![]() Read by Viola Davis - and she did a wonderful job with this!! This book it truly magical - and responsible for much of my childhood being extra nice to my stuffed animals just in case! I have read this one over and over - dozens of times - and yet every time I pick it up, I am in love all over again.Ĭorduroy never says a single word and yet he is just the sweetest little character I ever did see.Īnd the night watchmen - he is such a fun fella. ![]() Will he find his button? Or will he be stuck in the store forever? ![]() And so begins Corduroy's adventure to find a missing button and go home with a family. He lost the button to one of his shoulder straps. One day a little girl spots him and asks her mother. Day after day he waited with all the other animals and dolls for someone to take him home.But it seems like he will never leave his little shelf. ![]() Corduroy is a bear who once lived in the toy department of a big store.Corduroy is a sweet little stuffed animal ready to move to his forever home. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Much to his dismay, just when his dwelling and new family fit him to a T, he finds he's physically outgrown his shell yet again. In time a colorful sea star, some coral, an industrious sea snail, a fortress-protecting sea urchin, and an illuminating lantern fish all join forces with him, making his house a home. When he meets some beautiful, swaying sea anemones, he asks if one of them will come to adorn the outside of his shell. ![]() ![]() In this soothing, upbeat story, Hermit Crab casts his eyestalks on a newer, bigger shell, but it seems plain and unwelcoming at first. "I've grown too big for this little shell." Much-loved master of cut-paper collage Eric Carle created A House for Hermit Crab to comfort any little ones (okay, and adults, too) who dread change-whether the new shell is a new home, a new school, or a new experience. "Time to move," said Hermit Crab one day. ![]() ![]() ![]() Informed by Gordon's life growing up in Jamaica and the Bronx, and taking as a touchstone the pandemic and the uprisings against police violence, Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking work that positions Black consciousness as a political commitment and creative practice, richly layered through art, love, and revolutionary action. But for many if not most Blacks, to live an ordinary life in a white-dominated society is an extraordinary achievement. ![]() ![]() He exposes the bad faith at the heart of many discussions about race and racism not only in America but across the globe, including those who think of themselves as "color blind." As Gordon reveals, these lies offer many white people an inherited sense of being extraordinary, a license to do as they please. Skillfully navigating a difficult and traumatic terrain, Gordon cuts through the mist of white narcissism and the versions of consciousness it perpetuates. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and antiblackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized blackness, the problems racialization produces. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the many creative responses from Black and non-Black communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom. Fear of Black Consciousness is an original and a bold intervention in the cultural and political conversation about systemic racism. In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher ![]() ![]() ![]() Mitford recalls a happy childhood full of innocent antics: coining nicknames (Mitford’s parents called her Stubby because of her short legs), communicating in an invented language, learning to drive stick shift at age 9. Mitford’s book is billed as her memoirs, and it lives up to that old-fashioned term: an autobiography by a woman of note, writing for posterity rather than bestsellerdom. Rowling named her daughter, Jessica, after a Mitford.) It is onto this crowded stage that the youngest and only surviving Mitford sibling, Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, enters with her own version of events in the aptly titled Wait for Me! (Picador, $18). Numerous memoirs, published letters and semi-autobiographical novels have helped fuel the Mitford mystique. ![]() ![]() Dubbed by Vogue as “ the most spectacular sister act of the twentieth century,” this sorority of beautiful and talented British aristocrats stirred controversy with their writings, politics and bedfellows. The six Mitford sisters have kept tabloids and biographers busy for decades. ![]() ![]() With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark, and the righteous indignation only a native son possesses, LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. Once the vanguard of America's machine age-mass-production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles-Detroit is now America's capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. ![]() Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation's poorest. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. ![]() An explosive expos of America's lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family's troubled past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His books include The Civil Lawyers in England, 1603-1641:A Political Study (1973), The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1603-1707 (1987) The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd edition, 2006), which has been translated into eight languages Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics, and Religion (2008) and The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (2013). For eight years he served as the chair of his department. Levack draws on law, politics and religion to explain the intensity of Scottish witch-hunting. The winner of several teaching awards, Levack offers a wide variety of courses on early modern British and European history, legal history, and the history of witchcraft. In 1969 he joined the History Department of the University of Texas at Austin, where he is now the John E. ![]() In graduate school he became fascinated by the history of the law and the interaction between law and politics, interests that he has maintained throughout his career. ![]() from Fordham University in 1965 and his Ph.D. From his father, a professor of French history, he acquired a love for studying the past, and he knew from an early age that he too would become a historian. Brian Levack grew up in a family of teachers in the New York metropolitan area. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a new lead spurs him on, Jim begins to lose sight of the future by chasing an old ghost.īoth couples struggle to remember that "happily ever after" requires hard work, trust, and tender, open hearts. Truth & Tenderness Dreamspinner Press, Faith, Love & DevotMichaels, Tere Download - Option 1: Libgen.rs Fiction (click GET at the top) - Option 2: Libgen. The possibility of putting Tripp Ingersoll in jail once and for all beckons, and Jim wants the closure that has long eluded him. Before he can think of a new family, Jim is caught up in his past. a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like: mathematical truths. conformity with fact or reality verity: the truth of a statement. With attentions diverted, Evan and Matt's tight-knit home life begins to unravel.Īs Griffin Drake’s movie nears final edit, his thoughts turn toward building a home with his new fiancé, Jim Shea-and maybe even starting a family. the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth. When his most famous clients, Daisy and Bennett Ames, suffer a traumatic breakup, Matt is drawn into a dangerous and dramatic situation. ![]() Both of their careers require more and more of their time-away from home and each other. ![]() Newly promoted police captain Evan Cerelli takes command of his own precinct as Matt Haight’s security business begins to expand at a rapid rate. ![]() ![]() "You're gonna have a lot of feelings you ain't had before," warns the mayor of the super city. ) has sketched the entire pecking order of this fantastic world and the wistful nature of the superhero diaspora. Among the problems: German skull-masked ne'er-do-wells who have some secret plan afoot, and a gang of vampires who have taken over as the mob, running the prostitution franchise and shaking down bar owners. , we see the Neopolis Police Department's early days attempting to bring order to a new city created just to contain the "science heroes" on both sides of WWII. Series, which followed the cases of the police force in Neopolis, a city populated entirely by people with superpowers who are as petty, selfish and drunk and disorderly as normal humans. ![]() ![]() It's a prequel to the often hilarious Top 10 Retro-futuristic art meets postwar expansionism and superhero psychology in this tour-de-force graphic novel. ![]() ![]() Hephaestion alone was allowed to know the secrets in Alexander's letters. You can check them out below:Įven though the most reliable sources refer to Alexander and Hephaestion as friends, there is some circumstantial evidence suggesting they were especially close. In previous posts, I have summarized the views of these sources as it relates to their relationship. ![]() ![]() The most reliable sources we have refer to them as especially close friends. Let's start with a basic truth: There is no credible, direct evidence linking Alexander and Hephaestion romantically or sexually. Hopefully, this post will add something fresh to the conversation. ![]() The age-old question: Were Alexander the Great and Hephaestion lovers? Or merely close friends? It has been debated, and commented on, by countless historians and philosophers. UPDATE: Episode III of the Achilles Gene podcast, which investigates the mystery of Alexander and Hephaestion, is now available! It features stories from their life and analysis from the world's leading expert on this topic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mireille and Catherine are both the Black Queen in their own time. But in the sequel, The Fire, it turns out to be much more complicated, and people actually change sides (which is impossible in an actual chess game, of course). ![]() In The Eight, it appears that the Black team represents the forces of good and the White team the forces of evil, since the heroes and heroines are on the Black team and the villains are on the White team. The quest for the Montglane Service is played out as a chess game between opposing Black and White teams. Neville moves back and forth between the two stories, in alternating chapters, so that the novel itself is structured like a spiral or a figure 8. The quest is carried out by two brave, intelligent heroines in two different time periods: Mireille de Remy, a novice nun at the time of the French Revolution, and Catherine Velis, a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm in the 1970s. Whoever deciphers the formula will have immense power over the world. The pieces, the chessboard, and the cover for the chess set contain symbols which translate into a formula. This fascinating adventure-fantasy tells the story of the quest for the Montglane Service, a legendary chess set once owned by Charlemagne, which contains the key to a dangerous and powerful secret. The Eight by Katherine Neville is one of my favorite novels of all time. ![]() |