![]() ![]() The story of her disappearance emerges in a variety of forms and voices-gossip columns, fragments of screenplays, diary entries, advertisements, and, in a dizzying layering of fictions, a movie made by her father that mutates from noir to gothic to fairy tale. When Severin travels to Venus to make a film about a colony that vanished, leaving only unsettling rumors behind, it becomes her last creation-she never returns. The daughter of a famous director in the old Hollywood mold, Severin lives in a universe where the movie industry occupies the moon but films remain silent and where various planets are claimed by the Earth’s nations but persist in being flamboyantly alien. Severin Unck is a headstrong and passionate young woman, a director of documentaries whose hints of confession are as artful and scripted as only someone who grew up with the movies can manage. Valente imagines an alternate solar system and sends her heroine, a filmmaker, to Venus, where she disappears. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The test-score "achievement gap" between white and black students, especially, is a driving and divisive issue. Three African-American intellectuals on a crucial educational issue of our time A huge portion of the school reform debate in America₇explicitly and implicitly₇is framed around the success and failure of African-American children in school. No mystery: closing the achievement gap between Africans and excellence. Stereotype threat and African-American student achievement ![]() Up from the parched earth: toward a theory of African-American achievementįreedom for literacy and literacy for freedom: the African-American philosophy of educationĪchieving in post-Civil Rights America: the outline of a theory Young, gifted, and Black : promoting high achievement among African-American students / Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa G. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her return home is underwhelming, so she returns to London early to find Kitty in bed with Walter. The duo become quite famous until Nan realises she is homesick after being gone from her family for more than a year. Nan is initially horrified by the idea, but takes to it. ![]() Simultaneously, Kitty's manager Walter decides that Kitty needs a performing partner to reach true success, and suggests Nan for the role. Although Kitty and Nan acknowledge their relationship to be sisterly, Nan continues to love Kitty until a jealous fight forces Kitty to admit she feels the same, although she insists that they keep their relationship secret. Nan enthusiastically agrees and leaves her family to act as Kitty's dresser while she performs. They begin a friendship that grows when, after Kitty finds an opportunity to perform in London for better exposure, she asks Nan to join her. She becomes instantly and desperately enamoured with a "masher", or male impersonator, named Kitty Butler, who performs for a season at the local theatre. Nancy "Nan" Astley is a sheltered 18-year-old living with her working-class family and helping in their oyster restaurant in Whitstable, Kent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And when a new threat emerges, they must beat the odds to save both kingdoms.Ĭontent warnings: View Spoiler » suicidal ideation, depression, PTSD, fantasy violence and death, slavery (including assumed rape, off-page), torture « Hide Spoiler Kyara and Darvyn grapple with betrayal, old promises, and older prophecies-all while trying to stop a war. He isn’t sure he can trust the mysterious young woman who claims to need his help, but when he discovers Kyara can unlock the secrets of his past, he can’t stay away. She is tasked with capturing the legendary rebel called the Shadowfox, but everything changes when she learns her target’s true identity.ĭarvyn ol-Tahlyro may be the most powerful Earthsinger in generations, but guilt over those he couldn’t save tortures him daily. Known as the Poison Flame in the kingdom of Lagrimar, she is notorious and lethal, but secretly seeks freedom from both her untamed power and the blood spell that commands her. And life will drastically change for both kingdoms.īorn with a deadly magic she cannot control, Kyara is forced to become an assassin. The Mantle that separates the kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar is about to fall. Also in this series: Song of Blood and Stone, Breath of Dust & Dawn, Hush of Storm & Sorrow ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Already haunted by surfacing memories, Emma is suddenly plagued by a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca, and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian apparently left behind about the camp’s twisted origins. Yet, it is immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. They catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of the very same Camp Nightingale–and when Francesca implores Emma to return to the camp as a painting counselor, Emma sees an opportunity to find closure and move on. Now a rising star in the NYC art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings. The last she–and