![]() ![]() However it happened, once I entered the sunny world of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, I didn't want to leave.īecause I've always been one to follow the rules, I started with #1, Double Love, where both Jessica and her twin sister Elizabeth are vying for the same guy, Todd Wilkins, the star of the basketball team. ![]() Maybe I was attracted to the fact that it was a series, the promise of infinitude in those ivory spines lined up along a shelf, the promise that I could not only escape into the world of a book, but that I could escape for a long time, as long as the series kept expanding. I was in fifth grade when I discovered the books, although I don't remember how. ![]() And people nod in approval.īut the answer I don't usually give is that my favorite books, the ones I read and re-read until the covers were creased and the pages were loosed from the spine, were Sweet Valley High. I tell them about my brilliant fourth-grade teacher, Miss Artis, who assigned us Johnny Tremain and Where the Red Fern Grows and Tuck Everlasting, all books that made an impression on me. ![]() Often, when people ask me what I read as a young girl, I lie. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sweet Valley High Subtitle Three Novels: Double Love/Secrets/Playing with Fire Author Francine Pascal ![]()
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![]() ![]() Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to support it. ![]() "Every economics textbook says the same thing- Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. ![]() ![]() Prior to the first team appearing on stage at 1730, Laura Wright will perform a couple of tracks fresh from her nationwide tour and from her latest album “Sound of Strength”.ĭiary permitting Laura will also take part in the official media ride previewing Stage One during late May, before taking on the ultimate challenge for SportsAid of riding the opening stage ahead of the world’s top riders, starting early on the early morning of Wednesday 17 June and riding a Vitus bike, kindly provided by the race’s Official Bicycle Brand Vitus. The event will come at the end of an afternoon of events and activities in Bury St Edmunds, building up to the team presentation which will take place at the Arc shopping centre, outside The Apex theatre, the evening before Stage One departs from Angel Hill in the town.Ī new addition to the Friends Life Women’s Tour for 2015, the Team Presentation will give spectators the chance to see each of the 16 competing teams presented to the crowds, hear the riders interviewed as well as meeting the star names from teams such as Boels Dolmans, Wiggle Honda and Bigla Pro Cycling for photographs and autographs. ![]() ![]() Million selling album soprano Laura Wright, the England rugby team’s first ever official anthem singer, who hails from Framsden in Suffolk, will open the team presentation for the 2015 Friends Life Women’s Tour on Tuesday 16 June. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:harrydirtydog00zion_0:lcpdf:44d0ee70-7998-4509-894c-c43fd5f6bd10 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier harrydirtydog00zion_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6j13fc1p Invoice 11 Isbn 9780060268657Ģ002728304 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary O元671112M Openlibrary_edition The cavorting canine that captured childrens hearts in the classic book Harry the Dirty Dog, written by Gene Zion and wonderfully illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham, has been sharing his adventures with children for over 50 years. ![]() It can be used as both a direct instruction activity or as skill practice at a literacy station or reading center. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:53:30 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1130422 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. Harry the Dirty Dog - Sequencing / Retelling Created by Mike Creel This activity has been designed to enhance student understanding for sequencing story events as per the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). ![]() ![]() ![]() The Keers represent the first generation of Indians who consciously decided against having children. That’s probably the only decision we agreed to together,” says Keer, who works as a brand manager with a fashion company in Dubai. Somewhere during our courtship, my husband - now 50, and a professional photographer based out of Dubai - suggested the idea of going child-free. “Initially, we discussed adoption instead of having our own children. A courtship period, which lasted for 12 years, was followed by an exchange of vows in 1995. A chance meeting with Ajay Keer whilst training - they were both track and field athletes - developed into romance when she was merely 13 and he, 15. An insight into “how women in desperate conditions left their newborns,” profoundly impacted her, something which lingered on, prompting her to embark on her special journey. For