![]() ![]() ![]() Her father was originally from Alabama, and her mother was from Chicago. Yarbrough was born in 1938 in Chicago, the seventh child in a family of four boys and four girls. Her 1975 album, The Iron Pot Cooker, has been heralded as a precursor to modern rap, and her four children ’s books have received high praise. ![]() Known for her dedication to perpetuating cultural awareness among African Americans, Yarbrough has used her broad range of talents to serve as a voice of inspiration and hope within her community. Camille Yarbrough ’s multifaceted career has included stints as a dancer, an educator, a singer, an actress, a performer, a writer, and a radio show host. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ?Had a good sleep, Jimmy? she asked briskly. She had been crying, I could see, but when I opened my eyes she smiled, peered at me anxiously, and sat down on the foot of my bed. A tall woman, with wrinkled brown skin and black hair, stood looking down at me I knew that she must be my grandmother. ![]() ![]() I was lying in a little room, scarcely larger than the bed that held me, and the window-shade at my head was flapping softly in a warm wind. I do not remember our arrival at my grandfather?s farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive of nearly twenty miles with heavy work-horses. DIANA SECKER TESDELL is the editor of fifteen Everyman's Pocket Classics anthologies, including Christmas Stories, Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, New York Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea, Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories, Wedding Stories, and Stories from the Kitchen, as well as the Pocket Poets anthology Lullabies and Poems for Children. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments 365 days of wonder![]() ![]() I really can't say enough good things about it! - Wondrous Reads Palacio their own precepts-this book is the perfect celebration of everyday wonder and hope! Praise for 356 Days Of Wonder: Palacio has an uncanny grasp of the minds and hearts of 8- to 12-year-olds, and the people who used to be them - New York Times I love this beautiful little book so much that I want to carry it around with me every day. With a precept for each day of the year-drawn from popular songs to children's books to inscriptions on Egyptian tombstones to fortune cookies! Packed with words of wisdom from such noteworthy people as Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., Confucius, Goethe, Sappho-and over 100 readers of Wonder who sent R. ![]() Browne, Auggie, Julian, Summer and Jack in this collection of essays, quotes and words of wisdom. In Wonder, readers were introduced to memorable English teacher Mr. The perfect companion to Wonder, the #1 New York Times bestseller! Choose Kind with 365 Days Of Wonder. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Walt whitman calamus![]() The significance of the term "athletic" probably lies in strong, physical love "manly attachment" suggests the affectionate relationship between comrades. He thus realizes different levels of athletic love and manly attachment. ![]() He is now in communion with nature, and his inmost being responds freely. ![]() He had suppressed his spiritual impulses, which should have found full expression now, at last, he begins to walk those unused paths. Calamus gives joy to the poet's spirit which, until then, fed on mere materialistic pleasures. ![]() The Calamus grows in a secluded place near a pond, which suggests serenity and peace. They also indicate the freethinking of skeptics and dissenters. The untrodden paths to which Whitman refers are unknown and unpredictable human behavior. The poet desires to travel the untrodden paths which previously were denied him by "all the standards" and "conformities." In a "secluded spot," far "away from the clank of the world," the poet can at last, in his "forty-first year," "respond as I would not dare elsewhere." He resolves to sing songs of "manly attachment" and "types of athletic love," and "to celebrate the need of comrades." Whitman: The Quintessential American Poet.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. ![]() ![]() ![]() The balance of life on the border of Mexico and Texas is lightly sketched but sure-handed occasional Spanish phrases and the sense of family and community come through. ![]() The first-person past-tense narrative creates a sense of distance that flattens characters and renders Apá’s struggles with his health objectively poignant rather than emotionally resonant. Episodic chapters relate moments of the year, each paced like a short story but dependent upon a linear reading, slowly moving the novel to the unsurprising end. But Apá has a stroke on the first day of school, and when he recovers, Chela finds that during her absence popular Camila has stolen her best friend. The year starts with great promise, and Chela confides her dream to her beloved Apá: winning the All-School Girl Trophy. An autobiographical examination of sixth grade, death and life on the border. