![]() ![]() ![]() I wonder how teachers might address concerns from students and families who see the book as biased, or who feel more sympathetic to officer one-fifteen? Some students (and teachers) may relate more to characters like Hailey…how do we address this in our classrooms in a way that helps everyone grow?.Thomas helps us understand other complex issues by having the adult characters explain things to Starr, but I felt like the riots weren’t explored enough, and this is an issue that I think white America still needs help understanding. I wish there could have been more discussion of the rioting, and of the characters’ understanding of it. ![]() I appreciated the opportunity to get to know people like DeVante and Khalil and hear the stories of how they ended up getting involved with gangs and selling drugs, which painted a much more complex, nuanced picture of how some young people end up doing these things. I appreciated the fact that we get to know characters who are so often represented by stereotypes.I think this is an incredibly important book that can be used as a springboard for talking about race relations, law enforcement, and the Black Lives Matter movement. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Offers readers more than enough reasons to make the Brides of Beadwell a must-read.” - RT Book Reviews “Smart, sharp and insightful, ushering readers into a detailed historical setting, and right into the middle of an emotional and utterly rewarding romance . . . **Winner of the 2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award for Digital Historical Romance ** Her fate is now in his hands, but her heart may not be safe . . . In fact, John has no intention of letting her go. But though Emma happily grants him his freedom, her fiery beauty and resilient spirit hold him captive. John needs a wife capable of smoothing his beloved sister’s introduction into society. ![]() ![]() Now, as the new Duke of Worley, his shocking resurrection throws the ton into a tizzy and makes him one of England’s most sought-after bachelors-except that he's already engaged. Rumor has it that John ran off to war and died in battle. And what she knows is that London society holds nothing for her. Since then, she’s grown from a shy, uncertain girl to a woman who knows her own mind. Lady Emmaline Shaw’s reputation was irreparably damaged when her fiancé, John Brantwood, disappeared immediately after their engagement four years ago. An inconvenient engagement turns a marriage of convenience into so much more in this award-winning Regency romance series opener. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the prolific Bennett is better known in America for his plays and screenplays (his Tony Award–winning play, The History Boys, was made into a movie in 2007), his subtle wit and tonal command show why he is so beloved in his native Britain. And another, until reading has become her life’s focus. ![]() Yet an unlikely incident involving her dogs and a mobile library making its weekly appearance outside Buckingham Palace moves her to borrow a book. She has never been a reader, because reading isn’t something that “one” (as she invariably refers to herself) does. In a country of commoners, the uncommon reader is the Queen. A royal fable celebrating the transformative properties (and a few of the unsettling consequences) of reading as an obsession. ![]() ![]() Release+Giveaway | Signs of Life by Selene Castrovilla.The Suspects of THE DARKEST LIE by Pintip Dunn | Release+Giveaway.Tour+Giveaway | Rough Romance Trilogy by Selene Castrovilla.Release+Giveaway | Chasing Impossible by Katie McGarry.Top 10 Summer Reads by Lara Avery (The Memory Book).Interview with Beth Lewis, author of THE WOLF ROAD.Interview with Mark Perini (You Before Anyone Else).Release Blitz | UNKNOWN by Wendy Higgins.Roald Dahl 100 Celebratory Blog Tour | THE MAGIC FINGER.Release+Giveaway | REMEMBER YESTERDAY by Pintip Dunn. ![]() Release+Giveaway | BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES by Yvonne Ventresca.Review: THIS ADVENTURE ENDS by Emma Mills.How I Write: Abigail Johnson (IF I FIX YOU).Cover Reveal: CURSING FATE by Brenda Drake.Sale Blitz | TOUCHING FATE by Brenda Drake.Book Birthday + Giveaway | CURSING FATE by Brenda Drake.Chapter Reveal+Giveaway | LONG WAY HOME by Katie McGarry.Release+Giveaway | LONG WAY HOME by Katie McGarry.Release+Giveaway | Guardian of Secrets by Brenda Drake. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a reader I didn't care that he just brushed by her, because I felt like her recital was just there to get him up the mountain. I mostly felt that the girl was incidental to the story in Cream. Mod Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "I mean, he's centering a story around this girl from his past, but he can't remember her name. Since I'm doing music for this reread, I searched for four hands piano pieces by Mozart and this is what I got. (Thanks to Yeats always for permanently lodging disintegrating spirals in my mind.) So the center of the story doesn't quite hold, at least for me. I'll talk save that for when we get to that story.)Īll that said, am I being obtuse for just imagining a spiral when he talks about a circle with many centers and no circumference? Because I think a spiral fits fine and I didn't think it was that hard. (And rereading this also makes the story "First Person Singular" even more of a gut punch. But as the opener to the whole collection? Holy wow. I still wouldn't say that Murakami did anything particularly amazing inside this specific story. ![]() But now rereading it after my first read of the collection, it lights me on fire. I just reread "Cream" and I have to say that this story annoyed the daylights out of me the first time I read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like any comic that portrays people’s actual lives, Bargiela has sought out real women to talk about their experience with autism, specifically the obstructions to diagnosis and what getting what meant to them, especially in the context of the ways they learned to cope before ever getting confirmation. ![]() It’s the personal stories of women with autism and the insight they provide. Now you may wonder how such a dry subject - interesting, definitely, but dry - can translate into a graphic novel form in a manner that makes it worth picking up even if autism is not something that either personally affects your life, or at least is an area of interest already.