![]() It is often a mix of “political correct woke” headlines or the simple existence of a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House that prompts an outburst of anger from OAN personalities directed at “true communism” and its “destruction of the greatest country this world has ever known.” For example, green energy policy is portrayed as a question of “whether or not America will be a sovereign nation.” Hospitals providing care to trans people are examples of the “evil in our midst” during “a spiritual battle.” And investigations of former President Donald Trump are part of “a long struggle” going back to those who “first settled this land.” ![]() OAN talent and guests have used increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric to describe the stakes of the country continuing under Democrats’ “progressive liberal woke agenda” to “tear down and destroy everything good about America.” ![]() One America News Network is a known hub for extreme right-wing opinion, but the network has gone even further to fan the flames in recent weeks leading up to the midterm elections.
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![]() ![]() ![]() I have recently come to realize how much I love Sherlock Holmes retellings. This production includes a bonus excerpt from The Last of August, the second audiobook in Brittany Cavallaro’s Charlotte Holmes Series. Danger is mounting, and nowhere is safe - and the only people they can trust are each other. She's inherited Sherlock's volatility and some of his vices - and when Jamie and Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she's not looking for friends.īut when a student they both have a history with dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers were one of the most infamous pairs in history. This clever detective yarn will appeal to fans of Maureen Johnson and Ally Carter. ![]() The first book in a witty, suspenseful new trilogy about a brilliant new crime-solving duo: the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. ![]() ![]() ![]() After graduating from Wellesley College and spending some time as an advertising copywriter, she began writing family feature films, including Angels in the Outfield and Made in America. Holly Goldberg Sloan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Counting by 7s and Short, among other novels. Palacio’s Wonder, Ross Wellford’s Time Travelling with a Hamster and Mitch Johnson’s Kick. ![]() Is keeping a family together as easy as they think it is?įrom two extraordinary authors comes this moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters. But when the worst happens, and their dads break up, Avery and Bett must figure out a way to get them to fall in love again. ![]() Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends – and possibly, one day, even sisters.Īgainst all odds, the girls soon can’t imagine a life without each other. ![]() What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and their dads are dating each other.īett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same camp for the summer vacation. Bett (Dogfish) is fearless, outgoing, and lives in the moment. A REVERSE PARENT TRAP FOR A NEW GENERATION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS HOLLY GOLDBERG-SLOAN AND MEG WOLITZER.Īvery (Night Owl) is bookish, intense, likes to plan ahead, and is afraid of many things. ![]() ![]() In the US, the book was released in November 2016 and later sold in more than a dozen territories throughout the world. Within 3 months of its publication, the novel entered printing for the fourth time. It came out in the United Kingdom in May 2016 and immediately became the Children’s Book of the Month.Īfter featuring in several bestseller lists, the book won the Children’s Book Prize by Waterstones and the British Book Award. ![]() The book is also known as The Cartographer’s Daughter and its rights were obtained by Knoph as part of a two-book deal in six figures. ![]() Her first book, The Girl of Ink and Stars was bought by the Knopf Random House publication in the United States and Chicken House Scholastic publication for the rest of the world. Hargrave entered the field of writing in 2009 and came up with her first full-length novel in 2014. She is known to have written several mind-blowing standalone books and poetry collections in her career. ![]() Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a renowned British author, award-winning poet, and playwright. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its argument should be widely circulated, to poor people, social service workers and policymakers, but also throughout the professional classes. SHORTLIST: 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice WINNER: The McGannon Center Book Prize for 2018 Deeply researched and passionately written, Automating Inequality could not be more timely. ![]() The book is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because they fit a certain statistical profile. