![]() First, the new position of the moon causes incredible flooding of all coastal areas then, the gravity alteration caused by the new lunar position encourages earthquakes and volcanic erruptions. When the asteroid pushes the moon into a closer orbit, the earth changes forever. "Fantasy summer," indeed.Įveryone in Miranda's town is excited about the upcoming lunar event: scientists have predicted that an asteroid will hit the moon and the world is keen to watch what is supposed to be a safe and distant fluke. Anyway: forget what you knew about the Susan Beth Pfeffer of your 1980s past: this latest book by the longtime YA author will blow you away. 352 pages.Īnybody besides me remember Susan Beth Pfeffer? The "Portraits of Little Women" series? The "Sebastian Sisters" series? Kid Power? Fantasy Summer? All right, maybe it's just me. Realistic | Romance | Science Fiction | Historical Fiction | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery ![]() Young Adult Literature without Apology Amy's assessment of contemporary young adult literature, organized by author and title, censored by noone. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.īeginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain-real and imagined, her own and others’-Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. ![]() ![]() Jacobsen also drew an interesting parallel between different utopian communities, or rather groups who promise a version of utopia, that can pose a threat to national security. “The NSA is probably most important for your community, Jacobsen added, mentioning specific tools the NSA uses to monitor communications like Open-Source Intelligence, compiled by large computer systems as a way to dragnet mass intelligence, techniques revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden to have been used on the American people. “Military technology is the foundation” for crypto, she began the podcast declaring. While Jacobsen is well known for reporting on topics like national security, intelligence, military technology and government secrecy, her views on crypto are much less known. ![]() ![]() Author and investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen tackled the questions of whether Bitcoin is part of a counter-cultural dissident movement and whether cryptocurrency been infiltrated by the CIA during a recent episode of the Bankless podcast hosted by Ryan Adams and David Hoffman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Government officials, worried about a constrained labor force in a state where population growth has stalled, have taken a cover-the-waterfront approach. It has also prompted talk of capping workloads and led to up to an 18% pay increase over three years for unionized nurses. FARIBAULT, Minnesota, May 2 (Reuters) - Demand for Daikin Applied Americas Inc's climate control equipment is soaring, and worker recruitment is in hyperdrive, with hiring trips to women's shelters and immigrant support groups and an open door for applicants with no high school degree or manufacturing experience.įor Minnesota's healthcare industry, an estimated 5,000 open nursing positions have sparked the invention of a new specialty, the nurse retentionist who is focused on convincing colleagues to stay on the job. ![]() ![]() Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who traveled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. ![]() ![]() So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. “Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence. ![]() A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY TIME, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, GOODREADS, USA TODAY, AND MORE! ![]() ![]() The book explores mature content - substance abuse (drugs/alcohol) and dealing, domestic violence/abuse, sexual violence, a drug overdose, and parental death. ![]() The story is told in three points of view: between 18-year-old former best friends Salahudin and Noor, as well as chapters in flashback from Sal's late mother Misbah. It's about two Muslim Pakistani American teens living in a small California desert town. Parents need to know that All My Rage is a work of realistic fiction by best-selling fantasy novelist Sabaa Tahir ( Ember in the Ashes) that won the 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Noor works in her uncle's liquor shop.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. A dying (and later dead) woman's prescription drugs are mentioned. One young woman overdoses (but survives). ![]() Adult characters smoke and drink - Sal's father is an alcoholic and is often described as drinking or obviously drunk. ![]() ![]() More embarrassing still, the rare reader may find himself a little experientially out-of-touch with the “large-mannered motions” (Wallace Stevens) signaling joy, paradise, and personal forward progress.Īs another slight point of embarrassment, I had to look up the meaning of the word ‘imagination’, and hopefully providing a definition here would not come across as too basic. ![]() Awash in thoughts of family farms sold, inheritances forfeited, and next-of-kin pawning them back, such etymologically-constrained readers can be taxed by unfamiliarity with the contemporary, figurative tradition about various conceptual realities being ‘redeemed’. For example, the question of the imagination’s being ‘fully redeemed’ is one that a stubbornly literal-minded person cannot quite wrap his head around. ![]() ![]() It’s embarrassingly difficult to find oneself largely without answers but with questions, especially in the context of beautiful reflections on art, liturgy, the imago dei, and other affectively-charged elements of the Christian imagination. ![]() This article was originally posted by the John Jay Institute, as part of an online symposium it held on Christian Imagination a couple years back. ![]() ![]() ![]() Give additionally proceeds with his pattern of hauling out turns so rapidly that the reader has no time at all to recoup from one preceding the following comes around and slaps you senseless. It basically works, and it does as such splendidly. Yet not once does it ever feel unwarranted or pointless. An advancements' portion here are dreadful. With Lies, the story is much darker than past portions. In the event that one thing Grant knows how to do exceedingly well, it's weaving an intriguing and interesting story. It may not be long, but rather it's a damn decent story. A much more slender read than its forerunners, Grant's third offering packs such a great amount of perfection into each page that any plausibility of the shorter length being a deterrent to the narrating is squashed inside of the initial couple of sections. Sam and Caine crushed him alongside the Darkness. A young lady who kicked the bucket now strolls among the living Zil and the Human Crew set flame to Perdido Beach and in the midst of the flames and smoke, Sam sees the kid's figure he fears the most: Drake. ![]() ![]() It's been seven months since every one of the grown-ups vanished. ![]() ![]() A missing Wren returns from a desert isle and finds her husband has a new wife and son. Stars Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Coral Browne & Edward Rigby. On the morning of the Epsom Derby, a disparate group of people prepare to go to the races. Stars Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding & Googie Withers. Based on 'Lady Windermere's Fan' by Oscar Wilde, a misplaced fan causes havoc in Victorian London. Stars Madeleine Carroll, Jeanne Crain and George Sanders. ![]() When actress Peg (Anna Neagle) is jilted by Michael (Jack Hawkins) Peg becomes a famous Drury Lane actress. A wonderfully simple story of Mr Ningle, who lost his job in the City many years ago. Stars: Richard Hearne, Garry Marsh, Ellen Pollock. An international film star is whisked away on a visit to London by her number one fan and his friends. Stars Joe Brown, Sophie Hardy & Sidney James. Songs you love from popular artists, live and on video with the odd interview.ġ965. Ī TOTP style TV Show for Heritage Artists based on the Heritage Chart which is voted on in over 80 countries. An American WWI veteran postpones his wedding plans to go on a spiritual quest of self-discovery. ![]() Stars Bill Murray, Theresa Russell & Denholm Elliott. Click for a Printable TPTV Schedule May 1st to May 7thġ984. ![]() ![]() Fringe listeners listen to other stations more, but they have potential to be the future of public radio’s audience. Core listeners are the heart of our audience: they listen to local public radio stations more than any other radio outlets. Tom and Ray Magliozzi have played a leading crossover role in the public radio, bringing together the interests of core and fringe listeners. ![]() Not every program works as well for every station for both core and fringe listeners, and in every timeslot, with every adjacent show, according to Audience Research Analysis, which computes the figures for the Power Perspectives reports cited in this article. Car Talk not only has a relatively wide mix of these audiences but also airs on a large number of stations. ![]() ![]() Among stations carrying these titles, the shows attain above-average loyalty for both core and fringe listeners at these percentages of the stations. ![]() |