![]() ![]() Right or wrong, they are noble and exquisite in their thievery as a means of survival. Angel Thieves is a multi-faceted journey that hinges on that desperate plea for freedom: freedom to choose the difficult path and raise a child alone, freedom from the misery of a small cage, freedom from broken promises and an evil world, and freedom to see a miracle in something as unassuming as a honey-bear jar. ![]() Dropped into the modern mix is an entrapped ocelot, harshly and viscerally representing the very heart of the story: Freedom. This modern drama is skillfully joined with the past narrative of a young slave and her two daughters who are searching for the stone angel along the bayou that will guide them to freedom. As the stories unfold, they begin to gently flow and intertwine even though they are separated by time, culture, and indescribable heartache.Īt the core is the modern story of young Cade and his father, Paul, and Cade’s classmate Soleil Broussard, who is drawn into Cade’s orbit as he is into hers. In this beautiful novel, the Buffalo Bayou in the Houston area is the watery thread that connects the seemingly disparate narratives throughout. Angel Thieves is a striking depiction of familial devotion, the harsh cry for freedom, and tender new love. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Just a short post-Thanksgiving post… I spent a part of Small Business Saturday at a charming indie bookstore – Wheatgrass Books – in Livingston, Montana (fictional setting for Carry Me Home), where kids doing community service work were busy making origami paper cranes. ![]() Posted November 30th, 2021 b & filed under CARRY ME HOME, For Teachers & Parents. Jason is the current US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and he was in Bozeman as part of a tour in this capacity and heading out to small, rural schools, three of which he visited in Montana. ![]() Not long ago I had the fantastic opportunity to listen to and then meet Jason Reynolds. Posted May 31st, 2022 b & filed under CARRY ME HOME, The Writing Life. There are fun things for kiddos and teachers, so get them now! Send me those CARRY ME HOME goodies before they are gone! And I’m thrilled… Read more » Writing and Reading Empathy Today CARRY ME HOME is out in paperback! If you have bought a copy, here’s your last chance to grab a selection of goodies about the book. Posted August 16th, 2022 b & filed under Book News, CARRY ME HOME. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What does “making pictures with words” mean? Like how you did With the blue-car things And reading-the-small-poems thingsOn the board Typed up They look like Poems And the other kids Are looking at them And they think They really are Poems And they Are all saying Who wrote that? Remember the wheel barrow poem You read The first week Of school? Maybe the wheelbarrow poet Was just Making a picture with words And someone else Like maybe his teacher Typed it up And then people thought It was a poem Because It looked like one Typed up like that. Maybe he was just Making pictures with words About the snowy woods And the pasture- And his teacher Typed them up And they looked like poems So people thought They were poems. Love That Dog: Pages 22-24 January 17th And maybe That’s the same thing That happened with Mr. ![]() Love That Dog By: Sharon Creech Pages 22-59 ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to serving as President in the business of fashion CIO Futures in Fashion Association, and as a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma international business honor society, the Hamilton, MA, native was already running a mission-driven nonprofit with a classmate as a second-year. She wasted no time in gaining experience. Kimball’s rationale was quite clear: “to be best suited to someday lead a thoughtful and sustainable company myself.” Her interest was strongest in learning about impact, ESG investing, and management. ![]() ![]() Alessandra “Ali” Kimball applied to McIntire for a reason that perhaps best exemplifies the Comm School’s “Commerce for the Common Good” initiative: “I wanted to make a positive change in the world and found that the most efficient and powerful way to do that was through business and commerce,” Kimball says. ![]() ![]() Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. ![]() Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. ![]() It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. "Coral Pena's strong delivery is a breath of fresh air.a master of accents and emotion, bringing genuine pathos to the story." ( AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner)įifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, O Magazine, Time, Real Simple, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, Nylon, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, The Millions, InStyle, Bustle, Refinery29, Hello Giggles, AARP, Domino ![]() ![]() This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. One of Esquire Magazine 's 2019 Best Books of the YearĪ Good Morning America Cover to Cover Book Club Pick ![]() ![]() ![]() The film, which starred Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchinson, Fran Kranz and Jesse Williams, played on Hollywood teen slasher-flick tropes (as well as those of other horror movies) and currently boasts a 91% “fresh” rating on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. The Cabin in the Woods, which was co-written by Whedon and Drew Goddard, with the latter also directing, was hailed as a self-reflexive take on the horror genre when it debuted in cinemas three years ago. The key female characters in The Little White Trip: A Night in the Pines are named Julie and Dura, he says, while the film featured protagonists Jules and Dana. Gallagher reportedly printed 7,500 copies of his book and sold them on the street in Santa Monica, Venice Beach and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the end, it is revealed that the friends are being filmed and manipulated by persons behind the scenes, thus becoming inadvertent characters in a real-life horror show for the enjoyment of others.” The cabin’s previous inhabitants were murdered by the father of the family, who returns to terrorise the group of friends. