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Now on the brink of turning 14, Melanin Sun is becoming aware of one of the most important things: Himself. Not many white people have ever come into the neighborhood and very rarely do the inhabitants step out of their community. Mel, as he is called, has grown up his entire life with only his mother within his small Brooklyn neighborhood, which is predominantly African American. Melanin Sun is about a fourteen-year-old boy named Melanin Sun who faces various challenges in his thirteenth year. While classified as YA lit due to its young teenage narrator, Melanin Sun can really be for all audiences no matter what age or race. Addressing some of the most important issues faced by the African American community, really by all minority communities, Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson is one of the most rarest and yet realest novels to be written. Today, the refreshingly filter-free housewife and unapologetic mom is the newest full-time cast member of Bravo's juggernaut franchise, where she often elicits raised eyebrows and gossip from her costars for her refusal to be the scorned ex-wife, to be bullied, to change her sarcastic sense of humor, or-on most occasions-to wear a bra. Before she knew it, Brandi was the perfect Hollywood trophy wife-at least until her marriage exploded. For the first time, Brandi talks about how she escaped a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of Sacramento and stumbled into a successful modeling career that swept her into a world of Paris Fashion Weeks, private jets, and uncircumcised penises. Not only does Brandi spill the beans about her side of the split, the lovable housewife shares the incredible wild ride that took her from a life in the ghetto to Hollywood's most elite circles. So why should she change now? Brandi Glanville tells all in this hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.įans have been waiting for Brandi's scoop on one of the biggest divorces of the decade, since her husband of eight years abandoned her and their two sons to marry country singer LeAnn Rimes. She's the brutally honest breath of fresh air on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, known for her dramatic divorce, her barely-there clothing, and her inability to keep her mouth shut. Later that evening, she shows up at his home unexpectedly. Although the damage is minor, the young woman panics, speeding off hysterically after taking Richard’s insurance information. He bumps into the tail end of a Lexus, driven by Evelyn Ortega, a small Mayan woman. The landlord, Richard Barmaster, a professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, makes an emergency run with his sick cat in a major snowstorm. Allende analyzes the behavior of each character compassionately, eventually revealing how all have actually been strengthened by the bizarre event that brought them together.Ī blizzard and a minor auto accident draw the three characters together. All three– a reclusive landlord, a stoic refugee from Chile, and the panicky illegal alien from Guatemala, -have deep traumatic scars caused by horrific events in their pasts. While the plot focuses upon these characters’ bumbling efforts to dispose of the evidence, the author is looking at their characters very closely. She protests her innocence to two sympathetic educators, who convince her to dispose of the body and the car not just because the circumstantial evidence would point to the alien, but also because of her mortal fear of the ferocious temper of her boss. Isabel Allende’s novel has the makings of a mystery: a young woman’s frozen body is discovered in the trunk of a car driven by an illegal, unlicensed alien, who is working as a nanny for a gangster. 30 Mar, 2018 in Local Events / Ted Odenwald OL20007174W Page_number_confidence 95.00 Pages 262 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200721213620 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 863 Scandate 20200707042343 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781472221056 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 4. Smiths irresistible novel explores what happens. Urn:lcp:hellogoodbyeever0000smit:lcpdf:6b05d352-8150-413c-9c1c-e8a80e694537 The question is, will it be goodbye for now or goodbye foreverFull of wisdom, heart, and hope, Jennifer E. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:04:38 Boxid IA1882306 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 5/30/2023 0 Comments Transforming by austen hartkeHartke has woven together the writing, research, and life stories of transgendered Christians into a book that is eloquent, informational, and readable. I received a review copy of the book from NetGalley and it’s so good. Pre-order that book and know that it will be waiting for you right as resurrection rest becomes a real thing in your life. I know you’d like to read it right now, but you’ve got liturgy to write and a few freezer meals to cook for yourself so it’s not all fast food all the time (or no food all the time) on Good Friday. Slide on over to your bookseller of choice and pre-order Austen Hartke’s Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians. Present Me is offering Present You a chance to give Future You a gift. Whatever your plate is full of right now, let’s pray for you to have a break in about three weeks, around April 7. Or perhaps community support in election season or with the March for Our Lives. But you and I both know that your head is all Holy Week and Easter- all the time. In this space, we have generally committed to not reviewing books before they were actually out and on shelves. 5/30/2023 0 Comments The legend of sleepy hollow novelIt is implied that he frightened away his rival by posing as the Headless Horseman. Whenever the story is told, Brom gives a knowing wink. Villagers find Ichabod's hat, saddle, and a smashed Jack-o'-lantern. His ghost haunts the countryside in search of his head. He thinks he sees the Headless Horseman, a dead soldier of the Revolution whose head was blown off by a cannon ball. One autumn night after a party at the Van Tassel's, Ichabod sets off for home alone. He does not like Ichabod hovering about Katrina. Brom is a rowdy and boisterous young man. He falls in love with pretty Katrina Van Tassel (and her father's large farm). Toad of 1949 and, more recently, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow of 1999 starring Johnny Depp.Ī lanky school teacher named Ichabod Crane arrives in the village of Sleepy Hollow. Adaptations include Walt Disney's animated movie The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. The story was one of the first fictional works by an American author to become popular outside the United States. The story was published in 1820 in a collection of Irving's literary pieces called The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Questions are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) to familiarize students with the structure and vocabulary of standardized test questions. It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: plot development, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, analogies, and other elements of literature. This 41-question multiple-choice reading comprehension and analysis test on “The People Could Fly” African American Folk Tale by Virginia Hamilton has questions from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). 5/30/2023 0 Comments Pindar the complete odesExplanatory notes help the reader to navigate Pindar's sometimes compressed and allusive expressive technique.Ībout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. The text is complemented by a succinct introduction by Stephen Instone outlining the essential nature of Pindar's Odes as well as explaining the nature of the Games, the events, and the participants. Pindar's startling use of language, including striking metaphors, bold syntax, and enigmatic expressions, makes reading his poetry a uniquely rewarding experience.Īnthony Verity's lucid translations stay as close as they can to the original Greek, without sacrificing readability. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths, such as Jason and the Argonauts, and Perseus and Medusa, and are a valuable source for insights on Greek religion and ethics. Pindar praises the victor by comparing him to mythical heroes and the gods, but also reminds the athlete of his human limitations. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxing, wrestling, all-in fighting and the pentathlon, and his Odes are fascinating not only for their poetic qualities, but for what they tell us about the Games. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Michael pollan books food rulesPollan defends his right to provide nutrition advice because he speaks on the authority of “tradition and common sense.” But, tradition and common sense will get you about 90% of the way to a healthy diet. Almost without exception, his observations on nutrition are wrong-sometimes subtly so, sometimes overtly so, and sometimes in ways that are actually dangerous. He quotes "nutrition professionals" whose credentials and opinions are questionable at best. He carefully describes all of the reasons why nutrition research is flawed, and then employs some of the worst examples of research (animal studies and completely uncontrolled observational approaches) to support his own arguments. The same can be said of my own nutrition profession.Īnd obviously he is right that we should choose more whole foods and engage in practices that help us appreciate food-a useful perspective even if it isn’t a particularly cutting edge one.īut for the most part, Pollan’s reasoning about nutrition and research was pretty unsophisticated and uninformed. The government is far too slow to change its recommendations and has strong ties (to put it mildly) to the food industry. It has sometimes led us down the wrong road (although it has also provided life-saving findings). Michael Pollan is right about some of the big stuff. But I was so alarmed at the amount of misinformation here that one star is the best I can do. Actually, there is enough good material in this book that it probably warrants another star or two. |