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4 Stars: Water's Edge by Robert Whitlow
4 stars because the story was predictable right from the start and the mystery in this book was solved in the start of reading. Aside from knowing exactly how things would play out, this book was interesting and well-written. No deep romance and no cursing.
This book is about a big town lawyer, Tom, who temporarily moves back home to the small town in which he grew up to help dissolve his father's law firm after his father's unexpected death in a fishing accident. The public are told his father had gone with a friend, Harold Addington, to go fishing and both men had drowned after the boat flipped. Tom meets up with his childhood friends and many of the townsfolk who knew and trusted his father. All the people of the small town try to convince him to give up the big life in the city and to take over his father's small town honest law firm and to follow in his father's footsteps. During sorting through his father's files, our main character Tom discovers nearly $2 million in a trust account belonging to his father. The money is a mystery because the father had no money and owed back taxes to the IRS - leaving nothing to his son. So where did this money come from? Tom must investigate and solve the mystery of his father's and Harold Addington's death and also discover whether the money was stolen or embezzled and also if it belongs to the big company Harold Addington worked for if it belonged to Harold's family and thus would become the inheritance of his wife Esther and his daughter Rose Addington. Tom and Rose go back and forth searching to evidence in their fathers' belongings and work together to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
This book was an enjoyable read, so I would recommend it. But the story was very predictable and the romances were very blah and not at all romantic. There was no chemistry between the romantic characters.
My disclaimer - I received this book from the publisher Thomas Nelson free of charge but I always give honest reviews. I want you to be able to choose the best book based on stars because I know you have limited time and energy to read.


A recent blog post and conversation on the tweeter was addressing the question of “what were some of your formative books your read when you were 10-15 years old?” I remember I was not really into reading until I was about 10, when my brother returned from college and gave me a copy of “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”. Up until then I basically read comics (Asterix, Tin Tin), or magazines (“World”, “The Electric Company” and the Mexican magazine “Chispa”) and I thought there’s no way I’ll get through that. Especially since I was (and still am) a slow reader and the book was in English, which is my second language. Nevertheless I was totally blown away, so much so I had my brother send me the rest of the series which were hard to find in Mexico. After that I discovered an English-language bookstore in Mexico City and I would always want to go there to buy books. Whenever I visited the US I’d come back with a suitcase half-filled with books. I discovered the Great Brain series, which I loved and almost made me become a Mormon (until I realized that you didn’t need to be a Mormon to engage in the Great Brain’s shenanigans). I also liked those Chronicles of Prydain books, but they always fell a little flat compared to Narnia. The Phantom Tollbooth for sure. And all the books by this dude named Edward Eager (Knights Castle, Half Magic, etc.) I read all the Judy Blume books and I had all of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Also I read all of the Roald Dahl books I could find. As I got a bit older I got into Ray Bradbury and The Hobbit (I didn’t read the rest of the Lord of the Rings until high school).
One of the reasons I read so much in English, is that I think children’s literature in English was so much better than anything I could find in Spanish. Everything I had in Spanish seemed either antiquated/irrelevant or just plain bad. So much so that I don’t remember a single chapter book in Spanish I read as a kid, other than the whole Asterix series, which I love (although that was translated from French, but whatever). It wasn’t until high school that I discovered all the cool Latin American writers which occupied most of my reading during high-school: Borges, García Márquez, Cortázar, Bioy Casares, etc. I also discovered German writer Michael Ende (Neverending Story, Momo) and Vonnegut.
Now my kids are starting to read a lot. My son not so much yet. He can read well, but still doesn’t have the bug. My daughter, who is 8, is completely obsessed. She’s reading at a level far more advanced than I was at her age. She’s on her second iteration of the Harry Potter saga (which I’ve never read other than reading the first two books to her out loud). I tried to get her into some of the books I used to like and she did enjoy Narnia and Momo and Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH, but hasn’t shown much interest in others. But I think that the best thing is to just let her develop her own tastes, and she’s found all sorts of cool books in her school library by authors I don’t know but that seem pretty good. Books I would have liked to read as a kid (she really loved this Warriors series about some epic cat saga) and she loves graphic novels. I’m hesitant to introduce her to Asterix, because I would feel painfully rejected if she didn’t like those. She also appropriated all my Choose Your Own adventure books and has been going through them (I recently slipped on House of Danger, left on the bathroom floor). But most of all I’m glad she’s reading and enjoys it. And Im sure my son will follow soon once he becomes a bit more confident. Then we can all sit around and read. And maybe I’ll finally read Harry Potter. Or not.


Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 31st July from 11am-1pm upstairs in Southmead Library. Minutes from the last meeting can be downloaded here. Love from Deana.
Everyone welcome! Cake, tea / coffee, guess the name of the giant teddy all proceeds go to Southmead Hospital Charity – why not pop in on your way home from school / work.
Team Southmead will meet next Tuesday 26th June from 11am-1pm upstairs in Southmead Library (great news from the Mayor today that all 17 libraries in Bristol will remain open!). Minutes from the last meeting can be downloaded here.


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"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!"
"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India"
Turning 60 is a social-religious event in India. When a man or woman turns 60, sacred Vedic ritual called Shashtiabdapoorthi is performed - 'shashti' meaning 60 years, 'abdam' the year and 'poorthi' completion of 60 years in a person’s lifetime. Numerous rituals are performed mainly to invoke peace, ensure good health, and longevity. India celebrating 60 years of Independence. When it comes to a nation, its the attitude and hard work of people that decide the progress and well being.
Wishing India on her 'Shashtiabdapoorthi'!


