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Vassa in the night by sarah porter6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The main character, Vassa, is a little hypocritical, so be warned if you don’t like those traits. Some parts are left for the reader to interpret, which may or may not be to some teens’ interest. I enjoyed the dark and grim aesthetic of this tale, but some parts are a little too fast paced and confusing. The author of this story, Sarah Porter, had a vision and made it come to life with this book. When Vassa is sent to his store to buy products for her sisters, she uses a little magic in the form of talking dolls to escape the dangers of the store. The owner of a local store is very serious about magic and shoplifters, to the point where he beheads those who he thinks steal from his store, even if they didn’t. In Vassa’s neighborhood, magic could be found from any place, but it’s a careful subject where magic is found, you must tread lightly. In this story, Vassa, the protagonist, lives in Brooklyn, a magical kingdom. ![]()
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Freire oppressed6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Freire’s writing is an experiment in bringing out truth.In these opening words Freire introduces the idea of a pedagogy of hope and why it is important Rather, in this book Freire reflects on his original ideas, attempts to answer his critics, clarify his thinking, and share his experience of working with oppressed groups across the world in the intervening 25 years. ![]() Pedagogy of Hope, offers little that is new, other than that hope is essential to a pedagogy of the oppressed. He was considered a subversive by the Brazilian government of the time, and his legacy remains a contentious issue in Brazil today ( Why is the Brazilian Right Afraid of Paulo Freire?) At the time of writing Freire was living in exile in Chile, hence writing in Spanish. In this book published in English in 1994 (originally in Portuguese in 1992), Freire revisits the ideas he first published in his radical text Pedagogy of the Oppressed in 1968, which was translated from Spanish to English in 1970. ![]()
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Fun house alison bechdel6/26/2023 ![]() She comes out at as a lesbian at the age of 19, while she is in college. Bruce's volatile moods fill the Bechdels' home with uncertainty and tension.Īt a young age, Alison feels as though she wants to dress like a boy and during puberty, she discovers that she is attracted to women. Meanwhile, his relationship with his children and his wife is frosty and sometimes violent. Bruce meticulously cares for and improves upon the family's old Gothic revival mansion. Bruce and Helen had been living in Europe, but the death of Bruce's father forced them to return stateside to take over the Bechdels' funeral home business (which is the inspiration for the memoir's title). Young Alison Bechdel lives in Pennsylvania with Helen, Bruce, and her little brothers Christian and John. Bechdel builds the narrative around the tragic event of her father's death. It focuses specifically on her parents, Helen and Bruce, and their role in her life. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel. ![]()
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Virus tropical by Powerpaola6/25/2023 ![]() Gracias a Power Paola por darnos chance de 5. Virus Tropical es una narracion autobiografica que narra la historia de Paola desde el origen de su vida, cuando su madre estaba embarazada hasta sus 18 anos, momento en el que se independiza y se va de la casa que compartia con una de sus hermanas para salir al mundo y hacer su vida.El relato pasa por temas como: la infancia, los amigos, la. ![]() La familia, la libertad, la situación económica, crecer en países de Latinoamérica, amar odiar a tus hermanas, aprender a ser adulta y formarte a través de los ojos de los demás. Virus Tropical es una novela autobiográfica preciosa, a veces parece surreal lo que vemos (que es precisamente acompañado de las ilustraciones) y sin embargo tan cercano. Her hit autobiographical graphic novel, Virus Tropical (), was made into an animated film in The film, directed by Santiago Caicedo, is an original, visually-arresting coming-of-age story and, unsurprisingly, it snatched up several awards at the Buenos Aires International Festival of. PowerPaola is a Quito-born-Cali-raised artist, cartoonist, and writer.We’ve long been fans of Power Paola’s art at Sounds and Colours (she did some of the illustrations for our Sounds and Colours Colombia book!), and her foray into film has only made our Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Santiago Caicedo) is a beautifully-animated coming-of-age film based on Ecuadorian-Colombian artist Power Paola’s autobiographical graphic novel by the same name. > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK <<<< ![]() ![]() _Virus tropical by Power Paola Ebook Epub PDF xbe ![]()
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Book big friendship6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() The book is a timely arrival, as vaccination rollouts and eased social-distancing restrictions spur people to rekindle-or reevaluate-their friendships. (The book is out in the United Kingdom, and will be released in the United States in January.) All of these numbers (and many non-numeric insights about friendship) appear in his new book, Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships. He’s also studied the seven factors people use to evaluate whether someone has the potential to become a friend, and the average number of hours it takes for an acquaintance to become a close friend. For instance, Dunbar’s number turns out to be less like an absolute numerical threshold than a series of concentric circles, each standing for qualitatively different kinds of relationships. ![]() (The proposed number is 150.) But after spending his decades-long career studying the complexities of friendship, he’s discovered many more numbers that shape our close relationships. ![]() The Oxford evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar is best known for his namesake “Dunbar’s number,” which he defines as the number of stable relationships people are cognitively able to maintain at once. ![]()
