![]() ![]() Agent: Rena Rossner, the Deborah Harris Agency. ![]() Nic lives in Atlanta with her adorable little. A heartwarming, family-centered adventure that will leave readers guessing until the end. Clean Getaway, Nics first middle-grade novel, deals with coming to grips with the pain of the past and facing the humanity of our heroes. This dual tour through pre– and post–civil rights movement America confronts the country’s difficult past, including how fraught with danger travel was to the average black citizen, while raising questions about what progress should look like. As they make their way toward Juarez, Mexico, Scoob begins to suspect that G’ma might be up to something more suspicious than recreating a vacation and becomes torn between contacting another adult and protecting his grandmother. ![]() ![]() This book also provides insightful details about segregation in the US South, especially with the Green Book and the limits on Black people’s freedom of movement. He mostly goes to escape a punishment from his father, but as the two make their way through the South, Scoob learns more about the grandfather whom he never met, the interracialĬouple’s 1963 road trip, which G’ma aims to complete, and the ways in which the world has changed and remained the same. Clean Getaway, Nic Stone’s middle grade debut is a fast-paced, clever story full of twists and a sense of adventure. Part history lesson, part road trip, this notable middle grade debut by Stone ( Jackpot) stars William “Scoob” Lamar, a biracial, black-presenting 12-year-old, as he heads off on a road trip with his beloved grandmother, G’ma, who is white. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After meeting up with him again, Yukawa is convinced that Ishigami had something to do with the murder. ![]() Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist and college friend who frequently consults with the police. Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko's manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there's something wrong. When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. ![]() Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this role Bob helped in the development, production, and marketing of such films as Joshua, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Amazing Grace: The William Wilberforce Story, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Over the last fifteen years Bob has been a special advisor to the Anschutz Corporation, the parent company of Walden Media. Bob Beltz (is the senior pastor of Highline Community Church in Centennial, Colorado, and president of The Telos Project, a nonprofit corporation based in Littleton, Colorado, seeking to influence contemporary, postmodern culture with faith and family-friendly projects. ![]() ![]() ![]() Single parents, grandparents, and siblings are also shown. In this story, there are multicultural, interracial and same-sex couples depicted on the page, not just the typical nuclear family. Marla Frazee realistic portrayals of multicultural families and babies establish this book’s value as a book that reflects the diversity of the modern world. Ultimately, babies are loved for just being them.Įvaluation: The prose and illustrations combined make Everywhere Babies one of the most charming books I’ve enjoyed. They are kissed, dressed, and fed Additionally, babies participate in a multitude of different activities including playing games, learning to walk, splashing in a pool. Meyers expands this concept of everywhere by drawing images of different types of families from single parents to multiple siblings. ![]() Summary: Babies are born everyday and everywhere. Also, a customer at the bookstore highly highly recommend this book to me.Īnnotation: A charming celebration of babies and what they do best from being kissed to the games they play and the people that love them. ![]() Why I Chose It: The diversity portrayed and sweet real life images of babies drew me into this book. Formats Available: Board Book | Picture Book ![]() ![]() ![]() He had been impressed by Agate's review of Wycherley's The Country Wife. Van Thal was a friend and publisher of the critic James Agate, whom he met in 1932. Later he became a general editor of the Doughty Library published by Anthony Blond. In about 1952 Home and Van Thal was absorbed by the Arthur Barker publishing firm and Van Thal then worked as manager and editor of the latter firm. The house was known as a "mushroom" publisher, since it sprang up overnight after the war. Īfter the Second World War, he founded the short-lived publishing house of Home and van Thal, with his friends Margaret Douglas-Home and Gwylim Fielden Hughes. Henry Irving and Harry Lauder were friends of the family. ![]() ![]() Van Thal's grandfather was a distiller (King's Liqueur Whisky), and was a director of the theatre proprietors, Howard and Wyndham. Bertie Maurice van Thal (1904–1983), known as Herbert van Thal, was a British bookseller, publisher, agent, biographer, and anthologist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From here the plot becomes so melodramatic (kidnapping, fire, love triangle) that I had to skim through until the end. Olga dies with little fanfare and in then pages or less Alfrid is convinced by his ten year old foster son to marry Mrs. ![]() I know it’s a children’s book but still both Mike’s and Meg’s books managed to make the world at least a little bit gray. There’s no talk of state’s rights, or republicanism, or even the slaves themselves, its just pro slavery or anti-slavery and everyone falls too neatly into either camp (oh, and there is also the hilarious scene when Danny meets John Wilkes Booth and just knows he’s evil). It’s been awhile since I’ve read about the Civil War, but they way the characters talk about slavery and the election of 1860 comes across very anachronistically. Like in A Family Apart, there is a lot of abolitionist and anti-abolitionist talk as Abraham Lincoln is elected president. ![]() In his story, his younger sister Peg and he are adopted by Alfrid and Olga Swenson, not far from St. Danny’s a mix of Meg and Mike to some degree but lacks the rich characterization of his siblings in the previous three books. In A Place to Belong, the next story in the Orphan Train saga, Danny Kelly wishes his family were back together. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lee has been a passion instigator, academic, adult film performer, world class sexual adventurer, outspoken philosopher, kink/bondage coach, and has been blogging and writing about sex and spirit since 1998. From Sydney to San Francisco, British Columbia to Berlin, Lee has been teaching and talking about self-love, sexuality, psychology, faith, desire, and more since 2001. He brings a combination of playful engagement and thoughtful academic dialogue to a broad audience, and they believe we are each beautifully complex ecosystems who deserve to examine the human experience from that lens. ![]() Lee Harrington (he/they) is a spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist, and award-winning author and editor on erotic and sacred experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. ![]() ![]() Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group-the fabled “Lost Generation”-that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.Ĭhicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness-until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() At age five, she moved to Brussels with her parents.įrom early childhood, David-Neel was odd and sickly, preferring solitude to the company of friends. Her father, Louis David, was a Huguenot activist and friend of novelist Victor Hugo. ![]() ![]() She was born Louise Eugenie Alexandrine Marie David on October 24, 1868, in Paris. David-Neel loved adventure and said that the surest Elixir is not an alchemical formula but travel and intellectual activity.ĭavid-Neel claimed to be descended from Genghis Khan on her mother’s side. Her knowledge influenced the magical practices of other Western occultists, such as FRANZ BARDON. She spent 14 years in Tibet and became one of the first Westerners to learn Tibetan secrets of Magic and mysticism. Alexandra David-Neel led an exotic life and was the first Western woman to enter Llasa, the forbidden capital of Tibet. David-Neel, Alexandra (1868–1969) French explorer, occultist, and Tibetan scholar. ![]() ![]() The Forbes report provided estimated values of 11 historic buildings in Charles' real-estate empire, which are outlined below. These profits largely came from public-tour admissions, gift-shop sales, and leased retail space. The properties range from quaint countryside estates such as Kew Palace to the gargantuan Buckingham Palace with its 775 rooms and priceless collections of furniture, artwork, and other artifacts.įorbes reported that the entire Crown Estate - including royal palaces and homes as well as properties such as Regent Street (a major shopping street in London's West End) and the Ascot Racecourse - netted a £312.7 million profit in the 2022 fiscal year. ![]() And thanks to a rule the UK government introduced in 1993, he didn't have to pay an inheritance tax on any of his personal real estate. The monarch also gained control of the Crown's estimated $42 billion, or £33.7 billion, in royal assets - $9.5 billion, or £7.6 billion, of which is in real estate - according to a 2022 Forbes report. ![]() ![]() When King Charles III ascended the throne in September, he inherited more than just his title. 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