![]() The four African American women featured in the book were, as the book repeatedly puts it, "good at math. This is a picture book version of the inspirational true story now well known from the award-winning film, and previously published as a best-selling book for adults and a young readers' edition for 8-to-12-year-olds. Parents need to know that Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling, and illustrated by Laura Freeman, was named a 2019 Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Honor Book. Their work contributed significantly to the war effort in World War II, helped put a man into space and men on the moon, and helped developed supersonic airplanes. All four faced serious discrimination but gained great respect in the workplace. Against all odds, they secured jobs in a rigorous STEM field previously restricted to white males, and insistently pushed at the barriers that held them back. ![]() You can't get better role models than these four African American female math whizzes who broke new ground at NASA. ![]()
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![]() With The Study Quran, both scholars and lay readers can explore the deeper spiritual meaning of the Quran, examine the grammar of difficult sections, and explore legal and ritual teachings, ethics, theology, sacred history, and the importance of various passages in Muslim life. ![]() An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the field, and is edited by a top modern Islamic scholar, respected in both the West and the Islamic world.ĭrawn from a wide range of traditional Islamic commentaries, including Sunni and Shia sources, and from legal, theological, and mystical texts, The Study Quran conveys the enduring spiritual power of the Quran and offers a thorough scholarly understanding of this holy text.īeautifully packaged with a rich, attractive two-color layout, this magnificent volume includes essays by 15 contributors, maps, useful notes and annotations in an easy-to-read two-column format, a timeline of historical events, and helpful indices. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Primarily, this is a matter of pacing and sensibility. In avoiding some of the tawdrier aspects of today's movies, he's also failed to deliver some of the pleasures that audiences have come to expect. One of the movie's more serious drawbacks is that in his determination to set off in a new direction, Redford has made a film that seems almost anachronistic. In its determination to emphasize character and thoughtful content over formulas and facile sensationalism, it's a movie that's proudly out of step with Hollywood trends. Set in Montana between 19, it describes a life that is grounded in what would now be called traditional family values, with a heavy emphasis on morals, character and love of nature. Robert Redford's "A River Runs Through It" is a loving work of embracing nostalgia for a brighter, cleaner, more upright America. ![]() ![]() He attended Brown University and graduated with magna cum laude and later graduated Stanford University with a M.A in English and Creative Writing in 1986. Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. He has also been a part of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD and of the American Academy in Berlin. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Jeffrey is the recipient of many awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Henry D. In 2017, he published his first collection of short stories, Fresh Complaint. His 2011 novel, The Marriage Plot, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won both the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize. Middlesex also received the Ambassador Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and France’s Prix Medicis. It was also selected for Oprah’s Book Club. In 2003, Jeffrey Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, a cross-generational tale focusing on an intersex protagonist. Eugenides’ first novel, The Virgin Suicides, follows the mysterious lives and deaths of five sisters and was adapted into a critically-acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola in 1999. ![]() Jeffrey Eugenides is the influential author of three wildly popular novels, as well as a new collection of short stories entitled Fresh Complaint. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Brilliant storytelling that unearths new intersections of love and magic.” - New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld Aidan will need to confront a family curse before he can lay claim to his life once more. As Aidan begins to probe into long-buried secrets, he may not be able to control what else is uncovered. But as Aidan’s memories return, so do some unsettling truths about his family. It’s Jarrod who opens Aidan’s eyes to events he’s long since forgotten, and who awakes in him feelings that go beyond mere friendship. That is, until Jarrod, a friend he hasn’t seen in years, moves back to town. The lines between past and present, tales and truth, friends and lovers begin to blur when a boy's childhood friend returns to town.