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![]() Maggie’s half sister, Elise, has disappeared after being saved from a concentration camp, and Maggie is desperate to find her-that is, if Elise even wants to be found. Walking among the enemy is tense and terrifying, and even though she’s disguised in chic Chanel, Maggie can’t help longing for home.īut her missions come first. ![]() Now she’s working undercover for the Special Operations Executive in the elegant but eerily silent city of Paris, where SS officers prowl the streets in their Mercedes and the Ritz is draped with swastika banners. Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. The event will be an onstage interview with historical suspense author Laura Benedict.Īmerican-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series-“a treat for WWII buffs and mystery lovers alike” ( Booklist). The event is co-sponsored by Maryville University. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Main Street Books. ![]() ![]() The program is free and open to the public. Louis County Library Foundation is pleased to present bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal for a discussion and signing of her latest Maggie Hope mystery “The Paris Spy” on Thursday, August 10, at 7:00 p.m. ![]()
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Goodbye mr chips novel6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Based on author James Hilton's experiences as a student at the Leys School, Cambridge, this short novel endures as a revelation of the difference one good teacher can make, and "what the better emotions do toward making people important" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Chips, and provided the basis for two award-winning feature films, a stage musical, a radio play, and two television adaptations. ![]() It was followed by a collection of stories, To You, Mr. Since it was first published in 1934 to international success, Goodbye, Mr. ![]() But Chips has been inspired as well-by the unremarkable and the extraordinary alike, by his colleagues, by a woman who will change him forever, and not least, by his children, "thousands of them, all boys." An episode in the novel in which Kathie argues with Chips that a boy who (it is hinted) has engaged in homosexual activity should be excused (because he is otherwise a nice little boy who was led astray at another school) is quietly dropped. On the night before their wedding, Katherine whispers Good-bye, Mr. James Hiltons classic tale of eccentric school. From his unpolished first years during the Franco-Prussian War through the radical changes of the twentieth century and the outbreak of the First World War, Mr. Chips is taken from an expression that appears twice in the novel. Goodbye, Mr Chips by James Hilton - downloadable audio (9781907416842) published by Canongate 20 April 2006. Throughout his forty-three-year tenure at Brookfield, "a good public school of the second rate" in eastern England, Arthur Chipping has been Mr. ![]()
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The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan6/24/2023 ![]() They had two options: Go directly to a leopard's dinner plate and become the meal, or go into the water. Our ancestors of long ago had to escape the ecological adversities of the African continent. Was it 10 million -years-ago? We may never know as the evidence was lost in the water. And she begins her evolutionary story on the day after we broke-away from the common ancestor humanity shares with the chimpanzees. ![]() Finally one day, Elaine Morgan wrote her book, "The DESCENT of WOMAN". In the next century, philosopher Bronowski followed-up with his book, "The ASCENT of MAN". In the 19th century, Charles Darwin wrote, "The DESCENT of MAN". Women do not hunt in Western culture, so therefore, were never important. And you will also find that there were no women in the evolutionary process. Descend into a new evolutionary perspectiveīefore Australopithecus of 4 million-years-ago, who were the men and women? If you read most literature on the subject, you will find this issue mysteriously omitted as the focus is after the date of the footprints of Laetoli, Africa. ![]()
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Proxima baxter6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() How would it be to live on such a world? Yuri Jones, with 1,000 others, is about to find out. The 'substellar point', with the star forever overhead, is a blasted desert, and the 'antistellar point' on the far side is under an ice cap in perpetual darkness. ![]() Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. ![]() Read more The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun - and (in this fiction), the nearest to host a world, Proxima IV, habitable by humans. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous Galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. How would you survive on a planet that doesn't spin? An awe-inspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth Books The very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. An awe-inspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth Books. ![]()
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Mosquito land book6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "One of the most talked about books of the year" - Teen Vogue "It's a breath of fresh air when a novel like David Arnold's Mosquitoland bucks the usual classifications and stands defiantly alone. like any odyssey worth embarking on, what the heroine-and the reader-finds along the way is far more interesting than we ever could have expected.” - Entertainment Weekly speaks to the sweetness of life, the courage of love and the blinkers that adolescents may need to remove to see what is truly around them." - Wall Street Journal "David Arnold's sparkling, startling, laugh-out-loud debut. "David Arnold combines brio with compassion in this captivating first novel, which holds surprises, big and small, right to the end. Mosquitoland stings in all the right places, which is why it will no doubt be many teenagers' new favorite book and win over the crustiest old-timer, too." - USA Today "Arnold proves his worth as a top-notch storyteller on his first literary go-round, which is reminiscent of Ferris Bueller's Day Off if done by John Hughes with Jack Kerouac. ![]() |