![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s title character, Sylvia Barrett, faces one frustration after another. Instead, she composed it as a series of letters, memorandums, vignettes, classroom papers and lesson plans to create a portrait of the fictional Calvin Coolidge High School in New York. Kaufman, who was the granddaughter of the celebrated Yiddish-language writer Sholom Aleichem, did not follow standard narrative form in her book. ![]() When the paperback edition was issued in 1966, more than 1.5 million copies were sold in the first month. “Staircase,” which was published in 1965, stayed on bestseller lists for 15 months, including five months at No. With pitch-perfect tone, “Up the Down Staircase” captured the humor, pathos and administrative nonsense of the urban high schools in which Ms. Her daughter, Thea Goldstine, confirmed the death to news outlets. Bel Kaufman, who turned her experiences teaching in the New York City public schools into the comic novel “Up the Down Staircase,” one of the best-selling books of the 1960s, which was later made into a film, died July 25 at her home in Manhattan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories… swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” ( The Washington Post). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. ![]() That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” ( The New York Times). Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. “Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.” -Ken Burns ![]() The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate Historyįrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies-a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” ( Elle). ![]() ![]() M, I, crooked-letter, crooked-letter, I, crooked-letter, crooked-letter, I, humpback, humback, I. How did you come up with the title?įranklin: Title's a pneumonic device used to teach children (mostly southern children) how to spell Mississippi. Q: Tell us a bit about your latest book Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. The incident shook the county-and perhaps Silas most of all. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. ![]() But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. ![]() Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. ![]() Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far-an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re even better when it’s an enemies-to-lover (one of my favorite tropes ever) happy ending □. ![]() Happy endings (or happily ever afters aka HEA) are the best. T omorrow…maybe she’s already fallen for him. And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams. But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they’re the last players left-and then they’ll destroy each other.Īs Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he’s much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she’s sparred with for the past four years. When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. ![]() While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours. ![]() ![]() ![]() Text Boxes Illustrations, unspecified Tables Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs Black & White Illustrations Barclay, a career librarian who has spent decades teaching university students to become information literate scholars and citizens, takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the complex and nuanced topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information. ![]() * Inoculate yourself against the logical fallacies that can mislead even the brightest among us.ĭonald A. * Understand how to tell when statistics can be trusted and when they are being used to deceive. ![]() * Learn how to identify the alarm bells that signal untrustworthy information. Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles?įake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most trustworthy information in order to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lines of Departure was nominated for the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel on a slate organized by the " Sad Puppies", a group of "right-leaning science fiction writers." In reaction to this, Kloos withdrew the novel from consideration for the award. The reviewer considered the second novel, Lines of Departure, to be an improvement in that it reflected a critical outlook towards powerful, centralized government that was often absent in leading works of the genre such as Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Reviewing the first novel, Terms of Enlistment, io9 described it as sticking close to the conventions of the genre, focusing on "guns, acronyms, hard-ass drill sergeants, explosions and battles on alien worlds". Featuring the protagonist Andrew Grayson, they are set in a future in which a Western and an Eastern power bloc are at war with each other and with an alien threat. Kloos is best known for his Frontlines series of military science fiction novels. Born in Germany, Kloos lives and works in the United States. Marko Kloos is a German author of military science fiction and high fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() She does love him who wouldn’t? Never anticipating Flynn’s return, Mia does her best to put the past behind her. Michael Wells is a wonderful man: patient, successful, driven. Succumbing to the common sense she once defied, Mia eventually marries. For the next twelve years she keeps his secrets, long after Flynn vanishes, devastating her. It’s a precarious leap of faith when she learns that he’s a fugitive on the run. For a year they have the kind of love affair a man like him inspires. ![]() He’s a man with a doubtful past, half a name, and no ties to anything earthbound, except Mia. Set in the Deep South amid magnolia leaves and the innocence of college life, BEAUTIFUL DISASTER begins with Flynn’s arrival. The man she’s always loved, the one who abandoned her years before, has mysteriously resurfaced. The moment is interrupted when an unexpected phone call ushers in a tremulous past. Visit my website Mia Wells is poised to finalize the deal that will make her eco-friendly career goals a reality. Reminiscent of The Notebook, continue on to read the first chapter of BEAUTIFUL DISASTER-Pre-order your copy on Amazon and Books-A-Million. A sheltered college girl's life is forever altered when a provactive stranger challenges every boundary she knows Filled with sweetness and suspense, Beautiful Disaster is the story of what happens when love is greater than honor or friendship or the passing of time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of these are in electronic format and with our Archivist.Ĭentenary Gathering at Lix Toll Boulder & Poem May 2008īlackrock - 75 th Anniversary & Poem May 2022 Other are available for Members digitally here. There are some copies in Blackrock and Milehouse. Members wrote reports of various Alpine Meets which were bound by a Club Member. (Past Journals are with the Archivist and digitally available for Members. The latest Journal was out in November 2018. It is an amusing and inspirational account of three women who parted from jobs and family to ‘subject themselves to extreme discomfort on some lonely, alien and desolate wrinkles on the earth’s surface’.Ĭlub 'Publications' and Articles LSCC Journalsįrom time to time the Club publishes a Journal. The story of the 1955 Himalayan expedition is told in ‘ Tents in the Clouds’ by Monica Jackson, republished in 2000 by Seal Press (US). ![]() (See opposite or below for mobile screens.) The history of the Club is told by Helen Steven in ‘ Rising to the Challenge – a 100 years of the Ladies Scottish Climbing Club’ published by the Scottish Mountain Trust in 2010. It is not only a chronicle of the Club’s history but of women and their achievements in the context of mountaineering and a society where the role of women has changed over 100 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Story (5/5): Murderbot is still working with the Preservation and has been asked to accompany the lead ruler of the Preservation’s daughter as her security bot. I got a copy of this book for my birthday. Series Info/Source: This is the fifth book in the Murderbot Diaries series and the first full length novel in this series (previous books have been novellas). ![]() When Murderbot’s human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are. “You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you’re a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you’re Murderbot.Ĭome for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. Stand Alone or Series: 5th book in the Murderbot Diaries ![]() ![]() Attention changes the phenomenological nature of what it attends to, and every world view is value-laden. ![]() The left hemisphere (LH) is roughly specialized in attending towards our needs with narrow attention, while the right hemisphere (RH) deals with novelty and what’s going on apart from ourselves. Hemispheric lateralization allows animals to specialize for different tasks. ![]() These hemispheres don’t merely provide different ways of thinking about the world, but create actual worlds of experience, and provide different ways of being in the world. The separation of the brain into two hemispheres is not accidental. Part 1 – The Divided Brain – The Master and His Emissary 1. Iain McGilchrist’s thesis is that throughout history, the left-hemisphere view has progressively overtaken the right-hemisphere view (the Master has been overthrown by the Emissary). The two hemispheres provide two radically opposed realities, and their co-operation can be conflictual. ![]() This division is significant, as it helps explain fundamental aspects of human experience and Western thought. General idea: The brain is divided into two hemispheres. Full Summary – The Master and His Emissary, by Iain McGilchrist ![]() |