Įasy. However, Bargiela suggests there may be other issues, including differences in the manifestations autism between men and women that aren’t taken into account and lead to misdiagnosis, as well as differences in the way women cope with the symptoms. ![]() ![]() ![]() As compulsively readable as it is tender and potent, this is a fresh, engaging novel about the innocence of youth and how it clashes with culture and expectation. Many will see The Death of Vivek Oji as a departure from Freshwater in that this is a deeply accessible novel suffused with family life and a tragedy sits squarely at its heart, but it speaks to Akwaeke's earlier work in its call to gender fluidity and the pain of adolescence lived beyond binary constructions of sexuality. ![]() It begins with his end, his body shrouded on his mother's doorstep, and moves backwards through time to tell us the story of Vivek's life and the mystery surrounding his death. ![]() Vivek Oji: utterly captivating, complex, mercurial and profoundly connected to those who come to understand him. The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi € 19.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 4 weeks ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a source of pleasure and intimacy, and is integral to many people’s self-identity. ![]() Third, and finally, it looks at responses to these threats at both the individual and societal level and argues that although we shouldn’t encourage an attitude of ‘helplessness’ among the users of algorithmic tools there is an important role for legal and regulatory responses to these threats that go beyond what are currently on offer. Second, it evaluates and disputes the claim that we shouldn’t overestimate these new threats because the technology is just an old wolf in a new sheep’s clothing. First, it argues that autonomy is indeed under threat in some new and interesting ways. What consequences does this have for individual autonomy and how should our legal and regulatory systems respond? This chapter defends three claims by way of response. Many of us make use of these tools in our daily lives, using them to solve personal problems and fulfill goals and ambitions. ![]() They do so by affecting the options with which we are presented and the choices that we are encouraged or able to make. We live in a world in which ‘smart’ algorithmic tools are regularly used to structure and control our choice environments. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A celebration of African American cuisine right now, in all of its abundance and variety. Woven into it are profiles of chefs, bartenders, home cooks, nutritionists, cooking school teachers, and activists, illuminating Black American food history from the early days of the American Revolution to today. Adapted from historical texts and rare African-American cookbooks, the 125 recipes of Jubilee paint a rich, varied picture of the true history of African-American cooking- a cuisine far beyond soul food. Jubilee is as much a history book as a cookbook. "The gift that the cookbook authors give us is validation to convince the broader community that our story existed and that it mattered," Tipton-Martin says, of the legacy of Black chefs and home cooks, and their written recipes and stories. Harris, and combed through the library of Afro-Latino historian and writer Arturo Schomburg, which was purchased by the New York Public Library after his death on June 10, 1938. For Jubilee, she reexamined her collection, the writings of Dr. Among several prominent historians who have documented this culinary legacy, Tipton-Martin collected hundreds of cookbooks by Black American authors these formed the foundation for her previous book, The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks. ![]() ![]() And yet over the years we have had a very scruffy, very grey Ustinov, a frankly insane Albert Finney, BRANAGH who is a ginger swot, and then of course, the divine and rather perfect David Suchet who for my money is the only one that comes close. Poirot takes great pride in his appearance, from his immaculately groomed BLACK MOUSTACHE to his patent leather shoes. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side…The neatness of his attire was almost incredible I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.” Described the first time by Hastings, Poirot is/was ‘…hardly more than five feet four inches but carried himself with great dignity. ![]() It’s when you meet the Poirot interpretations that you really find some diversity – for a character so clearly written. ![]() He just loves a Sunday afternoon Christie session (he doesn’t really). Even the Tommys and Tuppences, although I’m less bothered by them. ![]() My long-suffering boyfriend has had to sit through them all the Marples – Margaret Rutherford, Joan Hickson, Geraldine McEwan, Angela Lansbury and most recently the lovely Julia McKenzie (hard to pick a favourite but possibly McKewan) – and the Poirots. ![]() Sam Harrington-Lowe explores the new Poirot adaptation…Īs a self-confessed Agatha Christie nut I’m always excited when new versions hit the screen. The excitement of a new Agatha Christie is somewhat tempered by worry over the lack of moustache. ![]() |