15 Recipes Inspired by Cooking Across Japan is an introduction to the forthcoming series of books by Del Cook and collaborators. The book offers multiple recipes covering several cooking methods that gives a glimpse into an approach to cooking that elevates both flavors and textures while at the same time reduces fat and calories. Cooking for 25 years in top tier kitchens across the globe including 14 in Japan has given him great insight into the best ways to learn to cook well. The basic principal visible throughout the series is that it is better to learn one skill and practice it over and over than to attempt a variety of new skills all at once. It is for this reason that the each book in the series will focus on one specific cooking method and teach variations of it throughout the book. In this way the cook will master the method and can then apply that skill expertly to the ingredients they have available locally. In essence it mirrors the way top kitchens operate but applies in ways that are practical for the busy home cook.
A secondary benefit of this method is that it encourages the cook to adapt the skill to their environment and season. Contrast this to many books that offer a snapshot of a time and place that probably doesn’t apply to most buyers of the book. Rather than insist on using hard to find ingredients that make recipes difficult to challenging to replicate, our series will encourage the cook to learn a technique well and apply it to ingredients of their choosing. It is a highly workable method that encourages engagement and ultimately will allow the cook to express their creative passions through cooking.
In the 15 Recipes cookbook recipes for home dining like steamed Rice, Soups, Stews, Burgers, Salads and Dessert are introduced. The planned series will cover an even broader range of cooking methods to be released over the coming years. We think offering these books by single cooking method help the cook focus on improving specific cooking skills in a manageable way just as a professional cook would do. The best part will be the delicious food that will add daily pleasures and the satisfaction that comes with leading a healthy lifestyle.
To highlight what to expect let’s take soup as an example. The book will begin with an introduction to the importance of how and where you should source ingredients, good storage practices and important equipment that will be used in the book. Next, the book will detail the method of cooking great soups, laying out each step logically with a series of photos and. This will be the blueprint for each book to be referred back to in all of the recipes. In the case of soup there will be 3 basic methods to learn: clear soups like consommé , chunky soups like minestrone and smooth or pureé soups. Naturally the cook can choose a method to learn and then follow the links to the recipe they want to do. The reverse will also hold true and in this way take advantage of the e-book technology to make the book more flexible to the reader’s choices. That will form the front section of the book and be the reference point of all recipes.
The bulk of the book will be a series of recipes divided by season to encourage the cook to choose ingredients that are at their peak. This is a most important step in cooking because it is always the ingredient quality that makes the dish. Of course ingredients are best when in season. Next, the recipes themselves will follow a minimalist layout designed to both focus and inspire. One photo for ingredients and one for the the final dish. Some might be startled that the technical photos lie in a different part of the book but is for good reason we choose to use this method. Cooking is a craft that has two aspect to it – one technical and the other creative (some may say artistic). The point is they occupy different parts of the cooking process and our experience shows that separation is beneficial at least until the technical part has been mastered.
Del Cook has been a prominent figure on the global food scene since becoming a chef in 1993. He has extensive experience working in both urban and rural cooking environments across the world from Montreal to HongKong and Tokyo. In 2002 he embarked on an eleven year project in rural Japan near Kyoto where his reputation for championing local farmers and artisans grew. The Nosé Project was based around a French restaurant perched on a mountainside full of chestnut, persimmon and fig trees. The glorious view from the dining room window was like a seasonally changing landscape painting with its focal point anchored by the rice field filled valley below. Together with the restaurant was a pottery studio in which porcelain ceramics were crafted exclusively for the restaurant by Chieko Ueno. Gourmands from all across Japan were drawn to the terroir focused food served in one of a kind pottery. Del was regularly featured in magazines and television shows across the country in recognition for both the unique qualities of his food and leadership in promoting local farmers and craftsman. The restaurant’s use of produce from village farmers and artisans like the Tajima beef farmer, old-growth chestnut & shitake grower and stone-clay potter contributed positively to the growth of the local farmer’s market by drawing national attention to the quality of their work.
Since arriving in Japan Del has spent time in the very best kitchens working alongside Japanese chefs just as he worked together with French chefs in Montreal & Toronto. Through this process he has developed an extensive understanding of both the technical skills and kitchen tools needed to craft high quality food from both a Western and Japanese perspective. By the late 2000’s, Del began writing about his food experiences in detail. Seeking a broader understanding of the ways to cook food that is both highly flavorful and healthy he embarked on a lengthy study of the history of cooking across the globe. The cumulation of this research along with extensive conversations with Japanese and French chefs and craftsmen lead Del to sketch out a series of kitchen knives and tools that would combine the artisan craftsmanship of the past with newly emerging technologies for the future.
In 2014 Del began creating a new brand to represent this vision which he called Kikusumi. Kikusumi represents both the past and future of cooking with a series of exclusive knives and kitchen tools designed for cooks with passion. The knives will include a series for the home cook along with a limited edition range for the professional or connoisseur of quality knives. Each product is a result of a lengthy design process that is then carried out by a select group of top tier manufacturers with the tradition and technology required to deliver high quality to consumers.
Kikusumi brand was launched in 2016 and will continue to grow its family of kitchen products and educational lifestyle books to inspire cooks across the globe.
Cook with Passion.


Moe was a leader in so many ways for our community. At the age of 89 he was still serving as our president and as Well-Help’s president.
Nancy joined Kiwanis in 2015 when she retired from teaching at Westwood. Ever since the inception of K-Kids 10 years ago, she was the group’s advisor. She continued in that role until she retired. She was a literacy advocate. She and her husband, Ayers, had a “Little Library” replica of our Town Hall in their front yard, filled with books for youngsters. She helped start the Dolly Parton Imagination Library in southern Lorain County so that infants to six years old receive books monthly free of charge.


Welcome to the Embedded Library, included within the following posts are the tools necessary for completing CHST 603 History of the Third Reich. These include but are not limited to: encyclopedias, dictionaries, key periodical indices, the means to locate print material at the University of Toronto's library and resources that aim to aid you during the essay writing and citation process.
1. Introduction to the Class
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3. How to Search the University of Toronto Catalog
4. Reference Materials
5. Periodicals and Databases
6. Multimedia and Primary Sources
7. Internet Sources on the Third Reich
8. Resources on Essay Writing
9. Chicago Manual Style Citation Guide
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This course guide was created for INF 1310: Introduction to Reference at the Faulty of Information, University of Toronto.


Libraryis the heart of any educational institution as they provide a wealth of information and resources for students and faculty members. The Central Library has a wide range of resources such as books, journals, periodicals, newspapers, e-books, e-journals, databases, and other digital resources.
Central Library has a well-stocked collection of books on various subjects, including science, commerce, humanities, and social sciences. In addition, the library also subscribes to a large number of online journals and books, which cover a wide range of academic disciplines.
The central library provides a range of services to users, such as research assistance, instruction on using library resources, reference service, current awareness service, selective documentation service, book reservation and,reprographic services. Central library also offers spaces for quiet study and collaboration, such as reading rooms, and group study rooms.
The library is managed by an experienced and qualified librarian who is always ready to assist users with their queries and provide guidance on the effective use of library resources.
Overall, the central library is a vital resource for students, faculty, and staff, providing access to the information and resources needed to support academic research and learning.
Our vision for the college library is to create a space that inspires and empowers our students and faculty to reach their full potential.
We would like to build a library and information Centre that is not just a repository of books and other materials, but a dynamic and interactive space that promotes collaboration, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. which will serve as a center for intellectual inquiry, creativity, and innovation, where students and faculty can engage with each other, exchange ideas, and explore new frontiers in their fields.
In short, our vision for the college library is to create a vibrant and inclusive learning community where students and faculty can grow, explore, and thrive.
The mission of the central library of the college is to facilitate the acquisition, organization, and dissemination of knowledge and information through the following objectives:
The college is situated in the northern area of the city surrounded by beautiful hills and breathtaking greenery. Situated in the thickly tribal populated area the college has its own spacious campus and building. It has well stocked Library and UGC funded Network Resource Centre.


