![]() It is not just a simple, cozy, nostalgic pastime that can be taken up or dropped without consequence. In this distracted age, we need to change our understanding of what reading aloud is, and what it can do. In a culture undergoing what’s been called “the big disconnect,” many of us are grappling with the effects of screens and devices, machines that enhance our lives and at the same time make it harder to concentrate and to retain what we’ve seen and read, and alarmingly easy to be only half present even with the people we love most. The technology that allows us to observe the inner workings of the human brain is of a piece with the same technology that baffles and addles and seems to be reshaping the brain. It’s no coincidence that these discoveries are coming during a paradigm shift in the way we live. She’s right about that, and explorations in brain and behavioral science are beginning to yield thrilling insights into why. “We exist together in a little patch of warmth and light.” ![]() “We let down our guard when someone we love is reading us a story,” the novelist Kate DiCamillo once told me. A miraculous alchemy takes place when one person reads to another, one that converts the ordinary stuff of life-a book, a voice, a place to sit, and a bit of time-into astonishing fuel for the heart, the mind, and the imagination. The time we spend reading aloud is like no other time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan ( Carcanet, £12.99)Ī moving, lyrically potent collection charting the interconnected impacts of political and personal fracture. I wish I’d spent all these years in / your arms and close to you / and had you shave my head and slap my back and take me under / your soft wing … ” At a moment where transphobia seems virulent in UK culture, these lyrical odes to kinship, intimacy and hard-won self-love feel particularly affecting and important. I’m so sorry I was not in your love sooner. My beautiful trans people, / natural as life. But at the heart of the book are tender, striking celebrations of queer and trans identity and community, such as the poem Love song for queens, studs, butches, daddies, fags and all the other angels. The topics are just as diverse, including romance, the body as boundary and the environment. ![]() This collection covers a huge variety of forms, from punchy rhyming poetry that nods to Tempest’s prowess as a performer to playful works that experiment with white space on the page. ![]() Divisible By Itself and One by Kae Tempest ( Picador, £10.99) ![]() ![]() ![]() He later served in the Pennsylvania convention that ratified the In 1783, he retired from the military with the rank of brevet major general. He later captured an important British garrison at Stony Point on the Hudson River. Following a series of brilliant military maneuvers during the American Revolutionary War at the Battles of Ticonderoga, Morristown and Brandywine, he was promoted to Brigadier General and given the title of "Mad" Anthony Wayne. He was appointed a representative to the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1773 and left that position in 1775 when he was commissioned a Colonel in the Continental Army. He then returned to Eastown and his surveyor's office. He was sent to Nova Scotia in 1765 to locate a grant of land given to a company of Pennsylvanians and was the superintendent of the settlement for two years. ![]() He was educated in Philadelphia and operated a surveyor's office in Eastown. The county was named in honor of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne (1745-1796).Īnthony Wayne was born on Januin Eastown, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Wayne County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on Janufrom parts of Cabell County. ![]() County QuickFacts: CensusBureau Quick Facts Early History of Wayne County, West Virginia ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the House of Night, Zoey finds true friendship, loyalty, and romance as well as mistrust and deception. Her mark from the Goddess Nyx is a special one, showing that her powers are very strong for one so young. But even there the teen stands apart from the others. Her grandmother, a descendant of the Cherokee, has always supported her emotionally, and it is she who takes the girl to her new school. She has never fit into the human world and has always felt she is destined for something else. ![]() ![]() To Zoey, being marked is truly a blessing, though she's scared at first. Those whom the creatures ‘mark’ as special enter the House of Night school where they will either become vampyres themselves, or, if their body rejects the change, die. “In 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampyres not only exist but are also tolerated by humans. “Cast reeled me in from paragraph one. I snorted and giggled through the whole thing, and devoured it in one sitting.”- MaryJanice Davidson, New York Times best-selling author of the Undead series “From the moment I stuck my face in this book it hooked me! Totally awesome new take on vampires! Marked is hot and dark and funny. It rocks!”- Gena Showalter, author of MTV’s Oh My Goth It teaches about the beauty of being a social outcast, friendship, and finding your own inner spirituality.”