Now, to clear the name of a family friend, she begins to work with the handsome criminal justice professor Ian Canter. Solving murders in her small town of Grace Pointe wasn’t a part of her plan.until she and her brother find a local judge who had come to Pastor Baker for counseling murdered in his chambers, hit over the head with a massive volume of the Indiana Code. She thought she was happy for years re-shelving books and helping patrons find their next great read, but as she turns forty, she suddenly struggles to figure out what more to do with her life. MacKenzie Baker is an impetuous, eavesdropping small-town librarian who lives in the apartment above the parsonage garage and refuses to be defined as the pastor’s single sister. The first book in the Grace Pointe Cozy Mystery Series! “Fiction is a waste of time.” The heated comment made by a church library ministry team member shocks MacKenzie Baker, but it quickly becomes the least of her worries.
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When Galen reaches the pair he sees Emma holding Chloe and fighting with the shark over her but she possesses a strength that isn’t normally for humans and she is able to hold her breath for a long time. Emma calls for help but she is too far away from the shore but unaware that Galen is already heading to her aid. A little later on when Emma and Chloe are surfing a shark attacks Chloe and drags her beneath the water. Galen believes that the human is Emma since he can sense her on land which is something other Syrena can’t do. Milligan that there is a human that can communicate with fish and Galen comes to land with his twin sister, Rayna in order to investigate it. Galen is the Prince of the Syrena, who are merpeople and his is also the ambassador to the human race. We are introduced to Emma as she runs into a guy on the beach with her best friend, Chloe and this guy happens to be Galen. The opening to Of Poseidon introduces us to a lot of characters and lore so it was a little tricky to get everything straight in my head. Title: Of Poseidon (The Syrena Legacy Book 1) by Anna Banks These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.Īfter expanding on the story in Neuromancer with two more novels ( Count Zero in 1986 and Mona Lisa Overdrive in 1988), thus completing the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre known as steampunk. Gibson coined the term " cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story " Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans-a "combination of lowlife and high tech" -and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Search by city, ZIP code, or library name. Subjects Fiction Literature Romance LGBTQIA+ (Fiction) Search for a digital library with this title.
For an unprecedented three years in a row, the Television Critics Association has honored her for her outstanding achievement in children's programming.ĭuring the past 25 years, she has earned a reputation as a highly respected and outspoken journalist, whose success as a network news correspondent, anchor, writer and producer, paved the way for her to head up a thriving television production company, Lucky Duck Productions.Įllerbee has cultivated a diverse following over the years, starting with the pioneering late-night news program, "NBC News Overnight," which she wrote and anchored. On top of that, she's a highly entertaining speaker."Įllerbee has received all of television's highest honors, including several Emmy, Peabody, CableACE, and Columbia duPont Awards. "Not only has she done outstanding work on television network news shows, but she also in recent years has developed an exemplary news program for youngsters. "Linda Ellerbee is a journalist to be admired," said UNLV President Carol C. Tickets may be picked up at the Performing Arts Center box office at Ham Concert Hall beginning Oct. The event is free, but tickets are required. Her talk, "Move On," is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Noted journalist and author Linda Ellerbee will speak at UNLV on Nov. Read: How to talk to kids about racism and police “I am asserting that indoctrination into whiteness and anti-Blackness is evident in your framing.”Ĭlearly we had deep disagreements over an issue families and educators all over America are grappling with: What exactly should we teach children about race, police killings, and the relationship between the two? I suggested to Higginbotham that we air our differences through an email exchange, and she agreed. “I am not saying this is indicative of your character or beliefs in any way-you clearly believe and affirm that Black lives matter,” she declared to me in an email. Higginbotham, to put it mildly, disagreed with my criticism. At times, I thought that it crossed the line from education into indoctrination. Not My Idea begins with a white child seeing footage of a police officer murdering a Black man on television and the child’s mother trying to shield her from the images. (Readers curious about the book’s content can consult the actor John Jimerson’s reading on YouTube.) In a recent article, I questioned whether her book Not My Idea-which is now being used in public-school curricula for young children-was appropriate for kindergartners. A nastasia Higginbotham is the author of Ordinary Terrible Things, a widely praised children’s-book series that aims to address difficult subjects head on. Her mother becomes a leader in the women's rights movement while her father is detained and subjected to torture by the Shah's secret police. Satrapi's family gets more and more involved in the resistance as the revolution picks up steam. They both vehemently reject the Shah's government and stand with the Iranian revolution that is taking off. Her mother is a feminist, and Satrapi's father is a Marxist. Her parents frequently talk to her about these topics because they are both politically engaged. She is a young woman who is deeply committed to social justice and politics. Satrapi's early years in Iran in the 1970s are depicted in the opening chapter of the book. The book is split into two sections, each of which has a number of chapters. The narrative recounts Satrapi's memories of her youth in Iran before, during, and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Marjane Satrapi is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel Persepolis. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Last week, to gain better insight into the book, I joined 78 other people for a Facebook Live presentation sponsored by The National Humanities Center. It would certainly be more challenging than binge-watching TV shows I had missed and more satisfying than the Zoom cocktail parties that I’ve started avoiding, just as I did in real life, a term now poignant and expanded in meaning. Oddly, given my lust for fiction, I had never read The Decameron, probably because I didn’t major in English, where it no doubt would have been forced upon me. And it even prompted a key plot line in Richard Nelson’s latest play, What Do We Need to Talk About?, when one of the characters suggest they imitate the Florentines and tell timeless stories about the human condition to make them forget, perhaps for just an evening, the plague outside their doors. The classicist Daniel Mendelsohn tweets a new passage from it every day. The critic Eric Banks has been running a five-week, $150-per-person Zoom reading group in conjunction with McNally Jackson Books. Virtual books clubs are analyzing the 1353 masterpiece, consisting of a hundred stories told by three young men and seven women during their quarantine in a villa outside Florence. All of a sudden, everyone seems to be reading Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, a novel published more than 600 years ago. How do you climb out of a reading slump? How do you support authors while still getting books on the cheap? Where do you hide the bodies of the people who won’t stop talking while you’re trying to read? No matter what you read or how you read it, Reading Glasses will help you do it better.įollow on Twitter and on Instagram. Brea and Mallory also offer advice on reader dilemmas. Listeners will get help for bookish problems, like how to vanquish that To-Be-Read pile and organize those bookshelves. 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