![]() ![]() North's 1963 book Rascal received a Newbery Honor in 1964, a Sequoyah Book Award in 1966, and a Young Reader's Choice Award in 1966. (The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Burl Ives's version of the 17th century English song "Lavender Blue"). North's book, Midnight and Jeremia, was made into the Disney movie, So Dear to My Heart in 1949. A 1934 North novel, Plowing on Sunday, featured a rare dust jacket illustration by Iowa artist Grant Wood. ![]() One of North's first books, The Pedro Gorino (1929) was a narrative of the life of Harry Dean, an African-American sea captain. He wrote for The Chicago Daily News, The New York World-Telegram and Sun, and for many magazines, including Reader's Digest, The Atlantic, Esquire, and Holiday. ![]() Surviving a near-paralyzing struggle with polio in his teens, he grew to young adulthood in the quiet southern Wisconsin village of Edgerton, which North transformed into the "Brailsford Junction" setting of several of his books.Īfter graduating from Edgerton High School, he earned his way through the University of Chicago and began his writing career. North was born on the second floor of a farmhouse on the shores of Lake Koshkonong, a few miles from Edgerton, Wisconsin, in 1906. He is best known for his bestselling 1963 children's novel, Rascal, a remembrance of a year in his childhood during which he raised a baby raccoon named "Rascal". Sterling North - Journalist, author born on Novemin Edgerton, Wisconsin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Gwennie pricks her finger and the whole castle falls asleep, only Annie is awake, and only Annie-blessed (or cursed?) with being impervious to magic-can venture out beyond the rose-covered hedge for help. ![]() Baker delights fans with a brand new fairy tale world full of humor and charm In this new stand-alone fairy tale, Princess Annie is the younger sister to Gwen, the princess destined to be Sleeping Beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a biologist I wonder about penguins and where they bred before Antarctica moved into position less than 20 000 year ago. The key problem is exactly as his quitting researcher stated where is the land mass where this pre-history civilisation developed? He rules out any now-submerged area and claims that Antarctica is the answer. Obviously the Sphinx is a Lion and its link to the age of Leo points to its incredible age. I was particularly impressed by the possible linkage of the precession ages: Bull, Ram, Fish to religious symbolism of that era. I agree with Hancock that the giant-stone architecture of the Giza necropolis and that seen in central/south America ask questions of their origin. I was put off by the talk of crustal displacement very early on, but I persevered and listened through to the end. ![]() His tone and delivery are perfect for this material. Firstly I have to say that Graham Hancock is an excellent narrator. ![]() ![]() I think that some of that was opportunism. Bridgerton gave a lot of people the excuse to do something about it, to say: aha, a new market! If you like this multicultural television show, then maybe you’ll enjoy these multicultural romance books as well. There had been a push for making the historical romance space more inclusive for and by people of color. The first Bridgerton book was published in 2000, but I think that when people saw an adaptation that was fun, nimble, young, and less restrained, it brought up a new conversational space in the romance community. A lot of people found something that they loved in the Bridgerton series. I think that they’re definitely connected. Do you think that their popularity is a byproduct of the success of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series? Over the past couple of years, there seems to have been a resurgence in the historical romance genre, especially with books focusing on Britain’s Regency period, from 1811 to 1820. ![]() ![]() Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]() ![]() ![]() You had no business stuffing yourself the way you did at mama's house last night. TIM MOORE: (As Kingfish) I was a sick man.ĮRNESTINE WADE: (As Sapphire) Sick man nothing. (SOUNDBITE OF THE JEFF ALEXANDER CHORUS' "ANGEL'S SERENADE")ĪINA: The show was the first TV program to feature an all-black cast, and one character in particular was known for her sharp tongue. Some trace the stereotype back to the 1950s and a TV show called "Amos 'N' Andy." She shows up everywhere from pop culture to politics. MAYOWA AINA, BYLINE: The angry black woman is pretty well known. ![]() Today, we have a story from NPR's Mayowa Aina about one author who thinks it's time for black women to embrace their rage. All this month, NPR is exploring the power of anger. It's a label that many black women have struggled with in their professional and personal lives. At some point during their public lives, they were labeled as angry. Michelle Obama, Oprah, Serena Williams all have something in common. ![]() ![]() I kept reading