When Officer 115 steps away to his own vehicle, Khalil walks to the driver’s side door to check on Starr. He tells Khalil to keep his hands on the car. The policeman, Officer 115, tells Khalil to get out of the car and pats him down several times in an attempt to find drugs or weapons. They run to Khalil’s car and drive away.Īs Khalil and Starr leave the party, they are pulled over by a police officer. When shots ring out at the party, she and Khalil assume that the gun violence is yet another skirmish between the local gangs called the King Lords and the Garden Disciples. He’s wearing really expensive clothes and jewelry, which upsets Starr because she knows it means he’s become a drug dealer. Her evening brightens when her childhood friend Khalil comes over to talk to her. She doesn’t know anyone else at the event. When she goes to a spring break party in Garden Heights with her friend Kenya, she feels uncomfortable. Starr Carter lives in the predominantly black suburb of Garden Heights, but has attended Williamson, a predominantly white prep school, for six years.
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Suddenly Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth. But before the baron can deliver on his tantalizing vow to reveal the secrets he has concealed for decades, he is found murdered. Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stokera reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.īut fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiryand the occasional romantic dalliance. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victorias golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. In her thrilling new series, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries, returns once more to Victorian England and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell. In his 2014 book Welcome to Subirdia, Seattle-based author and researcher John M. “Nature” has long been seen as something separate from people, even as development and urbanization increasingly blend human and natural habitats. We’ll allow for about an hour of book discussion (starting at 6:30 p.m.) followed by a neighborhood bird walk (starting ~7:30 p.m.) during which attendees can experience, observe, and discuss suburban birds and their habitats. The new date, near the summer solstice, means that there is enough daylight to both talk about the book and observe birds in subirdia. This is a rescheduling of a book discussion originally planned in January but postponed due to winter weather. Some may wish to draw a clear line between their professional work as an academic and their fiction, or, more broadly, between their public and personal lives. Some authors carefully choose names in order to distinguish between the types of writing they do, such as using one name for genre fiction and another for middle grade. Some authors go this route for anonymity’s sake, whether that’s motivated by a desire for privacy or a preference to let the work stand on its own. A pen name, sometimes called a pseudonym or nom de plume, is an assumed name used by an author instead of their real name. What are the reasons an author might make such a choice, and why was it done in this specific instance? Perhaps it’s human nature: I’m always intrigued when an author chooses to write under a name other than their own, or opts to remain completely anonymous. “If he meant to be Everyman,” Lepore writes, “she is everyone else.” Ben was a philosopher, printer, scientist, inventor, revolutionary, diplomat, bon vivant and man of letters. With her extraordinary look at “this most ordinary of lives,” Lepore lets us glimpse both another side of Franklin and an early America with its debtors’ prisons, “dark, tallow-lit rooms” and talk of revolution. Too often history is the story of famous battles and leaders. So in her scholarly, engaging way she pieced together little-studied documents, public records and letters to tell the story of the sister, six years his junior, who was Ben Franklin’s lifelong confidante and anchor to the past. Brands’ “The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin,” and in 1950 she was the subject of a biography by Carl Van Doren.īut Lepore believes her job is to keep alive our memory as Americans. Oh, letters to and from Jane Franklin pop up in works like H.W. And in her exhaustively researched, enchanting “Book of Ages,” the Harvard professor of American history calls from the shadows a remarkable woman we scarcely knew existed. Jill Lepore (“The Mansion of Happiness”) is a marvelous, maverick historian. I particularly enjoyed the repetition of “And there” in the first stanza. From striking word choices to alliteration littered throughout the poem, it’s easy on the ears. If you haven’t caught on to Silverstein’s message, don’t worry it’s easy to get lost in the rhythmic flow of this poem. Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,Īnd we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,įor the children, they mark, and the children, they know We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,Īnd watch where the chalk-white arrows go Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black Enjoy!Īnd there the grass grows soft and white,Īnd there the moon-bird rests from his flight It requires some thought of course, but what good poem doesn’t? One of my high school teachers made us read a poem twice to really take it in I recommend the practice. Despite this, he made sure to put a significant amount of adult material in his poems. He often tried to have his poems be “child friendly” if you will, to get more children liking poetry. He wrote songs and drew cartoons, and wrote many children’s books. Silverstein grew up in Chicago, and a lot of his work revolved around deconstructing serious everyday things. This week’s review will be a poem by Shel Silverstein. From crossbow-wielding marines and heavyweight frontline fighters to ex-assassins and necromancers, its soldiers are both the heart and the backbone of this series. The Malazan army is a motley conglomeration of races, cultures, genders and skillsets. But Gardens of the Moon takes place in the field, so here’s a quick rundown of the imperial army’s key players: ONEARM’S HOST But beneath the chip on her shoulder and the trappings of authority, she’s just a woman doing her job. Lorn wears the Adjunct’s traditional rust-coloured, magic-deadening sword, so there’s no danger of not being recognised (and feared) wherever she goes. Adjunct Lorn is the public face, voice, and sword arm of the Empress, and is fiercely loyal to Laseen (like, Brienne of Tarth-scale loyalty). If the Clawmaster is Laseen’s hidden left hand, the Adjunct is undoubtedly his counterpart. Commands a faction of elite assassins known as the Claw who, loyal to Empress Laseen, played an important role in her bloody coup. Unhealthily obsessed with the colour green. until the night she assassinated the previous Emperor, Kellanved, along with others belonging to the Emperor’s ‘Old Guard’-including his chief adviser, Dancer. ‘Hunger’: Empress Laseen by Shadaan Empress Laseenįormerly known as Surly. If I had not lamed Annie, damn my stupidity, she could have carried me swiftly into the forest and away-but as it was, we did not have much time. Thanks to his warning, when next I heard the rhythm of hooves on stone, I turned aside from the track. That rough, dirty, greedy rascal of a horse trader was a gentleman compared to what lay ahead. Springer lives in East Berlin, Pennsylvania. Her most recent series include the Tales of Rowan Hood, featuring Robin Hood’s daughter, and the Enola Holmes mysteries, starring the much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. Field award, various Children's Choice honors and numerous ALA Best Book listings. Springer's children's books have won her two Edgar Allan Poe awards, a Carolyn W. Her novels and stories for middle-grade and young adults range from contemporary realism, mystery/crime, and fantasy to her critically acclaimed novels based on the Arthurian mythos, I AM MORDRED: A TALE OF CAMELOT and I AM MORGAN LE FAY. In a career beginning shortly after she graduated from Gettysburg College in 1970, Springer wrote for ten years in the imaginary realms of mythological fantasy, then ventured on contemporary fantasy, magical realism, and women's fiction before turning her attention to children's literature. Nancy Springer has published forty novels for adults, young adults and children. ISBN: RECALLED BY LIFE: The Story of My Recovery from Cancer (Japanese Text) Anthony J Sattilaro Tom Monte Keiichi Ueno. 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You will receive an updated email confirmation along with your seating location. Once your tickets are purchased, the Box Office will move your tickets to the seating of the Mainstage before your selected performance date. Vogel’s play spotlights those who have risked their careers and lives to reveal the truths behind this incendiary drama. Indecent, written by Paula Vogel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is a deeply moving and liberating story based on the true events surrounding the play The God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, where the producer and cast were arrested and convicted for obscenity for showing love between two women on stage. Indecent is a battle cry for resistance - an emotional, unfettering tale of the transformative pull of art, revealing that storytelling can be the light in the darkest of times. This show contains moments of violence, moments of sexual intimacy and references to the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. |