![]() ![]() In addition to her personal accounts, Smith beautifully incorporates interviews with some of the artists who helped her through dark days, including Linda “Peaches” Greene from Peaches and Herb, Will Guest from the Pips, Marilyn McCoo from the 5th Dimension, Jody Whatley, and dozens of significant music and cultural writers spanning decades. The common thread through it all is the songs that provided the backing track to her life over the years. Smith courageously recounts some uncomfortable childhood moments, and struggles from her career working in the music and media businesses. In the very next paragraph, Smith moves from Summer’s story to her own so seamlessly that it takes a minute to realize the transition has occurred (which happens a few times throughout the book). LaDonna of Massachusetts wanted her freedom from a strict but loving home and from the racial separatism of Boston, so she created it.” But even with the white husband and white creative partners and working in a world of European whiteness, none of it was easy. ![]() “Boston was in the rearview,” Smith writes. She wasn’t boxed into the soul sound that had dominated African American music since the 1950s. At this point, Summer was making disco music and exploring new frontiers in recording. A particularly poignant moment in the book is the story of Summer’s (born LaDonna Gaines) time in Germany, when she learned German (in record time) and married Austrian Actor Helmuth Sommer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A chronicle of ideas and of personal commitments and betrayals, Safranski's biography combines clear accounts of the philosophy that won Heidegger eternal renown with the fascinating details of the loves and lapses that tripped up this powerful intellectual. R diger Safranski chronicles Heidegger's rise along with the thought he honed on the way, with its debt to Heraclitus, Plato, and Kant, and its tragic susceptibility to the conservatism that emerged out of the nightmare of Germany's loss in World War I. Soon he turned apostate and sought a university position, which set him on the path to becoming the star of German philosophy in the 1920s. Heidegger grew up in Catholic Germany where, for a chance at pursuing a life of learning, he pledged himself to the priesthood. The story of Heidegger's life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography. ![]() One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler. ![]() ![]() ![]() Refreshingly direct and unapologetic, Imogene is far from a stereotypical people-pleasing, boy-obsessed teen girl. With just a couple of clues and a lifetime of investigative skills she's memorized from reading her father's books and classic mysteries, Imogene goes on a hunt to find both her long-lost mother and her now-gone father. While her therapist stepmother wants the police to go public with the news, Imogene secretly believes he's gone looking for her birth mother, who abandoned the family when she was a baby. ![]() The daughter of a bestselling mystery author turns to her favorite literary sleuths for inspiration to find her missing father.Ī few days before winter break of her senior year, 17-year-old Imogene Scott's father, a medical mystery writer (think Robin Cook meets Patricia Cornwell), leaves in the middle of the night and doesn't return home. ![]() ![]() His title Bed of Procrustes made the N.Y. Taleb has also taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Courant Institute of New York University, and the Wharton Business School Financial Institutions Center. ![]() Taleb is a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and visiting professor of Marketing (Cognitive Science) at London Business School. His book, The Black Swan, was translated into 27 languages and spent several months on the New York Times Bestseller list. ![]() Taleb's book, Fooled by Randomness, was translated into 23 languages. Taleb began his financial mathematics career in several of New York City's Wall Street firms before becoming a scholar in the epistemology of chance events, randomness, and the unknown. in Management Science from the University of Paris- Dauphine. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. Taleb received his bachelors and masters degree in science from the University of Paris. ![]() ![]() He is a researcher, essayist, trader, epistemologist, and former practitioner of mathematical finance. Nassim Nicholas Taleb was born in 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Son of a Trickster’s events are based in the real-life history of Kitamaat Village (the reserve at the center of the Haisla Nation), the Eurocan paper mill shutdown, and the Idle No More movement. Robinson still lives in Kitamaat and plans to publish the third book in the Trickster trilogy in 2021. In 2019, Robinson was diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica, an inflammatory disorder that makes it difficult to write, though she continues to do so. The second book, Trickster Drift, was published in 2018, and