Videos from the Deaf Community:
I'm a big fan of the following resources!
Video Lessons - excellent for beginners, and family-friendly! SignRadar.com
Adorable and comfortable ASL-inspired apparel and accessories: bymara.com
More on Instagram: The ASL App, Signed with Heart, ASL Elements, NY Deaf Theatre, Sign Language Center, Jeremy Lee Stone, The Daily Moth, Rings and Coffee, The Flipside Show, ASL SLAM, ASL Ballers, Dack Virnig, CM7 Deaf Film Camp, DPAN TV
If you're looking for books or DVD resources for self-learning, find my recommendations below!
These are all items that I've personally used and recommend for teaching and learning. My students have loved them!
(Note that the links below are Amazon affiliate links*, which doesn't change the Amazon experience for you but helps support this website. You can also support this site and YouTube channel by shopping via our Amazon link.)
MEMOIRS and HISTORICAL BOOKS
Deaf Again by Mark Drolsbaugh
This memoir provides a first-hand account of Marks’ experience becoming Deaf and discovering what that means for him. This is required reading for all my ASL I students, because it really provides a comprehensive yet introductory look into the Deaf culture and experience. Even better, they always love it!
For Hearing People Only by Matthew S. Moore & Linda Levitan
When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf
By Harlan Lane
Interested in learning more about the origins of ASL in America? Love the folklore about Clerc and Gallaudet? Then this is for you. It's dense but thorough -- you'll learn a ton in this extensive historical volume.
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard
By Nora Ellen Groce
Groce traces the fascinating history of the use of sign language in the old Martha's Vineyard population, which had a remarkably high incidence of Deafness.
Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture
By Carol A. Padden and Tom L. Humphries
Signs and Voices: Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts
Edited by by Kristin A. Lindgren, Doreen DeLuca, Donna Jo Napoli
(Advanced and SO interesting)
TRAIN GO SORRY: Inside a Deaf World
By Leah Hager Cohen
Inside Deaf Culture by Carol A. Padden
Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology
Edited by John Lee Clark
TEXTBOOKS and DICTIONARIES
Signing Naturally, Student Workbook - Units 1-6 - My favorite beginner workbook for learning and practicing ASL with native signer demonstrations. Best used in conjunction with class practice and review.
Signing Naturally, Student Workbook - Units 7-12 - Once you've completed Units 1-6, move onwards and upwards to Units 7-12!
Master ASL: Level 1 - This textbook is well suited to grade school and high school students, with excellent pictures and practice exercises.
Master ASL: Fingerspelling, Numbers, and Glossing - Fingerspelling and numbers are one of the biggest challenges for ASL learners. This workbook provides clear and useful instruction and practice exercises.
Learning American Sign Language: Levels I and II - Less attractive design/user-friendly than other textbooks, but the content is top-notch!! Well-explained information about signs, culture, and especially grammar.
Linguistics of American Sign Language - This advanced textbook examines the complex but concrete structures that make up ASL.
American Sign Language Dictionary - Incredibly comprehensive dictionary! Often includes multiple variations of a sign if another version is common. Great illustrations. A solid resource to quickly search for a word.
Religious Signing: A Comprehensive Guide for All Faiths - Useful dictionary for all religious and spiritual terminology. It's not specific to one religion; you'll find a wide variety of religious vocabulary for all faiths.
The Joy of Signing - A perfect starter dictionary to establish a basic foundation of essential vocabulary.
MOVIES and DOCUMENTARIES
See What I’m Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary - This film takes you into the lives of four entertainers who happen to be Deaf. You'll watch an empathize with an actor, a comedian, a singer, and a drummer, all seeking success and encountering unique obstacles in an already tough industry.
Through Deaf Eyes - If you want to learn about Deaf history and culture, this is exactly where you should start. Perfect for a beginner, this documentary covers a wide range of topics pertaining to ASL, Deaf individuals, education, discrimination, and more.
Sound and Fury - Confused about all the fuss regarding Cochlear Implants? This documentary took place in the early days of the technology and sheds light on some of the key controversies, as a family makes some tough decisions.
Audism Unveiled - See through the eyes of Deaf people from varied social, racial, and educational backgrounds as they share their experiences with audism - that is, the notion that one's ability to hear and speak makes them superior. Learn about the damage this ideology can cause.
Children of a Lesser God
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Sample videos from my free YouTube Channel:
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My new paper on economic agency of homeless people just got published in Cities. It can be downloaded via this link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275123000021?dgcid=author#gts0010.
What a journey this one had been!
Quasi-household economy: Rethinking homelessness in post-socialist Pilsen and beyond
The paper repositions homelessness in existing cities by highlighting the importance of transformative economic agency. Relying on a combination of long-term ethnographic research in the city of Pilsen, a traditional industrial second-order city in Czechia, and political–economic analysis, this paper introduces the concept of the quasi-household economy (QHE). This economy connects the informal and formal spheres and involves not only “homeless” people but also some classes of housed people. The paper further argues that the QHE is held together by the politics of the “same boat,” a particular way of creating social relations on the street. Thus, the QHE not only plays a crucial affirmative role in the market economy but also has the capability to transform some aspects of the locally enacted global economy. The paper concludes that Czech homelessness, while being a corollary of macro-level processes of integration into the global economy and local policy making, is also being made and re-made in everyday (in)formal socio-economic exchanges. This has important practical and theoretical implications for public policy and urban research.
Vašát, Petr. 2023. Quasi-household economy: Rethinking homelessness in post-socialist Pilsen and beyond. Cities 134, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104190.


Saturday, November 27, 2010
Midsummer Night by Freda Warrington
“Decades ago, at a remote British estate where the veil between our world and the world of the Aetherials – the fair folk – is too easily breached, three young people tricked their uncle by dressing as the fey. But their joke took a deadly turn when true Aetherials crossed into our world, took one of the pranksters, and literally scared their uncle to death.
Decades later, the estate has become an art centre presided over by Juliana Flagg, a noted visionary sculptor and the daughter of one of the long-ago pranksters.”
Meanwhile, a man “stumbles through the portal, into our world, begging for help. The forces of magic and the power of love contend for the soul of a man in this story of loss and redemption.”


New work uses household survey data from India and Indonesia to calculate purchasing power parity exchange rates. "Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates from Household Survey Data" (Revised 5/04), our first paper on the topic, finds that the official PPP rates from the Penn World Table, and from the World Bank, present a seriously misleading picture of comparative living standards in the two countries.
My book, The Analysis of Household Surveys, was published in 1997, and is available from bookstores and the World Bank InfoShop. It has lots of useful information about how household surveys are done, and on how to use them. Although it focuses on developing countries, most of the issues apply to the analysis of household surveys wealthy countries too.
The STATA code used in my book is also available on the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) webpage. The World Bank Publications also has a number of links to my papers for them, many of which are LSMS working papers.
Two more recent papers on household surveys and the LSMS are:
"Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis" (with Salman Zaidi)
2002, Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper: 135, v. 104, pp. xi, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank
"Consumption" (with Margaret Grosh)
Chapter 5 in Grosh and Glewwe (eds.), Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries: Lessons from Ten Years of LSMS Experience, 2000, pp. 91-133


Ingorda for Florence Campus Publishing oversees the publishing projects of Florence University of the Arts. All Ingorda projects and activities are managed by the Fondazione di Partecipazione Palazzi – Florence Association for International Education. Ingorda was established in 2008 with the primary objective of providing a viable publishing counterpart to FUA’s academic vision. Ingorda’s purpose is directly related to the meaning of its name. “Voracious” or “greedy” in English, Ingorda refers not only to food but to all areas of life, culture, and knowledge. Its mission is to put into print infinite topics for voracious readers who are hungry to learn. Coincidentally, the first series of Ingorda books are cookbooks and food/wine guides, produced for Apicius International School of Hospitality and characterized by the discovery of true Florentine taste by revealing to the reader the hidden culinary corners of the city. Expansion in the areas of travel guides, books on art, and textbooks have added new dimensions to Ingorda Publishing Services that will continue to grow with innovative ideas, concepts, and initiatives.
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Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr. ( w/lyrics )*NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED*Disclaimer: All material belongs to their appropriate owners. A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action: 7. Sings Hank Williams - Songs Like Cold Cold... 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Join us Wednesdays at 10:00am for nature-themed storytime!
Come down to The Cibolo Visitor Center for educational storytime and activities for little ones ages 3-5. New topics every Wednesday to get kids excited about nature!
We will hold storytime 9/13/23 through 11/8/23 (not meeting on 10/11/23).
There is a suggested donation of $5 per family to help keep our program running.


Losing Todd: A Mother's Journey
Twenty-one oil paintings; and also a book published by
The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
Please click the painting below to see the 21 paintings created by Todd's Mother, Jeanne as she traveled through her journey of grief
Inspired by the words of others and my own beautiful memories I began to paint. I painted to music --some of Todd's favorite country music and spiritual music that Todd's brother, Glenn prepared for me.
In one years time, I painted twenty-one canvases in oil. The first 17 were shown in a two month exhibit beginning on the first year anniversary of Todd’s death. It was held at his alma mater, The College of William & Mary, in the campus' Muscarelle Museum of Art, Sadler Center Annex. After the exhibit, I began to discuss with the Muscarelle the idea of creating a book which would showcase the paintings and explain why I painted each canvas.
What emerged was a book of art with narrative essays by myself and by ten other contributors, some who knew Todd in his life, and others who came to know him after he was killed. While painting this series and with God’s grace, I was allowed the time to learn how to navigate my new state of being. As a mother, artist, and author, I understand how a particular journey can help us understand the larger experience of being human. I hope others will find inspiration and encouragement in my book.


