![]() Weedflower is the story of the rewards and challenges of a friendship across the racial divide, as well as the based-on-real-life story of how the meeting of Japanese Americans and Native Americans changed the future of both. With searing insight and clarity, Newbery Medal-winning author Cynthia Kadohata explores an important and painful topic through the eyes of a young girl who yearns to belong. But then she meets a young Mohave boy who might just become her first real friend.if he can ever stop being angry about the fact that the internment camp is on his tribe's land. Sumiko soon discovers that the camp is on an Indian reservation and that the Japanese are as unwanted there as they'd been at home. The vivid color of her previous life is gone forever, and now dust storms regularly choke the sky and seep into every crack of the military barrack that is her new "home." Other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor, even if, like Sumiko, they were born in the United States! As suspicions grow, Sumiko and her family find themselves being shipped to an internment camp in one of the hottest deserts in the United States. ![]() That all changes after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Oh My God This Is The Saddest Thing I've Ever Read. ![]() Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace. ![]() The cartoonist Gendry-Kim's interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee's wartime suffering changed her. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee's memories. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee's strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. EditSynopsis Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War-a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history.īeginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. ![]() ![]() A range of other learning features, including video tutorials, brief illustrations, and key concept checklists, are incorporated throughout to aid students in their study of physical chemistry. ![]() ![]() The development of problem solving and analytical skills is actively encouraged by frequent worked examples, discussion questions, exercises, and problems.Exceptional mathematical support - including annotated equations, equation checklists, and mathematical resources - enables students to master the maths which underlies physical chemistry.The gold standard physical chemistry text, which evolves with every edition to meet the needs of current students.Now in its twelfth edition, the text has been enhanced with additional learning features, and the writing style has been refreshed to resonate with the modern student. Atkins' Physical Chemistry is widely acknowledged by both students and lecturers around the globe to be the textbook of choice for studying physical chemistry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My mother began to believe she could live in Uganda, and my father, pleased that she was pleased, felt any ambivalence slip away. It was a revelation that first day, everything new and hopeful. With the engine turned off, we imagined we could hear them purr. You, again! We sat and watched, and they sank into acceptance. Their liquid eyes twitched and blinked against the flies. They were like peaches: tawny soft and lazy. Lions!Ī few in the branches, most lounging in the grass. We lurched even more than we had on the crumbling tarmac, and we felt that we might see something and even that hope did not prepare us for actually seeing that something. The guide told my father to turn off the road and my father did. We had never seen a lion outside of a zoo, and while the trees were an interesting accoutrement, our emphasis was most firmly on lion. We were driving to Ishasha Plains and the guide seemed confident that if we only stopped stopping, we would see tree lions, emphasis on tree. “No getting out of the car for photos, brother Fordham!” My mother said, pointed. Although seemingly phlegmatic, Lions are very nervous and highly-strung, and their mood can change with astonishing rapidity. the segment began - General appearance well-known. There was a picture of a lion on the back cover, and under the heading The Carnivora (Large), lions were the first entry. Maberly also did not write about lions in trees, a skill set limited to those in this region. ![]() ![]() ![]() Produced and directed by Jeffrey Schwarz, Vito is full of reminiscenses from Russo's family, friends and fellow travelers, including biographer Michael Schiavi, Bruce Vilanch, Celluloid Closet directors Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein, Lily Tomlin, Armistead Maupin, and Larry Kramer. Now, to go along with the film version of The Celluloid Closet, made in 1995, there's the documentary Vito, which premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2011 and aired on HBO the following year. As the author of The Celluloid Closet, he shed light on a corner of film culture that had previously been kept in the shadows, and his leadership in the early days of the AIDS crisis helped to turn the tide - just not quickly enough to save him from succumbing to the disease. ![]() ![]() From all accounts, films historian and gay rights activist Vito Russo was a dynamic person and a key figure in the gay community in the '70s and especially the '80s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, with the help of a mysterious benefactor, he becomes a comfortably rich artist, but he never seems to take any consolation in his success. Thanks to the nouveau-rich Courtneys he enjoys an oh-so comfortable lifestyle and gets to travel abroad.