- The Beltane Papers “ Marked is one of the best coming of age stories to come out of Oklahoma since S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the years, Marvel has had a habit of giving their comics new #1s. (While it became common knowledge as to her identity, I won’t spoil it here for anyone who doesn’t know who it is.) Aaron was able to tell an epic story with her and give her a satisfying conclusion. When the Thor we all know became unworthy to wield his hammer, Mjolnir, a mysterious female Thor stepped up to take the mantle. It also had to juggle not one, but two Thors too. With spectacular action and depiction of the Ten Realms, their art is a joy to look at. It’s had an impressive roster of artists, which include the likes of Esad Ribic, Tom Raney, Russell Dauterman, Mike Del Mundo, Oliver Coipel, and others. By the end of this year, though, it will all be over when it concludes in December.Īaron’s run has been one of the greatest Thor runs of all time, rivalling that of the legendary run by Walt Simonson. For more than 7 years, Jason Aaron and a fine collection of collaborators have been telling some of the most grandest Thor stories in Marvel Comics history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Duty turns to desire, despite his best intentions. Malcolm isn’t looking to get attached to anyone, let alone a traumatized human, but Brenin’s knowledge of the monster’s lair makes him invaluable and forces them to work together. He has to fight a pull toward this alien who wears a kilt and fights with a sword. ![]() The more time he spends with Malcolm, the more he doubts his own worries. His desperate bid to escape leads him into yet another monster’s castle-or so he fears. His surveillance of Dracul’s castle turns into a rescue mission when a brutalized boy runs right into his arms.īrenin has survived the vicious life of being an alien’s slave. When his captain asks for his help one last time, however, he can’t refuse. Sick of the endless war with Dracul and living with terrible guilt over the crash, he seeks peace and quiet. Malcolm MacLerie has long made his home in the wild Highlands of Scotland. What lurks in the dark is not always a monster. ![]() ![]() With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani's quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. ![]() Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, this tale (like Edgedancer before it) gives often-overshadowed characters their own chance to shine. ![]() ![]() From Brandon Sanderson author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War-comes a new hefty novella, Dawnshard. ![]() ![]() A obra original, de Osamu Dazai, é narrada através de manuscritos deixados por Ouba Youzou, um homem dramático e perturbado, incapaz de revelar seu verdadeiro eu aos outros, e que, em vez disso, mantém um estado de espírito jocoso. ![]() ![]() Side-note: i see that a lot of people have been delivered copies with a filthy dust jacket, if yours have black marks or streaks on it, then i can confirm that these scrub away by simply (carefully) rubbing a damp cloth on them, leaving your book looking as it should. Tragic fact: did you know that the author of the original novel Osamu Dazai actually ended up ending his life just like it's depicted in the manga? making the novel one of the best selling suicide notes of all time. ![]() I can't put into words what i felt when i turned over the last page and closed this book after reading it straight all the way through for 3 and a half hours, this book will leave you feeling hollow and with a lot of questions about the human relationships you've made throughout your life, at least i did, this is not a negative but a major plus - not many manga have left me with moral and existential questions, but Junji Ito succeeds with this almost every time, i highly recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Ito's work or with an interest in social and existential philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course at the end they are still friends but the book ends with:"All of them went home"Īnd that's it, too open ended, we don't know if it was really their last adventure together or what. Of course each wish, maybe except Sally's, have a consequence for the group and leads to many complications in their last adventure. ![]() The town witch, Ann Templeton, is leaving Spooksville to reunite with her daughter and husband so she calls the whole gang, meaning the core five, to her castle and grants each of them a wish with the condition that they won't tell anyone or the wish will be nullified.Įach of them wishes something that goes really well with their personalities: Adam wishes knowing what was right, Watch wishes to read minds, Sally wishes for a unlimited credit card, Cindy wishes for the love of the boy she loves and Bryce wishes for a spaceship. The book was great but my only problem is that it was too open ending for my taste, and having re-read the whole series after ten years in a two-day span didn't help as I was really invested in the story as I was when I was twelve. ![]() ![]() Here’s ALA’s complete list of the ten most challenged books in 2016: Other comics in the top ten are Drama by Raina Telgemeier and Big Hard Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Jillian and Mariko Tamaki’s award-winning graphic novel This One Summer sits at the top of the American Library Association’s list of the most challenged books in 2016. Graphic Novels: Suggestions for Librarians.Working With Libraries! A Handbook For Comics Creators. ![]() Know Your Rights: Student Rights Fact Sheet. ![]()
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