![]() ![]() "Music does something to you," Rodriguez-Seeger said. The causes and movements have changed from time to time over 75 years, but his message has always been the same: Song is the key to understanding and change. That moment affirmed the message that his grandfather has preached tirelessly across nine decades. This is beautiful,' " Rodriguez-Seeger said. "He shook my hand and said, 'Thank you, thank you. ![]() The officer reached for his hand and he readied for the cuffs. Rodriguez-Seeger, a New Orleans-based musician, was certain arrest was imminent. "Was this your idea? Did you think of this?" "Are you Tao Seeger?" the officer asked tersely. Suddenly a New York City police officer stepped from the crowd and grabbed his elbow. Tao Rodriguez-Seeger was halfway through Friday night's march down Broadway to support the Occupy Wall Street movement, a guitar strapped over his shoulder and his grandfather Pete Seeger at his side. ![]()
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![]() The land here was never plowed, and with careful cultivation it preserves the prairie as Cather roamed it, in the eighteen-eighties-an immemorial zone of grass, trees, birds, water, and wind. At the bottom, you no longer see traces of modern civilization, though you can hear trucks on Route 281 as they clamber out of the Kansas flats. You park at the top of a hill and follow a path down to a gulch, where a creek widens into a pond. Cather spent much of her childhood in Red Cloud, six miles up the road, and for many people who love her writing, and perhaps for some who don’t, the Cather Prairie is one of the loveliest places on earth. At the southern edge of the county, a few hundred feet north of the Nebraska-Kansas border, is a six-hundred-acre parcel of land called the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. In Webster County, Nebraska, the prairie rolls in waves, following the contours of a tableland gouged by rivers and creeks. Photograph from Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries ![]() The Nebraska plains gave Willa Cather the stuff of epics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, Henkes has also won two Newbery Honors for his books for older children. In the children’s publishing world, to win one of those awards is a remarkable feat - to win both is an exceptional honor. Henkes’ latest addition to his collection is the picture book "Waiting" – which has won both the Caldecott Honor Award and the Theodore Geisel Honor (named after Dr. In fact, one of my favorite treasures is an autographed copy of "Sheila Rae, the Brave" that my sister-in-law gave me as a gift several years ago.Ī visit to the author’s website provides a list of his many wonderful books for children of all ages: "Kitten's First Full Moon," "Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse," "Chrysanthemum," "Julius the Baby of the World," "Owen," "Wemberly Worried" … the list goes on and on, as does the awards and accolades. ![]() Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.” - Kevin Henkesįor many years, I have enjoyed reading books by Kevin Henkes. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. “ I think writers are observers and watchers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are little details that stand out: the stubbornness of symbols how the simple revving of an engine still running on old fuel, while ultimately meaningless, becomes an act of rebellion, an expression of self-affirmation but a completely futile one in the face of so much killing. A Southern suicide bomber assassinated the president in 2073, plunging the country into violence. It was enough, though, to moor a movement that would lead to the deaths of millions. The nature of Southern “culture” was rich, but also somewhat vague and constructed, like all cultural identities are. Southerners resented this and other impositions from the richer, prosperous Northern states. In the early 2070s, the federal government, by then based in Columbus, moved to outlaw fossil fuels. Climate change has changed the continent, submerging the banks of Louisiana and the near entirety of Florida, save for an island enclave or two, one of which eventually houses the notorious Sugarloaf Detention Facility for Northern prisoners of war. Omar El Akkad’s American War, which interprets the American South by way of the Middle East, challenges Americans to imagine what it might be like to die for, but also kill, their fellow citizens. Dystopian novels are a difficult genre: They need to be imaginative, edging on the far-fetched, while being just plausible enough to terrify. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both graduate and get jobs with serious plans for their wedding. Ananya was tagged as the "Best girl of the fresher batch". The story begins in the IIM Ahmedabad mess hall where Krish, a Punjabi boy from Delhi sights a beautiful girl Ananya, a Tamilian from Chennai quarreling with the mess staff about the food. ![]() It is narrated from a first-person point of view in a humorous tone, often taking digs at both Tamil and Punjabi cultures. The story is about a couple Krish and Ananya, who hail from two states of India, Punjab and Tamil Nadu, respectively, who are deeply in love and want to marry. This is his fourth book after Five Point Someone, One Night the Call Center and The Three Mistakes of My Life.Ģ States: The Story of My Marriage is autobiographical with only names changed. ![]() Bhagat wrote this novel after quitting his job as an investment banker. It is the story about a couple coming from two states in India, who face hardships in convincing their parents to approve of their marriage. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage commonly known as 2 States is a 2009 novel written by Chetan Bhagat. ![]() ![]() What if someone could interview the last known survivor of an old town’s most controversial and secret account ever? This is what a young freshman named David Peterson is able to do. Inspired by very real accounts of the Black Duck, a legendary rum-running boat that worked the New England shores during the era, Newberry Honor winner, Janet Taylor Lisle has written a colorful, original work of historical fiction. ![]() Then Ruben meets the daring captain of the Black Duck, the most elusive smuggling craft of them all, and it isn’t long before he’s keeping dangerous company. Soon the boys, along with Jeddy’s strong-willed sister, Marina, are drawn in, suspected by rival bootlegging gangs of taking something crucial off the dead man. Its spring, 1929, Prohibition is in full swing, and many in their community are involved. ![]() ![]() WHEN RUBEN AND JEDDY FIND A DEAD BODY in an evening suit washed up on the shore, they are certain it has to do with smuggling liquor. From back of book: History and mystery collide in a gripping saga of rum-running on the Rhode Island coast during the 1920’s. ![]() ![]() Yulia is quickly won over to the cause, even in the face of Soviet deceptions such as the plundering of the family’s harvest and livestock, and the deaths of several relatives. ![]() ![]() Stalinists, including foreign sympathizers, inventory the countryside’s residences, forcing farmers to give up their land and join collective kolkhozes. Compassionate 12-year-old Nyl narrates the harrowing story, which opens with the ethnically Ukrainian family-Nyl, his parents, and siblings Slavko, nine, and Yulia, 11-just managing to keep their farm going in February 1930. In a timely, hard-hitting novel, Forchuk ( Traitors Among Us) portrays the manufactured famine Holodomor (“murder by hunger”) that Stalinists inflicted on Soviet Ukrainian farmers in the early 1930s. ![]() ![]() ![]() But oh well, I’ll just round it up to 4 because I have no other decent choice □♀️ I’m so torn and confused by this book I swear to all the literary gods out there that I haven’t a clue what I really feel about it.Īs a very important side note: I’ve decided that this is a solid 3.5- stars rating, no more, no less. He’s rude, impatient and doesn’t know how to tell time.Īnd the last thing they ever expected was each other.īut it was either the strip club or the tattoo shop.… she should have chosen the strip club. Except Dex Locke might just be the biggest jerk she’s ever met. I’d gotten over epic heartbreak before, one more wouldn’t kill me.Īfter moving to Austin following six months of unemployment back home, Iris Taylor knows she should be glad to have landed a job so quickly… even if the business is owned by a member of the same motorcycle club her estranged father used to belong to. Worst case scenario if things turned awkward between us, I could go somewhere else. But he was everything that gripped me, both the good and the bad. ![]() ![]() He was my boss, my brother’s friend, a Widower, an ex-felon, and a man I’d seen casually with a handful of women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy.Ĭade doesn’t know that Gael and Valencia are the same person. ![]() ![]() Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect. Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana. Two enemy kingdoms are forced to work together to break a curse in this lush YA fantasy, featuring a transgender prince and a bigender dama/assassin in the lead roles.Ĭade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. ![]() |