![]() ![]() Gabe’s silence around Lea seems overplayed, but this is a small quibble with what is overall a fun, light romance that will appeal to male and female readers alike. In a progressive series of month-by-month vignettes, their creative writing teacher, college classmates, roommates and friends, a coffee shop barista, diner waitress, bus driver, and even the resident park bench and squirrel relate their impressions and conversations with the protagonists as they take part in a “one step forward, two steps back” dance of attraction and avoidance. The magnetic pull is so strong, in fact, that everyone they come in contact with can feel it, and it is through Gabe and Lea’s interactions with others that their stories unfold. But Gabe is painfully shy and full of self-doubt, and Lea is so lacking in confidence that neither of them can give voice to the obvious chemistry that radiates between them. They share a love of creative writing, watch the same TV reruns, order the same Chinese take-out on the same nights, and repeatedly wind up in the same place at the same time as if by magic. ![]() Synopsis: Gr 9 Up-If ever two people should get together, it’s Gabe and Lea. ![]()
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![]() The 1934 Committee’s goal was to craft policies of economic security to provide a level of protection commensurate with the economic hazards of the times. “A program of economic security, as we vision it, must have as its primary aim the assurance of an adequate income to each human being in childhood, youth, middle age, or old age-in sickness or in health.” - Report to the President of the Committee on Economic Security The programs created during the New Deal Era reflected the Committee’s work, which was aimed at a singular goal – assured income: Whether they knew it at the time, the members and staff of the Committee stood at the outset of a new era of political economy. In June of 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Committee on Economic Security with the mandate to craft policy proposals that would provide “security against several of the great disturbing factors in life ” for all U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Addressing Economic Insecurity in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Mirroring how Holmes occasionally lets a guilty party go free due to extenuating circumstances.) Besides cameo references to Holmes in multiple stories, the final story pits England’s greatest detective against France’s greatest burglar (though in a way that mostly allows each to retain an unblemished record and mutual admiration.) Moriarty as “the Sherlock Holmes of crime,” Lupin operates by a code, eschewing senseless violence, carefully targeting his victims, and returning items he feels inappropriately taken. Like Holmes, he’s extremely intelligent, gifted in observation, with deep insight into human nature, and with a range of practical skills from hand-to-hand combat to disguise, but Lupin puts these talents to use for the purpose of theft. ![]() While some of the nine stories reference others, they each read standalone.Īrsène Lupin is the Sherlock Holmes of crime. ![]() This is a beautifully illustrated edition of the first collection of stories featuring the fictional burglar-extraordinaire, Arsène Lupin. Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief by Maurice Leblanc ![]() ![]() ![]() Butt-Monkey: Constantly being teased, bullied, or embarrassed.Break the Cutie: Her friends' bullying comes to a head when they pull her skirt off, causing her to run to the bathroom crying. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t like anything else we’d gotten in canon books at that point. When I first read Twilight Company - the book based on the newest Battlefront game and another of Alexander Freed‘s Star Wars titles - I had a hard time getting into it. Shadow Fall takes Star Wars battles to the next level But this time, the stakes are higher, and staying together might not be the strength they’ll be able to rely on for survival. ![]() Now Alphabet Squadron is going after Shadow Wing again. We watched them struggle to work together and get along, their clashing personalities and haunting pasts preventing them from working together as a team. We spent the entirety of the last book in the trilogy getting to know the mismatched members of what would come to be known as Alphabet Squadron. These pilots have an important mission to complete - one that could cause a chain reaction that breaks down what remains of the Empire for good. Which is where Alphabet Squadron comes in. The New Republic and the Empire still fought for years to gain full control of the galaxy. What many fans still don’t know is that the Empire didn’t disappear into the Unknown Regions immediately after Palpatine’s demise - not all of it, anyway. