![]() ![]() ![]() Shirky is an adjunct professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology - how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Here, too, we see devoted teachers in a good but underfunded public elementary school that manages, against all odds, to be a warm, inviting, and protective place and we see the children also in the intimate religious setting of a church in which they are watched over by the vigilant grandmothers of the neighborhood and by a priest whose ministry is, first and foremost, to the very young.Ī work of guarded optimism that avoids polemic and the fevered ideologies of partisan debate, Ordinary Resurrections is a book about the little miracles of stubbornly persistent innocence in children who are still unsoiled by the world and still can view their place within it without cynicism or despair. ![]() Like his most recent book, Amazing Grace, this work also takes place in New York's South Bronx but it is a markedly different book in mood and vantage point, because we see life this time through the eyes of children, not, as the author puts it, from the perspective of a grown-up man encumbered with a Harvard education. In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age, the prize-winning classic that he published more than 30 years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think I’m falling in love with him,Įven though I really don’t know anything about him, except that he’s As she gets closer to both men in a complex and evolving love triangle, can she unlock Julien’s traumatic childhood to open up his heart? Or will Julien find greater solace from his nightmares and other demons in the sessions with his intriguing therapist? What will Michael do for Antioch and for Anissa, and what will Julien’s role be? How far will each person go to help Anissa’s remaining family and other persecuted Christians at risk in Syria? Find out in this stunning sequel to “The Syrian Virgin”.Īnd I’m also torn about Julien. Her beauty, brains, and purity soon captured the interest of two powerful men: Michael, an activist working to establish Antioch, the first Mideast Christian state, and Julien, her professor and one of the city’s wealthiest bachelors.Īs Anissa’s saga continues, the refugee-turned-rising-star must navigate between Michael and Julien, while trying to help her surviving relatives and other vulnerable Christians in Syria. Fortunate enough to rebuild her shattered life in New York City, the young refugee gained admission to an elite college, where she excelled. Anissa Toma fled war-torn Syria after narrowly escaping the massacre of her Christian family by Islamists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She introduces her characters, mythology and world with a pitched battle between a shocked Evie and a group of nightmarish creatures including a green skinned Mixen, blood crazed Thirster and Scorpio Demon. There is plenty of action in Alderson’s first installment of the Fated series. For Evie and Lucas to survive, the pair must find a way to defeat their enemies and fulfill the prophecy of the ‘White Light’. Half Unhuman Shadow Warrior, Lucas, has sworn to avenge his parents murder and destroy the Hunters but for reasons he cannot explain he is compelled to protect Evie from his own allies, even at the cost of his own life. Thrown into a life of danger, secrets and deception, Evie must to learn to fight to survive. Her plan is ruined when she discovers she is the last pure blood Hunter of the hidden Unhuman races that threaten to overrun the Earth. Show More Tremain dreams of moving to New York and escaping the reminders of her tragic losses. ![]() ![]() She also captures the passion and single-minded focus that rings true for this age group complicated by multiple factors including age limitations, but inspiring. Kelly has combined some realistic beauty and pain for a unique character with a distinctive topic and focus from typical middle grade books. The book invites readers to reflect about what it means to feel separate from a group without hammering a message about how to behave. Complete Novel Study for Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly.Includes 51 black and white visually engaging worksheets including a title page, one complete page for each chapter, and an end of novel tic-tac-toe activity board. I love Iris' determination, and the way you feel frustrated for her, but not sorry for her. The part about the whale and the communication is the most compelling for me, and the second most interesting part is the way Iris fixes old machines - that could almost be a separate book. There is isolation from not being understood, fixing machines, a friend who likes astronomy and attends a school for people who are deaf, where his mother is the principal, loss of a grandfather and the resultant depression and change in the grandmother, the struggle to communicate and get along at school, and the whale. As Iris makes her way through the typical challenges of adolescence, she must also navigate the difficulties of loss in a. ![]() There is a lot of plot happening in this book, but the author makes it work. Lynne Kelly’s Scheneider Family Book Award winner, Song for a Whale, chronicles the story of Iris, a 12-year-old aspiring engineer and scientist who is