Here are my top 10 reasons why Library Nerds are the best kinds of teenagers:
10. They get my literary jokes.
9. They get just as offended as I do when someone says they "don't read."
8. We can freak out together on book-to-big-screen premiere days.
7. They can empathize with real people because of their "relationships" with fictional ones.
6. They think widely, always exploring new worlds and ideas.
5. They are passionate.
4. They have excellent problem-solving skills developed from figuring out how to carry five or more books home on the bus each weekend.
3. They know how to find information...like fandoms, blogs, twitter feeds, conferences, release dates...
2. They can hold a real, adult conversation while eloquently defending their stance on why Harry Potter is far superior to any other magical series ever written (or whatever their literary soapbox is for the day).
1. They teach me.
There you have it. The top 10 reasons why teens who hang out in the library are the best kinds of teenagers who will make the best kinds of adults. Much library love to you all!


The Maria Leonard Senior Book Award is offered by the National Council to the chapters to award the graduating member with the highest GPA in their class.
Humans of New York: Stories, by Brandon Stanton, is a compilation of photographs and deep interviews of hundreds of New York City people. His goal was to create a photographic census of New York City, but what he developed was something much deeper and more meaningful. These stories bring to light the joy, trials, victory, and heartaches experienced by all humans.
To order your chapter's Maria Leonard Senior Book Award, complete the order form. The National Office will provide each chapter with one copy of the book award at no charge. Additional copies are $30 each.


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Click "Show collection" to go to the Special:Book. Here you can manage your collection:
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Family History Week Helps ‘Dig for Family Treasures’Mar 27, 2024 12:28PM ● By FamilySearch.org News Release
John and Paige Edmondson are the Sacramento FamilySearch Center directors. Photo courtesy of FamilySearch.org
SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) - The benefits of discovering your family history are immense. Knowing where and who you come from can provide a sense of identity and belonging and helps you connect with your cultural heritage. You can even find family members you might never have known who can help you unlock family mysteries and even secrets.
Genealogy is also one of the most popular hobbies in the United States, surpassed only by gardening. It’s not surprising that both hobbies have common threads, including roots, trees and a lot of digging to be successful, according to John Edmondson at FamilySearch.org.
A week dedicated to researching your family history, “Digging for Family Treasures,” kicks off April 1, with a full day of genealogical workshops, classes and tours at the Sacramento FamilySearch Center. During the rest of the week, research facilities, archives and libraries throughout the Greater Sacramento area will provide special tours and activities, culminating on April 6, with another full slate of classes and tours at the California State Archives, Sacramento, located near the state Capitol. The week will come to a grand conclusion with a presentation by California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber.
This special Family History Week from April 1 to 6 is being organized by the Sacramento Regional Genealogical Council, along with help from several sponsors. It includes tours and other activities in the Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, El Dorado and Placer County region. Many of the classes and tours require registration by going to the council’s website at www.srgcouncil.org.
Patrons can digitize old movies photos and audio recordings for free in the Sacramento FamilySearch. Photo courtesy of FamilySearch.org
On April 1, Family History Week launches at 10 a.m. at the Sacramento FamilySearch Center, 2745 Eastern Ave., with a presentation, “Genealogy: What’s in It for Me?” by professional genealogist Sarah Clift. More than a dozen workshops during the day include ones on Angel Island immigration records, documenting heirlooms, using social media for research and tracking a family’s military past. Facility tours throughout the day include access to multiple genealogical sites and photo, movie and audio preservation capabilities, will be given throughout the day. The day will culminate with a “Researching Naturalization Records” presentation at 3 p.m.
On April 2, a special viewing of the California Constitutions will be provided at the California Secretary of State Building, 914 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Also on April 2, the Yolo County Archives at 226 Buckeye St., Woodland will offer tours from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on its collections and how they can be used for genealogical purposes.
Volunteers assist patrons at the Sacramento FamilySearch Center. Photo courtesy of FamilySearch.org
The California State Library’s California History Room, 900 N St., will be open for research opportunities from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sacramento FamilySearch will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. for research assistance on April 2.
On April 3, Sutter County Museum at 1333 Butte House Road, Yuba City, will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to share local history and genealogical-gathering information. Also on April 3, two Sacramento Public Library branches will provide overviews of their research capabilities. The Central Branch tour at 828 I St., Sacramento is at 11 a.m. and the Carmichael Branch tour at 5605 Marconi Ave. is at 4 p.m. The California State Library’s California History Room will be open for research opportunities from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sacramento FamilySearch will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. for research assistance.
On April 4, the California Statewide Museum Collections Center, which is home to the California State Parks Archives, will have a 1 p.m. tour at 4940 Lang Ave., McClellan. The California State Library’s California History Room will be open for research opportunities from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sacramento FamilySearch will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for research assistance.
On April 5, the Center for Sacramento History at 551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd. will conduct presentations on research of its resources, followed by tours of the collection storage vault at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. In addition, Sacramento FamilySearch will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
On April 6, the California State Archives at 1020 O St. is headlining a full day of classes designed for both the beginning and experienced genealogical researcher, along with facility tours and displays from local genealogical and historical societies. The 16 classes include “Bad Boys Make Headlines,” “Sneaky Pete,” “From Arrest to America” and “How Did They Live and Die? Exploring Medical Genealogy.” The event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the Secretary of State’s presentation begins at 3 p.m.


The next book the Liz Moore book club will be reading is StrenghthsFinder 2.0. This book will help you discover and focus on your strengths, rather than identify and try to fix your weaknesses. If you have already signed up for book club, the books have arrived and are in your box. If you haven’t ordered a book yet, you can find it online or download it on your iPad or Kindle. The book club discussion group is not until November, so you have plenty of time. Happy Reading!
The Liz Moore Insider is the corporate blog for Liz Moore & Associates. Designed by Liz and her marketing team to serve as a library of resources, tools, and ideas for our agents and staff, the Liz Moore Insider offers a “sneak peak” into our company and culture. To schedule a confidential interview or to request information about a real estate career with Liz Moore & Associates, you can reach Liz at email@example.com, or Lynnette Tully, our Chief Online Strategist, at firstname.lastname@example.org. Or, call us any time at 757.873.2707 in Newport News, or 757.645.4106 in Williamsburg.


