![]() Tenacious, vulnerable, and gritty, Sir Callie is a hero that belongs on every library shelf. ![]() Yet when the three uncover a devious plot to oust Prince Willow as the rightful heir to the throne, the trio teams up with Elowen’s twin brother, Edwyn, to fight the injustices of their world. Callie’s friendship with Elowen, the Chancellor’s magical daughter, and Prince Willow, the crown prince who is being bullied into submission, provides enough hope to continue their fight. Upon arriving in legendary Helston, nonbinary Callie’s ambition is cruelly stifled by the intolerant Chancellor and the palace’s rigid gender norms they are expected to forfeit their sword and practice magic with the girls instead. Gr 5 Up–When their champion knight father is called back to serve the crown, Callie is excited to live out their dream of becoming a knight. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() Annie booked a spur-of-the-moment trip to Seattle to spend time with friends before moving across the globe. He’s crushed on Annie since they were kids, and the stars have finally aligned, putting them in the same city at the same time. has he? When his sister's best friend turns up in Seattle unexpectedly, Brendon jumps at the chance to hang out with her. It’s why he created a dating app to help people find their one true pairing and why he’s convinced “the one” is out there, even if he hasn’t met her yet. Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate.īrendon Lowell loves love. Darcy doesn’t expect her lie to bite her in the ass. ![]() So she fibs and says her latest set up was a success. ![]() Love-and the inevitable heartbreak-is the last thing she wants. ![]() After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book's horrifying denouement offers readers a searing study in the wages of pride. Tensions between Lazaro and Behrani quickly escalate into violence, as Lazaro's lover, a married police officer with a weak spot for lost causes, decides to take matters into his own hands. But when the house's previous occupant, recovering coke addict Kathy Lazaro, resurfaces with valid claims for repossession, Behrani's plan begins to unravel, and with it his tightly controlled facade of composure. At a county auction, he sinks his savings into a bungalow seized for non-payment of taxes, and quickly moves his family into it, planning to resell the house at a sizable profit. Working on a road crew as a ""garbage soldier"" by day and as a deli clerk by night, Behrani is obsessed with restoring his family to the position of glittering wealth and prestige it once enjoyed. Massoud Amir Behrani, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah, now lives in exile with his wife and teenage son near San Francisco. This powerfully written but bleak narrative is a mesmerizing tale of the American Dream gone terribly awry. ![]() ![]() He’s followed by Vera, then by Eliza's bestie, thrice divorced Sylvie Bowen, who has ample reason to be jealous of her old friend. Was he the intended victim, or was she-or was the murderer someone like actress Vera Harrow, whom Brant had dropped 10 years ago to marry Eliza and who wouldn’t much have cared which of them she killed? Eve’s suspicions alight first on Ethan Crommell, a fan who became such a dedicated stalker of Eliza that he was confined to an institution from which he’s recently been paroled. Minutes after giving her champagne cocktail to Brant Fitzhugh to hold while she joins her co-star in an impromptu duet, Eliza Lane-who’s headlining a revival of Upstage, the play that launched her career 25 years ago when Leah Rose’s fatal overdose made her understudy an overnight sensation-is cradling her husband’s body in her lap. ![]() Delia Peabody scouting around for those who might not have considered him quite so beloved. ![]() In 2036, the poisoning of a beloved actor at a swanky party celebrating his actress wife has Lt. ![]() ![]() “A powerful testament to one young Native American’s will to survive his lonely existence. This may be set in the past, however, the same cycles exist today, showing that we have not yet learned the necessary lessons to interrupt the trauma.” ![]() The novel holds a difficult dialogue on intergenerational trauma, the effects of separating children from their Nations, and the perilous outcomes if we do not make urgent changes to the systems forcing American Indians to assimilate and disconnect. ![]() ![]() “A dark, twisting, emotional novel about a teenage Cherokee boy dislocated in the foster care system. “This is a dark story that depicts the loneliness and pain of unwanted children and the foster care system where they end up. this novel breathes with a dark, pulsing life of its own.” “A strange and powerful Native American Bildungsroman. “Set in rural Oklahoma in the 1980s, Hobson's tale reverberates with the hope of connection as it explores Native displacement and loss.” Longlisted for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary PrizeĢ018 Reading the