Buses Are a Comin' by Charles Person6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() His mother was a domestic and, in effect, had “two families.” He’d never thought about the facts until then, and it shamed him. ![]() His father worked two full-time jobs to make ends meet. His family was rich in love, wealthy at mealtimes, affluent when it came to lessons, they had an abundance of fun, but he was in tenth grade before he realized that his extended family lived in a tenement on the south side of Atlanta, in Buttermilk Bottom. He didn’t know it then, but Charles Person grew up in poverty. Author Charles Person says “The Buses Are A Comin’” and you’re on-board. Still, going there is necessary for you and for the future so grab your bags. You’re excited about this trip, but also nervous you’ve never been where you’re going and you hope this is a one-and-done trip. This Book, “Buses Are A Comin'” By Charles Person With Richard Rooker Will Keep You On Your Seatīy: Terri Schlichenmeyer*/TRT Book Reviewer ![]()
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Carmichael and hamilton black power6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() This book is about why, where and in what manner black people in America must get themselves together. history wherever such a grim subject is taught (though with some more women talking alongside, my main critique). ![]() I loved this, I think it should be taught as part of U.S. If you have a problem with the the words that identify the problem, what are you going to do? Show us, lead the way. We need to read and re-read and rediscover until we are moved into action. There are carefully devised distractions that make people forget that the problem even exists!!! We are complaining about the identification of it?!! Well, if that is your thinking, you are standing still. Clearly, many still do not comprehend this and will make moves before fully and wholly knowing what they’re up against and knowing how. over and over so that the oppressed could see what they were up against. For the person who might complain that this book only identifies a problem, they should go back in time. ![]() The identification of the problem will encourage us to enact solutions. I appreciate the dissection of a problem in a world where cognitive dissonance exists. ![]() Only One Woof by James Herriot6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() In the Treasury for Children there are eight “warm and joyful tales” – as described on the cover of the book – written by James Heriot just for children and young readers. ![]() Eight “warm and joyful tales” by James Herriot for children I had read most of his semi-autobiographical books about his life as a vet in North Yorkshire but never knew he had written and adapted stories for children. The Treasury for Children is a compilation in one volume of eight storybooks written by James Herriot for children. ![]() Would my children like it? Would it be a good introduction to the vet’s tales of farmyard animals and country living? Would the stories be too dated? But I hadn’t seen this one before – James Herriot’s Treasury for Children. Actually that was his pen name as his real name was James Alfred “Alf” Wight (1916-1995). Yes, I’m talking about the best selling author James Herriot. ![]() When I looked through the pages memories came streaming back of reading the books by this author when I was younger – All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All, and Every Living Thing. I smiled as I pulled out a large book from a box filled with children’s books once owned by my nephew and nieces. ![]() The Space Between by Meg Grehan6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What does it mean and why isn't she ready to talk about it? In this poetic exploration of identity and anxiety, Stevie must confront her fears to find inner freedom all while discovering it is our connections with others that make us stronger. But there's one something Stevie doesn't know, one thing she wants to understand above everything else, and one thing she isn't quite ready to share with her mom: the fizzy feeling she gets in her chest when she looks at her friend, Chloe. Knots Knowing things makes Stevie feel safe, powerful, and in control should anything bad happen.Īnd with the help of her mom, she is finding the tools to manage her anxiety.The ocean and all the things that live there and why it's so scary. ![]() But these are the things she'd like to know the most: Perfect for fans of Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, Star Crossed, and George.ġ1-year-old Stevie is an avid reader and she knows a lot of things about a lot of things. ![]() By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5thĪn accessible and beautifully written middle grade novel-in-verse by award-winning Irish author Meg Grehan about Stevie, a young girl reckoning with anxiety about the many things she has yet to understand-including her feelings about her friend Chloe. ![]() The king's general6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() In essence, they are bills that must still pass through parliament. The National Budget comprises the individual budgets of all ministries. On Prince’s Day, the Minister takes the briefcase to the House of Representatives and presents the National Budget and Budget Memorandum. ![]() In this official address, the King outlines the government’s plans for the coming year.Īnd then there is the ceremonial briefcase. ![]() The King opens the new parliamentary session of the States General by reading the Speech from the Throne. Together, the Senate and the House of Representatives make up the States General. On this day – known as Prince’s Day – the King and Queen travel in the Glass Coach to the Hall of Knights in The Hague.