![]() ![]() Eventually she finds the book that houses the history of the secret society.Īnd that's when things get interesting. She's kind of jealous of the whole thing, so she does some more sleuthing. So she spies on them and finds out that they do all sorts of cool pranks and practice plenty of male bonding. Which of course piques our Frankie's curiosity. ![]() She soon finds out that the boys are all part of a secret society called the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds, but that it's a males-only group. They start dating, and she hangs out with him and his friends, including Alpha (who happens to be the boy from the Jersey Shore). ![]() When Frankie returns to school, her big crush Matthew Livingston finally notices her and her brand new bod. Nevertheless, Frankie manages to meet a boy at the boardwalk briefly, but doesn't think she'll ever see him again. Frankie's mom is a wee bit overprotective now that her youngest daughter has shot up and gained some womanly curves. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Summaryįrankie's disreputable history begins with a trip to the Jersey Shore with her mother. ![]()
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![]() ![]() First published at the age of 15, her book, Reach for the Moon won the 1994 Margot Marek Award for best book on the subject of learning disabilities, the Distinguished Book Award from the International Reading Association and was named Best Book for Teen Age by the New York Public Library. Samantha has spoken at numerous conferences as a keynote speaker and workshop Samantha has a degree in English from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan. Samantha Abeel Among other awards, My Thirteenth Winter won an American Library Association Award for 2005. Her newest book, My Thirteenth Winter is an honest, hopeful autobiography that will inspire anyone who has ever had to face and overcome an obstacle. Samantha has a degree in English from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He ran an auction house which sold rare books in Lancaster, and in later life he toured the colonies selling off his massive book collection. He also reprinted a number of popular English works, presenting them to the colonies for the first time. As a dedicated patriot, Bell printed many pamphlets and books before and during the revolution, many of which "glowingly" expressed his patriotic views. Bell and Paine later had a falling out over profits and publication issues. ![]() Bell became widely noted for printing Thomas Paine's celebrated work, Common Sense, a highly influential work during the revolution that openly criticized the British Parliament and their management and taxation of the British-American colonies. Robert Bell (1732–1784) was a Scottish immigrant to the British colonies in America and became one of many early American printers and publishers active during the years leading up to and through the American Revolution. Auction house listing of rare books sold by Robert Bell, 1780 ![]() ![]() ![]() Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. ![]() ![]() Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. ![]() His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a heartfelt novel not to be missed. Then there was the ending! I'll simply say that it left me smiling, in a content and satisfied way as I turned the last page. The extraordinary bond of friendship, the heartwarming family aspect and the feel good love story - all blended and worked perfectly together to create a story that will both break your heart and fill it up again. I don't want to give too much away but this book was simply adorable. Young did an amazing job bringing her to life in this unique way throughout the book. She may have been deceased for 99% of the book but she was such an amazing character. We got to know her through this amazing act of selfless love she concocted as she was slowly dying. ![]() Sasha's personality, heart and essence shone through her letters and video clips. ![]() These adventures help Raquel mourn, heal and find love. The letter sends her on an adventure - one of many that arrive spontaneously and with perfect timing. Upon her death a letter arrives for her best friend, Raquel. Sasha Cade is larger than life! She is 17, in high school and dying of cancer. The premise was sad but it was so infused with hope and love that it actually made me happy through my heartbreak and tears - as illogical as that might sound. □ Sasha Cade is a heartwarming story of friendship, love, loss and life! □ ![]() ![]() ![]() In Sime's book, Meitner’s escape from Germany reads like a spy novel, except that it is completely based in fact. This is because in July 1938, my grandfather, Dirk Coster, was the person who escorted her out of Germany. Sime started writing my father for details about Lise Meitner's escape from Germany. I became familiar with Lise Meitner and her story when, in 1972, Dr. In 1944, Otto Hahn alone received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei." On February 11, 1939, Meitner and Frisch published in Nature the physical interpretation of the process they named fission. ![]() ![]() The facts are that on January 6, 1939, Hahn and Strassmann reported in Naturwissenschaften their chemical findings for fission. The chronology of the discovery of fission is considerably more complex than the facts, and clouded by events beyond the world of science. With the publication of the book by Ruth Lewin Sime, "Lise Meitner, A life in physics," to some extent her name has resurfaced. Yet by the 1970's, her name was nearly forgotten. Albert Einstein once called her, "the most significant woman scientist of the 20th century". Abstract: Lise Meitner was one of the pioneers of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within five years of this first meeting, however, Brontë was dead. “Such a life as Miss Brontë’s I have never heard of before,” she marvelled to one correspondent. Yet each was fascinated by the other.īrontë had soon invited Mrs Gaskell to Haworth, a rare honour, and Gaskell was also deeply impressed by her new friend. By contrast, Brontë (pseudonymously hiding behind “Currer Bell”) was a sickly, self-effacing, reclusive woman, appalled by children, who hardly ever ventured into literary London. Gaskell was beautiful, worldly and dizzyingly public: a mother of four familiar with Florence Nightingale, Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, and even Dickens, with whom she did not get on (“If I were Mr G,” exclaimed Dickens, “oh heaven, how I would beat her”). They were, in many respects, polar opposites. The two novelists first met in the Lake District in the summer of 1850. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was desperate to find my way in a world that seemed to prefer me quiet or invisible. I was tired of defending my ideas, explaining myself, and being dismissed over and over again. I was convinced that the emotional and psychological damage couldn’t possibly be worth it. ![]() I nearly dropped out of graduate school that first year. These early lessons in hooks’ life became the container within which her own pedagogical and scholarly works developed. ![]() It’s obvious why, for hooks, the classroom was a site of political action and engagement. She wrote, “For Black folks teaching - educating - was fundamentally political because it was rooted in antiracist struggle.” For hooks, the radical political exemplars in her life were the Black women who, at her segregated schools, taught her “a revolutionary pedagogy of resistance.” Her teachers had essentially used their classrooms to build political power amongst young people. In the book, hooks relied on her experiences as a young Black girl growing up in what she referred to as the “apartheid South” to outline the ways that teaching is inherently political for Black people. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you decide to check out the book, we hope you’ll do so via this Amazon affiliate link, where if you choose to purchase via the link DIY MFA gets a referral fee at no cost to you. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society.Ī powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner’s The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come. These people―a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others―could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. The Jane Austen Society Detail of Books Author : Natalie Jenner Pages : 320 pages Publisher : St. With the last bit of Austen’s legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen’s home and her legacy. Now it’s home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England’s finest novelists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even if you are skeptical about universal voting, the authors make it easy for you to change your mind.Ĥ. ![]() ![]() and Miles Rapoport (The New Press, 2022). 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting by E.J. Both books will encourage you to rescue youngsters from controlling corporate hucksters and the addictive Internet Gulag.ģ. Who’s Raising the Kids? Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children by Susan Linn (The New Press, 2022) and You Are Your Own Best Teacher! Sparking the Curiosity, Imagination and Intellect of Tweens by Claire Nader (Essential Books, 2022). I learned much from this eyewitness story of the textile and fashion industry worldwide.Ģ. Fashionopolis: The Secrets Behind the Clothes We Wear by Dana Thomas (Dial Books, 2022). ![]() |