![]() ![]() ![]() Detroit at its peak was threatened by its own design. "Elegiac and richly detailed" ( The New York Times), in Once in a Great City David Maraniss shows that before the devastating riot, before the decades of civic corruption and neglect, and white flight before people trotted out the grab bag of rust belt infirmities and competition from abroad to explain Detroit's collapse, one could see the signs of a city's ruin. Yet the shadows of collapse were evident even then. ![]() The auto industry was selling more cars than ever before. Franklin and his daughter, the incredible Aretha Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate car salesman Lee Iacocca Police Commissioner George Edwards Martin Luther King. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford Henry Ford II Motown's founder Berry Gordy the Reverend C.L. "A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry" ( Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential American city at the top of its game: Detroit in 1963.ĭetroit in 1963 is on top of the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() At UC, Santa Cruz and on her own for the first time, Reyna faces new struggles and learns to forge ahead toward her dreams despite the alienation and estrangement from her family and her new community. Against all obstacles, Reyna’s love of reading and writing propelled her to rise above all challenges and ultimately be accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz.A Dream Called Home tells the story of Reyna’s pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree and to find her place and a home in her adoptive country. What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that didn’t honor her heritage. ![]() When she was nine years old, Reyna made her own journey across the U.S.-Mexico border in search of a home. In that book, Reyna recounted the pain and poverty she experienced growing up in Mexico without her parents, who had immigrated to the U.S. You can read this before A Dream Called Home PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Īn inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and national bestselling author of The Distance Between Us, about her quest for belonging, a writing career, and a home built of more than words and dreams.A Dream Called Home is the follow up to Reyna Grande’s national bestselling memoir The Distance Between Us. Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Dream Called Home written by Reyna Grande which was published in October 2, 2018. Brief Summary of Book: A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande ![]() ![]() Howard's visual imagination is superior a cavalcade of weirdness dances across the pages as Alyssa and her secret crush, Jeb, traverse a nightmare Wonderland, trying to save her institutionalized mother and resist the seductive influence of Morpheus. The only way to silence the insects' voices is by killing them, using the corpses as material for her ornate artwork. The descendent of Carroll's Alice, 16-year-old Alyssa can hear bugs talking and fears she has inherited the madness that plagues her mother's side of the family. Protagonist Alyssa, however, is an original. Lewis Carroll's Alice serves as a backdrop, while characters like Brandon Lee's Crow and Neil Gaiman's Morpheus are models of dark desire. ![]() Howard's first book is as much a quilt as manuscript, stitching together bits of the zeitgeist with thread of the author's own spinning. ![]() ![]() ![]() I never thought I’d like a dark, motorcycle gang romance I’ve always avoided them before. When I first started reading the Rebel Kings MC series, I was a little bit nervous. Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003 5 kept-me-on-the-edge-of-my-seat stars!! ![]() ![]() Content warning for violence and sexual trauma. It was Mateo’s, and the man I’d trusted with my fragile heart was a stranger more broken than his scars could ever show.įorgive Me Father is a continuation of the best-selling Rebel Kings MC series. But as I drowned in Mateo’s affection, in a love I’d done nothing to deserve, the words came tumbling out.ĭarker, even, than Mateo’s battered soul and the secrets I didn’t know about yet.īut when the devil came for us, it wasn’t mine. Not the judge, the jury, or the legal aid barrister who’d written me off before she’d ever met me. Explain it like I’m the simplest idiot you’ve ever met.” Mateo lowered himself to sit, still vibrating with the need to fix me, the way he always did. “I gave my darkest secrets to a man who doesn’t exist.” Tropes: Dark romance, Motorcycle Club, Friends-to-LoversĬover Design: Garrett Leigh Black Jazz DesignĮxpect: a sizzling hurt/comfort MM romance with a damaged chaplain and a dark-souled enforcer with a tender-hearted secret. ![]() ![]() ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D. GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM and BACK HOME by Michelle MagorianĬHARLOTTE'S WEB, STUART LITTLE and THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E. ![]() Pearce was four further times a commended runner-up for the Medal. Her most famous work is the time slip fantasy novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. She won a Carnegie Medal for TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN and a Whitbread Prize for THE BATTLE OF BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. Philippa Pearce OBE was an English author of children's books. She was a scriptwriter-producer for the BBC, a children's book editor and reviewer, a lecturer, a storyteller and freelance writer for radio and newspapers as well as writing some of the best-loved books of the 20th century. Philippa Pearce grew up in a millhouse near Cambridge and read English and history at Girton College. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but he receives a picture of a dog instead of a real one! But the imagination can be a powerful thing, and when Ben puts his to work, his adventures really begin! He's picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library - and he just knows he's going to get one for his birthday. In A DOG SO SMALL young Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. Philippa Pearce's poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. ![]() Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. ![]() A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All the major figures of the period studied the best ways to deliver the spoken word - a necessary skill for orators at all levels. ![]() In a largely oral world, the ability to speak well and persuade by presentation was crucial to success in human affairs. To listen to Poetics is a revelation, like going back to the source of literary theory.