anyone–saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. Trigger warnings: Missing person storyline, strong sexual referencesįifteen years ago, summer camper Emma Davis watched sleepily as her three cabin mates snuck out of their cabin in the dead of night. ![]() ![]() The patient reader will be taken into the cold realm of the 16th century and finish at the bedside of a woman who seemed to battle for self preservation all her life and yet only desired to distance herself from her tainted lineage and find a man her equal. ![]() The story follows the life of Elizabeth Tudor as she battles for survival and acknowledgement in a world that only sees her as an illegitimate creation that should be discarded and never have a crown grace her head. ![]() ![]() Kay has created a vivid reflection of "The Virgin Queen" with mirror shard-like sections entitled The Girl, The Woman, The Queen, The Goddess and the finally The Effigy that when placed together create for the reader an image of one of history's most legendary figures. With a writing style that mixes moving lyrical passages with historical events and imaginative dialogue, Susan Kay's debut novel Legacy: The Acclaimed Novel of Elizabeth, England's Most Passionate Queen - and the Three Men Who Loved Her is an excellent introduction to the life of Elizabeth Tudor (or better known as Elizabeth I). ![]() ![]() Perhaps I'll be keeping my ears open for any news of such a place for the rest of my life. Perhaps is it too small to be recognized as a nameable river anymore. Perhaps it was swallowed up by metropolitan Minneapolis. It's almost a disappointment to think that perhaps she just made the place up as she did the characters. Swift rivers by Cornelia Meigs,, Troll paperback edition, It looks like youre offline. Swift Rivers Newbery Honor book Barred from his family home-stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a. Meigs's books are so detailed and realistic that I can't help feeling that there MUST be a place out there called the Goose Wing River. ![]() Now, I realize (both of us know, actually) that we can still complete the project very beautifully without knowing the location of the river. Nothing matches the other geographical clues. I've even looked it up on several websites that have maps of the area. We have been unable to find it on maps anywhere. The author gives pretty specific information about the setting-including the President at the time and locations on the river that can still be found on maps of the Mississippi today. ![]() No, it's not for children only-though having a healthy inner child might help you enjoy it more). One of my students is doing a project on the Cornelia Meigs book SWIFT RIVERS (I highly recommend it to those who have not read it. ![]() ![]() The school is not run on conventional lines. ![]() Jo's sons Rob and Teddy are younger than the others and are not counted among the pupils, nor are the two girls, Daisy and Nan. There are ten boys at the school already Nat, and later his friend Daniel Kean joins them, and soon after Nan Harding arrives as companion for Daisy Brooke, the only girl. We are introduced to the majority of the characters through his eyes. ![]() The story begins with the arrival of Nathaniel Blake, a shy young orphan who used to earn a living playing the violin. ![]() The idea of the school is first suggested at the very end of Good Wives, when Jo inherited the estate from her Aunt March. The novel recounts six months in the life of the students at Plumfield, a school run by Professor Friedrich and Mrs. Little Men is generally regarded as the third book in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women series. ![]() ![]() The bewildering emergency draws rural farmers into unexpected acquaintance with urbane journalists, opportunists, sightseers, and a striking biologist with his own stake in the outcome. ![]() She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media. ![]() As she hikes up a mountain road behind her house to a secret tryst, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science, faith, and everyday truces between reason and conviction.ĭellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.įlight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. ![]() Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. ![]() ![]() Keep up with the latest news on what people are doing. Show respect, be patient, and speak eloquently, while also negotiating effectively and giving your opinion openly. “Diplomacy is the paramount skill that entrepreneurs must acquire and practice in order to foster relationships and open doors. Just like an investment, this effort pays off by the reciprocal boosting of one’s own network. Internet users who support others tend to receive a great deal of reciprocal support from those same people. ![]() “To maintain strong network connections, benchmark off social currency. Good networkers invest effort and time into improving their network relationships. “Be diplomatic and strategic when dealing with a powerful network connection,” adds Mohammed. Mohammed Karim believes in the entrepreneurial power of the network AAAA ![]() |