![]() ![]() ![]() Informed by cultural experiences such as Livington's love for Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew and her experiences with the Girl Scouts and Roman Catholicism, this lyrical memoir firmly eschews sentimentality, offering instead a meditation on what it means to hunger and showing that poverty can strengthen the spirit just as surely as it can grind it down. ![]() While struggling to make sense of her world, Livingston perceives the stresses and patterns that keep children-girls in particular-trapped in the cycle of poverty. ![]() Along the way, the young Sonja observes the harsh realities her family encounters, as well as small moments of transcendent beauty that somehow keep them going. From an old farming town to an Indian reservation to a dead-end urban neighborhood, Livingston and her siblings follow their nonconformist mother from one ramshackle house to another on the perpetual search for something better. One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised in areas of western New York that remain relatively hidden from the rest of America. When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through. A memoir of growing up poor and hungry in 1970s western New York: "Like an American version of Angela's Ashes."-Kathleen Norris, New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk ![]()
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Tru can’t tell the truth without revealing the hidden library, and her silence has the police, especially newly returned Jace Bailey, suspicious of her. ![]() After the women spend a night moving books with the help of Tori’s potential new boyfriend, Charlie, morning breaks with a tremendous crash that sends Tru upstairs, where she finds Hargrove squashed under a massive bookshelf. ![]() Nothing daunted, Tru and her friends Tori Green and Flossie Finnegan-Baker have turned unused basement space into a shadow library by rescuing books headed for the town dump and quietly doling them out to technophobic readers. Mayor Goodvale and town manager Duggar Hargrove, determined to turn Cypress into the Silicon Valley of the South, have converted the library into a high-tech space free of books. Trudell Becket is assistant to the formidable Lida Farnsworth at the library in Cypress, South Carolina. James kicks off a new series showcasing a librarian risking all to save her beloved books. ![]() ![]() Hornblower is the fifth and most junior lieutenant. William Bush, who becomes Hornblower's faithful companion and best friend, is introduced boarding HMS Renown as the third lieutenant. ![]() This unusual narrative perspective also allows Forester to sustain a mystery, advanced hint by hint in the course of the novel, about how Captain Sawyer came to be injured-an event possibly witnessed by Hornblower. ![]() This helped Forester to explain Hornblower's unsuitable first marriage besides giving an objective view of Hornblower himself. The book is unique in the series in being told not from Horatio Hornblower's point of view, but rather from Bush's. It is the second book in the series chronologically, but the seventh by order of publication. Lieutenant Hornblower (published 1952) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mischel wrote up his research for general audiences in his 2014 book Marshmallow Test, which championed self-control as the key to success. The Marshmallow Test gained greater recognition after Mischel followed up on his subjects in the 1980–90s, where he found that children who earned the second treat scored significantly higher on their SATs than their counterparts and avoided problems like drug addiction and jail time at greater rates. Some kids ate the marshmallow right away, others couldn’t make it the full waiting period, and about a third earned that second treat. The study showed children hiding their faces, squirming, or engaging in make-believe to help them cope with the temptation. They could eat a treat-often in the form of a marshmallow but also a pretzel or cookie-before them right away or get two treats if they waited 15 minutes, during which time the experimenter would leave the room and observe. ![]() The test placed a choice before children. ![]() The Marshmallow Test was first administered by psychologist Walter Mischel at Stanford University’s Bing Nursery School in 1960. To study the development of self-control and patience in young children, Mischel devised an experiment, “Attention in Delay of Gratification,” popularly called the Marshmallow Test by the 1990s. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time, it will find what was once a caterpillar is now a butterfly-and hell hath no fury like the White Monarch. and selfless enough to make the ultimate sacrifice. Resilient enough to bring down those who would try to destroy it. This is still a story about a love strong enough to topple households, unite enemies, and divide brothers. But nothing could’ve prepared me for Cristiano de la Rosa, his brother’s poison, or the Calavera cartel. ![]() Like the caterpillar that feeds on poison during metamorphosis, I was raised in the dangerous world of cartel crime. Now, I can’t fathom life without my king. I’ve become a queen to the forsaken, a leader to thieves, and the wife of a man who instills fear in all who cross his path. Genre: Contemporary Romance, Dark Romance, Romantic Suspense ![]() ![]() ![]() The passengers disembark, finding that they are no more than shades, translucent ghosts inhabiting the world of the living. On the way up, several minor characters speak to the narrator, including a curly-haired young poet, a man who believes the universe conspires against him, an intelligent man in a bowler hat, and a big belligerent man with little respect for anyone. The bus starts and begins to ascend, rising in the air in a manner quite unlike a bus. Eventually it is revealed that they’re waiting for a bus going up to Heaven, which comes and allows them all entry with plenty of room left over. ![]() The novel opens with the scene of a writer living in a sort of gray, unpleasant city (Hell), standing in a long queue. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a story about acceptance and friendship, and a love born out of the most unexpected of places. ![]() The last thing she ever expected was to meet someone who makes her laugh like no other. 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If you loved From Lukov with Love – the sensational TikTok hit that is captivating readers all over the world – then you don’t want to miss any of Mariana’s unique romances! No one writes slow burn like Mariana Zapata and her millions of fans agree! Mariana Zapata is a New York Times, USA Today, and a multiple No. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then there is the even more unsettling realization that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are unable or unwilling to share his concerns, polite as they may be to his face.Īnd then comes the election of Donald Trump, and the emergence of one horrific piece of news after another about the malign ends to which the Facebook platform has been put. ![]() ![]() First there is the author's dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alypius wrote to Paulinus and sent him some of Augustine's works. One purpose of the Confessions, then, was to defend himself against this kind of criticism, by explaining how he had arrived at his Christian faith and demonstrating that his beliefs were truly Christian.Īnother motivation may have been a bit of correspondence between Augustine's close friend Alypius and a notable Christian convert, Paulinus of Nola, a Roman aristocrat who had renounced the world and his immense family fortune upon converting to Christianity. ![]() In the midst of Augustine's prominent role in the Donatist controversies, he was suspected both by his Donatist enemies and by wary Catholic allies. Augustine's precise motivation for writing his life story at that point is not clear, but there are at least two possible causes.įirst, his contemporaries were suspicious of him because of his Classical, pagan-influenced education his brilliant public career as a rhetor and his status as an ex-Manichee. Augustine probably began work on the Confessions around the year 397, when he was 43 years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not that the Brooklyn-born teenager, geek and academic overachiever is greatly surprised by the discovery, having by this point already graduated from Brakebills, a secret Ivy League college of magic, as a master of the mystical arts. Fictional, that is, until Quentin discovers that the beloved Fillory and Further novels of his youth are factual accounts of a real magical realm. But without doubt, the Milllenials out there who grew up with the works of JK Rowling are at this moment gleefully shouting: HOGWARTS! HOGWARTS! HOGWARTS!įor Quentin Coldwater, protagonist of Grossman's stupendous urban fantasy novels, the choice is Fillory, a fictional world within the fantasy of The Magicians. ![]() Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians and its sequel, The Magician King, might well choose that other classic of British fantasy literature, the Narnia of CS Lewis. I f you could journey to any fantasy world, which would it be? I, like many millions of others, would have to choose JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth – although, given the option, I'd divide my time between Gondor and Rivendell, and skip the guided tours of Moria and Mordor. ![]() |