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Programming in C++
Azad University of Mashhad
Let’s all move one place on.
The wheel is come full circle.
How many apples fell on Newton’s head before he took the hint!
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
Charles Sanders Peirce
In this chapter you will learn:
Basic problem-solving techniques.
To develop algorithms through the process of top-down, stepwise refinement.
To use the if and if…else selection statements to choose among alternative actions.
To use the while repetition statement to execute statements in a program repeatedly.
Counter-controlled repetition and sentinel-controlled repetition.
To use the increment, decrement and assignment op …
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The book High Five with your rabbit is a unique book for anyone who has a rabbit. More often than not, rabbits are confined to a small space and have a relatively boring existence. This does not have to be the case! In High Five with your rabbit you learn about the kind of care your rabbit needs and how both you and your rabbit can have a more rewarding experience together.
Read everything about:
- Developing ties with you rabbit
- Enjoying and playing with your rabbit
- How you can teach your rabbit football
- How you can teach the 'rabbit dance'
- How you can teach your rabbit agility
- Rabbit language and what they are trying to communicate to you
- Feeding, health and edible plants
- How to toilet train your rabbit
- How to deal with destructive gnawing
- How to avoid and manage aggressive behaviour
- And so much more ....
Version: black and white, soft cover, 256 pages. Want to know more first? Read what others have said about this inspiring and enlightening publication!
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Bestelling van boek: High Five with your rabbit
"Rabbits are nice playmates, but that you can also train them is perhaps lessor known. The ins and outs of having a rabbit as a pet are treated in this book. Topics covered include: their accommodation; their health, as well as feeding and caring for them. The chapter about teaching and training them is enlightening and thorough. The emphasis lies in the SATS method in which by naming bridges and targets many animals are able to learn things. Furthermore, in a number of the annexes lists of herbs, vegetables, fruits, woody and poisonous products are provided, and referred to as recommended or not for the healthy impact on their diets.
The book is written in a simple and encouraging manner, especially the part relating to developing training materials for your rabbit. The predominant use of coloured images adds to the attractiveness of the book.
First time rabbit owners, as well as long time rabbit lovers can, with the help of this book, improve the bonds they have with their rabbits and thereby increase the enjoyment of having them as a pet. While the book is written in an informal manner, it is not recommended that children use it on their own, but rather under the guidance of an adult.
The book includes a table of contents, lists of useful addresses and recommended reading. The focus on training makes this a unique publication in this field."
Carla van der Hulst, NBD Biblion (Dutch support organisation for school and corporate libraries.
"Your book beautifully reveals the secret essence of rabbits - their intelligence, sensitivities, abilities, preferences, needs and occupations, which make them, for the perceptive and adventurous person, wonderful companions who enrich our lives. It was an honor to meet Diesel, who, with your help, introduced me personally, to the specialness of rabbits."
Kayce Cover, Founder of the SATS method
"This book is about a lot more than taking good care of your rabbit. It is about how you can keep your rabbit happy. Everyone who has a rabbit should read this book. They will never look at their rabbit in the same way."
Sacha Gaus, Martin Gaus Academie
"For ten years, the Rabbit Foundation has been working for the welfare of rabbits. In that time we have achieved a lot. Increasingly rabbits live with other rabbits and they have lots of room to run and play. People know more and more about the needs of their rabbit and veterinarians' medical knowledge of rabbits has increased. Our rabbits are living longer and happier lives!
Training rabbits is a relatively new development. I was acquainted with the possibility two years ago and started practicing the 'clicking' method with my own rabbits. I started with Lucky, the most suitable candidate, I thought, because he is smart and grasped things quickly. However, there was no reward, treat, for which he would really do his best. Then I started training Pluk. He would do anything for a raisin, and worked with me. I was able to quickly teach him to 'ring' a bell on command. Not only did it go well, he seemed to be enjoying himself. Showing up with the bell was all he needed to get ready. Despite my years of experience with rabbits, I had no idea they were capable of this.
The work of the foundation continues. There are still rabbits living caged up, alone, in small hutches and rabbits which are regularly abandoned because they were too difficult to care for or the children no longer wanted them. By educating people and supporting animal shelters we continue to try to improve the situation. Books such as this one are added, and welcomed support. People can enjoy having their rabbits more, and rabbits can live happier and healthier lives. And that is what it is all about.
Ingrid Ebbelink, Vice-Chair of the Rabbit Foundation, a foundation for people with a heart for rabbits, the Netherlands
"This book is not only about how you can take of your rabbit, but rather how you can better understand your rabbit and how having one can be more rewarding. Bernice Muntz is first and foremost and rabbit lover, followed by being a rabbit behaviour expert. This book is recommended for all rabbit lovers who want to enjoy having a rabbit more and who wants to fully understand what makes them unique animals.
Marco te Loo, Veterinarian at Dier en Zorgcentrum Holland (Animal Care Centre), the Netherlands
"The LICG (National Pet Information Centre) is an independent foundation which provides information about responsible pet ownership. Through informative leaflets as well as its website, the foundation seeks to prepare people about owning and caring for a pet.
After cats and dogs, rabbits are, not surprisingly, the most popular household pet. They are extremely cute animals and are often purchased for young children. Unfortunately this is often where it goes wrong. People are not often aware of what it means to own a rabbit, nor the time required to care for one. Young children quickly loose interest in rabbits which results in them being relegated to a too small hutch for the remainder of their lives, making them dull creatures.
But it can be different! For those who take the time to get to know rabbits, inform themselves about them and give them space, the rewards are tremendous. They learn that rabbits can be great companions and can be a lot of fun to have. This means that like cats and dogs, rabbits too become family members.
Training, caring for and having fun with your rabbit are not only fun, they also allow you to get to know your rabbit. This book shows you how to do just that. Whether it is useful tips – like teaching rabbits to return to their hutch on command, or relieving stress during nail clipping sessions, or simply teaching them to do 'high five', training increases the bond between the rabbit owner and the rabbit and reveals how smart and fun rabbits are. Both rabbits and their owners benefit from this.
Saskia Ober, Knowledge and Information Development at LICG


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Leadership Is Upside Down Book
Leadership is Upside Down: The i4 Neuroleader™ Revolution by Silvia Damiano, is a book & workbook for leaders & followers navigating the wicked problems of a VUCA world.
This ground-breaking 500 page book offers a thoughtful & systematic design-driven approach. You will gain invaluable concepts and obtain the ultimate guide to expand leadership potential, optimise brain function and enhance wellbeing to become more integrated, inspirational, imaginative & intuitive.
In Part 1 - the book, author Silvia Damiano outlines the underpinning thinking and research of the i4 Neuroleader™ Model & Methodology and explains the rationale of why we need to look at leadership through a new lens to thrive in the 21st century.
In Part 2 - The workbook, you will be able to delve deeper into the 16 pillars and the 48 elements that make up the i4 Neuroleader™ Curriculum. This section has been designed as a follow-up resource and self-paced leadership and talent development journey for anyone who signs up to the i4 Neuroleader™ Platform and completes the 360° feedback assessment.
Featuring the latest and most relevant science content to practically boost leadership performance, collaboration, innovation & agility, this publication contains a comprehensive suite of reflective questions, exercises and 192 simple tips that you can immediately apply to your personal and professional life.


