He was, thus, one of the first authors to showcase a racially diverse protagonist in children's literature. For example, he and co-author, Pat Cherr, featured minority children in their first work, My Dog is Lost! However, none of Keats's more than 30 illustration jobs featured black children prior to The Snowy Day. Keats's experience living in tenement housing surrounded by children of different cultures and ethnicities can be seen as inspiration for several of his books. ] Following his service in World War II, he changed his last name from Katz to Keats to avoid anti-semitism and to find work in the book publishing industry. Keats, born Jacob (Jack) Ezra Katz, grew up in a poor Jewish family with immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York. Since its publication The Snowy Day has sold millions of copies and has been translated, adapted, and honored leaving a lasting impression on generations of readers. The book's reception was largely positive, although some critics pointed out subtle stereotypes, such as how Peter's mother was portrayed. Keats received the 1963 Caldecott Medal for his collage artwork, which made The Snowy Day the first picture book with an African American protagonist to win a major children's award. Keats’ illustrations helped pave the way for more inclusive and diverse children's literature. It features Peter, an African American boy, who explores his neighborhood after the season's first snowfall. The Snowy Day is a 1962 American children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats.
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The tranquil village turns into a hive of activity when Josie's childhood friend Libby Martin returns to the village, planning a lavish wedding to rival any celeb bash. In Wedding Tiers, cakemaker Josie runs a booming wedding business but her own. Wedding Tiers is my first Trisha Ashley novel and tells the story of Josie, a cakemaker, who lives with her childhood sweetheart Ben. Josie throws herself into her wedding cake business, whilst Ben gains increasing acclaim as an artist. A bargain set of three of Trisha Ashleye(tm)s bestselling romantic comedies. And when Josie inherits her beloved Grandmother's cottage in Neatslake, Lancashire, it seems they might have got just that. Josie Gray and her childhood sweetheart Ben Richards always dreamt of living a life of rural bliss. 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She is best known for her historical fiction novels, focusing on subjects like social justice, environmentalism, and feminism. Because of these strong views, many of her novels talk about people living in challenging circumstances, and how they endure in these harsh environments. If you’re not familiar with Barbara Kingsolver, she’s an American essayist, poet, and novelist, as well as political activist. The goal was to help recover America’s lost appreciation for farming and natural processes of producing food. arbara Kingsolver's 1998 novel is often described as a 'book club classic' a double-edged compliment that somehow implies it is not weighty enough to be taken. This memoir-slash-journalistic book follows the adventure that Barbara Kingsolver and her family went on as they moved from the suburbs of Arizona to rural Appalachia, committing to one year of surviving on a diet wholly produced from local sources. It was selected as a Texas Lone Star reading list book for 2007-2008. She then began her career as young-adult novelist with the Gallagher Girls series and later developed the Heist Society series along with various novellas based on these two series'.Ĭarter's first young-adult novel was I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, the story of a girl who goes to a prestigious spy school and falls for a normal boy who has no idea who she really is. In her free time, she began her work as an author of two adult novels, Cheating at Solitaire, published on December 6, 2005, and Learning to Play Gin, which was subsequently released on November 7, 2006. at Cornell University for Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. Career Education and beginnings Ĭarter graduated with a degree in agricultural economics at Oklahoma State University in 1997 and earned her M.A. The last name "Carter" was specifically selected so that her novels would be near those of her fellow adult fiction novelist Jennifer Crusie on bookstore and library shelves. Ally Carter in the Provo Library at a teen author meet and greet in 2019.Īlly Carter is the pen name of Sarah Leigh Fogleman (born January 1, 1974), an American author of young adult fiction and adult-fiction novels.Ĭarter chose the pen name "Ally Carter" to distinguish the books she would write under that name from her other literary work. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea"-Provided by publisher With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. Summary "Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. In Modern Hebrew, golem is used to mean "dumb" or "helpless" and also to describe an insect in its inactive immature form between larva and adult. The Mishnah uses the term for an uncultivated person: "Seven characteristics are in an uncultivated person, and seven in a learned one", ( שבעה דברים בגולם) ( Avot 5:7 in the Hebrew text English translations vary). The word golem occurs once in the Bible in Psalm 139:16, which uses the word גלמי ( golmi my golem), that means "my light form", "raw" material, connoting the unfinished human being before God's eyes. Over the centuries, it has been used to connote war, community, isolation, hope, and despair." Etymology It can be a victim or villain, man or woman-or sometimes both. According to Moment magazine, "the golem is a highly mutable metaphor with seemingly limitless symbolism. The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th-century rabbi of Prague. A golem ( / ˈ ɡ oʊ l ə m/ GOH-ləm Hebrew: גּוֹלֶם, romanized: gōlem) is an animated, anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore, which is entirely created from inanimate matter, usually clay or mud. They are lynched in the thousands of glances from white supremacists all over the land every day. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Modern Library) by Dray, Philip and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. This is written into the spiritual hanging of all those millions, it is carved into their daily thinking, woven into their total living experience. Philip Dray also tells the story of the men and women who led the long and. As a result of the pattern of extra-legal violence in which they live out their lives, if they do live, the entire Negro people exists in a constant fear that cannot fail to cause serious bodily and mental harm.… Perennial, hour by hour, moment by moment lynching of the Negro’s soul in countless psychological, in myriad physical forms, that is the greatest and most enduring lynching of all. : This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s darkest stainilluminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims. Negro men and women leave their homes and are never seen alive again.…This is a well-known pattern of American culture.… Mass murder on the basis of race is a powerful source of constant terror, as it is intended to be, to the whole Negro people. “y far the majority of Negro murders are never recorded, never known except to the perpetrators and the bereaved survivors of the victim. There were some interesting aspects hinted at that make me interested to read the second book. The ending felt rushed to resolution - we missed some clarity on the roots of Adam’s feelings, and forgiveness was given too quickly. The relationship between the leads is underdeveloped, and unfortunately the events of the second half rely on the intensity of their connection. This was a mite ridiculous but hit the spot for something light and charming. Star-crossed love between a human man and an alien prince from a world half a galaxy away. Little does he know that Harry isn’t what he seems and anything between them is impossible. He wears ugly shirts and flowers in his hair, and he has a kind word for everyone. Harry is ridiculous-and ridiculously endearing. He doesn’t mean to fall in love with the quirky guy working at the coffee shop near his office. Financially secure and good-looking, he’s in a good place in his life. Humans are so confusing.Īdam Crawford isn’t looking for love. Assuming the human name “Harry,” he tries to pass for a human to survive, but being human is so much harder than Harry expected. Read That Alien Feeling (Calluvia’s Royalty, #1) by Alessandra Hazardīanished by his parents to the third planet in the Sol system, Prince Harht’ngh’chaali of the Second Grand Clan is completely fascinated by its inhabitants. After killing one more vampire than the head vampiress commissioned her for Mercy is once again in hot water. Mercy Thompson couldn't keep herself out of trouble if her life depended upon it - and it does. So Mercy had better prepare to watch her back. Mercy may be protected from direct reprisals by the werewolf pack (and her interesting relationship with its Alpha), but that just means Marsilia will come after Mercy some other way. She's also furious when she learns Mercy has crossed her and killed one of her vampires. Unfortunately for Mercy, the queen of the local vampire seethe has discovered her true identity. When European vampires immigrated to North America, they found Mercy's people had a hidden talent - for vampire slaying. Car mechanic and sometime shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has learned, the hard way, why her race was almost exterminated. |