Īssembled there are the ministers, state secretaries, members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and distinguished guests. The Dutch parliamentary year starts on the third Tuesday in September. ![]() Forever Friends by Shelagh Watkins6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Shelagh: I began writing in 1998 and wrote my first novel, The Power of Persuasion. Susan: When did the writing bug bite, and in what genre(s)? Shelagh: Hi Susan, Thank you for inviting me to be your guest. When she is not networking, administrating, publishing or editing, she miraculously finds time to write! ![]() There are over four thousand members in the combined groups and networks. Shelagh also created the Published Authors Network on Ning and is administrator of the Published Authors forum. She set up the Children’s Fiction group on LibraryThing, the Published Authors group on Goodreads, and the Published Authors Network group on LinkedIn. Planemaker’s Flying Machine and The Power of Persuasion. Shelagh Watkins is writer, editor and publisher at Mandinam Press, and author of two books: Mr. ![]() Margaret wise brown6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Often, a city becomes one of the very important characters in a book, and a child forms a partnership with the city. Children are capable of combining the aimless gaze of a flâneur with the precise attention of a voyeur. ![]() The hidden wonders of the big city mesmerize the curious minds of children and teens, making them natural voyeurs. Enormous walking (and transportation) possibilities of the city are very attractive for youngsters. Acting as a flâneur and a voyeur, a child develops a complicated relationship with the streets and museums of the big city. The city dweller perceives her environment as an exciting, even though sometimes threatening, place. Following Eric Tribunella's adaptation of Walter Benjamin's definition of a flâneur to children, the article explores various book representations of the big cities as they are seen through the eyes of a child. ![]() In many books, a child or a teen is portrayed as a contemporary flâneur, an idle city walker. This article discusses a representation of the relationship between a child and a big city in American and European children's and teens' literature. ![]() Rattlesnake kim fielding6/28/2023 ![]() Romance has spread its wings far beyond the tired old tropes to give us diverse heroes, intriguing plots, and surprising settings. ![]() But think of how many pieces of classic literature are romances at heart! Love stories ,” are important. This may, in part, be rooted in misogyny and a general disdain for work associated with women. I’ve heard even fans of romance refer to it as trashy or smut or a guilty pleasure. “A lot of people are dismissive of the genre. ![]() “It’s an especially sweet victory because, traditionally, romance has gotten such a bad rap,” Fielding says. Farview, a love story between a pair of atypical heroes set in a fantasy land where dragons pull carriages and imps dwell in the garden, is the first romance to win the BookLife Fiction Prize. Indie author Kim Fielding considers her BookLife Prize win to not only be an honor for her book-but a victory for the romance genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() "What happened? " Suzy asks, when she's over the groggi-ness. ![]() There isn't a better syntax runner in Ashanti Industrial. I don't blame her: Suzy's beautiful, but she's also smart. "Because I want her out first," I say, wondering if Greta's jealous. Greta's with me when I pull Suzy out of the surge tank. Dick's classic, "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts." A ship is marooned outside the galaxy by an alien wormhole transportation system that everyone uses but no one really understands. ![]() "Beyond the Aquila Rift" was published in Constellations. His first short story collection, Galactic North, collecting pieces in the RS universe, is out in 2006. His last two novels are Century Rain and Pushing Ice. He is growing fast as an SF writer in this decade. ![]() His first novel, Revelation Space, was published in 1999. He is one of the new British space opera writers to emerge in the mid and late 1990s, in the generation after Baxter and McAuley, and originally the most "hard SF" of them. Beyond the Aquila Rift ALASTASR REYNOLDS From Hartwell, David - Year's Best SF 11 (2006) Alastair Reynolds (lives in Noordwijk, Holland, and worked for ten years for the European Space Agency before becoming a full-time writer in 2004. ![]() Albert j raboteau6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Curry, a professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, said that Mills’ scholarship will resonate with those in and beyond philosophy for his groundbreaking work in The Racial Contract and his various attempts to rehabilitate the American liberal tradition. from the University of Toronto in 1985 and taught at the University of Oklahoma, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University before arriving at The Graduate Center, CUNY in 2016.ĭr. He authored numerous books including The Racial Contract, and Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. ![]() ![]() Mills was well-known for his work in social and political philosophy, African-American and Africana philosophy, critical philosophy of race, ethics and Marxist thought. Mills, who served as the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is mourning the death of Dr. ![]() |