![]() ![]() In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregivers-and the lack of a social safety net to support them-writer Angela Garbes found herself pondering a vital question: How, under our current circumstances that leave us lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? ![]() The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. ![]() From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In addition, it will appeal to community organizers and party activists who are interested in issues of race and ethnicity, immigration, political participation, and political mobilization. ![]() Wong's rich study of Chinese and Mexican immigrants in New York and Los Angeles complements traditional studies of political behavior and civic institutions while offering a nuanced examination of immigrants' political activity.ĭemocracy's Promise will appeal to a broad spectrum of social scientists and ethnic studies scholars who study or teach immigration, racial and ethnic politics, political participation, civic engagement, and American political institutions. ![]() ![]() Author Janelle Wong argues that the low levels of political participation among contemporary immigrants are not due to apathy or preoccupation with their homeland, but to the inability of American political parties and advocacy organizations to mobilize immigrant voters. Democracy's Promise examines both the challenges and opportunities posed to American civic institutions by the presence of increasing numbers of immigrants. Given the massive demographic changes in the United States during the past few decades, understanding the place of immigrants in the public sphere has never been more critical. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Newspapers are obviously unfair, giving different versions of everything, but here, there is only my version. As I re-read my journals, it seems obvious to me that we don't change. My monkey, protecting him in the after-life. Before my children arrived wreaking havoc on my life, I left Munkey in Serge's arms, in the casket where he lay, like a pharaoh. He has slept by my side, shared my life with John, Serge, Jacques, and been witness to every joy and sadness. Throughout these years Jane has been keeping a diary: "I've been keeping a journal since I was eleven, writing it to my confidante, the stuffed monkey won in a tombola: Munkey. She has also enjoyed a notable career as an actress in British and French cinema, including Blow-Up, Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun. Jane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - attained international fame with her decade-long musical and personal relationship with Serge Gainsbourg, which featured their internationally controversial hit song 'Je t'aime.moi no plus'. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. For tickets and more information, please call 92 or visit. Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. Together, they chart the highs and lows of the couple’s early romance, honeymoon phase, contentious later years and difficult-but-love-filled final days. ![]() Bringing the couple’s 13-year relationship to life on screen are actors Jim Parsons, as the TV-obsessed Michael, and Ben Aldridge, as the dashing photographer Kit. Spoiler alert: The hero dies: a memoir of love, loss, and other four-letter words. Even when you know how it ends.īased on Michael Ausiello’s best-selling memoir, ‘Spoiler Alert’ is a heartwarming, funny and life-affirming story of how Michael and Kit’s relationship is transformed and deepened when one of them falls ill.ĭirected by Michael Showalter, this story closely follows ‘Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies,’ which Ausiello wrote in the wake of his husband Kit Cowan’s death from colorectal cancer, at age 42. ‘Spoiler Alert’ features a stellar ensemble cast, including Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, Sally Field and Bill Irwin. The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Spoiler Alert” showing Dec. ![]() ![]() ![]() Titles in the Sunfire series listed in order of publication: The cover art always featured the main character flanked by her two potential lovers, along with scenes from the historical event or period that was the setting for the book. The girl was typically ahead of her time in ideas and actions and the suitor she almost always chose was the one who approved of or accepted her actions. At the same time, with very few exceptions, the girl was torn between two potential lovers. ![]() Each book featured a teenage girl who experienced a particular period or event in American history. The Sunfire books contained two themes: history and romance. Ransom (6), Mary Francis Shura (6), Jeffie Ross Gordon (2), and Willo Davis Roberts (3). The books were written by a group of authors, including Vivian Schurfranz (9), Jane Claypool Miner (6), Candice F. Sunfire is a series of young adult historical romance novels published by Scholastic Books in the 1980s. ![]() This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. ![]() ![]() ![]() Andre Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, and Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, Find Me, and the essay collection Homo Irrealis. When he died in 1990, Durrell was one of the most celebrated writers in British history. A wartime sojourn in Egypt inspired his bestselling masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea) which he completed in his new home in Southern France, where in 1974 he began The Avignon Quintet. Durrell's first major novel, The Black Book, was published in 1938 in Paris, where he befriended Henry Miller and Anais Nin - and it was praised by T. The first of Durrell's island books, this was followed by Reflections on a Marine Venus on Rhodes Bitter Lemons, on