![]() ![]() ![]() This was followed by five more collaborations Elephant Quest, set in the Okavango Delta, Top To Bottom Down Under, about their adventures in Australia, Horse Song A Story of the Naadam, set in Mongolia, Balarama A Royal Elephant, set in India, and Puffling Patrol, about the puffins of Iceland. Gorilla Walk is her first collaboration with her husband Ted and is about their trek to see the mountain gorillas in Uganda. /rebates/2fGiggle-Giggle-Quack-Doreen-Cronin2fbook2f2609723&. Giggle, giggle, quack by Cronin, Doreen Lewin, Betsy, ill. I’ve been doing picture books ever since and loving every moment.”īetsy’s art is usually humorous, drawn in pen or brush with watercolor washes, as in Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type, but she also paints in a naturalistic style as in Chubbo’s Pool. ![]() When an editor at Dodd, Mead & Company asked her to expand one of those stories into a picture book, Betsy says, “I jumped at the chance. Then she began to write and illustrate stories for children’s magazines. About Click, Clack Illustrator Betsy Lewin:Īfter graduating from Pratt Institute where she studied illustration, Betsy Lewin designed greeting cards. ![]()
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![]() Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women’s bodies, in life and in death. In the process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos to the gallows where enslaved people were executed and within violent scenes of enslaved women’s punishments. ![]() Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Since the book won't be released until 2012, I don't want to give away much more of the story because You Need To Read It.) Every single character was incredibly real and funny and touching, and the story arc was incredibly well done. ![]() I love how being gay is not actually an issue for either boy - most of their family members know and accept them, as do classmates. Their worlds seem shaky and uncertain due to those major occurrences, but also because of their own personal issues. Gone, Gone, Gone is about two gay boys who meet in Maryland during the sniper attacks, a year after 9/11. Once I started reading, I could not put it down according to the notes scribbled in the margins (which Hannah encouraged), this is pretty much the norm. I was lucky enough to get a spot on the ARC tour Hannah sent this book on, which means I got to read a copy even though it's not released yet. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Still, she’s not a saint, either-Sneha is full of judgments, stated and otherwise-and it’s this imperfection that makes her feel so vividly real. Sneha is by no means an Unlikeable Female Protagonist™ it’s hard not to root for her as she leaps into the world of queer dating, tries to keep her work life and friendships afloat, and does her best to prevent her racist landlord from retaliating against her on daily. ![]() ![]() Mathews’s protagonist, Sneha, is a young Indian immigrant living in Milwaukee at the tail end of Obama’s second term, and watching her choices (of where to live, who to love, how to exist in the world) rapidly narrow as her life devolves into ordinary chaos is a breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful adventure. In writer and organizer Sarah Thankam Mathews’s debut novel, All This Could Be Different, the prose is electrified by the high stakes on the page. ![]() ![]() But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. They're killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. ![]() The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. ![]() This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? ![]() The Delaney family love one another dearly―it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Flirt, Tony Bennington recognizes Nathaniel and Jason from the Guilty Pleasures website. ![]() When the news reports that Jason and Anita are allegedly eloping, the picture they use for Jason is from the Guilty Pleasures website. The vampire stripper Lucian performs Jean-Claude's part. īy Blood Noir, some of Guilty Pleasures's acts have spin-offs performing in Las Vegas. In The Harlequin, the meeting about contact with the Harlequin takes place in Guilty Pleasures. In Incubus Dreams, long sequences of events happen in Guilty Pleasures, including taming of Primo and appearance of Anthony Dietrich. In the novel Guilty Pleasures, Monica Vespucci brings Catherine Maison and Anita Blake to Guilty Pleasures so that the vampires can force Anita into working on a case for them. The website lists "not just the usual stats for strippers but if they were vampires, or wereanimals, and what animals you could watch them shift into." It states that "Brandon" (Nathaniel) is a wereleopard and that "Ripley" (Jason) is a werewolf. ![]() Guilty Pleasures has a website with profiles for the performers, using their stage names. The club does not usually take table reservations. The inside consists of a stage, tables, and a bar. The entryway is where crosses and holy items are checked. When the club is open, the door is usually propped open with a bouncer there to check ID. The Guilty Pleasures sign on the outside is a "swirling neon the color of heart blood." The door is up three broad steps. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since retiring, he has served as librarian of the Northumberland County Historical Society where he assists patrons with genealogy and research. Lindermuth worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for nearly 40 years. Though the focus is mainly on Northumberland and Schuylkill counties, similar conditions prevailed across the anthracite mining region.Ī native of Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, J. The accounts reveal what was different about those people and what has remained constant in us, their descendants. How the miners and their families lived and worked, loved and died is recorded in old newspapers and reveals their daily concerns, their diversions, social attitudes and prejudices. Lindermuth’s history “Digging Dusky Diamonds” recounting life in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region.īased on contemporary newspaper accounts and genealogical records, Digging Dusky Diamonds tells the story of the people who made the anthracite coal mining industry a major economic force in Pennsylvania in the 19th and early 20th centuries. ![]() POTTSVILLE, Pa. - Sunbury Press has released John R. ![]() ![]() I applaud this reissue, which should bring Rodney's prescient analysis to a new generation struggling from below, in whose hands, he would have reminded us, is no less than the future of humankind. This classic work of black political thought, political economy, and Africa history inspired scholars and political activists in the struggle against colonialism and its misrepresentations of the past. ![]() Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of Africa. Cornel West, philosopher, author, critic, and activist This book is a legendary classic that galvanized freedom fighters around the world. Gerald Horne, historian and author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776 and Confronting Black Jacobins Beautifully written and expertly argued, it is that rare book that can be called a classic. ![]() Walter Rodney's magisterial opus is recognized globally as a landmark in African studies, not to mention the history of colonialism and imperialism. ![]() ![]() ![]() As if that weren't enough, starting last night, a series of "bookend" events began in the borough, including "an evening of wine and literary talk" with author Jay McInerney at the Brooklyn Winery PEN American Center's Literary Pub Quiz concerts an independent book publisher party and Community Bookstore's 40th anniversary party tomorrow. ![]() The Festival "proper" takes place this Sunday and features vendor booths and a full schedule of concurrent readings, signings and panels. Only six years old, the Brooklyn Book Festival is already a sterling example of what these fairs have to offer. (For more information on these and other fairs, check out our website listing.) There are also book fairs this fall in Boston, Baltimore, West Hollywood, Minneapolis, Connecticut, Kentucky and Ohio. (September 24-25) the Texas Book Festival, held in Austin October 22-23 and the mother of all book festivals, the Miami Book Fair International, which, marking its 28th anniversary, takes place November 13-20. In the coming weeks, fairs devoted to bringing books, authors and readers together include the National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress and held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The opening this weekend of the Brooklyn Book Festival marks the launch of what we at Shelf Awareness think of as the fall book festival season. ![]() |