![]() ![]() Literary elements at work in the story: In this work of historical fiction, the setting of Nazi-occupiedParis is of primary importance. ![]() “It’s a sign, Maman…!” Monique cries, sure that Sevrine is letting them know that she is safe. Although they hear no word about Sevrine’s whereabouts, several weeks later as they are working in their garden, Monique and her mother are surrounded by several dozen Monarch butterflies. She quickly arranges to send Sevrine’s parents off to the next safe house, and she and Monique themselves take Sevrine to a rendezvous point and send her off to what they hope will be asylum. One night, Monique’s next-door-neighbor spots the two girls as they stand at a window to release a butterfly, and, terrified, they run to awaken Monique’s mother. These scenes of childish play stand in stark contrast to the terrible things that the “tall boots,” the Nazi soldiers, are doing in the town. The two little girls visit one another at night as often as they can without waking their parents, playing dress-up and having late-night tea parties. This apparition turns out to be Sevrine, a Jewish girl whose family is being hidden by Monique’s mother in their cellar. Summary: Late one moonlit evening in World War II-eraParis, Monique finds a little ghost girl perched on the end of her bed, petting her cat. ![]() Audience: Grades 1-5 (although in places the subject matter may be too harsh for the lower end of this age range) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Amidst the tragedy and challenges, they learn what they cannot live without-and what they are willing to do about it.Īs Bright as Heaven is the compelling story of a mother and her daughters who find themselves in a harsh world not of their making, which will either crush their resolve to survive or purify it. But even as they lose loved ones, they take in a baby orphaned by the disease who becomes their single source of hope. As the pandemic claims more than twelve thousand victims in their adopted city, they find their lives left with a world that looks nothing like the one they knew. Into this bustling town, came Pauline Bright and her husband, filled with hope that they could now give their three daughters-Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa-a chance at a better life.īut just months after they arrive, the Spanish Flu reaches the shores of America. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone streets. ![]() In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. It is set in Philadelphia and involves the Bright Family who recently move from the country to the city to help run a funeral home. This historical fiction takes place during the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918. From the acclaimed author of A Bridge Across the Ocean and The Last Year of the War comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. As Bright as Heaven was a truly captivating book. ![]() ![]() ![]() So can the combatants get together and find a solution that spares everybody, invaders and defenders alike, from slaughter or starvation? The outcome depends on whether Zanja can learn the truth of what happened the night Harald died. After initial success against the invaders, Emil's company suffers a string of devastating losses-another seer, Medric, guides the Sainnites. ![]() Norina Truthken, an air elemental who serves Mabin, has also sworn to protect Karis and thus becomes Zanja's rival. After swearing to protect and help Karis, Zanja joins former scholar and seer Emil Paladin's South Hill irregulars. The giant earth witch and smith, Karis, addicted to the will-sapping and sensation-destroying “smoke,” for some reason rouses herself to rescue and heal Zanja. Captured and tortured, her back broken, Zanja languishes in a dungeon. ![]() Next, the Sainnites slaughter the northern Ashawala'i tribe, leaving diplomat and seer Zanja as the sole survivor. Brutal Sainnite warriors have invaded peaceful Shaftal, whose G'deon (ruler), the earth witch Harald, died without conferring his powers upon a successor thus Harald's political rival, Mabin, must rally Shaftal's Paladins to fight a guerrilla war. Hardcover debut, and first after a long silence, from the author of such paperback fantasies as Dancing Jack (1993), etc. ![]() ![]() Polaroid and instant photos present a security risk and are not allowed. You are not allowed to send cash and personal checks, read the inmate funds section on this page for information on how you can send money to inmates in Washington.Īll mail is opened and inspected to ensure contraband does not enter the facility. can all be purchased from the commissary by the inmate. Things like stamps, paper, pens, snacks, hygiene items, etc. You should format the mail you send to an inmate as follows:Īt no time can you mail an inmate stamps, paper or other items. All incoming mail must have a clear and legible return address in the upper left hand corner of the envelope, display the inmate's full name and ID number and the facilities address. ![]() Inmates incarcerated in a prison in Washington State are allowed to send and receive correspondence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic “Any tiny little thing that people do,” Dwyer said, if it makes them different from one another, from the idealized standard of herd behavior, “is going to reduce infection rates.” ![]() An individual gypsy moth may inherit a slightly superior ability to avoid smears of NPV as it grazes on a leaf.Īn individual human may choose not to drink the palm sap, not to eat the chimpanzee, not to pen the pig beneath mango trees, not to clear the horse’s windpipe with his bare hand, not to have unprotected sex with the prostitute, not to share the needle in a shooting gallery, not to cough without covering her mouth, not to board a plane while feeling ill, or not to coop his chickens along with his ducks. What it means is that individual effort, individual discernment, individual choice can have huge effects in averting the catastrophes that might otherwise sweep through a herd. “If you hold mean transmission rate constant,” he told me, “just adding heterogeneity by itself will tend to reduce the overall infection rate.” That sounds dry. The mathematical ecologist’s term for variousness of behavior is “heterogeneity,” and Dwyer’s models have shown that heterogeneity of behavior, even among forest insects, let alone among humans, can be very important in damping the spread of infectious disease. ![]() ![]() “The transmission of SARS, Dwyer said, seems to depend much on super spreaders-and their behavior, not to mention the behavior of people around