![]() ![]() Puzzles, involving both words and numbers, play a crucial role in The Parker Inheritance, and the novel pays direct homage to The Westing Game. ![]() We spoke with Johnson about the power of perception, the personal roots of his novel, and addressing issues of prejudice for young readers. Along the way, the children unearth a decades-old hate crime and confront the town’s lingering racial tensions. When neighbors Candice and Brandon discover a cryptic letter containing clues to a secret fortune, they set out to solve the riddle. Johnson’s forthcoming novel, The Parker Inheritance, blends history and mystery in a puzzle adventure s et in the fictional town of Lambert, S.C.- inspired in part by the author’s South Carolina hometown of Florence. Varian Johnson is the author of the Jackson Greene middle grade series, which includes his 2014 caper, The Great Greene Heist, and the 2016 follow-up, To Catch a Cheat. ![]()
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![]() No one is more superbly qualified to profile the nine justices. Best-selling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the Supreme Court and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. ![]() ![]() He is a bestselling author, a CNN senior legal analyst, and New Yorker staff writer. THE NINE is the book Toobin was born to write. Bush, the president she helped place in office. Gore–and Sandra Day O’Connor’s fateful breach with George W. There is also, for the first time, the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. ![]() ![]() Just in time for the 2008 presidential election–where the future of the Court will be at stake–Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations.īased on exclusive interviews with the justices themselves, THE NINE tells the story of the Court through personalities–from Anthony Kennedy’s overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas’s well-tended grievances against his critics to David Souter’s odd nineteenth-century lifestyle. Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the Supreme Court and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. ![]() ![]() ![]() By cutting away many of the stories that don't address these themes, and rearranging the remaining stories, Al-Shaykh nests the themes. One repeating theme in the original stories is the question of whether men or women are more treacherous another is the tension between passionate violence and reconciliation. What she does with the misogyny is an active success. ![]() Al-Shaykh handles that by editing out much of the racism, though traces remain - particularly in the way the stories implicitly view black male sexuality as a threat to social order. Yet, most versions struggle with (or worse, are simply marred by) the gross misogyny and racism of the original stories. The Tales are full of wonder: genies, wizards, long voyages, riddles, romantic and erotic love. This is the most satisfying retelling or translation of the Tales of the Arabian Nights that I've read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then I run out of the house and head to the place where Safta and I talked about her love for this place. Then my hand reaches out and slips the paper out of his extended hand.Ī wave of sorrow and confusion makes me freeze. "As in if you want me out of your life, if that will make you happy, then that's what I want for you." He takes papers out of his suitcase and holds them out to me. He glances sideways at me before rummaging through his bag again. When I enter the house, I walk up to him. My legs are a little numb from having the mutt on my lap for so long, but I scurry to get up and follow him. ![]() ![]() Did he just say "fine"? I think he did, but the word still doesn't register. I keep looking at Mutt and rubbing his tummy so I don't have to look at the disappointment of my life. Maybe deep down I want to hurt him for not being there for me the past sixteen years of my life. I knew as the words left my lips it would hurt him. ![]() ![]() Since then I have been meaning to read this book on becoming a more conscious parent and creating a more present relationship with my kids… Shefali’s inspirational posts on Facebook here. I highly recommend that video for a good intro on her work and you can also follow Dr. Shefali’s work since seeing her interview on Marie TV a few years ago. This month’s book is The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Dr. I hope you will join me! You can read more about the purpose of the club here. I’m personally planning to create a pattern of listening to each book for half an hour a few times a week before bed! As my kids get older, I’m finding I have less and less time to pick up a book and have a good hour to read, and I’m looking forward to completing my Book Club goal of learning from 12 books this year. All books can be found in hard copy as well as audio versions. Happy New Year everyone and welcome to Book Club! This is a brand new monthly series here at Moments A Day for which I’m sharing books written on the topics of positive parenting and personal growth. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the center is the Smithsonian Institution-linked to the knights, its treasure, and Malone himself through an ancestor, a Confederate spy named Angus "Cotton" Adams, whose story holds the key to everything. Thrust into this battle is former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, whose connection to the knights is far deeper than he ever imagined. Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure-one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. "The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A toy engineer and his son drive a train loaded with “”freight”” (actually an assortment of playthings) around a labyrinth of track laid out in a sleeping boy’s bedroom.”ĭaddy Calls Me Man, Writer, Angela Johnson, Illustrator, Rhonda Mitchell, Recommended for ages 2 to 5 “First-time author Lewis and Kirk (Breakfast at the Liberty Diner) here embrace an enduring childhood fantasy - the playroom that comes alive at night - and pare it down for very young readers. “Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning until night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to the warmth of family connections, to the widest sunset sky.”Ĭhugga-Chugga Choo-Choo, Writer, Kevin Lewis, Writer and Illustrator, Daniel Kirk, Recommended for ages 2 to 5 ![]() Early ChildhoodĪll the World, Writer, Liz Garton Scanlon, Illustrator, Marla Frazee, Recommended for ages 2 to 5 ![]() We’ll continue to add your suggestions to this completely crowdsourced list, so continue adding to the thread on Facebook. We Need Diverse Books Like A Snowy Day, many of you in the EmbraceRace community posted or messaged us your favorite books featuring kids of color NOT fighting bigotry, discrimination or enslavement. Inspired by an article by Rumaan Alum’s article We Don’t Only Need Diverse Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Floods, too, are positive and negative in this book. As a symbol, water and the river contains both darkness and light. But the river helps to carry Maggie into a nightmarish situation, where she is tempted to do something that she worries is morally wrong. Maggie is lulled by the river and the sleepy, romantic atmosphere it produces. (6.13.33) But the river always carries a darker edge with it. The river is often a place of romance, dreams, and even magic, particularly for Maggie and Stephen: They glided rapidly along, to Stephen’s rowing, helped by the backward-flowing tide on between the silent, sunny fields and pastures thought did not belong to that enchanted haze in which they were enveloped - it belonged to the past and the future that lay outside the haze. ![]() ![]() But water isn’t just a bringer of death and doom and destruction and other "d" words. Tulliver is always complaining that Maggie is going to fall in the river and drown one day. We often hear about water in direct relation to the Tulliver kids, which is sort of morbidly appropriate given the way they die. In fact, water and flood imagery is found throughout the novel, and the river itself is practically a character. Given the ending of this novel, it’s not really surprising that water and floods are an important symbol. ![]() ![]() Originally published in 1948, The Heart of the Matter is the unforgettable portrait of one man-flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith. ![]() When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor-a vortex leading directly to murder.Īs Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. ![]() Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork. The book details a life-changing moral crisis for Henry Scobie. ![]() The Heart of the Matter (1948) is a novel by English author Graham Greene. (Book 551 from 1001 books) - The Heart of The Matter, Graham Greene ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s also something very particular about a slightly sarcastic and curmudgeonly magical chum. There’s something very particularly British (and very particularly mid-twentieth century British) about magic being found on your doorstep. What I liked, however, was how immediate and everyday this magic was. The spell must be broken by Rosemary who, in trying to find extra money to bring home to her impoverished mother, finds herself embroiled in mysterious and magical goings on. I like the way that libraries do that sometimes they give you the things that you did not quite mean to get and yet knew you always wanted.Ĭarbonel is a cat and he is under a spell. Carbonel has been on my radar for some time and so when I spotted it, I grabbed. I had prepared for this day with a visit to the library, picking things that I thought might be in my wheelhouse and things that I had been meaning to read for some while and yet never got around to it. ![]() When it is a hot day, we turn to the shadows and we read the books. Carbonel: The King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh ![]() |
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