![]() ![]() ChastyA beautiful tribute to a creative mom with creative daughters.the aspect on aging is quite well done. ![]() And keep on-hand as yet another gift to pass down. ![]() Grandmothers everywhere should pick this up to read to their grandchildren. Jones has a way of making her own experiences relate across the boards. Paul Bachmeier, author of Barley the Elephant.It's a personal story that really connects with people. You're going to want to hold onto this one for them. Get it, read it and then put it high enough on the shelf so that the kids can't rip it. It's cute and it's soft.but it's not 'just' cute and soft there are deeper currents here involving family and love and generations and life itself. Toy, Reading RecommendationsGreat-Grandma's Gifts is exactly the kind of book that little girls will remember reading with their moms when they are older. The illustrations are especially enjoyable. This is a lovely story that is designed to help children see a different side of the elders in their lives and understand that they were once children, too.Here's what people are saying about Great-Grandma's Gifts:I loved it! A sweet book about a mother/grandmother/great-grandmother's love for her family and how she uses her talents to create loving memories to give to each generation. As she grows up, she moves on to creating gifts for her own children and grandchildren. ![]() She begins by making presents for her doll, Maggie. Arlene is a little girl who loves to make things. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Medina’s narrative is engaging and captivating. Meg Medina’s much anticipated finale in her Merci Suårez trilogy is a heartwarming and compelling novel that tackles big topics for Merci, who is now an eighth grade student at Seward Pines Acadcmy. ![]() Does this mean Avery wants to be her friend? Merci knows she needs to play it cool, but with kind-of friend Edna Santos always getting into her business, it’s only a matter of time until Merci has to decide where her loyalty stands.įrom evolving frienships to changing family dynamics, readers with empathize with Merci as she discovers whom she can count on - and what can change in an instant - in Meg Medina’s heartfelt finale to the trilogy that began with the Newbery Medal winner Merci Suårez Changes Gears. But then Avery starts talking to Merci more often, and not just as teammates on the field. Avery always has stories to tell about her fun weekends, and since she can afford to go to fancy soccer camps, she’ll probably be named the captain of their team. ![]() Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids, like Avery Sanders. But there will also be more independence…and opportunities to change things up. At home, it’s more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. Themes: Middle Grade, Friendships, Family, Love, Alzheimer’s, Latino, School trip, LossĮighth grade at Seaward Pines means new haircuts, nighttime football games, and a weekend-long field trip. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has vividly described the street life of the Mughal capital in the days before the catastrophe happened, he has put his finger deftly on every crucial point in the story, which earlier historians have sometimes missed, and he has supplied some of the most informative footnotes I have ever read. Geoffrey Moorhouse of The Guardian wrote, ĭalrymple has here written an account of the Indian mutiny such as we have never had before, of the events leading up to it and of its aftermath, seen through the prism of the last emperor's life. The book won the 2006 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for History and Biography, and the 2007 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. He worked on these documents in association with the Urdu scholar Mahmood Farooqui. ![]() The book, Dalrymple's sixth, and his second to reflect his long love affair with the city of Delhi, won praise for its use of "The Mutiny Papers", which included previously ignored Indian accounts of the events of 1857. ( June 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) There might be a discussion about this on the talk page. This section may be confusing or unclear to readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1920s and 1930s, Sylvia Beach owned and ran Shakespeare and Company, a Paris bookshop. ![]() Born Nancy Woodbridge Beach in Baltimore, Maryland, on Madied in Paris, France, on Octosecond daughter of Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (an American Presbyterian minister) and Eleanor (Orbison) Beach (who was born in a missionary family in India) educated mainly at home never married companion of Adrienne Monnier no children. Name variations: changed her first name to Sylvia in 1901. American bookshop owner and publisher who was at the center of the American and English literary colony in Paris during the 1920s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks is narrated by Anna Frith, a shepherdess who also spent a few hours daily as a servant in the rectory. Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history.īook Review: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a “year of wonders.” ![]() Through Anna’s eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition.Īs death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. 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In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Kimberly King Parsons was born in Lubbock, Texas, and received her MFA from Columbia University. ![]() Cuenta y listas Devoluciones y Pedidos Cesta Todo. ![]() I loved every moment of this book.” -Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesWith raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows-those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. Black Light: Stories (English Edition) eBook : Parsons, Kimberly King: Amazon.es: Tienda Kindle. “The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() ![]() Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Audie Award for best unabridged fiction, Middlesex marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker. Sprawling across eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenide's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. ![]() The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia - back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives, back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sandy Chung, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said, “As pediatricians, we know that the environments in which children and teens live, learn, and play have a profound impact on their health and long-term trajectory, but for too long we haven't given enough attention to the digital spaces where young people spend so much of their time. The Kids Online Safety Act requires that online tech platforms put children’s interest first – a foundational component to online child protection.” Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced the Kids Online Safety Act, comprehensive bipartisan legislation to protect children online and hold Big Tech accountable.Īdvocacy Organizations Praise The Kids Online Safety Actĭawn Hawkins, CEO of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, said, “It is critical that children be protected from online harms, which continue to grow and threaten their safety and overall well-being. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other co-author of Logicomix, Papadimitriou, is a professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Petros' life could be compared with that of great artists like Vincent van Gogh and Mozart – a poignant reminder of the agony and suffering that accompanies great creativity. (Indian readers will find it interesting that Srinivasa Ramanujan, the native-born genius, makes an appearance in this book.) Petros fails grandly in his endeavour – the conjecture remains unproven. Uncle Petros, as narrated from the perspective of his nephew, makes for an intoxicating read. It is one of the great unsolved problems in mathematics along with the Riemann hypothesis. ![]() The conjecture is deceptively simple: it states that “every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes”. ![]() The book features a mathematician Petros Papachristos who devotes his entire mathematical career to proving what is known as Goldbach's conjecture. A mathematics graduate from Columbia University, Doxiadis pioneered the genre of mathematical fiction with his book Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (first published in Greek in 1992 and then in English in 2000). The graphic novel Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (2009) by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou is a unique attempt in literature – mathematical ideas transmitted through the medium of a comic book.Ī few words about Doxiadis. ![]() ![]() ![]() No Bears, which was filmed in secret, is a brilliant, layered drama - and an idiosyncratic self portrait. In 'No Bears', a banned filmmaker takes bold aim at Iranian society: In 2010, Iranian the authorities charged Jafar Panahi with making anti-government propaganda. This elite runner wants to change that: Champion distance runner Lauren Fleshman says too many coaches assume - falsely - that what works for male athletes also benefits female athletes. ![]() Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. ![]() Lauren Fleshman's memoir, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World, is a critique of how the sports world treats female athletes.įresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. ![]() |