5/30/2023 0 Comments Little fires book![]() ![]() Bebe’s predicament as an undocumented immigrant who gave up her child out of desperation sharpens the contrasts between Elena and Mia until their collective secrets set their lives ablaze. The two women might become friends-or at least planets in the same orbit-until Mia meets Bebe Chow. Elena, an overachieving mother of four high schoolers, considers renting to Mia an act of charity. Mia has raised Pearl mostly from the backseat of her car, but decides to settle in the suburb to work on her next project. It's the summer of 1997, and Mia, with her daughter Pearl in tow, has just arrived in picturesque Shaker Heights, where the duplexes conceal their secondary front doors to avoid damaging curb appeal. ![]() Little Fires follows two polar-opposite mothers, Elena Richardson (Witherspoon, in her element as a wealthy type-A blonde) and Mia Warren (Washington, using her ferocity à la Olivia Pope to breathe complexity into a starving artist). ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Recommended by New York Times Book Review įor fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. An astonishing debut." - Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits." - New York Times Book Review NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments King of the World by David Remnick![]() ![]() ![]() Remnick was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2016. In 2016, The New Yorker became the first magazine to receive a Pulitzer Prize for its writing, and now has won six Pulitzers, including the gold medal for public service. ![]() It has won more than fifty National Magazine Awards during his tenure, including multiple citations for general excellence. Under Remnick’s leadership, The New Yorker has become the country’s most honored magazine. In 1988, he started a four-year assignment as a Washington Post Moscow correspondent, an experience that formed the basis of his 1993 book, “ Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.” In 1994, “Lenin’s Tomb” received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. Remnick began his reporting career in 1982, as a staff writer at the Washington Post, where he covered stories for the Metro, Sports, and Style sections. He also serves as the host of the magazine’s national radio program and podcast, “The New Yorker Radio Hour.” He has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Bruce Springsteen, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, Benjamin Netanyahu, Leonard Cohen, and Mavis Staples. David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. ![]() ![]() It gives the complete picture of the man, the artist and performer. ![]() ![]() In doing so he not only defined the direction which popular music would take in the second half of the twentieth century, he also defined the lifestyle which would come to be associated with the rock artist.This new edition of Howard Sounes' critically-acclaimed classic biography of Dylan includes a new chapter that brings the legend's life story right up to date. A true revolutionary, he was also the first pop performer to adopt the attitudes and lead the life of a bohemian artist. 'Engagingly written and scrupulously researched' ObserverAn UPDATED EDITION of Howard Sounes' classic, definitive biography to mark the legendary Bob Dylan's 80th birthday_Bob Dylan was the first figure in the history of popular music to challenge the domination of the three-minute pop song and to bring serious ideas and poetry into the song lyric. ![]() ![]() “I knew that this little voice, this tiny, insistent voice, was not God and it wasn’t some muse and it wasn’t anyone in the world except for me,” she thinks when the phrase enters her mind. Zeke and their quest draws Frankie outside of herself, and the words that come to her are a sort of revelation. In his absence, home in tiny Coalfield, TN, with her mom and eighteen-year-old triplet brothers, Frankie thinks, “I lived inside myself way more than I lived inside of this town.” Then Frankie meets Zeke, a fellow awkward teenager who is in town for the summer while his mom regroups after discovering Zeke’s father’s rampant cheating, and the two decide to dedicate their days to making art with each other. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.” Frankie is an awkward, friendless teenager whose dad has just left her mom for his secretary, who he moves north with shortly before she gives birth to another daughter whom he also names Frances. ![]() ![]() Kevin Wilson’s latest novel, Now Is Not the Time to Panic (out today), revolves around a phrase that the protagonist, Frankie Budge, conjures the summer of 1996 when she is sixteen: “ The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Hattie research![]() ![]() Falchikov/Goldfinch (2000): Student Peer Assessment in Higher Education ( Abstract).Ross (1998): Self-assessment in second language testing ( Abstract).Fachikov/Boud (1989): Student Self-Assessment in Higher Education ( Abstract).Mabe/West (1982): Validity of self-evaluation of ability ( Abstract). ![]() Use this information to engage the student to try to perform even better. Once a student has performed at a level that is beyond their own expectations, he or she gains confidence in his or her learning ability.Įxample for Self-reported grades: Before an exam, ask your class to write down what mark the student expects to achieve. In a video Hattie explains that if he could write his book Visible Learning for Teachers again, he would re-name this learning strategy “ Student Expectations” to express more clearly that this strategy involves the teacher finding out what are the student’s expectations and pushing the learner to exceed these expectations. Children are the most accurate when predicting how they will perform. Self reported grades comes out at the top of all influences. ![]() Comprehensive interventions for learning disabled students ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Shaara civil war trilogy![]() "Stonewall" Jackson, and Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Chamberlain), Shaara depicted the emotional drama of soldiers fighting old friends while accurately detailing historical details including troop movements, strategies, and tactical combat situations. Lee, Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, Lt. The film shares most of its cast with Gettysburg, the film adaptation of The Killer Angels.Ĭopying his father's approach of focusing on the most important officers of the two armies ( General Robert E. Maxwell and starring Robert Duvall and Jeff Daniels. In 2003, Gods and Generals was made into a film directed by Ronald F. Shaara also wrote The Last Full Measure, published in 2000, which follows the events presented in The Killer Angels. Written by Jeffrey Shaara after his father Michael's death in 1988, the novel relates events from 1858 through 1863, during the American Civil War, ending just as the two armies march toward Gettysburg. ![]() Gods and Generals is a novel which serves as a prequel to Michael Shaara's 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning work about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mystery surrounds the circumstances leading up to her arrest. Her supposed crimes included adultery with five men, one her own brother, and plotting the King's death. Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London on, and tried and found guilty of high treason on 15 May. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since. The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in the annals of English history. Xiii, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The future of a radical price![]() ![]() ![]() Solar energy needs a new narrative - one that says goodbye to old perspectives and only talks about the efficiency and the payback time of blue solar panels. ![]() Solar Futures: How to Design a Post-Fossil World with the Sun by solar designer Marjan van Aubel explores the future of solar energy. | For this book Marjan Van Aubel interviewed various experts from the field: Pallas Agterberg (Alliander), Habiba Ali (Sosai Renewable Energies), Paola Antonelli (MoMA), Ben van Berkel (UNStudio), Pauline van Dongen, Felix Hallwachs (Little Sun), Lex Hoefsloot (LightYear), Hella Jongerius, Marjan Minnesma (Urgenda Foundation), Alex Nathanson (Solar Protocol), Daan Roosegaarde, Wim Sinke (UvA), Neel Tamhane (Space10/IKEA), Karl Wagner (Solar Museum). | The past, present and future of solar energy mapped out by award-winning solar designer Marjan van Aubel. Promotional book photos: The Book Photographer ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The elementals by michael mcdowell![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McDowell’s first novel, the grisly and darkly comic The Amulet (1979), is also available from Valancourt Books. This edition of McDowell’s masterpiece of terror features a new introduction by award-winning horror author Michael Rowe. Though best known for his screenplays for Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, McDowell is now being rediscovered as one of the best modern horror writers and a master of Southern Gothic literature. Ī haunted house story unlike any other, Michael McDowell’s The Elementals (1981) was one of the finest novels to come out of the horror publishing explosion of the 1970s and ’80s. ![]() Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier - and is now ready to kill again. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. ![]() |