This essay is due Wednesday, and I'm looking for comments/criticism.
While I know it is fun to critique the paper based on content (and please do so) please also look at my grammer and mechanics usage. While I'm pretty well educated in comma, etc, use, I can always use a little help.
I tried to make it is interesting as possible.
For anyone who participated in the "What makes a great literary character?" discussion, thanks, your comments really helped out.
In literature, each character takes on the specific role assigned to him or her by the author. Though each character is important to plot development, it is the character that is well written, dynamic, and human who is memorable to the reader. These basic traits and many more set a great literary character apart from an average one. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez brings to life a fantastic cast of characters while exploring the genre of magical realism. One Hundred Years of Solitude explores the family line of the Buendias over the course of one hundred years, emphasizing each family member’s inner struggles and the conflicts of many clashing personalities. While many of Marquez’s characters in this novel embody various attributes that an excellent character must possess, one character in particular stands out. This man, Colonel Aureliano Buendia, is the best literary character ever written based on the complexity of his role as a soldier, an artist, a family member, and a lover.
Throughout the story, Colonel Aureliano Buendia achieves much as a soldier. Marquez uses this element of the Colonel’s life to display his impulsiveness, stubbornness, and finally, his acceptance of reality. As a young man, Buendia engages in conversation with a few liberal townsmen. Throughout the conversation he learns of the ideals of the liberals, and on impulse, joins the revolutionary effort. After much military experience the Colonel starts a revolution. Although the liberal armies suffer defeat, he earns his military rank. Upon attaining this title the Colonel begins another revolutionary war. Over the next twenty years the Colonel revives the effort yet another time, leading eventually to the saddening realization that he is fighting a war he is destined to lose. In the end, the Colonel realizes that the two sides are only fighting out of an antiquated sense of pride and abandons the war effort. Throughout the three revolutions the Colonel establishes a sense of empathy with the reader, allowing the reader to identify with his flaws and admire him for his passionate drive to accomplish what he feels is right. The acceptance of reality rounds out Buendia’s life as a soldier, displaying with every battle the complexity of human free will.
The role of Buendia as an artist in One Hundred Years of Solitude aids in the development of a seemingly living and breathing character. The creation and destruction of his artistic works demonstrates with great and effective imagery the cycle of self establishment and gradual destruction that can occur in any artist’s life. Prior to Buendia’s military ventures, he establishes himself as a silversmith and a poet. His many volumes of poetry exist within the Buendia household, only to later be burned by their composer. The Colonel’s silver works are either destroyed or sold off with no indication of their creator save for fine workmanship. Later in life, the Colonel uses this eye for detail to create fish of gold with tiny ruby eyes. In his last years he makes twenty five fish and melts them down, only to make the same batch again. In this he acknowledges that time is merely a cycle. Marquez uses vivid imagery and human emotion to explain that the life of an artist is not only a complicated, but a solitary one. These actions, eccentric yet understandable establish Colonel Aureliano Buendia as a unique and memorable character. The existence of these traits and their consistency and explanation throughout the story of Colonel Aureliano Buendia add to the complexity of his character.
The complexity of human emotion and experience is perhaps most clearly displayed in this story by Buendia’s role as a family member. His drive for competition and desire for solitude mold his roles as both son and brother. Early on, the author's description of the boys depicts their personalities and demeanors as being nearly identical. As time progresses; however, the disparity of the boys’ personalities becomes increasingly apparent. After Pilar Ternera bares Jose’ Arcadio’s illegitimate son, Aureliano finds his way to his brother’s whore’s bedroom, where she then conceives Aureliano’s child. This theme of sibling rivalry and competition is existent not only with women, but in the quest fatherly attention. At one point in the boys’ childhood, Jose’ Arcadio Buendia brings his sons to the local fair to see and touch ice for the first time. This experience shapes the two boys’ view of their father to one of great admiration. Both boys follow in their father’s line of work as a silversmith. As young men they compete for his attention by completing projects quickly and accurately, and both seek their father’s approval. This drive for perfection later follows the Colonel onto the battle ground. As a son, he also demonstrates his most define trait, his solitude, in his relationship with his mother Ursula Iguaran and with his sister Amaranta. Both women attempt many times throughout their lives to connect with Colonel Aureliano Buendia, but receive hostility and indifference from the once happy little boy. With his family, the Colonel becomes easier to identify with to any reader, demonstration the very real conflicts that exist in nearly every family.
In perhaps his most intimate role, Colonel Aureliano Buendia plays the part of a lover. Both the broken hearted and the heart broken, the Colonel demonstrates the truly complex and human aspects of his character. Throughout the novel Marquez matches Buendia with an array of women, varying enormously in appearance, age, and social disposition. Still a boy, Aureliano Buendia seeks out his brother’s former lover, Pilar Ternera. This youthful fling produces a child and sets a precedent in Buendia’s life of women as objects of competition rather than potential companions. Colonel Aureliano Buendia sees Remedios Moscote, who is a young girl, playing in her yard and falls in love with her because of her beauty. Consistent with the quenching of his every impulse, Buendia raises the girl until she reaches womanhood, at which point he marries her. After a brief and lively marriage, Remedios dies after miscarrying twins. Buendia does not appear to grieve the loss of his child bride, but falls deeper into the solitude that so greatly defines his character. Through the duration of his military career, seventeen virgins enter the tent of Buendia. Each woman delivers a child and names him Aureliano. The willful offering of these women to Buendia only further establishes them as objects, elimination the possibility of any female companionship later in Colonel Aureliano Buendia’s life.
Over the course of this exciting yet bittersweet story, Marquez does a remarkable job exposing the multifaceted man who is Colonel Aureliano Buendia. In life, each situation evokes a certain set of emotions. The broad spectrum of situations that Colonel Aureliano Buendia endures makes him an interesting character, but it is the portrait the author paints of Colonel Aureliano Buendia as a representation of the human experience which makes him a great literary character. As a soldier, an artist, a family member, and a lover, Colonel Aureliano Buendia demonstrates the complexity of a living and breathing being. It is the culmination of these emotions and their universal appeal to every reader which makes Colonel Aureliano Buendia the best literary character ever written.