Robinson again won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her sequel. Son of a Trickster, the first book of a planned trilogy, was published in 2017. Her third book, Blood Sports, was published in 2006 and returned to the characters of one of the short stories in Traplines. In 2003, Robinson moved back to Kitamaat Village to care for her father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 1998. Her second book and first novel, Monkey Beach, was published in 2000 and received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The collection won Britain’s Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. In 1995, Robinson published her first book, Traplines, a collection of four short stories. She received a BA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Eden Robinson was born in Kitamaat, British Columbia and is part of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Asterin and her companions begin to wonder how much of their lives have been lies, especially when they realize that the center of the web of deceit might very well be themselves. The task that countless trained soldiers have failed.īut as they hunt for the demon, they unearth a plot to assassinate the princess herself instead. With the help of her friends and the powers she wields-though has yet to fully understand-Asterin sets out to complete a single task. When Asterin Faelenhart, Princess of Axaria and heir to the throne, discovers that she may hold the key to defeating the mysterious demon terrorizing her kingdom, she vows not to rest until the beast is slain. Many soldiers from the royal guard are sent out to hunt it down. Some say it is an invulnerable demon summoned from the deepest abysses of the Immortal Realm. Some call it a monster, laying waste to the villagers and their homes. In the kingdom of Axaria, a darkness rises. ![]() ![]() This is to ensure that the Seforim that are being returned are intact and sellable.Īll seasonal products may not be returned however, may be exchanged beginning three (3) days prior to the nearest Yom Tov. 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All items in new condition may be returned for refund, exchange, or store credit within fifteen (15) days of date of purchase. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author-illustrator created it while raising her family in an island cabin with neither electricity nor running water. By a small stretch, one could say Andrew Henry's Meadow is a children's version of Walden. ![]() There he demonstrated his independence and self-reliance, eventually making himself famous when he published his notes as Walden. Also by theĪuthor: If I Were in Charge of the World and Otherīest and Once Upon an Ordinary Day by Colin McNaughton.īy Doris Burn Grades K-2 48 pages Philomel, 2012 e-bookīack in the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau took to the Massachusetts woods beside a pond at the edge of town. (Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to Move. Follow him from a cereal box without a prize Books represent a brief portion of the hundredsĬited in the print edition of The-Read-Aloud Handbook.Īlexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Veryĭay once in a while but little Alexander has the worst ![]() ![]() ![]() Young children will be fascinated with the details on some of the pages that tell as much as the text about what the bears encounter. Literary elements at work in the story: Although only 32 pages, this is a fully formed adventure story. Their quest across the sea brings some physical challenges and danger and conflict with each other until they find that home – and forgiveness – is where they find what they need. In asking various people they meet on the open seas if they know where to find a blue shell, one gruff sailor tells them they will find one if they ‘just look in the right place’. ![]() Hoping to replace the shell with a lookalike before their mother finds out the first one is broken, they set off in their boat on a search for a similar shell. ![]() Summary: Three sibling bears break their mother’s favorite blue shell as they try to sneak a jar of honey off of the mantle. ![]() ![]() Yet the inn holds more surprises than Jo Marie can imagine. ![]() Coping with the death of her husband, she purchases a local bed-and-breakfast-the newly christened Rose Harbor Inn-ready to begin her life anew. ![]() Jo Marie Rose first arrives in Cedar Cove seeking a sense of peace and a fresh start. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber comes the first book in a new series set in the beloved Pacific Northwest town of Cedar Cove.Īlso from Debbie Macomber: watch the new original series Cedar Cove on Hallmark Channel, Saturdays at 8:00/7:00c, starting July 20.įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber comes a heartwarming new series based in the Pacific Northwest town of Cedar Cove, where a charming cast of characters finds love, forgiveness, and renewal behind the doors of the cozy Rose Harbor Inn. ![]() |