus and Gandhi. King’s letter had to be smuggled out of the jail in installments by his attorneys, arriving thought by thought at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s makeshift nerve center at the Gaston Motel. King’s nonviolent protest in the Birmingham News, demanding an end to the demonstrations for desegregation of lunch counters, restrooms and stores. ![]() “ Letter From Birmingham City Jail,” now considered a classic of world literature, was crafted as a response to eight local white clergymen who had denounced Dr. So it’s hard to conjure up the 34-year-old in a narrow cell in Birmingham City Jail, hunkered down alone at sunset, using the margins of newspapers and the backs of legal papers to articulate the philosophical foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. King of “ I Have a Dream,” delivered more than 50 years ago in Washington, D.C. The image burnished into national memory is the Dr. “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” St. “There are two types of laws, just and unjust,” wrote Dr. ![]() How Martin Luther King's 'Letter From Birmingham City Jail' Inspired the World Close ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is set in the "Hall of Geniuses", which features Nikola Tesla, Marconi, Benjamin Franklin, Eli Whitney, Louis Pasteur, Louis and Mary Leakey, Dian Fossy, Jane Goodall, Johannes Kepier, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Isaac Asimov, George Washington Carver, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Rene Decartes, etc. ![]() This is one of 4 books in the series, Nick and Tesla's Adventures. Today is also College Spirit Day, so please talk to your group about college, share your college stories, and ask them what they think about college! Follow the action, and then follow the illustrated instructions to build your own gadget glove with four incredible functions: LED signal light, emergency alarm, sound recorder, and UV secret-message revealer! Grade Level: 4th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.)Įinstein is running amok! Darwin is losing his head! The science museum in Half Moon Bay is in big trouble because its robotic replicas of history’s greatest scientists keep going kablooey! As 11-year-old amateur inventors Nick and Tesla Holt try to uncover the cause, they’ll need to keep adding all-new gadgets to their latest creation, a customized super-cyborg glove. Nick and Tesla's Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove Volunteers needed in June! Click here to sign up. ![]() ![]() ![]() If there’s anything better, please let us know. So, does 200 books sound a ballpark figure? All the number crunching is by way of pointing out that if you want just a single collection of Bendis’ work, the distillation of what makes him such a great writer at his best, this is probably the one to go for. Factor in over ten years on Avengers as well, never mind all the other series. Between his start at Marvel in the late 1990s and his departure in 2018 how many collections of Brian Michael Bendis’ work were published? Well, there were 22 of his original Ultimate Spider-Man run, combined for a further dozen hardcovers, then another 4 in the second Ultimate Spider-Man series, and further repackaging to boot. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Tempest hagseed![]() Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the novel’s form, namely what specific transformation the poetics of the text undergoes due to its transfer from one genre to another. ![]() The article focuses on the analysis of the interpretation that Shakespeare’s text gains in Atwood’s novel. Thus, Atwood’s novel is a story about a man who directs a play about a man (Prospero) who in his turn is the director of everything what happens in ‘The Tempest’Atwood’s novel is a multilayered text which has Shakespeare’s play as an intertext. ‘’The Hag-Seed’’ (2016) is a postmodern interpretation of Shakespeare’s last play ‘’The Tempest’ by a famous contemporary Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.Prospero, the protagonist of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ is represented by a 21 st century theatre director Felix Philips, who twelve years after being removed from the theatre by his trusted colleague, gets a job teaching Literacy in the Fletcher County Correctional Institution and directs Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ which is performed by the prisoners. Shakespeare, Atwood, ‘’The Tempest’’, postmodernism, ‘’The Hag-Seed’’ Abstract ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Edie by jean stein![]() ![]() ![]() Her second marriage, in 1995, was to Swiss Nobel prize-winner Torsten Wiesel, a neurophysiologist. Stein’s first husband was the lawyer William vanden Heuval, who served in the US justice department under Robert F Kennedy. A spokesperson at Random House, which published her most recent book, 2016’s West of Eden: An American Place, issued the short statement: “Random House is deeply saddened by the death of Jean Stein.”Įducated in Los Angeles, Switzerland, New York and the Sorbonne, where she had an affair with William Faulkner, Stein eventually took the editor’s seat on the literary and visual arts magazine Grand Street, a role she kept until 2004. A New York City police department official said that Stein had jumped to her death on Sunday morning from the 15th floor of a Manhattan tower. ![]() |