īut there is a part of Hurtle that cannot engage with people on any emotional level - perhaps because he sees himself as a loner that doesn’t fit in - and as a young adult cuts himself off from his step-family, finding comfort in the life of a struggling artist. His poverty-stricken parents - a laundry woman and a bottle collector - are convinced his intelligence mark him out as a genius and sell him to a wealthy family in the hope he will get the education he deserves. Fiction – paperback Penguin 617 pages 1989.įirst published in 1970, The Vivisector by Patrick White details the life of Hurtle Duffield, an Australian artist, from a four-year-old up until his death as an elderly man living as a recluse in Sydney with Rhoda, his hunch-backed step-sister.Ī clever, all-knowing kind of boy, Hurtle shows early signs of creativity, drawing on walls and being attracted to old paintings and leather-bound books. ![]() ![]() It sounds pretty solid too, with a total to three chapters “hand-selected and presented by Cornette and adapted by the team of Easton and Medri”. With the rep for telling it like it is that Cornette has, I can’t imagine this book not getting funded. I can’t wait to take people behind the scenes and have them SEE some of my favorite moments illustrated by an awesome team!” So sixty pages of pictures should be enough room to tell a heck of a lot of amazing stories. “I collected comics even before I got into wrestling, and as a collector myself I want to make this a real collector’s item! I’ve been telling stories for years in my columns and on my podcasts” says Jim Cornette. “But you know what they say, a picture’s worth a thousand words. Thanks to publisher IDW, he’s now bringing his two passions together, in a new book that’ll tell the tale of some of grappling’s biggest backstage moments. ![]() Apparently, he’s been one for just as long as he’s been into wrestling. One other thing that Cornette is though, is a comic fan. He’s even back with the WWE, as of last year. ![]() He’s also one of the few people who’ve been behind-the-scenes for as long as he has. ![]() Since the early 80s, he’s been booking matches, managing talent, and promoting the sport. Jim Cornette is a legend in the wrestling game. Those sound like two great tastes that could taste great together. Apparently he’s also a pretty big comic book buff. Jim Cornette has been around pro wrestling for as long as most fans can probably remember. ![]() ![]() And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back. Poppy is precocious and pretty – and meeting her completely takes Laurel’s breath away.īecause Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie when she was that age. It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.Īnd then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet.īefore too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. She was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl. When I mentioned on Facebook and Instagram that I was going to read this book, I was overwhelmed by the amount of people who said that they LOVED it! I was so excited to read and review it! ![]() ![]() They give us a simple acronym to remember them: “SUCCES.” Your ideas should be… ![]() Often mentioned in the same breath with absolute bestsellers like The Tipping Point or Built To Last, it describes a simple way of getting others to pay attention to your ideas.Ĭhip and Dan found six simple traits all sticky ideas share. Made To Stick was their first book, which ended up being translated into 25 languages. Of course, write a book about business! They’ve done just that. If you had a brother and you both taught business at two of the most prestigious schools of the country, what would you do? Like Chip and Dan Heath, who both turned out to thrive in an academic environment, ending up teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Duke University, respectively. Some siblings just play extraordinarily well together. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: ![]() ![]() ![]() A sensory processing disorder isn’t something to be ashamed of, and music might just be the thing that saves Lou-and maybe her mom, too. 21 reviews When Alicia, a talented violinist at Riley Donovans high school, is found bludgeoned to death in a field on the outskirts of town, suspicion immediately falls on Carrie, the teens musical rival.With help from an outgoing new friend, her aunt and uncle, and the school counselor, she begins to see things differently. Out of Tune (A Riley Donovan Mystery 3) by Norah McClintock 3.80 Now she has to start all over again at a fancy private school far away from anything she’s ever known. When Lou crashes their pickup on a dark and snowy road, child services separate the mother-daughter duo. She’s never liked crowds or loud noises or even high fives in fact, she’s terrified of them, which makes her pretty sure there’s something wrong with her. But Lou can only hear the fear in her own voice. Lou Montgomery has the voice of an angel, or so her mother tells her and anyone else who will listen. From the author of the acclaimed Roll with It comes a moving novel about a girl with a sensory processing disorder who has to find her own voice after her whole world turns upside down. ![]() |