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. ![]() While we all live under this new regime of data analytics, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. “This book is downright scary - but with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the ‘digital poorhouse,’ you will emerge smarter and more empowered to demand justice.” ― Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything ![]() ![]() He’s back from overseas and he wants to pick up where they left off. ![]() She throws herself into her work and doesn’t look back…until Caleb suddenly reappears in her life. Olivia is devastated by Caleb’s rejection, but she tries to move on with her life. As the months go by, their friendship starts to unravel until finally, on the one-year anniversary of his parents’ death, Caleb breaks off all contact with Olivia. But even as she tries to be there for him, she can’t help but feel like he’s shutting her out. So when Caleb’s parents are killed in a car accident, it falls to Olivia to help him pick up the pieces. They’ve shared everything with each other-joy and sorrow, triumph and failure. ![]() Caleb and Olivia’s StoryĬaleb and Olivia have been best friends since they were children. If you give it a shot, you won’t regret it. Though at times difficult to read, Credence is a beautifully written book that will stay with you long after you turn the final page. ![]() Told from the alternating perspectives of Caleb and Olivia, the novel follows the two protagonists as they struggle to come to terms with a devastating tragedy. In this book review, we will look at Credence by Penelope Douglas, which is a heart-wrenching story of love, loss, and betrayal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem was written in an Arabian version of a quatrain. The Poet, Omar Khayyam, was a mathematician and astronomer. ![]() Unfortunately, I don’t have the Persian version on hand (not that I could read it), but I think through comparison of the two passages, we could get a fair idea of what had been contained in the originals.Ī little bit of background on the poem itself, so that the revisions have context. The Edward FitzGerald translation is the best known translation and he was also known to have done several different translations of this work over the years, which gives us the rare opportunity to see how the disciplines of revision and translation cross over. It was originally written in Persian, and the best guess is that it was written around 1120 A.D. This was an interesting selection, because this poem excerpt was put in with the “revisions” portion of the textbook (Introduction to Poetry, 7th Ed., Kennedy), but the poem was not originally written in English, so I decided to put it in the “translations” portion of my posts. This is part three of my translations series. ![]() ![]() Craig Russell ( Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, The Jungle Book).Never-before-collected bonus features include pin-up pages from galleries in THE SANDMAN #50 and SANDMAN SPECIAL #1, the Desire story from VERTIGO: WINTER'S EDGE #3, THE ENDLESS GALLERY #1, script and thumbnails from THE SANDMAN #50, and a section on the Endless retail products (poster, statues, t-shirts, Little Endless and more)! Plus, an introduction by artist Jill Thompson. ![]() Also included is the spectacular short story "Ramadan," a tale of a young king of ancient Baghdad and the deal he strikes with The Sandman to grant his city immortality, with spectacular illustrations by P. But their journey through the Waking World has dramatic repercussions for their family and also for the relationship between the Sandman and his wayward son, Orpheus. 3 presents several key SANDMAN tales in a slipcased hardcover edition, including "Brief Lives," in which the Sandman's sister Delirium prevails upon her older brother to help her find their missing sibling, Destruction. ![]() The third volume collecting Neil Gaiman's seminal, award-winning series starring the Dream King in deluxe format. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kind of makes you want to read The Chocolate War, doesn’t it? In fact, it’s likely that banning The Fault in Our Stars will only make it that much more alluring to Riverside middle school kids. But The Fault in Our Stars does have the dubious honor of being only the second book to be banned in the Riverside Unified School District –– the other being Robert Cormier’s 1974 novel The Chocolate War. And for every banned or challenged book, you’ll find a clever author passionately objecting. Introduce the idea that human beings die to the children of Riverside,Ĭalifornia and thereby crush their dreams of immortality.īanning or challenging popular children’s fiction is nothing new. ![]() Will never witness or experience mortality since they won’t be readingīut I am also sad because I was really hoping I would be able to I am happy because apparently young people in Riverside, California ![]() ![]() ![]() “We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.” “We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we must also look out for ours,” says Roth’s Lindbergh of the Jews. He takes over a fractured Republican Party and campaigns against the advice of consultants and politicians, flying his own plane around the country, offering plainspoken denunciations of interventionism and identity politics. Roth’s Lindbergh sweeps to the presidency on, literally, an “America First!” ticket. ![]() ![]() ![]() As we mourn Roth’s passing, it is worth remembering his warning. In 2004, Philip Roth published The Plot Against America, a work of alternative historical fiction imagining a world where Charles Lindbergh drove Franklin D. Assessing “an inbox full of novels promising fascist regimes, stolen elections, unhinged presidents, and the looming threat of nuclear war,” Hane worried that “these authors are not writing the political moment so much as the moment is writing them.”īut one author did write this political moment, and he died last week. On March 30, literary agent Erik Hane wrote a lament about the way Donald Trump’s presidency loomed over the drafts crossing his desk. ![]() |