Cyprus, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and, later, The Greek Islands. Born in 1912 in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to school in England and later moved to Corfu with his family - a period which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals - later filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - and which he himself described in Prospero's Cell. Lawrence Durrell was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. ![]() ![]() As the ship sets out on a voyage to the Arctic Circle, some of the other members of the crew are far more villainous, unpleasant, treacherous and unfortunate than any characters created by authors of adventure stories in the 19th century. Friendless now, addicted to opium, he has signed up, since no one else will have him, to become the surgeon on the Volunteer, a whaling ship in the north of England. The Irish surgeon Patrick Sumner became involved in an act of pure, abject, reckless greed during the siege of Delhi in 1857. Ian McGuire’s riveting and darkly brilliant novel “The North Water” also dramatizes a disgraced personality. ![]() Jim is a hunted man, moving away, in the narrator Marlow’s account, from his own substance to become a strange shadow that leaves merely clues and hints about his identity or motives. ![]() ![]() In a note written in 1917 about his novel “Lord Jim,” Joseph Conrad referred to “the acute consciousness of lost honor.” “Lord Jim” deals with the first mate of a ship who, in a moment of crisis, panics and jumps to safety and is later excoriated by an official inquiry so that his very name and presence become anathema to those who care about codes of decency. ![]() ![]() She lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, with her husband and two children. She is the illustrator of numerous titles in the Little House publishing program, as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein's My Favorite Things and E.T.A Hoffman's The Nutcracker, adapted by Janet Schulman. Availability: Expected to ship on or about 11/10/22. They are colorfully illustrated in the tradition of Garth William's original illustrations. My First Little House Books Collection, 13 Volumes Laura Ingalls Wilder HarperCollins / Trade Paperback 79.99 Retail: 90.87 Save 12 (10.88) 4.5 out of 5 stars for My First Little House Books Collection, 13 Volumes. Renée Graef received her bachelor's degree in art from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. My First Little House Books are adaptions of the original classics written especially for your 3- to 8-year-olds. Her writings live on into the twenty-first century as America’s quintessential pioneer story. The nine Little House books are international classics. After years of farming, Laura wrote the first of her beloved Little House books in 1932. The Wilders moved to Rocky Ridge Farm at Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, where they established a permanent home. ![]() ![]() She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885 their only daughter, Rose, was born the following year. With her family, she pioneered throughout America’s heartland during the 1870s and 1880s, finally settling in Dakota Territory. ![]() Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) was born in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To his dismay, not much has changed, including the beautiful and vexing heiress next door.īut when an accident of fate traps the friends-turned-enemies in an attic together, the explosive attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore and even harder to resist. He’s been gone for years, happy to have escaped his mother and the petty circles of the ton. She may have sworn off love for herself, but she is rather excellent at arranging it.įaced with an insolvent estate, the Duke of Greydon has no choice but to return to England in a final attempt to revive his family’s fortunes. Afforded every luxury as a duke’s daughter, she fills her days with friends, intrigues, and a self-professed knack for matchmaking. ![]() Lady Vesper Lyndhurst is beautiful, clever, and popular. her writing sparkles!” -Lisa Kleypas, New York Times bestselling author “Amalie Howard tells a story with self-assured style, wit, and energy. Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Refreshing, steamy, and stocked with characters you don’t normally get to see in the genre-a must-read author." Clueless meets Bridgerton in this spicy historical romance retelling by USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard: ![]() ![]() ![]() This technique, which I'd learned years before, is called "mind-mapping" and it allows random streams of thought and information to be dumped out onto a sheet of paper in whatever order they tumble. I had lines for "man," then branches off that line for "dark hair," "short," "big clothes," "Ohio," "Robin Hood," "Merry Men," "baseball," and "bat." I drew another branch off the circle and wrote out "Alyssa," "revenge," and "sins of the past." ![]() When I opened them, I drew a circle in the middle of the blank page and labeled it "Allison's killer." I began drawing lines stemming from the circle and labeling these with whatever free associative thought I had. I thanked him and pulled a pen from my purse, then closed my eyes and concentrated for a moment. ![]() When I asked if I could trouble him for a clean sheet of paper, he kindly paused in his scribbling and tore off several sheets, handing them to me with a smile. The gentleman next to me was diligently making notes on a legal pad, and an idea occurred to me. I looked at the magazine I'd purchased for the flight and thought about reading it, but I was too wound up. As I sat on the plane I anxiously bobbed my knee up and down, staring out the window and pondering what to do to pass the time. ![]() |