The Innocents by Michael Crummey5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() His previous books - River Thieves, The Wreckage, Galore and Sweetland - have been nominated for, or won, prestigious prizes all over the world. ![]() The Innocents provides Crummey with a rich landscape for exploring childhood and all its mysteries and discovery, fear and confusion. Their parents and an infant sister have died, leaving the children to cope with - and create - a world unto themselves. Ada and Evered find themselves orphaned and alone in an isolated cove on the north shore of Newfoundland. That anecdote lodged itself in Michael Crummey's head, and eventually led him to write his fifth work of fiction, a novel called The Innocents. When the clergyman approached them to ask how they came to be there on their own, the boy chased him off at gunpoint. John's archives, he came upon a reference to an 18th century clergyman who discovered two young siblings living on their own in an isolated cove. ![]() Years ago, while doing some research in the St. Michael Crummey's latest book came into being almost by happenstance. ![]()
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Airhead runaway5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s also a resolution to Em’s on-again-off-again romance with shmexy classmate Christopher. Meg Cabot: Em is finally going to find out the truth behind both the new product Stark Enterprises (the corporation behind the “accident” that made her a member of the “Walking Dead”) is rolling out and what really happened to Nikki. SheKnows: What’s the scoop on the latest in the series, Runaway? And did I mention they’re both legally dead and technically alive at the same time, in separate bodies? Nikki’s an ego maniac with a libido as big as her bank account. Meg Cabot: Emerson’s a Mathlete with low self-esteem who wouldn’t know a Louboutin from a Ramen noodle. SheKnows: If you had to compare Emerson and Nikki - their personalities, their relationship - how would you sum them up? Who did it and why? Will Em ever get her old life back? Or will she forever be trapped in this nightmare? Meg Cabot: Tomboy-brainiac Em Watts is the victim of a horrifying accident (or was it an accident?) that ends up with her brain medically transplanted into the body of someone else, supermodel and Stark spokesmodel Nikki Howard. ![]() SheKnows: Tell us a bit about the Airhead series? The fabulous and ever so funny Cabot, who has legions of fans, dishes on some other fun parts of her personal life as well - like her obsession with miniature Heath bar candies and why young adult novels like hers, and others, appeal to adults of all ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through vivid examples and a refreshingly positive viewpoint, this invaluable guide offers parents emotional support and proven strategies for handling the toughest times. In Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition, parenting expert Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D, offers ALL parents a glimpse into what makes their children behave the way they do. You are not alone! Many parents are dealing with the same challenges. ![]() Including real life stories, this newly revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller-voted one of the top twenty parenting books-provides parents with the most up-to-date research, effective discipline tips, and practical strategies for raising spirited children.ĭo you ever wonder why your child acts the way he or she does? Are you at a loss regarding your child's emotional intelligence and how to prevent meltdowns? Do you find yourself getting frustrated and feeling like you're at the end of your rope? ![]() America at 1750 by Richard Hofstadter5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Judith Walzer Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Child Bearing in America, 1750-1950 (1986). Lyle Koehler, A Search for Power: "The Weaker Sex" in Seventeenth-Century New England (1982). Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850 (1986). ![]() Christopher Jedrey, The World of John Cleaveland: Family and Community in Eighteenth-Century New England (1979). Philip Greven, Four Generations (1970) The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America (1977). Graham, Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall (2000). William Frost, The Quaker Family in Colonial America (1972). John Putnam Demos, Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and Life Course in American History (1986). Kennedy, ed., Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America (1999). ![]() Patricia Cleary, Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America (2000). Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (1992). Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996). Richter, Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2001). Richard Hofstadter, America at 1750: A Social Portrait (1971). Henretta and Gregory Nobles, The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815, rev. Society and Culture in Provincial America Bibliography The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Brinkley), 7th Edition Chapter 3: ![]() Der Tempel by Stephen Spender5/24/2023 ![]() In the most extreme forms of potlatch, when the giver has given as much as the recipients could conceivably consume, the giver is reduced to destroying his goods just to demonstrate his ability to give. ![]() This was found archetypically among North American peoples, but it can be found elsewhere. Mostly, they are compulsory.