Four weeks ago today, I was walking across the stage in Mizzou Arena, receiving my social work diploma (or at least a really fancy holder for it). The next day was the official completion of my sociology degree. Since then, I’ve been attempting to adjust to life without school. For years, I’ve longed for days where I can do absolutely whatever I like, which mainly translates to finally getting to read books for fun, instead of a reading list for school. I still like setting random goals and challenges for myself, so when my friend Megan posted about her summer reading challenge, I decided it sounded like fun. For more information about the full challenge, check out her blog: http://megancstroup.blogspot.com/p/semi-charmed-book-challenge.html
So far, I have completed three of the categories.
1. Read a pair of books that have antonyms in the titles.
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
Total number of pages: 734 (paperback edition)
Goodreads Summary: Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander — the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played With Fire. As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayers, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.
What the summary leaves out: The first 150 pages of the book are essentially filler. Maybe I will feel differently once I read The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, but 50-75 pages of Lisbeth chilling on the beach just did not feel necessary. I kept putting the book down and walking away from it, but once I made it to around page 200, I could not put down the book. The next 500 pages were a whirlwind adventure of trying to prove Lisbeth’s innocence while trying to figure out who killed the three victims. The actual translation of the first book’s title (Men Who Hate Women) is still extremely applicable to this book. Even though the book is essentially about a bunch of misogynist assholes who enjoy torturing women, I at least found comfort in the fact that nothing about their actions was glorified. Lisbeth is a total badass who, while still definitely a sociopath, could be a hero to women everywhere who long for a female heroine who can stick up for herself. The book comes to a bit of an abrupt end and leaves many things unanswered for the third novel in the series. The first book was certainly more tightly written, but the second one is definitely an excellent follow-up for fans of Dragon Tattoo.
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Total number of pages: 307
Goodreads Summary: Will is thirty-six, comfortable, and child-free. And he’s discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women — through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bit nerdish: he’s got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.
What the summary leaves out: The book was written in 1998 and set in 1994, before many children were diagnosed with autism. Where Marcus is described as nerdish, he really comes across more as autistic. He doesn’t pick up on social cues and has lots of trouble interacting with people. Will is pretty much the textbook manchild. He has no idea who he is and is pretty much just a selfish prick. Marcus’s mother is suicidal and clearly suffers from major depression. I really just wanted to have a DSM on hand and diagnose every character in the book with some sort of psychological disorder. I have a really hard time reading books about people who are unlikable. Will has some good things about him (he is at least somewhat caring toward Marcus), but I mainly just hated him. When I hate the main character, it makes it really difficult to get invested in the book. After I finished reading it, I did not feel any strong emotion one way or the other. I just moved on. Overall, it was fairly forgettable and I will likely never think about it again.
2. Read a book set in a place you’ve always wanted to go.
For this category, I decided to read Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult. I had tried to read it during the school year, but got overwhelmed with assignments and had to return it to the library before I finished it. Since I have always wanted to visit New England (or really anywhere on the East Coast), I decided this book was suitable for the category.
Total number of pages: 466
Goodreads summary: One miscarriage too many spelled the end of Max and Zoe Baxter’s marriage. Though the former couple went quite separate ways, their fates remained entangled: After veering into alcoholism, Max is saved in multiple senses by his fundamentalist conversion; Zoe, for her part, finds healing relief in music therapy and the friendship, then romantic love with Vanessa, her counselor. After Zoe and Vanessa, now married, decide to have a baby, they realize they must join battle with Max, who objects on both religious and financial grounds. Like her House Rules and several other previous Jodi Picoult novels, Sing You Home grapples with hot button issues.
What the summary leaves out: The summary on Goodreads actually gets a couple of things wrong. First of all, Vanessa is not Zoe’s counselor. Vanessa is a counselor at a local high school that has occasionally worked with Zoe when students have needed music therapy. Their relationship starts out as strictly professional and then eventually becomes personal. Vanessa also introduces Zoe to Lucy, a suicidal teenager who could benefit from music therapy and ends up playing a crucial role in the battle between Max and Zoe. Also, Max does not necessarily object on financial grounds. While Max and Zoe were married, they tried in vitro fertilization and had several embryos stored to try and impregnate Zoe later. When settling the divorce, the two completely forgot about the embryos. Later, Zoe wants them so she and Vanessa can try to have a baby, while Max wants to give them to his brother Reid and sister-in-law Liddy, so the potential child could be raised in a “good Christian home.” As is typical of Picoult’s other novels, each chapter is written from a different character’s point of view. In this book, Picoult switches between Zoe, Vanessa, and Max, so the reader really gets to see all sides of the story. The main issues at hand in the novel are whether embryos should be considered people or property and if homosexual couples are fit parents for children. The fundamentalist Christian church that Max joins is essentially shown as the clear villain in the story. They bring about the idea for the lawsuit and provide the most repugnant attorney possible. Normally, Picoult’s books feature chapters written from the lawyers’ points of view, which was something I missed in this story. Regardless, the book presents multiple sides of a really complicated issue and makes the reader consider new viewpoints. While not her strongest book ever, it is certainly worth the time to read.
3. Read a book in one calendar day.
I spent Thursday driving from Columbia to Kansas City in order to fly to Milwaukee. All that travel meant I had a ton of time to read. Fortunately, my wonderful fiance John was nice enough to drive us to KC, so that I could spend the morning reading. Not only did I have a ton of free time to read, I was reading Tina Fey’s memoir Bossypants, which was impossible to put down.
Total number of pages: 277
Goodreads summary: Before Liz Lemon, before “Weekend Update,” before “Sarah Palin,” Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through an airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey’s story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon — from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we’ve all suspected: you’re no one until someone calls you bossy.
What the summary leaves out: There are parts where you will nearly pee your pants from laughing so hard, which makes for really awkward situations when you’re sitting next to a stranger on a plane, shaking from trying to keep in laughter. This isn’t so much a traditional memoir. Although there is a somewhat linear path throughout Fey’s life, she mainly highlights specific funny instances and how they impacted her in various ways. She writes about first feeling like a woman and what getting her first period was like. She writes about her time working at summer drama camps and her first experiences with gays and lesbians. Most fascinating for me, though, were her chapters on trying to make it as a female comedian. There is a lot of debate over whether women are funny. Some say that women can’t be funny. Others say those people are idiots. Fey explains her experiences with the institutionalized sexism of the comedy industry, but does not do it in a way that comes off as whiny or angry. I especially enjoyed the chapter about the birth of 30 Rock and had completely forgotten that Donald Glover started out as a writer on the show. I also did not realize that Fey was a writer on SNL for three years before appearing as a performer. Overall, Fey further proves that she is one of the greatest comedy writers of her time and provides a solidly entertaining piece of literature.


Mark Bradford with students at Lindblom Math and Science Academy. Photo by Nathan Diamond.
The Mark Bradford Project connects MacArthur Fellow and contemporary artist Mark Bradford with various Chicago communities to interact around the creative process. Over the course of a year, Bradford will serve as a catalyst for ongoing discussions and community engagement projects, including interactions with students at Lindblom Math and Science Academy as well as teenagers in Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia program. The theme of mapping, which Bradford explores in many of his paintings, serves as a unifying thread for these projects and discussions.
Building on the MCA Chicago’s long history of working with artists, and exemplifying the artist-activated, audience-engaged MCA vision, this yearlong creative residency is offered in conjunction with our May 2011 presentation of Bradford’s major solo exhibition, organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Support for The Mark Bradford Project is generously provided by Helen and Sam Zell, The Joyce Foundation, Sara Lee Foundation, and The Broad Art Foundation.


Edgar Allan Poe and The Black Cat Ingilizce Ozeti
In addition to writing short stories and poems, Poe also worked as a literary critic. He was married to his cousin for 12 years, until she died of tuberculosis in 1847. Throughout his life, Poe struggled with money. He couldn't afford to go to college, and he gambled and drank excessively.
Poe's short story, 'The Black Cat' was published in 1843 in The Saturday Evening Post. It was popular with readers, but Poe did not receive instant success until he published his famous poem, 'The Raven'. Since its publication, elements of 'The Black Cat' have inspired films, television episodes, paintings, plays, comics, and novels.
'The Black Cat' Komplo Özet
'The Black Cat' is told from the perspective of an insane narrator who, in his own words, does not expect the reader to believe him. He tells the reader upfront that he is scheduled to die the following day, but the reader doesn't find out why until the end of the story.
After setting up his story from this perspective, the man tells the reader about a cat named Pluto he used to have as a pet. He describes Pluto as a remarkably large, beautiful animal, entirely black. The narrator's wife jokes that the cat might be a witch in disguise, given its unusual intelligence. The narrator and Pluto have a close bond. He takes care of Pluto, and Pluto follows him everywhere around the house. It is a very tender relationship.
Then everything goes wrong. The narrator, an alcoholic, starts getting angry at everyone. He mistreats his wife and their other animals, but he never hurts Pluto. But one night, the narrator comes home drunk and thinks Pluto is avoiding him. He grabs the cat, who bites him. In retaliation, the narrator cuts out one of the cat's eyes.
After he sleeps off his drunken state, the narrator is horrified about his actions. It is not enough to get him to stop drinking, though. The cat's eye socket heals, but Pluto and the narrator no longer have a good relationship. Pluto starts to avoid the narrator all the time. Instead of feeling remorseful, the narrator just feels irritated at the cat's behavior.
The narrator hangs the cat 'in cold blood' from a tree. That night, his house burns down. The narrator, his wife, and their servant all escape the fire unharmed, but the fire destroys his home and all of his possessions. When the narrator returns to the ashes later, he sees the figure of a cat on the only surviving wall.
Months pass. The narrator sees a cat remarkably similar to Pluto, except that on his chest is a white patch. The cat follows him home. At first, the narrator likes the cat, but soon he can't stand the cat at all, especially after he notices that one of its eyes is missing.
The more he hates the cat, the more the cat likes him. The narrator cannot bring himself to hurt the cat because he is afraid of it. The white shape on its chest morphs into a gallows, a direct reminder of his crime against Pluto.
Eventually the narrator is driven so mad that he tries to kill the cat with an axe. His wife intervenes, and the narrator ends up killing his wife. He decides to conceal the body inside his house, behind the wall of the basement.
The narrator looks for the cat, but it is missing. For three nights, he sleeps, undisturbed by the cat. Then, on the fourth day, police come to his house to ask questions about his wife's disappearance. During their investigation, the narrator raps on the wall he has rebuilt to conceal his wife's corpse. The noise of him knocking causes the cat, which had accidentally become sealed inside the wall, to howl, alerting the police to the presence of the narrator's wife.
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Middle Earth Scenarios page
The War of Beleriand
Battles and army lists from the Silmarillion for Fantasy Rules 3.
The First Battle The first great battle in the Wars of Beleriand. Elves vs a large force from Morgoth.
The Battle under the Stars The second battle in the Wars of Beleriand. Noldor Elves vs a large force from Morgoth.
The Glorious Battle The third battle in the Wars of Beleriand. Noldor and Edain vs Morgoth.
The Battle of Sudden Flame The fourth battle in the Wars of Beleriand. This scenario is split into to different battles and covers the main actions during this time. Includes Balrogs and Glaurung the Dragon.
The Battle of Unnumbered Tears The final battle in the Wars of Beleriand. A big battle containing all the factions of the war - Mens, Elves, Dwarves vs Orcs, Men, Dragons, Balrogs and Gothmog himself.
Battles from the Third Age
Scenarios from the LotR and The Hobbit using Chipco's Fantasy Rules 3. Each scenario also includes appropiate maps and army lists.
Battle of Pelargir Aragorn and the Shadow Host vs. the Corsairs of Umbar. Just before the Battle of Pelennor Fields. This can also be part of a mini campaign finishing with the battle of the Black Gate. FR2 version