Īristotle developed his view on rhetoric over a period of 40 years, and the work is now regarded as the key source on the subject. ![]() The structure of a work, the plot, the characters as well as pace and rhythm are all considered. In Poetics, Aristotle discusses the structure behind drama, comedy, tragedy and the satire plays as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry and music. The continuing influence of Poetics, for example, is readily discernible even among the scriptwriters of Hollywood! Poetics is the shorter work, lasting under two hours, whereas Rhetoric - the art of persuasion, an important subject, particularly in Greek and Roman times but even today - is more extensive, running to nearly nine hours. Poetics and Rhetoric are the two major works by Aristotle which, after more than 2,000 years, remain key behavioural handbooks for anyone interested in story, performance, presentation and indeed psychology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Too many movies focus on the gangster element of African American culture these days, so I think this is a really positive and refreshing movie. It's really nice to see a movie like this with a nice intelligent middle-class group of African Americans. There's a couple of light racially inspired jokes at the expense of one of the white guys in the group which further emphasises that race just isn't and shouldn't be a serious issue in the group. We have a mostly black cast with a very middle class Friends(TV series)'ish feel to them with 2 white guys in the group, 1 of whom has a black girlfriend. I think racially this movie is fantastic and it makes a lot of very positive statements. The main cast are pretty diverse in their personalities so most people will be able to relate to someone in the movie, but even if you can't it's got enough comedy/fun in it to keep you entertained. ![]() I would class it as having a realistic amount of soppyness which is what makes it good. It's definitely not a 'fairy-tale soppy romantic' movie by any means. I suspect there's been a lot of men who aren't into these types of movies that have been forced to watch it with their girlfriends and have then given it low ratings because it definitely leans towards being more of a soppy romantic comedy than a gritty one. So far the movie has only been rated 6700 times which isn't really enough for it to shadow the minority ratings. ![]() ![]() ![]() I may be doing everything in my power to stay away from him, but there is no one in the world who can say no to the future King of France. I’m given strict orders not to talk to him, not to even look in his direction, but he makes this an impossible task. No reason at all to even think he was there. This time, there is no partying, no noise, no crowds. ![]() Every summer he arrived with his security detail and friends in tow and rented out a row of cottages near the water. Like all the summers I’d been gone, Prince Elias is back, but this time with an incognito security detail and no friends. The Sinful King Claire Contreras 3.69 9,607 ratings1,073 reviews If you had any ties to Marbella, it was impossible for you not to have heard the stories about Prince Elias and his debauchery. I hadn’t been home in years, but when I finally come back for the summer, I see that not much has changed. Anything to keep me away from the royals and their partying. ![]() If you had any ties to Marbella, it was impossible for you not to have heard the stories about Prince Elias and his debauchery.Įvery summer he arrived with his security detail and friends in tow and rented out a row of cottages near the water.Įach of those summers, my parents sent me away – summer camp and later, boarding school. From New York Times Bestselling Author, Claire Contreras, comes a new, sexy, 100% stand-alone novel. ![]() ![]() If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with. A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts-until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.įour queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge. ![]() The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.įor centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.Ī tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.Ī dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. ![]() The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Toronto that follows a queer cast of characters racing to stop a serial killer whose crimes could expose the hidden world of faeries to humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() Millais went on to become one of Britain s most popular painters, but the stigma of his wife's past would never be forgotten.įrom the heart of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood comes a story as fascinating today as it was shocking in the 1850s. Ruskin was repelled by Effie's body Millais used her as a model in some of his greatest paintings. Effie was regarded as mentally ill, immoral and certainly tainted - Queen Victoria initially refused to receive her - while Ruskin was seen either as noble and virtuous or deranged and impotent. Ruskin, Millais and Effie were exposed to the kind of gossip today's wannabe celebrities can only dream of. ![]() ![]() That she could then dare to hope for respectability and even happiness as the wife of artist John Everett Millais fuelled a scandal that was to reverberate around Victorian society for years to come. ![]() When Effie Ruskin sought escape from her desperately unhappy life with art critic John Ruskin, she shattered the Victorian illusion of the perfect marriage. about Merryn Williams this poet is taking part in the poetry pRO project Merryn Williams: I went to grammar school in Hastings in eleven-plus days, studied English at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and got a doctorate for my thesis on Thomas Hardy’s novels. Victorian scandals don't come much more intimate and revealing than a wife seeking an annulment from her famous husband because their marriage has not been consummated. ![]() |