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Samuel beckett waiting for![]() ![]() They're waiting for the one who will never come. Over two days they argue, get bored, clown around, repeat themselves, contemplate suicide, and wait. They are in no particular time or place - nowhere and everywhere. Two homeless old men wait in a bare road with a single tree. Waiting for Godot was a true innovation in drama and the Theatre of the Absurd’s first theatrical success. Waiting for Godot is a tragicomedy in two acts, published in 1952 in French as En attendant Godot and first produced in 1953. During the 15 years following the WWII, Beckett produced four major full-length stage plays: En attendant Godot, Fin de Partie, Krapp's Last Tape, and Happy Days. Also, he was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984. ![]() Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist and playwright, who was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Messy Ink by Ali Lyda![]() ![]() Erabus will do whatever it takes to save him, even forming an alliance with a strange ally named Xicuz-an incredibly gorgeous satyr he met in the forest. That all changes when he uncovers the plot to kill his father. With the help of a notorious blackmailer, a society of rich and famous gentlemen who prefer gentlemen, and a kitten named Buttons, they might just manage to save Edward’s life-but the greatest threat may be to their hearts.Īll Erabus ever wanted was to stay out of his brother’s way, to let him become king after their father, and spend his life hunting in the forest outside the kingdom. When Edward finds Gabriel on his estate, burning with fever, he cannot leave him to die, but taking him in puts them both in jeopardy. ![]() With a price on his head, he flees to the countryside, forced to keep his presence a secret or risk assassination. But, try as he might, he’s never forgotten the man he once desired or the pain of being abandoned by his first love.Įdward Stanhope, the Duke of Caddonfell, is a notorious rake, delighting in scandal no matter the consequence. Now he’s a chaste, hardworking vicar, and his reputation is beyond reproach. Virgin Shifters: Shifting for the First TimeĪs a young man, Sir Gabriel Winters left behind his status as a gentleman, turning his back on his secret desires and taking a self-imposed vow of celibacy. Paranormal Wars: Stone Haven #7, 2nd Edition Let us know if there’s something missing & we’ll add it to the list and information that follows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, the good times can't last forever.Īnd despite Arthur's perception of "good times," Silitoe does a masterful job of showing us the limitations of the dead end lives of the working class in Great Britain after the war. As I was reading this, I was struck by how much Arthur reminded me of Michael Caine's Alfie. He chooses married women because he knows they will make no demands on him. He spends his evenings at the pub, and is having sex with Brenda, the wife of one of his friends at the factory who works the night shift. It's shortly after the end of World War II Arthur is a worker at a Nottingham factory, still living at home, biding his time until the weekends. "I'm me and nobody else and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they can't know a bloody thing about me." ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Misty books marguerite henry![]() ![]() Marguerite Henry fills each book with physical details so vivid you feel you’re running on the sand, in the sea spray with Paul and Maureen. That’s the premise of Misty of Chincoteague, and the series just gets better from there. This year, it’s finally Paul’s turn to join the “pony penning,” and he and Maureen have their hearts set on not just any horse, but the wild and elusive Phantom-a mare known for escaping the riders year after year. ![]() Paul and Maureen Beebe live on Chincoteague Island, where they train and sell wild horses with their grandparents (I’d argue those grandparents are among some of the most lovable in children’s literature).Įvery year, riders from Chincoteague venture to neighboring Assateague Island, where they round up some of the island’s wild horses and bring them back to Chincoteague to sell. I’d love it, she said.įrom the way Marguerite Henry describes the sandy beaches of Assateague Island to the beauty and fury of the island’s wild horses, I loved everything about Misty of Chincoteague. I couldn’t keep the book, she explained, but I had to read it. ![]() When we celebrated my birthday last month, I opened one daughter’s gift and found a book tucked in it alongside her present. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sexual assault features in the story it’s an aspect of the lesbian experience that is not often depicted, and it’s handled with sensitivity and compassion. Shani’s journey to understanding her history and its ramifications for her present is never overwrought and all the more poignant for it. The text is rich in dialogue, the first-person voice distinct and controlled. Arlow demonstrates a nimble command of the genre, executing a lean, character-centric plot with a satisfying balance of sweet, funny, and heavy moments. ![]() Like all the best-laid plans, hers go awry when she finds herself on a literal collision course with a very cute girl named May. ![]() Queer Jewish love stubbornly blooms despite the cold of a Washington, D.C., winter.įresh off a cataclysmic first semester of college, Shani is determined to pass her winter break internship at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History like a Jewish nun: no girls, no distractions, just fossils. ![]() |