because this book is not only about loss and grief it's about the power of darkness, how it takes control of ordinary people, how grudges and anger can force people to do things beyond their control. ![]() This was shocking, this was sad, but I couldn't stop reading! I owed it to my favorite characters to go on! Tears had already started to drip down my face, my fists clenched. There was more to tell, especially with that ominous opening that warned us that something extremely ominous would rip our hearts apart! I just read the words and started to scream, "No!!" Those words were about the fate of one of my favorite characters in this book. ![]() I was surprised when I found out the third book in the Beartown series was coming out! I thought all my favorite characters' stories had concluded, including Peter, Ramona, Maya, Anna, Benji, Amat, Bobo, and Kira… I couldn't have been more wrong! Now I can hardly enjoy any other books in comparison to "We are Winners"! I don't have enough words to describe how much I love this book! ![]() But one thing is for sure: I haven't cried so hard in a long time! The characters Backman created will hold a special place in my heart forever! It awakened so many different feelings in me that I didn’t know I had. Fredrik Backman ruined every other book for me by creating this extraordinary masterpiece that left me speechless! It's a dreamy reading journey for bookworms who love to lose themselves in a well-written story. ![]() ![]() ![]() The animals looked at Odd and at each other. Odd follows the fox to a bear, which he helps free from under a fallen tree, and he soon discovers that this bear and fox, plus the eagle that has been watching from the skies, are actually gods, forced from their kingdom by frost giants. And it was not every day that you got to follow a fox. 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BOOK REVIEW: Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell ![]() ![]() ![]() But some were then sexually assaulted by gangs, as punishment for their activism. She writes that some women who took part in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 broke their conservative family's curfew rules and stood overnight in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, determined and resolute even when surrounded by gunmen and police. ![]() According to Eltahawy, in Egypt, extremist views portray protesting as culturally taboo and not “dignified” for Muslim women. and the U.K., as well as in Asia and the Middle East. Not uncommon, these sorts of patriarchal family models still exist in pockets around the world, including Western nations like the U.S. ![]() Raising your voice at a protest, let alone attending one, can be seen as a form of rebellion for women who are encouraged to stay home, away from the public eye. Photo by Nicole Najmah Abraham © Nicole Najmah Abrahamīut some ultraconservative Muslim communities still struggle with the concept of the female protester, says Muslim feminist, activist, and author Mona Eltahawy in her book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This magical holiday romance includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Stuffed Crust Italian Pizza. Could it be that, somewhere in time, they belong together? ![]() But as Megan introduces him to the wonders of smartphones, pizza, and modern holiday traditions, they both feel a once-in-a-lifetime connection. But when he repairs a mysterious clock he bought on his travels, he’s transported to the twenty-first century, with his home decorated for Christmas and overrun by strangers.Ĭharles is determined to find a way back to his own era, especially when he learns about what happened after he left. 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At its height, Glass’s battlefield prose calls to mind not so much a hospital soap as the literature of the trenches, the dugout and hand-to-hand combat, from the Somme to Vietnam. ![]() No wise-cracking, hard-bitten pro from some TV cast of stereotypes, Laura empathises almost to excess with her vulnerable babies and their frantic families. The visceral physicality of Glass’s writing has a shocking sensuousness about it, down to the peculiar texture and odour of the vomit. delivers a string of close-focus, high-impact scenes that blend gnawing tension and surging tenderness. Packed with echoes, assonances and internal rhymes, along with some verbal swerves and twirls that recall the prose work of Dylan Thomas (Glass also comes from Wales), her muscular language throbs with sinewy energy. Its galloping pace and breathless immediacy feel deeply, even scarily, authentic. ![]() conveys all the drama, dread, stress and (sometimes) blissful relief of a working life spent in intensive paediatric care. ![]() Whereas her debut burrowed ferociously, but lyrically, into the aftermath of a horrific attack on its young narrator, this second novel unfolds in the professional milieu she knows, and in the driven, haunted minds of the people who sustain it. ![]() |