Īidan Lockwood lives in a sleepy farming community known for its cattle ranches and not much else. For fans of Patrick Ness and Tom McNeal comes a moving and page-turning novel that’s part ghost story, part love story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When We Caught Fire (Trade Paperback / Paperback)įrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Luxe series comes a lush, romantic novel about the love triangle that started Chicago's infamous Great Fire.It's 1871, and Emmeline Carter is poised to take Chicago's high society by storm. I couldn't put The Luxe down!" -Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl series Read more ISBN ![]() As they desperately plot a course for home, Vida will discover just which boy can capture her wild heart-and where her future truly lies.Praise for The Luxe series: "Mystery, romance, jealousy, betrayal, humor, and gorgeous, historically accurate details. Stranded on an island with both Fitz and Sal, Vida is torn between the life she's always planned for, and a future she's never dared to want. Nor did she anticipate a hurricane dashing their ship to pieces, along with her dreams. But Vida didn't plan on Fitz's best friend Sal, a rough-around-the-edges boy with a talent for getting under her skin. ![]() survival in this sweeping romance, sure to thrill fans of Kiera Cass and Katie McGee.Vida Hazzard can see her future: aboard the heralded "Millionaire's Ship of the West," she'll charm the young scion Fitzhugh Farrar, resulting in a proposal of marriage. High society intrigue and deliciously shocking scandals meet a gripping fight for. You are invited to set sail on the maiden voyage of the SS Princess of the Pacific in this indulgent historical romance from Anna Godbersen, the New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other books that I would consider to be a hidden gem and are possibilities for next year are: Since I witness so many students asking for help before even attempting to start something new or unfamiliar, a character like Sarah is a great role model. Sarah independently overcomes obstacles, and while she has supportive parents, Sarah is the one who takes action. Through her creativity and problem solving skills, she starts a bread business out of the house and solves many of her family’s problems. The story takes place during the Great Depression and centers on Sarah Puckett, a girl who won a blue ribbon at the 4-H fair for her homemade bread. I have yet to have a student who has read this book prior to entering my class, but I always have students who come back and tell me it was the best book they read in the fourth grade. The one book that will definitely stay is The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore (not to be confused by The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis). ![]() This week, I have been assessing my bookshelf and determining what will stay and what will go next year. I do reteach favorite books from year to year, but I always rotate one or two out of the line up. My goal every year is to find high interest books that no student in the class has read– yet. Even though the end of the school year is nowhere in sight, I am already considering books to teach my students next year. ![]() ![]() And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven.īut the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor-engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. ![]() When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. ![]() Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even greater pain awaits. A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.Ĭora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. ![]() ![]() What a lively bunch we are…ha! Oh man, the memories…*** I remember this review and all of the fighting commenting we did in the comments. ![]() This week, we’re going back to the author that started my love of romance novels, Judith McNaught. ***As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration, we’ll be re-posting old reviews that make us cringe, laugh or sigh all over again. a seductive, dangerous trap of pride, passion, loyalty, and overwhelming love. And suddenly Jennifer finds herself ensnared in a bewildering web. until the night he takes her in his powerful embrace, awakening in her an irresistible hunger. But proud Jennifer will have nothing to do with the fierce English warrior who holds her captive, this handsome rogue who taunts her with his blazing arrogance. Known as "The Wolf" his very name strikes terror in the hearts of his enemies. ![]() Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Pocket BooksĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play BooksĪbducted from her convent school, headstrong Scottish beauty Jennifer Merrick does not easily surrender to Royce Westmoreland, Duke of Claymore. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'll leave you with this, just think about it. Book Review: Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Change the World By: Amy Gonzalez Date: SeptemSummary: Game designer and Director of Game Research at the Institute For The Future, Jane McGonigal, argues that games can change the world for the better. By the end of the book, she even talks about a thousand-year game. Jane McGonigal shifted my perspective and deeply extended my horizon in terms of what's possible to achieve through a game. With the right design, games have an incredible potential to create democratic work structures, even national or global organizational structures that can radically reinvet the way we co-exist and lead. Games have the power to bring together hundreds of thousands, even millions of people and that exceeds by far what a single organization is capable of achieving. For example, gamers contributed to protein folding without being biologists or doctors. If you design a game for a real-world problem and you design it well, players don't need to be specialised in those areas in order to solve it. ![]() Game design is applicable in multiple domains: from medicine to energy saving, from civic involment to reinventing the way our world works. Games can harness the collective wisdom coming from many different areas of knowledge in a fast and effective way. ![]() |