![]() ![]() It is a book about race and the way the judicial system and prison system in America disproportionately fails and oppresses black people. I really wish publication could be moved up for this book because, while I'm certain it's story will be no less relevant in September, it very much complements the discussions happening right now. With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo.Īmal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. ![]()
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![]() This is provocative, powerful, and joyful intellectual work. Throughout these essays, she celebrates the transformative power of critical thinking. Highlighting the importance of reading, she insists on the primacy of free speech, a democratic education of literacy. Addressing questions of race, gender, and class in this work, hooks discusses the complex balance that allows us to teach, value, and learn from works written by racist and sexist authors. One teacher asked how to handle tears in the classroom, while another wanted to know how to use humour as a tool for learning. One professor, for example, asked how black female professors can maintain positive authority in a classroom without being seen through the lens of negative racist, sexist stereotypes. ![]() The issues are varied and broad, from whether meaningful teaching can take place in a large classroom setting to confronting issues of self-esteem. ![]() In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community. In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. ![]() Delivery time for this book is approximately 21 days ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, at 90, she is back with a new book, charmingly titled Whatever Next? Lessons from an Unexpected Life. The first book was that rare thing, a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the more unlikely hits of 2019, proving irresistible and unputdownable reading for anyone with a passing interest in the British aristocracy or royals. ![]() While the beating heart of the book was her relationship with her best friend Princess Margaret, to whom she acted as lady-in-waiting for many decades, there were also astonishing jewels, incredible art, a smashing series of country estates, and many stories about the Caribbean island of Mustique-which her husband Colin Tennant bought in 1958 for peanuts, transforming it into the most exclusive of royal and celebrity holiday destinations.īut Lady Anne’s life was also marked by equally unbelievable tragedy: a disgustingly abusive, cheating husband who cruelly disinherited her in his will, leaving his fortune to an assistant a son who of AIDS, another from Hepatitis C and a third who was nearly killed in a motorcycle accident that left him with severe long-term effects. Lady Anne Glenconner’s first book, Lady in Waiting, was an extraordinary chronicle of an extraordinary life. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Sunday. Royalist is The Daily Beast’s newsletter for all things royal and Royal Family. ![]() ![]() ![]() From growing up during the Second World War and training as an army mechanic, to celebrating VE day with the people of Britain and marrying Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh – the man she truly loved – this is the amazing true story of a little girl who became Queen Elizabeth II. But when she was ten years old, her life changed forever. Once, a very long time ago, there was a little Princess called Elizabeth (or Lilibet as her family liked to call her) who loved to play and have fun with her horses, dogs and little sister, Margaret. ![]() ![]() Little Elizabeth: The Young Princess Who Became Queen By Valerie Wilding, Illustrated by Pauline Reeves The incredible true story of a young and brilliant Princess who grew up to become our Queen. Over the course of her remarkable seventy-year reign the Queen had more than thirty corgi companions, and almost all were direct descendants of her cherished Susan. ![]() From princesshood to queendom the pair forged an unbreakable bond, with Susan even participating in Elizabeth’s wedding day and joining her on honeymoon with Prince Philip. Perry, Illustrated by Lydia Corry Even a monarch needs a best friend and Queen Elizabeth II found one in a corgi pup she named Susan. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2011, she was appointed by the Prime Minister to the Expert Panel for the Constitutional Recognition ofIndigenous People.Īlison was named the Female Regional/ Rural Entrepreneur Manager of the Year in the NAB Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards 2013. The Arts Alliance, based on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, is governed by ten local Aboriginal land councils and hosts a range of cultural programs including the annual Saltwater Freshwater Festival and the National Aboriginal Design Agency. Since 1997, in association with Merrima Design, Alison has worked with various urban and rural Aboriginal communities in the delivery of culturally appropriate architectural andĪlison is also a board member of the Indigenous Land Corporation and Ninti One Ltd and for eight years was a regular panellist on the ABC Of the Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance.Įxploring links between cultural identity,Īrt and design, her work spans architecture, interiors, jewellery and public art. A descendant of the Walbanga and Wadi Wadi people of the Yuin nation, Alison Page is an award-winning Designer and Executive Officer ![]() ![]() ![]() Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe-from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos-the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. A free preview of Khaled Hosseini's instant New York Times bestseller And The Mountains Echoed.Īn unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. ![]() ![]() ![]() At times like these, we gather every ounce of hope that our hearts can muster, in the faint belief that something or someone might shift back the hands of time and give back life to that person. But the truth is, that no matter how hard we try, it is very difficult to accept, much less process the loss of a loved one. But what happens when it concerns someone who is very near and dear to us? Are we that complacent about death then? Do we just accept it as the bitter truth and let go? Most might say that the answer to those questions is a harsh and critical “Yes”. Knowing this, we often resign to the fact. ![]() The Characters played by Matt Damon and Michael Caine in the 2014 film “Interstellar”, recite lines from this poem at different points during the film.ĭeath is a tragic yet inevitable phase in the cycle of life that we all have to succumb to at one point or the other. ![]() ![]() Vashti Harrison: I originally did some visual development work for the "Hair Love" Kickstarter campaign, so I designed the characters with the short film in mind. Nowadays, he's an author and filmmaker-and was named to Paste Magazine's list of Directors to Watch in 2016. Matthew will be joined by our friend (and Bookworm Festival 2019 alum) Vashti Harrison, who illustrated the book and provided character art for the short film.Ĭheck out our Q&A with the creators, then be sure to head to our events calendar for the details-we're looking forward to seeing you!īlue Willow Bookshop: Matthew and Vashti, congratulations on your new book-we love it! How did you decide to adapt the animated film "Hair Love" into a picture book? Can you each tell us about your roles in bringing the story from idea to film to book? Cherry, to the shop on May 21! You may remember Matthew from his time as a wide receiver in the NFL. It's a sweet and empowering story, and we can't wait to share it with you. What's more, we're absolutely thrilled to welcome the author, Matthew A. ![]() ![]() Adapted from the animated short film of the same name, the book is a celebration of fathers and daughters-and an ode to loving your natural hair. ![]() Friends, have you seen the charming new picture book gracing our display this week? It's called Hair Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when one of her friends suggests she hook up with Daniel Fitzgerald, a charming, handsome teacher by day, and artist by night, she agrees, thinking maybe this is just what she needs.īut letting go of the past is a lot harder than she anticipated. ![]() It doesn't seem to get easier, even though everyone has been telling her that it will and all she needs is to start dating again. ![]() It’s been nearly two years since Sabrina’s relationship met its end and she’s still mourning what-once-was and what-should’ve-been. Getting over a break up is hard, but it’s even harder when you’re still in love with your ex. “Sometimes it's better to just fake it than be honest. The first book in the Second Chance Love series. ![]() ![]() He has been many things in many times because, by the strictest of definitions, Hazard isn't really a time traveler either - he's just lived a very, very long time. ![]() And all of that might have been very annoying if he hadn't also been, well, not an aluminum siding salesman exactly, but just a regular guy. ![]() He's been in rooms with Josephine Baker and Lillian Gish. Worked for him, playing the lute for his productions. In How To Stop Time, the new novel from Matt Haig, the main character, Tom Hazard (which, not for nothing, is a fantastic name for a time traveler - or anyone else) knew Shakespeare. No one ever remembers the past life where they were the second-most-successful aluminum siding salesman in Columbus, Ohio. It's like people who believe they can recall past lives: They always seem to have been Napoleon or Cleopatra. Sometimes this is the purpose of the time travel ( Let's kill Hitler! being such a famous occupation of the chronologically gifted that it has spawned its own sub-genre of semi-historical fiction) and sometimes it's just a pleasant diversion, but it always seems to happen. Hitler, Jesus, Shakespeare, the king of this or that. In (almost) every single one of them, the time traveler's most notable experience is meeting other people who aren't time travelers who were, in their proper moment, just famous as all hell. Here's what drives me crazy about time travel books. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title How to Stop Time Author Matt Haig ![]() |