![]() ![]() It was so popular that many other cities riffed on her program, and " One City One Book" programs sprouted up all over the country. While at the Seattle Public Library, Pearl created the "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book" program, designed to promote both literacy and community connection. Library Journal also named her Librarian of the Year in 2011. She is the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book (at the Seattle Public Library), has a monthly television show called Book Lust with Nancy Pearl, based on the wildly popular "guide to good reading" she wrote in 2003, and she appears regularly on NPR's Morning Edition to talk about books. She believes the enjoyment of reading is the foundation for literacy, and she has offered that the more a person reads, the more quality books he or she demands. ![]() ![]() She is not out to get you to read the most prestigious book she can find, but instead wants to connect you with the book that you will most adore. She is known, in fact, for her refreshing lack of pretense. She loves books this is clear and she is dedicated to finding the just right book for the right reader. A librarian and bookseller for years, Pearl's knowledge of and passion for books are both wide and deep. You know she must be a dynamic, popular person with that kind of claim to fame!Īnd she is. Nancy Pearl has a librarian action figure created in her likeness. This article relates to The Lion in the Lei Shop Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries Series ![]()
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![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Today, who would argue that pornography is patriarchy’s central weapon? Indeed, who would argue that pornography is a political issue at all? Or that the relations between women and men are the central political issue? Keywords By the early 1990s, it was generally seen, at best, as a diversion. After the initial furore, however, the skirmishes - even battles - the book initiated both within and about feminism soon died down. ![]() Feminists’ single most important task, therefore, is to deal with pornography. It is thus patriarchy’s most powerful weapon. In, literally, re-presenting violence as sex, pornography at once instantiates and encourages the misogynist violence on which patriarchy relies and which it expresses. Pornography, she argued, not only constitutes violence against women but it constitutes the main conduit for such violence, of which rape is at once the prime example and the central image. ![]() Published in 1981, Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women appeared to have changed the intellectual landscape - as well as changing many people’s lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Proofreading by Virginia Carey, Kaitie Reister Any trademarks, service marks, product names, or named features are assumed to be the property of their respective owners, and are used only for references.Ĭover Design by Daqri Bernado of Covers by CombsĮditing by Kelly Hartigan (XterraWeb) Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental. ![]() Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Transferring to Cessna University is my chance for a redo.Īnd regardless of his rock-hard abs and panty-dropping smile,Īrguing with an athlete isn’t one of my goals.īecause this time, I’m afraid I’ll not only be hurt. ![]() That same cocky attitude is what landed him in my anonymous gossip column.īelieve me, I, Cara Gonzalez, don’t want anything to do with him. Dating the hot athlete? Yeah, Been there, Done that…Īnd exudes enough arrogance to fill a stadium. ![]() ![]() By mid-1980 he was writing regularly for both DC and Marvel, including stories for Mystery in Space, Green Lantern, The Brave and the Bold, Marvel Team-Up, and a Spider-Man/ Scarlet Witch team-up in Marvel Fanfare #6. He wrote text articles and editorial replies in letter columns for the next few years. Another Elongated Man story followed in Detective Comics #453 (Nov. 1975), for which he wrote an eight-page back-up mystery feature starring the Elongated Man. Career Comics īarr's debut as a comics professional came in DC Comics' Detective Comics #444 (Dec. ![]() Barr has written for every one of the first four incarnations of Star Trek: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, in either comic book or other media. Barr (born May 30, 1952) is an American writer of comic books, mystery novels, and science fiction novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() But though he is sent to the kingdom's premier school, arrogant nobles and destructive beasts threaten to once again end his mission before it can begin.Ĭan Aiden preserve a people he barely understands and avoid a second death?Īzyl Academy is the captivating first book in the Elemental Gatherers YA portal fantasy series. Reincarnated in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Aiden, the former soldier discovers he is a natural prodigy with elemental powers. And things just get stranger after an otherworldly deity charges him with saving an enchanted realm. But when he heroically rescues a little girl in the street, the Air Force Academy senior can hardly believe it when he himself is run over and killed. Now, he must do it all over again in a world with powerful magic and deadly assassins.Ĭaleb Helm is ready to start life. ![]() He made the ultimate sacrifice to save another. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'You will want to race through this book to see whether Isis has the powers to protect the people she loves.' - Guardian Children's Books site 'I was enchanted, gripped and freaked out by this book in a way I haven't been since The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.' - Liz Bankes, Armadillo Magazine Will her powers be enough to protect them all? And who will protect Isis? From the award-winning author of Flood Child. When a terrifying creature escapes from the dark places that even spirits fear to go, Isis realises that it puts everyone she cares about, living or dead, in grave danger. ![]() But unlike her mum, Isis really can see ghosts. 'We need you, Isis Dunbar.' Isis is the daughter of a fake psychic. The ghost put his hands together in prayer or pleading, his fingernails withered and cracked. ![]() ![]() ![]() For all involved, it’s best to explain Dreamcatcher’s story in one breath. ![]() There’s something crazier about Dreamcatcher, though, than just a drug haze. King has gone on record stating that much of the writing was done under the influence of the Oxycontin he was prescribed after being nearly fatally hit by a van. If Lawrence Kasdan wanted to put The Thing in The Big Chill, no one was going to stop him.Īt least King could not be entirely blamed. If Damian Lewis wanted to spend half the movie doing a hammy Malcolm Mcdowell impression, by gum, he was going to do it. Image courtesy of AmazonĢ003 was also a time like this when men (not a single woman in the main cast) could indulge their worst impulses. He’d headline another King adaptation a few years later, and the following year would be christened The Punisher in a Marvel reboot. The early aughts were a glorious time to be Tom Jane. Oh, the level of alleged and legitimate prestige Dreamcatcher boasts – directed and co-scripted by Lawrence Kasdan ( Body Heat ) with the help of William Goldman ( Marathon Man ) from a novel by Stephen King and featuring Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant and Jason Lee. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, newlywed Lily Monrose grows anxious when her husband fails to return home from work one night. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. She ratchets up the tension masterfully, and her writing is lively." - New York Times In the windswept British seaside town of Ridinghouse Bay, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on a beach outside her house. Library Journal (starred review) "Jewell's novel explores the space between going missing and being lost.how the plots intersect and finally collide is one of the great thrills of reading Jewell's book. About the Book Originally published: Great Britain: Century, 2016.īook Synopsis "Readers of Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Ruth Ware will love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Karen Inglis describes it as, a time travel mystery adventure with modern twists - the kind of story that I loved to read as a child, but brought right up to date. Its page-turning plot, with its many twists and turns, makes it a firm favourite with both boys and girls. The Secret Lake has been described by readers as a modern Tom's Midnight Garden and compared in atmosphere with The Secret Garden and the Enid Blyton and Nancy Drew mystery adventure stories. Here they make both friends and enemies, and uncover startling connections between the past and present. Stella and Tom soon discover that they have travelled back in time to their home and its gardens almost 100 years earlier. The lake in the story was inspired by a beautiful pond up in Isabella Plantation, a magical enclosed woodland area in Richmond Park, to the south west of London. ![]() Who is the boy rowing towards them who looks so terrified? And whose are those children’s voices carried on the wind from beyond the woods? Their quest to solve the riddle over the summer holidays leads to a boat buried under a grassy mound, and a tunnel that takes them to a secret lake. ![]() Where does he go? And why does he keep reappearing wet-through? ![]() When Stella and her younger brother, Tom, move to their new London home, they become mystified by the disappearances of Harry, their elderly neighbour’s small dog. Now enjoyed by thousands of young readers! Inglis debut, The Secret Lake (2011), was aimed at the 8-11 age group, whereas subsequent have books been aimed at younger readers including the 3-5 range. A page-turning time travel adventure for children aged 8-11. A lost dog, a hidden time tunnel and a secret lake. ![]() ![]() Uniting the murals with session outtakes and contemporaneous projects, the exhibition will track Avedon’s evolving approach to group portraiture, through which he transformed the conventions of the genre. ![]() The exhibition will be organized around three monumental photomurals in The Met collection (the largest measures nearly 10 x 35 feet) that depict the era’s preeminent artists, activists, and politicians. Focused on the short period between 19, this exhibition will explore a critical juncture in the artist’s career, when, after a hiatus from portraiture, he began working with a new camera and a new sense of scale. ![]() ![]() Although Avedon first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer in the late 1940s, his greatest achievement was his stunning reinvention of the photographic portrait. To celebrate the centennial of Richard Avedon’s birth in 1923, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a selection of the photographer’s most innovative group portraits in the exhibition Richard Avedon: MURALS, opening January 19, 2023. From left: Paul Morrissey, director Joe Dallesandro, actor Candy Darling, actress Eric Emerson, actor Jay Johnson, actor tom Hompertz, actor Gerard Malanga, poet Viva, actress Morrissey Taylor Mead, actor Brigid Polk, actress, Dallesandro Andy Warhol, artist. ![]() Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol & member of the Factory, NYC, October 30, 1969. ![]() |