![]() ![]() Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. ![]() Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library-and if so, who? ![]() By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It creates a literary context for the essay from Thoreau's earlier writing on politics and resistance Coleridge's The Friend, The Statesman's Manual, and Aids to Reflection the political essays of Orestes Brownson William Paley's The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy and the political essays of Emerson. It gathers the pertinent facts of Thoreau's political activism: his signing off from the church his refusal to pay the poll tax the arrest and jailing as a result of that refusal and the circumstances of the composition of the essay, its delivery as an essay, and its publication in 1849. The present study summarizes and supplements those attempts. Heretofore, studies have connected Thoreau to the idealism of classical Greece to the eighteenth-century rationalists and utilitarians, including William Paley's The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy to the romantic rebels of the eighteenth century, Rousseau and Godwin to the native tradition of anarchism to the frontier to the laissez-faire economics of the nineteenth-century America to Unitarianism to the moral idealism, perfectionism, and utopianism of Thoreau's age to abolitionism and non-resistance and to Ralph Waldo Emerson. While a few studies have attempted to place Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" in a historical and literary context, there is no book-length study of that context. ![]() ![]() She knows she cannot depend on him for long. Hope thinks all is lost, until he offers to help them.īrennan had always been the love of Hope’s life, but he never wanted to be. Her high school sweetheart and best friend, who left her years before, sees her at a gas station. ![]() She steals the baby and fakes her death, hoping to make a clean getaway. But she’s been burned by the legal system before, so when the court places her friend’s child into the custody of an abuser, she takes matters into her own hands. Kidnapping a baby wasn’t something Hope ever dreamed she would do. Summary Sometimes the safest distance between two hearts is no distance at all. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! All for Hope - The Rawley Family Romances #1 Olivia Hardin ![]() ![]() We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() Two dramatically different responses to this debate, and to philosophies of editing generally, appear in the recently published, traditionally authoritative variorum Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Ralph W. Textual editors and scholars debate questions as basic as what constitutes a Dickinson poem, how many poems she wrote, whether her hand-scripted manuscript booklets constitute publication and determine the order in which poems should now be printed, and how the poems are most accurately transcribed in print. This is such a moment in Dickinson studies. With particular authors and at particular moments in the history of their literary reception, however, such decisions dominate literary scholarship. Usually such decisions remain all but invisible to readers and are ignored by most critics. ![]() ![]() Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in America, 1820-1885, By Elizabeth Petrino, University Press of New England, 1998.Įditing has always been a culturally embedded and interpretive activity, in the sense that it involves decisions that determine how a text is read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Figuratively, there’s the idea (that we here at the B-side are more than slightly prone to) that poetic language is also musical language, that poems are often just song lyrics without melodies. When I say it’s full of music, I mean both in the figurative notion we often afford to poetry and the literal. But it is also full of family, fathers and mothers, full of moments and memories and history. ![]() And Night Sky is filled with violence, both promised and delivered. In these lines from the poem “Notebook Fragments”, Ocean Vuong succinctly lays out a central idea that he grapples with over and over in his debut full-length collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds : the reconciliation of an identity and being with all the violence of the past paths that lead to one’s creation. “ An American soldier fucked a Vietnamese farmgirl. ![]() ![]() His holiday book, Merry Christmas Mom and Dad, is also a bestseller. ![]() In 2015, his title Little Critter: Just a Little Love, also made the list. His title Just Me and My Dad made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Through them he has sold his "Little Critter" and "Little Monster" series, which are popular with beginning readers. Mayer joined Golden Publishing, creators of Little Golden Books, in 1976. Five more books in this series were to follow. Mayer was one of the first illustrators to be credited for using this format. It was notable for being a completely wordless picture book one that tells its story entirely with pictures. Mayer published his first book, A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog, at Dial Press in 1967. Editions for Me Too: 0307119416 (Paperback published in 1983), 0808563939 (Hardcover published in 2001), 0307106063 (Hardcover published in 1983), 03076. ![]() He soon created a new portfolio