When her beloved aunt dies, SHANNON BURKE is left with a cryptic letter, a hand-drawn map, and an old Toyota camper. Then she loses her job, her boyfriend, and any hope that her life will play out like she planned.
Her aunt's notes lead homebody Shannon deep into New York's Adirondack wilderness where she scales mountains, discovers hidden waterfalls, digs for buried treasure, and most importantly, gets lost. In the end, she discovers the life-changing secret behind her aunt's final gift and learns that a person’s path through life is never clearly marked.
CAMPER GIRL is a Young Adult novel published by Fitzroy Books, a subsidiary of Regal House Publishing.
"A tender and poignant coming-of-age novel."
~ Jennifer Caloyeras, author of Strays
"Good guidance for all of us in these uncertain times."
~ Michelle Caffrey, author of Bring Jade Home
"Should be included in every school library. Reminds young adults that they can take the road less traveled."
~ Eric Hoffer Book Awards
"Riveting...brilliantly portrays the insecurities faced by teenagers while growing up."
~ Readers' Favorite Reviews
GOLD MEDAL, YA ~ Eric Hoffer Book Awards
GRAND PRIZE SHORT-LIST ~ Eric Hoffer Book Awards
BRONZE, YA ~ Florida Book Awards
BRONZE, REGIONAL FICTION ~ IPPY Awards
BRONZE, YA ~ Moonbeam Children's Book Awards
FINALIST, FICTION ~ CNY Book Awards
FINALIST, YA ~ Next Generation Indie Book Awards
FINALIST, YA ~ American Fiction Awards


Presenter: Today we’re looking at the darker side of literature with two books about not-so-happy families. And we’ve got writer Helen Slade and book critic Anna Kimura to talk us through them. First up, we’re looking at Her Mother’s Daughter by Alice Fitzgerald, a novel written from two points of view, one of a child and the other of her very troubled mother. Helen, I have to be honest. I found this one hard to read. It’s very well written but, well, how did you find it?
Helen: I know what you mean, but I literally couldn’t put it down and stayed up till three in the morning to finish it. There’s something about immersing yourself in a family this flawed, this damaged, that’s compelling. You’d never want to be in that family yourself, but that’s what reading is about, isn’t it? Wearing someone else’s shoes for a while without ever having to live their reality.
Presenter: You surprise me! The families in your own books are a million miles away from this one.
Helen: Yeah, my readers can always be sure they’re going to get a happy ending. Which you definitely … I don’t want to give too much away here, but you definitely don’t feel like a happy ending is coming for these characters.
Presenter: OK, so don’t mention the ending, but can you just describe for listeners what the book is about?
Helen: So, it’s about a family with secrets. The mother has hidden her troubled childhood from her husband and her two children but, of course, it’s shaped her entire personality and how she behaves as a mother and as a wife. Which is especially obvious when we’re reading the sections told in the child’s voice, even though the little girl herself doesn’t understand the meaning of everything she’s seeing.
Presenter: For me, what was really so shocking was less what happened to the mother when she was a child but how the mother treated her own children. Why is that, do you think?
Helen: I think we’re all programmed to see mothers as something sacred and pure. As a child she was mistreated by her father, and in some ways we’re not that shocked by that, which is a sad thing in itself, and her own mother didn’t help her. As a reader we’re less affected by that, I think, because that part of the story is revealed to us in the mother’s voice, the adult voice.
But the reason the way she treats her own child is so much more shocking is that the child is telling us about it and we sympathise with her. It’s very clever how the author plays on our natural instincts to protect a child.
Presenter: Though we do feel sorry for the mother too. Or, at least, I did.
Helen: It’s hard not to. She’s trapped in her own unhappiness.
Presenter: And we’re trapped right there with her as the reader. It made me wonder, Anna, why is it that miserable books like this one sell so well?
Anna: Because all of us have families. I suppose the books play out things we all see in much smaller ways in our own family lives.
Presenter: The other hard-hitting book this week is We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Now there’s a family who have a problem!
Anna: They definitely do. Very few people will ever have a killer as a teenage son like the narrator in the book, but we can all identify with the challenges and often terrifying reality of raising teenagers!
Presenter: So can you give us the lowdown on Kevin, then, Anna?
Anna: This book is written from the point of view of the mother in letters she’s writing to her husband, Kevin’s father. Again, we shouldn’t say too much about the ending, but the way the author uses the letters is very clever.
Presenter: I have to admit, I really enjoyed this book. It’s a difficult topic, but it was much easier to read than Her Mother’s Daughter.
Anna: As Helen said before, it’s about the voice of the narrator. There’s no child’s voice and, in this story, the victims in many ways are the adults, though, of course, Kevin’s sister is a victim of her brother’s evil.
Helen: Yes, and the idea of where ‘evil’ comes from is a theme that comes out in both books. If you choose to call it ‘evil’ that is. I prefer to describe it as a complete lack of empathy. The mother in Her Mother’s Daughter had a terrible childhood, but Kevin’s from a happy home and good parents.
Presenter: Is he though? The mother often admits she found motherhood hard. Aren’t we supposed to think she might have caused Kevin to turn out the way he does? Just like in Her Mother’s Daughter.
Anna: Both books certainly look at how the mistakes of the parents affect children. And this is another reason we relate to these books. Parents are always worrying if they’re doing a good job.


Renowned Jamaican Pan Africanist and IRIE FM broadcast journalist Ka’Bu Ma’at Kheru, will be launching her third book, this Sunday October 1, at the Institute of Jamaica in Downtown Kingston.
‘Making Kenke From Memory’ Ka’Bu’s third book of poetry, is expected to take readers on an ancient journey, from the deep and troublesome waters of the Atlantic Ocean, to the calming currents of the River Nile, in search of the African identity.
The highly anticipated launch of ‘Making Kenke From Memory’ hosted by Ester Figueroa, will feature several distinguished readers, performers and presenters.
Sunday’s launch will be preceded by a live outside broadcast of IRIE FM’s flagship program the Africa Forum: Running African hosted by Ka’Bu Ma’at Kheru, marking the start of Heritage Month on IRIE FM under the theme Decolonizing the Mind.
‘Making Kenke From Memory’ a Sankofic Journey, published by SenYaCum Publishing, is currently available for purchase in paperback and hardcover.