When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves and each other. At 25, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. Alix resolves to make things right.īut Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. The store's security guard, seeing a young Black woman out late with a White child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. " (NPR)Ī striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a bighearted story about race and privilege, set around a young Black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.Īlix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. "The most provocative page-turner of the year." ( Entertainment Weekly ) A Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick
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OL15107910W Page_number_confidence 70.69 Pages 118 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210124003049 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 330 Scandate 20210121053228 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0590944843 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:berenstainbearsc0000bere_d4d8:epub:0588faa4-6228-43bc-ab46-b6af69f03c41 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier berenstainbearsc0000bere_d4d8 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9c63nf50 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0590944843 Lccn 98171519 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9198 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200106 Openlibrary_edition Since their inception, the Berenstain Bears stories have expanded to include picture books, beginning readers, and chapter books-even a hit TV show on PBS. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:02:36 Associated-names Berenstain, Jan, 1923-2012 Berenstain, Mike, 1951- ill Boxid IA40046818 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier It served the culture, and from it all of our lives followed. I was in my thirties and already twice married, twice divorced, when that first feminist trumpet was sounded and I awakened, as though from a dream, to the single most important realization of my life: the conviction that men by nature take their brains seriously and women by nature do not was an acquired belief, not an inborn reality. I was born into an immigrant working class family that was also Jewish and left-wing so I don’t remember a moment when I was not aware of and moved by the political-ness of life but it was only now, in the seventies, that I felt it viscerally. For me, and a few thousand others like me, discovering feminism in the early 1970s provided such a moment. It remains one of life’s great mysteries, that moment of political readiness when the elements of experience and circumstance are sufficiently fused to galvanize an idea whose time has come. Matchgirls participating in a strike against Bryant & May, London, 1888 George Gissing’s novel captured our two-steps-forward, one-step-back journey to the “new” woman and man. His heart is broken and he feels here is no point in living. He has just lost the love of his life, Jim, suddenly, in a car accident. George is originally from England and has now relocated to California where he is a college professor. George is a gay man at a time when being a gay man meant social death at best, and trial and imprisonment at worst. George's circumstances are that if a person forced to hide the most intrinsic thing about themselves for fear of retribution. Place George in the present day and he would likely be happier, fulfilled and unlikely to be feeling suicidal. George is the eponymous "Single Man" of the novel's title and rather a victim of being born in too early of a time. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Her dilemma worsens when an eagle-eyed governess takes up residence, and a mysterious note arrives, urging Cate to seek her mother’s diary. Cate is responsible for protecting her family, a responsibility that does not square with marrying the tempting and handsome Paul McLeod. Cate, like her two sisters, is a secret witch, the legacy of a mother who died young trying to produce a male heir. Girls must marry or go into the convent by their 17th birthday, and Cate Cahill’s moment of truth is fast approaching. The Brotherhood has established a Christian dictatorship by overthrowing a governing caste of witches, and any hint of the arcane is now reason enough to sentence a woman to an asylum or hard labor. Spotswood’s debut, first in the Cahill Witch Chronicles, is set in an alternate New England circa 1896. Such a severe imperfection is indicative of an equally powerful skill: Orlu possesses the natural ability to undo Juju spells. Orlu’s major flaw is his dyslexia, which greatly deterred his ability to learn to read as a child. Orlu is quiet and generally well-behaved, but he can think quickly on his feet. He, along with Chichi, help Sunny to realize her true identity as a Leopard Person. Orlu: Orlu is Sunny’s classmate and fellow Leopard Person-in-training. Being albino also signals Sunny’s ability to disappear at will, and even to go between this world and the spirit world. Sunny was born albino, but after discovering her spirit face, the sun doesn’t burn her skin painfully the way it used to. Sunny’s name reflects her spirit face: “Her spirit face was the sun, all shiny gold and glowing with pointy rays.” (page 93). She is a free agent Leopard Person, meaning that neither of her parents have magical ability. She was born and raised in America, but at 12 years old, she is living in her parents’ homeland of Nigeria. Sunny: Sunny is the main character in Akata Witch. The Castle of Otranto was written in 1764 during Horace Walpole's tenure as MP for King's Lynn. The novel was inspired by a nightmare Walpole had at Strawberry Hill House (18th-century engraving of the gothic villa pictured). The novel initiated a literary genre that would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and George du Maurier. Claiming he saw a ghost in the nightmare-which featured a "gigantic hand in armour"-Walpole incorporated imagery from this into the novel, and also drew on his knowledge of medieval history. Walpole was inspired to write the story after a nightmare he had at his Gothic Revival home, Strawberry Hill House, in Twickenham, southwest London. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music, and the goth subculture. Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. He and Billy team up to make sure this foundling isn’t left in the slums of Chicago with only the flea-riddled, garbage-infested streets for a playground. Hailed as the toughest man west of any place east, he has no patience for big cities and women who think they belong anywhere but home…ĭespite their difference of opinion on the role of women, Hunter and Billy find a growing attraction between them-until Hunter discovers an abandoned baby in the corner of a White City exhibit. A Texas Ranger and World’s Fair guard specifically chosen for his height, physique, character, and skill. As a doctor at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, she is one step closer to having her very own medical practice-until Hunter Scott asks her to give it all up to become his wife. Saddled with a man’s name, the captivating Billy Jack Tate makes no apologies for taking on a man’s profession. From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair comes a historical love story about a lady doctor and a Texas Ranger who meet at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company In this economyĪs a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower-for good or ill-is a properly executed spreadsheet.Īnna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. “This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell." - Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author O'Leary, Thalia, the Hunters of Artemis, Charles and Silena… So many of the gods too, like Poseidon, Amphitrite, Triton, Hestia, Hades, Persephone, Achilles, Athena, Hermes, Hecate… And the terrifying Titans, like Kronos, Typhon, Oceanus, Morpheus, Prometheus, Hyperion, Drakon… Everyone bringing their small or big contribution to this grand final confrontation. Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Clarisse, Nico, Tyson, Rachel, Mrs. Virtually every single character that had ever been part of the series had some sort of involvement in this final adventure. The assault on Princess Andromeda, the exploration of Luke’s origins, Underworld’s River Styx, the Battle of Manhattan. Gosh! This was so EPIC! So many things happening you can barely recount them all. Everything will be settled in an epic godlike battle that will forever decide the fate of the Olympians, and the future of the whole western civilization. Nothing can stop the incoming onslaught, and the fulfillment of the so dreaded prophecy. Percy, Annabeth, Grover and a handful of determined demigods and allies, the only obstacles in their way. The invincible Kronos, Lord of Time, Luke, and the unstoppable army of gods, demigods and monsters progressively approach Manhattan to finally destroy a lightly guarded Mount Olympus. |