6/12/2023 0 Comments Blush by Shirley Hershey Showalter![]() ![]() ![]() Will she hear and try to understand and learn from these stories? ![]() What she finds is people whose stories differ from hers. In each classroom, she searches for Yoder School, where learning was full of wonder and people seemed safe. Pulled from the cloistered three-room Yoder School, full of Mennonite and Amish kids, she pursues her goal to become a teacher in a variety of classrooms, all unfamiliar to her, and then graduates from Antioch University, the hippie college of Yellow Springs, Ohio. This coming-of-age memoir shows how a young Mennonite, uprooted from her community in the mountains of western Maryland, forges her identity. ![]() Here is a story of leaving a childhood of innocence to go out into the world and to learn in new ways from different people in places that don't feel like home. When a young Mennonite girl is uprooted from her cloistered community, she pines to go back to Yoder School where learning was full of wonder and where she decided to be a teacher. "Because this story is so well-written, we the readers follow the narrator's progress with the eagerness of a child at play." -Shirley Hershey Showalter, Author, Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World, in the Foreword ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Tears of the moon trilogy![]() ![]() Having just recently reread the Three Sisters Island books, which would probably one of the closest equivalents (there it is an island in front of the coast of Maine plus witches and their curse, here it is a very old Irish fishing village plus a fairy and his curse) for this trilogy, I find it fascinating to see that I usually like the first book and first couple best. ![]() Also no villains or supsense, just plain ole human relationship drama exquisitely done - you rarely get parents who have that much influence on a storyline in a NR book). ![]() not part of a category romance series, and no paranormal touch at all. She hadn't touched Ireland as a setting for a contemporary romance series since the "Born In" books, which for me personally are the pinnacle of her pure contemporary single novel trilogies (i.e. This was NR doing paranormally touched contemporaries in Ireland. ![]() There was that amazingly long Kobo promotion of books being 40% off until this year and when you consider that these are three books, it worked for me to buy them even though I still own the paper copies.Īside: I should start getting rid of those (I wish we had English UBSes here, I hate throwing a book away even though we have paper recycling - but I'm the only person of my near acquaintance to read these genres in English and sending them off all over Germany is REALLY expensive) as my manga collection keeps growing and needs the space. This was a comfort reread during my cold - I haven't reread those book in a decade, I think. ![]() ![]() ![]() Atkins physical chemistry, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Ītkins, P.J., Paula, J.D. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.Ītkins, P. ![]() (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).Ītkins, P. Atkins, Julio De Paula, and James Keeler, Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, 11th ed. Here are Atkins’ physical chemistry citations for five popular citation styles: MLA, APA, Chicago (notes-bibliography), Chicago (author-date), and Harvard style. ![]() If you are looking for additional help, try the EasyBib citation generator. Atkins’ physical chemistry is cited in 14 different citation styles, including MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, APA, ACS, and many others. Learn how to create in-text citations and a full citation/reference/note for Atkins’ physical chemistry by Atkins et al., using the examples below. ![]() ![]() ![]() A lot of Beautiful World is composed of emails that the two main characters send to each other, and one of them (dare I say it doesn’t really matter which?) writes: in the midst of everything, the state of the world being what it is, humanity being on the cusp of extinction, here I am writing another email about sex and friendship. Not only is she the world’s most famous popular literary author, she's also creating exactly the kinds of novels I would want to write if I ever managed to write a novel: heavy on dialogue and focused on the knotty personal interactions between 2-4 people, as if those are the only things that matter. I’m fundamentally jealous of Sally Rooney. As an experiment, we're including a betting market with this post: will Sally Rooney's next novel be stylistically similar to her first three? Bets are in fake internet points, not real money: bet here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some bandits capture Mamta and ransack her home. The author has also created a parallel story in which Smita imagines herself as Krishnaprem and falls in love with Mamta. The author has efficiently depicted her as a victim of a huge political controversy. ![]() The author is a keen observer of everyday politics as Smita’s enemies hatch an intricate and an unbeatable plot in which they accuse her of killing a politician due to which she is sent to jail. The story revolves around a family feud to capture the seat of the prime minister. The central characters of the novel are Smita-the protagonist and her fiance Krishnaprem. If yes, then this is what you would like to read.Ī new kind of crime fiction that will make you clap for the author. Do you like suspense building up as you read the book. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Awakening wonder sally clarkson![]() ![]() Awaking Wonder will inspire you, delight you, provide laughter, and bring tears through the heartfelt stories of four lively children and the wondrous life they grew up in together. ![]() If you are exhausted, confused, ill equipped, or unsupported in your journey as a parent, you will find relief through the countless ideas in this book. If you are idealistic and hopeful about the process of raising your children to be healthy and vibrant, you will find encouragement through the Clarksons' story. This book is thirty-six years in the making and provides a deep dive into Sally's most profound legacy: nurturing and guiding her four children into a wonder-filled life. ![]() Awaking Wonder is Sally's answer to those questions. They want to know how the Clarksons launched their children to live such vibrant, flourishing lives as adults. Book excerpt: Sally, what is your secret? For years, parents worldwide have asked beloved author Sally Clarkson how she and her husband have ignited a love for learning and a deep faith in their children. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Book Synopsis Awaking Wonder by : Sally Clarksonĭownload or read book Awaking Wonder written by Sally Clarkson and published by Baker Books. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments King kong theory![]() ![]() Right now you can buy it from Fitzcarraldo Editions. Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory is an angry and passionate manifesto against late capitalist patriarchy, a story about sexual assault and trauma that centres the survivor. It will be available again from FSG in 2021. King Kong Theory was originally published in the United States by The Feminist Press in 2010. ![]() ![]() It’s not a matter of contrasting women’s small advantages with men’s small assets, but of sending the whole lot flying.” “Feminism is a collective adventure, for women, men and everyone else. Her vision of feminism is at once utopian and practical: a rallying cry that, if we listened, could change the world. English-language editions have been published in 2010 by The Feminist Press (translated by Stphanie Benson) and in 2020 by Fitzcarraldo Editions (translated by Frank Wynne ). ![]() In essays about rape, pornography, prostitution and femininity, Despentes draws on her own experiences of being raped, of being a novelist, of being a prostitute, and of being a filmmaker, to illuminate the political and social condition of all women. King Kong Theory is a book by filmmaker and novelist Virginie Despentes, first published in French in 2006 by Grasset. Don’t let the word “theory” throw you: Virginie Despentes’s blunt, epigrammatic manifesto has got to be the most riveting book of feminist theory we’ve ever read. “I want to underline every word in this book,” Ruth texted Emily on the day she started reading King Kong Theory. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Readers will find themselves wanting to live in Storyton, no matter how many people end up dead there. Suspense Magazine on Murder in the Locked Library "Readers will find themselves wanting to live in Storyton, no matter how many people end up dead there." She’s written multiple series including the Supper Club Mysteries, the Book Retreat Mysteries, the Secret, Book, and Scone Society Mysteries, and more. Six chefs are preparing to compete in an outdoor tent at Storyton Hall in Virginia for prizes that will boost their careers-but is there someone who can't stand the heat? It looks that way when one of the contestants is found dead in a pantry packed with two centuries' worth of cookbooks, among other treasures and rarities.Ĭould there be a connection to other recent events in town, like tampering with the costume of a local mascot? Jane isn't sure, but after someone serves a second course of murder, the kitchen must be closed and the killer must be found. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ellery Adams lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband, two children, and three cats. "Love Chopped and mysteries? This delightful character-driven cozy is just the treat for you." - Kirkus Reviews The witty new story from the bestselling author of The Secret Book & Scone Society series is perfect for bibliophiles who love a A Bookish Cook-Off with a little murder on the side. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Blood price by tanya huff![]() ![]() ![]() Spent eight years working at Bakka, North America's oldest surviving science fiction book store: Change Of Hobbit in California was actually a very little bit older but unfortunately it was a casualty of the recession in '91. We were competing for jobs with people who had up to five years experience. Received a degree in RADIO AND TELEVISION ARTS (B.A.A.) from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute: The year I graduated was the year that the CBC laid off 750 employees in Toronto alone. Unfortunately it happened a year after I left. They'd just opened it up to women and I figured it would be the first trade that would send women to sea. Spent three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve: I was a cook. ![]() Enough said for those of us who lived through it-and those who didn't seem to be getting another chance to fall off platform shoes. It was the late sixties, early to mid seventies. Raised, for the most part, in Kingston, Ontario. Or possibly with the fact that almost no one admits to being from Ontario… I think it's something to do with being born in sight of the ocean. "Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Although I haven't actually lived "down east" since just before my fourth birthday, I still consider myself a Maritimer. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Carrie mae weems photos![]() “Black people are to be turned away from, not turned toward-we bear the mark of Cain. “Weems’s black-and-white photographs are like mirrors, each reflecting a collective experience: how selfhood shifts through passage of time the sudden distance between people, both passable and impassable the roles that women accumulate and oscillate between how life emanates from the small space we occupy in the world,” writes Jacqui Palumbo.įrom Here I Saw What Happened, and I Cried by Carrie Mae Weems. ![]() In The Kitchen Table Series (1989-90), Carrie Mae Weems foregrounds the kitchen, a familiar space residing in the domestic sphere, through storytelling and a series of intimate contemporary black and white photographs reminiscent of film noir, to record the unfolding of fictional, yet universal and prevalent occurrences. ![]() The kitchen is a space of nurture and nostalgia-known for binding subjects in shared experience and offering respite in the midst of struggle. ![]() Investigating the politics of spatial accessibility that may invite or exclude, Weems creates apposite yet seminal moments of racial and gendered representation. Born a woman of colour in the United States of America, Weems has invariably been concerned with questions of power and its relation to cultural identities formed by race, class and gender. ![]() Carrie Mae Weems is an influential African American artist most renowned for her visually compelling photography that combines text and audio to capture the particularities of past and contemporary African American life. ![]() |