Christina Keer, 48, her visits to Mother Theresa’s Ashram during her formative years in Mumbai turned into a moment of reckoning. ![]() ![]() A teenage rendezvous can leave an indelible imprint in the mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a marvelous, unparalleled feat of imagination. The Ambergris trilogy is made up of three novels, each of which has become a cult classic in its own right: City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch. The city is bursting at its seams, seemingly held together only by the tense, fraying tendrils of his investigation. Ultimately, the fate of Ambergris comes to lie in the hands of John Finch, a beleaguered detective with a murder on to solve and too many loyalties for one man to bear. There are stories within stories, mystery, mayhem, and a dark history that threatens to consume the city itself as the gray caps, the mysterious and deadly mushroom people who once ruled Ambergris and have since been driven underground, now threaten to rise again. Ambergris bristles with intellectual fervor and religious rivalries it thrives on cultural upheaval, and its politics are never short on intrigue, conspiracy, and even terror. More than twenty years ago, Jeff VanderMeer first introduced the world to the fictional city of Ambergris, a beautiful and sinister sprawling metropolis populated by artists and thieves, composers and murderers, geniuses and madmen. ![]() From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy. ![]() ![]() (I should mention that one aspect of Jenna’s story is that she’s gay – it wasn’t really made a big deal of, it’s just a fact – but her backstory has to do with her first love and she has a bit of a romance in the series.) I loved that these two shared a true, deep friendship that, even when it was tested for various reasons, stayed strong! Jenna wasn’t just a secondary character, pushed to the sidelines, she was incredibly fleshed out and had depth and a story of her own. First off, there was Jenna, Sophie’s vampire best friend.
![]() Wollstonecraft pinpointed the role of gendered phrases and concepts in political discourse, both in her opponents’ metaphors and received ideas and in her own efforts to craft a new political language with which to defend women’s capabilities. She considers how Wollstonecraft balanced advocacy for the seemingly universal ideals of the French Revolution with analysis of the gendered exclusions in the vaunted rights of “man.” This book pays particular attention to Wollstonecraft’s literary craft, highlighting the force of her close reading. Wolfson places this polemic in its political and literary contexts and in relation to Wollstonecraft’s other works about political rights. Wolfson offers new insight into how Wollstonecraft’s particular methods, style, and energy make this case for her readers. Drawing on extensive experience teaching and writing about Wollstonecraft, Susan J. Emerging from the turbulent decade of the French Revolution, her vindication delivered a systematic critique of the treatment of women across time and place. ![]() Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. ![]() ![]() He intoned liturgically." This is a novel that is good for thinking. ![]() The characters move about the rooms of a small house as if in a masque, speaking dialogue handed to them from above, and DeLillo even tells us this: "He chanted the words. In fact, its one dramatic event is a heavily outlined non-event. This is an aerated novel that wants to be a condensed, stylized short story, or maybe even a play. Truth be told, at 117 pages, it feels a little long. So I'm glad to report that Point Omega is a pleasure, if a fleeting one. I couldn't bring myself to read Falling Man. The Body Artist was puzzling and vaguely mortifying. ![]() But then something happened, and DeLillo's novels got a lot shorter and a lot less satisfying. Underworld felt like an enormous gift and I never wanted its 827 pages to end. ![]() I have been an ardent fan of Don DeLillo since college when White Noise first showed me what literature could make of our media-saturated age. I opened this book with some trepidation. A novella from the author of White Noise and Underworld ![]() ![]() ![]() He also became afraid of bees, as Edmund died of a bee sting. Believing he could be no better than his father, Anthony believed he would also die at 38, like his father did. He subsequently inherited the title of viscount, and became the head of the family Anthony also took on the role of a surrogate father to his younger siblings, particularly Hyacinth, who was born after Edmund died. ![]() When Edmund died suddenly, Anthony was both shocked & devastated to lose his father in his prime. He admired his father with all his heart, and wished to be emulate him in every way possible. Anthony grew up close to Edmund, who went hiking with him, and taught him to shoot, swim, and ride horses. ![]() Anthony is the firstborn child of Viscount Edmund Bridgerton and his wife, Violet. ![]() |