![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not the only girl watching Jake, of course. Out there on that field, practicing every day. Something I know nothing about, but pretend I love because that’s where I see him. “Nora, come on, this is boring,” Leah says as we sit on the bleachers watching the game. I’m seventeen years old when I first meet him. I wake up screaming his name, my sheets soaked through with cold sweat.įor a moment, I’m disoriented. He lifts the knife one last time, and the pool of blood turns into an ocean, the rip current sucking me in. Inhuman shrieks of pain and agony that slice me open, leaving my mind as raw and mangled as her flesh. I want to move, but I’m restrained, tied in place, the ropes cutting into my skin as I struggle against them. ![]() I want to scream, but I can’t draw in enough air. I’m drowning in blood, suffocating in it. I can taste it, smell it, feel it covering me. The pool of dark red liquid on the floor is spreading, multiplying. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Some find themselves lost in the book’s speculative elements Loomis County isn’t a real place, but the Calusa shell mounds are real places. Published exactly ten years ago, Russell’s book is somewhat polarizing among the local readership. A great many works of Miami fiction possess this sort of geospatial awareness, but the most intricate and complexly mapped version of our subtropical paradise is Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! ![]() There is also fiction by writers like Edwidge Danticat that traces diasporic journeys across the Caribbean, to and from Miami. One of Miami’s noteworthy exports is crime fiction, in which we watch cops and robbers chase and lead each other around the city. It’s in this spirit, and stuck at home, that I’ve set out to reconsider the landscape of my home the only way I know how: through fiction. Like native Los Angelinos explaining traffic patterns, for example, Miami locals (even the least science-adjacent ones) can be caught at dinner parties regurgitating the word “oolite”-the name of the stone lining South Florida-in attempts to wow some uninformed new arrival. Because of this duality, one of our regional idiosyncrasies is a sort of geo-splaining. There is a limestone ridge that runs along the coast of mainland South Florida, and then every other area is just a place that is susceptible to flooding for myriad reasons. Though imperceptible to the untrained eye, the geography of Miami is at once simple and complicated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These 'liminal', or threshold, moments find the church often at its best and its worst. The story of the Jubilees is told by means of the following coordinates: the state of the city and of the church at the time, the most memorable episodes, and the reactions of the pilgrims, many of them kings, queens and emperors. During each Jubilee Year the Holy See has asserted its centrality, its universal relevance, and responded to various challenges: the Islamic threat, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the loss of the Papal States. What might these contemporary pilgrims expect to find other than the world's largest-ever traffic jam? In this wise and often witty book, longtime Vatican-observer Desmond O'Grady has written a fascinating history of Rome and the papacy seen through the grid of the twenty-five Jubilees that have occurred since the practice was initiated seven hundred years ago. The year 2000 is the first Jubilee, or Holy Year, to coincide with a millennium, and it is expected to inspire the world's largest-ever pilgrimage, bringing some thirty million visitors to Rome. ![]() ![]() ![]() The dogs were said to be 'of considerable concern' and posed a 'significant threat to' officers who attended the scene. Officers had been called to the scene following reports of a woman being attacked by the dog on Commercial Road in Tower Hamlets. The Met said they were forced to act swiftly because 'the aggressive behaviour of two dogs was of considerable concern'. ![]() The chaotic scene saw groups of people head out to their balconies and rooftops to see what was causing the commotion. 'There had to be a way of containing these the dogs instead of shooting them.' Somebody who filmed the scene said: 'This stopped me in my tracks and is very upsetting. ![]() One woman, filming from a window on the opposite side of the canal, can be heard repeatedly saying 'oh my god' before shouting 'are you okay' to the man after gunshots were fired. The London police force defended its actions explaining that the officers had 'a duty to act where necessary before any further injury was caused'. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is how she later described her life’s labor: “When I look back on these last years of struggling to find time to write between deaths in the family, illness in the family and among friends which lasted months and even years, childbirths (not my own), divorces and neuroses among friends, my own ill health and four fine auto accidents. She accumulated thousands of pages of manuscript. Over the next eight years she painstakingly researched for historical accuracy. She began to write Gone with the Wind in 1926, while recovering from an automobile accident. Her own harshest critic, she would not try to get her work published. She found most of her assignments unfulfilling, and she soon left to try writing fiction more to her own taste. In 1923, she became a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal, and in 1925, she married John Marsh, a public relations officer for Georgia Power. ![]() After her mother’s death, Margaret resolved that she had to make a home for