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s sad, but it’s even sadder that two men would give up a wife and kids to have sex with another guy what was it he said? Every 4 years for 20 years? And then call it love. This book sympathizes with the gay man not being able to go public. If you don’t like your wife, get a new one.or get a husband. If you don't like your job, get a new one. If you don't like your house, get a new one. It’s still cheating, but it seems almost better than foregoing a life you chose. We see this a lot in stories from other countries where there are arranged marriages and people find their true love outside of it. It's your typical type of love story with lots of nudity involved, but on top of that adultery is taught to be okay as long as no one knows about it…especially the wives. Homosexuality is more accepted among people today, but the real problem for the people that get over it is what this story portrays. One of the most controvertial books of the centuryīoth the movie and the book contain a lot of scenic character, both in a good and bad way. ![]() ![]() Louisa, despite her trepidations, has partly subsidized May’s European studies, but she eventually demands May come home to help care for their ailing mother. ![]() Determined to prove Louisa wrong, May dodges a serious suitor and signs up for rigorous art classes, first in Boston, then in Europe, where she mingles with other artists (some real, like Mary Cassatt, others fictional or composites). Louisa, meanwhile, sees May as a high-spirited dilettante, dedicated to having fun. But the press has sharply criticized her illustrations for her sister's book. May longs to be taken seriously as an artist. ![]() ![]() Louisa is on her way to literary superstardom a driven, prolific writer, she will become the breadwinner for her impoverished New England family. The story begins with the 1868 publication of Little Women, which fictionalized the lives of all four Alcott sisters. A mix of history and imagination, this debut novel focuses on May Alcott, the model for Amy in Little Women and youngest sister of the book’s widely chronicled author, Louisa May Alcott. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Fie doesn't agree without securing something of value for her people that will last generations.įans of The Hunger Games will find many similarities in The Merciful Crow – an angsty teenage heroine who finds herself in the middle of a plot to overthrow the current system, various populations where some groups are more privileged than others, and an evil ruler with terrifying groups of powerful people in her corner. But when the Prince and his body double fake their own deaths to overthrow his stepmother the queen, Fie and her clan have no choice but to escort them to safety for them to achieve that goal. slicing their throats and disposing the bodies) to which they are immune. ![]() ![]() The Merciful Crow duology entails a world where population groups and occupations are based off of bird species, and her clan's job as Crows is to deliver mercy to anyone touched by a contagious plague (e.g. Fie is a teenager set to become the next Chief of her clan, following the footsteps of her mentor and father figure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Small's memoir charts the author's early life to the age of sixteen, growing up in a frightening and emotionally distant family. As Small's memoir reveals, such withholding marks one important way in which culture can disable some people with illnesses by turning them into voiceless, infantilized objects of medical knowledge that cannot be trusted to be informed subjects. Largely told through the eyes of a thirteen year old suburban Detroit boy facing throat cancer and the near total loss of his voice, the book is a black and white exploration of the consequences that may befall some people with physical impairments when information about their bodies is withheld from them. ![]() ![]() Do children have a right to know about what is going on in their own bodies? Should parents tell a sick child just how sick he or she is or should they shield their children from such information? And if parents do hide the truth, what consequences can that deception have for a child frightened by the mysteries of the medical establishment, by the changes she sees happening to her body, and by the recognition that her parents are keeping something important from her? These questions structure both the story and the art in David Small's illuminating graphic narrative memoir, Stitches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to writing, Summers worked as a fashion model for over fifteen years. Along with her fiction, she has also written, edited, and collected several works about social activism and the hidden history of African-American women. SIDELIGHTS:īarbara Summers is a writer and educator with a background in the beauty industry. (Editor and author of introduction) Open the Unusual Door: True-Life Stories of Challenge, Adventure, and Success by Black Americans, Graphia (Boston, MA), 2005. ![]() Skin Deep: Inside the World of Black Fashion Models, Amistad (New York, NY), 1999.īlack and Beautiful: How Women of Color Changed the Fashion Industry, Amistad (New York, NY), 2001. The Price You Pay (novel), Amistad (New York, NY), 1993. Nouvelle Soul: Short Stories, Amistad (New York, NY), 1992. (Editor) Brian Lanker, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, Stewart, Tabori & Chang (New York, NY), 1989. Formerly worked as a high-fashion model for Ford Models. City University of New York, New York, NY instructor in English composition. ![]() Office-Barbara Summers, Open the Unusual Door, Park West Station, P.O. attended Yale University and University of Paris, Sorbonne. Education: University of Pennsylvania, B.A. Born September 6, 1944, in Springfield, MA. ![]() |