After we fall series melanie harlow5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() She finds that she loved every moment of it, and that she should read deeper into any sort of story, whether it was the story of a place, a person, or a historical event.įor five years, she taught high school English and social studies, and she has always been a dance teacher. ![]() ![]() Melanie attended Miami Ohio and got a degree in American Studies. After she outgrew Sweet Valley High, which took a while, she devoured romances by Lavyrle Spencer, her idol, and romantic suspense by Nora Roberts. She’s always been a reader and her favorite books always have a love story in them somewhere, even if they are suspense, women’s fiction, or historical. She sometimes runs three miles, but that’s just so she can have more steak and gin. If she is not reading or writing, she is probably driving somebody to the dance studio or laughing at some bad lip reading videos. Author Melanie Harlow likes her heels high, her martinis dry, and her history with the naughty parts left in. ![]()
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Other words for home novel5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Seeing how she feels about the father and brother she’s left behind, how she feels about her American family she is meeting for the first time, and how she feels about struggling to find her identity as a young women but also as a Muslim living in America. ![]() Jude is a 7th grader who has recently immigrated from Syria to America with her mother, and it’s both heartbreaking and eye-opening seeing the world from her perspective. Other Words for Home is a story told in six parts, as we see the character move through the spectrum of Changing, Arriving, Staying, Hoping, Growing, and Living. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. But this life also brings unexpected surprises-there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US-and her new label of “Middle Eastern,” an identity she’s never known before. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. ![]() But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. SUMMARY: Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. This book is a great example of why I love YA lit as well as novels written in verse! But because I am proud and want to seen as I am.” “I cover my head not because I am ashamed, forced, or hiding. ![]() ![]() Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.Īs provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness. As provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness. Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics - Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism. What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments? ![]() ![]() From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. Oluo shows how, throughout the last 150 years of American history, white male supremacy has wrought devastating consequences for people of color, women and nonbinary people, and white men themselves. ![]() Olusoga black and british5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. David Olusogas Black and British: A Forgotten History returns to Together TV to highlight the importance of remembering the compelling stories of Black. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars.īlack British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. ![]() In this vital re-examination of a shared history, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.ĭrawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan 'blackamoors' and the global slave-trading empire. ![]() My right, not just to regard myself as a British citizen, but even to be in Britain seemed contested. When I was a child, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions.to feel profoundly unwelcome in Britain. Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize ![]() Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize ![]() Arthur rackham cinderella illustrations5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Rackham’s clever use of negative space enabled a high degree of expression in his figures that told a story on a two-dimensional plane. ![]() The new technique made the books financially successful because they were cheaper than their colour-plate equivalents. He developed black and white silhouette illustrations for Cinderella in 1919 and Sleeping beauty in 1920. ![]() It was believed to be too limited a technique for full figure illustrations until Arthur Rackham proved otherwise. The figure is sometimes represented as a shadow or silhouette for its formal qualities and symbolic associations. The silhouette provides a simplified, flat form which can be invested with expression by removing unnecessary detail, and creates a sense of mystery by restricting what is revealed.ĭuring the nineteenth century the cutting of silhouettes for portraits was a common simple method for capturing a likeness in profile. ![]() Severance book ling ma5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And how the media metabolizes larger-than-life events, trying to create a narrative for us in real time.”Ī post-apocalyptic satire, Severance used the fictional “Shen Fever” to both skewer capitalism and reframe the immigration narrative of its Asian-American protagonist. “I thought about my jobs, how people interact in the workplace and the power hierarchies. “I thought about how companies would react when these catastrophes happened,” said Ma, AB’05, an assistant professor of practice in the arts in the University of Chicago’s Program in Creative Writing. ![]() Published in 2018, Severance was inspired by emergencies of a lesser scale: the 2002 SARS epidemic, Hurricane Sandy, and the 2011 snowpocalypse that closed Chicago businesses and schools. CDT hosted by the Department of English Language and Literature and the Program in Creative Writing. In an online conversation anchored by her novel, Ma and Paola Del Toro (AB’20), will discuss “The President Told Us All to Go Shopping” on June 11 at 6 p.m. Ling Ma’s award-winning debut novel about an epidemic, Severance, has found new resonance amid the coronavirus outbreak. ![]() Top marks for murder robin stevens5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Think about who might have been around the crime scene and, very importantly, why they might have committed the crime. To write your own story you’ll need to think of a couple of people who could have done it. Suspects are people who may have committed the crime. Suspects (02:11)Įvery mystery and dective story needs suspects. in this video Robin uses the example that the victim is the school PE Teacher and the crime is a theft. ![]() What do you want to have happen in your mystery? For example, a theft, a murder or a kidnapping. Next you need to think about the crime and the victim, and this is really the heart of the story. For example, a train, a theatre or a school. The first thing we need somewhere that I call a “closed setting.” A place that is very hard to get into and out of, and has people in it already who know each other very well. ![]() The autistic brain book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Describing the labels given to autism and other developmental disorders as “a clumsy system of behavioral profiling” that shifts with every new edition, she is critical of the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and its revised diagnosis of “Autism Spectrum Disorder.” She reviews how understanding of autism has developed since 1947, when she was born and so-called refrigerator moms were targeted for blame. With the assistance of science writer Panek ( The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, 2011, etc.), Grandin applies her experience and interviews with others on the autistic spectrum to the latest neuroscientific research. Different…Not Less: Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger's, and ADHD, 2012, etc.), whose life has been an inspiration to millions, warns parents, teachers and therapists of the danger of getting locked into diagnostic labels. Grandin (Animal Science/Colorado State Univ. ![]() The guy on the right by kate stewart5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() I’ve been listening, and I know exactly what women want. I may not know much about play strategy, but I’ve been the good guy my whole life. As glorious as these days may be for my all-star roommate, Laney is my end game. As a matter of fact, I’m not going down at all. That is, until Troy takes a good look at her. Theodore Houseman, former band geek, now marching-band rock star has finally landed the girl of his dreams. There’s only one problem, my new roommate, Troy, is football royalty and looks like he stepped off the set of an Abercrombie shoot.ĭoesn’t matter, I cook a mean breakfast for his panty parade, and we get along well. ![]() The place where all bets are off, and I’ve managed to redeem myself. ![]() I‘ve spent most of my life answering to Teddy because I couldn’t make Theo work.Įxcept for here. Strike One: My mother named me Theodore after her favorite chipmunk. ![]() Walter kaufmann nietzsche5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Nietzsche's psychology, including his fascinating psychology of masks, is discussed fully and expertly.Heidegger's version of existentialism is herein subjected to a devastating attack. His interpretations of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber are lively, accessible, and penetrating, and in the best scholarly tradition they challenge and revise accepted views.After an introductory chapter on Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, with particular attention to the former's views on despair and the latter's on insanity and repression, Kaufmann argues that Nietzsche was the first great depth psychologist and shows how he revolutionized human self-understanding. In this second volume of a trilogy that represents a landmark contribution to philosophy, psychology, and intellectual history, Walter Kaufmann has selected three seminal figures of the modem period who have radically altered our understanding of what it is to be human. ![]() |