Īfter introducing his subject, Mauss considers the phenomenon of “potlatch”, the practice of large-scale, competitive giving. Only sometimes is a gift given voluntarily. A gift, he explains, is always given in return for another gift. The idea that gifts are voluntarily given without expectation of reward is a common fiction, but a fiction nevertheless. As he nearly says, there is no such thing as a free lunch. ![]() Mauss argues that gifts are a type of exchange. And indeed, its spirit is firmly Durkheimian, for it sees the prime role of the gift and the act of giving to be the cementing of the bonds of society. It was first published in the 1920s as a series of articles in L’Année Sociologique the journal founded by Mauss’s uncle, Émile Durkheim. ![]() I have found myself re-reading Marcel Mauss’s classic treatise on The Gift. ![]() Champion marie lu5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout Champion, the characters are constantly reminded of the characters they loved and lost. Even in the epilogue, ten years after the war has ended, she thinks of him on her birthday and realizes that she is older than he will ever be. Metias also haunts June throughout the book, because she interacts with Thomas and remembers how much he fought when alive. ![]() He wonders if they would be proud of him and thinks of them often as he fights to end inequality in the Republic. ![]() The Presence of the DeadĪs Day spends more time with his younger brother, Eden, throughout Champion, he is reminded of his parents, who died years before. The secrets that Metias kept from June while he was alive come back to haunt her throughout the book, specifically in the form of Thomas, who reminds her of everything her brother loved and lost. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.ĭay keeps his illness a secret from June for most of Champion, because he doesn’t want to scare her and wants her to focus on the war and the Republic. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() Bloodlines novel5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Anyone caught outside the gate after sunset was captured and sent to prison camps. The ghetto gate was opened after sunrise and locked before sunset. Samuel Roffe was born in a Jewish ghetto, which was systematically and strictly controlled by officials. Elizabeth was declined love from her father during childhood, but escaped the reality by reading about her great-great grandfather, Samuel Roffe. Sam Roffe was expecting a son, but instead got a daughter, Elizabeth. The firm Roffe and Sons is managed by Sam Roffe and his assistant Rhys Williams. It is clear that everyone in the family is in need of money. Alec Nichols, whose mother was a Roffe, whose gambling-addicted and spendthrift wife Vivian, pushes him into increasing debts. ![]() ![]() Martel invests in a vineyard by stealing his wife's jewelry, but the money drowns. Helene Roffe, the three time divorcee who marries Charles Martel.Simonetta, the wife of Ivo Palazzi, a womanizer being blackmailed by his mistress, Donatella. ![]() Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This book will tell the story of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us ‘too much’. An erstwhile Victorian scholar, she sees many parallels between that era’s fixation on women’s ‘hysterical’ behavior and our modern policing of the same in the space of her writing, you’re as likely to encounter Jane Eyre and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey. ![]() Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. Rachel Vorona Cote is the author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, which was published in February 2020 by Grand Central Publishing. This book is very near and dear to my heart. Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, Too Much encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses – emotional, physical, and spiritual. Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, TOO MUCH spills over: with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote, who posits that women are all, in some way or another, still susceptible to being called too much. Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women’s bodies, souls, and sexualities – and how we might finally undo the strings. ![]() Tomie ito5/23/2023 ![]() It's a mess, my local streaming service got this one for some reason, otherwise if I had to pay for the BD to watch this. It doesn't have that time limit here! It's an OVA, you can make it how ever long it needed to be. ![]() why would they choose to adapt this but not the second half? If you can only do one more episode maybe choose one that's actually stand alone?Īlso, somehow they still forced two story into one 22min episode for This. The editing on transition is especially bad.Įpisode 2, this was actually the first half of a two parter in the manga. Episode 2 was not as noticeable but they still cut out more than a little stuff, which hurts the atmosphere of the story, since those parts really helped building up mood in the manga.Įpisode 1, You'd think this being an adaptation of Ito's first story ever, there are lots of place they could have improved. And it's rushed as hell, lots of monologue from the source material of episode 1 was cut out. ![]() Being an BD special OVA of said series, the art and animation is poor even for this series' stander. ![]() If you think "Ito Junji: Collection" was not good, well this is worse. ![]() Josephine by patricia hruby powell5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been a mentor for a WNDB and SCBWI-MI. Forthcoming are Cave of the Heart: The Story of Martha Graham (Chronicle Books 2023) and a Women’s Suffrage project (Chronicle 202x). Her four latest books are Junior Library Guild Selections and have all won numerous awards. Patricia Hruby Powell was formerly a dancer, storyteller, and librarian. Or unsigned books, wherever you purchase books Patricia’s signed personally-inscripted books can be purchased online at Jane Addams Book Shop. Virginia, Chronicle Books, JanuVisit Page Josephine, Chronicle Books, JanuVisit Page Frog Brings Rain, Salina Bookshelf, JanuVisit Page Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved, Salina Bookshelf, JanuVisit Page Blossom Tales – Flower Stories of Many Folk, Moon Mountain Publishing, FebruVisit Page McElderry Books, Releases JVisit Page Struttin with Some Barbecue, Charlesbridge, DecemVisit Page Loving vs. Lift As You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker, Margaret K. ![]() |