It’s a raw, harrowing story: A young girl is out with friends at a southern California beach, meets some surfers, shares an illicit and thrilling beer, says yes to their invitation to a party - and then discovers, in ways increasingly horrifying, what the young men there take and take and take that yes to mean." - Michael GriffithĪbout the Author: Susann Cokal’s novels are Mirabilis, Breath and Bones, and The Kingdom of Little Wounds, which won several awards, including a 2014 Printz Honor from the American Library Association. Last night, for instance, poling through this brief piece of perhaps four thousand words took five sittings - or, rather, unsittings, since again and again I found myself wandering the house in a fever of empathetic anguish. “Susann Cokal’s “Fourteen Shakes the Baby” compels me through its pages in a way that’s both profoundly uncomfortable and unlike my usual mode of reading.
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, I have had very few moments completely to myself. Each is wrapped in language that engages so deeply with its own curiosity, and with such a taste for the way certain words move in the mouth, that all we can do is share in the wonder-even taste it, if we dare follow our gasping breath into a repetition of the words that called it forth: “The bibliography of the firefly is a tender and electric dress.” Each essay is structured around a particular wonder: the delicate comb jelly, the sugar-laden cara cara orange, and the corpse flower (which needs no additional adjectives), all make appearances. The book is as much about color and race in our modern world as it is about gratitude for the smallest and strangest miracles it still manages to hold. 184 pages.ĪIMEE NEZHUKUMATAHIL'S World of Wonders takes a poetic-encyclopedic approach to memoir. I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Deadpan Snarker: Mostly with regard to Reverend Parris.The Atoner: The sin that has stemmed from his affair with Abigail has made John's life a living hell as he struggles to find a way to repent.Arch-Enemy: Abigail Williams, who is infuriated when he ends his affair with her and starts the entire Salem Witch Trials to do it.Anti-Hero: Has a history of lechery and, at least at the start of the play, a contemptible personality.He is portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1996 film. He sort of achieves this repentance when he allows himself to be hanged at the end of the fourth act. His main conflict in the play narrative isn't the witch trials instead, he is weighed down by the woeful and sinful horrors of his past affairs with Abigail, leaving him as an atoner desperate to redeem himself and cleanse himself from his sins. The protagonist of the play, the husband of Elizabeth Proctor, and the father of several children. Eric Carle passed away in May 2021 at the age of ninety-one. In 2002, Eric and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art () in Amherst, Massachusetts, a 40,000-square-foot space dedicated to the celebration of picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world, underscoring the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of picture books and their art form. In 2003, Carle received the Childrens Literature Legacy Award for lifetime achievement in children's literature. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many bestsellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into seventy languages and sold over fifty-five million copies. Eric Carle (1929≢021) was acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children, including Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Have You Seen My Cat? and The Tiny Seed. Her sudden decision to give them up licenses a lot of writing about sleepless nights (“Her nipples stir, and rise. “We can print out one of those protein strips you like,” suggests Naomi when Colt is hungry After divorcing Ryan, she took pills to suppress her libido because “the ache of desire, with no outlet, was making her cry two or three nights a week”. Naomi relishes submissive sex, the legacy, we’re told, of childhood abuse at the hands of her father. This is the most difficult calculation he’s ever made. “Great, that’s all my day needed,” says Naomi, facing a gunman. The ensuing mayhem unfolds in the deadly but jaunty style of a Hollywood action thriller. His mother, Naomi, a biologist, has figured out how to regrow human limbs by studying caterpillars - a breakthrough that, in view of its potential for use by the US military, means she’s on the watch list of her ex-husband, Ryan, a defence chief preparing to roll out a self-governing national security system resembling Skynet in The Terminator. Set in near-future Nevada, the story follows Colt, an autistic 16-year-old who spends so much time in virtual reality – escaping “crapworld” – that he’s waterproofed his headset so as to be able to shower in it. As the heroine, Edna Pontellier, awakens to her own desires, she begins to question her ideas about marriage, motherhood, society, art, and the nature of love itself. Now praised as a classic of early feminist literature, Kate Chopin’s final work rejects conventional female roles and celebrates a woman’s journey towards self-awareness. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.When The Awakening was first published in 1899, critical outcry proved so vociferous that the novel was banned for decades. Annotation: Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary.Author: Chopin, KateJohnson, Cynthia Brantley (EDT). Sing, O goddess, the fatal wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, which brought ten thousand troubles on the Achæans, Paida d' emoi lysaite philēn, ta d' apoina dechesthai,ġ6th and 17th centuries (1581–1700) Translatorĭisastrous, working Greece unnumbered woes, Hymin men theoi doien Olympia dōmat' echontesĮkpersai Priamoio polin, eu d' oikad' hikesthai: Stemmat' echōn en chersin hekēbolou ApollōnosĬhryseō ana skēptrō, kai lisseto pantas Achaious,Ītreidai te kai alloi euknēmides Achaioi, Lysomenos te thygatra pherōn t' apereisi' apoina, Nouson ana straton orse kakēn, olekonto de laoi,Ītreidēs: ho gar ēlthe thoas epi nēas Achaiōn Lētous kai Dios huios: ho gar basilēi cholōtheis Tis t' ar sphōe theōn eridi xyneēke machesthai? Oiōnoisi te pasi, Dios d' eteleieto boulē,Ītreidēs te anax andrōn kai dios Achilleus. Hērōōn, autous de helōria teuche kynessin Pollas d' iphthimous psychas Aidi proiapsen Oulomenēn, hē myri' Achaiois alge' ethēke, She has eclectic taste in music, likes breaking into abandoned buildings and theme parks, and… is missing. Margo Roth Spiegelman isn't your typical Jessica Simpson/Alba/Biel girl next door, though. In Paper Towns, eighteen-year-old Quentin Jacobson is in love with the girl next door, Margo Roth Spiegelman. It features mystery, fun, and the best road trip this side of The Amazing Race. We don't have any snack recommendations (although you can never have too many salt 'n' vinegar chips), but we do have a reading recommendation for those quiet moments on the road: Paper Townsby John Green. Dramamine, so you can actually read the reading material.A map (if for some reason you're traveling in 1994), a GPS (if you're traveling in 2004), or a smartphone with a navigation app (if you're in 2014 or beyond).Friends, to eat your snacks and take the wheel when you're peeing in a bottle.Snacks, the crunchier the better-shaking crumbs from the floor mats at the end of the trip is a key part of the experience.Bottled beverages to put in the cup holders (with openings large enough to pee in).A car, preferably one with heated seats and lots of cup holders. There are a few essentials for every road trip: The art for Miss Rumphius has a permanent home in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The illustrations have been reoriginated, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art reproduction of Cooney's exquisite artwork. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. Island Readers & Writers will host a virtual program on Tuesday, July 27, with presenter Laura Sprague, senior consulting curator at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Caldecott winner Barbara Cooneys best-loved book, Viking has reoriginated the illustrations, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art. This beloved classic and celebration of nature-written by a beloved Caldecott winner-is lovelier than ever! Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. Alice made a promise to make the world a more beautiful place, then a seed of an idea is planted and blossoms into a beautiful plan. 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