West Book Award Winner for FictionĢ019 In the Margins Book Award Top Fiction Novel Longlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award ![]() Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The men meet her at her estate, as well as her protector-companion, King Rhun of Mona, and a giant named Glew, who had been shrunk to human size after drinking a magic potion. Taran intends to propose to her as soon as he can. Taran travels with Gurgi to Caer Dallben, having learned that Princess Eilonwy is back from the Isle of Mona. The novel begins almost immediately after the end of the previous book, Taran Wanderer. ![]() The High King was considered a powerful ending to the series, especially for its depiction of the hero’s sacrifice and plot resonances with the devastation World War II inflicted on Europe. The book covers the land of Prydain’s final standoff against Arawn and the attempt to install a virtuous High King. The fifth and final installment of the series The Chronicles of Prydain, it borrows from Welsh mythology, following the coming-of-age of Taran as he faces off against a devious autocrat Arawn Death-Lord. The High King is a 1968 epic fantasy novel for young adults by American author Lloyd Alexander. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is there that she finally died of pneumonia, during the occupation of Milan by French revolutionary troops.Īgnesi may be considered a prime example of “Catholic Enlightenment”, an episode in Italian catholicism that tried to re-establish what was considered to be the “authentic church”. ![]() In 1771, she was appointed director of the female section of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio, a new institute in Milan to house the invalids and chronically ill. ![]() ![]() She did well in devout Catholic circles, just as she had been great in the salon of her father. The second part of her life, from 1752 onwards (the year of her father’s death), she turned to charitable work in the parish church and at the local city hospital. During the first part of her life, she spent much of her time discussing science in the salon of her father, and she was considered by many people a talented teacher and an original thinker in the mathematical sciences –in her case the present-day fields of physics and mathematics. Maria Agnesi led her life in service of others. Daughter of Pietro Agnesi (1690?-1752), a very wealthy Milanese silk merchant, and his wife Anna Brivio (1699?-1732). Maria Gaetana Agnesi (born in Milan, – died in Milan, January 9, 1799), famous for her textbook on calculus and her contributions to the discussions in the Milanese salon of her father. ![]() ![]() ![]() From dependency, from victimhood, from miseducation-and the Democrat Party, which perpetuates all three. Instead, Owens offers up a different ideology by issuing a challenge: It’s time for a major black exodus. She contends that the Democrat Party has a long history of racism and exposes the ideals that hinder the black community’s ability to rise above poverty, live independent and successful lives, and be an active part of the American Dream. In Blackout, Owens argues that this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right.īlack Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like, for example, a Black woman is discriminated against not solely for being Black, and not solely for being a woman, but for the intersection of those two identities.Ĭrenshaws framework allows us to see that theres a compounding (and an intersection) of problems. Intersectionality refers to how multiple forms of discrimination – based on your race, gender, or class – can overlap, or intersect, in your experience of the world, and in how youre treated. Shes a Law Professor at UCLA and Columbia Law Schools, and the co-founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum.Ĭrenshaw developed the theory of intersectionality 30 years ago. ![]() So, who knew? Well, actually, a lot of people knew, right? ![]() Oh, my goodness, this is actually playing out in devastating ways in its impact on African-American, Latinx communities, native communities. There was the moment of, oh, my God, there is a racial crisis here. When you look at the way the coronavirus pandemic is playing out in the United Statesthe people that are dying, the people that are out of workand those who are fed up and taking to the streets to protest a racist system, to say Black Lives Matter, how is it all connected? This is Making Contac t, Im your guest-host, Paulina Velasco. ![]() The Lehninger 8e digital program builds on the focus on principles, with resources ideal for in-person lecture-based to fully online courses. Simple integration with your campus LMS and availability through Inclusive Access programs. Easy integration and gradebook sync with iClicker classroom engagement solutions.A detailed gradebook with insights for just-in-time teaching and reporting on student and full class achievement by learning objective. ![]()
|