her father and brother, so she left college and returned to Atlanta. She attended Smith College but had to come home when her mother fell ill. Her mother instilled in her that education was her only security. ![]() She knew those who were relics of a destroyed culture, and those who had put aside gentility for survival. Born in Atlanta in 1900, Margaret Mitchell grew up surrounded by relatives who told endless tales of the Civil War and Reconstruction. ![]() ![]() "When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball," by Mark Weakland CapstoneĪ parent in Prosper, a Dallas suburb, said this illustrated children's book, which touches on the racism that Olympian Wilma Rudolph experienced growing up in Tennessee in the 1940s, should be removed from school libraries because "it opines prejudice based on race." 3. "Drama," by Raina Telgemeier ScholasticĪ parent asked administrators at the Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston to pull this graphic novel, which features gay and bisexual characters, because she claimed it might lead young students "to question their sexual orientation when they don't even comprehend what that means." 2. ![]() Several titles were targeted in multiple districts.ĭrawing from those records, below is a list of 50 books that Texas parents tried to ban in 2021. ![]() ![]() NBC News sent public records requests to nearly 100 school districts in the Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin regions - a small sampling of the state’s 1,250 public school systems - and found 86 formal requests to remove books from libraries last year, the vast majority coming during the final four months of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() White creates a delightful and charming world, whimsical and serious by turns, inhabited by vivid characters, full of high adventure and low comedy (as well as the more sophisticated kind - it's a very funny book), inspired by the later Middle Ages with what sound like accurate details of falconry, hunting and other aspects of life, but with magical embellishments, all of which are treated as if they're everyday and unremarkable. They found out afterwards that she had been in a lunatic hospital for three years. Eventually she offered to show it to Sir Ector, who was Kay's father, had hysterics and was sent away. ![]() It was believed to be where she sat down, and to have been caused by sitting on a broken bottle at a picnic by mistake. The governess had red hair and some mysterious wound from which she derived a lot of prestige by showing it to all the women of the castle, behind closed doors. ![]() Kay was not called anything but Kay, because he was too dignified to have a nickname and would have flown into a passion if anyone had tried to give him one. The Wart was called the Wart because it rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name. She did not rap Kay's knuckles because when Kay grew older he would be Sir Kay, and the master of the estate. The governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabe, and when she got specially muddled she would take it out of the Wart by rapping his knuckles. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology. ![]() ![]() Praise for Wicked Fox : An Amazon Best Book - July 2019 An Entertainment Weekly Summer Best Book Pick A Refinery29 Summer Best Book Pick A Junior Library Guild Pick "Vibrant debut novel. ![]() forcing Miyoung to choose between her immortal life and Jihoon's. But when a young shaman tries to reunite Miyoung with her bead, the consequences are disastrous and reignite a generations-old feud. With murderous forces lurking in the background, Miyoung and Jihoon develop a tenuous friendship that blossoms into something more. ![]() When he finds her fox bead, he does not realize he holds her life in his hands. His grandmother used to tell him stories of the gumiho, of their power and the danger they pose to men. Jihoon knows Miyoung is more than just a beautiful girl-he saw her nine tails the night she saved his life. Against her better judgment, she violates the rules of survival to rescue the boy, losing her fox bead-her gumiho soul-in the process. But after feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human boy, being attacked by a goblin deep in the forest. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt. ![]() ![]() Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret-she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.” While the broader population is lulled into apathy―diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable―the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please.įierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky. ![]() elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. In the process, Chomsky provides a brilliant anatomy of just how U.S. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army to fight in a war. The following day, his son tried to ride one of the wild horses, was thrown off, and broke his leg. The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it two other wild horses. There was once an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. This is how three children meet Stillwater, a giant panda who moves into the neighborhood. Undersong: To be free from unhelpful conclusions and verdicts Michael, says Karl, theres a really big bear in the backyard. ![]() Readers witness common childhood conflict, and marvel at Stillwater’s ability to share timeless stories that result in far more beauty and effect than any scolding or punishment could. Jon Muth is an author and artist whose Zen series introduces us to a friendship between 3 neighborhood children and a wise panda named Stillwater. ![]() |