them, can be various. ![]() ![]() Translated By Burgin and O Connor in Quezon City,Philippines. The book opens with the first of these, as two writers, Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz and Ivan Homeless Ponyrev, discuss a poem written by the latter. ![]() In 1966-7, thanks to the persistance of his widow, the novel made a first, incomplete, appearance in Moskva, and in 1973 appeared in full. Buy Vintage Classics The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita has two main settings: 1930s Moscow and Yershalaim (Jerusalem) around the time of Yeshua ’s (the Aramaic name for Jesus) execution. In 1938, a year before contracting a fatal illness, he completed his prose masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. Stalin telephoned him personally and offered to arrange a job for him at the Moscow Arts Theatre instead. ![]() By 1930 Bulgakov had become so frustrated by the political atmosphere and the suppression of his works that he wrote to Stalin begging to be allowed to emigrate if he was not to be given the opportunity to make his living as a writer in the USSR. This was one of the many defeats he was to suffer at the hands of his censors. ![]() In 1925 he completed the satirical novella The Heart of a Dog, which remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987. Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916, but gave up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to literature. ![]() ![]() KG MacGregor divides her time between her homes in Miami and Blowing Rock, North Carolina. An avid supporter of queer literature, KG currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Lambda Literary Foundation. Readers Appreciation Medal, and several Readers Choice Awards. Other honors include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Academy of Bards, the Alice B. In 2009, she picked up Goldies for Without Warning (Contemporary Romance) and Secrets So Deep (Romantic Suspense). Her sixth Bella novel, Out of Love, won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Women's Romance, and the 2008 Goldie Award in Lesbian Romance. In 2005, she signed with Bella Books, which published the Goldie Award finalist Just This Once. ![]() Infatuation with Xena: Warrior Princess fanfiction prompted her to try her own hand at storytelling in 2002. ![]() A former teacher and market research consultant, KG MacGregor holds a PhD in journalism and mass communication. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps that is only fitting, because Walker is certainly paying attention as she cuts along the dotted lines of race and gender, manipulates paper marionettes on film, and conjures the gray area as she types in black ink on white paper. People have been paying attention-both positive and negative-to Walker’s work since she became one of the youngest artists to receive a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellowship, in 1997. Who better to ask about the division/fusion of past and present, how to live in the middle of “yes” and “no,” where the real and imagined intersect? About a month ago I finished writing a book of poems, Modern Life, which is populated by catgoats and centaurs, civilians and soldiers, and I found myself wanting to talk to her. Two years ago, a bleeding barn from one of her watercolors appeared in one of my poems. I’ve been thinking about Kara Walker’s work for a long time. ![]() Museum of Bad Art Rejection Collection Auctionby Kerry Folanĭavid Levine's Bauerntheaterby Aaron Cedolia & Geoffrey Scott Masha Tupitsyn's Beauty Talk & Monstersby Jeanine Herman Visible Language, Fluxus Issuesby Saul Ostrowįred Willman's Why Mascots Have Tales: The Illinois High School Mascot Manualby Brian McMullenĬAConrad's Deviant Propulsionby Kendall Grady Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Womenby Ambar Pastīas Jan Ader's Please Don't Leave Me & In Search of the Miraculous: Bas Jan Ader Discovery File ![]() ![]() Though overly concerned with the minutia of Edwardian society, Brewster delivers a welcome, interesting addition to Titanic-related literature.Įlie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children. ![]() The author vividly renders the collision, the sinking, the chilling wail of unseen swimmers calling from the cold water and the shipwreck's aftermath. Brewster rarely mentions those not directly involved with the rich and famous-the majority of the passengers on board-but he supplies an impressive amount of information, often directly pulling from firsthand accounts. ![]() Although rich in historical detail, much of Brewster’s narrative is couched in speculative prose-for example, passenger Charlotte Cardeza “may have instructed her maid to select her rose-colored Lucile evening dress from the eleven gowns she had with her”-at times stretching the reader’s credulity. Each chapter concerns a specific circle of high society, and the author looks at some of the biggest names of the era, including millionaire John Jacob Astor IV, presidential aide Archibald Butt, railroad president Charles Hays and future tennis champion Norris Williams. In time for the centennial commemoration of the sinking of the Titanic, a close look at the lives of the ship’s most privileged passengers.ĭrawing on a wide range of material, Titanic expert Brewster explores the world of the wealthy passengers, especially the intricate network of complicated social connections and public scandals that often persisted onboard. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, they encounter many trials along the way and end up facing their greatest fear: a real life Echo. ![]() Reggie decides to go anyways, and once there, he meets all the other top gamers.After Reggie gets home from the conference, Asa discoversthat he disobeyed him, and both brothers enact Operation:Thunderbolt, their plan to escape Asa and go to their dad's house in Pasadena. Reggie, being one of the top, was invited to the top players conference at the AAA Reality Games headquarters, but Asa forbids him to go, throwing the invitational letter into the fireplace. ![]() However, their real life is not so good, with Reggie and Jeremy living with their absentee mother and their abusive step-father Asa. Reggie is one of the top players in the world of Echo's Revenge, and as such, he's able to kill the Echo in the game. ![]() The book is written around two brothers, Reggie and Jeremy, and starts in the small town of Meadowbrooke, Washington, with both of them playing Echo's Revenge. Echo's Revenge: The Ultimate Game by Sean Austin is about the video game Echo's Revenge becoming a reality for its online players. ![]() |