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The classic chronicle of a terribly misguided and terribly funny (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly. The claim continues: “Like the book, Cabin in the Woods tells the story of five friends (three guys and two girls) between the ages of 17 and 22 who take a trip to a remote cabin in the woods. ![]() ![]() I have six books out right now, all of them contemporary slash contemporary romance. Dahlia, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your books? What do you think about 70s music? Thank you so much for sitting down with me today in my galaxy of books. This Saturday Night we welcome Dahlia Adler. The questions will be similar every week, but with a new author every time, and I hope you’ll enjoy the answers as much as I have. ![]() ![]() However, books are my true passion and because of this, I thought it would be a great idea to mix my two loves and start this interview series. I personally love 70s music, especially disco music, and sometimes on Friday nights when no one is looking you can find me dancing to classic 70s songs such as September, Bennie and the Jets and We Are Family. Hi everyone and welcome to my interview series Saturday Night Author Fever, where I interview authors with a bit of a 70s music and diversity theme. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this sequel to President of the Whole Fifth Grade (2010), Winston’s humorous prose captures the spirited preteen voice of an honors student with sass, quick wit, and great ideas. Undaunted, Brianna discovers that in middle school, life doesn’t always go as planned, everything can change in an instant-including best friends-and that change can be a good thing. To make matters worse, a seventh-grade nemesis is determined to sabotage her fundraising efforts. And Brianna fears she might be “the biggest fake of all” in her efforts to keep it all together and not freak out about raising enough money in time for the class trip. Her friends have changed, and it seems like everyone in sixth grade is pretending to be something they aren’t. But fundraising efforts get off to a rocky start, and Brianna finds it hard to relate to her suddenly body-conscious, boy-crazy best friends, Sara and Becks. Class president Brianna Justice learns that in middle school, even the best-laid plans can go awry.īrianna hits the ground running in middle school, tasked with leading her class in raising money for the annual sixth-grade trip to Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() It culminated with Einstein’s radically new vision of the interplay of space, time, matter, energy and gravity, a feat widely revered as one of humankind’s greatest intellectual achievements.Īt the time, general relativity’s buzz was only heard by a coterie of thinkers on the outskirts of esoteric physics. The month leading up to the historic announcement had been the most intellectually intense and anxiety-ridden span of his life. The general theory of relativity, Einstein asserted, was now complete. Days earlier, on November 25, 1915, he had taken to the stage at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and declared that he had at last completed his agonizing, decade-long expedition to a new and deeper understanding of gravity. ![]() It was a hundred years ago this November, and Albert Einstein was enjoying a rare moment of contentment. ![]() ![]() The author seeks to transport the reader to the Indochina of the first decade following World War II through the distorted lens of the then-present, through which the major players and decision makers of the time viewed their respective worlds. This is what Fredrik Logevall accomplishes admirably with Embers of War. More recent studies have sought to paint a broader and more comprehensive picture of that complex war, fitting it into the chaotic and confused world of the early Cold War and the conflicting and often divergent objectives of the major powers of the time (some, like China, were newly emerging others, like France, were rapidly declining). He remains unsurpassed in analyzing the tactical, operational and battlefield leadership aspects of the various actions and operations. Do we really need such books? Can anyone actually tell us more than Fall has already told us? The answer is yes.įall essentially wrote the military history of France’s war in Vietnam-exactly what he intended to do. ![]() In recent years several authors have re-examined this critical period that set the stage for America’s own long involvement in Vietnam. ![]() ![]() Fall’s books Street Without Joy (1961) and Hell in a Very Small Place (1966) were considered the definitive histories of France’s 1946–54 war in Vietnam. ![]() Book Review: Embers of War, by Frederik Logevall CloseĮmbers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall, Random House, New York, 2012, $40įor many years Bernard B. ![]() |