and with these new sketches persuaded editors at Dial Press and Harper & Row to give him some illustration work. He moved to New York City in 1964, pursuing further instruction at the Art Students League of New York, where he met an artist named Marianna who became his first wife. He created a portfolio of sketches and peddled them wherever he could. While attending school at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Mayer decided to enter the field of children's book illustration. ![]() Mercer Mayer was born Decemin Little Rock Arkansas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Beekle's new friend, there's something here that feels just right as an "unimaginary" friendship creates a joyous, recognizable bond. Beekle's round white visage and taped orange paper crown are immediately identifiable in each scene, a sharp contrast to his surroundings against variations of dark neutrals on a city street or the brightly colored dragons of a child's imagination. Gazes of wonderment, broad smiles, and changes in perspective ensure an easy transition from page to page. They learn to be friends, share adventures and snacks, joke, "and together they did the unimaginable." Santat's attention to detail in the mixed-media illustrations shares a child's eye for laughter and movement on full-bleed spreads with strategically placed text. Eventually, as he waits at the top of a star-leafed tree, a small girl with a friendly face calls out to him with a picture in her hand. He finds that life there is so harried that no one notices him. ![]() ![]() Filled with impetuous courage, Beekle does the unimaginable and heads out across deep waters until he reaches the real world. Dan Santat is the Caldecott Medal-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, Are We There Yet, and After the Fall as well as the illustrator of many other picture books, including Crankenstein by Samantha Berger. PreS-Gr 2-How long would you wait and how far a journey would you make to find your truest friend? Born on an island for imaginary friends, Beekle waits to be "imagined by a real child." He waits and he waits, but his turn never comes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is time to take a radically different look at economic development. Our addiction to endless economic growth has pushed our Earth to the brink of ecological abyss. The words 'British economist Kate Raworth' and 'Doughnut Economics' may not ring a bell with everyone, but in the sustainability world you are a well-established authority. During the Doughnut Days we will talk about how we put your theory into practice. They are wrong of course, because this week we celebrate your groundbreaking theory about a sustainable economy, as described in your book “Doughnut Economics”. Many citizens of Amsterdam might think this is a publicity stunt by the many doughnut shops in our city. Amsterdam is organizing the Doughnut Days this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First, however, he must convince her to trust in this dangerous desire-and in the promise of forever unleashed by one wild, scandalous night. The Diary of a Country Priest, novel by Georges Bernanos, published in French as Journal dun cur de campagne in 1936. ![]() She may not be to the ton's taste, but she suits him perfectly. The Diary of a Country Priest Georges Bernanos, Remy Rougeau (Introduction) 3.95 2,932 ratings390 reviews In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country priest who grows to understand his provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself. Lord Strickland never permitted himself to fantasize about the sultry, off-limits lady, but then he never expected to find Ela in a place so wicked, looking for what he's more than too happy to give. 1,929 Ratings In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country priest who grows to understand his provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself.If only she were not so drawn to the smoldering Lord Strickland.a dangerous man who sees beyond her mask, and could ruin her reputation with a mere whisper. The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos 3.98 avg. Ela longs to take a lover for a single, wild night, and within the walls of Sodom there are gentlemen to suit every forbidden taste. What kind of woman ventures into London's most notorious pleasure club? An outsider like Graciela, the Duchess of Autenberry, snubbed time and time again by society because of her Spanish roots. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Charged with braving the terrifying void that separates each world from the next, Cara collects crucial data to share with her employer, attempting to forge a meaningful life for herself-which, for someone from the wastelands, mostly means just staying alive. The catch? One can only step foot onto another world if their resident counterpart has already died, making her a natural prodigy, given her particular talent for dying on hundreds of other worlds. And is there any better way to combat daily existential despair and perpetual grief, than by sinking your teeth into a world that is not your own? This is what The Space Between Worlds offers: a way out, and a breathtaking, heart-pounding way in.Ĭara is a traverser, someone who can travel between the multiverses. ![]() This pandemic and the requisite quarantine have compelled me to do a lot of soul searching, and I know I’m not the only one. ![]() |