![]() ![]() He is also the author of PrairyErth and River-Horse. William Least Heat-Moon is the author of the bestselling classics Roads to Quoz, Blue Highways, River Horse, and PrairyEarth. He holds a doctorate in English and a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri. ![]() “William Least Heat-Moon was born of English-Irish-Osage ancestry in Kansas City, Missouri. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at all-only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon Simplicity, Virginia New Freedom, Pennsylvania New Hope, Tennessee Why, Arizona Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.” (from the back cover) “Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. Loved (likely has visible markings from use but is somewhat limited, likely has creases on the cover/pages from use, possible water damage or stains but it is somewhat limited, older books may have brittle pages or other obvious defects from improper storage, still very readable ![]() Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company ![]()
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![]() ![]() "All the circus people were out sick with ear infections," says Olivia. ![]() The heroine adds her signature red accoutrements to her "really boring uniform," then heads to the classroom where it's her turn to tell about her summer ("Olivia always blossoms in front of an audience") she holds both teacher and students (and readers) rapt as she describes her trip to the circus. "This is a big help to her mother," accompanies a picture of utter chaos in the kitchen. Using the same day-in-the-life format as his show-stopping debut ( Olivia), Falconer shows Olivia making pancakes for her two brothers (including new addition William) before school. ![]() Could there be a more ideal place for Olivia than in the center ring under the Big Top? It will come as no surprise to her many fans that this is how Olivia claims to have spent her summer vacation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, this is a gorgeously illustrated introduction to a watershed event. These events can be used as openings for parents to discuss them in more detail with their kids, but the book on its own may be confusing. Copyright © 1968, 1970 by Nikki Giovanni. Various news events, such as the lynching of Emmet Till and freeing of his killers, are mentioned but not explained an author's note would have been welcome. Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa from Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment. And she virtually disappears from the book halfway through. What is the NAACP? What happened to Parks after the police came? There is a vivid picture of a cop confronting her, but her actual arrest is not mentioned. Though the book is aimed at 4- to 8-year-olds, some of the story will go over their heads, and many things are unexplained. ![]() Poet Nikki Giovanni's text is at times preachy, however, and Parks is portrayed as perhaps more than a mere mortal - at times Bryan Collier's art suggests a halo above her. The pictures radiate heat, light, and power. ![]() In paintings that combine watercolor and collage, realistic images of people are set against slightly abstract backgrounds with skewed perspectives. Bold yet detailed, they show Rosa Parks as she was - not an old lady too tired to get up, but a strong young woman tired of oppression. ![]() It's easy to see why ROSA won both the Coretta Scott King Award and a Caldecott Honor - the illustrations are spectacular. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other two characters are Doc (Gregory) and Finney. ![]() Deadline was the first piece of Alcorn’s fiction I’ve read.ĭeadline starts well with a fast-paced scenes setting the foundation of three men’s life-long friendship, all of whom figure prominently in the book, though reporter Jake Woods is the central character. ![]() Coming in at 560 print pages, Heaven is a hefty book, one which I’ve also read. ![]() Alcorn is most well-known for his book Heaven, which explores in detail descriptions of heaven gleaned from all over the Bible, along with quotes and commentary from famous preachers and authors. Here is a review of one of the books I’ve read this summer.įirst published in 1994 and re-released in 2009, I’d bought this book on sale for my Kindle.Īlcorn has written The Treasure Principle, a small book of his that I have and We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon’s Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven which I have read. I’ve been making the most of the time off, after spiritual duties and pleasures, to engage in some of my favorite past-times: reading and movie watching. My summer break from school ends on Monday, when I return to work on July 31. My summer began at Memorial Day and for most people the summer still has 5 weeks to go until Labor Day, the traditional ending of the travel and stay-cation season. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are considering cancelling or wish to cancel a product you have ordered from us, please be aware of the following terms that apply:Īpplicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. ![]() If you are a non-EU customer, please see our returns policy. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Refunds for orders cancelled under the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations will be processed in accordance with your legal rights. If you are a UK/EU consumer, you have the legal right, under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 to cancel your order within twenty eight (28) working days following your receipt of the goods or the date on which we begin provision of the services. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 This fluctuation, however, was not confined merely to political boundaries. In the early modern period, political borders were often in flux, and people were 'strongly aware of the potentially shifting, unstable nature of borders, which are arbitrary and political'. Erauso's Basque origin emerges as a key element for the understanding of her life, and her story becomes a privileged documentation of the Basque experience in America in the early modern era. In Erauso, binary oppositions such as male/female, saint/sinner, Basque/ Spaniard seem to be subsumed. ![]() Both the person and the text are characterized by their defying of categorization. Her autobiography replicates the fluidity of her gender assignment, showing elements from different religious and secular writings. Erauso fled from a convent at age fifteen from then on, she dressed as a man and lived a life of travel, violence, and adventure. ![]() This chapter discusses recent scholarship on Catalina de Erauso-'the Lieutenant Nun'-one of the more controversial figures of the early seventeenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() The publishers of Dumbing Us Down call Gatto’s ideas about education “not easily pigeon-holed,” which is an accurate observation. ![]() “Government schooling,” he charged, “kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.” Gatto announced he was going to quit because he didn’t want to “hurt” kids anymore. Just after receiving the 1991 New York State Teacher of the Year Award, Mr. Gatto, and along with him it lost much of the smokescreen that has enabled it to remain so remarkably unchallenged over the years. He describes the town as “an altogether wonderful place to grow up, even to grow up poor,” a place where “independence, toughness, and self-reliance were honored,” and where, he says, he “learned to teach from being taught by everyone in town.”Ī year and a half ago, the public school system lost Mr. But his “heart and habit,” he asserts in his “Biographical Note,” are still in Monongahela, the small riverside town in Pennsylvania where he spent his early years. ![]() Gatto taught for 26 years in New York City public schools, a number of these years in Harlem and Spanish Harlem. ![]() Gatto and his eye-opening book, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, I must offer first of all a few words on the author himself. If John Taylor Gatto were introducing his book to us, he’d do us the favor of introducing himself first. ![]() ![]() While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. ![]() The #1 New York Times bestseller, Oathbringer is the third volume of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive fantasy epic where humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.ĭalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() What a blooming brilliant concept - an adopted Brooklyn teenager with an uncanny gift for giving life to plants inherits an old mansion from her birth family and becomes embroiled in an ancient ancestral curse. ![]()
![]() ![]() I kept reading this thing hoping that the author would have to course correct at some point. It shows me this author has no clue what she's doing that she would go so incredibly out of her way to make 3 of the 4 men entirely unlikable jerks with NO REDEEMING QUALITIES AT ALL. This is true for dark and lighter romance, for reverse harem, for ANY kind of trope romance out there. Rule number one of writing romance: you want **on some level** your readers to WANT your characters to be together. That begs the question what am I rooting for here as a romance reader? The other three (Enzo, Giovani, Maximus) literally couldn't care less if she dies. None of the male characters in the harem with the exception of one even have any sort of feeling or attraction to the female protagonist. There is NO romantic element whatsoever, even as a dark romance. This is sold as a "reverse harem contemporary romance" when that could NOT be further from the truth. Dark, light, one pairing, reverse harem, etc. ![]() |