Jason Fochtman/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 4 of19 Kyle Rittenhouse is interviewed by Cassandra Spencer during the “Rally Against Censorship” at the Lone Star Convention & Expo Center, Thursday, Jan. The 20-year-old Illinois native was acquitted of fatally shooting two men during protests in Kenosha, Wisc., in 2020. The event, hosted by Conroe-based right wing book publisher Defiance Press & Publishing, featured 11 speakers and authors, including Rittenhouse. Jason Fochtman/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 3 of19 Kyle Rittenhouse is interviewed by Cassandra Spencer during the “Rally Against Censorship” at the Lone Star Convention & Expo Center, Thursday, Jan. Jason Fochtman/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 2 of19 Kyle Rittenhouse is interviewed by Cassandra Spencer during the “Rally Against Censorship” at the Lone Star Convention & Expo Center, Thursday, Jan. 1 of19 Kyle Rittenhouse is interviewed by Cassandra Spencer during the “Rally Against Censorship” at the Lone Star Convention & Expo Center, Thursday, Jan.
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Reading, something that had been so significant in my life and valuable to my academic and personal development, was now missing, and I now felt somewhat disconnected from my own mind and somehow my own body. Like many who were avid readers in their primary school years, entering middle and high school drastically altered not only the time I had for reading but the energy and passion I once possessed for it as well. I often found myself escaping into the pages of thick books and mesmerizing stories – escaping from what I am not sure, but I did know that if I was suddenly granted the gift of transporting myself into Hogwarts’ walls to learn Transfiguration instead of second-grade math I would abuse that power like there was no tomorrow. Throughout elementary school, I rarely went a week without beginning or completing a new novel: I devoured all seven “ Harry Potter ” books within a year, read and reread and reread and reread “ The True Blue Scouts of the Sugar Man Swamp “, adored “ Remarkable”, obsessed over Carli Lloyd’s “ All Heart” and only allowed myself to read “ Esperanza Rising ” once because I could not envision feeling the same magic once more. By Rosalie Johnson, Reporter, Assistant Editor Drawing on her own original research-and her own experiences-this is a personal and scientific manifesto it’s an exploration of the complexities of the human sexual experience and a declaration of love and respect for the nonconformists among us. From the invention of heterosexuality to the history of the Kinsey scale, as well as asylum seekers trying to defend their bisexuality in a court of law, there is so much more to explore than most have ever realized. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. In BI: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality, Shaw probes the science and culture of attraction beyond the binary. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality (Hardcover) Published June 2nd 2022 by Canongate Books Ltd. Despite statistics that show bisexuality is more common than homosexuality, bisexuality is often invisible. Ask people to name famous bisexual actors, politicians, writers, or scientists, and they draw a blank. It’s an admission, she writes, that usually causes people’s pupils to dilate, their cheeks to flush, and their questions to start flowing. For psychologist and bestselling author Julia Shaw, this is both professional and personal-Shaw studies the science of sexuality and she herself is proudly and vocally bisexual. A provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling pop-psychologistĭespite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decades in regards to sexuality, the subject remains one of the most influential but least understood aspects of our lives. Predictions are mostly just guesses, where inferring uses specific information from the text and pictures to discover what the author says implicitly. Make sure to talk about the difference between inferring and making predictions. This way I can make sure to provide a variety of inferring sentence stems as well. Tip: I like to go over the mentor text beforehand and write sticky notes in it so that when I read it, I already have some things to say. Then I read tons of mentor texts and we infer together as we read them. I first create an anchor chart about making inferences that includes sentence stems, so students know what inferring can sound like. My favorite way to teach inferring is to teach how to make inferences with mentor texts. It wasn’t until I was a teacher that I fully understood what it was and how important it is to “read between the lines.” Inferring is one of my favorite things to teach. His imagination is excited to intense activity, but it is the activity of concentration rather than dilation.īetween William Shakespeare’s most expansive and philosophical tragedies- Hamletand King Lear-is Othello, his most constricted and heart-breaking play. He seems to breathe an atmosphere as fateful as that of King Lear, but more confined and oppressive, the darkness not of night but of a close-shut murderous room. He sees it, in itself almost irresistible, aided at every step by fortunate accidents and the innocent mistakes of its victims. Evil is displayed before him, not indeed with the profusion found in King Lear, but forming, as it were, the soul of a single character, and united with an intellectual superiority so great that he watches its advance fascinated and appalled. From the moment when the temptation of the hero begins, the reader’s heart and mind are held in a vice, experiencing the extremes of pity and fear, sympathy and repulsion, sickening hope and dreadful expectation. Othello is the most painfully exciting and the most terrible. Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Othello She is also the author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration. Marcia Chatelain is a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. In Franchise, Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast-food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who–in the troubled years after King’s assassination–believed they had found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality.Ībout the author: Dr. McDonald’s has often been blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans. Marcia Chatelain set out to answer the question of how fast-food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods. Marcia Chatelain as she discusses her Pulitzer prize-winning book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.ĭr. “I’m not only still here, I’m more still here. “This feels like a rebirth,” he said in a statement. He is also planning to set up a non-profit to raise awareness about elder abuse. With the newly formed company SHP, Beagle will now work to develop projects based on his library under the “Beagleverse” brand, while continuing to write new material. His screenwriting credits also include Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. The novel was adapted into a 1982 animated feature produced by Rankin/Bass, for which Beagle wrote the screenplay. Considering the movie is as old as I am, and that I still watch it at least once a year, that’s not bad I think I was in my teens by the time I realized there was also a book titled The Last Unicorn, and that the movie was an adaptation. Beagle Out of Stock Excellent Based on 1,071,202 reviews Verified review Learn more about review types Verified Trustworthy and reasonable They had the books in hard back that I wanted for the most reasonable price. The Last Unicorn was my favorite movie when I was a child. The Bankruptcy Court has now approved a sale that will see the return of Beagle’s body of work to an ownership group that includes the author.īeagle has reacquired certain rights with respect to The Last Unicorn, his bestselling 1968 novel, including author-driven sequels. Beagle From 15.68 The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version Peter S. Proceedings were complicated when Cochran filed for bankruptcy. In 2019, the Superior Court of California ruled in Beagle’s favor on four out of six cases that went to trial. Nisha’s voice is the right mix of innocence and strength, and her transformation is both believable and heartbreaking. Hiranandani ( The Whole Story of Half a Girl, 2013) compassionately portrays one of the bloodiest periods in world history through diary entries Nisha writes to her deceased mother. As Nisha and her family make their way across the brand-new border, Nisha learns about her family history, not to mention her own strength. They are forced to leave their town-and Kazi. Although Nisha’s mother was Muslim, her family is Hindu, and the riots surrounding Partition soon make it impossible for them to live in their home safely despite their mixed faith. Painfully shy, Nisha, who lost her mother in childbirth and feels distant from her stern father and her elderly grandmother, is only able to speak freely with the family cook, a Muslim man named Kazi. Nisha and her twin brother, Amil, celebrate their 12th birthday in their beloved town of Mirpur Khas, India, a month before their country receives independence from the British and splits into India and Pakistan. In 1947, Nisha’s beloved country is being torn apart-and so is her family. At the Water's Edge is the new novel from Sara Gruen, bestselling author of Water for Elephants. To avoid the glares and scowls, and to earn their own way in the world after being cut off from a family fortune, they cross the Atlantic during a high tide of submarine warfare to try to burnish their family name by hunting down an older kind of monster in a Scottish village. She's bold, she's warm, and she's been cast out of Philadelphia polite society - in this case the family of her husband Ellis, who is 4F in the middle of World War II. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title At the Water's Edge Author Sara Gruen This is the story of how Elizabeth II drew on every ounce of resolve to ensure that the Crown always came out on top. Her mother doubted her marriage her uncle-in-exile derided her abilities her husband resented the sacrifice of his career and family name and her rebellious sister embarked on a love affair that threatened the centuries-old links between the Church and the Crown. Crowned at twenty-five, she was already a wife and mother as she began her journey towards becoming a queen.Īs Britain lifted itself out of the shadow of war, the new monarch faced her own challenges. The official companion to the Emmy-winning Netflix drama chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and starring Claire Foy and John Lithgow,īy Peter Morgan, featuring additional historical background and beautifully reproduced archival photos and show stillsĮlizabeth Mountbatten never expected her father to die so suddenly, so young, leaving her with a throne to fill and a global institution to govern. |