![]() In this delightful debut, Anjali Banerjee offers a fresh perspective on universal hopes and dreams, as narrated by an insightful girl with an irrepressible imagination. She was born in India, grew up in Canada and California, and received degrees from the. She must journey across continents to find the truth, her culture, and herself. Anjali Banerjee is the author of Maya Running and Looking for Bapu. When Pinky steals Jamie's heart, Maya pleads with Ganesh to remove all obstacles to her dreams, a wish that backfires in hilarious and painful ways. Then Maya's beautiful cousin Pinky arrives from India bearing the scent of sandalwood and her most coveted possession-the statue of Ganesh. She longs to fit in, and she yearns for Jamie Klassen, the local bad boy with the John Travolta strut. She was born in India and her parents moved to Canada when she was. Born in India and raised in the land of moose and snow, she feels neither Indian enough for Indians, nor Canadian enough for Canadians. Buy a used copy of Maya Running book by Anjali Banerjee. ![]() It's 1978, and Maya Mukherjee is the only brown-skinned middle schooler in her tiny Manitoba town. ![]() But Ganesh is more powerful than he looks, and he's about to send a young girl on a magical adventure of self-discovery. The small golden statue of the Hindu elephant god, Ganesh, hardly resembles an all-knowing Granter of Wishes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Evangeline was the only child of Ivo Jenner, the notorious London gambling club owner, and a mother who had run off with him - only to quickly realize her mistake. Sebastian regarded her with veiled contempt, pondering what he knew of her. ![]() ![]() Miss Evangeline Jenner, the lamblike creature who now stood before him, was as unlike Lillian Bowman as it was possible to be. Lillian Bowman, a lively American heiress, had put up fierce resistance to his plan until she had been rescued by her fiancé, Lord Westcliff. He should have chosen far less spirited prey. And Lillian herself had promised to be an entertaining bed partner, with her dark-haired beauty and her fiery temperament. Her family was wealthy, whereas Sebastian was titled and in financial straits. In retrospect Lillian Bowman had been a foolish choice, though at the time she had seemed the perfect solution to Sebastian's dilemma. Although kidnapping had not, until recently, been on Sebastian's long list of villainous acts, he really should have been more clever about it. ![]() Vincent, stared at the young woman who had just barged her way into his London residence, it occurred to him that he might have tried to abduct the wrong heiress last week at Stony Cross Park. The Devil in Winter Chapter One London, 1843 As Sebastian, Lord St. ![]() ![]() But when a skeleton is found buried beneath the property's lone peach tree, long-kept secrets come to light, accompanied by a spate of strange occurrences throughout the town. Willa has lately learned that an old classmate-socialite Paxton Osgood-has restored the house to its former glory, with plans to turn it into a top-flight inn. ![]() The Blue Ridge Madam-built by Willa's great-great-grandfather and once the finest home in Walls of Water, North Carolina-has stood for years as a monument to misfortune and scandal. It's the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. ![]() ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - " juggles small-town history and mystical thriller, character development and eerie magical realism in a fine Southern gothic drama." - Publishers Weekly ![]() ![]() ![]() These universities came to the Americas as a response to European nations’ efforts to commandeer territories and keep rivals at bay. The book begins by examining how and why the first American academies became entwined with slave economies of the colonies. With a combination of scholarship and keen analysis, Wilder reveals the economic, political, religious, and intellectual notions of the time that were based on white supremacy and outlines the fundamental role American universities played in supporting these ideas. ![]() Convincingly, the book demonstrates how universities took advantage of slavery and institutionalized racism as part of their curriculum. ![]() Published in 2013, Craig Steven Wilder’s Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities takes an in-depth look at how race-based mindsets and slavery were foundational in the creation, development, and intellectual status quo of universities in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the romance is a prevalent undercurrent throughout the story, this is primarily a coming-of-age story for both Sebastian and Frances. Whether you are young or old, the desires of the characters will resonate with you because they are needs we all have: to be seen and to be loved. This is a story that children can enjoy on their own or that adults can peruse for their personal pleasure. ![]() ![]() The playful illustrations and well-timed dialogue leads readers to instantly fall in love with the characters, especially the main leads. The Prince and the Dressmaker is a story that can be appreciated by all ages. However, their goals seemed star-crossed, for how can Frances gain fame for her designs when no one knows who Lady Crystallia is, and how can Sebastian let his parents know his true desires when acting upon them could very well ruin the life they have planned for him? Before long as Frances and Sebastian spend time together and share their hopes and dreams, a romance blossoms. With the help of his personal seamstress Frances, Sebastian is able to become the center of Parisian nightlife as Lady Crystallia, an enigmatic fashion icon in a city on the cusp of the modern age. Looking for something fresh and new to read this