DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: Step-sisters and rival athletes Nancy and Raina form a supportive bond as together they combat racism, experience self-discovery, and awaken to their first feelings of love. Subject(s): High school students - California - Los Angeles - Fiction | Women basketball players - California - Los Angeles - Fiction | Asian American youth - California - Los Angeles - Fiction | Afro-American girls - California - Los Angeles - Fiction | Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction | Friendship - Fiction | High school students - Fiction | Women basketball players - Fiction | Asian American youth - Fiction | African American girls - Fiction | Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction | Friendship - Fiction | Sports stories | Bildungsromans Genre/Form: Basketball stories. Martin's Press, 1998 Edition: 1st Stonewall Inn ed. 2 originated and how they were transmitted, David Wengrow identifies patterns in the records of human image-making and embarks on a search for connections between mind and culture. Material type: Book Publisher: New York : St. the necessary hunger by Nina Revoyr RELEASE DATE: Feb. The Necessary Hunger is about families, friendship, racial identity, and young people who are nearing adulthood in a dangerous and challenging world. The necessary hunger : a novel / Nina Revoyr. In The Necessary Hunger, senior and star basketball player Nancy Takahiros life takes an uncertain turn when her father falls in love with the mother of.
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Home at Last by Vera B. WilliamsVera is survived by her children, Connie (Butch) Bieszczat and Scott (Fredia) Williams siblings, Jean Dempsey of Olathe, KS and George Martz of Kansas City, KS six grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and two great great grandchildren. In April of this year she moved into The Homestead Assisted Living facility and made many new friends. After retirement she worked in the Food Pantry at the First Presbyterian Church and loved every minute of it. She worked at the Johnson County Court House in the Treasurer's office for 38 years. Vera also loved going to Las Vegas and playing the poker machines. Vera and Loren loved going out dancing with all their many friends. Their daughter, Connie, was born in 1947, Jeff in 1955, and Scott in 1960. She met and married Loren Williams in 1946 and moved to Olathe. She was born on Februin Paola, KS and grew up there. Williams, 87, of Olathe, passed away on August 8, 2017. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Trials of death by darren shanHe deals with pain and suffering head-on which is something unique compared to many other sugar-coated middle school novels I've read. Unlike most middle-school books, no one waved their wand to cure him. His trials are both difficult and painful - he loses his hair to fire, scrapes himself raw on another and nearly drowns to death in a third. While the other vampires do make some concessions, for the most part, Darren is thrown to the wolves. These trials are meant to for full vampires and Darren is only a half-vampire (and a young one at that). Either he manages to prove himself worthy of becoming a full vampire or his life will be cut extremely short. In this novel, we find Darren competing in the Vampire Trials. but there's a difference between ending the book with a bit of a cliff hanger.versus literally stopping in the middle of a story. I've noticed that Shan tends to end his books with a big TO BE CONTINUED. THIS IS NOT going to resolve anything of value 5/21/2023 0 Comments Rushdie quichotte reviewIt was no longer possible to predict the weather, or the likelihood of war, or the outcome of elections. Old friends could become new enemies and traditional enemies could be your new besties or even lovers. And in the Age of Anything-Can-Happen, well, anything could happen. Following a devastating “Interior Event” that renders impossible his previous life as a professor and journalist, he turns to work as a travelling pharmaceutical sales rep in the employ of his crooked cousin, and becomes obsessed with junk television in “the Age of Anything-Can-Happen”: Rushdie’s Quichotte (pronounced key-shot) is a man, too, for whom the dark present of the 21 st century world, in its confusion and disharmony, has lost its appeal. A contemporary retelling of the story of the self-styled knight’s exploits and his utter devotion to his romantic convictions in the face of dark times and unkind opposition is an entertaining and surprisingly effective framework employed in Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, Quichotte. Miguel de Cervantes’ seventeenth century novel, Don Quixote, was about a man unable to face the reality of his existence, a man on a seemingly deranged quest for an ideal of love, truth, and beauty in a world that for him had lost its enchantment. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Leadership by Carlos RiveraJuanCarlos currently serves on multiple community Boards, and this year, was appointed to the Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Board by the Governor. His work in youth violence prevention and peacemaking has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and he has received numerous awards including National Professional of the Year through the Association of Boys & Girls Club Professionals an the National Service to Youth Award through Boys & Girls Club of America. JuanCarlos is well respected as a leader in the field of youth work. Prior to becoming the Club’s Director of Operations about eight years ago, JuanCarlos’s community involvement included peer leadership, program coordination, gang prevention and intervention as a street outreach worker, and serving as a founding member of the United Teen Equality Center (UTEC).Īs the Deputy Executive Director JuanCarlos supports the BGCGL team in providing comprehensive strategic planning, youth development and educational programming, oversees all building operations, and supervises the Youth Development Program Director. With over 25 years of youth development experience, JuanCarlos has dedicated himself to strengthening his community and the youth within it. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Daughter of the siren queen seriesTricia Levenseller’s book, Daughter of the Siren Queen, continues Alosa’s story by including her mother, who is still unknown in the first novel. Alosa Kallegan returns in the second book in Daughter of the Pirate King series as she learns about her mother, the truth about her father, and more about her own interests. after all, she is the daughter of the Siren Queen. Despite the danger, Alosa knows they will recover the treasure first. When Vordan exposes a secret her father has kept for years, Alosa and her crew find themselves in a deadly race with the feared Pirate King. And she takes great comfort in knowing that the villainous Vordan will soon be facing her father’s justice. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he’s under her orders. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. We meet them on a rare holiday to a Maryland lake, with the girls in their teens and their younger brother a curious seven-year-old happiest playing make-believe with his toys. Set, as usual, in Baltimore, it’s the story of the Garretts: husband and wife Robin and Mercy, children Alice, Lily and David. Responding to a question about whether Covid might break her aversion to putting topical elements in her work, she said: “It would derail the small private story I’m trying to tell.”Īfter her previous novel, the terrific Redhead By the Side of the Road, generously centred on the blinkered perspective of a middle-aged IT guy, French Braid returns to type: a multigenerational ensemble piece that will have fans marking their Tyler bingo cards, from empty nesters taking later-life left turns and family rifts surrounding odd-one-out siblings. We might fairly think that some of the things she has said in recent interviews aren’t exactly engraved in stone, not least because French Braid, a warm family saga set between 1959 and the late summer of 2020, appears to represent a U-turn on her intuition that “it’d be really wrongheaded of me to suddenly start talking about the coronavirus at this stage in one of my books”. T his, blessedly, is now Anne Tyler’s fourth novel since she suggested that 2015’s A Spool of Blue Thread was going to be her last. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Coyote by gerald mcdermottMcDermott adds some fresh description to his concise, stately narrative (as when the musicians ""curled their toes in the cool earth and began to play""), yet it is surely his sumptuous paintings that command this splendid volume. The liberated musicians (named Red, Blue, Yellow and Green) bring color and joyous sound to the world (and add even more diversity to the paintings). 1 His picture books feature folktales and cultures from all around the world. His creative works typically combine bright colors and styles with ancient imagery. Featuring Night as the benevolent ""soul of the world"" and Sun as a selfish villain (who ultimately does share his light) gives the story an intriguing twist. Gerald McDermott (Janu December 26, 2012) was an American filmmaker, creator of children's picture books, and expert on mythology. When this King of the Gods sends Wind on a mission to the realm of the Sun, to free the four musicians he holds captive, blazing golds, reds and oranges light up the pages in a dramatic shift of palette. The textured artwork comes alive in subtle gradations of deep blues and purples with intricate patterns in sweeping, full-spread scenes that call up Aztec sculpture and temples. As the Lord of the Night laments that the people are spending their lives ""in darkness and silence,"" McDermott captures the god and his symbolic motifs on paper handmade in Mexico, using acrylic fabric paint, opaque ink and oil pastel. Again offering an imposing visual interpretation of legend, Caldecott Medalist McDermott (Arrow to the Sun) recounts an Aztec tale recorded in the 16th century. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Marley by Jon ClinchThey meet as youths in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys, where Marley begins their twisted friendship by initiating the innocent Scrooge into the gentle art of extortion. But in Jon Clinch's ingenious novel, Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is very much alive: a rapacious and cunning boy who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be both the making and the undoing of Scrooge. "Marley was dead, to begin with," Charles Dickens tells us at the beginning of A Christmas Carol. Masterly." - The New York Times Book Review From the acclaimed author of Finn comes a masterful reimagining of Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol with this darkly entertaining exploration of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. "By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, Clinch] has, without imitating Dickens, entered into the phantasmagoric realm that is the great novelist's quintessential territory.Startling and creative.Remarkable. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The reptile room by lemony snicketA very dull boy, you may remember, cried Wolf! when there was no wolf, and the gullible villagers ran to rescue him only to find the whole thing was a joke. Lemony Snicket: (narrating) When you were very small, perhaps someone read to you the insipid story - the word insipid here means not worth reading to someone - of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your mouth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word. But if someone is surpassingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order-you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Lemony Snicket: (narrating) When someone is a little bit wrong - say, when a waiter puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. (in the dedication) For Beatrice-My love for you shall live forever. |