Torn between two worlds and two versions of herself, Paige must decide where, and with whom, she truly feels at home. Or, she could go back to Texas and prove for once and for all that she’s more than her mistakes and more than a disease. When her own health fails her, she has the choice of staying at home and receiving care. Or, she could go back to Texas and prove for once and for all that shes more than her mistakes and more than a disease. Just as Paige begins to feel settled in Texas, her dad’s worsening Crohn’s disease brings her home to Seattle. Just as Paige begins to feel settled in Texas, her dads worsening Crohns disease brings her home to Seattle. He even makes her forget about the debilitating stomach cramps she struggles to hide. He’s so different from her, but Paige realizes that may not be a bad thing, especially since being around Joey curbs her urge to vandalize and ignore the rules. Meanwhile, Paige reluctantly befriends her sister’s straight-laced teenage neighbor, Joey, who is a frequent guest. Paige’s parents sign her up for a rebuilding project in Texas where her sister lives. To make things worse, her parents threaten her with boarding school in the fall if she can’t prove she’s changed her bad habits. Paige just wants to have fun, spray paint a few walls, and block out everything stressful, including her growing concern that she might be sick as well. Not when her dad gets sick, not when her relationship implodes, not even when her parents send her to another-freaking-state for the summer to live with her sister. Sixteen-year-old Paige Williams can’t stop self-sabotaging.
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Also after Allan’s death, the family added the last “e” to “Melville,” giving the author the name he is known by today. When Allan died of a fever in 1832, Maria turned to her wealthy Gansevoort relations for help. Shortly after the youngest, Thomas, was born, the family was forced to flee mounting debt and move to Albany. Living in New York City, Allan imported European dress goods, and Maria ran the household, giving birth to eight children between 1815-1830. While they’re relations were lustrous, the family struggled to adapt to changing economic conditions following the War of 1812. Herman Melville was born on Augas the third child of Maria Gansevoort and Allan Melvill, descendants of Albany Dutch and American revolutionary families, respectively. Notable Quote: “Taking a book off the brain is akin to the ticklish and dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel-you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety-and even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”.Selected Works: Moby-Dick, Clarel, Billy Budd.Parents: Maria Gansevoort and Allan Melvill.Known For: Author of Moby-Dick and several adventurous travel novels. On the Map delivers a loose narrative of cartographic history, but this book is better read as a collection of marvelous anecdotes that explore the role maps have played in shaping human culture since ancient times. Maps, Garfield proposes, are once again what they were in "the age of the Spanish conquistadors - guarded, proprietary and inestimably valuable as routes to further riches." To Google's delight, no doubt, Apple's own maps app wobbled badly out of the gate, and amid a consumer outcry, a public apology and quiet firings, all of us caught a glimpse of just how high the stakes are in today's mapping game.īut according to Simon Garfield's delightfully meandering new book, On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks, this is nothing new. The fight for mapping supremacy between two tech giants blew up this fall when Apple, in revising its mobile operating system, dumped the Google Maps app overboard. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title On The Map Subtitle A Mind-Expanding Exploration Of The Way The World Looks Author Simon Garfield And everywhere he goes in Puerto Rico, he listens in on the lively debate over political status?independence, statehood, or the status quo. In the Northern Mariana Islands, he learns about star-guided seafaring from one of the ancient tradition's last practitioners. He tours Guam with members of a military veterans' motorcycle club, who offer personal stories about the territory's role in World War II and its present-day importance for the American military. He explores Polynesia's outsize influence on American culture, from tiki bars to tattoos, in American Samoa. Virgin Islands, Mack examines the Founding Fathers' arguments over expansion. When Doug Mack realized just how little he knew about the territories, he set off on a globe-hopping quest covering more than 30,000 miles to see them all. How did these territories come to be part of the United States? What are they like? And why aren't they states? post offices, and Little League baseball games. But they're filled with American flags, U.S. Virgin Islands - and their 4 million people are often forgotten, even by most Americans. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states - American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Everyone knows that America is 50 states and some other stuff. Meanwhile in modern day London 17 year-old FBI agent Chevron Savano (Chevie) has been send to London as part of punishment and needing to lay low after an operation gone awry in Los Angeles. By accident Riley gets transported to modern day London with Garrick on his trail. When Garrick forces Riley to commit his first murder, luckily he is saved from the act when the victim turns out to be part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program otherwise knows as WARP from the future. We meet Riley, a 14 year-old orphan boy who's taken in under the wings of the evil illusionist Albert Garrick who can be hired as an assassin. The Reluctant Assassin takes us to the year 1898 in London, which to me is a reason alone to start freaking out like a fangirl. I was so nervous I wasn't going to like it or god forbid hate it but I should've know it was going to brilliant like everything he writes. With this new start of this new series, Colfer didn't let me down one bit. Which he once again proves with The Reluctant Assassin. There is no doubt he is my favorite author. I have been a fan of Eoin Colfer's books for years. In pamphlets, letters, newspapers, and sermons they returned again and again to the problem of the uses and misuses of power-the great benefits of power when gained and used by popular consent and the political and social devastation when acquired by those who seize it by force or other means and use it for their personal benefit. Now, in a new preface, Bernard Bailyn reconsiders salient features of the book and isolates the Founders’ profound concern with power. Hailed at its first appearance as “the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation,” it was enlarged in a second edition to include the nationwide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, hence exploring not only the Founders’ initial hopes and aspirations but also their struggle to implement their ideas in constructing the national government. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. As Pinker sees it, “the Blank Slate has become the secular religion of modern intellectual life”. Instead, everyone comes into the world as a blank slate, ready to be inscribed. This is the viewpoint that Steven Pinker wants to attack–the idea that there is no such thing as human nature. If only we raised people the right way, the thinking goes, then they would turn out better. Change the experiences, and you change the person. Our actions and emotions are socially constructed. In a major book called The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Pinker argues that the cultural and intellectual landscape is dominated by the idea that human beings are the product of their environment. MIT Professor Steven Pinker is out to restore our faith in human nature. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating team-including Anastasia, who clearly can't stand him.īut when Anastasia's skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to Nate to take her shot. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Hannah Grace Icebreaker: A Novel (The Maple Hills Series Book 1) Kindle Edition by Hannah Grace (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 37,177 ratings Book 1 of 2: The Maple Hills See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. An adorable rom-com about a competitive figure skater and a hockey team captain who are forced to share the rink Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. Icebreaker Hannah Grace € 14.99 This item arrived at both our stores within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days.Ī TikTok sensation! Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink. In every generation, there has been a plague somewhere. Zombies have been here all along, devouring our history from the inside. The fact that Jessica was more amused than alarmed by this likely is one reason she and I now wear wedding rings.Īctually though, you have to understand that it’s not just one big outbreak we have to watch for. Felt much better through the whole movie after that. On one of our first dates, my future wife and I rented Dawn of the Dead and about five minutes in, I quietly got to my feet, tiptoed out, and retrieved my wood-ax from the shed. Actually scared to death of the hungry dead. In honor of Halloween and all its scary fun filled glory we have a guest post from Stant Litore author of the recently published Strangers in the Land. His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out among the work of his New York School contemporaries. Leiter made an enormous and unique contribution to photography with a highly prolific period in New York City in the 1950s. His main subjects were street scenes and his small circle of friends. Eugene Smith, along with the photography exhibitions he saw in New York (particularly Henri Cartier-Bresson’s at the Museum of Modern Art in 1947), inspired him.īy 1948 Leiter had begun to experiment in color, sometimes using Kodachrome 35 mm film past its sell-by date. Leiter’s friendship with Pousette-Dart, and soon after with W. Shortly after his arrival he met the Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who was experimenting with photography. In 1946, when he was 22, he left the theological college he was attending in Cleveland and moved to New York City to pursue painting. Leiter’s interest in painting began in his late teens. The American artist Saul Leiter, the son of a rabbi and distinguished Talmudic scholar, was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. |