spring? Something easy to digest, but that sticks with you long after you’ve finished the final page? The Prince and the Dressmaker may be just the story for you! Created by Jen Wang, this graphic novel tells the story of Sebastian, a teenaged prince with a secret he has never told anyone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Method of Freedom, editor Davide Turcato presents an expansive collection of Malatesta's work, including new translations of existing works and a wealth of shorter essays translated here for the first time. Though his few long-form essays, including "Anarchy" and "Our Program," have been widely available in English translation since the 1950s, the bulk of Malatesta's most revolutionary writing remains unknown to English-speaking audiences. A talented newspaper journalist, Malatesta's biting critiques were frequently short and to the pointand written directly to and for the workers. ![]() For sixty years, Errico Malatesta's involvement with international anarchism helped fuel the movement's radical approach to class and labor, and directly impacted the workers' movement in Italy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Julia is Chicago born and raised, but Connor - a well-off white boy from Evanston - still wants to know on their first meeting where she’s “ from from” (a question that elicited groans from teenagers in the audience at Saturday’s opening performance). Sánchez and Gómez adeptly capture the sense of dual identity that many first-generation children of immigrants can feel. ![]() In one moment that may feel familiar to fans of the TV series “Fleabag,” Connor even calls Julia out on this dissociation, which she chalks up to her writerly tendencies - she’s always observing herself, crafting her own story as she goes. Julia frequently steps outside of her present moment, even in the middle of her first kiss with Connor (Harrison Weger), to dish with the audience. Gómez retains the novel’s first-person point of view, allowing Julia (Karen Rodriguez) to narrate her own story as she works through her own grief while also dealing with school, college applications and her first boyfriend. (Gómez’s “The Leopard Play, or sad songs for lost boys,” a deeply personal work about sexuality and Latino masculinity, is playing at Edgewater’s Steep Theatre through March 14.) For “Perfect Mexican Daughter,” the adapter is Isaac Gómez, a rising local talent with his own strong perspective on Mexican familial expectations. ![]() ![]() ![]() “At Night All Blood Is Black” won by a majority decision, Hughes-Hallett said, beating five other shortlisted titles including “ In Memory of Memory,” by Maria Stepanova, in which the Russian writer digs through her dead aunt’s possessions, before using them to reconstruct her family history.ĭiop, 55, was born in Paris to a French mother and Senegalese father, but spent most of his childhood in Dakar. Past winners have included “The Discomfort of Evening” by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld of the Netherlands, “ The Vegetarian” by the Korean writer Han Kang, and “ Flights” by Olga Tokarczuk, the Polish author who went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is separate from, but administered by the same foundation as, the better-known Booker Prize for fiction written in English, and has the same prize money. The International Booker Prize is awarded each year to the best book translated into English and published in Britain or Ireland. “You feel like you’re being hypnotized,” Hughes-Hallett added of the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I immediately went to work on the Great American Novel (since destroyed) and was rescued when my future wife, Jean Feiwel (then and now publisher of Scholastic Inc.) made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. “At the age of forty I came to the startling realization that the glamorous world of power lunches, power politics, and power trips was not for me. “After college I was a book buyer for some fine, independent bookstores, some of the nation’s largest retail book chains and a marketing executive in publishing. “I was a serious reader from an early age and when I attended Boston University in 1968, majoring in history, I worked in a bookstore at night,” he says. After the publication of An American Hero: The True Story of Charles Lindburgh, Denenberg was interviewed for various documentaries including ABC’s “The Century.”ĭenenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York and lived in Long Island, Binghamton, New York, and Palisades Park, New Jersey. His nonfiction books have covered a wide array of topics, from Anne Frank to Elvis Presley. His historical fiction includes titles in the Dear America, My Name is America, and Royal Diaries series, many of which have been named NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People. Barry Denenberg is the critically acclaimed author of non-fiction and historical fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() When they meet up after not seeing each other for a while, Hock - who once told Israel all of his friends were dead - appears to be on the verge of death himself. In the film, Hock and Israel quickly go from being partners in crime to estranged. It was in the book actually - that line in the book, it says, ‘I saw you and I felt like I wanted to fucking trip you.’ That was a line in the book that hadn’t been in the script and Mari read the book and brought that line right back and gave them that scene.” “One of the beautiful things that Mari did was give them a weighted moment. ![]() “ didn’t really have an ending, it was only about ending,” Carey said. Melissa McCarthy Discusses 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' True Story at New York Premiere ![]() |