deaf and grappling with the recent loss of her beloved grandfather. Paint the Wind Book Quiz and Resource Page ![]() Catherine, Called Birdy Book Quiz and Resource Page ![]() ![]() ![]() Review:įirelight is the first book in a dragon shifter fantasy by author Sophie Jordan. Mythical powers and breathtaking romance ignite in this story of a girl who defies all expectations and whose love crosses an ancient divide, from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan. Jacinda can’t resist getting closer to him, even though she knows she’s risking not only her life but the draki’s most closely guarded secret. The one thing that revives it is the gorgeous, elusive Will, whose family hunts her kind. ![]() With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki-the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms.īut when Jacinda’s rebelliousness forces her family to flee into the human world, she struggles to adapt, even as her draki spirit fades. ![]() The first book in an addictive, romantic trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan is perfect for fans of Laini Taylor, Tahereh Mafi, and Claudia Gray. Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Animals / Mythical Creatures, Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Paranormalįind the Author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon, Instagram Firelight Published by Harper Collins on September 7, 2010 ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, brothers and sisters, first I want to thank those of you who have taken the time to come through that snow, which almost turned me back myself, and come out where we can try and put our heads together and get a better understanding of what is going on, what we’ve been through and what we’re all concerned about. ![]() It means we’re all at peace with one another, as brothers and sisters. It only means "peace be unto you." So, when I say "A Salaam Alaikum" or "Salaam Alaikum" and others reply, "Alaikum Salaam," why, they’re just returning the peace. ![]() I suppose I should take time to explain what I mean when I say "Salaam Alaikum." Actually, it’s an expression that means "peace," and it’s one that is always given to one’s brother or to one’s sister. "At the Audubon" In Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Breitman, 115-136. ![]() ![]() ![]() His parents were both artists, one American and one from New Zealand, though he had also lived in the United Kingdom for a time. While Merton is remembered for his books written in America in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s, he was born in France in 1915. That world was the picture of Hell, full of men like myself, loving God and yet hating Him born to love Him, living instead in fear and hopeless self-contradictory hungers.” Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain “Free by nature, in the image of God, I was nevertheless the prisoner of my own violence and my own selfishness, in the image of the world into which I was born. ![]() Google Books calls The Seven Storey Mountain, “a modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine.” A glance at the book and some of the famous and not-so-famous Thomas Merton quotes that it contains helps us understand that the book is a wonder in its own right as well as a guide to Merton’s other works. Named after the Italian Poet Dante’s description of Purgatory in “The Divine Comedy,” the book follows Merton on his search for spirituality and peace that led him to a Trappist Monastery. He’s remembered for his reflections and poetry but one of his most impactful works is his 1948 autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain. ![]() ![]() Thomas Merton was one of the great Catholic writers of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re not formally introduced to her yet but she’ll prove useful in the long run. Let’s go through the car in that immediate arrival in Boulder: In the front scene, that would be The Judge, who has been gender-swapped in this adaptation with star Gabrielle Rose. So, who are the others he’s traveling with? Fair question. That somewhere, as we learn soon after, winds up being Boulder, where a familiar face in Stu Redman (James Marsden) recognizes the mystery man as Larry Underwood (Adepo). At face value, it’s apparent that they’re all survivors, on the road, and heading somewhere. He’s not alone as we see he’s sharing a tent with a woman and a young boy. This time around, we’re immediately introduced to a man cooking meat on a grill in an empty department store. Like last week’s premiere, “Pocket Savior” jumps ahead in King’s novel, which is probably - okay, totally - confusing for anyone who isn’t a Constant Reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tetley Abednego is the most beloved girl in Garbagetown, but she’s the only one who knows it. One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown. Endless blue…except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. ![]() Le Guin Prize for Fiction finalist ! A Locus Award finalist! ![]() Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past Is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love the world.Ī Hugo Award finalist! An inaugural Ursula K. “The Candide of our age.”- Ken Liu, award-winning authorĬatherynne M. ![]() |